Important note! This Saturday at 9:15PM Eastern time, I will be live streaming on YouTube to celebrate my birthday! I’ll be playing video games, hanging out, and drinking. This will be my first livestream since I started this mailing list! I don’t expect to do these very often, so tune in, hang out, catch up, and chat!

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This week’s videos:

Happy Friday everybody! It’s just past Pi Day here in the US. I sadly did not eat any pie on Pi day, which is a shame, but I did get a free rose from the local flower shop for being able to recite the first 10 digits of pi, so I guess that’s nice!

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I'll admit, I only knew 8 off the top of my head, but Google is my friend. Thanks, @centralsquareflorist! #flower #rose #piday

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The last 1.5 weeks have been a bit haphazard for me, so I’m late on my update, and didn’t get much done! For fans of This Rental Does Not Exist, I apologize for not getting more writing out; it’s still on my list.

I have continued cooking, and will actually be upping my Blue Apron meals to three next week. Unfortunately, the charger for my camera batteries died, so I haven’t recorded any new meal prep to share this week, but I continue to cook!

I did toss together a quick video for one of my meals from last week: a video on my Korean Style Beef + Jasmine Rice prep. One nice thing it demonstrates is how much better my knife skills have gotten, especially with those radishes!

Unfortunately, I also had my first real terrible meal failure, with a recipe screwup (putting in the wrong amount of water) and a terribly bitter set of turnips that absolutely spoiled the meal. It’s the first meal I’ve had from Blue Apron where we haven’t actually eaten the entire thing – and not just because of my biscuits!

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The other day, I was cooking dinner, and needed to add 1/3 cup of water to my biscuit mix. I mistakenly added 2/3 cup. In the process, I invented... The pancake biscuit. #cooking #mistakes #flatbread #biscuit #blueapron

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In addition to the cooking video, I also put out a video showing the ability of my drone to rotate around an object on its own, one of the cool features I really love from my Mavic Pro!

Finally, I actually put out a gaming video! Mostly, it was just a way to get people to watch my birthday stream announcement, but I happened to beat the first zone of Crypt of the Necrodancer as well!

Short update this week, but I’m still here, and trying to get on top of things, as always. :)