Drugs don't physically harm anyone other than the user, so if they are decriminalized it reduces crime (as using isn't criminal) even if it increases use.
Decriminalization of guns would reduce arrests for illegal carrying but increase the rate of carrying and when a gun is used, or stolen, it will usually result in a crime. Because people aren't just shooting at themselves, right?
Their artichoke is good. Maybe the only great thing there but it's so good I learned to make it at home, even though it's an enormous pain in the ass to make.
Anything that says "regenerative farming". I grow some of what we eat and don't use much fertilizer just get good local compost dirt and try to rotate crops.
It was fun, there were always extra kids coming over and absolutely epic parties. We had just consolidated families so the kids were getting to know each other, they are close now and happy to have such a network of siblings. And yeah, several ADHD, but in such a big house there was room to hide out too.
We rented an enormous house once when we had 6 kids living with us, and 2 more sometimes staying with us. 3,600 sq ft. Spacious as fuck even when 10 people were there. Unfortunately the landlord decided to sell it and kicked us out (apparently they can break a lease, we can't), but perfect timing as most of the kids were off to college or work.
I can't imagine twice as big would be better? At some point it's just useless space. Our house now is about 1800 I think, and it feels big.
By partial, I'm sure he just means Ukraine.
I've done both and fry-then-steam is not as sticky, and the water deglazes the pan, if you cook them with anything.
Pierogi though? Boil then fry, they stick like the dickens either way, my husband is the one who makes them - always with kielbasa and sautees them in the sausage pan after boiling them.
Sunk cost fallacy.
Cold brew, fresh orange juice, and fizzy water over ice is so odd but really good. The Jarritos would be too sweet but with real oj it tastes like smoky orange. I was so skeptical the first time I made it but it's good.
Pokemon go walk is better at night.
We will go out to eat in the day often, and I strongly prefer an afternoon cocktail not any night drink.
Usually our supper is around 9 (2100) because that's what the schedule allows, I wouldn't say I prefer it.
Basically I am an afternoon/early evening person. But a night walk of any sort is so lovely.
Yeah but that's just a pyramid scheme. We can't just keep growing the human population forever.
Started working at 15, figure I'll work till I'm 75. Or until I die, whatever. If I can. It's fine, not ideal but fine. I would have appreciated maternity leave more than retirement. The time then would have been a lot more valuable.
Our office is full of oddball people. Tips first:
I think making friends is the most important move. Talk with people a little even if you don't personally need it. Learn how they talk, what they are working on, what are the pain points for them in their own work.
Pay attention to communication styles. The VP of finance, I can just send her a message like "hi, X, you didn't send the file, could you send it?" But my boss (who does have ADD) I have to go talk to him before I send him anything, and repeat what I told him inside the email, he is not bothered by that.
If you are good at getting to the end product using different paths, that shows more understanding than someone who can follow a process without missing steps. Make sure to ask more about what result they want, or what they want to know, less about how to do it.
And know when to cut your losses - I know about myself that I shine in a startup situation and at a chaotic time at any company. I can solve problems for other people! If I worked somewhere people didn't like to get suggestions, I would be so irritating, right? So I don't work in those places and I cultivate the environment I want too. Eventually this job will get too corporate and I'll probably find a startup for my last job then retire if possible.
Being in tune with other people works so well that I tell you here - we have a boring daily meeting and I was in there one day just trying to think of animals whose names started with the letter C. Because man, that meeting is so dull and repetitive. The next day I asked when we went in "what animals start with the letter D?" Everyone plays this game during the meeting now, even my boss. We did animals, jobs, now movies. Because it's not so distracting or disruptive, and it makes the meetings more fun, every once in a while someone will stop and say "Fast and Furious!" And I write it down.
If their struggle is because they are in a more political sort of bureaucratic place, where the heirarchy is strict and enforced, 'you have your boss talk to my boss" place, where people are angling to take other people's jobs and you are given responsibility without empowerment, I would say find a different job. There are positions where the ability to ride out chaos and see new ways of working are valuable.
I am a senior now and a lot of what I do is take the harder tasks, try to clean them up and then hand them off to someone else, now with a good process. There is always another problem.
It will sound stupid, but the main thing you need, to succeed in a job, any job, is to understand people. It comes naturally to some. For those of us not natural at it, you have to do it on purpose - mirror people's communication styles some, remember to say good morning.
Also set so many reminders on your laptop or phone.
(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.
So, I saw this recipe that inspired me.
https://punchdrink.com/recipes/green-mango-martini/
But don't have mango eau de vie and not about to make it, and I think as written it would be too sweet for my palate. And of course everything needs ice here in the summer. I did make the green mango tequila.
So far I can vouch for tequila, green mango and sauternes - it's a surprisingly good combination.
This is:
2.5 oz green mango infused tequila
1 oz Sauternes wine
.75 oz lemon
.25 oz Giffard Apricot (because I have no mango liqueur right now and did you hear Chinola is making a Guava liqueur? I am excited for that.)
Squirt of honey.
Shaken with ice.
My thoughts - the green mango tequila is tart and I think the lemon sort of muddies the flavor. I would try this again with more Sauternes and a splash of mango liqueur, leave out the honey and if it was too sweet adjust with citric or malic acid not lemon.
I would also like to try the green mango tequila with ginger beer but not today, this is a one and done.
And I was thinking to convert the recipe into a punch or sangria, a pitcher cocktail using a whole bottle of Sauternes, but I think that it might need to go in a different direction. Again, I do love the combination of the green mango with the Sauternes, and tequila - the main flavor combo is good. I've tried amchur and tequila - the green mango infused tequila worked so much better to get that flavor.
