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I don’t really do new years resolutions since i am pretty motivated to regularly update my goals and keep them. But one of my current goals is to work on my portfolio since I’m not 100% optimistic in my job security long term.

I have some specifics for that written down but one of action items is that I’ve started a handful of projects and I’m needing to focus on one long enough to finish it before moving on to the next. Like one of them is an idea for a side hustle so I’ve got the domain registered but need to start developing it. Stuff like that. So I’m at the point where i have my action items written down but need to prioritize them and get to work.

Anyway, nothing terribly exciting. Happy new year all!

Damn, hope you feel better!

But what a journey! That is great that you were able to turn things around and reversed the pre-diabetic diagnosis. I saw my dad fail to do that until he was diabetic.

And for me it’s not that i don’t trust doctors, so much as i don’t trust the capitalist machine they serve where practices have been bought out and every patient is just another metric. I’m impressed by your ability to navigate all that on your own though, and great job getting things back in check

@hamid i think we’re due for a new weekly thread. For the question how about new year resolutions or plans for the new year? Easy this week 😅

These look delicious! And much better presentation 😅 but yeah we do have a nearby restaurant with a vegan sushi menu but is too expensive for us to go for anything except special occasions so making it at home ends up being totally worth it. Plus we love to pack ours much fuller than any restaurant lol. Less money, more food. Win win!

We made it into a fun date night idea the first time a few years ago. We had each picked out a few different rolls to try and then went out to the asian market for the sushi rice, nori, and a few of the produce we didn’t have from our garden.

Looks delicious! And saw this on the frontpage with my alt!

We’ve only tried making pizza a few times and haven’t had the best of luck with the crust. Need to experiment with different recipes. Id love to get one dialed down since our favorite pizza place closed during covid 😭

Love seeing the progress!

Hope you feel better!

The extended family is visiting on Christmas day. We don’t really celebrate but the rest of the family does. I’ll need to put the tree up before they get here lol. I will have a chance to redeem myself by making sushi and not screwing it up again. Ps if anyone wants the recipe, we use this thai hippie recipe. Delicious!

Outside of that I’m working double shifts after Christmas for a few weeks so I’m just dreaming of not being a cog in this capitalist hellhole.

Nice! Right now cabinet space is at a premium but someday i hope to have the time and energy to learn how to build some extra cabinets (or money to pay someone to do it lol). Then i can consider such a magical device!

Yeah this was the first time it happened to me and i had already made the rolls when i noticed so too late to fix lol

So i definitely prefer using a knife but my wife did get me a mandolin and the thing I’ll say is i do love the speed and consistency. If i want something looking real nice i use the mandolin so everything is evenly cut and people think i have master level knife skills until i tell them i ‘cheated’. I do think it’s interesting how many people will notice and comment on the uniformity of things being diced

Love my chef knife. Was talking with a friend who got into forging and told me if i ever visited he could show me how to make my own 👀 for some reason using a chefs knife i actually made really speaks to me. If only he didn’t live so far away lol

To be completely honest this is the first time I’m hearing of such a device 🙈

I also love our rice cooker but one time i pressed brown rice instead of white rice button and our sushi rice ended up not cooking right. I had made sushi for the extended family and everyone was nice and said it tasted fine but i think they were just being nice cuz that sushi rice was hard when you bit into it lol

The reminds me the other month i volunteered for a group that wanted a custom app built. We went through the requirements, i build it, i demo it, and they ask why it’s doing XYZ. I tell them the was what they wanted. Turns out they actually wanted some completely different logic that was a near total re-write. If i had just been contracting i would’ve had this kind of stuff built into the pricing/ conditions but for volunteer work it kind of sucked to waste hours on functionality i had to competely redo. And looking back it wasn’t like i didn’t ask the right questions.

Just can’t solve orgs having poor communication

Best of luck with the classes. Online classes can be deceptively hard to keep up with if you take on too many at once.

Another vote for pressure cooker. It can pressure cook (obviously), slow cook, sauté, and cook rice. I’m sure theres more! But basically combines a lot of kitchen appliances into one. We do use a huge slow cooker for when we double recipes but if i had to just pick one appliance and get rid of the rest then id be picking the pressure cooker for versatility.

Awesome!