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The speaker had clearly been doing some tanning from a bottle. His face was red/orange, his suit blue, his shirt white. Dammit. He was being patriotic!

Anyone have much experience with smelt? I cooked it tonight in a tempura batter, and it was decent smelt (got if from a fish guy I deal with regularly, always straight up, said it was "good shit"), but it just seemed fishy. Is that common? Edit: my five year old called them "fish fries,"...

Thanks, Erronius, good and informative post. To be honest, coming up the air return was the most direct route to the bathrooms, so there's no extra length of cable. I see what you're saying about the flammability of the cable, the gasses, and the air handling system. For anything involving an...

Meh. Who follows recipes that closely?

I don't think there's a restriction on low voltage cabling here, actually.

Orange sauce is easy to make, though, and then you can control flavours and heat as you like. Speaking of which, that reminds me of this recipe for crock pot orange chicken. Super easy and good. Crock Pot Orange Chicken Recipe - Food.com - 295686

I must confess to running power in a cold air return in my current house. I needed additional power to a bathroom (three bathrooms, all receptacles AND lights on one 15 amp breaker? How stupid is that?). It ended up being three wires, all pulled tight, stapled at the top and bottom. I can't...

Depending on where you are, it can get worse. Here, for example, you get six weeks unpaid. Period. That's what you get if you have a kid. So, my wife, the high school teacher, having a child during the summer months, when it didn't affect her job at all? Six weeks unpaid during the summer...

'Twas indeed delicious.

I have a wood stove perfectly located in my house. In this very, VERY cold snap our furnace has only come on a couple of times toward morning when the stove has died down. I also have access to pretty much unlimited free wood. I've never had a gas bill higher than about 75$, and that was while...

With the schools cancellation and a slow morning, I decided to make something fun this morning. Breakfast pizza. I'd never done it before. Came out delicious, and not hard to do at all. Plus, any form of pizza is something my kids will all love. I used this recipe (kinda) Breakfast Pizza...

I found that exact thing to be the case with accuweather, too, since I've switched to an iPhone.

You need to chisel? Can't cut your studs to fit instead?

What's the best smart phone app for weather? I tried accuweather, but it blows donkey balls. I'm using the weather channel right now, but I don't like it much.

State of emergency here. Driving ban, $2,500 fine if you go out. I have never seen a list of closings longer. Check it out: WNDU - Closings Almost cold enough to do the boiling water in the air trick.

No kidding. Amazing how our perspective changes. The kids are getting bored, though. We haven't really gone anywhere since Thursday, and we are usually a very social family. We can't have anyone in because of the driving ban. No school tomorrow, at least, possibly Wednesday depending on...

Yeah. I have five. It's remarkable how well my wife has managed to book things. For example, all five kids have their music lessons in a space of 2 hours one afternoon after school. We do a lot of driving, but we're all done and home in time for dinner. Two of my kids play hockey, that...

We've talked a lot about that. We "force" the kids to do one sport and take lessons for one instrument. Some of my kids choose to do more sports, some pick up a second instrument, but there are always battles to be fought about practicing and going to practice. However, I think it is good to...

If only we could channel that sort of commitment into something like...say...practicing the violin. My son would be Itzhak Perlman next week if we could do it.

The first best being merely to kill the child, right?

Currently 3 degrees here with a real feel of -18 (that's -16C with a real feel of -27C). Tomorrow morning it is supposed to be -14 (that's -25). I've shoveled my driveway five times this weekend. School was cancelled Friday, it's closed today, and they've already called it for tomorrow. We...

Schools, courts, libraries, everything confirmed cancelled for tomorrow. Travel ban in place until 6PM tomorrow. $2,500 fine if you're on the roads and are non-essential. Guess we're not going out to skate after all. Get out the snowshoes!

One way to cheat is to take off your baseboard, drill at an angle to the basement, then open a small hole into the wall above, fish the wire, put baseboard back on, no patching.

Ever wonder where dildos come from? Here's the answer:

Indiana. It's supposed to be colder than cold tomorrow. The school board has unofficially said something along the lines of "unless the polar vortex turns into a heat vortex, don't expect there to be school on Tuesday." A few boards have officially cancelled for Tuesday already, the rest will...

Today and tomorrow, school cancelled. I'm running out of things to do with the kids! If it were possible to go outside, we'd be fine, and we'll do some of that, but it's so cold here that we can't do much of anything outside. I love winter! These snow days make for awesome memories. I'm...

Yeah. That's the bloody truth. Good for you.

I'm thinking of building a small barn on my property and actually raising my own livestock for butchering. I think I'd do cow, chicken, pig, lamb. Maybe I should consider ostrich, too. I'd do my own slaughtering. I've done it before, and it's no big deal. Nice to teach the kids where meat...

Chicks with big titties? and beer. The kind in a can. If you want to bring serious eats, however, try finding a home made slider recipe, and you'll be a hero.

Additionally it says that the university will buy out leases, so the landlords are happy, and there is no violation as the contract (lease) has been fulfilled.