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Hi Sarah! Welcome to the LUG. The Ultimate Brick Show was a great place to check us out – hope to see you at future events.
NancyI didn’t jump on this earlier but since I live in Monroeville I would be happy to join for a future session, or if needed, for the October 15th session.
Welcome to Alan and Del. You have found a great LUG here. I won’t be at Q3, unfortunately, because of travel, but I hope to meet you at a future event.
It sounds like it will be a great evening. Unfortunately I am out of town on the 28th, so I won’t be able to join the fun at Dave & Buster’s.
Does the Dave & Buster’s manager know there will be Lego Masters contestants present? If I were D&B I would not only make sure the sound is on, but I would be calling the TV news stations to cover it.
@rcgrier3406 and @joshhall – I’m so thankful to see that one or both of you will be there for second shift Saturday, because I was anxious I would not be able to handle the trains efficiently.
I signed up for tomorrow to help out. I’m hoping someone will be joining me for the late shift on Saturday!
@knb112, can you tell me where the link is to get a couple of new LUG signs made please? I need to write one for my Office Expansion and update my cooling tower one. Thanks!
I like doing spreadsheets and I like doing tedious things like sorting through details (similar to sorting through LEGO bricks). I was a technical librarian in my work life so I have some information research skills and related organization/cataloging skills. The thing I hate to do is call people on the telephone. I doubt that calling people on the telephone is going to be coming up in the LAN ambassador world.
I am not on Discord but I have been meaning to look into it and learn what to do – so yes, I’m interested in that. I just need to learn.
Fresh Cranberry Cookies – from https://www.justalittlebitofbacon.com/fresh-cranberry-cookies/
For the Cookies:
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp table salt
1 tbsp cornstarch
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tbsp lemon zest
14 tbsp (7 oz, 1 3/4 sticks) unsalted butter cool room temperature
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup chopped fresh cranberriesFor the Lemon Glaze
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
1-2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp lemon zest
1/2 tbsp cream cheese
red sanding sugar optionalInstructions
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, table salt, and cornstarch. Set aside.
In a large bowl (or the bowl of a standing mixer), rub the sugar and lemon zest together until the sugar has become lemon scented. Add the butter and beat the sugar and butter together on medium high until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and mix well. Add the flour mixture and mix on low until just blended. Pour the cranberries into the bowl and fold them in with a silicone spatula. Put the cookie dough in the refrigerator and chill for 30-45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350F.
Drop the dough by rounded tablespoons onto cookie sheets, about 2 inches apart. Gently flatten the tops of the cookies with the bottom of a measuring cup or glass. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes, or until cooked through and lightly browned. Transfer the cookies to cooling racks and cool to room temperature.
Whisk together the confectioners’ sugar, 2 tbsp lemon juice, lemon zest, and cream cheese until smooth, adding more lemon juice if needed so that the glaze drizzles from the end of a spoon.
Using your spoon, scoop up the glaze and drizzle it over the cookies until all the cookies have some glaze on them. Sprinkle the glazed cookies with red sanding sugar.
Lots of great tie-ins for you @smallfrost! I can tie my being laid off from Westinghouse at age 58 to the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Westinghouse and other commercial nuclear vendors went from a posture of preparing to sell many new plants, to an intense industry-wide shift to analyzing and defining lessons learned from the disaster, and making modifications to the world’s fleet of reactors to harden them against similar scenarios. Westinghouse went through a large downsizing that was life-changing for me.
