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“I have a key to your home. Sure would be unfortunate if somebody used it...”

Also, hi. Is anybody else self medicating with Animal Crossing in these chaotic times?

But I don't have that as an option in the queue. Is it better to accept an incorrectly categorized flag or to let a bad answer escape the queue?

I don't think I've ran into this before. There's an answer in the low quality queue. It should probably be deleted, but not because it's low quality in the sense that it is random letters smashed on the keyboard or other similar examples, but because it's not an attempt to answer the question.

@Stephie lentils are a top tier food!

@AIQ awesome! I'm into heat too.

Happy Thanksgiving, all.

I didn’t know it was possible to close a question as a duplicate of another closed question with no answers that was marked as a duplicate. It kind of hurts my head.

Haha :)

Also, I think I’m ready to lay bare my failure and share baking disaster photos.

@Stephie I am. I didn’t have a chance to read it closely but it definitely didn’t appear to be in good faith at first blush.

I agree that it seems strange at first

It’s interesting to hear about new kitty not wanting to hide a bit. I’ve definitely seen that personality before.

@rumtscho i

Oh no. I was busy with a tournament all weekend and I missed the most exciting trolling event to happen on this stack in recent memory

:P

@Stephie I doubt the fine folks at Scaled Agile, Inc. would agree with you!

Definitely in the "make sure you have an employer who is willing to sponsor it" price range for me, though

Maybe not blown away. I guess it's expected in tech.

Man, I was eyeballing a product owner job last year and I looked into some of the scrum training. I really like project stuff and product owner is a job I've done before but never in a dedicate role. I was blown away by how expensive those certifications are.

I've never really worked with hardware. Unless you count Lego Mindstorms :p

Exciting. I think testing is a really cool field (said few people ever).

I think my bread was some terrible combination of overproofed and underworked. I don't know. And now my starter is back to its sluggish ways again. I'll send pictures when I suck it up and stop being embarrassed about it. I'm also kind of preoccupied this weekend and my brain is in computer world instead of food world.

Yeah, it's been fun.

But no, the result of this exam wasn't a certification. I think it was more of a technicality to help them gauge the program effectiveness for next year and to comply with their accreditation requirements.

This press release has a quote from me about the whole thing. Basically I ended up in this cool competitive training program.

sans.org/press/announcement/2019/10/03/1

I keep trying to figure out where to start to explain what I've been up to, haha. This year has been a bit of a wild ride.

Hahah. More like it covered a lot of ground and most people would think it was pretty boring.

IT stuff.

So it was a low stress situation

The exam was part of a program I recently finished and it's more to help the organization gauge the effectiveness of the program, I think. So they can adjust for next year.

@Stephie I haven't taken the time to really troubleshoot the bread but it seems to me that there were multiple problems. Which is annoying because the dough felt really good. The exam was fine. The stakes were low for me and I performed as well as I expected.

@Stephie @Jolenealaska Pumpkin pie is just a delivery vehicle for whipped cream.

Bread fail. Mad about it. Off to take an exam. No time to be upset yet. Haha

:)

@rumtscho Yes it is. I am at once relieved and feeling kind of silly for being dramatic about it before. It can be difficult for me to let go and just wait for things to work out on their own time.

I will be thrilled if my result is half as pretty as yours. We will know in the morning!

It feels very good! Promising.

Alllllsoooo my little starter that had more faith in itself than I had in my ability has grown into a dough ball. Slapped & folded. Standing up to shape and get it into a basket right now!

@Stephie What an excellent problem to have! I am very jealous. I'd rather be processing mushrooms than sitting in front of a computer right now.

Depending on what kind of activity I see by this evening, I hope to be able to mix and shape tomorrow then bake early Halloween morning.

Sometimes life just hands us the correct circumstances, I guess. :P

Oh yeah, that's the good stuff right there.

Pretty

Thaaaaaat looks good. :)

@Stephie I'm more than happy to wield that kind of influence!

I switched over to 100 whole wheat instead of the 75. And I've been keeping it warmer.

This is also how Orks work in Warhammer