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Easy Brine for Chicken to be Grilled

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I read a recipe for a chicken brine that claimed that the secret to Popeye’s delicious chicken was that they used a brine that was basically a pickle brine. I saved up some pickle brine in the fridge and have been brining chicken. I have a large pickle jar in the fridge and I simply … Read more

Running TO Something

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One of the best pieces of career advice I’ve ever gotten is, “Never run away from something, run TO something.” Which is a great idea in theory. It’s great unless you are working for a bigot who says nasty stuff to you. Or a coworker is doing the same. Sometimes you’ve got to cut your losses and run.

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One Week into No Social Media on My Phone

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I don’t think there’s a lot to report about deleting every social media app off my phone, yet. I have had some interesting responses. I use instagram to get ideas for things I might want to do in my groups. I was telling a coworker about this artist, and grabbed my phone and said, “Damn. … Read more

Digital Detox-ish

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I deleted every social media app off my phone. This might seem extreme but it’s been brewing for a while. I have been noticing that my attention is getting more and more drawn to social media. That the 5 to 10 minutes I used to spend on various social medias has turned to 10 to … Read more

Half Assed work By Nat Grid

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The city has a tree on our street. It happens to sit right in front of our house. I like having a tree there, it cools the house in the summer. We used to have 2 but one fell over in a windstorm and the city decided against replacing it. National Grid used to come … Read more

Vaccinated

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I went to get my covid vaccine yesterday. When I checked the CVS app I saw that I could also get the flu and pneumonia vaccines, so I signed up for those as well. It was over and done in less than 5 minutes. When I got home CVS had sent me coupons- $5 off … Read more

Holiday Gifting

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Often this time of year I do some baking and cooking and then do some sort of crafty packaging for the food. I create and print and decorate some sort of label that explains what is in the food as well as looks pretty cool. One year I did dicut gift boxes for small package … Read more

Coffee Set Up

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I have been buying a lot more coffee during work hours than I have in the past, so I decided to save some money and start brewing at work with a kit inspired somewhat by my coffee outside set up. The mug is a stainless steel mug that I salvaged and repaired. I don’t have … Read more

Upgrades

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I have been looking at a new computer for a few months. I knew that when my brother gave me this laptop that it would only last for so long. Adobe Rush has been crashing pretty frequently, though that might be an Adobe thing and not a computer thing. So I finally started to investigate … Read more

Force Quitting

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ARGH. I use adobe rush to edit my videos. It was free and then I started to pay for it so I could use the cloud to sync everything everywhere. It works great. Except when it crashes. I want to blame the laptop, but I don’t think it’s the laptop. Davinci Resolve seems to handle … Read more