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Neither did my mother's parents. They were fairly typical parents of the California suburb they lived in most of their lives. Coming from conversations I've had with their neighbors back when I was still in contact with that side of the family. But they were very active pill heads with all the baggage and side effects that come with it. Abuse both physical and mental, neglect, and promiscuity in their marriage. Maybe that's not what the 60/70s were for most people but in Cerritos CA, it seemed very much the norm.

BBQ is tomato, garlic, cumin, ginger, and only 1.5 ghost pepper. Has a sweet heat that builds but isn't danger levels.

Now BBQ is cooling and ready.

Mother’s Little Helper = Valium Black Beauties = Biphetamine 20 Barbs = Barbiturates At least movies, songs, and my mother's recollections of her parents point to this. But what the fuck do I know, I wasn't born for another 20 years.

First batch of sauces from the ghost peppers. Made 16 oz from 4 ghost peppers, 2 jalapeños, red peppers, shallots, and garlic all roasted on the BBQ. Pureed after skinning and seed removal with white vinegar and nectarine juice. So doG damn hot it's scary but man is the flavor amazing and it hasn't even come fully together yet. Filled 4 bottles like pictured. Have tomato puree onbthe crockpot for a cumin and thai blend i make, the heat will come from one more ghost pepper i roasted.

How do I trim these so they don't look so wild but still have pretty flowers?

Debatable, but you can decide. Here's some of my personal video server's listing of the shows I keep on hand:

I'm keeping an eye on Amazon Prime Day deals for something similar. In my CRV I already have a great boom arm type one with a heavy-duty suction cup. Has worked flawlessly for years. In my Civic I have Android Auto through the USB-C connection to my car, unfortunately, my current phone has a broken port and I can no longer connect and control audio and navigation via the big ole screen. I can get another phone from work, it's company issued, but it's a Samsung S20 FE currently, and that's all they still have in inventory, yet to order the next gen of phones, and this S20 is the most stinking pile of garbage Galaxy phone I have ever owned. I'd rather keep the broken junk then get a shiny, but still shit, phone. Since it can't charge or communicate via USB-C I have to use wireless charging. I need a boom-type phone holder that also has wireless charging for the Civic.

If it's a dessert like cookies, cakes, or chocolates I will devour them.

Probably not. We sometimes turn a blind eye to patterns and behaviors. Also, our life experiences can wildly differ and certain cues are completely lost. I was dating and married to my wife for 4 years before I came to her with overcoming my cocaine addiction. She knew something was off but never connected the dots to drug use and addiction.

In a bathroom? 2 In a single-family home? 5 In an event hall? 150 In a stadium? 25k On earth? -25% current population In my head? n-1

For us, the big one is needed for crepe batter. We make fresh berry crepes every Sunday. Without this family habit, we'd have no use for a blender of this size.

The beginning half has been pretty good for me. I've increased my fitness and capabilities across the board. I've set and broken three different goals in both the 5k and 10k races. Competed in 3 5k races and 2 10k races. In all of them, I placed around the 75th percentile. Never the fastest, good lord Tampa has some fast as fuck runners, but my goal is usually to beat myself and place above average. Mission Accomplished. I've now set my first half-marathon for October 29th, training begins next week with these goals: A: 1:57 (8:50/mi) B: 2:01 (9:15/mi) C: Fucking finish Beyond the running, I've added weight training and low aerobic to round out my fitness routines. How goes everyone else's training going??

I subscribe to the Legal Eagle YouTube channel and he recently covered this:

I'm off today, the official internal learning day, Monday and Tuesday. I also took Wednesday off as that's my daughter's birthday.

We go to see and do. On most vacations, I need a rest when we get back. The idea is we're visiting places we probably won't get back to so do the extra effort to see all you can without compromising our efforts. We just got back from a 12-day vacation to Vancouver and Alaska (cruise). Our trip was 4 full days in Vancouver, 7 days at sea, and a travel day. We visited all the main city sights in Vancouver, Westend, Yaletown, Gastown, and Chinatown. Walked the entire seawall around Stanley Park, watched the sunset on Sunset Beach, shopped at Granville Island, visited two museums, hiked Grose Mountain, Capilano Suspension Bridge park, a morning at Queen Elizabeth Park, and an entire day road trip up the Sea to Sky Highway including two trail hikes, the Sea to Sky Gondola, and dinner in Whistler in the Olympic village. We relaxed on the sea days on the cruise but went straight back into the uber-touring when we hit ports. On the cruise, we did a private boat tour into Tracy Arm Fjord, a helicopter ride across the mountains landing on the glacier ice fields where we hiked and took a dog sled ride, White Pass railway trip into the Klondike, a Sea plane ride to an inlet for more hiking and wildlife spotting, and probably the lightest day was a Lumberjack show and first nation village tour in Ketchikan. It was marvelous, we also slept very well every night. Hell, I did a full hour and a half in the gym on the ship every morning before the day's activities. My 5yo was a super trooper and loved every minute of it. On the sea days and most nights, she was partying it up at the kids club on the ship too!

