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  1. 9 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

    Any recommendations for a nice looking minimalist watch? I only wear a watch on special occasions and I can't stand the ones with a bezel

    Since this is the affordable watches thread, how about looking at the Orient Bambino line? or Timex Marlin line?  Bauhaus-style markers that are simple and elegant, IMO.

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  2. Gotta give a shout out to State Rep Hugh Shine's office (Bell County).  He used his office to coordinate with Oncor to get power on for folks in the district.  Yesterday a FB post instructed people with prolonged outages to contact his office rather than call or message Oncor, which was jammed with messages.  My mom messaged his office, and my dad called his office and talked to Hugh himself about their outage (out for well over 100 hours).  An hour later, power was restored for the all the customers along their rural road.  Oncor had been reporting that their power was restored 3 days before when obviously it hadn't been.  I thought that was a refreshing story of an elected official using his office to lend a hand to his constituents in this mess. 

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  3. 5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Well, a friend of ours managed to get over and check on a neighbor. Elderly, Chinese, isolated, not much English.

    He’s dead, frozen to death in his own home.

    There are more. Many more.

    Fucking Christ.

    Awful. This is why I keep checking on my parents. At least they can keep a fire going in the house. 

  4. I’m grateful for my power being restored yesterday. Can’t believe some are still without. This is very frustrating. My parents are still without. Has to be 120 hours or so for them. They’re between Temple and Troy. They and their neighbors have tried getting through to Oncor.  Oncor reports their power restored as of three days ago. Oh, boy. 

  5. 78702. East Austin neighborhood across from Erwin Center, near Disch-Falk. No power for 66 hours. Have maintained water, but pressure dropped this afternoon. Gas is still on. Streaming all the indoor faucets, wrapped my two outside. Helped two neighbors today who left to stay with friends turn off their water at the street. I’ll keep up the faucet streaming as long as I can. If we lose too much pressure I’ll shut my water off at the street too. 
     

    Thanks for all the helpful posts in this thread. I’m feeling plenty of stress and anxiety over this whole mess, and sense the same from many of the posters here. This thread is helping get me through. 

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:

    The temperature in my unheated but attached garage is right about 39 degrees now, I've never seen it this low. I have a hose spigot on the outside wall of the garage and the warmth of the garage interior is the only thing keeping it from freezing (it's wrapped and covered, but still).  If the garage gets much colder I'm thinking of propping the house-->garage door open and blowing some warm house air in there. It would be an energy efficiency holocaust, though, to try to treat the garage as conditioned/heated space...

     

     

    I have the exact setup and had the same thoughts. Wish I had a space heater I could put in the garage near the area of the outdoor spigot. 

  7. 2 hours ago, Tailgate said:

    To add...if you use your oven get the pizza/baking steel. Game changer. All you’ll do.

    I got the big one from these guys (Modernist Cuisine one):

    https://shop.bakingsteel.com/collections/steels

    I use it mostly in my Kamado Joe (Big Joe), and it works great there.  I think it's given me better results than my pizza stone when using the KJ.

    One problem I had using the steel in the kitchen oven is that it got so hot it burned up the semolina that I put on my pizza peel to help move the loaded pizza onto the baking steel in the oven.  The burning semolina set off my smoke detectors.  I don't think this would happen if I were to bake just a pizza or two, but it became a problem cooking 5 or 6 pizzas.  I probably need a better vent in my kitchen.

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  8. 2 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

    Thanks.  Significantly cheaper than what I use talking about.  A little googling and I found them:

    https://www.wintersmiths.com/collections/shop

    I bought the Wintersmiths ice chest this summer, added the clear cubes tray insert so I can make both balls and cubes.  The ice turns out perfectly clear.  They look great in cocktails.

    It might just be a psychological thing, but I do think the drinks taste better with clear ice, all the air and impurities pushed out of the ball or cube during the freeze.  At least, that's what it looks like to me.  Now when I have a drink with cloudy ice, I think I'm tasting all the impurities in the Austin water.  Again, it may be a psychological effect, but it seems like a cleaner taste to me with clear ice.

    The ice chest does take some space in the freezer, so I only leave the chest in the freezer while it's making ice.  I make ice in runs, so I'll make a set of 4 balls or cubes for 3 days in a row to get 12 pieces.  I just keep those in a Ziploc freezer bag and store the ice chest in the pantry until I need to make some more ice.

     

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  9. Another vote for Goodflow here.

     

    When it's open, H-E-B offers a Mexican Desert honey that's a nice change of pace.  There's a Mesquite version (also from Mexico) in the same line that sounds interesting.  I'll probably try that one when I'm out of the Mexican Desert.

  10. On 1/5/2021 at 11:01 AM, Storm the Field said:

    Been wanting a more casual option to wear when I dress down, which is frequently these days. Wife obliged for Xmas. 

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    I have that exact watch, and it was one of the first watches I bought when I started to become interested in watches a couple of years ago.  I really like the cream dial, and the blue and black dial versions of the same watch are handsome, too.  At 44mm, it's about as big a watch as I would wear.  I'm 6'2", so can wear a bigger watch, but for me, that's on the edge. 

    I think Citizen makes solid watches; the Eco-Drive movement will probably last my lifetime.  I also have a Citizen Calendrier world timer with a blue dial that is fun to wear.  I wouldn't mind adding a Promaster Diver and a Night/Navi/Skyhawk to the collection.

  11. 8 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    Does the machine do any sort of cleaning cycle on it or do you have to clean it.

    If you're talking about the auto milk frother, there's a self-cleaning on the PicoBaristo.  Every time you make a milk drink, it asks it you want to do an auto cleanse when the brew is complete.  I always do the cleanse.  It shoots hot water through the frother spout so nothing gets gummed up.  After the auto cleanse, just detach the carafe from the machine, and put the carafe in the fridge if there's still milk in it.

    The manual does recommend a weekly cleaning of the carafe.  But that's pretty easy.  Pull off the tubing and flush it and the other pieces of the carafe with hot water.

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