Thug arrested. Now we just need incarceration, followed by deportation:

Bad news from the scale this morning…backsliding on the diet has gotten the better of me. Time to get back on the wagon.

Post-SCH3 drinking practice

:)

News you can use…though decaf is still a communist plot:

First attempt at using my smoker/grill as a smoker: applewood-smoked chicken. It looks good, but 165° was definitely not done enough (had a leg…was still pink near the bone). I’m finishing it in the oven, bringing it up to 180°.

(I think I figured out what I did wrong. You’ll notice that the temperature probe is in a breast. When cooking a whole chicken, you’re supposed to stick it in the thickest part of the thigh. Once that gets to 165°, it’s done. The breast will get there earlier, leaving the dark meat underdone.)

On the end of civility:

(It’s somewhat out of date, in that the perpetrator has “resigned” from her position with the town’s tourism agency. (“Resigned” is in scare-quotes as it was most likely a “we’re giving you the opportunity to resign before we sack you” kind of situation.))

Dan Blather must’ve never seen Red Dawn.

Wolverines!

Went to replace the dead battery in my car, and look what happened to the positive terminal. There was a kid in line (seriously…he handed me his under-18 driver’s license at one point) at AutoZone who took some interest in my problem. The terminal was almost completely corroded through, and the nut that holds it to the battery fuse block (never heard of such a thing, but they seem to be fairly common on various Nissan models) was corroded in place. We ended up twisting off what was left of the terminal and ran a short cable from the battery to another terminal on the fuse block that wasn’t corroded. It’s good enough to last until I can figure out a permanent repair…might have to cut off the rest of the original terminal with a Dremel and replace it. (The original terminal isn’t that expensive, but it’s the flimsiest excuse for a car-battery terminal I’ve ever seen. Some have suggested that a marine-battery terminal adapter would be a much more solid replacement for about the same amount of money.)