Merry Christmas!

Damn autocorrect. Ripley, not Riley...

Believe it or not.

Gets you every time.

She keeps getting prettier. Amanda was just saying that tonight. She lost 10 lbs in her freshman first semester. You're supposed to gain 15. I had a great couple days with them. These times are getting fewer and farther between off late. We stayed up until 4am playing a trivia game. We opened all of the presents that night instead of this morning. Worked out easy better that way.

Instead of waking up all bleary and having to rush so we could get to my mom's on time today, we slept in and had breakfast, then headed out.

Merry merry Christmas, youse guise!

Heh... I lost 15 my freshman year, because I basically didn't (and still don't) care enough to feed myself. If someone puts food in front of me, fine. But if I have to work for it, or God forbid leave the house? Meh. I didn't gain it back until I had kids and cared enough to feed them.


Merry almost-Christmas to you too!

Coasters.
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Felt bottoms

A customer gave me a 2" slice of birch branch with that burned in to the top about 5 years ago. I keep it out on my desk for when people say something like, "well, I've never even been in an accident," when I'm trying to scare them into buying Gap coverage.

It gets a lot of knuckle.

And people always say, "Where did you get that? I need one of those!"


Figh Dollah!

What, pray tell, are the coasters arrayed upon?

I see it's something to do with beer...

Oh. Amanda's dad made that. He gave us 2 of them. We gave him our bottle caps, he made resin tops on the tables and used them.

They don't go with anything we have, so they're just kind of sitting in the house. Good pace to set stuff down when you unload groceries, but we need to find them a home upstairs somewhere

here's something cool:


Lichtenberg burn process. They use somethng from a microwave and electric current to create fractal burns as though lightening had struck very carefully.

Neeto Burrito. As SusieQ would say.

That is cool especially the leveling jig. A guy locally got killed doing the fractal burn with a homemade setup, so use the sense God gave ya.

Apparently the American Association of Woodturners has banned it at their events.

I'm not even thinking about trying that.

What I am thinking about is food. I'm Hongry!

This is the last Christmas present I haven't tried out yet.

Air fryer
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First thing I cooked : Brussel Sprouts with bacon. I bought the sprouts quartered from Wegmans on a whim. Tossed with Pam Olive oil spray, coarse black pepper and 3 slices of low salt center cut bacon. A dash of salt once it was in the pan.

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Cooked at 375 for 4 minutes and 340 for another 7 or so tossing between.
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And I was still hungry, so pork loin chops, thick cut and rubbed with sage, wrapped with the same bacon.

Black pepper, no oil added.

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Oh emm jeeee, fucking righteous.

Cooked at 400 for 5 minutes to sear it and crisp the bacon. I'll do 6 next time.

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Then flipped and finished at 360 for 10 minutes.

Came out right at 140°

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So good it'll make your pecker hard.