• The price of the christmas tree has doubled in the past decade.
    • Picked up beef ribs, pecans, and honey from costco. Bought ghost pepper chips and beet from riteaid.
    • Cleaned the entire smoker (a deeper scrub than usual).
    • Smoked 18lbs of short rib. Hand pressed tortillas. Bchan in town with the hot sauce.
    • 2c masa harina, 1.5c water, 1tsp salt. Mix. Flatten. Griddle at 7. 10s one second, 2m other, 2m back.
    • Ordered new wood chunks. A 4lb bag of hickory, cherry, apply, mesquite, pecan, each $7.
    • Cool article on machine learning for horse race betting: https://teddykoker.com/2019/12/beating-the-odds-machine-learning-for-horse-racing/.
    • Tabulate is a python package that’s much better at pretty-printing the output report than my custom method. https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate.
    • Dry knives right away. They can mold, oxidize, rust.