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Okay, the subject isn't what the title line is going to make you think, LOL.
I've, for now, gotten out of the PC repair business and am instead pursuing two food jobs. The new one is mid-morning to mid-afternoon at a local bakery that just opened. I went in dressed to impress, thinking it was interview time--and instead was hired on the spot and spent 6 and a half hours (8 AM to 2:30 PM) baking and (wo)manning the front counter. They pay better than anything I've done before, too, and the clientele has enough money to plunk down $3.00 for a muffin without a second thought.
And you know what? I'm *good at this.* Never having made cinnamon rolls before, my first attempt came out, according to the manager, as almost the Platonic ideal. The cheese bread (this *is* Wisconsin, you know...) was likewise my first attempt, and it just flew off the shelves. Muffins came up huge and moist, full of blueberries. It's been all of one shift and the manager already wants me to tell her some whole-wheat recipes and maybe experiment with stevia for the health-conscious crowd.
My heart is singing. This might be a kind of happiness. I don't want to jinx it, and I'd still rather be doing pharmacology, but this is...nice, for now. Maybe it's a kind of last happiness before the country implodes on itself. Whatever it is I'm going to take it gratefully, even if it's short-lived. It feels so good to use these hands to create.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday July 28 2018, @09:00PM (10 children)
I'm not great at bread. I pretty much stick to making cobblers/crumbles (try putting peaches and blueberries in the same pan).
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @11:04PM (9 children)
It definitely helps to have an experienced baker to advise when making bread. It"s hard for a noob to know how much to knead, rise, how much extra flour, etc. Bread is one of those things where you can never really follow a recipe exactly because the environment has so much effect on each step.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:14AM (8 children)
Bullshit.
Everybody knows you hire the darkest most illegal cheapest labor you can find to bake your bread. If your illegals refuse to bake bread according to the recipe handed down by corporate then you threaten to have your darkie labor deported. And who cares because there are plenty of dark skinned illegals just clamoring to work for you.
That is how America bakes bread.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:54AM (7 children)
Good bread shops here are serious business, and the people baking that bread in those shops are White, because only a White person could give that much care to something that isn't crack cocaine.
There are places, of course, where darker-skinned folk roll dough and make something remotely resembling bread -- those places are called "Domino's Pizza."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 29 2018, @10:57AM (5 children)
Why you gotta hate on Domino's? It's an American company producing an American invention quickly and better than any other national chain. Frankly, it's one of the better nutrition per dollar investments as far as fast food goes too.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:27AM (2 children)
That does not sound like the indigestible oily mess that I got once from Dominos. Never again.
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:55PM (1 child)
Might be your local franchise. They're by far not the best pizza in the nation but they're absolutely the best of any national chain. Pizza Hut is as near as I can tell 90% bread, 9% grease, and 1% other. Little Caesars isn't as bad but it has basically no flavor and uses the lowest quality ingredients.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:49PM
Late to the (pizza) party, just came back to note that our local Pizza Hut makes a nice vege pizza. They are pretty popular, when we pick up an order there are usually 2 or 3 others waiting for their pickup at the same time.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:33PM (1 child)
Not now. Ever since they changed their cheese formula to that rubbery salty stuff I became a Papa John's convert. Plus, Papa John himself is racist.
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Wednesday August 01 2018, @03:50PM
Lotta people I know IRL started buying from there when CNN started ranting against them. I think we're around a tipping point where the wrong people on TV vilifying someone can just barely make a net positive effect on revenue. I donno if we're close to the tipping point, at it, or well past it. It'll be interesting one way or another to review their 10-Q and other filings post "scandal".
I'd estimate that another decade of boomers dying out will result in CEOs and such intentionally as part of the business plan being antagonistic to legacy loony leftists simply because its profitable and they have a legal obligation to increase profit.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:44PM
Tell that to Japan.
(Score: 2) by mrpg on Saturday July 28 2018, @09:49PM
If you are happy it must be good for you, enjoy it :-)
Right now I have a second job and I like it, even if it's not what I studied.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Gaaark on Saturday July 28 2018, @10:05PM
Is your employer old? Maybe when they retire you can take over?
