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#1 Dec 23 2015 at 12:26 PM Rating: Excellent
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How's everyone holidays going? Any amazing food to describe? Epic family feuds?

I'm making apple roses for desert for my extended family gathering which is a fair bit of work, but very cool and quite tasty.
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#2 Dec 23 2015 at 12:35 PM Rating: Excellent
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We traveled for Thanksgiving so we're home for Christmas. I'm about 15 minutes away from ditching work until mid-next week. Then I come in for a day to check on any fires and depart again until the 5th. Good times.

My sister is making Christmas dinner on the 26th which I learned last night will be more elaborate than I had assumed. Prime rib and all that. We'll probably keep it simple (ham or similar) for the actual Jesus Birthday event.

Last year, since I was home at Thanksgiving, I had all of my shopping done by the end of that weekend. This year, I was away and never really got into gear. Still need to wrap a couple gifts up this afternoon. Gas station stays open 24/7 right? Everyone needs ice scrapers and pine scented mirror hangers?
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#3 Dec 23 2015 at 12:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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The grocery store had New York strip roast on sale so that's what I'm cooking for Christmas.
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I'll be working the next four overnight shifts, so no "family" stuff.

As far as food goes, we'll do the usual feasting at the Mission. All the olde ladies randomly arriving with homemade cookies and other sugarlicious goodies are not hurting my feelings, either.Smiley: drool

Feliz Navidad, Happy (belated) Hannukah, Fear the Ancient Ichor of Nyarlathotep, and begin the Airing of Grievances!!!
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#5 Dec 23 2015 at 1:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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Merry Christmas to all!

I'm celebrating Festivus by trying some winter brews.
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#6 Dec 23 2015 at 1:46 PM Rating: Excellent
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Christmas beer recipe

1) Take bourbon, oak chips and cocoa nibs and let them soak in a carboy for a month
2) make a big bad-*** porter, black-strap molasses and Black patent malts are your friend
3) after fermenting, rack beer into bourbon mixture
4) a week before bottling, dry hop with fresh ground espresso.


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#7 Dec 23 2015 at 2:23 PM Rating: Excellent
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Sir Xsarus wrote:
Christmas beer recipe

1) Drink bourbon, throw oak chips on the fire and eat cocoa nibs (whatever those are) and let them soak in a carboy for a month
2) make a big bad-*** porter, black-strap molasses and Black patent malts are your friend
3) after fermenting, rack beer into bourbon mixture
4) a week before bottling, dry hop with fresh ground espresso.


mmmmmm

I concur!
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#8 Dec 23 2015 at 3:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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Sir Xsarus wrote:
How's everyone holidays going? Any amazing food to describe?
With my birthday being yesterday, we celebrated on Sunday. Sister made a double layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, ringed in Kit-Kats and topped with crushed Ferrero Rocher hazelnut candies. I'm not entirely certain I'm still alive after a slice of that.

Parents flying out to Norway today to meet up with my other sister and her husband for fun in Europe. Will just be me and the youngest sister hanging out on Friday. Got her a yoga mat. Based on the shape of the present, I think she got me a wall scroll. All in all, probably not a terribly exciting Christmas. Hope not anyway. Last time we had excitement at a holiday, SWAT blockaded my parents' street as they surrounded a neighbor's house.
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Debalic wrote:
Sir Xsarus wrote:
Christmas beer recipe

1) Drink bourbon, throw oak chips on the fire and eat cocoa nibs (whatever those are) and let them soak in a carboy for a month
2) make a big bad-*** porter, black-strap molasses and Black patent malts are your friend
3) after fermenting, rack beer into bourbon mixture
4) a week before bottling, dry hop with fresh ground espresso.


mmmmmm

I concur!

Cocoa nibs are fermented cocoa beans, intensely chocolaty. They're very nice to put in muffins or cookies, and actually all right to eat straight, although they are not very sweet.

Edited, Dec 24th 2015 7:44am by Xsarus
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#10 Dec 24 2015 at 10:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sir Xsarus wrote:
Debalic wrote:
Sir Xsarus wrote:
Christmas beer recipe

1) Drink bourbon, throw oak chips on the fire and eat cocoa nibs (whatever those are) and let them soak in a carboy for a month
2) make a big bad-*** porter, black-strap molasses and Black patent malts are your friend
3) after fermenting, rack beer into bourbon mixture
4) a week before bottling, dry hop with fresh ground espresso.


mmmmmm

I concur!

