bed after 11, snooze past 7 * * * I've expressed this before but I miss simpler meals as the norm. We've been chronically overpacking the pipeline with enormous supplies of not-particularly-protein-dense lasagne, fried rice etc. which we then have to eat for days and days. It blocks rotation of healthy variety and fresher staples. I feel subtly pressured to overeat while the monomeal is still fresh enough to not have to be made sad by freezing or wasted outright as discard. The economy of cookin... (...more)

A master volume control on Android OS, or at least a master mute toggle, would have prevented this morning's situation where my alarm volume was zero after having to drill down through 2 levels of interface to twiddle 5 separate volume sliders for last night's Eucharist + ashes service, and then hope I untwiddled them all correctly when we left. Evidently I didn't untwiddle the alarm slider. Proton's Lumo blenderized usage notes from two different Shizuku platform apps (ShizuTools and Volume Manager) ... (...more)

The pattern is hard to ignore: do +200mg caf ahead of a treadmill session even in early afternoon (1-2pm), expect to be not-sleepy past bedtime; Cantrip shot* notwithstanding. 100mg is probably ample for the purpose. *A typical U.S. shotglass measures 1.5 oz, i.e. 1x10mg Cantrip payload. Move pork loin or chicken (2) from cellar freezer to garage - also found another tub of pork shoulder drippings - don't forget there's pork shoulder Brekarito batch Extract the "Snowy Cosmo" recipe ... (...more)

Ocean State - didn't have Ultra Brite. Try Dollar General / Dollar Days / Dollar Tree? * * * Adding oat bran cereal (for beta glucan) into my diet did not catch on like I thought it would. Oat bran muffins are a thing, typically based on a blend of oat bran and wheat flour. But then, oat bran flour is also a thing, and wouldn't you get a more melt-in-your-mouth consistency with fine oat bran flour instead of coarse oat bran not-flour? Applesauce and/or mashed/pureed banana as natural sweetener+binde... (...more)

* * * I hate to admit it but Oligarch Alphabet's search result quality is generally far superior to DuckDuckGo. Also, like it or not, LLM distillation/summary is the future of the search engine industry and because they so dominate result relevancy-quality, that same oligarch brand also dominates the LLM distillation/summary field. If you don't like the energy consumption of proliferating LLM data centers, then StartPage.com is good for anonymizing and de-tracking oligarch service usage and doesn't relay ... (...more)