A job you love is nothing to sneeze at! :)
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 28 2018, @10:14PM (11 children)
You're doing it right. Ecstatic sets you up for disappointment and pessimism keeps you from enjoying what you have. Being able to just enjoy things for what they are is one of the key components of a happy life.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @10:43PM (10 children)
Yeah well I might not be able to afford rent or health insurance, but I do have slippers and an oatmeal spoon!!!
FUCK YOU, GOT MINE
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 28 2018, @11:22PM (4 children)
That one's not even worth mocking. Try a lot harder.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:18AM (3 children)
What is your problem, you stupid selfish piece of motherfucking shit. I am simply exposing your own credo.
FUCK YOU, GOT MINE
Attitude is what matters, you stupid fuck. And your attitude is fucking toxic.
FUCK YOU, GOT MINE
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:19AM (2 children)
Really? That's the best you've got? Shiny new teenagers troll better than that. Twitter users troll better than that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @12:18PM (1 child)
I expect you're too dense to understand, so allow me to explain the situation to your highness.
You suggested happiness stems from enjoying what you have, so I presented the point of view of someone who has nothing yet still manages to be as selfish as you are. Hence, the selfish pauper shares your selfish outlook and revels in private ownership of the means of breakfast consumption (slippers and an oatmeal spoon). Happiness in this case will not help the pauper who will quickly be evicted (for not affording rent) and die (of a curable disease without medical care).
Your mistake is thinking that I'm trolling you. I'm not. Trolling is a manipulation game and I'm not playing your manipulation game at all. I'm informing you that I disapprove of everything you are and everything you stand for.
Get killed by organ harvesters, you selfish prick.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 30 2018, @02:26PM
Yes, you managed to combine building a strawman and reductio ad absurdum. I'd congratulate you but you haven't managed rhetoric on even EF or rDT's level yet. Every last one of our registered trolls are orders of magnitude better than you at it.
Maybe later, it's supposed to be good fishing today.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:49AM (2 children)
MEMO TO TRUSTEES:
The troll in basement 5, cell 27, has been getting too much gruel. Cut his ration in half, and take away his damned spoon. He can lick his gruel off of the floor, just like everyone else in basement 5 and lower.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @12:23PM (1 child)
Fuck your spoon, I still have my slippers! I am a slipper-rich capitalist captain of industry! I'm gonna own a billion slippers someday and I'll step on your face on my way to the top! You're gonna have slipper-prints on your fucking face!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 30 2018, @04:24PM
We'll see how much good your slippers do you after I've had your cell sprinkled with a few thousand broken light bulbs. Enjoy your slippers while you still can.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @07:46PM (1 child)
Doesn't even really make sense. I mean sure that is TMB's personal motto but it didn't even come into play here.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @03:24AM
Actually, my motto is "Fuck this noise, I'm going fishing."
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @10:30PM
Just remember as you are baking muffins with your lesbian life partner, Max and Caroline never escaped the Williamsburg Diner, and they died poor.
(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 29 2018, @12:30AM (3 children)
We've accomplished an economic turnaround of historic proportions. Me and our fabulous #SenateGOP [twitter.com] & #HouseGOP [twitter.com]. With 3.4 MILLION JOBS created since our GREAT election victory -- far, far greater than ever anticipated. Azuma has her BEST JOB EVER. And she's not the only one. There's A LOT of happy women out there. So many VERY MOIST MUFFINS. And so many buns in so many ovens. Because of me. Working hard, folks!!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:23AM (2 children)
You know, from a personal point of view, this character generally bores the shit out of me. This comment struck me as pretty damned funny though. Very moist muffins...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday July 30 2018, @10:25PM (1 child)
He's been grabbing all the moist muffins he can, i'm sure.
Except Hillary's. Doubt he'd get even close there (or want to...)
