What's everyone up to right now?

[Angrboda]

Working on the seasoning of my carbon steel skillet. It was preseasoned, but that fades quickly. I seared salmon at high heat, so there was sticking, and the surface is a bit blotchy.

[Angrboda]

Watching football, morning exercise, and shopping in preparation for Amazon Prime Days.

[Angrboda]

Trying my hibiscus tea. It's a little weak without sweetener. It doesn't pair very well with Stevia, either. I'll have to try real sugar.

[Rev. Rye]

One of the lugs of my wristwatch just stopped existing while I was picking up groceries from the trunk. A search of the area and the bags I had to take in yielded nothing. I had to go to Walmart and buy a new wristwatch. I found a new one for $12, but evidently, it has the opposite problem. This one, the lugs are so strong that they won’t budge when I tried to replace the imitation leather watchband with my Paracord watchband.

[Paraselene]

A new phone case should be arriving later in the week. It's leather and has an interior card holder so that I can stop lugging my wallet around with me.

[awty]

Been working on trying not to stress too much and to find a positive attitude. Son's pregnant girlfriend has found out she is a carrier for Muscular Dystrophy. Her brother died from complications of it last year at the age of 30. They are also expecting a boy...chances of the baby having MD is 50/50. What should be a really happy time is especially stressful as whatever the turnout is going to be is already in progress...good or not so good.

I have been looking up different things on MD...I am pretty well versed when it comes to genetics but this has been a bit of a deep dive that I wish I didn't have a need to go on.

[Rev. Rye]

Finally got my laptop back. And I even added some glow in the dark arrows for where it’s supposed to be lifted.

[Fireball]

Bought some plastic resin sheds for the back yard. Just got finished slashing two of the containers into recycle-bin sized pieces. Two boxes, one bin. It's gonna take a few weeks to get rid of all that cardboard. At least the neighbor let me use his recycle bin for these two. There's more in our barrel.

[Jackalope]

Sightseeing in Riga until our train departs for Vilnius.

[Jackalope]

Crossed by train into my ancestral homeland of Lithuania. None of my kin have set foot here since just before the Nazi occupation in 1940.

After spending nearly a month in Northern and Eastern Europe I can conclude that the USA lags in innumerable ways.