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Unfortunately thrift stores around me never seem to have much in the way of decent hiking boots, especially nothing in a wide size.

I'd normally call $150 fairly cheap for boots (my Danners are, after all, north of $400) but for this case I'd probably call $150 my hard upper limit for this purpose.

I've also had pretty good luck with keen in the pasto but it's been a while. If it weren't for tariffs driving up the price those would probably have been my pick.

I have a stupid little voice in my head that would like to pay half of that for this purpose, but I know I'd be really scraping the bottom of the barrel at that price, so my ideal is probably around $100

I don't really cross dress, but I have a pair of heels kicking around for a Halloween costume (Monty Python Lumberjack) and I occasionally trot that costume back out.

I basically went to payless (back when that existed, I guess the modern equivalent in probably mystery Amazon brand shoes) and found a pair that more-or-less fit. Staff was actually pretty helpful, apparently around October a lot of guys wandered into payless looking for heels for a Halloween costume. They pointed me right to where the biggest heels could be found.

I think getting a cheap pair was the right move, because they pretty quickly stretched out to better accommodate my feet. I have fairly wide feet even by male standards, and actually found them to be reasonably comfortable all things considered after they broke in (which didn't take long, those shoes definitely weren't designed for the stresses of a 200-whatever pound man moshing in them at a Halloween concert)

The harder part was trying to find a bra that even remotely fit my frame.

I'd be tempted to fiberglass over it

I drove a Nazi out of a bar that way a few weeks back

My friend works security there and sent me a pic of a guy wearing a shirt with SS lightning bolts on it

Manager wouldn't let him kick the guy out because he wasn't otherwise causing an issue, and I wasn't available to go help cause a scene to give him an excuse, but I was able to queue up every anti-fascist song I could find on there and he up and left within an hour

I consider those touchtunes credits to be money well-spent

I work in 911 dispatch, so I frequently have to go back and relisten to calls I've taken to see if I heard something correctly

It was very weird at first hearing my own voice played back at me so much, but it's something you get used to after a while

But even after 7 years on the job, if I think about it my voice on the recording never sounds quite right to me.

It does freeze well, so that's a good option. Normally I do that, but in this case i actually pulled the shoulder out of my freezer trying to free up some space in there so I kind of didn't want to fill it right back up.

If you've done a whole shoulder on a rotisserie I feel like you'll appreciate this idea too- I've been to a couple parties and done it once myself where we roasted a whole lamb over a fire. I don't have any pictures handy but look up "lamb al asador" to get an idea of what the setup looked like. If nothing else it's a hell of a centerpiece to have for a party.

Just as a heads-up, unless you're cooking for a lot of people or really like leftovers, you may want to look for a smaller cut than a whole shoulder because it is a lot of meat. After feeding my party guests (it wasn't a huge party, but) and sending most of them home with leftovers, I still had enough left over to have it for lunch every day for the next week.

Yeah, I will admit I dropped the ball on that recently for my new years party. I bought a big thing of pre-sliced deli provolone to keep it simple because I was keeping things low-effort, and it did the job but I really wanted something sharper with it.

Even with some lackluster cheese though people still raved about it.

It was basically a whole day of cooking on paper, but there was maybe about 15 minutes of actual hands-on cooking and prep time, the rest was just letting the pork do its thing in the crock pot while I did other stuff, like panic-cleaning my house before company arrived.

I'm a Philly guy, everyone knows the cheesesteak, and almost anywhere outside of Philly you're bound to get something that doesn't really resemble an authentic cheesesteak. People have a lot of weird ideas about what the default toppings, cheese, types of bread, cuts of meat, etc. are supposed to be.

But a Philly style roast pork/pork italiano is a thing of beauty. It's actually a little wild to me that it hasn't caught on with the Instagram recipe crowd because it's the kind of thing that's actually pretty well-suited to just throwing stuff in a crock pot or pressure cooker.

Basically just a pork shoulder, the usual Italian spices and seasonings- rosemary, oregano, garlic, maybe some fennel seed, red pepper flakes, salt & pepper (usually pretty heavy on the rosemary)

Ideally give it a quick sear, but that's sort of optional

Throw it in your crockpot with some cooking liquid, I normally do chicken stock, sometimes wine if I'm feeling fancy, maybe some canned tomatoes, perhaps some sliced or chopped onions

Or do it in an oven, I'm not your supervisor.

And cook until done. Some places slice it, others shred it. Do whatever you like.

Serve on a roll (if you've seen Philadelphians arguing over cheesesteaks before, this is basically the same debate you've seen before, the roll is important, it needs to be sturdy enough to hold up to a massive pile of meat dripping with jus and grease, but not so hard that you have to worry about it cracking in half or have a hard time taking a bite out of it, long or round rolls are both acceptable)

With some roasted hot peppers (usually long hots) and some sauteed broccoli rabe (or sometimes spinach) and provolone cheese

Not standing and walking in front of a car is basically cop 101. "Routine" vehicle stops are one of the most potentially dangerous things cops do, there's all of the unknowns of who is actually in the car and how they're going to react, what can happen if they try to flee, dangers from passing traffic, etc.

