Regularly use mine, it does take some experimentation. As you say, cooking quicker on top is one problem, I'm thinking of trying to find a rack to raise up the item, so air gets underneath.

Temperature needs to be much lower than the recipe, at least 20C.

I've given up on fries and chips- too uneven- and much easier in the chip pan.

I like the mini part-cooked baguettes and Greggs stuff from Iceland but even that you need to turn over after half the cooking time.

Cook a 9" pizza once a week by squaring it off before cooking. Settle for the base not cooking well.

Well the chucking it down with rain all day forecast for Sunday I looked at Saturday was completely wrong, dry all day with broken cloud and nice sunny bits. Still caught up on jobs at home, looks okay at the moment but very breezy. Might go into town and get a sheet of ply for the roof lining on the Austin.

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As mentioned everything went swimmingly with my wife's family. We had lunch today with her oldest sister (who wasn't able to make dinner the night before) and that was really nice. She teared up at one point, just starting to say how sorry she was for what I'd been through... and I cut her off and told her that I'm really happy right here and now, so there's really no reason for anyone to be sorry about anything.

I could tell she was also a bit anxious about names, pronouns and the likes, so for the second time in two days (and, I imagine, what will became old hat in short order) my little speech about how I don't want anyone ever to be on pins and needles, and language from those who love and support me will never bother me in the slightest. I could tell that registered and was appreciated. So my wife and I agreed that is definitely going on my "Greatest Hits" album. 

On our ride home we finalized the roster for the round #1 group of friends for this week. We debated if there would be a round 2 and 3, or just a round 2 and then deal with things on a case-by-case basis.

But we also thought why not just send those letters out tonight and get the ball rolling?

Well, after a wonderful dinner and catch-up chat with the boy... as we sat watching TV, I turned to my wife and just said "first of all, I am sorry - we have tried very hard not to make all this the focus of our lives, and for the last two weeks it's been like the circus is in town. And they've been extended at least one more week.  And secondly... I do not want to send out the letters tonight. I need a night off."

She was fully on board with "and on the eighth day, they rested" theory as well... so I'll work on the letters tomorrow.

Ok, cluster headache time (or maybe not?) - gotta go assume the position.

Love,
Allie

15 years is such a deal, in Gaza they would throw you off the roof of a building.  Well back a few months ago when they had buildings to throw you off of.

In 2022 a 22-year-old woman in Iran was beaten by the morality police (and died) over the hijab law. Where were the young collage protested back then?

Iran is such a wonderful place, if you're a straight Iranian male.   

And I thought it would be a nice place for a holiday....

Iraq, book for 2 weeks and stay for 3 years....

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Rabid anti-trans trolls have issued bomb threats against 53 gyms following Libs of TikTok attacks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rabid-anti-trans-trolls-have-issued-bomb-threats-against-53-gyms-following-libs-of-tiktok-attacks/ar-AA1nOYo9?ocid=windirect&cvid=e938f2cfb8a6403b8ac9c221d95aeb3e&ei=51

Story by John Russell (28 April 2024)

Planet Fitness locations across the country have continued to receive bomb threats in the wake of an anti-transgender boycott campaign spearheaded by anti-LGBTQ+ hate influencer Chaya Raichik's Libs of TikTok social media accounts. Media Matter reports that at least 53 Planet Fitness locations in 20 states have now reported receiving bomb threats.

Raichik began posting about the national gym chain in mid-March after Patricia Silva, a cisgender Alaska woman, claimed that her Planet Fitness membership had been revoked due to her complaints about a transgender woman using the women's locker room. However, in a statement, Planet Fitness said that Silva had been banned because she violated the gym's mobile device policy, which prohibits taking photos of people in locker rooms. Silva reportedly took a picture of the trans woman in the locker room and posted it online.

In recent weeks, Raichik's Libs of TikTok X account "has continued to post about the gym, attempting to generate outrage by accusing Planet Fitness of a range of offenses, including 'discriminating against White people,' 'grooming kids,' 'putting a mentally ill man's delusions before women's safety,' and allowing 'people to act out their s*xual f*tishes in public,'" Media Matters reported.