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Whiney brat TOP.

I'm not burned so bad over it anymore. My mom had her own issues, and was a single parent. My mom and Gpa taught me an extreme work ethic. I can shovel poo so long as I don't find it unethical and it pays. I learned also that money is everywhere. All over. Just need to get it. You may understand this, and I hope no one else is offended, but when I was in school I had a very hard time talking to people. I had a huge lack in social skills, but that's not why. It was literally painfull sometimes to grind my brain down to a different speed. It's a bit like when a pro ball player plays a pick up game with overweight 5'7" can't jump white boys with sweat bandanas. My brain had to scale back so badly. It's probably a huge dose of late in life diagnosed ADD/ADHD too. I think... at this point in my life if I could have made the change I would have become an MD, and done research and work at being a head of some practice somewhere.

Based on test scores my junior year and probably the fact I was learning Japonease and from MN(we do/used to do more trade with Japan than the cost BTW) I was offered a schollarship to international buisness school in Hawaii

We are eye to eye. I'm also glad someone else thinks of his cooking as a little "bland". Maybe that's the intent. Sceince and technical mastery shall prevail over fancy shtuff and spice is kind of his method. The KISS method.

BGE baby. The only question is do you use high heat to start/brown it or to finish. Around here, BGE = Baltimore Gas & Electric. So something of an initial reaction of hatred occurs when it is mentioned. At my house it bring forth feelings of joy and sometimes the urge to snuggle with it's dimpled green exterior.... Maybe not when it's hot though..... That is the one advantage of the C4, the stainless doesn't really get hot. Not even when I'm eggin' at 500 deg. It's insulated that well? It's a big price jump from BGE to c4, so it makes sense. Pretty amazing! Stainless isn't such a good conductor, ie it's an insulator. Other than that no real difference. I think the ceramic is a little thicker, but I surely can't say it is worth $2700 instead of $700. Occasionally I get a wild hair up my ass and have to go over the top...okay I always have a wild hair up my ass, but either way fuck it. It's just money. <--does have a HUGE list of things $2k could have been used better on. You could have had 3 BGE's and spend the other 600 on meat and seafood Yours is real... real pretty though. As long as it's some kind of improvement it can be justified.

I was laughing too. it was especially funny watching jack try to keep one paw off the snow at all times. Poor guy. It's downright silly watching a 180 pound pup prance around looking all pathetic, but still trying to have fun in the snow. Give him time he will come around. Our mastif loves rolling in the snow and then running back in the house and shaking. .... I better finish my cabinets!

OK, now I have a moment. Long post, but it's where I come from. I don't talk about it often. My bad choices. by: matt 2 I can't really say this without sounding like an a-hole, or a prick. All I know is I learned my lesson. In elementary I tested in a college reading comp level. Also way higher science and math skills. I was that kid, teachers pet yada yada yada. I was also an a-hole and didn't like homework. I felt it was unjust. It didn't affect my grades really though. I was in the same "book level" of education for 3 years. I was first in state for saxaphone also and in a few "gifted programs". They called them something else to make the kids who weren't in them feel ok about it. I was also in an international music program and almost went to australia as a child music ambasador. Basically talented enough along with 2 other random kids from the hood who were way above normal skill level that our school got new instruments and grants because of us and our program. Then came midle school. I ended up in the most violent middle school in the nation, and day one walked into music class, got handed a rusty(it was actually green and had scale on it) saxaphone, and I literally walked out of the class because I thought it was below me. Still in these "advanced" classes though just dropped the music thing, tried teaching myself piano, but I had an organ. It's not the same. I was insanely sheltered up to this point too, and then being introduced to a knife fight on my 2nd day of school and getting knocked in the eye on my first by someone I didn't know was a culture shock. Maintained A-B's in all my classes, but I was held out of skipping classes and put into algebra for 2 years. I basically learned nothing in any class but my advanced placement class and got my ass kicked. Lots of gang violence, specifically in SE Asain gangs. I'm lucky my best friend(basically my brother) is Chinease. I was nearly killed after one stupid fight. Highschool. On standard testing I ranked in the top 7%-2% nationally. I was put into what was in my eyes considered remedial math, english and social studies. I applied 2 times every year for both post secondary classes and to get into the International Bacheloriate program. Here's the problem, they both cost the school money per student to do this aparently. Unless the student was a minority or below the poverty line. My name never came up in the "random" shuffling after the poorest kids got their chance. My school was so messed up that if your parents didn't fill out your "free lunch" application they would suspend you untill they did. If you took too long it could lead to expulsion. I became good friends with some of the advanced class teachers so I would sit in on their classes at their request, other teachers would either have me tutor other kids. Some of my teachers were PhD's or working on theirs, and would let me read their text books or sit with me after school and talk. I mostly helped english teachers tutor, I taught a top pick college draft kid how to read actually.... Eventually I just stopped showing up to class other than monday and friday for normal classes and my extra morning class before school opened for japonease, and a class called "theory of knowledge". I also wrestled but since my grades were so bad my coach would just tell me to break other teams heavy weights at tournaments that didn't count for placing. Or to put the whoop a$$ on the other fat boys who tried out for the team. I stopped going all together at some point because I was bored, and I thought someone may care since I was a minor. They didn't. I had been working near full time since I was 14, so I just continuied on with that. Then I got into sales and started making double my mothers income at 20 years old. I hung out with people who I thought I knew but didn't. Got effed over. It happens. Went through a forclosure when gas went up to 3 bucks a gallon(the first time) and I took a ~15-20k a year demotion as the DManager took my store durring his demotion. Now I do the M-F grind after burning out in retail/sales management for 11 years. 70 hours weeks got old. Now, my mom was not an imbicile, but she didn't know how to deal with a child like me, and she certainly didn't know how to fight a school system. I was probably pure hell to deal with. No one really to blame other than me. I should have taken the easy A's, gone to the U of M and got a degree in chem eng and pharmacology and gone to work for phiser. I learned my lessons though and am better for it. Just not as good as I could have been.

