Out of the Blue

I did not end up braving the elements for chili fixings yesterday, even though I knew future me would want some today. And now that future me is present me, it turns out I was right. But it was ugly out there, and hunkering down felt right at the time. And the Super Bowl is next week, so a more concrete plan to whip up some chili for that seems like the way to make this all work out for the best. I hope future me agrees.

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Jivaro wrote on Feb 4, 2025, 12:57:
man I wish I was that lucky/healthy. If I had eaten processed and fast food that often in my lifetime, I would have died at 40 with my genetics
Yeah, I definitely have been very fortunate with my body's ability to absorb the abuse I have given it without any serious damage in response. My friends when I was in my 20s used to joke we were on "death by 30" diets. But we came through unscathed. *shrug*
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man I wish I was that lucky/healthy. If I had eaten processed and fast food that often in my lifetime, I would have died at 40 with my genetics
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Jivaro wrote on Feb 4, 2025, 01:51:
Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 3, 2025, 15:24:
Nothing new. I'm 62 and I've never really cooked anything despite living alone for 35 of those years. Just not interested. Hell, I went probably at least a decade where I ate every meal "out" or ordered a pizza to my residence. *shrug*

*Laughs in cardiac arrest from sodium*
*shrug* My blood work is always fine and my heart condition is genetic/hereditary.
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Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 3, 2025, 15:24:
Nothing new. I'm 62 and I've never really cooked anything despite living alone for 35 of those years. Just not interested. Hell, I went probably at least a decade where I ate every meal "out" or ordered a pizza to my residence. *shrug*

*Laughs in cardiac arrest from sodium*
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Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Feb 3, 2025, 10:30:
how the world has changed. I was cooking eggs and simple dishes when I was in the same age range, and some baking too... now I know people in their early 20's who can't even boil water.
Nothing new. I'm 62 and I've never really cooked anything despite living alone for 35 of those years. Just not interested. Hell, I went probably at least a decade where I ate every meal "out" or ordered a pizza to my residence. *shrug*
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Feb 3, 2025, 11:18
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Likewise. I grew up cooking with my mom from the time I could stand steadily. She would put me on a stool next to her at the stove (indoor or outdoor) and my job was initially to stir things and keep them from burning or drying out. Moved on to bigger and more complex things as I grew.

One of the culinary moments I am most proud of happened on Thanksgiving when I was 15. My mom had fallen very ill with some kind of gastrointestinal bug. Responsibility for bringing all of Thanksgiving dinner together, cooking it, and getting it on the table fell upon me. My dad can't cook without a microwave (and only things that can be microwaved) and my siblings don't have the gift. I mean, they're competent enough to keep themselves from starving but cooking, good cooking, requires a touch you can't quantify with scientific rigor. My mom calls it just knowing how to put lagniappe in everything you make.

It so happened that on that particular Thanksgiving, the extended family was there. Mom had quarantined herself off and the house was full. I pulled that meal off with the traditional meal and all the trimmings. Turkey, cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes (no skins. That's heathen shit. :P), gravy, rattlesnake beans, yeast rolls, three different kinds of pie, and fresh whipped cream. All made by hand, because that's how it is in my family. I was running between the indoor and outdoor kitchens (less bougie than it sounds. When it is hot as Hell in the summer, you cook outside to avoid heating up the house) to get everything done. After dinner, I stretched out on the floor with the family dogs and promptly crashed for three hours. Left the mountain of dishes to everyone else.
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how the world has changed. I was cooking eggs and simple dishes when I was in the same age range, and some baking too... now I know people in their early 20's who can't even boil water.
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Feb 3, 2025, 01:53
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edit: This was supposed to be a recipe and then I was gonna go to bed and it became...whatever this is. Sorry for the book, hope it helps someone..lol.

Agreed, practice makes perfect. Unfortunately for my waist size. That said, I was really fortunate to be taught cooking by a family of adults in a purposeful manner that they gave some thought and planning to it. I am by no means a great chef and my perpective is fairly narrow (western european and rural american menus), but my fundementals are in order. Maybe the process will help anyone looking to work on their skills...

