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That dead yeast, apparently you can use it to make nutritional yeast. I saved this link, because I have some dead yeast as well and one of these days, I plan to try this. I would have more motivation if it was something I used more than once in a blue moon. But, a lot of people say that it adds umami. This wouldn't have the added Vitamin B-12, but neither I nor @Sir_Loin_of_Beef are vegans, so we probably don't need to get it from something other than meat.

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Sir_Loin_of_Beef said:
Would you like to trade some honey for some dead yeast?
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What a sweet offer! No thank you. You gotta dream.

I know I bought yeast just before the pandemic, I repackaged it and kept it frozen. Mine is still going strong, so far!
 
I've only ever kept yeast in the fridge. Never froze it. There's been times I've gone ages (years) without using it and when I do - is just fine.
 
dragnlaw said:
I've only ever kept yeast in the fridge. Never froze it. There's been times I've gone ages (years) without using it and when I do - is just fine.
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I keep my yeast in the freezer and have no problem. The breads I just made in the last week have used yeast that's been in the freezer since the beginning of COVID-19. Still active.
 
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I bought a pound of instant yeast at the beginning of the pandemic, kept most of it in the freezer and a smaller amount in the fridge for regular use. I recently ran out and bought another pound and I keep it all in the freezer and use it from frozen.
 
Andy M. said:
I bought a pound of instant yeast at the beginning of the pandemic, kept most of it in the freezer and a smaller amount in the fridge for regular use. I recently ran out and bought another pound and I keep it all in the freezer and use it from frozen.
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I also use mine from frozen. I use a bread machine.
 
I moved my parent's safe to my sister's house, and inside was a lot of family jewelry. Most of it is women's jewelry, which all goes to my sister, but I found three rings. The one on the left is my maternal grandfathers's wedding ring. It has a diamond and ruby (the color in the iPhone photo is not correct). The one in the middle was my dad's, and those are diamonds. The one on the right was also my dad's, with one diamond.

When I get back home, I will take them to my jeweler to have them cleaned and polished. I haven't seen him in a while, so I need to see what model of Ferrari he is driving now. He generally gets a new one every year. He never lets me drive them, but he will clean these rings for me for free. We do a lot of favors for each other. He once let me borrow a $55,000 watch for a photo shoot. I guess I can live with that. :ROFLMAO:

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Andy M. said:
Are you a ring wearer?
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I was when I was married, I had a gold and platinum wedding band, and I wore my HS class ring my senior year. I have no idea what happened to that class ring, but I sold the wedding band after the divorce on eBay for a lot of money. I wanted it out of my life.

I do like rings, but not enough to buy one. I really want to wear my grandfather's ring for dressy occasions, and that black ring of my dad's on a daily basis. He wore that ring every day when I was a kid. I thought it was lost, but was thrilled when I found it this week.

I was big into watches when I was younger. I don't know why, but car enthusiasts are also overwhelmingly watch enthusiasts. I can only guess it is the attraction to design and engineering. I still have a couple of expensive watches, but I can't read them without putting on reading glasses, so I wear an Apple Watch now. Big numbers I can see without glasses.

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My dad had an onyx ring with a diamond in the center too. I have it around here somewhere.

I'm not big on rings so I only wear a gold band that symbolizes my commitment to SO. (After my divorce, I sold my wedding ring to pay for it.)
Not that long ago, I stopped wearing a watch and rely on my phone for the time. Being retired, what time it is is seldom critical.
 
I had a lot of very cheap watches and very cheap matching shoes for most outfits I had. I have quite a few thin gold chains, some rather expensive rings. Other than a gold chain I rarely wear any of them now.
 