Oven is almost as easy as scrambling eggs or grilling a steak By oven I don't mean for roasting, braising, broiling. Those are no problem. The one that troubles me is baking. Why the fuck is a good croissant not something I know how to make. etc... It's interesting you mention that. I used to bake more than cook. Now it's the reverse. When growing up I never purchased bread. NEVER. Now I buy 2 loaves of crap a week. I don't eat it. I RARELY eat bread, or any grain for that matter.

I was laughing too. it was especially funny watching jack try to keep one paw off the snow at all times. Poor guy. It's downright silly watching a 180 pound pup prance around looking all pathetic, but still trying to have fun in the snow.

BGE baby. The only question is do you use high heat to start/brown it or to finish. Around here, BGE = Baltimore Gas & Electric. So something of an initial reaction of hatred occurs when it is mentioned. At my house it bring forth feelings of joy and sometimes the urge to snuggle with it's dimpled green exterior.... Maybe not when it's hot though..... That is the one advantage of the C4, the stainless doesn't really get hot. Not even when I'm eggin' at 500 deg. It's insulated that well? It's a big price jump from BGE to c4, so it makes sense. Pretty amazing!

ouchies. Not so good!

I didnt have a jacket. Just a hoodie. I'm fine in a t shirt untill its 'bout 0 or below. I'm known to wear birkenstocks basketball shorts a t shirt and a thin hoodie in below 0. If I'm shovling or just out of the gym steam will rise off my body. I was more worried about jacks paws getting too cold. I got him into the truck and snuggles him untill mom in law showed up. warm puppy ftw!

google has it. type in sonotube followed by the size you want to look for. I would follow that up with "local". There has to be some construction place near you. that's how I found it..... but then I decided to go with MDF. not as original, but I think it will hold up better in the long long term.

Every time you guys joke about it, a little bit of motivation is lost for me to finish mine. As I think about it, and there are a number of PhD's on my mothers side, and they all are exceptionally talented and knowledgeable in their field of focus, but out side of that...... I joke out of jelousy. I chose a VERY wrong path in life What do you mean by wrong path? ....lol I will explain when I get to a computer.... locked outside of house with puppy now... he closed door on me...

HEY! I can read your small font you lefty pinko extremist!

BGE baby. The only question is do you use high heat to start/brown it or to finish. Around here, BGE = Baltimore Gas & Electric. So something of an initial reaction of hatred occurs when it is mentioned. At my house it bring forth feelings of joy and sometimes the urge to snuggle with it's dimpled green exterior.... Maybe not when it's hot though.....

Every time you guys joke about it, a little bit of motivation is lost for me to finish mine. As I think about it, and there are a number of PhD's on my mothers side, and they all are exceptionally talented and knowledgeable in their field of focus, but out side of that...... I joke out of jelousy. I chose a VERY wrong path in life

What????!?

BGE baby. The only question is do you use high heat to start/brown it or to finish. WHen you get a whole rib like that, is the cut the "prime rib" but it just has the bones left on it? good call on the BGE. That was my first thought, but wanted to make sure a roasting or braising wasn't better suited. Only a Prime Rib if the meat is Prime. Otherwise it would be a Choice Rib which no one would ever say, they'd still call it a Bone in Prime, but would be wrong. Braising would be a bad idea IMO. That cut shouldn't be cooked beyond mid-rare and doesn't need the extra fat/liquid of a braise. Two schools of thought. Hot first and then cold cook (250ish) or low slow followed by sear. You could also sear in a pan first if you prefer or need to make a pan sauce. If you BGE it I would put a drip tray under the meat and make sure there is water in it so the drippings don't burn. Then you can make a sauce later. Normally I roast a mirepoix in the pan or racked above the liquid at the same time to make the au jus better at the end. PERFECT! thanks for the tip. I never would have thought to put a pan under with mirepoix. WOuld strain after, process fine, or just leave it?

I hate it! Snow good. Cold bad!

BGE baby. The only question is do you use high heat to start/brown it or to finish. WHen you get a whole rib like that, is the cut the "prime rib" but it just has the bones left on it? good call on the BGE. That was my first thought, but wanted to make sure a roasting or braising wasn't better suited.

I'm not a big fan really. They get pretty warm in the bathroom when I take my shower anyway.

I'm thinking about doing a whole beef rib for a large "fancy" holiday meal. Has anyone tried this or have a good recipie?

can't expect PhD's to really know what they are doing mang!

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