Well, I'm not sure what I did

[elfs]

I'm not sure what I did, but my machine has now been rock solid for twelve hours despite my putting a high load on it. The temperature of the CPU is reporting a steady 63C, and since the last reboot (when I reseated-- again-- the IDE extender card) not only have I not had a problem, but I burned a DVD and it went at full speed. Usually, I've achived 0.7x speeds, but this burn went at 4.1x, which makes a big difference. It still takes ten hours to master a DVD, but a fifteen minute burn is greatly prefable to an hour plus.

I took Kouryou-chan to school after a snuggly wake-up and a breakfast of cold cereal and coffee (well, coffee for me). I've already cleaned the kitchen and the dining room, put away the kids' laundry, did two batches of laundry, cleaned out the compost, took out the garbage, started another batch of laundry, and taken a shower, since I have no desire to be scruffy when I pick up Omaha this evening.

I'm going to stop by some second-hand store and pick up a full-length teaspoon. I'm tired of reaching into those 3-quart jugs of mayonnaise that come from the warehouse store when the supply is all the way down at the bottom and then pulling my hand out only to see it covered in a thin veneer of white goo picked up from the residue on the sides. It reminds me too much of some former hobby...

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[riverheart.livejournal.com]

It reminds me too much of some former hobby...

I'm trying to think of a hobby that would involve something like this, and the only thing I come up with is tie-dying.

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

You might also want to look, in a cooking-supply place, for a jar spatula -- the blade is a little longer than a regular spatula, but it's only a little wider than the handle, so you can stick it down into a mayonnaise jar and squeegee the sides for everything you can get. There are also dedicated condiment spatulas, but the long-blade spatulas have other uses.

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

Makes you wonder about the mayonnaise....

Spoonulas

[(Anonymous)]

If you have access to a food vendor, SYSCo or PYA Monarch, they a spatula and spoon combo, spoonulas. Its a spatula where the vertical sides curve in slightly. Its great for digging/scraping gallon size mayonaisse containers. Its stiffer than a normal spatula so it works great for scraping and also the curved sides keep a fairly large helping of gloppy items on the spatula without having the mayonaisse fall off and digging in again.

Or an Iced Teaspoon can get you single portions but once the maynaisse reaches 3/4 of the way down, you'll still get slimy hands.

Former Hobbies: Mass Production of Food- Chicken Salad for 200, or throwing pottery on a wheel or painting and plastering?

Re: Spoonulas

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

The problem with the spoonulas I've seen -- and that I have -- is that, except for the smaller jars, the handle often isn't long enough for you to get a good grip without rubbing your hand in the mayonnaise on the rim; the extended-blade spatulas are generally long enough to reach to the bottom of a 32-ounce jar while keeping your hand clean. Then, too, there are the ones that are specifically-designed with longer handles to let you keel a jar without dragging a knuckle inside, but those tend not to have much utility beyond getting the last of a jar, and like Alton Brown, I don't much like tools that only have one purpose -- and are harder to store, too.