I was inspecting the pepper plants because they look unhealthy. Then I saw fine webbing. Uh-oh! I took out the magnifying glass and confirmed: Spider mites! Dammit! I don't want to spray chemicals on them but I think I'll have to.

I used powdered milk (Birch Tree. It's everybody's milk.) to make Kefir milk for the first time. I used regular milk (Magnolia, Harvey Fresh, etc) before and I assumed same fermenting time. Nope. They fermented much faster. Twice as fast in fact. I almost lost the batch.

The collaboration you never thought you'd see. Uncle Roger Comes to the Wagon to Teach Me Egg Fried...

I put a lot of dead leaves in an old rice sack with holes and kept them moist. I kept them there for ~45 days before adding them to the compost pile. There leaves had a bunch of mycelia and some have sprouted white mushrooms.

TIL Merry Christmas in Hawaiian is Mele Kalikimaka. Parang hindi nila masabi yung "merry Christmas" so they did the best they could.

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When you were kids, did you play a game called Oo Hindi Bakit Wala Pukpok Ulo, or was that a thing only in our family?

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I just saw Oppenheimer. It's ok, but those nude scenes with Florence Pugh were totally frivolous and did nothing for the story. They were out of place and I'm surprised the director was able to talk her into doing it.