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My initial reaction is "old abandoned playground climbing dome" but those tend to have triangular holes.

There's an older, somewhat rundown, playground a few miles from us and the vibe it gives off is pretty cool, even if it's also sad.

If you combost this would be a great thing to mix into the pile. Home compost tends to be nitrogen heavy and having a nice source of carbon will help the pile cook faster.

You already got the hot pan bit, but I'll give you something to look for - you want the egg to immediately start bubbling on the bottom when it hits the pan.

I personally use butter instead of oil, but any fat will keep the egg from sticking. Any pan should do fine, but if you're using stainless a bit more fat is probably a good idea. Things seem to stick the most to stainless pans in my experience.

As for the top of the egg, you can either give it a flip and cook the other side for a short while (aka over easy) or use a lid. You don't have to use a lid, but it makes it a lot easier. If you're going the lid route toss a teaspoon or two of water in the pan before you cover it.

Seems like great success? If so, great. The only things about your routine I would change is to not submerge, not because that's bad but because who wants to obsess over cleaning their sink first, and use paper towels to dry. You want to make sure no films are transferred to the bed.

Too cold to harvest sap right now, than comes in another month or two :)

We're way too far north for starfruit, but you're coming at this from the right angle. Our local fruit trees (apple, pear, peach, etc) produce a ton of fruit. Like 100-200 pounds / 45-90 kg worth for a single teenage tree. If you don't stay on top of them they'll attract yellow jackets and the trees themselves require a decent amount of pruning annually.

Fruit trees sound fantastic to have, but they're a lot of work.

More work location flexibility is certainly something I would appreciate. The company I work for is hybrid and with the looming economy mess I've been putting off job hunting. I would much rather be somewhere with a network should things go sideways.

Not cheap, but video game consoles also double as solid platforms for streaming. We had an old dumb TV + PS3 setup for nearly a decade until the PS3 finally died. Now we have a PS5 with the same old dumb TV.

I bought a used workstation (xenon, ecc memory) pre-covid hit. I swapped the processor with the highest spec one that would fit the socket (thanks for changing sockets so frequently intel... not) and 64 GB ecc momory. Both were cheap because they were used. About 6 months before the GPU crazyness I bought a used 1070 TI for around $200. Upgrading the GPU a few years later was out of the question and now upgrading the whole thing is out of the question.

Due to the processor age I'm just going to install Linux on it and cozy into my older game library. Gaming time is pretty limited these days anyway due to having kids and these days I'm doing most of my gaming on a handheld.

I will give it a try, thanks for the suggestion.

Sorry, I meant a decent editing workflow. Things along the lines of editing - adding outlined text, moving and/or removing things, etc. For example, I've tried gimp a few times but I've found myself fighting against the way it wants you to do things.

Thanks a lot for the suggestions, I'll have to check Pinta out.