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Sorry for the slow reply, challenging week here. Garlic Naan: 2 tsp active dry yeast 1 tsp sugar 1/2 cup lukewarm water 1 large egg 1/3 cup avocado oil 1/4 cup plain full-fat Greek yogurt 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour (I often do 50/50 w/ bread flour) 1 tsp salt Naan Prep: Combine yeast, sugar, and water. Stir, let rest for until bubbly ~ 5 minutes. Add egg, oil, yogurt to yeast mixture and mix until combined. Combine salt and flour in a large bowl (stand mixer). Add liquid ingredients and mix/knead for 4-5 minutes until a smooth dough ball forms. Grease bowl to prevent sticking, cover and let rest/rise for min 1 hr or until doubled in size. On a floured surface, roll into rough log shape and divide into even pieces. Shape into balls, cover, and on let rest for 20 minutes on a flour dusted cutting board/sheet pan/whatever. Roll into flattened discs, 8” in diameter and roughly 1/8” thick. Cook on a lightly oiled, hot skillet or flat top grill. ~60 seconds each side w/ care taken not to burn. That all was extracted from this - .

Made chicken shawarma with naan tonight. The naan was one of my better batches.

Happy birthday, Brent!

For the drone of the leaf blower I would think most modern ANC headphones would be able to kill most of the noise but nothing is going to neutralize all of it. Best bet is likely to be to use ANC plus some ambient music to really drive it into the background. Best guess, but one that I haven't tried personally, would be the latest airpods + comply tips to hopefully gain a little passive NR.

Happy Birthday!

I'm going to try my hand at timelapse photography next week for work. So. 40000mAH external and a dummy internal are on the way for the A7IV for the 6000 or so images I'll need to capture across the 36hr exercise. Here's to hoping it's not a bunch of wasted effort. Suggestions/hints/tips are welcome.

@Knuckledragger - the ticks have been horrific up here this spring. For the last couple of weeks I've been finding anywhere from 2-6 on the couch every night that are presumably riding the dog into the house after he gets walked. So (joy of joys) part of my nightly ritual before sitting down to relax in the mostly dark living room is to inspect the couch via flashlight to find the little fuckers. Found two tonight right near where I typically sit, so happy to have done that and then sent them straight to hell in a blazing inferno.

Fondant potatoes, Andrew's request for part of his birthday dinner.

It was the side burner on the grill so that counts, right?

We had my parents down for dinner so I made 6 lbs of baby back ribs and both sweet Italian and garlic/cheese smoked sausage.

@blessingx - yes, very much a potayto/potahto scenario but I often find myself in fixed shooting positions where zoom is a huge benefit. Granted, I've been shooting 90% with the 70-200 these days for kids sports but when I'm doing landscape stuff for work the 12-24 is indispensable. The 24-70 has made rare but meaningful appearances for things like semi-formals or proms. A lot of $$ for not much use but live and learn.

I will likely never graduate to primes, it's just too much to carry around and switching in the field drives me insane. So the current bag has: A7V, 12-24 F2.8, 24-70 F2.8, 70-200 F2.8, and 2x doubler (only works with the 70-200). That kit has sufficiently murdered my wallet over the last several years and shopping used very carefully.

Happy birthday to you, Chris!

@crappyjones123 - it's way more camera than I deserve but it's been great shooting with it so far. I've been using it primarily to shoot kids' sports stuff and in that respect, 30fps is both a life-saver and taker. It's enabled some really cool shots to be captured that I otherwise likely would have missed but requires tedious culling when I get home. So I learned quick to be judicious and only implement it (vs. 10fps mech) when I absolutely need it.

On the Sony side of life focussing is quite a bit worse on the F4 version of their 70-200 so I'd want to make sure you aren't losing performance there as the 1 stop loss isn't too big a sacrifice but if you can't lock onto the subject reliably the rest won't really matter.

A very happy birthday to you, Shelly! 😁

Got the Cervelo back out on the road on one of our few sunny spring days so far. It was windy, but still a nice rip around town.

Happy Birthday!

Forgot to post last night, grabbed dinner after meetings in Mississippi concluded. Turns out the south knows how to do chicken and waffles.

Done as well! Keep up the great work, Mikey.

The bike is looking SWEET! I got out for a nice 27mi windy rip around town this afternoon. Felt good to be back outside again before I have to travel for a few days and be away from the bike.

^^ Because it's a goddamn brilliant camera. I got to shoot with a D4S at work for a bit but have too much Sony stuff at this point to ever practically think about another system. Speaking of Sony, the A7V's 30fps is goddamn bonkers. Sounds like a Gatling gun but allows for capturing some pretty great shots even in mediocre hands. Edit - yes, that's Andrew with the glasses running the 800m today.

I decided that it was time for a proper camera to capture the kids. My iPhone appears to have over-processed the shit out of this photo of the photo-taking tool.

This!

Compression: JPEG (old-style) 😆