I agree this is, and should be, an unpopular opinion.
If I get some money for doing nothing, a windfall, then getting half of it is still me getting free money.
If I work for ten years to get the same amount, shouldn't I pay less in taxes? I spent my time and effort making that money.
Usually anyone who gets rich quick either ripped people off, inherited or won money and I would tax anything unearned at a higher rate than earned.
I can't always immediately tell right from left, but generally know where north is; and have lived in the same place for so long I know where I am so well, could drive a taxi.
I kinda like getting lost but it doesn't happen here.
And I HATE navigation, don't like my phone yelling at me to turn right in 100 feet. I just want to actually know where I am, not have a path. When I worked farther away & had to drive I would go different ways every day. My husband thinks that's funny, he would decide an ideal route and keep using it, but I want to explore.
Yeah this is not something I'd buy premade - not enough difference in convenience, and homemade is so tasty
Leon Bridges (with Hermanos Gutierrez ) does such a good cover of Elegantly Wasted.
Yeah I got the big back basket on mine, I take it to work most days and it fits 2 stuffed paper grocery bags, no problem. And is just such a pleasure to ride, I hated bike riding with the terribly painful seats and slow, so much effort, it was uncomfortable. This EBike is big & heavy but riding it is like riding a bike in a dream. Set the assist to medium, torque sensor, I like to pedal not use the throttle, because it feels so good to feel it just MOVE when I push.
Holy cow these are good. Thank you!
I have a crazy long Halloween party playlist on YouTube, goes from creepy to kid friendly to party to punky to kinda sad, to follow the flow of a Halloween party. I took out a lot of the kid stuff as mine are grown now but don't think these were mentioned & I like for kid time at Halloween:
Dead Egyptian Blues - Trout Fishing in America
Dead - They Might be Giants
Half Moon - M Ward
Vampire - Claudia Schmidt
Two more Tom Waits songs I like for Halloween, Tango Till they're Sore and Cemetery Polka.
I love the Cramps but don't think Garbageman is the song I'd go for. Rockin Bones and also if you can find their cover of Green Door.
And this year I may actually kick things off with the soundtrack for the Peaky Blinders movie, it is so atmospheric and scary sounding and so beautiful.
Wow. I haven't ever expected a guy to pay on a date like that. Sometimes they did, but always I would offer to split it. I never offered to pay the whole tab, but certainly didn't expect the guy to.
I know some women who did use dates to get meals, like a game, but that seems kinda awful.
I recall them being awful when I was a kid and am going on 60! Just how old are you, that you can remember when they were good?
They are the reason I thought apples sucked.
I am from here and Florida, at least in the cities, is queer as fuck. I hung out in gay bars as a teenager, because they were safe spaces for all sorts. We used to have a very big gay film festival in St Pete, our mayor in Tampa is a lesbian. I have no idea who that 45% is.
Yeah what the fuck, I hate stuff like this. Surely the kids had the babysitter's phone number. I remember having to work while the kids were on summer break and think 11 is the age you are allowed to leave them unsupervised in FL. My kids did babysitting at 14! Overnight with literal babies, sometimes. And the 14 year old in question acted appropriately, obviously they aren't irresponsible.
My parents left me at home, if I didn't want to go on a trip, from 10 or so years and it was fine. Even before cell phones, and back when crime rates were exponentially higher here. It was so nice for me, to have time alone, I remember how nice it felt.
It's a bigger example of the laundromat problem. I drive to the laundromat with a baby in a car seat and the laundry in baskets. Do I leave the baby in the car and take the laundry in, or take the baby in and go back out to get the laundry? I can't carry all of them at once, it's an impossible situation.
Hopefully the charges are thrown out and the kids stay with her. Abusive dad seems a much worse choice.
Not sure I enjoyed my 20s, had more of an "it gets better" arc but I would say value your friends. It gets harder and harder to meet up and to make new friends, do the most you can to stay close to the ones you have now & your life will be better for it.
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.
This was a test-and-adjust drink. I was looking for something with Fernet & Mezcal and everything I saw were stirred very boozy things, I was not in the mood for. I saw one though with cachaca and lime so tried a margarita approach.
Started with these, shaken:
1.5 oz tequila
.75 oz each Fernet and Mezcal
Juice of one lime.
Nope. Too flat, too sour. Added about 1/2 oz Pineapple Amaro, and a squirt of Agave, shook again and THIS is a keeper. I guess Fernet does like sweeter drinks more. This one is balanced and I can taste all the ingredients but they did cocktail into a new taste. I usually don't taste the pineapple in the pineapple Amaro but it's shining in this drink - I may try another Fernet-Mezcal-Pineapple Amaro variation (when I am in the mood for stirred and boozy) as I think those together are the magic here.
