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My Mom always controlled any prime rib in our house.  She used to make a sign on the oven door threatening the four males to stay away.  

Oh, threats were made 

Yeah, I've been experimenting with higher temps. For beef, I understand most of the competition folks have moved up to 275. And if it's good enough for Aaron Franklin, it's all fine for me.
I've even done pork shoulder at 350. Works great and I can do it in the morning instead of trying to run the smoker all night.
In the kamado, temps don't spike, which is nice. Once the vents are set and the temp is stable, it barely varies a few degrees for hours and hours and hours...

The competition folks I know are generally around 315.  They're typically using offsets and have to watch it closely.   The nice thing about 225 is that it's completely fool-proof, even beginners can get it completely perfect.  Unless they undercook it which is a common mistake.
But these days I figure I've done enough, that I'm happy to go 285 and finish a few hours quicker.
I'll do pork butt at 300, but 350 works fine too.  It has so much fat and connective tissue distributed throughout, it's an extremely forgiving cut.

In my family, there were no notes.  If something got gone too early, they'd just make double the following year.  



I also had a grilled cheese yesterday, with bacon and a spicy sun dried tomato mayo on it.  Amazing.

A ham, one could say, is a main character of the funny book, "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists".

No.  I'd have preferred winning to losing.  But I felt nothing after the loss because the result had no impact on anything.  We weren't going to Indy, or to the NY6, and whatever bowl we wound up in at that point had nothing to do with how we did in those games.

Interesting. The sort of imbalances of bowl season ended up making the regular season success more intrinsically valuable for me. I kind of stopped thinking of playing for a spot at 10 on New Year’s morning, perhaps because I got tired of valuing that as a specific playout. 
Different strokes for different folks I guess. 
(Maybe it has something to do with a pair of back-to-backs when I was in school. UW would play in one bowl, finish two games better and land in the same place. Really made the Champ Sports/Alamo/Outback/Citrus jockeying less interesting)

I actually took my tree down last night.  Weather was perfect, nobody objected, and it's 3+ days til the weekend, didn't want it up that long.  I'm usually do it on the 26th.

I like having it sit around with all the toys and stuff around it for a while.  Will probably take stuff down around New Year's.