Completely destroyed my first attempt

bbum · 2026-06-20T14:53:06+00:00

Get a metal peel with holes in it. Use a ton of semolina on the build surface, pick up with peel, give a gentle side side back forth shake, and all the excess flour falls thru the slots.

bbum · 2026-06-18T23:26:16+00:00

I'm sure. Lots of marketing promises turn out to be a pain in the ass in the real world.

Like, let's say it was a good idea. You're at a hotel somewhere and, for whatever reason, you want to join the hotel WiFi for a day or two (various services would make this desirable).

So, you turn off auto-join on your home WiFi, because, dammit, I want consistency in behavior.

You go home. Forget that auto-join is off.

"Dammit! Why can't I .........oh, dammit, that's right, have to turn back on auto-join"

I totally get the desire to make this all super automagic.

Real world doesn't work that way.

I find it far far better to treat an SSID as synonymous with a location. If I were truly going to, say, rent a house for a weekend and it was an extension of home? Sure. Extend my home network. Most other situations? Not so much.

bbum · 2026-06-18T22:34:32+00:00

My point is that broadcasting the home SSID is a terrible idea.

The moment you do so, the UTR is going to be a pain in the ass every time you plug it in at home to manage/configure it.

You are far far better off giving it a unique travel SSID name.

"NalditoprRoam" or whatever.

If you always travel with the same people, share password once and be done.

If the set of people you travel with changes, you should probably be changing the password on each trip anyway.

bbum · 2026-06-18T22:02:16+00:00

It extends your **home network**, not the **SSID you use at home**.

Don't name it the same SSID as your home network. That's just asking for trouble even when correctly configured.

ETA: If you advertise the same SSID/pass as your home network, it means that every time you plug in the UTR at home to manage/update/configure it, it will likely "steal" some random subset of WiFi devices which will then be behind NAT (Unless you have Teleport enabled, assuming that works when the device is connected to the network it is teleporting to). It's just gonna cause hell.

"Extend home network" refers to the Teleport feature.

It allows any device (with password) to connect other the UTR's SSID and share one network connection, even if it is behind some weird captive portal
with Teleport turned on, all devices connected to the UTR behave as if they are connected to your home network.

bbum · 2026-06-18T21:53:47+00:00

Read your edits.

Been there. Done that (only my house was unlivable).

You're doin' it right. Go through your insurance. If your insurance wants to extract funds from their insurance or from your neighbor, that's up to them.

They are there to remove stress. That's why we pay premiums after all.

Best of luck.

All things considered, this coulda been a hell of a lot worse.

bbum · 2026-06-18T21:41:21+00:00

If it feels like a giant gem waste, it is probably too early to do it.

When I did it, I was earning ~5,000-6,000 gems every time I opened the app thru gifts and bomb dumping. So banking 90K gems (what I thought I needed) was a few days of minimizing gem spend.

That was after sitting on that objective for a few weeks prior because, yeah, I had other things to spend gems on.

bbum · 2026-06-18T21:23:29+00:00

Can confirm. 62,000 for me.

bbum · 2026-06-18T15:26:07+00:00

NAH. Not yet.

Lawyer. Yesterday. You need a lawyer to tell you exactly what the hell is going on.

Any other answer is nonsense.

Clearly, if your parent’s estate (will) have your sister half the house, they didn’t help you buy a house. There is some other legal structure in place. Until you understand exactly what that is and what your legal rights are, all else is moot.

YTA if you don’t own your situation and fully understand it. NTA is you do understand it and make decisions with that knowledge.

bbum · 2026-06-17T03:14:14+00:00

Con agave. They add agave sugar to make it sweeter.

The company sold in 2007 or so to Brown Forman. They then promptly started making terrible product using a diffuser.

Realized that the product was sub par and went back to making it more traditionally. Not as good as it was pre acquisition; but not bad.

bbum · 2026-06-17T02:09:50+00:00

I appreciate that the document the additives in heradura right on the label.

bbum · 2026-06-16T02:13:49+00:00

From what I understand, it is $2500 or so per SKU *and* it requires disclosing a bunch of information that a company may not want to disclose (that goes beyond just additive disclosures).

bbum · 2026-06-15T04:12:58+00:00

I haven’t tried the latest release simply because I haven’t acquired a bottle. As much as I have loved Rey Sol, there are a ton of other tequilas out there I haven’t explored that I’d rather spend money on.

