Market Day

Well-maintained industrial ruins towered above while I waited in a socially distanced line at Mill City Farmers Market.

SOS

Meat and gravy left over from Sunday dinner. SOS (sh*t on a shingle) is in our future.

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Saving $17 Per Year

I’d missed this energy waster until today: on standby, a powered subwoofer was drawing 15 watts. Programmed a smart plug to only supply power when needed, saving about 130 kilowatt-hours ($17 in Minnesota) per year. Of course, I could just unplug it, but that’s no fun.

Evidence It’s Almost Summer

Almost summer: bacon sausages, focaccia, and cabbage (cooling off) on the Weber for the first time this year.

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Bacon Sausages

Cycled right up to the counter of Sunshine Harvest Farm at the local farmers market to pick up a guilty pleasure: bacon sausages.

Tip-The-Freezer Week

Without the benefit of long trips to remind me to deal with ingredients lurking in the freezer, declared this week to be Tip-the-Freezer week. Tonight: pot pie with fresh pea pods, next in line for the wok. I previously prepared the pie filling in the wok

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Annual Thumb Drive Ritual

Backed up all our files to an encrypted thumb drive which we’ll keep for ever. Files are backed up continuously, but I like to create a full snapshot of the data every now and then.

Categorized as IT