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Anyway, pickled carrots and snow peas were amazing. Pickled radishes were fine, sweeter than I expected. Pickled cucumbers and green beans were disappointing considering how much better I've had. Pumpkins are already ripe, well ahead of schedule. Massaged kale is amazing, and I'm looking at eating it for lunch for the next few weeks just to keep on top of the harvest. Butternut squash are finally coming in and looking very pretty.
Very excited about my compost. Discovered a local bike trail doubles for horseback riding and has a manure bin. Definitely heading out to steal a truck bed full and mix in for the finest compost.
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Since I started mixing in these workouts, I’ve posted a few 6:40 mile splits within a five-mile run. That feels pretty good. I think I topped 6:20 once in high school, and that was with way more consistent training. I’m strongly opposed to paying to run races, but if I keep this up, I would like to run a sub-20 5k sometime.
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I've been happy with the 8:30-9:00 range on my 5K runs, but I've seen some payoff with my speed pyramid work I've added. My biking has improved to where I can keep up with the local A group for most of the 30 mile stretch we do.
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Tomatoes underperformed. Plenty of fruit but so few ripened. More phosphorus or something should help with that, I hear. Can’t really complain for my first real effort, though.
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I haven't been this excited about a cuisine in a long time. The fact that my wife loves Mexican food as I do helps immensely.
I've never used piloncillo before and it blew me away. And how have I never had atole before. I could drink that every day.
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Switching from a blend to pure black oil sunflower seeds was absolutely the right choice. Way more popular with the chickadees now.
Maybe it’s too late in the season, but I’m struggling to attract finches. Switched from a blend to millet, and it’s even less popular.
With the appearance of a female red-bellied woodpecker this week, all local woodpeckers have checked out our suet. The pileated visit was hilarious as it was too big for the cage and couldn’t grip it and eat at the same time.
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Crosswords: I got really into crossword puzzles, which I've enjoyed for some time. I enjoy the hard ones, and I even stumbled upon a collection of puzzles where the clues were so poorly edited and produced that they were their own weird challenge, and I totally dug it. I subscribed to the NYT Crossword app and do that puzzle daily, with my Sunday times between 20 and 30 minutes usually. (However, because the NYT is a shitty rag of a paper, I won't be reupping that subscription.)
Magic: I briefly tried to get back to MtG after giving it up in the late 90s. You can't go home again.
Spanish: I have been learning Spanish with the Duolingo app, and am nearing 600 continuous days of it. I do about 30 minutes of lessons a day. I'm getting pretty good at reading and writing, but I haven't done jack about speaking and hearing. I'm going to try to focus on that in the new year.
Comics: I write in the Comics thread about my Chronological Hellboy project. I also read through the big Locas and Locas II collections by Jaime Hernandez.
Programming: I had a project at work that I realized could probably be done with Mathematica/Wolfram Language. A co-worker who knows WL was going to code it for me, but his plate was kind of full, so over a weekend I taught myself enough WL to get the task done. I enjoyed learning it so much that I continued to play around with it, programming Twitter Bots and working on some random text generation with Markov chains. I want to get back to that project.
More Programming: Growing up, the video game series that most captivated me was the Ultima series. I started with Ultima III and played them all through VIII, along with most of the side games. I read a book -- Through the Moongates -- which was the story of Ultima, Origin Software, and Richard Garriott. The book is HORRIBLY written and edited, but I liked the subject matter enough to keep going. Anyway, my thoughts on Ultima and gaming have lead to me downloading Game Maker Studio 2 (the free version) and I completed the "Breakthrough" tutorial for it, where you make a simple Breakout/Arkanoid game. I then took the results and added things to it: more powerups, levels, increasing difficulty, extra lives, a cheat code, etc. It's been a lot of fun to play with and learn. Next I am going to do the "Little Town" tutorial, which is an adventure game, and if I'm feeling my Wheaties after that I'm going to try and code my own little Ultima-style RPG.
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I decided if I was going to do it again I'd use Unity. But Game Maker has a lot of advantages. For your purpose you might also want to check out RPG Maker.
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With the holidays here, I made some peanut brittle today. It turned out really well. I also made fudge because it’s the sort of thing that reminds me of my grandfathers, both of whom have now passed on.
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I've upped my gear game a little this winter--my nephew is out of college, and appears to have decamped for sunny San Diego permanently, so my brother-in-law was happy to get his old sled and hub shelter out of his garage rafters. Picked up a surprise extra rod in the whole mess, so I can have a dead stick going with a minnow on it for walleyes that roll through, while actively jigging with my other rod. I'm getting a little buddy heater for Christmas that can hook up to a standard propane tank, so I can stay comfortable for long stretches at night.
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