After fivish years living in small vehicles, I realized that I prefer cowboy coffee too; my percolator wound up on the free pile.

I do prefer it as black and bitter as my cold, dead heart, but twice as strong and hot as hell.

Yea, I've always got some "cold" brew going on my solar cooker, but if I get it into a thermos in the afternoon, it's still warm enough to wake me up enough to go make some cowboy coffee on my propane stove.

/dork

I call Starbucks "rich people crystal meth" sometimes so that the homebums think I'm a crack addict and some sort of bougie saint for not wanting to bring addictive drugs and cartels to their small, unique little towns.

I guess I am rich compared to wage slaves who are owned by their landlords or mortgages.

/bougie /addict

Yes, because I finally remembered my password.

A lot has happened but I'm doing better mental healthwise and don't want to be an asshole any more.

I love that movie and didn't think the fun, sexy content was inappropriate for kids at all. It is a true family film that adults and kids can enjoy together on different levels.

Robin Williams was at his absolute best.

So glad you are unlocking it. I might just join you instead of doomscrolling and boo hooing away what's left of my one and only beautiful life.

tfs

Every month should be Pride month, imnsho.

Happy Transgender Thursday! I didn't forget this week.

I didn't forget my T, either, it's just such a relief to have a friend kick me down some HRT so I can stop doomscrolling the ragebait and wanting to "protect all the ladies" when you are perfectly capable of protecting yourselves.

Thank (collective) you for seeing the best in me when all I could see was pain, failure, and loss.

I'll be around, just hopefully not TOO much.

/rant over

Yup.

https://www.okonomikitchen.com/rice-cooker-bread/

I use my own recipe but shape it the same way as this article suggests. Absolutely nothing smells or tastes as good as fresh bread.

It's more like donut holes than a wrapper for sammich fillings, but my Dash Mini seems to be handling a daily baking just fine and only pulls about 200 watts; it does take two cycles, so you'd need a decent 100 watt solar panel, but a bottom of the line Jackery from Walmart would be fine.

Grocery store/food bank bread is considered an ultra processed food now, and can contribute to premature death, so I don't want you using your body as a garbage can:

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/ultra-processed-foods-some-more-than-others-linked-to-early-death/

A sack of whole wheat flour from Walmart lasts me about a month and costs a lot less than a single box of "Koo Koo Krispies".

Since Fleischman's Instant dried Yeast is a living organism, you can care for it the same way you would sourdough starter.

This is probably more than you really wanted to know, lol.

If you don't have electricity, you can also bake much smaller bread balls in a GoSun oven or add extra water to make yeast risen pancakes on a propane camp stove.

Please live. I missed you.

Queer as fuck here, but not exactly looking for a partner.

The egg prime directive does apply.

Presweetened children's breakfast cereal! I know that's not really a desert and other ppl have fond childhood memories of it, but I REALLY hate that shit.

I didn't save the link, but in order to extrude it, you have to heat the enriched bleached white flour and dehydrated high fructose corn syrup concoction to such high temperatures that it destroys any nutritional value that they enrich the bleached white flour with.

Then they market it as a substitute for actually feeding your children.

Or yourself. :(

I wound up eating ragweed instead.

The peel is fantastic mixed with sweet potato, seasoned with nutmeg, and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

I usually cook that in my GoSun oven but you could probably pan fry it too.

I just found out that it's good for your mental health, but mine isn't doing so great right now so I don't remember which amino acid it's rich in.

Sounds like a plan. 👏

I don't exactly have a peanut allergy, but when I overdo it with the spoon, it goes right through me.

I've got a small jar that can be partially emptied into a big jar and a BIG MOOD so I think that's going to be bralupper tonight .

Um....yea, but I did have a certain respect for President Nancy.

It was kind of a "you had to be there" situation because Ray-Gun really was that bad. I don't think there's enough information online or in history books any more.

What people? Who? Where? What are they worried I'm going to do to them?

Reintroducing myself since I remembered my password.

If it's not cool for me to be here any more, that's okay.

I never did reunite with my kid, so I live in a van now on 14 day dispersed campsites in the Southwest. I busk sometimes and came out as enby/ace/transmasc/questioning type egg shaped person for Pride last year.

I'm 60, so not a boomer, but I'm not exactly neurotypical either, so if I was an asshole the year my kid was abducted, I don't remember any of it and I apologize.

Nah, but I used to know people who had some success stretching what was left of their foreskins.

It sounded like a lot of work and they got trolled and flamed, so I doubt if they are still on the internet.

I am so sorry for your loss.

Probably Flowers for Algernon, which hardly even seemed dated and felt a lot more relatable than it did the last time I read it.

I can't exactly say I enjoyed Momfluenced, by Sara Peterson, but I did need to read it for closure, and also to make better choices about how I spend my internet time.

I sure was vanfluenced this time last year. Yuck.

Glad I finally remembered my password here after seven years.

What a sweetie! Thank you. :)

This made me laugh.

I just say "I'm not into that tap on the app crap" these days.

No friends is better than faux friends.

Yep. :)

Tried to talk to the pigs again with minimal results and called Polly Klaas foundation. Talked to IRC/Matrix friend on private IM who didn't know what's been going on. At least they're still my friend. I think.

Also ate food, wore clothes and shit.

I was very much anti-gaming when I was raising my millenials. Since then, I have become interested in the free software movement and free culture in general and the internet has also become, in my not so humble opinion, a far more toxic and less pleasant place than it was in 2002 on Windows 98 with a dial-up connection and a 1 GB hard drive on a Pentium II with only 32MB of memory.

When my "digital native" came along in 2008, I had quite a different attitude towards gaming, especially after having received so much "tech support", respectful answers to my questions about how computers and the internet work, and exciting education and new projects to pursue from an online friend in Brazil who had learned English soley through playing video games.

I'm still not much of a gamer, but I do see value in gaming and do not think it would be healthy for a parent to prohibit an adolescent from all gaming. When i was growing up and also when I was raising my millenials, kids could always "go out to play" with the neighbourhood kids, either in the street, each other's yards, or at a public park.

Now there aren't any other kids to go out and play with and any parent who sent their kids to "go out and play" unsupervised would be lockied up for child abuse/neglect within 24 hours. The kids are all in their living rooms playing video games.

Maybe I was wrong, right, too idealistic, or not idealistic enough to let my kid play Minetest instead of Minecraft and not to be overly worried about the fact that he was the youngest person on his gaming IRC channel.

But that's my take on it, anyway, and I kind of want to play some of his favourite games even though I totally suck, but that's another story for another post--maybe one about putting a quarter in the first Pong machine within driving distance of my sickeningly stepfordesque suburb in the 1970s if I wind up living long enough for that to be cool.