Man, I dropped the ball on that one.
Lo siento.
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The Groundhog Day poll caught me on a day when I had a pretty nasty head cold. Spending the next 30 years with a runny nose, sore throat, and headache didn’t seem all that appealing.
On a day when I’m feeling relatively healthy, I’m definitely going for it.
Hmm. I have a jar of beans that i sometimes use as pie weights. Does that count? The jar is labeled, “pie weights”, so i won’t accidentally try to cook with the ancient and overly-dry beans.
Well, you’ve answered you own question there !
We have a little bag of pie weights. I could just as easily use coins, but I kinda like the weights.
Breakfast: Usually a freshly nuked chimichanga or sausage muffin/biscuit, but occasionally a bowl of cereal/leftover pizza/something else.
Fast food drive-in: How far from the restaurant am I when I discover the mistake? Depending on the type of mistake, I may just eat it anyway.
Beach: Hot sun, sand everywhere. Heck, no – I won’t go!
Home footwear: Barefoot unless I actually got dressed and went somewhere; if so, I take off my shoes but leave my socks on.
If you’re quick you can go in the Polls only thread and change your
discussion to polls before anyone notices !!
Of course in the film he couldn’t leave that small town.
I know what pie weights are. I don’t think I have any, but I’m not at all sure. There’s a batch of inherited kitchen stuff in the attic and there might, or might not, be some in there. I don’t generally use recipes that bake the pie shell separately.
I’ve tried it a couple of times. I don’t do that, either. But i still have the jar of ruined beans that would be perfectly useful if i decide to try again.
I’ll bear that in mind if I decide to try such a recipe. I’ve got some old dry beans hanging around which would be a lot easier to find than the possible pie weights that might or might not be in the attic.
Yeah, they work fine. Just put a piece of parchment paper between the beans and the crust, so you can neatly remove all the beans.
But then I’d have to get some parchment paper!
You could use a piece of a brown paper bag, or even a piece of cotton cloth. Anything that won’t burn or melt at cooking temp and that you don’t mind touching your food.
Agreed, though I voted more in the middle, with the 101-1000 days. It would pause all meaningful relationships (like with my wife), but at least I wasn’t in the process of doing an endless repeat of some variation of XYZ First Dates.
But I’d enjoy quite a bit of hedonistic luxury and consequence free spending and eating, but given the realities of modern American air travel, I can only go so far from my town with limited air service, and the time lost just getting a flight and getting to Denver semi-kills most options outside of hubs.
So, I’d probably indulge for a few months, try to improve skills/other things for a few months, and within the 2-3 year max of this selection, be bored and ready to have some meaning and consequence in my life again. I strongly suspect that I’d be bored and stressed anywhere near the end of this timeframe, and setting it as a minimum instead would be terrifying, even with the escape clause.
Though I’m in my very early 50s, so I don’t have quite the incentive to put off time moving forward that some may have.
OK. Both of those I’ve got. Thanks!
I use beans for pie weights just as any sane person would 
No need to spend money for something when a perfectly cromulent substitute is already in the pantry.
Nitpick: McLean Stevenson, not MacLean.
I enjoy all the Colonels, in their own way.
If you give a cook a pie crust, they’re going to want some pie weights. If you give them pie weights, they will need parchment paper…
I have not just magnets, but N50 neodymium magnets on my refrigerator because there are things like ice picks, bottle openers and heavy calendars hung all around.