I'm a fan of crazy details

Many places would do well to clean their floors with gin than some weird lavender April breeze smelling shit.

How'd it turn out? Looks good and almond and banana is a solid pairing

I enjoyed it. Will increase the almond flour next time. Will have to leave out the chopped nuts, though, neither kid liked them in there.

Have a request from the boy for banana cheesecake bars so I think I have a recipe figured out to try that next.

Attention to detail, very nice!

Nice looking slicer and good eats.

do you put lipstick on before you pucker up and kiss ass like that?

Proper retirementing indeed.

That's really damn cool.

It's one of those tiny details that really stands out.

We found what I believe is what's left of a fox or small coyote on a walk today.

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Since we're apparently starting a new trend here, I'm going to have to go find some dead animals to take knife pics with. Would roadkill count?

For the second time in a couple weeks the Neon has opened in my pocket! Scary when you put your hand in and feel the blade! Took it apart and cleaned it today to see if pocket lint was in the détente hole. Didn't see anything. Put it back together and will try it out carefully. I did notice two of the bearings seem off color than the rest. Strange!
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I found the neighbor's cat in our back yard. Didn't think to grab a knife pic.

well let me tell you...

They had this ham at the breakfast buffet at the hotel that was kinda like canadian bacon, but not quite, it was always dry. On the second to last day there, when I get to the bucket of meat and I am debating the shoe leather, I see there is a pool of juices collected in the middle of everything, so I carefully take the tongs, scope out the juiciest looking piece, gingerly pick it up so as not to disturb the other pieces around it, look around to make sure I am not holding up the line or being watched, and then just start sloshing the meat around in the juicy pool. Dunkadunkadunk. Like a dog in a bathtub, sloshing around.

Some lady starts coming down the other side of the buffet table. She is not looking at me directly, but I'm sure she is looking at me out of the corner of her eye and thinking who let this nut job in, and I am not touching that ham after he has been in there. Sensing her discomfort, I stop sloshing around and raise the tongs to get the drippy slab of meat over to my plate which I have brought over to the bucket so as not to drip on anything like any civilized person would do.

Somehow, in the few inches of space from the bottom of my plate to the top of the bucket, the meat slips from the tongs and on a diagonal trajectory slides between the plate and the top of the bucket to land with a resounding splat on the table in front of me, squirting juices everywhere on my side of the table, just as the woman arrives at the meat bucket on the other side of the table.

I am scrambling to pick the meat up but it is slippery and kinda adhering to the table, so I have multiple failed attempts, all while the woman across from me is trying her best, and not succeeding, to stifle her laughter.

Fast forward to later that morning, we are on the trolley coming back from the cemeteries, and being the observant guy I am, I see that the wooden bench seat on the trolley has what looks like a fancy hinge at the point where the backrest meets the seat.

interesting. wonder why. what's underneath. is that where they hide the clowns. so many questions. one way to find out.

so I lean over from my seat to the bench across from me and slowly pick up the front of the seat. It rises about an inch before the whole damn bench top goes flying out the back and onto the floor with a loud crash.

I did not have a lot of time to carefully analyze what was under there, looked like more metal and little round pegs for holding the bench seat in place without actually latching it down (why not latch it down), because I was scrambling to pick it up and put it back as my wife is dying of embarrassment next to me and the woman across from us is trying to contain her laughter and stares and failing miserably in bursts. Her reaction was gif worthy it was so animated.

After getting the bench seat back on there I sat down quietly and kept my hands to myself for the rest of the trip.

I did figure out later that it was not a hinge, the seat back pivots from one side to the other so you can change the seating position to face the direction the trolley is going.

my sammich was good, fries were good, riverside beer was good. it was good.

I think overall NOLA probably shines for seafood which is something I am not able to appreciate. My wife enjoyed her seafood and the bloody mary she got there though, and I am all about keeping her happy.

Yeah that's not ideal for sure.

Were the bearings still discolored after cleaning? Not rusty I hope.

nice

damn it, I missed my chance with Rachel the 'possum.

LMAO this all sounds like shit that I would do.

see, this is why all knives should be tip down only carry

Right?

Wait, what?

Roadkill pics get bonus points. Lol


That sounds like something I'd do, both the breakfast mess and taking the trolley apart.

When we stayed at the best western in Oklahoma recently, I managed to spill their waffle batter all over the dispenser and counter because I just set the cup down and hit the button. It shot out of the dispenser, knocked the cup over and spilled all over the counter in about a second and a half.  My kid was super embarrassed while I was cleaning it up. Lol

Can't take you anywhere.

They didn't clean up so yes I think they are rusty. The Neon rides loose in my pocket not clipped.

Bearings, loose in pocket? That's a hard pass for me.

No use trying to kiss ass when WIC is already under the desk playing "smiles" and working for the happy ending.

*awkward

Allow me to clarify since you're being deliberately obtuse:

There is no use trying to kiss ass when WIC is already under the desk playing "smiles" and working for the happy ending.

Me too

Maybe silvered almonds.

That could be tasty.

Lighting fits too.


That's pretty cool

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That's weird. My Neon has a pretty snappy detent.

Like rusted?

projecting again I see

you silly leprechaun

The only thing better would have been if it was the same lady.

Not to distract from MaxxII's inappropriate behavior, but serious question.

Power bank: need one.

I know nothing about them.

We will need one for 3-4 devices. Two ipads and two cell phones for brief power ups. i.e. we will be traveling by car, may not have enough power outlets in the rental, want to be sure we have a back up with us. I would think we shouldn't need to use it more than once a day, can recharge everything at night at the hotels. Do these things work for laptops? Maybe that is the bigger concern. Don't want a huge power bank though.

Saw this one in a quick search, number of things I like about it feature wise, but since I am a noob, not sure if it is missing features I should be looking for or if the power output is sufficient.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

MaxxII, which one do you use for your vibrator? That probably consumes massive amounts of power.

It was not.

I have one of those NOCO jump packs that can also double as a power pack. Never tried it in that manner though, but may be worth looking into. Plus, you'll also have jump-start capabilities.

Gas powered.

My 0640 got me like that - put it down in my pocket with some other stuff to do a presentation, reached in and got poked a tiny bit by something. I realized what happened and tried to just close it but the tip snagged in the pocket material so I had to reach over with the other hand and stabilize things. Luckily there is a counter in the front of that room I was behind but it was still a pretty strange looking thing to have to do. Then a little bit later I noticed I was bleeding on the mouse pad and got lucky there were some napkins in the drawer. At that point it required some explanation so I just said "something in my pocket poked me" and carried on with the presentation holding the napkin on it. Luckily just a tiny nick so I didn't make any more of a mess. Presumably the disk caught on something else in my pocket as I've never had something happen like that before. Detent feels fine.

That would be outstanding IMO.

I was half expecting that to be the case. Would have been perfect!

WIC, next time you tell this story, have it be the same lady.

That all looks amazing.

Intgeresting. at 2.5 pounds, seems hefty for that size. Wonder if TSA would stop me.

TSA would definitely stop me.