So they always approach your car very carefully and absolutely do not walk in front of it if it can be avoided.

De got dragged by a car he tried to break into to arrest someone less than a year ago, if that didn't teach them I don't think anything will.

2-2-3 rotation, 12 hours shifts, 3PM-3AM

So I'm on 2, off 2, on 3 (so work Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, the work again Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)

Then the next week it flips, so I only work Wednesday and Thursday and I'm off the rest of the week

I think it's just about the greatest work schedule in the world, only bummer is that our PTO is based off of 8 hour shifts since most of the other employees work that and they didn't make any special exemption for us. It mostly pretty much averages out since we work less days overall, but it would be nice to have that work out exactly.

So what I'm hearing is that this moron didn't learn his lesson about fucking around with vehicles after he got hurt just a few months ago.

I really don't want to make excuses for anything this administration does, and I haven't looked too much into what the justification of this is supposed to be

But hypothetically if you dumped this new food "pyramid" on my desk, without any other context, and I didn't know it had anything to do with the trump administration, and asked me to make sense of it I feel like I could come up with something like "whole grains, proteins, and produce are the 3 cornerstones of a healthy diet"

And the pyramid is upside down because no one thing should be the main "foundation" of your diet, it should all be balanced

I kind of feel like the trump/rfk cronies came across a half-finished rough sketch of an idea for a new food pyramid loft in the desk drawer of some competent USDA employee they forced out, threw out the notes they found with it, and pushed it through with their own stupid spin because they wanted to do something showy like coming up with a new food pyramid.

You're thinking too small: water cool your apartment

Yeah that seems to be the key here, I'm doing a 60 second burn-in time for the bottom layers now, and lowered the lift speed and things are coming out a lot better

I'm still having adhesion issues on about half the plate, but I'm pretty sure I'm just going to need to re-level again to fix that

May still look into a heating solution but as long as they stick to the plate, everything seems to be coming out fine otherwise

This is very flimsy so take it for what it's worth, but I have a really bad feeling that bird flu is about to become a much bigger deal, at least in the bird population if it doesn't make the jump to humans

It's winter here, I live in an area where most of the birds migrate south for the winter. Some species don't migrate, some individuals don't, and some birds even migrate to here, so there's usually some birds around here for the winter.

This year I've seen more.

And when I'm out walking my dog at night, they're on the ground, not up in trees or in bushes where you'd expect to see birds, or even hiding out in the undergrowth of wooded areas they're out in the open on the grass, sidewalk, middle of the road, etc. in the middle of the night.

I see one almost every night, sometimes a few of them. And I have a bad feeling that these birds are sick and too weak to do much besides flutter away to a different patch of grass when I get close.

I've been in this house for about 5 years, been taking my dog for walks almost every night since then, rain or shine, summer or winter. This isn't something I've seen until this year. And I've seen it in a handful of places outside of my neighborhood as well.

It may be me being paranoid, it may be something other than bird flu, but it's not exactly giving me the warm-fuzzies.

I feel like the issue with steel might be more mold than algae, and most people who aren't biologists just aren't thinking too hard about what sort of organism the gross slime in their water is.

Going against the grain here a little, I don't like required reading in schools.

I really loved reading growing up, always had a book (sometimes more than one) that I was reading, read well above my grade level, chose books that challenged myself, etc.

My high school really pushed reading, lots of classes assigned books for us to read, I think even some of the math classes had novels they were supposed to read. For our homeroom period once a week we had to do mandatory SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) where we had to be reading something, we couldn't do homework or go see our teachers for help, or anything of the sort, we had to be seated at our desks reading silently. I often was juggling 2 or 3 assigned books along with my other school work, activities, and hobbies, which didn't really leave me much time for the books that I chose to read for myself.

And the pacing was terrible, we'd often spend weeks on a book, analyzing it to death, doing packets of worksheets, writing reports, doing that accursed "popcorn reading" in class, etc. for books that I could have read in a matter of days if not hours.

I think we spent nearly a month on Of Mice and Men, it's only around 100 pages, it can be read in an afternoon.

The whole experience really killed my love of reading. I resented a lot of the books I was made to read, and now almost 2 decades later I've never quite been able to get back into the same kind of reading habit I used to have.

I've made an effort since then to go back and reread some of those assigned books I hated back in school, and the wild thing is that, overall, they were really good books, strong stories, well-written, solid lessons to teach, different points of view to consider, etc. I totally understand why they were assigned reading.

But when I first read them I was just going through the motions, I just wanted to get the damn books out of the way so that I could read what I wanted to read.

And I think the key is to make kids want to seek out those books. Don't assign them 1984 (for example,) make them want to go out and read 1984 for themselves.

I don't know what the best way to do that is, but it's not just telling them to read those books. If anything, it might be telling them not to read them. I can only speak for myself, but I know that personally seeing a display on "banned books" at a book store or library always made me way more interested in those books than any amount of recommendations from friends or reviews online or any other form of marketing.