Yesterday... Last night...
First, I got my new iPhone XR working. Not that it was EASY getting to Apple help, but once there, the assistance was great! The agent I spoke to (on my old cordless phone) was patient, helpful and knowledgeable. I also need Verizon help and got it. 5 hold minutes each is nothing to complain about. I called my neighbor friend Deb to try it, and my sister later. It worked.
HURRAY!
Apps and contacts come later. Knowing the iPhone worked was the major event. I do miss having a printed manual though. Looking stuff up in print is "sometimes" easier than visiting a help site that makes you figure out even the QUESTION to ask.
Second, I cooked outside the first time this year. The Boston Butt was cut into 2 slabs for greater dry rub exposure and smoked for 2 hours. Well, quite frankly, after 2 hours the surface is sealed and it is easier to complete the cooking in the oven at 225F.
Third, removing the pork allowed space for 12 chicken boneless skinless thighs to get smoked for an hour. They finished in the oven just as the pork came out.
The pork was SO GREAT I just noshed on cut parts all night. Best pork butt I ever cooked. BTW to those with other names for parts of pork "butt" is not actually "butt". Its' a shoulder part. Sorry, sometimes I get "eww" when mentioning "butt" LOL!
I drowned the meat in dry rub overnight, and it really pain off. I bet the chicken thighs are the same (dinner tonight).
Sometimes I get lucky, and the pork was IT. Maybe the chicken too.
I walked better yesterday. It comes and goes. Yesterday was better than average. Maybe going out to the smoker helped distract me. Any port in a storm, as they say.
New seeds arrived in the mail. I better get busy with some of them as I'm behind schedule with some early ones. I've been spending more time in the basement lately (laundry, litter-boxes and some seedling tray platform tray repairs).
Had to "glue&screw" some of the platforms. The drill was "heavier than I remembered it". I got by carefully. It's funny how slight differences in strength make big differences in handling tools. Took both hands to hold the drill straight, and also to move things around.
But I couldn't have done that at all 2 weeks ago.
Next project is to get all sites listed in my password manager so that I don't depend on old lists and marked-out scribbles. It's a pain to change everything, but I can see the ones I've done make life easier. The hardest part was figuring out how to add passwords to start. It is easier after the first few.
At least it seems to work. And I have wicked long and complicated password manager password. Takes minutes to type it, but I don't have to do it often.
I only wish everything went that easy...
