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They're cooking apples, good for pies and suchlike, but a bit on the tart side to eat by themselves. You can eat them straight, though. My favourite use for Granny Smiths is in a sandwich toaster - you make pockets with sliced up GS apples, raisins and a little brown sugar and cinnamon to take the edge off the tartness. Bramleys are another cultivar that are good for making that sort of thing with, but a little less tart than Granny Smiths.

As for Red Delicious, they're not the best tasting of eating apples. I don't know what it's like in Brazil, but see if you can get hold of Braeburn, Jazz, Cox, or Pink Lady apples. They will be much nicer than Red Delicious.
We are a honey crisp family here and the Bunch residence.
 
After a bit of faffing about with scripting, I've convinced Photoshop to bulk crop and resize Mrs. Nobby-W Nobby-W's photo series and munge the metadata such that MS word will not only import the images at the right size, but the right orientation as well.

After much google-fu I found a scripting plugin to capture macros on Photoshop a la excel. The recorded macro to crop and resize an image is 275 lines long. This would have been a 5 or 10 minute shell scripting job with ImageMagick. I think I need to spin up the Linux subsystem on this machine.
 
Back when I were a wee lad, we used to have a salad that my mum made from granny smith apples, cheese, celery and raisins.
My mother has a similar recipe, except remove cheese and add bacon crumbles.
 
Been feeling a bit overwhelmed at work. Not so much the work itself, but the corporate BS in general, and a manager whom my opinion of has shifted from 'clueless and arrogant' to 'actively detrimental' Among other things, she hasn't closed the people who've recently quit out of the scheduling program, so that it looks like we have enough manpower even though we don't, and the bottom line looks better because there's less overhead to pay out. It's left me feeling drained, enough so that I don't have the energy to read and maybe do a little writing to decompress and entertain myself with after getting off work.

The good news is I have an actual job interview this coming Thursday. Fingers crossed.
 
They're cooking apples, good for pies and suchlike, but a bit on the tart side to eat by themselves. You can eat them straight, though. My favourite use for Granny Smiths is in a sandwich toaster - you make pockets with sliced up GS apples, raisins and a little brown sugar and cinnamon to take the edge off the tartness. Bramleys are another cultivar that are good for making that sort of thing with, but a little less tart than Granny Smiths.

As for Red Delicious, they're not the best tasting of eating apples. I don't know what it's like in Brazil, but see if you can get hold of Braeburn, Jazz, Cox, or Pink Lady apples. They will be much nicer than Red Delicious.
Fuji, Envy, Gala and Honeycrisp are good too.
 
I’ve had a lot of not-good stuff going on since Thursday, to the point that aside from posting here and bidding on an E-Bay auction all my time has been spent dealing with said stuff, dealing with the fallout from it, and dealing with people trying to make it all about them.



Yesterday was up almost 19 hours, walked a little over ten miles through the day, and after three hours of sleep woke up wired, which is where I’m at now. I’ve got about four hours until I have to be at work, and am not looking forward to when this wired state ends.



The funny thing is I’m pretty sure I haven’t felt this energetic since college, but can’t seem to capitalize on it.
 
Back when I were a wee lad, we used to have a salad that my mum made from granny smith apples, cheese, celery and raisins.

I make a similar salad of 1 Granny Smith apple, 1 pink lady apple, 1 stalk of celery, 1 rasher of bacon (grilled and crumbled), ½ cup walnut pieces, ½ cup dried cranberries (chopped), salt, pepper, fresh tarragon, ¼ cup of Mayonnaise, and the juice of a lime. I call it "Waldorf salad", not with complete accuracy.

It goes well with pork.
 
Back when I were a wee lad, we used to have a salad that my mum made from granny smith apples, cheese, celery and raisins.

