I was lucky enough to have not just free time, but some rare time alone today. I watched Frieren, deep watered the baby veg that are still in pots, and went for a pokemon go walk.

Subs here split a length of baguette or Cuban bread, or long bun. But not all the way through. Then they open it like a hot dog bun & put in the fillings. I hate hot dogs but if a sub is a sandwich, a hot dog is a sandwich.

What the fuck? Were there so few participants that 3rd was a bad result? High school has four years, right? 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st place, seems to me you were on track.

What do you call a guy with both legs cut off at the knee?

Neal.

It's normal & I don't care, only care about behavior - I expect straight guys are looking at women, aware of attractive women, notice nice figures, men are very visual in general, nothing bad about it. And I expect gay guys are constantly checking out men as well.

Bad is remarking on it all the time, touching, staring really hard when the lady looks uncomfortable about the staring, looking at boobs when someone is talking to you - you already know all this! Just noticing, you aren't going to be able to turn that off and ought not if you could.

Me, I notice looks but not often turned on by anyone's look. And I notice guys looking and do not care, don't think it means anything.

I do 350g whole wheat and 650g strong white flour, 20g salt, 200g starter (100% hydration) and between 650 and 700ml water, this round right smack in the middle with 675.

So about 1/3 whole grain for the rustic loaves, which to me makes them seem like white bread - they can go up to 50%, I do that sometimes with rye because I like that denser, and the flavor is better with more, I do not want rye to feel like white bread.

That's the long version, lol. Short version - 1/3 whole grain, 2/3 refined white.

Here's the results of that dough

I have only once seen a fox, but we do have city coyotes. And amazing birds, whomping big herons and storks, and flocks of ibis, and in my neighborhood peacocks, downtown there is a flock of green parrots. I feel bad for them, sure they'd all rather have the space without the city but they have adapted. And we do have a lot of green space, mitigation is mandated when you pave over land otherwise flooding would be so much worse in the rainy season.

Ostriches can live in Poland? It seems so cold there.

Sure. Jehovah's witnesses, Baptists, and Miss Mary, mom of a friend of one of my kids, nice lady but the only fundamentalist Catholic I've ever met, so many kids that each one got a birthday party every 5 years (but a BIG party), we went to one and there was a pony, little tables set up in their yard for the kids, she wrote a song as a present for her kid and sang it, that was nice, and when the kids were getting their pictures taken, said "say Jesus!" to get them to smile.

Oh and once when I was a kid my friend took me to their church and there was speaking in tongues, they did not want me to leave without being overcome and speaking in tongues that was kind of terrifying.

There also used to be a church near us called "The Church of Christ Upon the Rock of the Apostolic Faith Holy Temple #2" . Which always made me wonder where the first one was.

Part of the exhibit. They fed the gators chicken, the guy would stand on a platform and dangle the chicken on a pole, and get the gators to jump for it from the water. Like cats, it was kind of amazing. I always thought they were full of chicken. But maybe only one or two of them knew to jump for the chicken, who knows?

There's an alligator in the pond at my office park, and one day riding in on my bike I saw him grabbing breakfast, very exciting. But everyone knows not to feed them, and to to be careful of them out in the wild! I did not know to be careful of the ones that were behind a very low fence in an exhibit!

Here is the one I see on my way to work sometimes.

We live near a park with alligators in an exhibit, they are well fed and lounge on the banks of a little pond, with some turtles, sunning themselves - so I always let my kids lean over the railing, not touch them or anything but I didn't worry about it since they were fed & lazy.

Until one day, we saw one of them lunge at a turtle and grab it, moving so fast! Crunch crunch gulp. Which disabused me of two wrong ideas. One, that these alligators did not care to have a snack, and two, that nothing but eagles could eat turtles. Someone had told me that no animal could bite through a turtle shell, but that eagles would drop them from a great height to crack them open, and since I'd never seen another animal eat a turtle, I bought it.

So after that, no more leaning over.

Somewhat tangential but you should read the story of how WaWa did an end run around a corporate takeover.

T-Mobile had the worst customer service of any company I have dealt with, then had a turnaround to the best customer service of any company, but now, sadly, not so great. Though not nearly as bad as it was to start.