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Pain Bâtard with white, wheat, and pumpernickel flour.

I had previously talked about the bookstore I'm working on. It's almost open for business and I thought I'd show a few of the projects. The shelves are all solid Cyprus. The boardwalk in the back is Redwood, as is the planter/benches. I didn't build the shed, but had to completely dismantle, move and reassemble it. Honestly, it would have been easier to just build a new one.

Swag day at work...

One of the employees of the bookstore I'm working on is also an employee of HookFish across the street. I bought us both lunch, because he gets a 50% discount.

Uhm, yeah, again today, because they came and told me they had fresh Halibut.

Solotude Abdullah Ibrahim 2022 Rather than give you one example, I can give you three - Lovely performance:

Awesome job, Steve. Going to make for some happy zen reading. As for the complainers, be glad you don’t work in a normal job with 100+ customers walking through the door. It’s about 1-2% but they are there everyday taking up 98% of everyone’s patience.

ahem... bakers... thank you very much.

This. Also, listen to the wise words from Naaman. There are literally some people that you cannot please, doesn’t matter what you do. They are best left to their misery, don’t make it yours.

when in doubt shut the fuck up is a good policy. But it's better to participate and just learn the norms.

I posted once a long time ago and learned to be careful here from that so...

Would you? Would I? Very difficult question to answer. Either way, I would agree that Ukrainians should be thinking about the next stage. Learning to make IEDs. Guerilla warfare. Counterattacks on Russian infrastructure. Make it completely untenable to hold the country.

I'm sure one of them wants the TICE and the other one is jealous so he's trying to keep you away. Just be happy that it means you don't need to punch their lists anymore.

At the moment, I'm only accepting 60 day wheat futures

In, now I need to PP the $. Euros or Rubles? I have a stash of both that need to be laundered exchanged.

Doing my part I am now drinking Tito's instead of Stolichnaya. China needs petrol to feed it's industry and arable land to feed it's people. It currently does not have enough of either to meet it's needs. Russia and Kazakhstan have the petrol and arable land and the geographic proximity to China. Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan offer great corridors to what China needs with little military resistance should things go south. Vladivostok and areas just north to Khabarovsk have been "temporarily" leased to China for agriculture needs. Shouldn't take a rocket scientist to see where this end game is going. I think Putin is looking west when he should be watching his east.

I kinda wish to further punish Russia instead of withdrawing from the country completely Coca-Cola would send all the Starlight space flavored soda there.

Criterion 50% off sale for the next 14 hours. https://www.criterion.com/sale Maybe grab https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai ?

Itch.io has a huge bundle of games for $10. Proceeds go to help Ukraine.

Finished a set of v1.2 today. An excellent peace of gear! I'd like to thank Mirko and the contributors of the thread for their help (a very thourough source of information!!), dr. Gilmore and Spritzer for the design and instructions. Full XLR, R38&R39 pots set to 250, w GRLV working on 20.1V (wo the final pot stage). Case, cooling and volume controll still pending.

Samba in Seattle : Live at the Penthouse, 1966 Bola Sete 2021 Example:

Studio plus screen - I don't think I will push the Buy button today...

If this was your first post we might have to give you some kind of prize.

Lily and I decided that while it was no longer my birthday, cake was still required. So we made our favorite, Key Lime Cake.

done and ready to ship

Annual Taschen sale going on. If you’re looking for fat, impressive books, to collect dust, now’s the time. https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/sale/all.htm

Polandball community had a good take on this one:

Ukrainian children’s hospital completely wiped out by Russian bombing.

Cool. No need to worry. "The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday that there was no need for immediate alarm over a loss of power at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, but left clear that the situation around the site of the world’s largest nuclear power disaster was deteriorating. The United Nations agency said on Twitter that the plant, which has been occupied by Russian troops since the early days of the invasion, had suffered a loss of power that violated a “key safety pillar” for the site of the 1986 leak. But the agency added that it saw “no critical impact on safety” at this time because the amount of water in cooling ponds and around radioactive waste was sufficient, even without continuous power to the plant." https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/09/world/ukraine-russia-war/chernobyl-power-outage-nuclear-plant

It's projects like these that keep me loving my chosen career path after some 40 years. On a sad note, I received my first negative criticism from clients this week. And it was from two gay men. It was a project that I didn't have a whole lot to do with, but have been there several times to do some small finish projects and knock off items on their punch list. They've turned in at least a dozen punch lists over a few months time, even though they've been asked to look everything over and get all concerns covered on one list. They've also signed off on many of the items I've completed from those lists. Yesterday my boss Ciaran showed me a text where they actually asked him specifically not to send me to their house anymore, as many items on the list I've only made worse. Ciaran has explained to me that he believes they're trying to not pay the balance of what's left on their contract, and therefore trying to create issues that don't exist. While I know that happens, it still hurts my feelings. Not only have I not received any negative reviews from clients before, they usually sing my praises to the bosses. Ciaran told me it's ridiculous and they can fuck off. He's personally seen the work I've performed there, still I can't help obsessing over it. I feel betrayed by my own people. Bitchy, little queens! Funny enough, Kathryn, the owner of the bookstore was there when he read the text to me. She's was furious, and has been stewing over it more than myself. Several times today she's pointed out things I've done that she says are works of art. She knows that it bothers me. Stupid I know, but it upsets me that they're more than willing to smear my reputation over a few dollars that they know they actually owe.