I have the ability to make wind up watches, and even wind up alarm clocks, go wonky. I haven't tried out this super power in many decades. But, it meant that I couldn't wear a regular watch. It would work for a couple of weeks and then start losing time, like eight hours in one day. Eventually my mum bought me a good watch and it happened again. She brought to the watch maker and he checked it over and said there was nothing wrong. I wore it again. It promptly lost eight hours or so. My mum wore it for a week and there was no problem. Then, first half of the 1970s, she bought me a new fangled watch with LED display. It worked fine. I don't remember what happened to that one. I bought myself a used Seiko in the late 1970s. I bought it from a reputable watch maker and it worked fine. I think I paid close to $200 at the time. I really resen ted paying something like seven or eight dollars to have a jeweller replace the battery. I watched carefully and it looked easy. It might have been easy, but when I opened up the back of that watch, a tiny part flew out and I never found it. So, that was the pretty much the end of wearing watches for me. I just learned how to spot clocks when I was out. Now, of course, I use my phone for the time. I did buy a cheap electronic watch once or twice, but I hated the way they felt, so didn't keep them long.
 
taxlady said:
I have the ability to make wind up watches, and even wind up alarm clocks, go wonky. I haven't tried out this super power in many decades. But, it meant that I couldn't wear a regular watch. It would work for a couple of weeks and then start losing time, like eight hours in one day. Eventually my mum bought me a good watch and it happened again. She brought to the watch maker and he checked it over and said there was nothing wrong. I wore it again. It promptly lost eight hours or so. My mum wore it for a week and there was no problem. Then, first half of the 1970s, she bought me a new fangled watch with LED display. It worked fine. I don't remember what happened to that one. I bought myself a used Seiko in the late 1970s. I bought it from a reputable watch maker and it worked fine. I think I paid close to $200 at the time. I really resen ted paying something like seven or eight dollars to have a jeweller replace the battery. I watched carefully and it looked easy. It might have been easy, but when I opened up the back of that watch, a tiny part flew out and I never found it. So, that was the pretty much the end of wearing watches for me. I just learned how to spot clocks when I was out. Now, of course, I use my phone for the time. I did buy a cheap electronic watch once or twice, but I hated the way they felt, so didn't keep them long.
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I had a high school classmate who had that same problem. He wore his watch over one of those wrist sweat bands that tennis players wear to keep their hands dry. Without that, his watch would stop. It was a cheap wind-up watch, not battery powered.

You are the only other person I have ever known with that problem.

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@taxlady I have heard many times that people with a very strong spiritual nature affect their watches the way you do. Then say that while the watch problem is annoying the other aspects of their spiritual nature are positive. (this comes from people paying close attention to their intuition, having near death experiences, having spiritually transformative experiences of all kinds)
I didn't have positive experiences with watches when I was younger and putting one on as an adult just rarely/never happened. I find them confining and distracting.
 
blissful said:
@taxlady I have heard many times that people with a very strong spiritual nature affect their watches the way you do. Then say that while the watch problem is annoying the other aspects of their spiritual nature are positive. (this comes from people paying close attention to their intuition, having near death experiences, having spiritually transformative experiences of all kinds)
I didn't have positive experiences with watches when I was younger and putting one on as an adult just rarely/never happened. I find them confining and distracting.
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I tend to favor science over spirituality, but have never done any kind of research to find out if there is any science behind the issue of people who seem to kill watches.

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caseydog said:
I had a high school classmate who had that same problem. He wore his watch over one of those wrist sweat bands that tennis players wear to keep their hands dry. Without that, his watch would stop. It was a cheap wind-up watch, not battery powered.

You are the only other person I have ever known with that problem.

CD
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I don't think the sweat band would have worked. After a number of months, wind up alarm clocks, that were only near me while I was in bed, also would start acting wonky. The same alarm clock would work fine (after a rest from being influenced by my whatever) if, I kept them in another room. There was a point in my life, in my early 20s, that I wasn't very good at getting up with an alarm clock. I could turn off the alarm in my sleep. I put three alarm clocks, each set for a slightly different time in another room. Some days, I could get out of bed and switch them each off as it rang and still not wake up on time. Yes, I had probably been partying again.
 
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