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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After a TON of research I picked up a GoPr0 knock off. I picked one that was well rated for vlogging and good focus closer to the camera. And was about $50! After some testing I’ll be switching it out as my main recording camera for my art journaling videos. It’s funny because I picked … Read more

This week I’ve been running around getting stuff done and fixing issues of my own making. So, I have a thing for toy cameras and using filters on videos (check out my old Q&A series) that look old. I picked up a kids video camera, that claimed to shoot 1080p, it kinda did, but I … Read more