I love chips and salsa - issue being that I’ll house a party sized bag of tortilla chips and a big ol container of salsa in like 2-3 sittings, which I guess is fine… But it feels like that many corn chips ain’t healthy. Main concern is my salt intake.

My dad died while I was in grad school (pancreatic cancer). He was the sole breadwinner for our household - it was a real wakeup call, but I also realize in hindsight that he probably negatively impacted my personal growth. I thought, while he was around, that supporting the family business would be a viable career path, but it was mismanaged and I disagreed with decisions he would make. Instead I have had a successful career in consulting and with large corporations. There was an interim period where I did manage the business, but ended up shuttering it/liquidating. It also resulted in my siblings getting full rides to compete their undergrad. I think in our case, experiencing the bottom fall out motivated us to not miss our shot.

I do miss him, but I can’t help but think it was for the better.

“over the” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 /s

This is funny, I asked my wife this morning “have you ever thought of tasting the cat’s canned wet food?”

We’ve never done a taste test, sad to say.

I didn’t finish everything I had set out to at work today, but the stuff I did finish was well received. I’m on track to go to bed on time, was able to exercise, and we cooked a pretty bomb masaman curry dish for dinner. There’s always tomorrow for work stuff - consider my goals for the day completed.

My brother works at a restaurant where the head chef mentioned that he has tried sea turtle soup. The chef said that it’s a good thing that sea turtle is illegal to consume because the soup and texture of the meat was so perfect that sea turtles would be guaranteed to go extinct otherwise.

Every day. My boys get 1/3 cup of dry food and a can of wet food. They’re both ~11 lbs, trim and healthy. Cats shouldn’t be on a pure dry food diet if possible.

The subscription fee will only apply to people who make an account after August 21. Those who downloaded the app and made an account before August 21 won’t have to pay. But everyone will have to make an account; some people have been using the app without one until now.

Cool, do it

Move along…

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A good follow up to that is uncut gems

Brandywine coffee roasters. They’re based in Delaware. I’ve been blown away by the quality of their subscription. Best beans I’ve purchased in the US.

No, I have a subscription to Brandywine - they’re based out of Wilmington, Delaware.

It looks like what happened is that the roasters listed didn’t inform the FDA properly of their roasting processes, which led the FDA to assume that the coffee may be a vector that is conducive to botulism.

No cases were reported because of this, but the recall is out of an abundance of safety.

It’s a distraction from the fact that their candidate is a felon x34 (at minimum)

We just finished building a chicken coop and have 5 beautiful little chickens now! We’re probably gonna spend some time in our back yard cleaning up the coop, letting the chickens roam the yard, and gardening.

We got invited to a friend’s house for a pool party, so we will probably hit that up. Family is in town from out of state, so we will probably have to rendezvous with them at some point (not really looking forward to that).

I’m hoping to have some time to grind FFXIV before the new expansion comes out. I’m a few quests away from finishing Shadowbringer - I have less than 20 days until the release of Dawntrail and I’m pretty sure I’m not gonna be done with End walker by then, womp womp. Looking forward to the new classes and the graphics update.

OC as in stolen from Reddit. Pretty sad.

The perfect summer treat

Mad love for Qobuz.