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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 29, 2024 12:14:43 GMT
Happy intercalary day or...Leap Day!
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Post by kds on Mar 1, 2024 3:30:58 GMT
I pulled up my Facebook memories from four years ago. My wife and I had a date night, going on a ghost tour in Annapolis. It was probably the coldest night of an overall pretty mild winter.
One thing I remember about that night was my wife and I said we were going to do date nights way more often. A little over two weeks later, the COVID restrictions began.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 7, 2024 20:45:27 GMT
I just got tickets to this. It's probably (but, who knows) the last time I'll go to see Willie and Dylan. Robert Plant is a bonus. Never saw him. I checked some Robert Plant/Alison Krauss setlists and Plant does perform a couple of Led Zeppelin songs at each show. This being the Outlaw Music Festival, maybe he will continue that trend.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 8, 2024 21:00:36 GMT
It's rare that I'm looking forward to a weekend that doesn't have anything special about it to the extent that I am right now. It's been one of those weeks with work, not necessarily crazily busy, but in which our corporate parent has been involved in a lot of what I've had to do, and literally every time makes things worse, harder, or both.
For example, something that's previously been a simple, internal process has been moved to some homegrown app they built. But--like everything they build--it's buggy and poorly thought out, and they hadn't planned for it properly, so every day this week I'd have to request access or permissions to something in it, and because the team handling it is in South Asia, that makes it an overnight fix. I'd get that new access or whatever, and find the next thing requires yet more, and so on. All week long, only to find out the final thing I had to complete and submit was literally totally unworkable: the "form" was a plain document with no fields, no words, no content of any kind, the only notable thing about it that it was for some reason blue instead of the typical white. So after wasting hours every day slogging through what should've been done in 10 minutes, I ended up having to circumvent their stupid process anyway and have to hope that's OK.
So while the weather won't be anything special--40s but sunny, decent for the typical season if chilly for THIS season--and I haven't got anything in particular on tap, I just want to unplug and decompress. There are some IPAs with my name on them in the refrigerator...
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Post by kds on Mar 8, 2024 21:14:03 GMT
I've kinda, sorta, started coming around on IPAs recently. It still wouldn't be the first style of beer I'd choose. But, when I went to Ravens games in the fall and during the playoffs, I found they really didn't have a great beer selection for colder weather. They basically have your macro pilsner style beers (Bud, Miller, etc) and IPAs. And, I know it's probably partly my self diagnosed ASD, but I just really associate those pilsner beers with warm weather now, so I opted for the heartier IPAs.
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Post by kds on Mar 11, 2024 13:03:54 GMT
We had a bit of a winter storm yesterday. There was no precipitation, but it was in the form of a windstorm. Thankfully, I no longer have that giant tree hovering over my property. But....as luck would have it, another tree on the street took out a power line yesterday evening.
We were actually going to stay the night at a hotel, but I got a notification that power should be restored by 9pm. Unable to cook, we went out to eat. While finishing dinner, the ETA moved to 10pm. We figured it would be dark when we got home, but it least heat would be restored.
Of course, when we got home, and got our tired son (who we had out well past his bedtime) to bed, I got a notification that the work had to be stopped, and would resume later. It was pretty chilly when we woke this morning.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 17, 2024 11:11:17 GMT
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Post by B.E. on Mar 24, 2024 14:09:29 GMT
Well, for the next two weeks I'm on-call for federal jury duty. I've been on-call before but I've never actually been called-in let alone selected to serve on a jury (on any level). I've gotten my instructions for tomorrow, I'm not to report. I'll admit, I was actually disappointed! I think I'd like go and be part of the process and sit on a jury. Just once, anyway.
Has anyone here served on a jury? Any stories to tell?
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 24, 2024 14:27:22 GMT
Well, for the next two weeks I'm on-call for federal jury duty. I've been on-call before but I've never actually been called-in let alone selected to serve on a jury (on any level). I've gotten my instructions for tomorrow, I'm not to report. I'll admit, I was actually disappointed! I think I'd like go and be part of the process and sit on a jury. Just once, anyway. Has anyone here served on a jury? Any stories to tell? I know most people try to get out of it, but I've always wanted to experience it at least once. But I've never yet been called before to report for any jury at any level. Not even to be on call, much less actually serving. One of my colleagues has experienced it something like three times in the 15 years or so we've worked together!
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Post by carllove on Mar 25, 2024 3:00:43 GMT
Gave my Kitchen Aid Mixer a workout this weekend! I made Donuts and Bierocks.
