Roasted eggplant parmesan with fresh mozzarella and sauteed tomatoes. Before and after. House recipe inspired by Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking and a preference for not frying batches of floured eggplant.

Just going to leave this here. As seen in a local Walmart.

Well, it was bound to happen. I got tired of not being able to access ChatGPT or the OpenAI playground due to capacity issues so I went ahead and built my own.
Using the links from this video https://youtu.be/OLg2BKhwaSc I was able to get a CLI version of Alpaca chat running on my laptop (it is a beefy laptop). I'll have lots more to say about this but it does feel like 1992-1993. There's a big, unpredictable change coming and it's going to touch everything.

Dinner tonight was our version of karaage don. Isabelle made the chicken and I handled the rice and sauce. Wanted to get it in one more time before she moves to Japan on Saturday.

No Man's Sky update patch is out. Mostly VR related but it includes a new expedition and some updates to HDR that improve the look of the game. https://www.nomanssky.com/fractal-update/
Of course there are Twitch drops this weekend. https://twitch.nomanssky.com/

Me and Tony. Back in the saddle again

Heck of a day. Woke up to a chilly house due to it being 9 outside making it hard for the heat pump to pump heat.
That led to a frozen pipe somewhere inside a wall which finally broke this afternoon sending water cascading into a bathroom and through the siding outside. No water until the plumber gets here tomorrow (yes, our plumber is working on Christmas Day).
We were able to light our bayberry candles at sundown, so there's that. We're safe and warm and watching all the Christmas Carols.