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My wife makes some good chicken meatballs. We've found that chicken thighs have a richer flavor than chicken breasts and are also cheaper. I'm not sure what it is about chicken breast meat that is considered so desirable, we often find it to be dry and lacking in flavor.

When I voted in the city it was easy enough. The voting station was a 5-minute walk away and I don't think I ever had to wait more than a couple of minutes to get my ballot and go to a booth to mark it.

From a party's perspective it's always handy if you can persuade dead people to turn out and vote for you.

We have a propane grill our friends gave to us about 9 years ago because they were upgrading it. In 9 years we've used it a grand total of..... never. Today we had burgers, but we cooked them on a regular stove. It's too much effort to haul the propane grill out and heat it up for the sake of...

A lot depends on where that person is at the time. If someone is leaning towards thinking "there must be more than this" you'll want a different approach to someone who has never really considered whether there is anything more than this, which will be different again to someone who has...

I use a Brita filter for drinking water. It makes a difference to the taste of the water, although describing a taste difference is difficult. At some point I want to get the plumbing updated and when that happens I want to put in a whole house filter, probably a softener, and maybe a reverse...

I've often considered what a bunker might look like, and just what kind of resources it would take to build and stock one. If you don't mind existing in a very small space it's probably not all that hard to do. The big question is how long you'd need to stay in it. It's all very well eking out...

I can't blame the people who walk away from them in disgust. It really does nothing to further the actual mission of the church to try and shove things down peoples' throats. I always think of the young ruler who came to Jesus, Jesus told him what to do, and he walked away very sad. And then...

That's probably not worth changing. My wife and I usually have a cup of coffee in the morning and then another in the afternoon - depending on the weather we either have a second hot coffee or a cold brew. If you're the only coffee drinker and you don't drink a lot it's probably not worth doing...

Our local guy's regular price for a regular bag is significantly more than I'm comfortable paying, nearly twice the price of my previous supplier. But when I asked him about buying in volume he offered me a lower price and when I increased the volume further he dropped a bit more. He's still a...

No, we use a splash of either milk or half-and-half. We buy a coffee we both like from a local coffee shop that opened up. The owner roasts the coffee barely a mile from our house.

My wife tried it for a while. I think she mixed regular milk with pumpkin spice. The original recipe called for half-and-half but she used regular milk to avoid the extra fat. She liked it for a while but soon decided there wasn't much point using good quality coffee if she wasn't going to...

I don't doubt many people may need help with nutrition education. It's remarkable just how much garbage is in things packaged as food, and remarkable how even the quoted figures of nutritional content are often largely meaningless because the idea of what counts as a serving can be so strange. I...

Maybe not, but if you're talking about $1000 per shot you can do an awful lot with that kind of money. In fairness I suspect the vast majority of people can lose weight with changes to diet and exercise. I've come across a lot of overweight people who insist they "hardly eat anything" but who...

$1000 is enough for a lot of healthy food, a gym membership and a few sessions with a personal dietician and a personal trainer.

I really have no interest in paying silly prices just to get into a venue, only to then find I have to pay exorbitant prices to park and be told I can't take anything bigger than my cellphone into the venue, and then have my wallet further emptied by outrageous prices once inside. Give me a...

A food bank can certainly be a part of an outreach program, showing the community that the church cares and that the people in the church are actual people and not some kind of drone. If people feel that church "isn't for people like them" then it's not necessarily a bad thing. I used to live...

Gimmicky - that's a good way to describe what I was saying about the push to "appear relevant" that results in becoming less relevant. If the church has enough people to make things happen then youth activities are an obvious way to get young people used to the idea of being in church. The flip...

I've been pondering this a bit recently. Sometimes I wonder if the church's desire to "appear relevant" has resulted in the church becoming less relevant. Sometimes it seems that the church is trying to shift and change to become the things that it thinks young people want and in the process...

Fun With Cryptosystems. More specifically spending more time than I really should have done to figure out the reason even the simple two-line demo program wouldn't compile was because I had an old version of a library installed. To fix it I had to uninstall it through one method, then install...