What's everyone up to right now?

[Fireball]

Signed on the new house, its funded and deed recorded.  We're just waiting on the listing agent to remove their staging decor before we can get the keys.  Probably tomorrow.

That's been quite the adventure, is all I can say. Congratulations!

[The Valkyrie]

Signed on the new house, its funded and deed recorded. We're just waiting on the listing agent to remove their staging decor before we can get the keys. Probably tomorrow.

Awesome.

Congrats!

[Little lunch]

I need a nose plumber.

[ignoramus]

I did it!

no more work! fuck yeah! (but it hasn't sunk in )

[Fireball]

I did it!

no more work! fuck yeah! (but it hasn't sunk in )

It is a bit unreal at the beginning. But you'll find that you will be busier than before. At least that's what happened to me. I'm getting better at slacking off now though. Congratulations!

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

New boots.

Antiseptic cream and band-aid plasters over the roughly five cent piece sized abrasions on my heels.

The other patches of skin don't sting enough to notice yet.

Good times.

P.S. Just looked at the weather radar. Seems we're in for some rain.

Good times.

[arewethereyet]

I did it!

no more work! fuck yeah! (but it hasn't sunk in )

I semi-retired this month.  Not quite ready to not work as yet so I have a decent job in the mornings that's an easy commute.  

I have been celebrating with afternoon naps.    

There are plans for household projects when it cools off this fall.

[Jackalope]

We're getting the keys in a couple of hours. Everything not in storage is staged and my brother is coming over with his trailer to help move it over, and then to empty the smaller storage unit. The other one can wait til we get back from Canada on the 8th.

[Rev. Rye]

At Ravinia for the Counting Crows concert. It was the first “parking lot is full, please find overflow parking” concert of the year.

But first, a little digression on bread. A few years ago, I discovered that Fleischmann’s started selling bread mixes. By an insane coincidence, the first time I made one, I was watching The 49th Parallel, and by an extraordinary coincidence, around the same time the Nazis were hiding out in a Hutterite colony and one of them was rediscovering his love for baking (which led to his defection and summary execution), Dad called me and asked if I wanted to make some bread. And for some reason, it ended up a little Ravinia tradition for us, especially after Mum died. However, last year, the Fleischmann’s mixes stopped showing up in the supermarket. And then, we looked for other alternatives. Eventually, we bought a bunch of bags from Prepared Pantry, and, a few weeks ago, I decided to make our inaugural loaf of the season.

Here’s the weird thing: it claimed that the yeast was enclosed in the mix. It was not. So, I found an additional yeast packet in the pantry and put it in. Then I read the instructions:



So it was already mixed in with the mix already and that was what that meant? So I tried it again yesterday. I should point out that I used the same procedure as last time except I didn’t add an additional packet of yeast and I gave it more time to rise. So, here’s what it looked like out of the oven:



As you can see, The bread did not, in fact, rise. Evidently, the yeast in the mix is not enough for a proper rise. The bread is chewy, but edible and fairly tasty.

This week in the Deep Hurting Project: I Know Who Killed Me. After something as formulaic as LOL, I’m looking forward to seeing a movie so incoherent they need to have Art Bell from Coast to Coast AM stop the movie to explain what’s going on because the movie’s doing such a shitty job of it.

[Draconic Aiur]

So I win the last to post thread because of the rules and this message:

"The last post in this thread was made over 30 days ago. Please consider starting a new thread."