I’d like to just say that this thing is awesome and YOU are awesome!

Thank you!

Going to the doctor does this to me too, kitty.

Yes, hi, we do exist. And we were trying to get CEO to implement a hybrid policy for years before covid. He hated the thought. And he was the type of person that would not hesitate to fire an entire department if they felt bold enough to complain about it. When I started there, I didn’t immediately report to him. Anyone there who had a layer of management between themselves and him had a pretty ok work experience there. Direct reports to CEO basically had to manage a toddler who was also the emporor with new clothes. I took the promotion to be his whipping post because I wanted to leverage it to move on. Instead now I have PTSD from an abusive boss and am not able to work full time.

tl;dr – the C suite does discuss things amongst themselves with and without the CEO. But CEO already knows what they want to do, usually can’t be swayed, can only be warned what the consequences of their decisions will bring.

I just spent a few days sitting with my FIL in hospital. We binged Gunsmoke. I am a reluctant fan of Festus now.

• do they have you scheduled for any sight-seeing like CT or MRI scans?
• can you order UberEats to your room? I watched them come and go frequently and wondered if it was for employees, inmates, or both
• do you ask all the nurses for crunchy ice?
• have you asked that one nurse for a bed bath?
• are most of the nurses pregnant like they were at my hospital? Wtf is in the water?!

Fall risk?

** CAUTION: may incur relocation to a different wing

I am in Virginia. My Lidl has good traffic but isn’t crowded, so I don’t come home cranky like I do from the big American grocery stores. I primarily go for the meat section (and the fun random household goods section) but it has enough of my other regular products that I can usually keep my other store visits down to once a month. It feels like I’m shopping while on holiday in Europe. And let’s not forget they stock wayyyy better chocolate.

Maybe I haven’t bought truly massive “butts”. 😅 They fit in my 11" vacuum sealer roll (also from the Aldi aisle). I shop in Lidl more now but I still see circulators and vacuum sealers in the middle aisles every so often.

And here I am without a pocketknife.

I am a huge 🍭 for kitties.

The ceiling fan was going. Her every need is anticipated.

I would run mine somewhere between 24-36 hours. I have an old cooler that I use (don’t use one you actually like because the extended heat exposure warped the cooler walls some lol). I have a cheapo stick circulator that I picked up at Aldi for $25 over 10 years ago. I haven’t seen the sense in getting a Joule or fancy set up.

I cover the cooler with aluminum foil because plastic wrap would not hold up. Then I blanket my little DIY pork bath in a beach towel to help cut down on evaporation loss.

The recipe that I used before suggested broiling it to finish. But like you, I now have a wall oven that can do convection. So I’d like to try it at 550 and see how that turns out.

Now I’m hungry.

I usually sous vide pork shoulder, and this sounds like a lovely way to finish it up. I haven’t made one though in quite some time and maybe I need to fix that. Pork party, indeed!

Was this in the Grand Tetons? Did you find the stash of the foxy shoe bandit?

“Hey deer! This is Beaver Town! You lost?”

They don’t want to bumble about and get caught in a police sting!

Cuddle puddle!

Krylon makes “marking spray chalk” that is temporary and takes anywhere from a few days to a couple weeks to fade. It’s what we used to paint the train tracks on our parking lot for a kiddie train at our fall festival event.

❤️

I have family in Boone. I’ll see if they will spread his story around.