And if you make lasagna with it, you can just use the uncooked sheets, no need to screw around boiling the noodles beforehand.

Homemade pasta is so much better. I've been making it for years with the hand-crank variety I bought from an Italian grocery store where I live.

Yeah, and funny how it's always the pickup drivers in the ditch on an icy day. They forget that while 4WD is awesome to get moving, it doesn't help you stop.

I teach for a living (post-secondary). Every once in a while, a student is solving a problem and they get all the steps right, only to end up with the wrong final answer due to a mistake. I always feel bad for them because they were so close, yet so far. I get the same reaction when someone tells me that they see how our fiat currency is broken and can see all the downstream effects of it, and then they reach the conclusion that gold is the solution.

Cute doggo. It's in the -20 C temperature range this week where I am, and my dog just happily lays on the patio in the snow. Must be nice to have a thick fur coat (Norwegian Elkhound).

Kind of like what Ricky Gervais once said: "Remember, Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks."