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Easy Air Fryer Pizza

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 This is one of the easiest recipes to make in an air fryer, and it probably takes way more time to prepare than to cook and eat. It starts with a single Tandoori Oven-Baked Naan as a quick-fix alternative to a pizza dough base, then you apply multiple layers of your favourite ingredients. I use a Ninja Crispi air fryer and set it to 10 (regular heat). Hotter is better in pizza, but no need to start a fire by pushing the heat envelope past 11. Start by placing the Naan in an easily removable silicone pan that fits the air fryer and lets the Naan lie flat while cooking. First, you need some sort of tomato sauce base applied with a teaspoon; it's good, or you could try various other sauces like barbecue, teriyaki, or other sweeter sauces. Just swirl it around, and don't leave it too thick, since too much will make the dough soggy and harder to hold when baked. I learned about less is more from the master chef, Nahar, at my favourite Crepe Cafe, and I have become more than a regul...
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Beating Evil Ain't Easy

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Having been around longer than many but being born after the two guys who live in the penthouse suites of that hotel in a really, really warm place (Hitler and Stalin), I can say I've had my taste of enough bozo's who claim to be doing good for something but ultimately betray the truth and become good for nothing. It's a hard task to do what you can against this kind of self-driven greed and focus on their own importance, in their eyes. One might call them a madman, and according to Google, here is part of what it comes up with for a definition of madman. A madman is a man who behaves in a very strange, wild, and dangerous way. Pretty straightforward, and a lot of folks from history and the present day fall into that category. So what do you do about it? Vote in the next election. There are arguments on both sides for yay and nay, and I lean towards the 3rd graphic here, which is about "Why Do I Bother". If you have three or more equally useless choices, is it wo...
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People Lick Their Plates Here

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  This was a statement from Eisho (pronounced E-show ), who is really just the barista at the Crepe Cafe (joking; he makes the best drinks ever), located in the Springbank Medical Centre in London, Ontario (open from 8:30 to 4:30, Monday to Friday), which I watched get built (from my balcony) about 15 years ago. The Crepe Cafe will celebrate its 11th anniversary on Monday, March 1, 2027. Yes, I will be there, since I recently discovered this gem every day except weekends and holidays, because doctors don't work those hours regularly or at least don't see patients due to their heavy schedules. The star of the show, and owner, master chef, and surgical artisan of the best food I have ever eaten anywhere, is Nahar, the precise creator of everything at Crepe Cafe. Her background, including coming from Iraq along with the barista, Eisho, includes time as a gymnast (Nahar, not Eisho), and her precise approach to that discipline is present everywhere in how she prepares and presents t...
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Everything Is Better With Bluetooth

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  The idea came from an episode of TBBT, Season 2, Episode 18 of The Big Bang Theory , titled "The Work Song Nanocluster," March 16, 2009, where the bozo that he always was in the show, Sheldon, declares to Penny that this is true for men everywhere.  It rings true in so many ways. I don't own a pair of Bluetooth headphones because one limitation is the rechargeable batteries' current run time. I won't get earbuds either since I hate wearing them in my ears and the batteries are even smaller. Here's a new technology that fits this theme.  I recently visited a local hearing clinic, Bentley Hearing Services , where the tenacious audiologist, Keelan McGoey, fought like a demon possessed to remove a stubborn blockage in my right ear. This was part of a rating I use for excellent customer service, where Keelan earned a score of 36 out of 10, the highest I have ever given anyone. She also did a great job of analyzing my current hearing condition after I did the cog...
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All-Time Live or Recorded Performances on YouTube

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I recently found some AI "artists" that are getting a lot of hits on YouTube, like Dusty Rivers and Eddie Watson and decided (as a so-so musician of 60 years or so) to compare them to real music like the 5 links I chose to represent real singers (and I mean they are REAL singers). They all sang from their toes. (Interesting, except for Whitney, I left the other folks off my graphic presentation of a piece with the same title, lol). So I played all of them, and by coincidence, Dusty Rivers came up on YouTube right after Ann Wilson's version of Stairway to Heaven, which brought all the members of Led Zeppelin and the entire audience to their feet at the end of that magical performance. So listen to these incredible performances, mostly live, the way you want to hear the best voices. I will continue my analysis after you enjoy the performances. Get comfortable and maybe count how many times you say WOW during their spectacular vocal presentations. Reba McEntire & Linda D...
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Finally Fulfilling Two Old Promises

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Warning! This story will not make much sense to many readers, so I understand if you don't get it. I need to do this to finally fulfill a couple of promises I made to 3 wonderful people I met online while playing Pirates of the Caribbean, which Disney just decided to stop because, I guess, they didn't like the money it was returning. Damn all the people playing it. We had about 700 in our clan or group. I don't remember what term they used in the game.  I made the promise 11 years ago. Frankly, one good thing is that both Gemini and Canva made writing the story a lot easier than it would have been back then. I finally got it together after a chat with a new friend I made at my favourite bar, The Wort and his name will be Grasshopper in the story. Basically, he said I just have to let it go, and that is what this story is helping make happen. So, the four of us in the game, we will call "The 4 Amigos," had so much fun chatting in what was a really marvellous socia...
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How to Influence Excellent Customer Service

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This concept is a no-brainer, really. If you treat others the way you would like to be treated, they will return the favour in spades. So it starts with being friendly, and it goes from there. I'm writing this story finally for my favourite all-time cab driver, Charlie (his real name; he wanted it that way). He kept asking, "Where is my mention in a story?" so here it is, and it's about more than just him. Charlie and I hit it off immediately, which doesn't happen that often with a cab driver, in my experience. Much of it is that we both had a lot in common: wisdom from advanced age, a love of talking to make the ride more pleasurable, a love of learning, and the ability to talk about just about anything. (I'm sure Charlie will tell me what I missed and what needs correction or modification, and that works for me because I can always improve, making the world a better place) But let's go back to the importance of influencing excellent customer service and ...
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