LionsPhil 🔸 Happy Mew Year @LionsPhil@plush.city

Bit late, and the gravy didn't want to behave, but the stuffing came out great.

Things I am glad I bought: a decent microwave with a defrost setting that works, and a temperature probe to verify that before and after the oven.

Merry Christmas morning to everyone who set their turkey to defrost overnight per instructions only to find it still a block of ice this morning.

murr crimmus

Sonoma Distilling Co. Bourbon Whiskey: last one! And...it's dark and weird. Wood, smoke, and upon more sipping, lime/orange skin (not peel, the whole waxy, pithy deal), and smoked kippers again. Glad that last one is fading away. The more I drink, the more my tastebuds give up (or volatiles evaporate?) and it just kinda burns. Resting a while, and it's back to...wax? Kinda sour? Rubbery by the end? Weird one.

Hudson Baby Bourbon: my tastebuds are probably a bit sweet-fatigued from that hot chocolate earlier, but this is a bit of a weird one. Spicy, quite smokey, more ash than peat or anything. Apparently they shake up the barrels with sound, so maybe that's it. Little bit nutty?

Mmm.

...this is, uh, repeatedly reminding me I should probably trim my quarantine moustache.

Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Rye: buttercream? This is a smooth one. And yet very burny for a 45%.

What it needed? Holding fsck's hand a bit too say "it's OK, orphaned files can go, free space can be fixed, be brave".

Problems Windows *95* can recover from automatically.

Woo, disk write error leading to read-only remount during update-initramfs. System: absolutely pooched and unable to recover from this without rolling up sleeves and Sysadminning at it. And this is a kinda throwaway give-it-a-chance-again newish install...which means I hadn't bothered imaging it yet.

Y'know, if any of you were wondering why I put up with Microsoft for all the ranting at their behaviour of late.

I remain perplexed why some jerk walks around the building courtyard revving a leafblower every Tuesday morning when there are NO LEAVES LEFT ON THE GROUND, but it still produces incredibly annoying noise for the 20--30 minutes they take doing it.

The whole ascendent puritanical right trying again with SISEA might mean we just *do* get prohibition again in time for the '20s.

Although with it being on furry art, more like the rawr-ing '20s.

(There's a joke in there about Squeakeasies for you ratfolk, I'm sure.)

Four Roses Small Batch: mead, or at least honey! It's potent from the first sniff, and remains as a pleasant sweet taste. Whole lot of fire in the mouth too, which I think means it's lower in oils.

Watching Prince Cinders again makes me wonder if there's actually a fully version of Lenny Henry's "Love Don't Work That Way" out there anywhere, because Google doesn't seem to have much on the subject.

🎵 Alllll dayyyyy lonnnggg we will be Wombling in the snow 🎶

Mitcher's US*1 Straight Rye Whiskey: slight smoke and honey? It's almost like smoked *fish* or something, which I'd normally hate. Once again a really nice one. (I'm actually not entirely sure if it was this or the Bourbon of theirs I had before; I think the Bourbon's slightly better.)

https://www.tiktok.com/@audubonnature/video/6903969030571298054 leggy want a leaf

synths be like: ribbed for her pleasure? no, that's a picatinny rail