I could not get into the Rings of Power show either. I liked the Wheel of Time series, it was gorgeous and I enjoyed watching it but the Rings of Power, I feel like something is just flat, I lose interest watching it.
Don't ever be ashamed of something you didn't choose or do. People love to be inflammatory but nobody really judges a guy just for being a guy. Vast majority of men are doing the best they can, we know. I work in a company about half men, all of them manage to be clean and together and nice, same as the women do. Some of the guys are for sure dressed better than me most days.
Can't judge a group on the worst of them.
Yeah I looked at pictures of the rib reduction surgery and it doesn't look good. I feel you, my bones don't allow a real waist but you can't just force one onto a body that isn't made for it. All my kids were born girls, and it's funny, half had the ribs that slant in like they had been corseted and half straight up and down like mine but it's a hipbone thing too.
Overall proportions can look really good either way, though. Which again loops back to Elon and his modifications. It's like he paid no mind to what he was working with. He is a good height and there was nothing wrong with his frame. Again just maintenance would have served him much better than whatever this mess is.
I would not be a good politician but if I ever ran my motto is "Make Florida Freaky Again", MFFA. The conservatives want to remove everything that makes us who we are. All the gay people, the circus folk, tattoo shops, they talk about the "free state of Florida" but wrecked the freedom that made us, us. Yes ticky tacky but nice and laid back, a place for people who didn't fit other places. New College is the absolute example of what they did. Took a great school that turned out weird genius ideas and made it a not even good conventional school with football and for some reason they are proud of that.
This administration - not 100% of what they have done is bad but so much is bad and it's bad in a particular way that harms the fabric of our society.
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000217363
This one proposes a mechanism for how it works
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8313851/
Low-Dose Naltrexone is cheap and there is evidence it helps some people a lot with CFS, maybe ask about that? It is naltrexone, but taken at very small dose it has what the researchers call a 'novel effect' that is sort of the opposite. I don't know that anything cures it but don't lose hope or think nothing can help. People are studying it.
I agree with this - in the late 1980s/early 90s when I was a kid I wore clothes exclusively from the thrift store, there were dresses from the 1950s, even the 1940s, I could get good cheap boots from the army navy surplus, could look so good and unusual, in quality stuff, for very little money.
It's all been monetized now, there is only crap left after the reseller market. I'm not going to make a value judgement on that but you are 100% right it ruined the experience and the ability to get good stuff cheap to use or wear.
I think y'all are missing the possibility that this is malicious compliance. Though DeSantis did not.
The law is stupid on its face but the way conservatives will see that is something like this.
Yes, well full disclosure - I don't actually like hamburgers in general, but the black beans specifically do have an affinity with the bacon, it's very good. And instead of making an already greasy situation greasier, the cheese and bacon offset the usually dry burger. This is my standard burger order at the grill in the little cafe at my work.
717 parking here is a cartel. Never park in a private lot in Tampa or St. Pete, there are plenty of city lots & street parking, cheaper too.
He doesn't even look better after. Skincare and better style and buzz the hair would have been a better approach.
I am. Sorry. You know they make us use Copilot? It cussed on Thursday (not kidding. I have, surprisingly, never cussed at it so not sure how it did) and soon after that, went down. I broke it.
First classy move he's made in his life. Wonder if it was his idea?
Kimchi looks skeptical but it's good.
2 oz bourbon
1 oz orange liqueur
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 oz (I used 3/4oz) lemon juice
Shake all with ice.
Got near a hundred mini watermelon this year, the very late ones were no good but for a couple months they were glorious. Mini love variety, it was a brutally hot summer and they flourished, I let them take over the whole garden.
Two plants survived being overrun by watermelon, the asparagus and the hong tsoi. I'm sort of resting it until "spring" which is planted around Feb here.
Very basic scoring this time. One line one x. I was happy to find some "golden whole wheat flour" yesterday.
350g Golden whole wheat flour
650g strong white bread flour
20g sel gris
675g tap water
200g starter made with all purpose white flour and tap water, hydration 100%.
Just mix, rest, stretch and fold 4x at 30 minute intervals. Bulk rise took awhile, maybe 4 hours this time (it varies, one hour to 8 - is a condition not a time). Split and bench rest then shaped, into cloth lined baskets wrapped in plastic bags, overnight in the refrigerator. Baked cold bread in very hot closed pans 20 minutes then open lids and 20 minutes more. 450F.
(Sorry for the mixed measurements - I had a bunch of egg white so had to weigh out 1 egg worth)
35 grams egg white
1 Tbsp guava jelly or guava paste
1 oz good mezcal
1/2 oz over proof reposado tequila
1/2 oz Aperol
3/4 oz lemon juice
ETA I failed to list one step. First: whisk or muddle the jelly and booze to incorporate it.
Shake without ice, then with ice. Just as good as it sounds and so beautiful.
It's not a looker, but tastes great.
2 oz tequila (any)
1 oz lime juice
1 oz creme de cassis
2-3 oz ginger beer (I used 1 oz ginger syrup, 3 oz fizzy water, 2 squirts of fire tincture)
Result of googling "what else can I make with tequila and lime"
Husband is having a Stella, that's the bottle in the background.
He's up to 7.5 lb from under 1 lb when we found him. (From 300 grams of baby to 3.5kg of kitten in only a few months, crazy.)
Here is a "before", the day my kids texted to say they found the source of the meowing I had heard before work. Just a wee handful. Always bold as anything though, he was never afraid of us or our 75lb mutt of a dog.
1 oz barrel strength bourbon
1 oz barrel strength reposado tequila
1 scant oz Aperol with a splash of Campari to make an ounce.
1 oz Amaro Nonino
1 oz grapefruit juice
1 oz lemon juice
Shake together with ice. If you are somewhere it's not still summer, serve up in a chilled coupe. Tart enough for a sugared rim. But it's still hot here, so everything is iced. This is sort of 1.5 servings, I just find it fussy to measure .75 of an ounce. Equal parts is the key.
https://makemeacocktail.com/en/cocktail/9953/banderilla
Equal parts tequila, mezcal, Apricot liqueur and lime, half part Aperol works best IMO, any more Aperol and it gets too sweet.
This is a pantry recipe for me as I keep Giffard Abricot in stock always. You want a good apricot in this, I think passion fruit or peach would be equally delicious but make sure it's made from real fruit. Also can sub Campari for the Aperol if you want a little more bitter.
