Home made maple smoke Bacon. Deeeeeelicious brother! (Points to anyone know can note that quote's origin)

networkn:

 

Home made maple smoke Bacon. Deeeeeelicious brother! (Points to anyone know can note that quote's origin)

 

Ninja from the Sous Vide Everything YouTube channel before he mysteriously disappeared. 

Handle9: Mrs Handle had PRK

How do you pronounce that?  If it's not an acronym - I think that's what my wife calls me, sometimes.

Fred99:

 

Handle9: Mrs Handle had PRK

 

How do you pronounce that?  If it's not an acronym - I think that's what my wife calls me, sometimes.

 

Hahahahaha.

Unfortunately it is an acronym for photorefractive keratectomy

I like how the Herald is posting articles about Kanye Wests's presidential bid into the "Entertainment" section, rather than "Political" :-)

WireGuard :-)

Concerning "my big data" (important data) only trusting ECC-RAM, RAIDZ2 and regular remote (physical) backups.

Seeing actual concern on GZ that there seems to be a gender-based bias at TVNZ News. 

Nice to know that people care here, to be honest...not that I watch the TVNZ News, but I also think that a good person reading the news can make a difference and I'd rather listen to Wendy Petrie than Simon Dallow...just a personal preference based on their presenting styles. 

A feel-good story for dog lovers:

BBC News - Tables turned as St Bernard needs mountain rescue

26 July 2020

A St Bernard has been rescued after collapsing while walking down England's highest mountain.

 

Members of the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) went to Daisy's aid on Scafell Pike.

 

A team spokesman said Daisy had been showing signs of pain in her legs and was refusing to move.

 

Friday's operation, which involved 16 members of the MRT, took five hours as rescuers carried Daisy on a stretcher over obstacles including a waterfall.  ...

 

Daisy is 4 years old and weighs 55kg.

Morphine, and that is a real worry

A charming book I am reading. I picked it up off Trade Me for the vast sum of $9  and it really is one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a long time.

It is called "Home" and was written by Alan Mulgan. He was a NZer of Irish descent who made the journey by sea to England (the "Home" of the title - he differentiates by not giving NZ a capital letter when referring to "home"). The book was published in 1929 so is almost 100 years old.

Mr Mulgan's writing is like a cool balm - descriptive, accurate and very capable of creating the scenes he found. It was his first time (and possibly his only time) in England after growing up here reading all about it and it is truly one of the nicest travel books. The very idea of a 5 week sea voyage to get there is quite exciting in itself but must have been even more so to someone who had no TV, internet etc so could not have seen more than a relative handful of images before embarking.

His description of the places he wandered around in London are doubly interesting because I have been to many of them (even dined more than once in one of the pubs he mentions) so hearing them described as from 1929 is a rare treat.

I recommend it if you can find a copy. Even handling my 1929 copy is lovely - proper sewn bindings, thick paper and letterpress printing. Lovely.

Buying a new mountain bike for my eldest son. 

Finding the perfect bike at a "too good to be true" price. 

Discovering that he bike is simply being sold to make room in the shed for the new bike and other toys and that the seller not only thinks we are getting the bike at a fair price, but is an outstanding chap, to boot. 

Gives my young fella some advice, shows him a thing or two and even says "If anything goes wrong, let me know, I'll sort it"...did I mention we got a bargain?? 

Restores your faith in humanity when this sort of thing happens...real, genuine nice people really exist. 

EDIT: This was on Trade me...so wasn't new, but new to us. 

I think that someone showing an interest in my kids in a genuine and kind way, always makes me smile :)

getting my own breakfast this morning. It may have taken over thirty minutes to get the cornflakes, milk, fruit, water and meds together but baby steps at a time id still progress.