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Tag: Holidays
Happy Holidays
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Taking a week or two off of work (hopefully), and likely will be a bit more spotty for updates over the next week or two, due to the holidays. Whatever festivals you celebrate, enjoy the holiday season and time with the family. Stay safe, and best wishes.
Holiday Shopping
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Trying a new strategy this year, since the kids are old enough to start taking responsibility for presents. For each of them, I gave them a task of making a list of presents they wanted to find for other people – parents, relatives, each other, etc. For both, I gave them a basic price range,…
Scrapping the chocolate
Seems at this point, at least for the holidays, I am abandoning the plans to mold chocolate dice. Although I still have my template ready, once I found that the silicon had expired, I simply have not found an economical replacement option. Most suppliers are fairly expensive, especially for the volume I will need for…
Home again
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Home again, after another week of travel, and ready for the next couple of weeks and the holidays. Finalizing the shopping this weekend and next, in between our gaming schedule. This Sunday we have our next episode of the Age of Ashes, which should give me plenty to work on. Over the actual break, I…
Chocolate Mold
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Inspired by some videos I saw online, I am trying out my skill at creating chocolate dice. Step one, find a bunch of old dice, and create a mold. From here, I can cast the set in food-safe silicon, and then create a negative to eventually fill with chocolate. A bit of time in the…
Holiday Cooking – Mustard
For the holiday season this year, the wife decided to do bit more cooking this year, beyond the traditional cookies. Last week, we canned up home made pickles, today’s challenge was home-made beer mustard. Hopefully the flavors will mellow a bit, fresh and still hot the horseradish was a bit over powering. But after a…
Happy Halloween
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Enjoying family time tonight, as the kids go out trick-or-treating for Beggar’s Night. Ben is very happy with his inflatable gorilla costume, and it looks like George will recycle his “dead guy” costume from last year. As usual, the grandparents will be over to help hand out candy, and we will no doubt have pizza. …
Not as productive as hoped
Despite great plans to the contrary, I ended up not being as productive over the holidays as I had intended. Initially, I had lots of plans for getting caught up on videos and podcasts, painting miniatures, gaming, and various other activities. I actually ended up barely touching the video content, only painting a fraction of…