Nuzu…

Dispose of Yuzu,

for my amuzument!

Totally second this! Super easy to make, tons of applications. Ice cream, cakes, fruit, you name it.

I once made a chocolate ganache and a strawberry merlot sauce over ladyfingers for my wife/then girlfriend for our first or second anniversary. It took minutes to make, but talk about decadent!

Didn’t see anyone suggest it, but I can’t recommend it enough, spend time with your parents, and, if they’re still alive, your grandparents!

This really put it into perspective for me.

If you were a late baby like me, your parents are likely getting into their 70s now. You may have 20 years with them. You may have 5. I’m lucky if get to see mine once a month because of work. That’s around 60-240 times left to see them. If I spend an hour with them each time(which is a stretch), that’s 10 days tops. Enjoy the time you have with them and pray you’re lucky.

Also, if you have any loved ones, tell them you love them every chance you get. My wife and I have traded "I love you"s nearly every day for the past 23 years. You never know when it’ll be the last time, so say it as much as you can to anyone you care about! It doesn’t cost anything, and tell me it’s not great to hear when someone says it to you. Spread that shit around!

Lastly, if you can afford it, travel. You don’t have to travel the whole world, and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune. I know people hate on them, but my wife and I book at least 1 AirBnB a year. We find a cheap place that’s only a day’s drive away and book it for a week. Just get outside of the safety net that is the streets and places you know.

For that matter, take any opportunity you can to make new memories. We are creatures of habit, and our brains don’t like to waste. It’s believed that one of the reasons our days feel like they fly by is because we’re following a routine that our brain meshes with the memory of similar experiences and routines to save energy. Being in new places, experiencing new things, and making new memories may help with breaking up those moments where the day, week, month, or year are gone in a flash.

Exactly, and what can’t be fixed goes into the rag pile to be used for cleaning or whatever!

I learned to sew when I was little, so I have no qualms busting out the kit to put a few stitches in something. It’s not a hard skill to pick up, and definitely something I think everyone should learn. Especially in this day and age, where everything is so damn expensive! Your stitches don’t have to be perfect, they just have to hold.

My alone NYE when the wife is working is typically a dinner of hors d’oeuvres type foods, made throughout the night. Cheese and crackers, some summer sausage if I have it, puff pastries with spinach or Buffalo chicken, pigs in a blanket, mozzarella sticks, maybe some samosas, even pizza rolls. For entertainment, a good video game or two and several of the NYE streams on YouTube to make fun of.

Looking forward to seeing how God awful the Planet Fitness show is this year! Dick Clark and Casey Kasem are both rolling in their graves tomorrow night for sure.

Thank you for being a good person anyway! Your plans may both have been ruined, but you’re a hero to that guy! You’ll both remember each other for the rest of your lives!

Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away!

I just switched from Liftoff because it hasn’t received an update in 6 months and is now breaking. As of last week, it no longer opens the subbed list for me.

I tried Voyager and Connect. It looks like I may be sticking with Connect, as I’m way happier with how smooth it is and the fact that it’s not harvesting my data like some of the more popular browsers.

Admittedly, I’m a little biased. I traveled a lot up and down the east coast as a pro skater when I was younger, lot of questionable rest stops and roach motels. I also worked as a plumber for years. Lot of multimillion dollar homes, yacht clubs, small businesses. Let me tell you though, lifestyles of the rich and famous does not cover how much the rich like to blow up a yacht club toilet and leave it for the help to deal with…

Worst by far though? There’s a Lowes Theatre near me that routinely has enough shit on the tiled walls that it looks like bad grout work.

Definitely an art piece, there’s not enough shit and piss on every surface to be a real bathroom. Unless it’s some sort of rare Jackson Pollock scupture piece making fun of Andy Worhol, in which case, there isn’t enough shit, piss, cum, and/or blood.

I just watched the “Inuyasha/Kagome” Adult Swim video… Does the count? If not, Onimusha…

And here she is yesterday, in full “ball is life” mode

Been up there twice in the fall, both right at the peak of the leaf turning. Last year was an absolute nightmare to drive through. We managed to schedule our trip on Colimbus day weekend without even thinking. The drive into Lincoln to get to the Flume Gorge and the Old Man site was at the breakneck speed of 5mph. People pulled over at every possible spot to look at the leaves, walking in the middle of the highway like it was no big deal, stop and go traffic almost the whole ride. By the time we got out of town, it had clouded over and was pouring rain. The Gorge was closed and the Old Man site was totally covered by the clouds. Ended up going to the Basin and walking in the rain. Which actually turned out pretty cool, but the rest of the day was miserable.