odd dreams

Ok well only involves one dream.

I will tell you the whole thing (as I remember) but only cause it was that odd....but theres one key point that confuses me.

So...

Adam left our condo to hang out. I told him Chris, my ex would be over just to visit. No big deal. Chris came over. "I miss you and want you back and never want to go home. Will you take me back?" I looked at him in a confused face. "uhhh no?" So to break awkwardness I asked Kelly if she wanted to go to this party with me. She agreed. So I left.

We had to cross the worlds largest intersection to get to the party.

*I dont remember this part of the dream....some junk happened?*

I went to pee in the toilet that was overflowing and flushing at the same time...making a whirlwind sort of thing. I did some gymnastic move to pee in it. Then I took off all my clothes and left. "Where are your clothes?" Kelly said. "Theyre wet in the bathroom."

We went back into the bathroom and their was a chick in a wheelchair throwing up in the scary toilet. I grabbed my clothes and she came closer. Suddenly I noticed another, non scary, normal toilet to my right. She dunked her head in it and flushed then put it in a ponytail like it was the normal way to do hair.

I put my clothes in the hosts room. Then we crossed the intersection.

*more junk happened?*

Now Im awake and confused. Well this dream was like...on Friday or something lol. Anyway...why does he keep popping up in my dreams? I have absolutely no feelings for him...at all and I dont want anything to do with him relationship wise at all. So confused!

I mean...I love Adam. No doubt about it. Im not hiding anything. I have no idea what my mind is trying to tell me. That I still wanna at least be friends? That I think you did the wrong thing and will regret it...even though I dont care?

I mean its the second dream in a year where he has popped in to tell me he loves me and to ask to be taken back. Its not much but still...very odd.

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Making smoked foods Tin can smoker Cold smoke

I thought Id try to get the food to a place where I had a little more control over the temperature. In my first experiment with my tin can smoker, the device was inside the BBQ, and contributed quite a bit of heat. I suspect the BBQ was at around 50c, which is perfect if you want to breed bacteria.

Id prefer not to.

I figured I might be able to create smoke by just dry frying some wood chips, and I think it shows some promise.


I put the can on the wok burner and ran it on high for a bit before adding some hickory wood chips.

In this photo I used a flash so as to not distort how much smoker there was. Its a dull day, and if I took it without the flash, I would have captured half a second of smoke instead of 250th of a second or whatever flashes really run at. [Which is why you cant see much of the flame]

Probably much much faster.


Anyway...

It worked a treat.

A total successful test, and only took about 5 minutes to start smoking, and be ready to use. It might even be possible to just move it inside the BBQ now that its going, and the BBQ heat night keep it going.

That might mean it will be useful as a cold smoke maker, and a hot smoke maker.

I guess I should write some stuff on what smoking is all about instead of jumping right in with a smoker. Sometimes I forget Im supposed to be writing about this stuff, and just get on with the learning.




120 Things in 20 years Making cold smoke in a tin can smoker on a wok burner may just be the 2nd success in a row. Im not sure thats ever happened before.

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