I make a similar salad of 1 Granny Smith apple, 1 pink lady apple, 1 stalk of celery, 1 rasher of bacon (grilled and crumbled), ½ cup walnut pieces, ½ cup dried cranberries (chopped), salt, pepper, fresh tarragon, ¼ cup of Mayonnaise, and the juice of a lime. I call it "Waldorf salad", not with complete accuracy.

It goes well with pork.
As far as I’m concerned if it’s got apples, celery and mayo, it’s a Waldorf all right. Which strikes me as a very Christmas-y dish around here.

I have been thinking of a Cobb-Waldorf hybrid with salad greens, green apple, blue cheese and bacon bits. Vinaigrette, not mayo, but no idea which vinegar to use.
 
As far as I’m concerned if it’s got apples, celery and mayo, it’s a Waldorf all right. Which strikes me as a very Christmas-y dish around here.

I have been thinking of a Cobb-Waldorf hybrid with salad greens, green apple, blue cheese and bacon bits. Vinaigrette, not mayo, but no idea which vinegar to use.

Try lime juice. I like making vinaigrettes with that. Lime juice, olive oil, salt, honey or brown sugar and whatever other flavourings you want to add. I've variously used mustard, sesame oil and chopped up chillies, mint sauce, black pepper and various others.

The nice thing about vinaigrettes is they're dead easy to make on the spot so you can just try stuff out.
 
Try lime juice. I like making vinaigrettes with that. Lime juice, olive oil, salt, honey or brown sugar and whatever other flavourings you want to add. I've variously used mustard, sesame oil and chopped up chillies, mint sauce, black pepper and various others.

The nice thing about vinaigrettes is they're dead easy to make on the spot so you can just try stuff out.
A local restaurant has a vinaigrette that combines olive oil, shoyu and lime juice. Pretty good; following the ancient dictum (three parts oil to one part acid) I do it 2 parts olive oil to 1 part shoyu to 1 part lime juice. No salt (shoyu has a ton already) and no sweeteners.
 
I make a similar salad of 1 Granny Smith apple, 1 pink lady apple, 1 stalk of celery, 1 rasher of bacon (grilled and crumbled), ½ cup walnut pieces, ½ cup dried cranberries (chopped), salt, pepper, fresh tarragon, ¼ cup of Mayonnaise, and the juice of a lime. I call it "Waldorf salad", not with complete accuracy.

It goes well with pork.
That's basically moms recipe. Paired with maple syrup glazed pork chops is fucking amazing.
 
My game is on hold when we were finally getting ready to start. One of the players has eye surgery, so we put it off until he recovers.
 
We are a honey crisp family here and the Bunch residence.
Honeycrisps here too. Growing up in Massachusetts it was Macintosh, the greener the better. I love that Honeycrisps are reasonable year round, though definitely best in the fall. We've tried some other varieties and had some reasonably flavorful ones, but Honeycrisp continues to win. I've lost track of the varieties I've tried since coming the the Pacific Northwest, but until we settled on Honeycrisps I never found one I really liked. I like crisp most important, I hate mushy apples. I also like tart which Honeycrisps have a hint of.
 
Jumping in on the apple conversation, I like Fuji apples and tart ones like Cortland, Goldrush or Granny Smith. Red Delicious are mushy and gross, a crime against apples.

I am returning to work on or around 11/22 and not looking forward to it. I must sound like an ingrate because my brief layoff turned out to be a paid 2-month vacation and they are giving me a raise to boot but I am still dreading going back to work.

Someone who is leaving told me their salary and it was so low I am angry for them. Employers hate it when employees discuss salaries because it exposes unfair pay practices

I am still playing GTA Online like a maniac and our active crew of friends now has 6 members. I can't recommend it enough.
 
I've had to step back from convention planning/organizing for the moment at least, as whenever I think of it my mind drifts to thoughts of suicide, which it has a tendency to do far too much recently anyway (had to call a suicide hotline at work a couple of weeks ago).

