cutting board so the other day the beautiful and talented alisa handed me a freezer bag containing four thick pork chops all frozen together. separate two, she says. heh. no problem. so i got down the raw meat cutting board. and i got the special frozen meat separating knife. there's really nothing actually all that special about it. it's a bit thicker and heftier than normal. and the tip's broken off. from a previous meat separating exercise. it's been replaced in the cooking knife rack. so no one really cares how much i abuse it any more. muhahahahahah! so anywho. the first step is to bang the frozen meat on the cutting board as hard as one can in the hopes that something breaks. lookie! it did. success? no. it was the cutting board that split into two pieces. fail. ah well. easy enough to fix. the special meat separating knife made short work of the frozen together meat. yesterday i got around to gluing the cutting board back together. i clamped it to another sturdy board of similar size. then used the big clamps to squish the ends together real tight. no sweat. sorta. somehow while unclamping the newly unbroken cutting board, it snapped in half in a different place. so i had to repeat the process today. except it was compounded by the fact that this break wasn't clean and smooth. it had to first be sanded. and sawed. and sanded. and sawed. until the edges were close enough to flush. which took way way way more effort than expected. i haven't unclamped it yet. i'm kinda afraid to. given what happened yesterday. well, if anything interesting happens, you'll hear about it right here.  ¶ 8:00 AM