;)
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @03:25AM
I call Rule #34.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @03:52AM (7 children)
Women are always happiest when they are kept in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, with a horde of little children underfoot.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 29 2018, @10:59AM (4 children)
You joke but there is some measure of truth to this. Which really, really pisses today's feminists off.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @11:31AM (3 children)
> some measure of truth
Are you using cup/liter measures...or are you using a microgram balance to measure this amount of truth?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:04PM (2 children)
BLS and their own words if you really want to know. More women choose to be stay-at-home parents than men and those that do work work less hours on average because they're less willing to give up time with their families. It's entirely factual and easily gathered evidence but it pisses off third gen feminists to no end.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday July 30 2018, @07:46AM (1 child)
Says the "kept" funny uncle!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 30 2018, @10:34AM
Afraid I've been on the clock again for some while now, my extremely oft incorrect friend.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:57PM (1 child)
There is a grain of truth in this, hidden of course by an entire bag of bullshit. I'm definitely the type who in a better world (and, y'know, if I weren't gay) would have at least 2 kids. But happiness consists in doing what you want, not what other people force on you. Yes, *I* have a domestic streak a mile wide; not all women do.
And there's nothing anti-feminist about acknowledging that more women than men like this sort of thing. Based on our evolutionary history you'd expect that. If anything it's anti-feminist to *deny* the fact, though problems arise when you start making generalizations you don't have a right to. The data say what they say, nothing more, nothing less.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 30 2018, @04:03AM
The bullshit's what makes it funny. Nobody actually believes that nonsense in the US, statistically speaking anyway. Otherwise we agree on the matter.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 29 2018, @05:11AM (1 child)
Next, you may have to give up your life of crime. It's difficult to hide from guards or cops with that damned heart broadcasting your location.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 29 2018, @01:53PM
Life of crime? No, crime-*fighting.* As if the short-skirted school uniform and pyrotechnics every damn time I power up weren't an obvious enough tell...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Snow on Monday July 30 2018, @03:03PM (5 children)
I love hearing about Soylentils' life. I'm glad you found something you like and you are doing well.
I like to bake too, although I don't have much time anymore. I love baking because it's more chemistry than art. Also, who doesn't like baked goods!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 30 2018, @07:18PM (4 children)
Ohhh yes, I've been a chemistry nerd since fourth grade. Used to go to the library and read books no one told me were too difficult for a 9 year old, took organic chem in *high school.* And around age 13 I had the insight that "waitaminnit, cooking is just applied organic chem!" I tend not to bake much because it's a big time investment, but doing it for a job is different.
And because I've gotten in on the ground floor, there is potential to reshape this place a bit in my image. Milwaukee isn't quite as obsessively health-conscious as Madison, but I'm sure the owner will be interested in some of the recipes I've got, and it'll draw the manbun-wearing-hipster crowd who'll pay us $5 for a muffin with some oatmeal and chia seeds on it, LOL. :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 30 2018, @07:49PM
Should market some local potter's custom chia seed planters that are shaped like animals or other interesting things.
"Grow your own Chia directly on your own pottery pet!"
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 31 2018, @03:34AM
From having a step-mother from up yonder for the past couple decades, let me impart this bit of information I've gleaned about Wisconsin folks: as near as I can tell, there is no such thing as too much butter to them. I'd say it might be worth whipping up some butter of your own from heavy cream to sell to them at an absurd price but there are probably all kinds of silly regulations surrounding dairy products.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday August 01 2018, @05:18AM
Yes, and some cooking produces much refined carbon.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday August 05 2018, @10:02PM
<fx: raising a glass of something which would go rather well with an apple pastry>Cheers!</fx>
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 05 2018, @03:26AM
From an AC: congrats on finding a job you enjoy that lets you be yourself.
You create a product that everyone can agree on whether it is good or not (a simple, objective, and widely agreed upon standard). You know what you accomplished at the end of the day and so does everybody else. It's not a TPS report that no one will ever read.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday August 06 2018, @03:45AM
I'll agree with others and say congrats on finding something you like. Baking is satisfying -- kneading can be stress relief, And (unlike many jobs) you see results reasonably quickly. (Unless you're trying to begin a new sourdough culture
.. that takes patience sometimes.)