I learned to breakfast first. Like out the gate, age 4 or 5, I am on the griddle with mom. Cooking eggs all the ways, cooking on high heat, flipping things, and learning how to time it so it all finishes at the same time. By age 8 it's one of my daily solo chores in the house. Yeah, I started young and nobody here is that young, but that doesn't change the point. Breakfast is a great meal to practice with unless all you eat is cereal.

Then I learned to bake. That started around age 8, after mom felt I was comfortable in the kitchen alone. Baking gave me the fundementals in measuring, how different ingredients react to eachother and how that can be leveraged through prep work. Bread and pizza just taste better when you make the dough. Learning the ingredient differences between biscuits, muffins, and crossants. I had a sourdough culture of my own from age 10 until I left home. I think this is where most adults could start to learn cooking from. Making your own bread is AMAZING and once you get on a schedule you wonder why you ever paid for it in the first place. Sourdough Beer Bread. Google that and make some.

Then I learned meats. Dad Jivaro started me with fish like rainbow trout and bass at around age 8-10 when we would camp around the rim of the Grand Canyon and at some of the various man made lakes up there. Debone, prep, open flame cooking. Cast iron pan doing all the work, good stuff. Mom Jivaro taught me pork and chicken but because she was a bit of a 80s jazzercize health nut by that time, I had to relearn a bit of it in my adult life. Like I had to relearn all the proper cooking times and seasonings essentially. Everything she taught me was pretty dry and tasteless. Fortunately Grandma Jivaro was all about the beef and the flavors and I learned roasts and holiday dinners from her. Turducken? No problemo. I can butcher all the birds, prep, roast, and serve in the same day thanks to Grandma Jivaro's kitchen tips and a rural upbringing.

Protip: For those that like cooking but hate being social with the fam at the holiday, cook the dinner. I even offer to do a Turducken sometimes and have done so three times now. Turducken is too much work for the payoff, I would never argue otherwise. HOWEVER, if you want to make sure that nobody will bother you and if they do it will be superficial conversation like "that's all gonna fit in there?!" instead of things like "divorced again eh?"...it works great. Personal experience. Anyhoo...

For veggies it just depends. Some veggies like carrots are prepped many ways with other foods, others like asparagus tend to be steamed or baked and then added to something else right? No matter how you do veggies, do them. If you arent a veggie person, find a few that you can stand and get good at a few ways to make them. Corn is always a good fallback if entertaining a group however if you know or suspect that a member of the group has digestive problems of some sort, do polenta instead of whole corn. (unless they say no corn at all of course!) Most people that don't eat corn for digestive reason can eat it if it's milled as it's the whole kernel that is giving them problems. (again USUALLY!) Polenta is one of those things that people think is exotic and it's really easy to make and can be flavored a billion ways. Cheese and butter are common. Give it a google. Note: I love stir fried vegetables and make a huge wok of it to eat over days sometimes. If you are someone that eats all the vegetables like I am, google some stir fry recipes and check them out. Learning how to do one will basically teach you all of them....you just pick your mix of veggies. Rice or pasta or noodles can make an appearence here as well.

If I may recommend for the aspiring cook: I personally was raised with the "potatoes are the backbone of the meal" attitude and have a billion ways to make you potatoes. I learned a lot of things about cooking in general while learning how to cook potatoes. I found them the easiest things to teach my step-kids how to cook regardless of the various different ways they were prepared.

