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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Dark brown sugar should only change the flavor a bit, since it just has more molasses added to the sugar (but I guess it could change the texture a bit in a small batch).

    The recipe probably assumes a regular oven, not a a fan (convection) oven. I’m not sure about yours, but our convection oven has instructions for lowering the temperature from what the recipe calls for (25 degrees lower F, so about 4 degrees 14 degrees C) if using the fan.

    Also, if you don’t already have one, you might want to get an oven thermometer. I’ve seen a lot of ovens that don’t actually cook at the temperature they are set to on the knob, so having a thermometer in the oven that you can check and make adjustments until the oven temperature is where you need it to be can help a lot.


  • You might see if “Shop and Deliver” orders are available in your area (Should be under “Preferences” in the app). We tend to do more shopping than food orders, and tend to make more in our area (and there’s no waiting for shitty restaurants). If I could turn off food delivery and just do shopping I would.

    It can be smaller trips like Walgreens or CVS , lots of Dollar General, and even larger stores (with larger orders) like Target, Food Lion, or Aldi.











  • I’m 52 and have been playing video games since we go the Atari 2600 when I was about 6 (while they only play mobile shit these days, both of my parents actually played the Atari when we had it).

    We’ve owned all but 2 of the Nintendo consoles (Wii U and the Switch 2), Numerous Xbox and Play Stations (more for my boys, but I have an XBox One that I still play a bit), and have been a PC gamer since DOS (Lemmings and Duke Nukem).

    My Steam account will be 22 years old in a few months, and something gets played every week.







  • We were driving somewhere and suddenly decided to order some chicken on the way home (figured it would be done when we got there and we wouldn’t have to wait).

    They required an app: my wife downloaded it, set up an account, picked the store that was on the way home (but not closest to where we were) and put the order into the app, only to have it fail sending it to the location.

    Several times.

    By the third try we were in the parking lot and I just went in and ordered.


  • Had a tech drive an hour and half to a site where the onsite staff couldn’t get a server to boot last week.

    Somewhere between scheduling and actually driving down (half a day later), someone came to work that understood how the power button works, but didn’t bother to let anyone know that it was already booted back up and working.