Everyone who cooks meat should own at least one meat thermometer. I took a couple of introductory courses to professional cooking and first 2 classes of the semester were all spent on food safety. Proper handling of food, prep space cleaning, general kitchen cleaning. Now I have 3 meat thermometers so no matter who I'm cooking for their meat comes out at the proper temperature and there is no cross contamination.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend the parent posts answer (thermopen) - whilst I do own one and it's fantastic, I'd not that particularly brand loyal.

However.... would totally recommend getting an actual instant read one at a similar price point instead of a crappy $10 version (not that you were suggesting a cheap one here! just raising it for anyone who was thinking that might be an option)

I had a few iterations of cheap ones, and moving to an actual instant read thermometer was a game changer for cooking. You can quickly eg check 20 different chicken wings for doneness instead of spending 20 seconds or so checking one and wondering if the thermometer has actually come up to temp before moving on to the next

This actually worked out to my advantage! I did this on a site, found out that they didn't ship to Canada so I abandoned the cart. I got all the oh no emails so I emailed them back telling them I CAN'T buy their stuff because you WON'T ship to me.

Couple of days later the company CEO emails me back. First he apologises (bonus points to a Canadian), promises to fix the cart abandon logic, and offers to ship me 2 of the things I was going to buy for free.

They will hopefully arrive this week

That sounds like a fine resolution, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Far too many businesses are being run by people completely out of the loop.

Emails, especially from the CEO, are legally binding.

I'm not saying this would be the response from every situation like this. I was just really pleasantly surprised

I've had good results with ACloudGuru and they have a 50% off sale right now. That is a better deal than they had last year.

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+1 for ACloudGuru. I've been a happy customer of theirs when studying for AWS certs.

My post tech dream job is working the returns desk at Costco.

Oh you ran this suit case through a wood chipper? Cool. Here is your money back.

Low stress and hopefully good benefits.

I'm really passionate about learning Docker. I know it is probably super easy/familiar to a lot of you but it is phenomenal to me. I've been in technical sales for the last 10 years and while I really know my products really well I've let my actual technical skills lag. I've since switched roles and I'm now doing more hands on technical work with my products and less sales. I've had to start learning new stuff. In the past I would spin up a single purpose VM, put the thing I needed on it, and move on. I was recently forced to use Docker for a project and I was totally out of my depth. I've been learning as much as I can as fast as I can not only for my job but for my own personal stuff. Kids want a Minecraft server? Docker container. I need to use some of my own products in a different way? Docker container. All the things I have single purpose VMs for on my home network. Migrate to Docker containers.

In a way I'm disappointed that I didn't do this sooner BUT I'm also really happy that I'm learning something new AND it is something so practical to me.

P.s, if you have some great Docker learning resources please pass them along!

Just making things more interesting, here's a brand new world of docker networking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKFMS5C4CG0

This is crazy. I know, networking in the Virtual Machines would be kind of similar, but check this out.

Thanks! Right now I'm feeling pretty good about docker BUT I'm still a bit nervous about how storage works and networking works. I need to get a level deeper on those 2 topics. I'll be sure to check this video out.