For example:
1) Make mashed potatoes as you do, I recommend minimal peeling but some folks cant handle the skins in their mashed taters so you do you.
2) Want to add shredded cheese? Go ahead, but pick a flavor sensation, don't try to mix it too much. Don't mix say cheddar and parmesan. Do a Jack/Cheddar thing or a Parm/Mozz thing or just one cheese. 1/4 cup of cheese should do it if that's your thing.
3) Add 1 egg for every half pound of potato and mix into mixture.
4) Add some diced *insert diced precooked meat proten here" into that with some challots or grilled onions. I prefer grilled onions, but again, you do you.
5) Use an ice cream scoop to make balls that you either flash fry in a pan with some oil on high heat rotating to get all sides or bake in the oven (five mins, flip and five more at 425F) on a cookie sheet. I haven't done them in an air fryer, but I bet 400-425 for 5 minutes would do it. Use a liner I would imagine.
6) Profit.

People threaten to kill me for the recipe (particularly the fried version) and it is literally only mashed potatoes with an ice cream scoop and (usually) a bit of bacon and onion. Potatoes are still relatively cheap, prepared correctly they are nutritious, and the vast number of ways to cook with them gives any budding chef a food type that they can practice on without worrying about ruining something expensive. Learning how to use all the kitchen tools, pans, etc on potatoes will make you better with the more expensive stuff.

Lastly, try shit out for no reason other then why the hell not. For example....you know those Red lobster cheese biscuits? You know how you buy the mix at the grocery store?
1) Pour box of mix in a bowl
2) Crack two eggs into another bowl
3) Remember the potato balls? Well instead of pan frying or putting them in the oven, now you are gonna dip them in that egg
4) Now you are gonna roll them in that biscuit mix
5) AND NOW you are gonna add them to that pan to fry until golden brown on all sides.

Or use it for fried chicken or shrimp or whatever. Or don't buy it premade and make your own flour mixture with some cheese and spices in it. Either way, it's amazing. Personal experience.
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Feb 2, 2025, 21:17
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You are 100% correct. I never learned how to cook all proper, just as I never learned ohm's law to turn on the lights.
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I agree that to learn to cook well, a person needs to roll up their sleeves and get to cooking.

I disagree with watching other people cook to learn how to cook. That just teaches you to make a dish someone else's way. Which may not be in your budget or to your palate's taste.

When I teach other people to cook, I have them master the following:

Gravy and sauces. You're going to fuck these up a couple of times. Don't worry about it. Start with the basics like cream gravy, brown gravy, and a bechamel. All three will make many, many dishes.

Learn to roast a whole chicken and the gnarliest, toughest hunk of beef you can find. It's easy since it is just about temperature, moisture, and time. Roasted meats can be used in a wide array of dishes.

Learn to sautee and carmalize. This will also be used in many dishes.

Learn safe, proper knife handling and knife-work. You'll be using one for damn near every dish. That means being able to slice an onion so thin you can read through it to shucking clams and coconuts.

Lastly, never skimp on tools. I have a full Staub enamled cast iron set. I started out with a single dutch oven. You'd be amazed what you can cook in a dutch oven. Everything from bread, soups, stews, pot pies, roasts, searing meat, roasts, desserts and damn near everything in between. Likewise, if you can only afford one good knife, buy it instead of a whole, cheaper set. Find one that fits your hand comfortably and one you can put your index finger on the spine without fatiguing the rest of your hand or losing a solid grip. Avoid cookware that leans on gimmicks. They always fail whereas a good set of cast iron will outlast your great-grandchild. I have some Griswold pans from way before my maternal grandmother's time that see heavy use.
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The Half Elf wrote on Feb 2, 2025, 11:19:
I cant cook.

Send me all your foods for safety and tasty sake.

The only way to learn to cook, is buy cooking. Hard to find spices like Mexican Oregano, or Jalapeno powder can be ordered on Amazon, be prepared to ruin more than a few dishes, It took me probably three months of cooking a fatty every weekend to get good at it. my fatty is thin cut chicken marinated in chipotle, smoked over hickory, that is then put with cheese and jalapenos, wrapped in sausage, wrapped in bacon, and smoked a second time over hickory to cook the sausage and bacon, without overcooking the chicken.. took some practice.

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I cant cook.

