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Facebook Marketplace Scam

Within hours of posting my listing on Facebook Marketplace, I was contacted by a “buyer” that ultimately turned out to be a scammer.

Breakfast Burrito (Recipe)

A breakfast burrito is a convenient way to enjoy your favorite breakfast fixings, and it’s easy to adjust to your preferences (or whatever you have in your kitchen).

Sweet French Toast (Recipe)

French toast is a simple dish with just three main ingredients: bread, egg, and milk. Normally it’s golden yellow but this version is dark brown because I’ve added brown sugar. I like it because the sweetness is already inside and you don’t need to add any syrup.

Pork Sausage Experiment

First attempt at a pork sausage loosely based on white pudding.

Carbonara (Recipe)

Spaghetti alla carbonara (or just carbonara) is a rich pasta dish that gets its flavor from generous portions of cured pork, cheese, and black pepper.

Second Dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine

I received the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday. My arm was sore until the next day, more than after the first dose, but I didn’t experience fever, tiredness, or anything like that.

I will say that I got the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, but…

How Do You Pronounce “Suggest”?

I was reading about words in English with a double soft G (“suggest,” “exaggerate,” and “Reggie”) and apparently the “American” pronunciation of “suggest” is something like “sug-JEST” with a hard G sound in the middle, which is blowing my mind right now.

A COVID-19 Vaccine and What This Means for the Future

The FDA recently authorized the use of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Here are some of my thoughts on what this means for the pandemic and the future.

Happy New Year

Ten years ago today, I was helping my parents clean out the garage of our new house.

“Yeild”

Found this while reviewing dashcam footage coming home from San Diego. Google Street View from 2014 shows it wasn’t always spelled that way.