We have so much available: natural springs and swimming holes galore, white sand beaches, emerald waters, towering skyscrapers, and sleepy, kitschy beach towns. The mouse has its largest house here, Universal put all the cool parks here, five very large cruise ship ports, and rockets blast off almost weekly that you can track and watch from practically anywhere. We have 13 Division I Universities and a booming tech corridor between Tampa and Orlando. We have amazing sports teams that are successful more often than not within easy viewing, the Tampa Bay Lightning (F***k yeah!), Buccaneers, and Rays. On a personal level, we have one of the best standalone cancer hospitals in the country. There is a lot to love about my state and I actively partake in most of it.

That's the nature of most of these cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) in my experience. Since every service is something potentially billable some projects end up being a Rube-Goldberg mishmash of 5-6 services just to accomplish a single project scope.

Came back from vacation to find about 15 Hungarian wax and 5 Ghost peppers ready to grab. Both pepper plants are bordering on very large this year so I expect an excellent producing crop all year long. I've planted HW peppers for a few years and have had luck getting about 12-16 lbs per season from these prodigious little growers. First time growing ghost peppers, the plant is much smaller than my HG, but is over the full-sized plant specs I find online. These peppers are slower to mature to ripen but I have about 20 on the plant now in varying states of green -> red. I've had 4 bunches of basil pulled and either eaten fresh or dried, I'm up to an 8oz container of dried this year's leaf crumbles. Sage is about 2 bundles so far, as with rosemary. I've cooked a lot of steak at the beginning of the nice weather as well as a bunch of sage smashes for the wife and neighbors at the above steak cook-outs, so not much of either made it past fresh to dry. Parsley got only a single bundle until the deers discovered the plans and now I grow a small batch away from my garden to keep them satisfied and not in the flower bed. Other plants are green, and flowery. As they should.

I rarely. My training shoes are Saucony Rides, I typically pay around 80-120 for them as I burn through a few pairs. I've tried Nike Pegasus too and liked them but my limit with them is about 10 miles. They're a bit too narrow. Same price though is my spend.

We still are! Immigration has been put on hold a bit. Last year I took a new internal role for my company thay came with a rather significant pay increase. The job will be a major portion of our new initiatives to merge all operations, europe/asia/northA/southA, into a single cloud group. There's been talk already of needing multiple AZs just in Europe as we mobilize and a senior leadership position based in Europe has been discussed. Either way, as usual money has kind of answered the problem. If I make as much as I do now, hopefully more, over the rest of my life, however long that ends up being, then the family is set.

I've been out of town for a bit and heads down on a few serious projects, both personal and professional, prior to that so I might have missed some of the threads. With that said, @Square Wheels I work in AWS every day, both professionally and personally, I offer you my services in whatever you may need.

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I don't use antivirus software anymore. Most reading I've done shows that Windows Defender is just as effective and built into Windows. Besides that, I keep my network behind adguard home (docker installation on my home router), a website-blocking software that blocks malicious sites and code, the most common way viruses/malware would be installed on my system.

I love Sci-Fi in all its forms. I usually lean towards Hard Sci-Fi and Space Opera with quite a bit of dystopian sub-genre mixed in. I listen to a lot of audiobooks when running, going through the Adrian Tchaikovsky expansive library of novels. In print, I finished Joel Sheperd's series The Spiral Wars and The Cassandra Kresnov. I started Mark Wayne McGinnis's series called USS Hamilton (book 2/6) and Jeffery Haskell Grimm's War series (book 3/6) I got to the point that my listening was making my public library and Audible audiobook system become expensive and unmanageable. I made my own version that hosts all my library and has a request process that allows family and friends who have accounts to add authors/books to the system to be retrieved for the library.