Dull Men's Club

I feel that I may be getting too old for this kind of nonsense.

It didn't set properly, but it's tasty and that's all that matters.

Wound up making 3 bags (36oz) of croutons. Should be enough for the soup.

Fellow brits will understand.

When I wake up I'm really dehydrated, so a cup of electrolytes is surprisingly helpful

They also taste good

I'm going to read my book for a bit.

If I don't do it now, I'll have to do it in the evening.

I made it years ago when homebrewing was really popular. Had 3 taps at one point. Even had a 3-way regulator to set different pressures. Never use it anymore. Haven't brewed in ages.

Darn thing sat in my basement unplugged for over a year until this morning I decided enough was enough. Removed the wooden collar and lugged that thing up the stairs by myself. Had to do it when the missus was away so she couldn't warn me against hurting myself.

Loaded it into my hatchback and took it to the same place I take all the extra cardboard when that piles up (wife loves Amazon). Charge is $20 for recycling. I tipped an extra $5 ‐ those guys work hard.

I catch myself admiring the space where it was and patting myself on the back for a job well done.

Used one of those Affresh pods today. It's the second one I've used. Not entirely convinced it's achieving much but it was a nice day to have several gallons of hot water sloshing around in the house.

Last month I noticed just how crud filled the softener dispenser was, and there's no way to take it apart so I just had to sort of reach into the holes and do what I could, fill it with water and such and just shake it around trying to dislodge everything. Figured I should probably start cleaning the tub as well.

The old one was looking kinda sad. I'll keep it around for extra dirty cleaning jobs though.

Been trying to avoid plastic containers when I can. So I'm drinking canned water when I'm not near a tap and glass.

This past week we have acquired a new member to the fleet, a "grand" American miniature Van. Upon driving it home my wife commented that it didn't accelerate well onto the highway. I did test drive it and it felt ok, but I hadn't gone on the highway. Today was the first time I've had to merge at high speed and in fact it did take an incredibly long time to get up to speed. I pondered this for awhile on the drive and decided that maybe the aftermarket floor mats were interfering with the gas pedal. I switched them from driver to passenger and vice versa and voila, that sweet American v6 is free to stretch it's legs now.

Per my usual Saturday routine, I finished a stroll through the farmer's market and walked a couple blocks to a favorite coffee joint for the uzh, a plain cold brew. I might have added a little too much cream, but it's still good.

I suspect some of you are already aware of it but I wasn't.

My grandmother-in-law is taking one of my kids to get a new jacket. I'll have one less kid for an hour and a half.

I booted up my Great Clips app and found that I was signed out for some reason. I went to sign in and couldn't remember my sign in info. Did I use my Yahoo email address? Was my account through Google? I checked the site via Chrome to see if login info auto populated. No such luck. I checked my raw text note with a bunch of login users and passwords for not sensitive stuff to see if I put it in there. Nope. I checked to see if I could just check in for my haircut without logging in. I could have, but I'd have to give them my phone number and they'd text me spam, plus I'd have to tell them in person what I wanted instead of them telling me what I got last time and asking if that's what I wanted again today. (Of course. I have gotten the same haircut for ten years.)

So I put in my Yahoo email and hit "forgot password" and reset it. I got logged in and it had my correct info, and I put my login info into that note I keep. I checked in online and sipped on some coffee and surfed Lemmy while waiting.

I went in, had a great haircut, and learned about some kind of membership card or something. Idk I wasn't really listening because I'm moving to a new town tomorrow and idk if I'll have a Great Clips near me there. I saw a Sport Clips near the new house, but my general impression is that it's like the Hooters of haircuts and I don't really want to pay more for a haircut just to have a little bit of flirting thrown my way. Am I way off or is that about right? Because even my basic no-frills haircut at Great Clips is $21 before tip these days, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have to find a new place.

Haircut is 2 on the back and sides, medium cut on top. I use a kind of messy look paste to style minimally coming out of the shower. Dull, but tidy.

Gonna get out of bed soon and get my morning routine underway

It’s the weekend, so I got up early, walked the dog and started thinking about what to make my kid for breakfast.

I spent way too long looking at a four hour recipe (why not, dinner is a smoked pork shoulder that I really need to get started asap) before giving it up

Started off normally: eggs over easy and sausage links. Let’s make the pancakes a little different with bananas and walnut, and top with fruit and nuts ….

Critical question: why do we buy a specific syrup for pancakes? It’s just sugar (or corn syrup). So I used the syrup from canned mangoes!!!! Tastes great but a bit thin and I didn’t use enough. It would be easy enough to thicken up, I’m sure. But why isn’t this the norm? We should have flavored syrup all the time, maybe save money over the maple stuff

Oh, and splurged with egg nog.

Got home after a meal, climbed into bed for some hanky panky and immediately fell asleep instead.

It had been a long day.

We have a bobcat. I am scared.

The new fridge counts down how many days are remaining on the water filter. The kids made sure to remind me each day that the filter needed replaced, and I would just grin. Because I was already prepared with a fresh, generic store brand replacement filter in the kitchen tool drawer. Today I sprung into action and saved the day. Taught everyone that you have to run it for a bit to get the air out and flush loose particles. Dad knowledge.

On one shelf I have my clothes that I wear to work, but as they get worn out I downgrade them into clothes I wear when doing dirty jobs at home. Then finally they get turned into rags.

40M, 5’ 9" tall, size 9.5 shoe, perfectly average.

The lights are off, folded laundry at my feet, dog in my lap, my youngest at the end of the couch asleep, and my oldest tucked in under his blanket watching his first boxing matches, as we wait for the next fight on Netflix.

My wife put in a pickup order at Sam's Club, so while we were up there, we got supper at the Chinese buffet!