Learned sourdough bread is actually good for most people!

Have always avoided it (even though toasted sourdough has been a fave) as somebody told me it was bad. Had a slice yesterday when having lunch with mom. Told her what I “knew”. She asked why.

Looking it up today, it is actually good for the gut and heart. Welcome Home, Sourdough!

Sourdough English muffins!

Ditto. I've tried to make my own at home. Did the research on how to make your own culture to make it "sour." It looked like the culture was going fine it followed the rules and acted like the stuff I read about an the videos I watched so I had high hopes. In the end, the bread didn't work out. I'll just buy it going forward.

There is a local home baker that sells sourdough bread and will give you some of her culture if you wan to try to make it at home but I haven't gone there yet.

The keyboard on one of my laptops is going bad. The left hand side of the keyboard has some keys that won't type. Was just going to replace the keyboard. I've done it before on other laptops and it's not very hard to do. This one, not so much based on the tech specs and the vids I watched.

So I punted and just bought another one. It arrived today so I'll mess with it this weekend and transfer all the stuff over to the new one. Not an emergency just annoying. It'll give me something to do while I cook and watch football on a rainy (predicted forecast) Sunday.

I blame the left handed people since the keys that lost function are on the left side. I also blame the metric system. Gotta blame something.

One oh oh NINE!

I always ate salmon ‘cause of its Omega-3 content, guess it was making me smarter at the same time!

Wasabi and ginger (“gari”) ALWAYS a part of my sushi meal but ate the ginger in-between different types of fish or seafood to cleanse my palate. Glad it was making me smarter too.

Those automatic high beams, are annoying, if you are in front of someone, who has them. They keep flashing high beams into my mirriors, on the interstate. If you are within 500 ft of the vehicle in front of you, you should always switch to low beams, as the automatic high beams do not automatically dim. If you come up behind me, get ready for what I call my "Midnight Sun." I have a LED light bar, facing to the rear. It will turn your high beams off for you, and me. If I turn it off, and your highbeams come back on, automaticaly, get ready for the light bar being on, until you pass me, or your lights stay dim. I have them on both pickups, and my semis as well.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

The midnight sun lol. I think some people believe it's OK to have their highs on when following someone because peiple have been doing that for a lot longer than auto beams have been out.

Sheesh, automatic high beams? Really? I mean, how hard is it to pull the steering column arm? Forgot iffin’ it was the left or the right arm since I rarely use my high beams

Very few younguns probably know about the floor switch / button that we had to press with our left foot when we wanted high beams in our back-in-the-day vehicles.

you just reactivated a dormant brain cell...

Damn, you are old.

Yes, 1950'ish Chevrolet pickups.

From the Honestly podcast by Bari Weisse. December 8th episode titled Why Half of Americab Babies are Born to Unmarried Mothers, Bari talks with an economist who put a bunch of data together, sharing it while being honest about what she is seeing- while trying to insure she doesn't stigmitize anybody (good luck).

In the category you could call "Duh", kids who are raised by two parent homes have more success than those raised by a single parent.

Asian American groups, across all income groups do best by percentage. They have the highest rates of marriage and two parent households.

She tracked % by race. Here is how it breaks down.

Asian 88% of kids are being raised by two parents.
White kids 77%.
Hispanic 62%
Black 38%

She's been hammered by critics publicly, while some of those same people are privately telling her they agree with the overall direction of the book, while warning her she was going to get crucified for being a racist. Appreciate her courage.

Then the FBI's Uniform Crime Report must be pretty painful. It shows 52% of all homicides in this country are committed by black males... who make up about 7% of the population.

Wonder if there is a correlation?

Britton Hill is the highest natural point in the state of Florida, United States, with a summit elevation of 345 feet (105 meters) above mean sea level. Britton Hill is the lowest state highpoint in the United States.

I am 115' above sea level.

LOTS of hills and such southwest of here.

There is also Sugar Loaf Mountain near here at 312'. Biggest peak in the state about 200' above ground-level. Noticeably cooler and breezy at the top on hot days when the air is saturated and stagnant. So steep, I could not ride my bicycle up it when I was riding 35-45 miles per week.

Need to take a car trip there again. It's only about 20 miles from here in the country/agricultural land.

New Orleans is 2 feet BELOW sea level….


“ Why does New Orleans flood so much?”

Maybe that's where CROS is. We should send Drafter and Frank's associates to dredge the rivers and stuff.

"…….or that the crooked politicians had the money necessary to rebuild the levees around New Orleans BEFORE Katrina but chose to pocket it…

Reminds me of a great song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3fodiK9rY

But that's not recently acquired knowledge

Temecula was high desert... 1200' above sea level.

Timm’s Hill is Wisconsin’s highest natural point at 1,951 feet. It’s up in the NW Wisconsin, off the beaten trail (3.5 hours) away.

Gave a ride to a Corpral in the Marines today. Shared a sharable story from our Cbid resident Senior Chief and he laughed.

It was a fun chat, and I asked his if there were nicknames for Marines that I may have not have heard.

"Well, there is Crayon Eater. As in Maries are so stupid, they eat crayons. It's funny. And kinda true."

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