What's everyone up to right now?

[Angrboda]

Watching football and drinking hibiscus tea. I bought some liquid monk fruit sweetener. It's got a less obnoxious taste than the Stevia I normally use.

[Angrboda]

The doctors gave my sister a good prognosis with her colon cancer. The chemo had shrunk the tumor to almost nothing. Such good news.

[Fireball]

Last year for xmas, my wife made a "Carpenter's Star" quilt wall hanging to hang in the dining area, which I glommed onto for an indoor carving area after my (cancer survivor) brother found Section 8 housing and moved out. I need a place to put my various spectacles (reading, bifocals, sunglasses), so I'm making a frame for that quilt out of some mahogany wood I've had laying around (on a shelf 8 feet off the ground to avoid damaging it- that stuff is expensive!). I'm almost done shaping it, and want to take some pieces to the wood seller to get some dye to make all the pieces match color a little better. Even the wood from the same board, from one end to the other won't necessarily match all that well, in color. The specs are going to be below the quilt; I haven't decided whether they will be in pull-out drawers or in a tilt-out shelf. I'll probably make the tilt-out shelf, given that the first shelf I made (out of curly maple) is too shallow, and I have to be careful putting the specs in so that they don't fall out. I'll post pics of both the curly maple shelf and the mahogany frame when I'm done with that frame.

[Rev. Rye]

Prepping toilet paper, writing.

You know there are these things called "books" now?

You don't have to write on toilet paper...

He knows; he just wants to keep the Albert Speer in Spandau aesthetic up.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Playing with my new rice cooker.  I'm making an Old El Paso cheesy Mexican rice mix now.  I'm enjoying trying different things in it.




https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077NMPKBL

Wow, small world. That's exactly the model we have. For a rice cooker, it also does oatmeal a treat.

Boru

[Angrboda]

Watching football and trying a budget K-Cup coffee that Amazon sells. "Solimo" dark roast.

[Paraselene]

Performed a dizzying amount of rolling around the monopoly board. Just hope it's going to be enough to get the final sculpture complete.

[Angrboda]

I didn't find a new source for news yet. I'm looking at trying out Ground News or maybe The Free Press that Bari Weiss, the new CBS editor, was involved with.

ETA: Ground News offers an annual subscription for $35. That's cheap enough that it might be a good spot to start.

[Alex K]

Raclette

[Angrboda]

More experimenting with my rice cooker. It has a "saute then simmer" function wherein you saute your meat or veggies before adding your liquid and other ingredients, at which point it switches over to simmer until the liquid is evaporated or absorbed. It seems to work okay, but the pot is so small that you can't really saute much very easily. I suppose it would work for Rice-a-roni, or searing a piece of chicken, but it was not ideally suited for the cup of sausage medallions that I needed to sear. Pulling out a small skillet may be a better option for that.