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@copperbadge​ Sam, Sam, it's a feetloaf!

AHAHAHAAH OH THE HORROR

chibiesque replied to your photo “junker5: Sam & Sci, I just feel like this monstrosity belongs in the...”

You actually eat it raw with the onions :D

In a way this is a deep relief, because just imagining what it would look like cooked...I mean I don’t care for raw meat or raw onions, but at least it doesn’t get worse.

dreamwaffles replied to your photo “Sometimes a family can be a man, two cats, and five stringed...”

my dad repairs guitars as a hobby, so if you have questions about maintenance hmu I have learned WAY MORE than I ever needed to XD (also get yourself new strings)

Oh thanks! I suppose I should restring it. People seem very intimidated by stringing ukuleles but those are just nylon strings, I’m much more worried about steel...

sarriane replied to your photo “Sometimes a family can be a man, two cats, and five stringed...”

They're so beautiful! What size is the banjolele? Soprano or concert?

Soprano -- they’re all soprano except for Big Blue, which was so poorly made (I got it for $5 at a garage sale) that it has a concert body and a soprano fretboard. Plays perfectly fine with soprano tuning, though, and honestly it stays in tune better than either the banjolele or the Kala. 

mooseman13579 replied to your photo “Sometimes a family can be a man, two cats, and five stringed...”

Wow, that's a big ukulele

He's a menace! A cozy menace!

Sam, have you died in other months?

Post office bounty! I’m finally cognitively together enough to actually manage this :D 

Top image, clockwise from upper left:

A pyramid of owls from @bookfanatic which DID arrive by Christmas but which I did not photograph in time for it :D Thank you! 

An awesome vintage car from @kimmiesue13 -- love the stamps you sent too! I saved them inside the card :D

The “Catmas tree” is from @howshouldibegin; the kittens and I both thank you!

The green tree card and the lovely tiny cross-stitch are from @wynjara -- what a wonderful ornament to add to my tree, thank you! 

The pretty red berries card is from Daniel, I’m so glad you enjoy the fic and thanks for being such a long-term loyal reader! (And yes, I am enjoying the deck -- especially showing it off to my envious goth friends :D) 

The Magritte-esque cardinal adn bowler hat is from @3pennyjane, thank you! The Hogfather was kind to me this year :) (LOL SEASON’S MAGRITTE-INGS)

The Llama card and awesome Dummy sticker are from @nonsenseandstuff -- Dummy is going straight onto my laptop!

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is from L and kitty Ripley -- I love the format of card you chose, so imaginative! 

And finally, the stirring mouse is from @mooseman13579 -- thanks Ishmael! I love it. Might hang it in my kitchen. 

Second image (inadvertently themed on “Blues”), clockwise from upper left: 

The tower of green cats is from Lisa -- what a great picture, thank you!

The galactic kitty sticker and glittery snow flakes are from @delphie200, and that’s another sticker going directly onto the laptop! 

Feline Navidad cracked my shit up, thank you Kris & Josh! 

The snowy owl with the narrow look is from Wendy -- it’s a wonderful Chanukkah card :D 

The “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” card is partially obscured just to make sure nobody’s face got shown who shouldn’t, but thank you Hutts for a lovely photo card! (You have SO MANY FISH.)

And finally, the pipe-smoker in the winter wonderland is from @crimson-creature, who also wrote an amazing poem on the inside of the card. I don’t know if you have it posted anywhere but if you don’t you should share it! 

The third image is a package from @winds-wanderer; I LOVE the Lunch Money pouch and the postcards, and I’m pretty sure you sent the origami (but if not do let me know -- it got separated from its family in my bag :D). I’m planning to hang up the postcards at work! 

And lastly, thank you for your patience, the wonderful tartan bird card and “Fuctifano” coaster (OH MY GOD) are from Rua M; I plan to feature the coasters at my next get-together. Meanwhile, the awesome chocolates and postcard and neat brochure from Hawaii, the blessed candy and the new Ofuda, are from @janedrewfinally. I have to say I’m especially grateful for the Ofuda, since the cats managed to PULL DOWN AND EAT my previous one. I’m hanging this one higher on the wall. :D 

I can’t not hear the yell about hoagies as a Nero Wolfe bit

Sandwiches then. For us, for the guests in the front room, but not for the police. 

THE POLICE SHALL RECEIVE

NO 

SANDWICHES! 

This is not remotely the version of Coke salad that I know. It's... close, but still super weird and wrong. Mine requires cherry jello. And you roll the cream cheese into small balls before dropping them and the nuts into the jello

That sounds like it might be quite pretty as a presentation dish, although knowing what I do of cream cheese I’m curious as to how you roll it, it’s quite messy. Little scoops, maybe, or extreme chilling first? 

mooseman13579 replied to your photoset “It’s happening. IT’S SO GROSS  IT LOOKS EVEN WORSE IN PERSON I did two...”

Sam we're really worried about you

Not as worried as I am about me, let me tell you. 

junker5 replied to your photoset “It’s happening. IT’S SO GROSS  IT LOOKS EVEN WORSE IN PERSON I did two...”

It...it...I just don't have words. And I can't for the life of me even figure out what the creator of this recipe was thinking. Such a vile color! Thanks for keeping us posted. Love cooking with Sam! :D

I’m glad the food is good but all of my hardware store worker nightmares have come home to roost. A restaurant chain, my word

They are characterized by the presence of a giant Weber Kettle outside the restaurant. In the suburbs it gets fairly extravagant -- I took this photo this afternoon:  

Downtown is a little more subtle, but not so subtle that my first week of residence in Chicago I didn’t stop and look up in stunned awe at the Weber Grill overlooking State Street (this photo isn’t mine):  

Man, a 'do the dumb thing you have to do' month? Guess I'll add touching the puppet head to that list

Touch...the...puppet head? 

zorilleerrant replied to your photoset “I HAD A VERY EVENTFUL EVENING. I get off work at 4:30 and I had an...”

National Necessary Shit Month? NaNeShMo

You know, last night this seemed like a great idea, but this morning holy fuck it sounds exhausting. :D 

shrikeseams replied to your photoset “I HAD A VERY EVENTFUL EVENING. I get off work at 4:30 and I had an...”

Networking is just Houskeeping For Your Career. It should count double time tbh.

Being fair, I knew half the people who were there, and it was mostly just bitching about our jobs while eating fries, so it wasn’t as unpleasant as these things tend to be. But yeah, I still basically Intense Socialized for 90 minutes. 

col1999 replied to your photoset “I HAD A VERY EVENTFUL EVENING. I get off work at 4:30 and I had an...”

I've never had Wow Bao. There's one in Sox Park but it's never open/attended when I'm looking for something to eat during the games. I'll have to look for one by me now that I know they're good!

I really like them -- I’m a sucker for a steamed bun and they don’t do many things but they do the few they do really well. Their dessert buns in particular are good. And it’s good street food, like you can buy a bun and eat it with relative ease while you walk around, which I like. 

geekgirl76 replied to your photoset

“I HAD A VERY EVENTFUL EVENING. I get off work at 4:30 and I had an...”

I thought that was the most disgusting BBQ Pork Bao ever at first, and am SO glad it's custard.

AHAHAHA oh god I looked at the photo again and I see it. GROSS.