What's under your lip/in your nose right now? - Part 2

[rothenbj]

Darn Burnie, that looks amazing, definitely mouth watering. I love prime rib although rarely get it.

Hopefully it's just the mirror and the door didn't take a dent to.

 

[hittman]

It appears that the door is ok. I guess they went to sonic and when he backed out then the mirror hit the pole or whatever on the passenger side. Either way I have to try to get a mirror when the dealer opens Wednesday.

 

[Burnie]

Darn Burnie, that looks amazing, definitely mouth watering. I love prime rib although rarely get it.

I only have ever got it at a restaurant, this was my first try at home, and it was wonderful. Don't think I have had better, but it has been a long time, and I am biased as I cooked it.

 

[hittman]

Merry Christmas snusers!

 

[stols001]

Merry Christmas right back atcha.

Anna

 

[rothenbj]

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[hittman]

Merry Christmas Roth. The outlaws came over for dinner and gift exchange. I’m about ready for them to leave. I’ve got a bad sinus cold and my nose has been running all day.

 

[Waho]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Spent Saturday with my Mom and brother since Mom worked the 24th-26th and spent yesterday with my in laws. Good times and good eats all around.

But, as is our luck, our washing machine decided it would be a great time to strip out the transmission on Christmas Eve. I'm not going to bother replacing a $300+ part on a $400 machine, so off to blow all our cash/Home Depot gift cards.



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[hittman]

Your luck sounds about like mine waho. Our element went out in our oven a few days before Xmas. I did fix it so we could host Xmas but ordered a new range.

A couple weeks ago I caught a sinus cold and was about over it when I got food poisoning. I was feeling better finally and the sinus cold came back with a vengeance. I’m sick of being sick and called and made a doctors appointment. Hopefully they’ll give me some antibiotics.

 

[Waho]

Apparently my luck runs in the family. My brother and I decided to spring for a dishwasher for my Mom's Christmas gift this year.

We spoiled it to her early since she has an all over the place work schedule, and she decided to throw in a bit to get a nicer model. Home Depot only delivers out her way every other Thursday, so it was two weeks out before she'd get it.

Fast forward two weeks, the guys arrive with one that looks like it fell off the back of the truck a few times. They'll get another, but it'll be another two weeks.

Cut to yesterday. This unit looks good, so they go to remove the old one. My Mom offers to run to the panel and shut the power off, the dude says that won't be necessary. He proceeds to remove the wire nuts and short the the wires to trip the breaker.

Rather than tripping the breaker, it melts half her breakers and the whole house goes nuts. Lights flickering, fridge compressor doesn't have the juice to run properly etc. Home Depot guy leaves in a flash stating he can't install due to "improper wiring." Thankfully my brother was there to run around and immediately unplug the electronics.

She calls electricians until one finally picks up and heads over, and he determined she needs entire panel replaced. He got her up and running for the night and had this morning available to replace to her panel.

Thankfully I showed up shortly after the electrician. After power was back on, we ran around checking things. Just about everything plugged in got fried. Her land line phone, alarm clocks, powered TV antennas. Blew all the glass fuses in her garage panel, but it still killed both her garage door openers. Popped the fuse on her furnace which I ended up shocking the hell out of myself putting a penny under just to get it running again.

Great way to end 2018!

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[hittman]

That’s horrible. I would call Home Depot and threaten to get a lawyer and call a local news station. They should pay for the damages. The installer sounds like an idiot. I hope we have better luck with Lowe’s when our range is delivered and installed.

 

[rothenbj]

That is the most bizarre story I've heard in a while. I'm trying to imagine her electric setup. She gas two panels, one with fuses and one with breakers? I have two panels myself- the main 200 Amp service is in the garage and a 100 Amp sub-panel in the basement. There had to have been some problem in the panel but the HD guy sure opened them up to litigation.

 

[Waho]

She technically has 4 breaker panels in the basement and a fuse box in the garage. It's a mess.

The mains comes in to a single 100 amp breaker panel, feeds from there into a 20 breaker panel, which feeds into the other two 4 and 8 breaker panels and to the garage fuse panel. Trust me when I say the verbal description is much neater than the actual setup.

The house was built as two beds/1 bath, no kitchen/living space to house migrant workers during the summer. The kitchen/living was added on later and they just added panels and started wiring.

The electrician was cool as hell, he's gonna send the bill to the delivery/install company and not make my Mom pay right away.

 

[hittman]

They should pay it. If they don’t, I’d go talk to a lawyer depending on how much the bill is from the electrician.

 

[stols001]

Okay snus folks, I am going to ask a question that I understand may be completely unusual for snus I mean I know for all y'all keeping snus moist and juicy is where it's at. I would love to do that, but with my crazy order of snus, well, soft and juicy just is not an OPTION for me anymore, with some snus I have.

I really need to dehydrate it, and I'm hoping to do so with little nicotine loss, but more, like, just dehydration of flavor and less juicy "emissions." I just can't look like I'm chewing dirt, and I think drying the stuff out would help quite a bit.

So... how to do it? I've considered the stove on "warm" I have considered the microwave. I have even considered a food dehydrator, I mean, I want to use that snus and I never will if I am just using it sporadically on weekends.

Any guesses how to do this? I've just noticed I have NOT had the dirt chewing issue with more dried out snus and I' m hoping I can do it more speedily than leaving it on a radiator or vent somewhere, or whatever.

Speculation welcomed. I'm bored of just general white, which is what I have to mostly use. Even more dehydrated, some of those flavors are going to still taste interesting.

Anna

 

[rothenbj]

Never went there Anna. I found the dehydration went pretty fast in the freezer and the cans became worthless, even with the hydration methods I found on the web. I ended up going strictly to white.

Here's a discussion on dehydrating. From my quick read, you stay away from the oven and just leave the can open for a few hours to dry them to taste. Sounds like you may lose flavor though.

Drying out wet snus?

 

[stols001]

Thanks, that was helpful. I don't mind losing flavor, I'm hoping to not lose much nicotine but even if I do, it's better than not being able to use them, period.

Thanks!

Anna

 

[hittman]

I’ve noticed that my thunder raspberry dried out over time just from opening and closing the can. I only use two portions a day during the work week so it lasts a couple weeks. I would try just opening a couple cans you want to dry out and then put them away for a week or so. I’ll bet they will be drier when you go back to them.

 

[hittman]

It probably sounds dumb but I’m excited that our new double oven range was delivered this morning.

 

[stols001]

I tried drying out some snus in the microwave on Friday. It was kind of a desperate move because normally I can find white General snus to use but I struck out at 5 gas stations, it was kind of weird.

The rasberry made the apartment smell great. At a minute in the microwave, it was still pretty moist honestly. The Odin white sort of fared a bit better.... Sort of.

I think it may have reduced the nic content and IDK what my problem is, but I'm buying a bunch of white general down here for the week.

I think my portion sizes are just to big and juicy for my mouth and I have tried many positions. I think I am just going to use up the rest and hope over time it decays I guess I could just take some out of the freezer and let it decay more quickly.

This is very, very mysterious and annoying, but right now it just is what it is.

Anna