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Frying. Deep frying. Baking. Grilling. Barbecue. Preserving (canning, dehydration, salt/sugar/smoke/vinegar). Knifework. What techniques do you like? want advice on? just tried? wanna brag about?

Sounds great. At that price does it deal with deductions or income streams besides just W-2 wages/salary? Do you need to know about deductions or does it tell you? I might spend $5-10K on a construction contract for my multi-unit home, would it find credits for something like that? Green energy installs?

Well. Thank you for sharing LoZ appreciation with me. I didn't know you were much of a Zelda fan, besides OoT. The Mario Maker 2DS was a Black Friday price drop AND limited edition special at a moment I was ready to get a current (if aging) handheld - mainly for Mario Maker. I wanted in on the action, but didn't want to put money into a Wii U. And it has a pixel Mario graphic. The Zelda one has colors but no other branding on the machine. And I've had little interest in LoZ Game Boy games generally. (I was quite annoyed to discover that you could only download in the portable SMM, not upload courses - that's bullshit!)

I can't find my Super Mario Maker edition 2DS been missing for a while. Is 2DS fully as backwards compatible as a 3DS is? Should I get a NES or Zelda edition 3DS? Ack!

I see. I was hoping the client was a flat fee, which would apparently be a benefit for me. If xelement5x pays $100 and I paid $340 for TurboTax online (over $400 H&R block, probably because I went to their office and used their accountant) AND I owed a lot - that would be a significant difference. If it's like I was imagining. Not that I can see why it would be to Intuit's advantage. btw, you guys know these mf'n companies lobby congress to keep the tax code complicated?

Well, dang it, I thought I had pictures of this, but I can't find them. Or another piece in the freezer, I don't. Not surprising, since this was better. I made my shepherd's pie at the same time I did the meat loaf. So here is a picture of the last slice of meat loaf. Picture it with peas and carrots and corn mixed in, different seasoning, and topped with mashed potato like frosting. Then I put the whole pan in the toaster over to give the potato a little bit of crisp and browning. This would be a cake slice of that. https://www.thewholesomedish.com/the-best-classic-shepherds-pie/ It was a cottage pie, since I used beef rather than lamb. I was doing meat loaf at the same time. Red meat is not a staple for me and there's a lot of other stuff too, like celery. And imo you (I) can barely tell the difference between ground beef and ground lamb, especially with all the seasoning. (I do make sure to get lamb for kefta.) Anyway: This was very good. These are both surprisingly moist. Meat loaf at home growing up was dry and I thought that's just what it was like. But this is still juicy after baking the meat, then going in the toaster. Still juicy out of the freezer and microwaved for 1:30. It's the broth. I don't have much occasion to eat a hunk of meat, unless it's on a bun with cheese and LTO, (and yes, there are meat loaf sandwiches, so that might get me to repeat this) ...but if you want to make meat loaf or shepherd's pie I recommend the above recipe. This is apparently the meat loaf recipe I used, I don't remember making that mix at all, lol. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/219171/classic-meatloaf/

Hmm. I was gonna give the CashApp thing another try, but if that doesn't go, I'll look at this. You buy the program for that cost, and it has all the forms easy to find and fill out? Then does it e-file and ACH transfer? For free or an additional price?

Let me tell you about a little TV show called "The Simpsons"

I managed to DIY this time. I owed quite a bit because of my summer gig (3 days of festival bartending) and stock market stuff which I never touch. Those seemed to cost me an extra $500 on 1500 income and 2000 on 16k respectively. Hardly seems worth it. Mortgage interest deductions made no difference at all. I had trouble with Cashapp that supposedly files for free. Something went screwy with my credentials, and the only way they would let me fix it was to get their credit card or do some other procedure that would take 10 days, starting on the 9th. The call center worker did not understand why this was a problem. I ended up doing TurboTax. Cost $314, which is less than I paid for H&R last year but more than the accountant I used before that - I quit her because she never sends documents for my own records and kind of seems like a crackhead in busy season - but damn if she didn't get me much better results. I guess I should go back to her next year. Gotta get on the shit early but documents never seem to arrive before or while I feel motivated. American tax system sucks.

idk what this means. 56 miles! I think most I've done is 13 miles each way round trip, so 26 with a break in the middle.