I’ve never made donuts before - and I was surprised how easy they were to make. My husband ate ten of them this weekend. The recipe was on point. I did add a little sourdough starter discard, just because the yeast, sugar, milk mixture wasn’t bubbling as soon as expected. Will definitely continue to do that. Also might up the nutmeg slightly and put a dash of Karo syrup in the frosting. I did add some coconut oil to the vegetable oil as well.
The Bierocks were good. I tried a new dough recipe that used mashed potatoes, but the dough needed more sugar (needs the sweetness to counteract the vinegar and enhance the caraway and cabbage). It was good and puffy though, and had a slight crisp to the outside. I’ve learned to roll it really thin. Can’t have a thick dough. I need to use more cabbage, onion and caraway seed, and salt and pepper in the filling. I keep tweeking my recipe. Someday, soon I will make them as good as the Mennonite’s from the town I grew up in. Those Bierocks make your eyes roll back in your head, they are so good.
i really think I need to start a recipe book for my daughter. She loves to cook as well, and yeah, internet recipes are great, but they sometimes simplify things for clicks. I think she is like me - She’d rather have a bit more complicated recipe - if it makes the outcome so much better.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 26, 2024 11:13:58 GMT
Crazy and terrible situation in Baltimore this morning, where a cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. Thinking about your city this morning, KDS.
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Post by kds on Mar 26, 2024 12:38:39 GMT
Crazy and terrible situation in Baltimore this morning, where a cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. Thinking about your city this morning, KDS. Thank you. Yeah, it's been a surreal day here. When I woke up, and checked my phone, I saw a graphic that just said RIP Key Bridge, and it looked like one of those joke news stories you see about the tower from Die Hard that gets shared every Xmas Eve, so at first, I thought it was a really tasteless joke. But, sadly, not the case. The only silver lining was that it happened at 1:15am local time, when there was very little traffic on the bridge.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 26, 2024 12:46:23 GMT
Crazy and terrible situation in Baltimore this morning, where a cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. Thinking about your city this morning, KDS. Thank you. Yeah, it's been a surreal day here. When I woke up, and checked my phone, I saw a graphic that just said RIP Key Bridge, and it looked like one of those joke news stories you see about the tower from Die Hard that gets shared every Xmas Eve, so at first, I thought it was a really tasteless joke. But, sadly, not the case. The only silver lining was that it happened at 1:15am local time, when there was very little traffic on the bridge. I couldn't help but think of when the I-94 bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed right on the edges of downtown Minneapolis in 2007. That one was a structural failure of a damaged bridge, not a collision like the one in Baltimore. And it happened during afternoon rush hour, as I recall. We were lucky, though: despite over a hundred cars falling with the collapsing bridge, only a dozen or so people were killed. The timing of the FSK Bridge collapse was definitely fortunate.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Mar 26, 2024 12:46:49 GMT
Crazy and terrible situation in Baltimore this morning, where a cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. Thinking about your city this morning, KDS. Thank you. Yeah, it's been a surreal day here. When I woke up, and checked my phone, I saw a graphic that just said RIP Key Bridge, and it looked like one of those joke news stories you see about the tower from Die Hard that gets shared every Xmas Eve, so at first, I thought it was a really tasteless joke. But, sadly, not the case. The only silver lining was that it happened at 1:15am local time, when there was very little traffic on the bridge. Just terrible news. I saw a news conference earlier in the morning. At least two people were rescued, but unfortunately, they were still searching for seven (or more) others. Obviously, there will be updates throughout the day.
kds, do you live near the bridge and do you use it much?
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Post by kds on Mar 26, 2024 12:56:35 GMT
Thank you. Yeah, it's been a surreal day here. When I woke up, and checked my phone, I saw a graphic that just said RIP Key Bridge, and it looked like one of those joke news stories you see about the tower from Die Hard that gets shared every Xmas Eve, so at first, I thought it was a really tasteless joke. But, sadly, not the case. The only silver lining was that it happened at 1:15am local time, when there was very little traffic on the bridge. Just terrible news. I saw a news conference earlier in the morning. At least two people were rescued, but unfortunately, they were still searching for seven (or more) others. Obviously, there will be updates throughout the day.
kds, do you live near the bridge and do you use it much? I live about 15 miles from the Bridge. I didn't go over it on a regular basis, but I did go over it when going from Baltimore County to Anne Arundel County, and pretty often when we'd drive to Ocean City, MD. I even went under it last year when we did our Carnival Cruise.
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