Brutkey

Ross of Ottawa
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Ross of Ottawa
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It's 45min to scheduled power outage. Making toast and tea to get that stuff done before the outage.

Necessary servers shut down and some standby power is, well, standing by.

Ross of Ottawa
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Today I'm preparing a bit for a local electrical-utility outage tomorrow. Our preps for the recent threat of an ice storm (less severe than feared) were useful in getting me to think ahead.

Getting fireplace ready. Tomorrow–up early to pre-heat the house and stow away some hot tea.

The health related downsides of having a gas cooktop are well documented lately, but man they are nice to have in a power outage. Our induction one isn't going to do much for us tomorrow morning.

Ross of Ottawa
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Pulled huge lengths of coax cable out of the nooks and crannies of our house today. I have no need for it now or in the future.

Two more cables disappear into a wall to destinations unknown, and another goes to a known place, but is not moving at all so may have to remain.

One convoluted route is attractive for a future cat6 cable so I pulled a string through with that one and tagged it.

I hate mystery wires. Can't imagine where these ones would go.

#homeNetworking #DIY

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Breaking into the meow crackers received for xmas. High cute factor.

Tastes a bit like a Ritz cracker but it's very thin.

A square box about the size of a large book, which is yellow with Chinese characters on it and features a cute big-eyed cat graphic, wearing a napkin around his neck which looks like Swiss cheese.
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Very tasty result. The crust and tomato flavours really shine.

To see the Italian bakery doing their thing, here's the video. The pizza making starts about 23min in.

https://youtu.be/do2mZbNxK1A

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I saw a YT video a little while ago just filming inside a family bakery in Italy and one of the things they made was a super plain pizza of just tomato sauce and lots of olive oil. It was baked briefly then finished with fresh mozzarella and a bit longer in the oven.

Slightly simpler than a Margherita where you'd usually include some basil leaves.

So I'm doing that, as I had some very happy sourdough starter, that was raring to go.

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Here's the beast just out of the oven.

#pizza

A plain-jane pizza of sourdough crust, herbed tomato sauce, olive oil, and some fresh mozzarella.
Ross of Ottawa
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I saw a YT video a little while ago just filming inside a family bakery in Italy and one of the things they made was a super plain pizza of just tomato sauce and lots of olive oil. It was baked briefly then finished with fresh mozzarella and a bit longer in the oven.

Slightly simpler than a Margherita where you'd usually include some basil leaves.

So I'm doing that, as I had some very happy sourdough starter, that was raring to go.

Ross of Ottawa
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Don't know if it's just a Canadian thing or not, but a non-trivial percentage of all thrift store vinyl records are Nana Mouskouri albums.

It may be an as yet unrecognized universal constant.

#vinyl

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Ha ha "Poster Enclosed!" says the text excitedly, and my friends apparently the poster didn't get mounted on anyone's wall because it's still inside the album jacket.

Here for your enjoyment is an additional view of Dave's tremendous chest hair undershirt in poster form.

A large folded poster shows the same singing group of two gown -wearing ladies with old Dave and his shirt open half way revealing the wooly marmot that lives within.
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Thrift store visit. Always enjoy looking at the diverse mugs, the "art" works, the miscellaneous electronics and tools, and the vinyl records.

This one cracked us up. lol

#vinyl #kitsch #1970s #Thrifting

A funny 1970s album cover for a group called "Dave and Sugar" inexplicably with three people who just warrant the handle Sugar. Dave has got his shirt open with an hilarious rug of a chest hair.