Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

After last week's success with bread, I decided to try one more time. Nothing special. Just white bread. Followed a video super tightly, ignoring time suggestions and going by matching what the video was showing.

I actually overworked the dough twice. I threw it out each time and started over - if this is going to be my last loaf of homemade bread, I may as well just burn up the ingredients. The third time seemed to come out okay and matched the video I was watching.

I let it rise twice, again, ignoring the time suggestions and going by poke test and doubled sizes. Baked it as the video said, again ignoring the time suggestions and going by seeng if it matched the video.

And it's still too dense and super chewy.

So I'm finally done with bread making. It's been two years, and whatever I'm doing wrong, I can't figure it out. While I can make a pretty decent pastry bread, I'll leave the loaf-of-bread-making sorcery to the professionals and buy bread from here out.

Today I learned this existed.

https://youtu.be/GhYIEISiEbo

So, when I get my nest freelance paycheck, I'm considering treating myself and picking this up for my Virtual Arcade. I just wish it was an octagonal gate and not square. I hated the CPS Joystick for that reason.

I'm up for recommendations, though.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GJC5WSS?th=1

Please don't die, little guy. I was never good at keeping plants, but I'm gonna try....

Thank you Cab Calloway for being there when I was a kid in Sesame Street, and for being there for me when I was adult in the Blues Brothers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esnDnIK2v1g

Did some vegetable harvesting today with members of A Supportive Community For All at First Light Farm. Grabbed some cucumbers and tomatoes. Some of these went straight into a salad that night. Farm-to-Table in under 10 hours....

When I found out they had some holy basil, I asked for some. Thinking I'd only get enough for a meal, I was gifted an entire plant. So this is my new roomie. Now I gotta figure out how to keep her alive. I don't have the best green thumb....

@juergen_hubert @Alairthephoenix - A vote for "I am 30 or older and don't officially do the proper 10 finger typing, but can touch type at 70wpm."