Haha, it's kinda weird sometimes what I do and don't keep track of, I guess. Thanks. I added the rack and doublewide milk crate. I want to add a front rack, too. The other upgrade I got is a bigger chain ring at a friend's recommendation. I think I went from 42 teeth to 46; now I wish I had gone bigger.

Uh, ↑ there's my bike. I got it for a song on craigslist, definitely the last time I ever found something good there. As for me, for fun? Not exactly. It can be fun, just like driving, but commuting, shopping, going out, I live in a big city and my motivation is moreso convenience and saving money. I do it all year round. But I don't know how far I ride, aside from single trips. Like I know it's about 2½ miles to work, but I've never tracked or calculated cumulative numbers.

First of all as we've talked about it before, @Jeevan I'm glad you're long term taking care of your health and also that you are enjoying it!

I'm flying on Monday but liftoff is after 3 PM EST so we probably wont see anything in the air.

Last time, it was really overcast here so we saw no effect. It appears so https://time.com/4897581/total-solar-eclipse-years-next/

3/14 Ministry (Aragon Ballroom) 3/15 KMFDM (Metro) 3/18 The Deals (free Monday at Empty Bottle) 4/2 Girlschool (Thalia Hall)

Funny this was posted an hour after I was thinking about the show on my way home from work for no reason. I adore the early seasons. Even (especially?) the first two - as raw as they were and as crude the animation. But it was more relatable, and it told stories, and it was dramatic. As the success machine wore on, it became more about jokes and less about that stuff. I can't fault it for the beginning of that progression. The writing was groundbreaking at the time, stuffing everything full of jokes and quotable lines such that it permeated our society to a degree few shows have since cable TV came around. That approach is still influential today. But slowly it became only the jokes, shedding the framework of characterization that's almost a requirement for any fictional series to be good. First five seasons, love. Recent ones, for as much as I've seen, dislike or hate - and Zombie Simpsons episodes far outnumber the great ones. So I'm kinda having a hard time deciding what to vote. Do I hate it, based on what it is today? Do I go neutral, assessing the balance of the show as a whole? Or do I simply love what it was from the beginning up until... let's just say until Maude died. Today I would put it earlier, but that's commonly cited as a turning point. I was definitely still tuning in every week at the time, and for several years after. Ultimately, I'll go with the latter. After all, nobody's forcing me to watch Zombie Celebrity Simpsons. I do love at least the first five seasons. Although, I need the internet in general to focus on something other than Marge vs. the Monorail.

I've been on the other side of this. I had a Hogan's Alley sticker seal copy. The box was really beat up. I posted it on eBay with a BIN for $35 or something like that. Somebody bought it within 5 minutes. I realized my mistake but I honored it anyway. The buyer immediately flipped it for 10x the price

Oh, hey, look what I got a couple months ago

The minigames, maybe. The platforming stages look fun. With the variety of settings I hope it feels fresh. Cowgirl, Ninja, Pattisiere, Swordfighter Thief, Figure Skater, Detective, Swordfighter Mermaid, Patissiere, Cowgirl and Mighty Peach Thief, Detective, Kung Fu, Ninja Figure Skater, Patissiere, Cowgirl, Mighty Peach That's 20, plus 10 stages in the last world. I guess that could feel fleshed out enough.

I kind of expected that as a possibility, but not being in that community this wasn't clear from what bit of digging I could do. It completely makes sense with the card being out of print very shortly.

I wanted to try this contest. But I have an unusual schedule and not have much time for playing old games. Regardless, @BeaIank thank you for setting up this type of ruleset. For a while now you've been making them less time-consuming by removing grinding as a strat, and with goals that are clearly specific to the games, while still offering challenge to seasoned players.

. Not to say I ever knew anything about the MTG scene, but what am I missing here?