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Spring is here along with BBQ

A couple weeks ago we had a pork shoulder, and rather than roasting it in the @KamadoJeff like we would normally, we did it in the oven.

A few steak on the grill

It was delicious, and there was the added benefit of the pork fat drippings that we saved for cooking.

However, this weekend I …

Distancing Supper - Pork Shoulder

A plate of pulled pork with some fixins'

Over the last week we have been eating great. Batch cooking some days, and scratch cooking others.

Yesterday we had no idea what we were going to have and that turned into this. Roasted pork shoulder from the freezer, corn fried in pork fat, onions, garlic powder and some herbs …

Today's attempt at bread

I made bread yesterday too, but today's looks a lot better.

Yesterday's attempt wasn't kneaded enough and I used too much flour on the board when I was punching down and forming the loaf.

Windows File Sharing Stops Working

I bought my first NAS nine years ago. I built my first computer that was dedicated to network file sharing 8 years ago, and I have been running UnRAID for probably 5 years now. Until Windows 10 file sharing has been relatively straightforward, since Windows 10 however it has been …

That Time I went to Australia

This was a trip that I was able to make by volunteering with IEEE Canada and attending Sections Congress when it was in Sydney, Australia.

Camping and Rafting In Maine

This was a true adventure of a trip, but I don't have as many pictures that I thought. The main adventure was white water rafting, but we also hiked to an ice cave, partied with a bunch of rugby players, and spent a lot of time around a fire.

2014 Spring in London

The only time that I have left the continent of North America, we spent a little more than a week in London and a day trip to Brighton.

Most of these are unedited, but that is something that I will do as time allows, eventually.

A Quick Trip to Corner Brook

That time that we took a quick trip over to Corner Brook for some festivies. We went on a boat and here are some great sunset photos from that boat.