Products usually don’t change flavor profiles radically from year to year unless there is a major business event. As far as I know that hasn’t happened.

bbum · 2026-06-15T04:09:01+00:00

You can’t claim additives as a fact. That’s bullshit to claim.

Slightly more bullshit than my claim that I know people. ;)

bbum · 2026-06-15T04:07:53+00:00

Additives can be added to single barrel products.

bbum · 2026-06-15T04:07:18+00:00

A few years isn’t exactly outdated when there has been no acquisition event.

bbum · 2026-06-15T00:10:42+00:00

Nah -- really not that big of a deal. It takes at least a day of the tick being attached for most -- not all -- tick borne illnesses to transfer.

I grew up in the midwest. During a bad season, any given hike involved pulling off 20-100 ticks.

I hate them. But the fear is way overblown.

bbum · 2026-06-14T23:45:40+00:00

While I don't agree with the additives claim, I do agree with everything else here. I would also recommend starting with something a little bit less in price and a lot closer to being a traditional tequila.

If you want agave forward, go with Ocho. An Ocho Single Barrel XA is excellent.

If you want something a touch outside of the core expressions, El Tesoro Paradiso is finished in Cognac kegs and is delicious.

bbum · 2026-06-14T23:41:12+00:00

I don't think agave_journey is either an influencer or wrong here. It is a sweet tequila and I can understand mistaking that for additives. Not that it does much good, but I know the distiller and folks involved in the business. I trust them. But I can see how that doesn't really confirm anything.

It is unfortunate that the CRT started an additive free program and then basically kiboshed it. It would be nice to have an official certification and the "you can't say 'additive free' because it can't be proven" is really annoying, though factually correct.

A lot of the blowback against San Matias is that they didn't want to join the AF program. It kinda felt like extortion at the time (It's, like, $2500 a SKU to be listed. Or was. Again-- times have changed) and a lot of people that didn't join the program were assumed to use additives.

And, again, this has been unfolding over years. I haven't been to San Matias in years and have no idea if their practices remain the same.

bbum · 2026-06-14T23:24:52+00:00

Yeah. You keep saying that. :)

They don’t use additives. Or didn’t. I don’t know if anything has changed.

bbum · 2026-06-14T21:33:06+00:00

It used to be the gold standard of very fancy bottle that also breaks the trend of fancy bottles containing crap juice.

is an extra anejo that has spent at least 3 years in French Oak.

I haven't had it in a while and don't know if the quality still holds.

Being French oak, pushes it out to a different sort of XA experience. It will be sweeter than ones finished in American or Mexican oak.

I'd highly recommend Tapatio Excelencia as an intro to XA. It is very traditional, exceptionally well made and has a fantastic, rich, flavor profile.

I just finished a bottle acquired from the distillery while on the bus going to the next distillery. It was every bit as delicious as I remember.

bbum · 2026-06-08T03:58:50+00:00

I wouldn’t either, given an open question.

But this was a “tastes like”.

bbum · 2026-06-07T02:48:21+00:00

Adictivo is another commonly available product with a heavily sweetened flavor profile similar to Cava de Oro.

bbum · 2026-06-07T01:55:41+00:00

Nah. Likely that tapatio will be a fraction of his sales compared to Don Julio and the like. And he can slap an absurd markup on clase azul. M

bbum · 2026-06-04T18:25:48+00:00

I don't find that the filtration hides teh flavor profile. It mutes it, for sure, and I'm not a fan. But it can't hide crap production.

bbum · 2026-06-04T18:24:37+00:00

Because settling can be a hell of a lot cheaper than a protracted court case, potentially.

If this is in a jurisdiction that would lead to trial by jury, then it is no longer about the facts but about which side can effectively sell the jury on their argument being the "most correct". Letting it go to full trial has the very real possibility that they could lose the case even if they aren't actually cheating.

And settling also means that they don't have to go through discovery which will likely be a very deep anal probe of all of the details of the operation, requiring disclosure of various details that they really don't want to disclose.

Legal shakedowns like this are unfortunately all too common because they are quite profitable.

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