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Recipe Review: Sirloin Tip Roast

 From time to time, people have said I'm a good cook.  But I think of it more as finding good recipes.  Recipes that don't have super complex ingredients and deliver good flavor.  I enjoy the search.   For the last few years, we typically will get a bulk order of beef from a friend that raises steers.  We are going to eat beef and it's our modest effort to buy local and lessen the impact.  When you buy in bulk, you end up with some cuts of beef that can be a bit tougher to turn into something yummy that the family will enjoy.  So I'm often searching for new recipes for those cuts and a thick and lean Sirloin Tip Roast can be in that category.  We are approaching that bulk purchase time of year again so I'm trying to empty out the freezer and decided I'd pull said roast from the freezer and look up a recipe.  It was a rainy weekend so it seemed like a good chance to fill up the house with that classic pot roast aroma.  This recipe from Sunday Supp Movement reall

Good Local Gamer Help

 Gotta mention the quality service we received at a couple local electronics/repair stores recently.   We had a Nintendo Wii U game-pad that hadn't worked for years.  I had essentially assumed my children's poor handling of the device over years resulted in a faulty charging connection.  After letting the device sit dormant for a few years, we decided to get it checked out to see if we could get it repaired. 

We initially reached out to local gamer store Press Start, a place I had never visited and they said they don't really do repairs and suggested we contact a local repair shop called

target="_blank">UbreakIfix.  They took the device in for an assessment at no charge and a couple weeks later we got a phone call about the results.  They said, "The charger is bad, we tried a different charger and it worked fine." Skip ahead skip ahead I take the kids to the store to pickup the device and the guy at the register basically says the same thing and hands us the device with no charge.  He said we could maybe find a new charger on E-Bay or Amazon but for the heck of it I tried calling back to the Press Start gamer store.  

The employee on the phone explained they have USB Wii U chargers for about eight bucks.  Another ten minutes across town and we had the charger cord in hand and a few minutes later we had arrived home and the Wii U game-pad charged just fine on the USB cord and my kids enjoyed hours of Wii U games after not having access for several years. 

A big thanks to a couple local stores treating a family fairly and providing a quality solution. Thanks!



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