Kongar

In my life it’s wheels by a long shot. 36 doors. 120 wheels. And that’s counting anything remotely like a door - stuff that’s sus. But all the wheels are 1000% clearly wheels. There are wheels everywhere.

Edit: and I’m NOT counting the little wheels in all my drawers, or any of the many wheels I encounter and use like shopping carts. It’s SO totally wheels. :)

I just finished Pachinko. I don’t get the hype. Interesting historical perspective regarding Koreans in Japan that I didn’t have. Decent story premise, but really flat writing. I cared enough to finish the book, but overall it was a big “meh” for me.

I made my starter from scratch. People act like you can do that in a week. In my case it took months before it was strong. I also learned the mix of flour and water that worked for me. Just a small change leads to a very different dough. It just took time and trial and effort to dial that in. Lastly, I stopped trying to proof on the counter and baking the same day. I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong, over or under proofing, but the dough is always loose and flat and deflates. If I bulk ferment, shape, and then toss it in the fridge - it seems I can do no wrong. I can let it proof overnight, 24hrs, even two days - and it still bakes with good spring and better flavor. So ya, now I just leave it in the fridge, pull it out at the last minute and bake it cold (I don’t even let it warm up to room temp - I just add to my cooking time and use a thermometer to pull the loaves at 205F)

I should clarify. I mix 6 in a giant pot at once. I proof and fit all 6 at once in my fridge. I cook 3 at a time in my regular oven. Two Dutch ovens and one smaller loaf bread oven.

It would be awesome if I had 6 loaf style bread ovens-if they were like the one I have - I could probably get all 6 loaves in the oven at once. But that would be expensive and just silly to shave 45 minutes of cooking time.

Thanks. :) They didn’t look good at first. Lots of flat crappy loafs for months. All edible, but ya, failures. I’ve only recently started making loaves that look and taste good.

lol no bakery, not Mormon. Just a regular guy, but one with a family. My kids have hollow legs. My starter lives in the fridge and it lasts about three weeks before it starts starving. So I just bake in bulk and freeze the bread. It started as a time thing, but for whatever reasons that I don’t understand-the bread also comes out better when I do it in bulk. So ya, I do 6 at a time. I don’t have the room or stuff to do more than that at once ;)

I run a 4090 on fedora workstation gnome. Rpm fusion makes installation a simple command from the command line - haven’t had a single problem for years.

I stay away from early access, so now that this is imminent-I decided to give Valheim a try. It’s super fun and I’m not sure why. It’s grindy af, and I don’t think there’s any new and novel mechanics - but I’m hooked.

Maybe the difficulty and the fact I’m just playing blind? Man, sailing for the first time was cool. Then I decided to land in the swamp, at night, for the first time ever - ya, that didn’t end well…. Kinda had to start over, couldn’t even get to my corpse lol. Brutal but fun…

Remember when the internet didn’t suck? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

I think I’m in. It’s expensive but I want an htpc/gaming machine in my Mancave. I don’t know how anyone could have expected $600 price tags in this crap ai fueled market.

This right here 1000%. Nintendo used to get a lot of my money. Not anymore, screw em.

I own guns. I enjoy shooting paper targets at the range and clay disks flying through the air. I grew up around guns on a farm. I’m very comfortable handling them.

Me, and responsible people like me, are PARANOID about gun safety. Even if I KNOW it’s unloaded, I never point it in an unsafe direction. Like, not even towards the right because my neighbors house is that way 300 yards away through a concrete basement wall etc. I never point it at something I don’t intend to kill/destroy, and my finger never touches the trigger unless I intend to pull it. When the gun isn’t in my direct and immediate control - it’s locked up.

I HATE assholes like the person in this story. They deserve criminal negligence, their guns taken away forever, and some community penalty that’s severe. There is no way in hell “the dog did it”. Give me a break. At best, they were cleaning it in an unsafe manner and did some very negligent things (didn’t check the chamber, pointed it at their neighbor, pulled the god damn trigger), OR they were being a complete jackass and waving it around gangster style.