Mmmmmmm bacon.

I made myself hominy with bacon for supper earlier this week. Family doesn't like it so they got leftovers.

Had turkey on a bagel for b-fast this morning. I can't do a big breakfast.

Huh? Toothpick and 30 seconds of your time.

Did that and it did insert well enough to charge, but there was still something in there it was loose and had to wiggle it to get it to start charging. Didn't want to be the one responsible for messing up the contacts ie they break it, they fix it. Besides I wanted to look at the apple watches since I can see better now. Before my surgeries I couldn't read anything on the watches. Now I can even read the tiny Day/Date on my current watch. I can read them now so need to decide if the functionality is worth getting one.

Also thinking about updating my old iPad Mini. It's a first generation mini and getting a little long in the tooth. One of the new ones with a pen might be nice. Also considering updating my AppleTV for the siri thing, but waiting to see what I can do with the mini I am using for Kodi and see if siri on MacOS update this fall lets me control it.

I also think it would be fun to go nuts with the home automations stuff. But they keep changing protocols and devices around and just what can be controlled with what. Would be really neat to have a central system to control everything with voice commands and sensors to have it know where you are so you could have lighting follow you around the house.

One of the basic things I would like to automate is my outside lights. Right now my garage and porch lights come on at dusk and off a dawn. I turn them off if I remember when I go to bed and the idea is to turn them back on again before dusk so they can auto on. Sometimes forget to turn them back on and don't realize it until I go or look out after dusk. Would be nice to have them come on a dusk and shut off at midnight and be able to override. Just a timer on the light switches would work.

Found a timer switch for my outside lights to auto turn the off and back on to have them turn off at midnite instead of dawn. It's $20. My front porch light is 12watts CFL. If I get the switch to turn it off a midnite it will save 6 hours of electricity. At $.9 kWh thats roughly $12 a year or $1/month. The are two garage lights that are the same as the front porch light. Getting a switch for them would save me $4 in the first year. So after the switches have paid for themselves (a year and 2 months) the switches would save me $36 a year or $3 a month.

Every little bit helps right?

Is x10 still in business? they used to have lots of cheap electrical controls.

My mirrored drive RAID finally rebuilt and is happy. It took overnight to finish. Back to safe data protection. Well as safe as two drives only gets.

Raid? so you use bug spray in the computer?"

They don't call it x10 any more and it's more expensive, the bustards. And each switch manufacturer has their own automation system now.

Everyone was hoping the Apple Homekit specifications would standardize that stuff or at least make it so you could mix systems, but instead NOW light bulb manufactures like Philips are coming up with their own systems too.

I had bacon and avocado on a bagel this morning. This is California, after all. :D

David, that is a horrible green, I can't hardly read it on the gray forum background. Pick a darker green!

Was planning to grill some chicken for lunch, Too keep with the theme for today looks like I am going to have to add bacon, cheese, and BBQ sauce to it.

well that will be the first and last time I try the green font.

I shoulda made that green!!!

The Monterey Chicken was good. Sure am glad I discovered pounding chicken breasts so they are the same thickness makes them cook better, and juicier too. Otherwise you end up with thick bits that aren't quite cooked, and thin bits that are all hard and dried out.

I was kidding as well. Pounding chicken sounds kinky you shouldn't try that with out nipple lube.

Yeppers, flattening meat out uniformly makes it cook much better. I never knew that until I saw it on 'Mericuh's Test Kitchen".

I made Hawaiian pork chops last night using that method. Yes, they were awesomely tender. SmileWavy

Morning all

TGIF! Woohoo.

Pounding you're meat, I'm an expert at that.

lol

Happy birthday Azzy http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat6.gif

how did I know that's where you would go?

Lol ��