Send me all your foods for safety and tasty sake.
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Thanks for all the tips.
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Cutter wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 19:47:
You being in Texas, you have plenty of Mexicans and Mexican foods. Me being in Canada we don't have much in the way of Mexicans - or Latinos in general - nor a lot of Mexican//Latino foods. We do have Maseca here but I've always preferred Pan Yellow Corn Flour. And I've made plenty of cornbread but never a tortilla nor tamale. And whilst I infinitely prefer tacos over burritos I do enjoy tamales. Do you, or anyone else here, ever make tamales, over have access to local good ones?

I think that may be a provincial thing. When I would go to visit my ex-in laws with my late wife, we would find plenty of Latin foods and ingredients and they live a fair piece outside of Toronto (or "Tahrahna" if you're local). Fresh cilantro, Mexican oregano, and so forth. My late wife learned how to cook like a real person from my mom. She introduced my ex-in laws to real green chile enchiladas. However, since my in-laws were as white as the driven snow, they had to be mild and made with chicken. We used to have to smuggle the ingredients in to Canada in the beginning but over time we were able to get everything locally. Funny story, they wanted to taste test the Oaxaca cheese before she cooked with it. They thought enchiladas were made with European cheeses! We both got a good chuckle out of that.

I do have access to good tamales but they're made lady finger style instead of cocina abuela's fat style so we tend to make them from scratch. It's a two day affair. First day is slow cooking the beef or pork and shredding it. Second day is making, wrapping, and steaming. Since it is such a labor intensive process, we will make dozens upon dozens of them with ,multiple pots going so the cooked ones can be vacuum sealed and frozen. It is not an endeavor for the weak, that's for sure! You'll wear your hands out on the first day shredding and you'll be either on your feet or standing and sitting for much of the next day. Your hands, feet, and back will ache. Totally worth it, though.

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Sepharo wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 20:55:
living in a holler with metal roofs reminds me of my ancestral hunting grounds lol
I've got a camp in north central pennsylvania and we just started getting any signal at all 10 years ago, good signal within 5, and just finally sprung for coax broadband for the first time this season. I'm still surprised it's available in our area, but it is now.
But yeah we aren't in a holler and don't have a metal roof, but a lot of homes/camps in the area do.

Here the metal roof makes sense because a quality metal roof is far more resilient to the hail we get than an asphalt shingle roof. We had a big hail storm roll through here a couple of months back that dented the ever-loving shit out of my somewhat brand new truck. Climbed up on the roof to inspect it and not a dent in sight. A few mars here and there in the color but that was it.Yeah, it's weird how they roll out broadband sometimes. I have the choice of two gigabit providers where just ten years ago our choices were 3Mb DSL or 100Mb coax cable.

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jdreyer wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 21:41:
I'm setting it up on my phone. Got to call my carrier in the morning so they can enable it on their side. My wife's phone, a Samsung A31, doesn't even have the option in settings. The only downside to wifi calling is that you can't call when the power goes out, ostensibly the time when you might need it most.

Check how your phone handles network switching. On my Pixel 7, if the ISP drops, it reverts to 5G seamlessly once I leave the house and am able to get signal. It will even handle calls smoothly when I start a conversation in the house, walk out to the truck, and drive away. No dropped calls. Not on Wire nor on standard telephony.

Wanted to add on the wi-fi calling. Depending on your ISP, you may not lose the ability to call if your systems are on a UPS or powered by a generator. Here, Spectrum has all their frames powered by generators in case of a power failure since many first responders use Spectrum's network for communication. Learned that during the Snowpocalypse of 2021. We had power via self-generation and therefore a functioning network. I was able to call and check in on my parents and receive calls from friends out of state who were worried and checking in.

You got some homework to do.
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 19:16:
jdreyer wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 18:09:
I get one bar or less at my house. I was thinking of getting a cell phone booster. I really just need to be able to talk on the phone since I get data through WiFi here. Any advice?

