That and degrees in the humanities, which barely pay slave wages.

Nobody expected that.

Well.... as long as it’s Spanish Chorizo and not Mexican Chorizo... THAT would be a travesty.

But yeah, I’ve seen paella with everything form seafood to sausage to rabbit. No one type is “THE” paella. It’s one of those dishes that varies by region. Chorizo gets included in some of the paella dishes made in the South…

My soul just died a little from this.

My wife worked in a Spanish restaurant as a high school student. The owner/chef and his partner were great. But the other ladies in the kitchen were not,. They were pretty mean to her, being the only gringa, even though she spoke great Spanish. It was interesting because on her last day, one of them came up to her and…

We had a logistics manager try that. She seemed to thrive on drama, and the assumption that making others look bad made her look good. I had been at the company about 6 years, and she was fairly new, having come from the company we were contracted with. I was content to let her have her sphere of influence and go…

I’ve worked at a toxic job. It’s funny, because when I meet another veteran of that company, we swap horror stories without fail.

I always smile a little when one of my current co-workers starts griping about how bad wherever it is I work, because it invariably pales in comparison to my almost year as a NOC tech for…

I’d like to see someone try to separate cream from whole milk in a sous vide. One of the challenges is keeping the milk at a perfect temp, and I’m trying to figure out a good way to do so with this tool. The best I’ve got is to use a really long strip of a vacuum sealed bag, hang it over a ledge so that the milk…

I went once. I was sick to my stomach for 2 days after. It was the food, not the show.

The first time I had “tiny birds” was my first meal with my Italian family (ie, my dad’s 1st cousin who never left Italy cooked them. My sister and parents were with me)

I was jet-lagging, having flown into Milan and then drove for an hour and a half to get to their village. Dinner was just about ready, and I sat down…

I know you’ve jinxed me.... I’ll get into choppy mode at least once on the way home today now! :D

You can either gently throttle it, or go balls out. Nothing in between. And you just described my first couple of attempts to merge in traffic when I got the thing.

Yeah, it had the Motorcycle gauges. That’s the one thing my wife really liked about it.

But why would you want to? I mean, unless you simply needed a car that was slightly shorter, and somewhat narrower than the Focus, why? It wasn’t nearly as nice, for $3000 more.

And yeah, the variable speed transmission takes some…

You CAN buy two Focus SE sedans for ~$28,000. I just looked at my dealer’s website. You’re 100% correct.

I disagree with your assessment of the product line. Up through the Cruze, their cars aren’t worth the money, compared to the competition. Even with a family employee discount (My father in law is a GM exec), I couldn’t touch a Cruze or a Sonic for the price of an entry level Focus. The Spark was the exact price of…

Never underestimate the power of smug.

I have a 2014 car, bought new, with 77K miles on it. I’m with you.

Sounds kind of like the Sonic setup. That thing was brutal to sit it for me. My wife slightly liked it, until we crunched the numbers and found that you could get a MUCH nicer, roomier Ford Focus for about $3000 less.

It’s a VW. You’ll definitely spend more on long term maintenance. (Former TDI owner here... maybe a little sarcastic and jaded as well...)

Solar is the answer to one thing: The pockets of solar panel manufacturers. Solar is still not ready for prime time. The energy roi just still isn’t ready. Get back to me in 10 years and I’ll likely say different things. That is, unless something like Hydrogen takes off or we crack cold fusion. Both have far better…