This is why most regular consumer automatic bread and rice makers do not cook right where I currently live, also 'slow cookers' will boil their contents. Low air pressure = water boils at 198F/92C here. I've had to find workarounds and adaptations.

I probably shouldn't laugh maniacally when people ask me if I have New Years plans. youtu.be/BfaC77y7qoo?...

I probably shouldn't laugh maniacally when people ask me if I have New Years plans. youtu.be/BfaC77y7qoo?...

For what it's worth, on the other side of the aisle so to speak, I almost never say no to this request unless (1) the person has been creepy/skeevy (I trust my instincts) or (2) I believe they'll confuse open friendliness for interest (a common encounter problem for many women).

Sorry I seem out-of-sorts, because there's no 'seems' about it right now. Despite a number of positive events in my recent life, I'm still dealing with the grief of losing a spouse with whom I'd been together over 28 years (married about 18mo less than that).

Recent personal discovery: It's probably a testament to my compensatory and masking skills that I can score extraordinarily well on tests intended to detect ADHD-related cognitive deficits. Not sure my mental health professional realizes this. She now thinks it's not a struggle at all. Oh well.

So strange how the closest comparison the last two decades is when people were losing their houses

Time for another photo from the collection... A view from the Sandia Crest, next to Albuquerque, New Mexico, looking south. Altitude: Over 11k feet. Not a problem if you're locally acclimated, rather more difficult if you're not.

“Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.” - Symbolic Exchange & Death

Oh my…This may seem like a non-sequitur, but fans of Babylon 5 will recall that, in a pivotal time, Kosh shows Sheridan "one moment of perfect beauty." This is that, again. One moment of perfect beauty in a place one least expects it. If you're feeling down, give them a call, you won't regret it.

Ruh-roh...

Oh, there's a ton of that in my most recent work. In fact, at one point, a different set of characters wonder just what the F the earlier ones were thinking when they did something assessed by the 2nd group to be potentially lethally stupid. Lots of theorizing, some accurate, some wrong. It's fun!

Oops. My ability to manage my own social calendar remains completely FUBAR'd. Thought I'd have lunch w/someone today, turns out it's tomorrow. Put away the good clothes, schlub back down. Visit the ocean to take care of something important.

About 25 years ago, I was on another of my endless series of tech writing contract gigs, with the as-usual awful commute, and on one particular day, a vitally important delivery deadline. I even made an extra effort to arrive extra early. I was literally the 1st person there, only to discover…

I just wrote a substack piece on spirituality and an intro to the five elements, how they're the building blocks of this creation...https://alxuttermann.substack.com/p/introduction-to-the-five-elements?r=cqtn

Expose them all. Men and women. The whole of it all. Make these people answer for what they did, and for what they covered up.

You can't say we weren't warned.

"Sometimes the only way to deal with temptation effectively and decisively is to surrender to it," she says as she savors a small bite of chocolate swirl cheesecake...

YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

I wore out three vinyl copies of 'Rumours.'

I do not think there is any other kind of scrolling at this particular time in human history. (I added the adjective modifier—human—because all those trilobites sure did get finally deaded at the end of the Permian era. However, I don't think scrolling was something they did—they trundled.)

Some of y'all wouldn't believe the possible connection here. All depends on whether in addtion to the game, he also asked for a little strategy guide help...

Tomorrow there’ll be more of us…

That's not how "the beatings will continue until morale improves" goes. JFC, he's so freakishly weird.

This is stunning. I’m not crying, you’re crying. 🥹

I can relate. Or as I suppose the kids these days say, "This is a mood."

Dinner brag: Seasoned roasted tilapia filet, topped with lemon zest and green chile salsa, and sides consisting of half a sliced red bell pepper (raw) and sauteed brown mushrooms with shallots, jalapeno, and garlic in an adobo sauce reduction. (317 calories, 40.4g of protein)

Something I did not know until I looked recently: A particular game strategy guide I co-authored was a best seller (in its category/genre of course) and probably sold upward of a quarter million copies. Including international sales. Huh.

Is The U.S. Experiencing National Trauma? Media overload can lead to anxiety, depression, hopelessness, and post-traumatic stress symptoms, including nightmares, emotional numbness and intrusive thoughts. As a result, people may avoid the news altogether. buff.ly/dCK6R48

Potentially unpopular opinion: Habanero sauce goes surprisingly well with fresh red raspberries. No, no, I'm not pregnant. Sometimes I just like to try unusual combos to see if they work.

Well, no question which one is my personal favorite. Already posted it before. And yes, I know how to follow directions, FGM / MSFGB. Photo goes into a QUOTE of the post, not a reply.

Love this one. So good.

I don't normally jump in on these kinds of things, but Oregon the DM was one of my first follows/follow-backs when I joined Bluesky back in the early "you need an invite to join" days. If you don't want to toss a few $, a little signal-boost would help. (Yes, I donated.)

"Write a brief synopsis"

I really shouldn't drink coffee in the evening, yet for some reason I've really been craving coffee lately. Like a lot. Normally, I drink tea. All. The. Time. Didn't even have coffee for several years. Now I can't get enough.

Waking up now is a curse

Just got back from a week-long trip to visit family, and it was amazing, but I'm glad also to be back home. Alas, this rambunctious fellow, Ranger (chocolate lab, 18mo, my brother's dog), accidentally pranged my right knee pretty hard a couple nights ago. He's both sorry and sad I had to go.

I've been saying this kind of thing would happen. If cops don't identify themselves, then anyone can pretend to be a cop and wield that power over vulnerable people

I'm really sick and tired of the horrors this world and the rakshasa monsters controlling it seem determined to deliver every single f*cking day now...

I was raised Catholic and consider myself no longer an active member of that particular faith...but I'm pretty sure that if you pepper spray a visibly frocked clergyman who's doing nothing but peacefully protesting gov't crimes and atrocities, you're going to Hell.

Man, the world is depressing... I'm not expecting perfection or anything like that, but it sure would be nice if more good things happened to good people and bad things happened to bad people.

Someone out here thinks about you and sees one of the strongest souls they've ever seen. They see your struggle and the way you're still here. They see your tears, and they applaud you standing on your own feet. Never think for a second you are weak or alone. Not all the voices by us speak loudly.

My brain constantly reminds me that I know too damned many things, even as it remains entirely incapable of remembering someone's name a mere ten seconds after they've told me what it is. Yes, yes, yes, I know all the mnemonic tricks. My neurons are uniquely resistent to such methods.

As for many, I found it entirely unsurprising that the rightwingosphere went all out in trying *immediately* to claim that a recent crime perpetrator was a "radical trans ideology activist" or whatever, and have completely shut up when he turns out, AS USUAL, to be one of theirs. Again.

I feel no obligation whatsoever to say nice things about those who have, in the past, tried to incite violence against me and against others, especially vulnerable minority groups. Additional context is obviously not required today or tonight.

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here

Irony overload today, I see. (no explanation given or needed)

Age verification? I watched the Apollo moon landing as it happened, live. And we all simply assumed we'd have colonies there, in space, and on Mars long before now.