Dull Men's Club

This is a tad embarrassing. You see, I thought that I was merely copying a popular Facebook group. I was unaware that Dull Men's Club was an official club. Please give the site a peruse as it is quite a delight!

Ran the oven through its 3 hour self-cleaning cycle today. The heat it gave off kept the house warm and the furnace from kicking on for like 6 hours. My gas bill appreciates that.

Wife wanted an air fryer for X-mas. Sure, it's a bit on the "stereotypical gender roles" side of gift giving, but who am I to deny her what she wants?

I unboxed it for her and it says to do a 30 minute cook with no food in it to get rid of the burning plastic smell, so I cleaned everything and now it's baking away the extra plastic.

The kitchen smells like burning plastic.

I can't wait for some crispy fries and other assorted foods.

I ate so many cookies I wasn't hungry. I'm sure there will be regrets - I might need a Tums before bed.

Now I can replace all the twist caps in my house

Found my dial torque wrench that I use for setting up gears, a spacer I needed to put the wife's winter tires on, and a few other things.

It's better than Santa Claus showing up.

And I'm really happy about it. I needed new socks.

It was too hot so I adjusted the thermostat temperature settings this morning for my smart home. Now it’s not too hot.

I had some moderately good strawberries today but the grapes weren’t as good as last weeks grapes. I’m thinking about having a banana later in the day.

About to start 2 hours drive to home after spending Christmas with the family from my wife's side. I'm tired and full of food

May all of you dullards have a calm fulfilling holiday that leaves you content. Hohoho

Approx 17 billion hoodies will go through the clothes washing machine this night.

Context: I'm of an age where AARP sends me snail mail to join; play a lot (too much?) of Destiny and the game sort of has a rep for being extremely toxic. Destiny 2 has hit a low spot so I wanted to try something new, mix it up.

Picked up Titanfall 2 from the PlayStation store on sale ($10?), played the short campaign then started jumping into classic Co-op (4 players defend a doohickey against 5 waves of AI enemies)...

...and it's full of little kids on mic laughing and giggling (and playing way better than me) just having fun. Super refreshing and makes me smile, I wouldn't call this a kid's game either. So yeah, good times for an old gamer.

I would show you a picture of the main dish, but I fear it would be too exciting.

You can buy brass ones so they dont rust. And no more plastic gutter clips.

They dried nicely overnight. I washed most of the ziplock bags yesterday and will clean the others today. It's nice to work through the stack that have been waiting to be reused.

...and I came home with a 1x4x8 and a tube of caulk.

Every year I buy a bottle of Laird's and make Jack Roses around the winter break. And I'm...doing that. Applejack isn't that easy to find, a lot of liquor stores don't bother to carry it but I found some.

I made the grenadine a little too thick this year, it's a proper pancake goo rather than a sugary liquid but it's still tasty. I think next year I'm going to buy fresh pomegranates and milk them myself rather than buying juice.

They were in fact for me, to clean up small spills or large drips of motor oil in a confined engine bay.

while there, i obtained the card of a mobile groomer. so ive got that covered when the time comes. awesome.

Bit of a nailbiter there at the end, eh?

Old one got a tear in the front and was leaking water on the floor. Had to take apart a bunch of the machine, and I gotta say that the two seals (inner drum and outer casing) were both tricky to get on properly.

Doing a test load of laundry now, and there's no leaks (so far), so that's pretty excellent

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Ahead of a christmas baking session, decided to clean the oven

Pulled out the front glass and the inside ribs, smothered it in brown soap and put them in a plastic bag to soak outside overnight. Smothered the inside of the oven in brown soap, covered the bottom of the oven in a damp cloth to let the soap do all the hard work. This morning, scrubbed out all the soap from inside the oven and rinsed the glass and ribs in ample hot water under the tab. Put the glass back in and ran the pyrolysis function on the oven. After it cooled, ran a damp cloth over the inside of the oven and remounted the ribs. Clean as new

A couple of days ago I bought a pack of 4 veggie burgers, as is my routine. They are convenient and quite tasty but not as cheap as they used to be. So imagine my delight when, on opening it, I found not 4 but 5 veggie burgers inside. The grocery stores have spent years raising all their prices at the expense of us little people. Well, now is my moment, now they really screwed up. Ha! That fifth veggie burger is going to have the delicious taste of revenge.