I also got a new doctor as the company I work for is switching medical providers, so everything had to be transferred to the Public Health Service instead. I got my sleeping pill prescription replaced as the previous ones had started to not work as well, and are also known for causing weight gain (and are even used as veterinary medicine to make cats gain weight). Unfortunately, the new capsule doesn’t seem to do anything at all (it is almost 2 am here as I am writing this, and yesterday I fell asleep at about 6.30 am).
 
I've had to step back from convention planning/organizing for the moment at least, as whenever I think of it my mind drifts to thoughts of suicide, which it has a tendency to do far too much recently anyway (had to call a suicide hotline at work a couple of weeks ago).

I also got a new doctor as the company I work for is switching medical providers, so everything had to be transferred to the Public Health Service instead. I got my sleeping pill prescription replaced as the previous ones had started to not work as well, and are also known for causing weight gain (and are even used as veterinary medicine to make cats gain weight). Unfortunately, the new capsule doesn’t seem to do anything at all (it is almost 2 am here as I am writing this, and yesterday I fell asleep at about 6.30 am).
The place I live has a suicide rate 10x the norm for a first world country. Don't take that shit lightly at all. Find someone to talk to, it's our connections and friends that keep us going.
 
The place I live has a suicide rate 10x the norm for a first world country. Don't take that shit lightly at all. Find someone to talk to, it's our connections and friends that keep us going.
My best friend runs the con, so he knows, as do some of my other friends, and my dad. No psychologist/therapist/whatever in sight from the health care system though. I’m trying to not be isolated but it is hard. Everyone had their own shit to deal with.
 
My best friend runs the con, so he knows, as do some of my other friends, and my dad. No psychologist/therapist/whatever in sight from the health care system though. I’m trying to not be isolated but it is hard. Everyone had their own shit to deal with.
Yeah man, I feel you. Just don't be afraid to reach out. We're all surrounded by more friends than we might suspect.
 


Someone accidentally hit the sprinklers with an EPT at my work the day before yesterday. It set off a fire alarm throughout the whole building and everybody was evacuated, except us. :grin:
 
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Someone accidentally hit the sprinklers with an EPT at my work the day before yesterday. It set off a fire alarm throughout the whole building and everybody was evacuated, except us. :grin:

EPT? European Pro Tour?
 
EPT? European Pro Tour?
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And here I thought someone had hit the sprinkler with a copy of Empire of the Petal Throne. I was going to complement the choice of reading material.

raniE raniE: very sorry to learn about your troubles and I hope the health care system there starts supporting you better immediately.
 
So I see Amazon is threatening to stop accepting Visa cards from 19 Jan. Oh, my first world problems!

Fortunately, Compare the Market is happy to offer me a Mastercard with a disturbingly high credit limit and a 21.9% APR. What a time to be alive!
 
So I see Amazon is threatening to stop accepting Visa cards from 19 Jan. Oh, my first world problems!

Fortunately, Compare the Market is happy to offer me a Mastercard with a disturbingly high credit limit and a 21.9% APR. What a time to be alive!
That's insane. My Visa is a specific Amazon branded Visa card where I get extra cash back for buying at Amazon. You must live in an imaginary place.
 
That's insane. My Visa is a specific Amazon branded Visa card where I get extra cash back for buying at Amazon. You must live in an imaginary place.
Complex, to be precise, although it does have an imaginary component. This also means I'm allowed to eat quiche.

However, the thought of taking out a line of credit just to be able to use Amazon has some rather cyberpunk overtones.
Where's my chip and smart gun, dammit!
 
Complex, to be precise, although it does have an imaginary component. This also means I'm allowed to eat quiche.

However, the thought of taking out a line of credit just to be able to use Amazon has some rather cyberpunk overtones.
Where's my chip and smart gun, dammit!
It was more a case of I was renewing a credit card and looked around for one that gave the best benefits. Amazon Visa was the best deal for me. Still it pretty good although I don't know if it's the best. It's been my primary card for probably 15 years.
 
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