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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Opposite here, olives are so good, so far there are none I have not enjoyed. Used to get some sort of olive at the Lebanese grocer, they scooped them out of a sketchy looking barrel, still so delicious, I freaking love olives.

    Having said that - I can imagine easily not liking them. They are very intensely flavorful and unique in their flavor. Just like I can understand people not liking cantaloupe, or blue cheese, though I love those too.





  • I know that people like them but I can’t get past the syrupy intense sweetness, it is nauseating to me. Tastes a lot like a migraine feels. I do like lighter bittersweet stuff, Chinotto soda is good. And do like Campari in fruity drinks, it adds a welcome edge and the sweetness is moderated but Negroni tastes horrible to me still.

    Can you describe what it tastes like to you?




  • I was warned off natto.

    It’s funny, I can think of the worst drink (I dislike Negroni to the point I don’t even understand how people like it, so intensely sweet and bitter and nothing else)

    and the worst perfume (Im Nebbel, smelled like burning rubber) but food, all I can think of is the time my ex made a spaghetti with a sauce of yellow tomatoes that looked exactly like vomit, and when I was trying to eat it, commented that he thought it was “a little loose” and I just lost it, could not eat it, though it didn’t taste awful.

    Worst restaurant food was a Mexican place in San Antonio, got a chicken mole and the mole was made with sweetened chocolate chips; an enchilada with American cheese slice was another highlight of that meal, it was comically bad.







  • I did not get cars for my kids, that is so far out of reach. With the first two, I couldn’t even let them get real drivers licenses, the insurance increase was gonna be too much. With the second set, I got an electric bike for my commute and let the one going to university use my car if she would drop off the younger one at high school and even that - one teen driver no additional car- raised our insurance by $400 a month. She paid half of it and one of her sisters paid the other half, it’s down to extra $150 now she is 21. Remember - that is without adding another car, just the driver.

    When I was in high school my mom kept like 2 cheap big beater cars for us (one sedan and one Suburban back when those were more like trucks) and she drove a new little red Supra. I think to buy a Suburban, a Supra, and a sedan this year would cost $170,000. If the first two were older that’s still an enormous expense, like an unimaginable expense.


  • We don’t make this much but do make enough it seems like we ought to be easily comfortable (two good salaries, cars paid off) but -

    How did we get here? Nobody comes out the gate making that much, we each started out making little to nothing, then went to school, had kids, got school debt and a credit card for the monthly deficit, paid off the school debt, the credit card still paying on so long after. It’s still the deficit debt, for emergency situations that come up. I funded HSA so those are not usually medical now but dogs, car repairs, house repairs. We are making progress but it’s dead expensive and slow to do so.

    Basically those people making so much and credit card debt may be paying off their path to making so much.

    And I know better than to complain, having been in much worse situations.





  • The sharpeners like that do a worse job than a good sharpening with a stone, but a better job than a half-assed sharpening with a stone (and really, which is more likely to happen on a weeknight?). I have knives from the restaurant, we used to get new ones weekly and send off last week’s to be sharpened, used a company Cozzini Knife Service - they aren’t designed to hold an edge as much as they are designed to be sharpenable. Have had one of them for almost 40 years now and I do run it through one of those pictured sharpeners pretty often if it’s not sharp sharp. Then wipe the edge, and hone, it works fine.