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  • I call her Hamela Sandwerson.

    I gotta get the good sourdough from the bakery down the street and I have to get there before they slice them all so I can get an unsliced load and slice it myself, extra thick. This bread retains heat without burning like no other, so I throw the thick slices in my extrawide toaster and gather the other fixings.

    On each slice, a mix of Kewpie mayonnaise (good for ages 0-99, IYKYK) and mustard. Now, at any given time I have five different styles of mustard ready to use, but for preference, to give Hamela her due, I go with the Kosciuszko beer mustard, which is readily available at the Polish deli a block from the bakery, where I also get:

    Black Forest Ham! Sliced as thin as the surly teens at the deli can manage. Now, you may think this is a ham sandwich, but we want to use the most flavorful, fragrant, savory ham exactly because we're only going to use enough to impart delicious hammy flavor, and for that, thin slicing and bunching it when we put it on the sandwich is key. I'm talking maximum surface area, babies.

    Atop the ham, cucumber pickles. I prefer dill over bread-n-butter. Then a one-year-aged white cheddar, cut thin with a, I don't know what you call it, but I call it the "cheese peeler".

    Finally, the star of the show, fresh greens. The urban farm halfway between my house and the deli & bakery are always bagging up all the edible greens they gather from the edge of their growing areas and it's heavy on the mustard greens, making it a good complement to the ham and aged cheddar. I put enough greens on to double the height of the sandwich, then smash it down with the second slice of bread.

    Warm bread on the outside, savory ham and cheese, a little bite from the mustard and pickles, and the crisp greens... it's perfect.

  • Sometimes! I make mine with onions, peppers, and carrots. My favorite diner doesn't shred them, just slices them thin. Some places bake them instead of frying them, too. There's a hashbrown for every occasion, they're not just tinier french fries.

    Also, okay, I know it's relatively rare to french your fries these days, but it's even more unheard of to french a hashbrown. (I'd totally eat a frenched hashbrown, though.)

  • In a familiar situation (at work, getting my kids ready for school) I just look around for all the things I can see need doing and do whatever is highest priority.

    In an unfamiliar situation (eg. trying to schedule back-to-school checkups) I flounder. I still look around for all the things I can see need doing, but;

    • I don't always know what needs doing
    • I don't always know how to do it
    • I tend to do not the highest-priority task but the one with the lowest cost / barrier-to-entry
    • I will be fighting my anxiety, related to the first two points, the whole time
  • I have found no software solution, premade or coded by myself personally, that beats a pen & paper bullet journal.

    I recently tried one that boasted about how it used AI to help organize your tasks, but it didn't and couldn't do the one thing I needed it to, which is automatically populate a daily to-do list with suggested tasks.

  • I hear it more in-person recently, but also online. What does "out-of-pocket" mean when describing behavior? I've only ever heard it used to describe financial circumstances until a couple years ago.

    It seems like it's roughly synonymous with "crazy" or "rude" or "unexpected", but I'd love to have it explained better.

  • Well me, I'm a waitress. If my coworkers don't wanna work I tell them to take the cut and go home, then I stay and make more money. And while they're there, if they wanna hide in the back instead of monitoring the floor, well, I shark their tables. Gotta work to make money, honey.