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On a journey to discover the *real* Jesus of the Bible, not the twisted evangellical prop.

Turns out living paycheck to paycheck is better than working in corpo tech.

I'm loving the home school stay-at-home parent life

Luxuries be damned, I'll never regret trading my windowless office for being with my kids everyday.

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@sortius

I may go out to the old family farm and search for some old steel thing I could use as a makeshift anvil.

@PermaSolarPotter @selfsame
Well hey at least I know I'm on the right track :)
@selfsame
Oh boy just wait till they see the floppy disk I put in a frame for them.

@selfsame
Sort of lawn. Last fall I moved our trapoline to expose a beautiful patch of grass free soil. Over the winter and into spring however grass grew into it.

It was actually kind of impressive - the entire yard was dead but that patch stayed green all winter, despite several instances of 4+ inches of snow and sub zero temps.

There was certainly enough that it took several days of labour and an electric cultivator to clean it out.

I had one of those ideas that's either clever or stupid.

In order to make a pile of soil that's full of weed/grass roots usable I dumped the dirt in a bucket of water and mixed it well, then strained it into another bucket using hardware cloth to filter out all of the weeds.

Then I poured the water into an old collapsible tub hoping that as the water evaporates good soil will be left behind.

#gardening @selfsame

@sortius
It was fun to get it glowing but I realized quickly that a cinder block does NOT make a good anvil 😅
@ZachWeinersmith
Many of us CS people would pay for an hour and attempt to "make a backup"
Turns out with a 30$ charcoal grill and an air mattress pump can heat steel to forging temps

Had instant ramen tonight after having had fresh noodles previously.

Now the kids are insisting the noodles are bland and they don't like them.

Sorry kids, inflation and tariffs suck.