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I appreciate it! I've currently got an injury that started out one way and has slowly moved towards chronic pain with no real solution other than marginal pain management. Had to quit my job and am currently trying to find some kind of remote work I can do. Something will happen sooner or later I'm sure.

I was less defending myself and just trying to be a friendly educator. I kind of dislike that word because it makes me sound superior but I'm definitely not. There is that XKCD comic about not making fun of people for not knowing things and instead showing them what it is. https://xkcd.com/1053/ . I have found this to be good advice.

Maybe the person that I was responding to really didn't know Sous Vide could be affordable and just needed an example. Same with the cost of the meat.

I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.

The pork shoulder was in a discount bin because it was on the way out so was cheaper per pound than anything else available. There is enough meat on it to feed us for about 2 weeks of 1-2 meals per day.

Sous vide can be exceptionally efficient with regards to energy. There are several resources that dive into the breakdown of the cooking method and cost of electricity but the most detailed analysis I've seen which accounted for cooking vessels, humidity levels, and temperature stability found that at a rate of 15 cents per kilowatt-hour a properly insulated sous vide machine cost $0.30 for a 24 hour cook.

My electricity is slightly cheaper so my sous vide cook cost me maybe $0.40 for the entire thing.

Source: https://www.amazingfoodmadeeasy.com/info/modernist-cooking-blog/more/how-much-energy-does-sous-vide-use

Oh I almost forgot: The cheapest Tofu in my area is $2.30 per pound and I got the pork shoulder at $1.15 per pound. Plus I have yet to find a Tofu recipe that I enjoy eating. I had an incredibly delicious Mapo Tofu from a mom and pop Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles when I was out visiting family but have been entirely unsuccessful trying to recreate it at home.

A very mild coconut flavor, it's almost similar to Kings Hawaiian rolls. If you just gave someone one to eat I'm not sure they would be able to pick out the coconut.

Man, that kind of switch really rubs me the wrong way.

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Music. I can play close to a dozen instruments with enough skill that I could sit in as a stand in player for a large variety of genres. I do everything in my power to avoid letting people around me know.

I make music as a way to meditate and relax. I can throw down a synthesizer drone and spend an hour+ noodling on the piano, guitar, cello etc without doing any recording or writing down stuff. I've got probably 100 or so short 4-12 bar ideas saved on my computer. I probably will never do anything with them but I like going back and rediscovering where I was musically/emotionally.

The dubstep phase was, in a word, terrible.

I drive for UPS and the pick me up I get from taking a quick cat nap in the back of the truck cannot be overstated.

Two I surprisingly haven't seen yet:

"I haven't given a shit about anything in a while"

and

"I'll just cancel the free trial"

That's actually pretty interesting. I started with minimalist footwear once I was old enough to start making shoe decisions myself and apparently that was partially causing some of the problems I was experiencing.

Five Fingers were my go to's (once they came out) for most days and Vivobarefoot's / Nike Free's for when the social side of five fingers was in questionable taste.

It's always fascinating to me how wildly different solutions are the exact remedy needed for different individuals. It's why I always get a little irritated when you read someone saying "Use this thing AND THIS THING ONLY! everything else is junk and dumb and you will be a worse person for using it." such a close minded approach to the world.

I've been out of the minimal shoe worlds for a bit minute, anything cool to come about recently?

I had this exact stance until I won a pair of $200 running shoes in a raffle. My occasional backpains and joint problems disappeared almost immediately. I started buying the best footwear I could afford and my quality of life went measurable up after that decision.

The BIGGEST changes were going to a reputable podiatrist and getting shoe recommendations based off of my arch shape, weight and gait. They put me on a treadmill with highspead cameras at the sides and rear to record how my stride landed both walking and running. That and custom molded insoles.

Now Shoes are a part of our yearly budget to make sure we have good condition, supportive shoes at all times. Also re-soleing if applicable.

Side note: Dress shoes can die in a fire.

Nice low poly model! Looks cool!

Definitely this. Not copper though looks like lead. Possibly steel. Humans really suck.