Birdbraned

Anyone here partake in lunar new year?

What have you been eating or cooking, and what will you be doing with the leftovers?

I have some sauced peking duck I'm afraid to ruin, but also don't just want to stick it in the airfryer and serve over rice again.

I pruned the backyard patch pretty heavily the other month to give some other plants some light, and cut back the really leggy branches, and I've left it and it's just exploded with leaves this month.

I have been debating getting rid of them but it feels like they'd be as bad as getting rid of yukka (which I also have, came with the house).

But how are you supposed to stop ugly leggy branches and keeping the leaves healthy (without spots) without pruning?

It's ridiculous. Without them, you only have 2 equipable [hand] slots and the shoulder slots, and the [hand] multi task as utility slots to interact with [object], so you have to find somewhere safe to drop [object] before doing anything or experience a debuff to [manipulation].

I have a [backpack] I can equip instead, but there's so much buffer time to open and store or retrieve anything out of it I feel like I'm lagging.

I've been rereading the series as audiobooks on the daily commute, and the scene where Harry is in the Ravenclaw commonroom and explaining to McGonagall gave me pause.

I'm just after a physical copy of the magazine.

The net isn't any help and I haven't seen them at my local newsagencies, seems to have sold out very quickly

Can't find anyone flogging extra copies on Facebook either, but that might be my settings.

In a social context, like

"Can you tell me about _?"

Perhaps some of it is because those refusals are often followed by "why not" or "why are you being prickly about it", but I'm curious if this is a sum of my subjective experience, or if it's the question construcion.

I (tried to) make apple and rhubarb crumble for the first time and made substitutions that I shouldn't have. Namely, I put in two tablespoons of honey in with the the fruit with a tablespoon of white sugar and having no brown sugar, subbed white sugar in the crumble.

If I had an ice cream machine, I'l think it would be edible,, alas it's only edible in knifetip amounts and that medicinal honey aftertaste permeates it (which I'm not totally against, but it's strong).

I have about a square brownie tray worth in the fridge and hoping you guys have suggestions for something I can do other than toss it?

My fellowship started a message thread titled "50kp Thread" and people are posting "Player done, favourite please".

I get that it has something to do with being given 50kp to their ancient wonders, but how does it more specifically work, and what do their posts mean?

Me and my partner would like a cat, but we're renting. Getting the landlord's approval isn't the problem, it's the prospect of cat messes - we have (short) carpet everywhere you can feasibly have carpet.

What sort of messes and how frequently would you end up cleaning/fixing up after your cat?

I guess hair is one thing, scratching our own furniture I can live with, what else might we expect out of cat ownership that we should consider as renters?

Alternatively, what's considered essential (excluding base sustenance)

Apparently being too good at my job's opening statement makes me inhuman.

Beep Boop.

How many ways can you say "You've called __, this is _, how can I help you?" and still meet KPIs?