I live in a "holler" in a house with metal framing and a metal roof. I get zero bars. I tried multiple different boosters and had little success. What worked was enabling calling via Wi-Fi since phones are all VoIP anyway.
I'm setting it up on my phone. Got to call my carrier in the morning so they can enable it on their side. My wife's phone, a Samsung A31, doesn't even have the option in settings. The only downside to wifi calling is that you can't call when the power goes out, ostensibly the time when you might need it most.
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Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 19:16:
jdreyer wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 18:09:
I get one bar or less at my house. I was thinking of getting a cell phone booster. I really just need to be able to talk on the phone since I get data through WiFi here. Any advice?

I live in a "holler" in a house with metal framing and a metal roof. I get zero bars. I tried multiple different boosters and had little success. What worked was enabling calling via Wi-Fi since phones are all VoIP anyway.

living in a holler with metal roofs reminds me of my ancestral hunting grounds lol
I've got a camp in north central pennsylvania and we just started getting any signal at all 10 years ago, good signal within 5, and just finally sprung for coax broadband for the first time this season. I'm still surprised it's available in our area, but it is now.
But yeah we aren't in a holler and don't have a metal roof, but a lot of homes/camps in the area do.
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jdreyer wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 18:09:
I get one bar or less at my house. I was thinking of getting a cell phone booster. I really just need to be able to talk on the phone since I get data through WiFi here. Any advice?
Reception at my home is average at best. I usually three bars most of the time, but dips down to two occasionally. Last year, maybe 2023, it seemed to get worse. I figured Verizon had realigned their antenna or something. Got the Verizon booster direct from them, only to find out it can't be activated for a pre-paid phone. Which why makes a difference makes no sense to me, but whatever. I returned it. Actually started using my Google Voice line more. Then I decided to switch out my phone for another reason. Lo and behold my reception went back to where it had been and my cell was usable again. So, if you can find someone else with the same service and have them try their phone at your location... might not help, but wouldn't hurt to try.
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Cutter wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 19:47:
Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 17:08:
Bruh, everybody knows that Maseca makes the best masa harina on the planet if you're going to go with mass produced flour.

Though I am more partial to HEB's house brand Mi Tienda. Made plenty of tortillas with it.

You being in Texas, you have plenty of Mexicans and Mexican foods. Me being in Canada we don't have much in the way of Mexicans - or Latinos in general - nor a lot of Mexican//Latino foods. We do have Maseca here but I've always preferred Pan Yellow Corn Flour. And I've made plenty of cornbread but never a tortilla nor tamale. And whilst I infinitely prefer tacos over burritos I do enjoy tamales. Do you, or anyone else here, ever make tamales, over have access to local good ones?

I mix my Masa with in a double dose, with a pack of old El Passo taco seasoning, 1 pound lard, half a stick of butter, salt, and some baking soda or whatever? You got to pay if you want to know the recipe for the smoked brisket, pig or Mai tai I serve up with it, but it good, ohhhh it's real good.

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Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 17:08:
Bruh, everybody knows that Maseca makes the best masa harina on the planet if you're going to go with mass produced flour.

Though I am more partial to HEB's house brand Mi Tienda. Made plenty of tortillas with it.

You being in Texas, you have plenty of Mexicans and Mexican foods. Me being in Canada we don't have much in the way of Mexicans - or Latinos in general - nor a lot of Mexican//Latino foods. We do have Maseca here but I've always preferred Pan Yellow Corn Flour. And I've made plenty of cornbread but never a tortilla nor tamale. And whilst I infinitely prefer tacos over burritos I do enjoy tamales. Do you, or anyone else here, ever make tamales, over have access to local good ones?
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jdreyer wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 18:09:
I get one bar or less at my house. I was thinking of getting a cell phone booster. I really just need to be able to talk on the phone since I get data through WiFi here. Any advice?

I live in a "holler" in a house with metal framing and a metal roof. I get zero bars. I tried multiple different boosters and had little success. What worked was enabling calling via Wi-Fi since phones are all VoIP anyway.
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