First time I carved the turkey ahead of time - roasting it in parts - and it was great!
And I made turkey stock with the carcass last night while it dry brined, which made the gravy and stuffing fantastic.
Might stick to this technique in the future. Low stress, great taste!
Pies (pumpkin and pecan) are finished, and the turkey (in parts) is in the the oven for round one.
Brief break and then it’s time to prep what goes in the oven after the turkey comes out (stuffing, sweet potatoes, carrots, rolls).
Stop 28 on my quest to see a game at every FBS college hit South Bend for BC at Notre Dame.
This season finale also had some very special guest stars (and not just Touchdown Jesus).
My home for the next couple of hours as I’m running inspection for a robotics tournament.
I ask the teams some questions and then make sure their robot fits in the contraption to the right.
After the last two years or so of feeling stuck, this week’s burst of activity - while still taking time to care for myself with walks and mindfulness and watching what I eat - feels almost magical.
It’s unreasonable to expect this every week, but this week felt really good.
Two weeks into a new job, and this week I:
Tired. But a bit wired, too.
Finding Mastodon folks and following them here is a bit tricky, but once you get past that it works great!
Fun to add some fresh and some familiar folks to my timeline in recent days.
Twitter’s been a large part of my career and life, but it’s time to say goodbye.
In the coming days, I’ll be downloading my Twitter archive, hosting it, then deleting everything.
I’m over at micro.blog/v and followable in Mastodon via @chris@micro.chrisvannoy.com
Settling in for the Great Pumpkin after a bout of trick-or-treat and a full first day at my new job.
Said new job, for the non-LinkedIn folks: VP, Product & Engineering at The Juice 🧃 (@TheJuiceHQ over on Twitter, thejuicehq.com otherwise).
Tired but still stoked.
I start a new job tomorrow.
I’m preparing like it’s the first day of school.
Feels like that, too.
Giddy with excitement!
Some news:
More news Monday!
Enjoying a few dogs and a beer at the workplace of one of my childhood heroes, Enrico Pallazzo.
Watching games at UCLA and USC on back to back nights brings some observations - nothing to do with the games themselves, but atmosphere.
USC is like watching a show. A really well put together performance with all the bells and whistles.
UCLA is like a backyard BBQ.
Both fun
Hiya from Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for Arizona State at USC and stop 26 in my quest to see a game at every FBS school.
I’m (practically) 20% done!
Also: Hi Dad. Nice hat!
Great time catching PAC12 AfterDark in person.
Howdy from the Grandaddy of Them All, The Rose Bowl!
Stop 25 on my quest to see all the FBS home stadiums.
With another guest appearance from my Dad!
Excited for Washington at UCLA, too!
Good morning from the last day of the CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship!
Benjamin is already done with his first event with two more personal records:
3x3 Single: 13.21s 3x3 Average: 15.64s
Those are both huge improvements.
Suspect we’ll be around for the second round
Finished our first day of competition with another pair of personal records, making Benjamin 6 for 6 - a new personal record single and average in each event.
4x4 Single: 1:03.09 4x4 Average: 1:08.23
Tomorrow: 3x3, 3x3 One Handed, and Pyraminx
Two events in and we’re 4 for 4 in competition personal records
New 2x2 single: 4.83s 2x2 average: 6.25s Skewb single: 7.11s Skewb average: 11.25s
By the way, for those not in the cool kids cubing club, this is “Skewb” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew…
Greetings from the CubingUSA Great Lakes Championship in Port Huron, MI.
We (well, Benjamin) are competing in six events.
As always, the goal is #NotLast. And maybe a few personal bests.
www.worldcubeassociation.org/competiti…
Coming back from Hawai`i with good coffee - and tasting it there - has forced me to tweak my brewing technique a fair bit.
Lower temperature, more coffee, better water.
Still not quite there, but much better.
And should work on my locally-roasted stuff as well.
Noodling on the idea of a course or courses (kind of booster packs) intended to help crosstrain JS bootcamp grads on Ruby and Rails. Not much past the outline stage yet, but curious if there’s anything that feels missing for that purpose and audience.
Next question for folks:
In ye olde days, coding bootcamps were cranking out junior Rubyists like crazy.
At this point, it feels like they’ve all shifted to JavaScript.
Pity.
But, for those still working in Ruby, do you hire and crosstrain JS juniors?
Or would like to?
That said, our absolute favorite meal was the Family Pack from Kona Grill House.
So great - and a great value! - that we made the effort to have it twice, including for our last meal on-island.
If you’re ever on the Big Island with ~4, go there.
I did my research before going to Hawaii and knew about poké … but came away longing for more loco moco.
Such a simple - rice, hamburger patty, brown gravy, egg - dish, but so tasty.
Oh! And mac salad. So much mac salad.