Cocoa nibs are fermented cocoa beans, intensely chocolaty. They're very nice to put in muffins or cookies, and actually all right to eat straight, although they are not very sweet.
By not very sweet, he means "bitter as ****".
#11 Dec 24 2015 at 3:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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My daughter's and our partners will be getting together for dinner tomorrow. We started cookies yesterday and only finish the chocolate chip and chocolate mint chip cookies before we decided to sleep off the rush from sampling the cookie dough and a couple baked cookies. Tomorrow morning we head up and bake my gingerbread men before the prime rib goes into the oven. No grand kids will be around until the New Years Eve, so we will spend the day playing Cards against Humanity, while watching Dr Who.

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My wife has been locked into the Dr. Who marathon. We've determined that I could pull off the 10th Doctor for Halloween.
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#14 Dec 25 2015 at 9:00 AM Rating: Excellent
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NO, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!
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#16 Dec 25 2015 at 6:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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Merry Christmas, guys.

Had a very nice lunch: pizza, baby carrots and roast potatoes main with some homemade vanilla, mango and raspberry ice cream for desert. Also had some entirely drinkable English wine, thus proving the Earth is doomed.
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#17 Dec 26 2015 at 8:19 PM Rating: Good
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Christmas was insanely fun for me. Won an epic five-hour game of Monopoly against my whole family. Ate some good food. Good times.
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I had hoped that Christmas would be better, as I lost one of my closest friends to cancer on the 7th of December, but my best friend in the world killed herself on Monday the 21st.

Two best friends, two weeks apart. Bleh.

Didn't leave the house, didn't see family, just sat and played video games, read comics and did the classic escapism thing.

Here's to a better 2016
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#19 Dec 27 2015 at 8:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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We needed a new coffeemaker after ours stopped making coffee and started pretending to be a paperweight, and my wife got a little annoyed with my choice. She told me to go out and pick one up, and I did, so I'm not sure why she got angry. I mean, sure it was like $3,000 and attached to a fridge, but it still makes coffee. I think she just overreacted.

My daughter got a bunch of toys and a bike, which thanks to the warm weather she got to spend a lot of time on so there's that.

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We needed a new coffeemaker after ours stopped making coffee and started pretending to be a paperweight, and my wife got a little annoyed with my choice. She told me to go out and pick one up, and I did, so I'm not sure why she got angry. I mean, sure it was like $3,000 and attached to a fridge, but it still makes coffee. I think she just overreacted.


Reminds me of a Navy friend of mine who got permission to order a couple walkie-talkies so he and a co-worker could communicate while doing some repair work on the base. Apparently, he miss-wrote the number on the order, because they received two *giant* crates. When they opened them, they discovered each contained a jeep. The paperwork for the order stated "Walkie-Talkie, with attached Jeep" (well, or whatever "walkie-talkie" translates into military speak). Sure enough, each jeep had a cradle with a walkie-talkie in it.

As to my Christmas, while not on the same scale as friends dying, I made the mistake of putting the Hobbit films on my list. And proceeded to get 5 copies of the last one. And two different people managed to get me the exact same pullover sweater. How does that happen? Still. I got the new Avengers and Ant Man films, and some gift certificates, and stuff I exchanged the duplicates for (and for some dorkish inexplicable reason some of which translated into new led vanity lightbulbs. Yes, I'm auld!). So all in all, not a bad deal in the end.

And on an unrelated bulb topic. When the heck did they make changing out headlights in a car so freaking difficult? Passenger side bulb went out, and I figured I'd buy a pair and replace them at once (so they'll be equally bright). The passenger side was pretty easy (and I did it first cause I'm not totally dumb here). The driver side? Well, you either need to remove the front fender or remove the entire air filter assembly to get to it. Both of which require tools that I apparently don't own anymore (haven't worked on my own cars in like a decade or two). Not end of world or anything, but an annoyance in the midst of all the other time consuming holiday stuff going on.

Oh. I won a bottle of Crown Apple in the traditional Christmas Eve gift exchange/steal/whatever game. Freaking ridiculously yummy. Didn't think it'd go well with plain old Coke, but it did. Very very well. Smiley: drunk
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We got my son an XBox 360 that, despite insisting that he wanted Minecraft on 360 more than anything else, has had no interest in whatsoever. So i've been playing Skyrim that came in the bundle. Pretty neat.
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