Edit: They say revenge is a dish best served cold. This turns out not always to be true. If cooking from frozen you need to grill it for 10-12 minutes, turning halfway through.

I continued sanding some dining room chairs for painting, that I started last year December 2023, in preparation for a nye party. Today I continued this project and have 3 chairs left.

Way better than instant. Two parts water, one part oats. Boil the water, turn off the burner, add the oats. Sprinkle a bit of salt. Stir to make sure all the oats are wet, cover. Wait a few minutes.

While you're waiting, put whatever you want into a bowl - butter, syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon, bits of fruit, honey, peanut butter, jelly, etc. (Probably not all of those at once, but you do you.) Serve the oatmeal on top of the add-ons, mix.

They were good.

Gotta break out the ol' rain bibbs, jacket, galoshes, and gloves to get up on a ladder and clean them out. Because I am worried about the foundation getting more damaged by the water runoff not being directed at least a few feet away from the house.

Podocarpus genus, took me twice as long as the last time. I used the same technique, not sure maybe I'm just getting old. House looks clean again I'm pleased.

I don't know how I never got that idea. I've always complained that a panorama roof is mainly a feature for the rear passengers - well, this is actually rather excellent.

Our city leaves free dirt out at the fire station for people to spread on their sidewalks in the winter. I grabbed some for the back ally which is very icy.

I probably only grabbed 30 lbs or so, but I was still very diligent to lift it properly. Last thing I need over the holidays is to have a sore back.

The road behind my house is lined with bradford pear trees. Their leaves are so big that my pool vacuum cannot suck them up. So once they start falling I need to go out every night and get out what I can with a net and a special leaf vacuum. We had strom come through this week and thankfully the winds knocked the remaining leaves out of the trees. It took an hour and a half but I got every last one out of my pool. Now I can relax until the spring when they sprout and drop their flowers.

We've had weeks of alternating torrential rain and super hot sunny days that have both prevented me from mowing, but super charged the lawn growth at the same time.

The lawn was almost a foot long after not being able to mow it for 14 days due to the weather.

I had to empty the catcher on the mower every 10ft, and I made so many trips back and forth to the green waste bin with the catcher, I got my 8000 steps for the day.

It normally takes me an hour to mow the front and back lawns, but today it took me three and a half hours. The last two hours were in the dark, and I had to mow with a pair of torches...

It's nice that it's done now, but I'll have to mow again within the next 5 days.

I went scrounging around my garage and house and found all the mismatched screws lying around in various places, then organized them all by length and put then in labeled little drawers.

I've made sliders about 4 or 5 times in the past couple months and they've gotten really good. I use Gibsons seasoning salt, a higher protein beef (88/12 was the last one), white onions, and Hawaiian rolls. Add whatever cheese we have at the time.

I brought one to my neighbor and he suggested horseradish sauce, which was absolutely stellar.

My kids, my wife, and my neighbors all say they're amazing.

Cross-posted from "Lots of ice on the car this morning" by @multicolorKnight@lemmy.world in !asklemmy@lemmy.world

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It went from rain to snow overnight, got even colder, and froze hard. This morning there were about 2 inches of very rough ice on the car. For some reason, it always collects the most at the bottom of the windshield, right where it's most important to see. The ice was about as hard as the glass.

I broke one scraper trying to clean it, started the engine and left the defroster on for a few minutes. After driving around for a while, and one mighty crash as the glacier on the roof let go, you would hardly know it was there at all.

I have a garage bay I could use, but it's full of other stuff, and I only park the car in there during disaster level storms.