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Happy belated!!! Hope Satan brings you a new home this year! #Rule12

Happy Belated Birthday Adam. Hope you "Enjoyed" the last year of our Glorious Leaders reign. What a Birthday present! Here's to a better next year.

Happy Birthday, Adam!

Happy Birthday!

Have a fantastic birthday Mike! It would be awesome to see you around here again more often! Cheers!

Hope you had a great one Adam! Cheers!

Two meals from the new year. First up is a chicken dish from Samin Nosrat's Good Things cookbook. I don't think I've ever had a cookbook recipe come out looking this close to the photo. It was also delicious, along with the saffron rice Claire made and a Samin salad with tomatoes, cucumbers and quick pickled red onion. Last night was the first pizza of 2026, in the form to a Detroit style with pepperoni, red bell pepper and mushroom. I need to find a local source for brick cheese.

I wish there were a travel team. But Red Oxx isn't a true prerequisite if you can kickstart it back into being.

LOL, Internet Storm Center didn't have anything on it at the time that I posted. Try this instead: Check Point Research

You quit...Amazon?!?!?

Quit. Do I need a Red Oxx bag to join the Travel Team or what?

In the last 36(ish) hours I flew out to Denver and back to check in on a friend that had a particularly rough second half of 2025 along with three other friends. When we learned he wasn't going to be able to come out east during the holidays we decided it was time to head west. So yesterday I got up at 4am, drove through the snow to Boston, hung out for 24hrs and flew back this evening. I am, exhausted.

VPI in a Lexus commercial

Couple of coats of high temp engine paint. Looks like poop, but it is protected and ready to go. Ran it at max temp for a while to cook of any vapors, then smoked a salmon. I'm back...

Thanks - missed it, but good to know it is out there, I will have to keep an eye out.

Ex.

Bookish (PBS) - getting my Brit-TV fix with this new series starring Mark Gatiss & Polly Walker (#crush!) as store proprietors by day/crime sleuths by night "hubby & wife" (quotes intentional) in this series set in set in post-WWII London. British accents as thick as molasses, using the vernacular of the time, all require intense concentration, but worth it. By the by, young Buket Komur is one to watch as an up-&-comer in the biz, imo.

Spent the weekend my Father and friends' cabin without the phone and any electric device beside a the lamp. Got cold. Not my cup of tea tbh. At least not in winter.

Happy belated Birthday, Grahame!

Not an expensive watch, or particularly horological interesting, but I missed having one. It’s a lot of watch for the money. No more watches; I have enough.

Didn't realize you were that old. 🙃

I'm going to have a belated b-day biscuit for you!