The first Internet thing I remember actually doing is my friend helping me sign up for my first email account, on Hotmail... In high school computer lab, so it must have been 96 or 97.

I do remember reading about the Internet and trying to find a way to connect from home on our Packard Bell... But we were remote... It would have been some extreme long distance bills..

Thanks! The beans are black eyed peas, supposed to bring luck in the coming year... Not a big fan of baked beans, myself... too much sugar. We use the leftover ham from Christmas to use in the beans. Works out great.

The IPA is a local brewery (Redmond, WA). It's available in all the Kroger's around here... not sure about outside the PNW.

And yea... those ribs did not last long...

System admin for the first 6 years of non manual labor career. Freelanced at the same time...

Dev, now, but lots of inexpensive tech in my home... Including a Debian server running on an old Dell Pentium 4.

In case anybody wants to know, here's the cook.

The probes are on the grates. You can see the one closest to the dome, on the top grate in the pics of my cook.

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