pizza slow (high quality)

fresh mozz margs and proper (whole foods deli) peperoni for jr. trying to go as fast as I can: launch, go back inside, shape, go outside, turn, go inside, sauce, go outside, pull, etc.

~75-85 seconds at 900F

Also I got a bunch of aluminum plates at the right size for these so that I can to set the full size oven to warm and rack these as they come out so that and everyone gets warm pizza instead of cold

three uncut 12” neapolitan pizzas: two margheritas and one pepperoni, on a counter with a pizza peel, two kinds of olive oil, a glass of beer, and a bottle of ginger ale

close up, a margherita piza

close up, another margherita pizza, this one was shaped on wheat flour and has pecorino romano cheese as well

macro close up of the pepperoni pizza. the pepperoni is cupped and the cheese is melted in circles, making an overlapping polka dot effect over the red tomato sauce.

The Muni Potrero Yard trolleybus tour was super neato. I’ve been bike commuting past this station for fifteen years off and on (less so the last five) and it was a special treat to tour around inside where some of the lines I ride the most call home before it is rebuilt into a modern facility.

https://mastodon.social/@gravely/114449902629389095

a mama doe on a hillside of grass. behind the doe the brush thickens but is not a forrest, in which two others (at least) younger deer linger, unpictured but who walked by just after I took this photo

a black snake about two feet long with white rings and a white belly crosses left to right on a gravel path

The same snake from passing by, heading away from me

took the fam to the Pulgas Temple via the Sheep Camp Trail, saw flowers, saw water, saw lizard, saw deer, saw snek, not bad for a 'burbs hike!

the first time I came out here in '17 we took a more boring route and saw none of these things save the water, go figure.

A green sign with white uppercase routed letters hanging from a green pipe on a larger steel pole, surrounded by green deciduous, pine, and bushes under a clear blue sky, which reads:PULGAS TEMPLETERMINUSHETCH HETCHY AQUEDUCTSAN FRANCISCOWATER DEPARTMENT

a smattering of papery-leafed pink flowers with yellow centers over greenery

a ground covering greenery with tiny yellow flowers

photograph of the pulgas temple, a (pasting from wikipedia) a circle of fluted Corinthian columns surmounted by a large masonry ring bearing the inscription "I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people" [from Isaiah 43:20]. There is a reflecting pool lined with cypress trees.

edit: oh, this one that caught my eye but it isn’t the only one, see: https://pixelfed.social/p/DocPop/806269366762456744

original:

have a great weekend! (pardon the ascii noise to follow)

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totally thought I’d licked the entire time change thing until the everloving wife pointed out that I had made dinner an hour late every day this week. I went back to cross reference the last post I made in chat at work and even that was an hour later than I normally work.

what the hell? I’ve been getting up around 5AM like I normally do and then just disappearing an hour somewhere to fall back?

just got around to ordering prints to go in the the mat we had everyone sign at our wedding 18 years ago, from the dvd the photographer burned us, which I’d eventually lost, but only after uploading them to flickr which I eventually deleted but had exported first, 9 years ago, which I only just imported to apple photos from my file server.

✅ can you order me a print of this picture? [a data warehouse of crossed out due dates]

the sonophone ios app has a delightfully responsive volume slider but the navigation confuses me so I can’t get into the habit of using it exclusively.

this home assistant hack can’t do search, which is a bummer.

honestly plexamp continues to be the most delightful but they’ve chosen to deprioritize and kill http streams too, and its speaker targets are limited to airplay and bluetooth, and both stink.

this is all so stupid. I assume accessing http streams and favoriting them is not a revenue opportunity and thus prioritized somewhere below first party enlightenment sound daemon support, so the “new” mobile app hard-rake-staircase-ollie 🙄 (the designers did a great job, the engineering decisions worry me) still can’t do what I’ve been doing for nearly fifteen years.

home assistant can, clumsily, so I faked up the old UI with four sonos cards each locked into single mode.

The sonos mac app on my machine this morning. Sonos has used this hokey three column layout for a very long time. Left: speaker selection and grouping. center: now playing artwork over playlist. right: source services, media library, or favorites, currently displaying favorites.

home assistant using the synthwave theme (purple with pink headers and white text), with a music dashboard selected.left column: speaker selection. center: now playing artwork over playlist for the selected speakers. right: media selection showing “browse media” (useless) and Favorites

the same dashboard on my phone, which collapses all of the columns into one, is incredibly silly, but works just fine for me, assuming I can trick myself into remembering to use it instead of opening the bad app first, which I tend to do.

Everloving wife and I used to call the corner grocery, Duc Loi (r i p), "the dl”, now a few years into having moved and Casa Guadalupe being our default, I’ve finally managed to stop saying “the dl” by saying “the gl.”