probably my expectations were unrealistic. My notion of casinos at that point was along the lines of Sean Connery playing baccarat, and not an endless line of zombified Americans yanking on slot machine levers.
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First try at homemade focaccia. I’ve decided it is basically the corn bread of Italy (but with wheat flour).
Pretty happy with the result.
I don’t think so.
My comment is based on the fact that you butter and oil the heck out of the pan, and essentially kinda fry the edges like cornbread.
But certainly not as crumbly as cornbread, which makes that a difficult sandwich bread.
A really wet dough, i’m not sure that I’ve baked anything so soggy before. But it turned out very well.
AC just feels rundown. After this topic came up, I searched “peak of AC” and apparently from a gaming revenue stand point it wasn’t that long ago in 2006.
New Vegas is at least glam trash and lots of lights and spectacle. It also has the exotic destination feel in the desert. AC feels like seagulls fighting to eat a waterlogged half eaten hot dog next to a 400 pound guy passed out in nothing but the top of an Eagles jersey…and also he’s your uncle.
Man, if acdevil is named for the beach resort in Jersey and y’all are hating on it, I hope he or she gets you back.
(and, if it is that city, I’m assuming that acdevil is probably mobbed-up so good luck to youse guys swimmin’ wid da fishes and whatnot).
Deciduous Hardwood to Christmas Fir Tree: Don't you think you're overdressed?
Christmas Fir Tree to Deciduous Hardwood: Birch, please!
Anton Chekhov was HOT!!!!
https://lithub.com/10-pictures-of-yo...ed-by-hotness/
Making homemade pork skins.
How am I just learning about the Donner versus Donder debate?
Principal Skinner : Oh relax kids, I've got a gut feeling Uter's around here somewhere hahahahaha, after all isn't there a little Uter in all of us? ... hahaha, in fact, you might even say we just ate Uter, and he's in our stomachs... right now!
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!
This is literally the most excruciatingly boring day to be Jewish, especially as a single man during COVID, but I take comfort knowing the majority of you will be happy today
Merry Christmas! Heat wave here in the low 80s today. Feels almost like a Pacific Northwest summer day. Overcast and cloudy all morning, then the sun finally breaks through and it starts to heat up.
Not according to SNL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzO1ghRKp4
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating!
A few Jewish friends of mine in HS used to get together today to celebrate what they called 'Jesus-mas'. It was like Festivus but without all the angst and bitterness.
I could put just Nat King Cole's Christmas album on repeat and be happy this day.
Went for a beautiful rafting trip on the French Broad today. Merry Christmas indeed.
Growing up in the area was pretty cool, but the actual city was bad. Had some fun times working at a casino after my freshman year.
Waiting for my booster.
There may not be a state East of the Mississippi that cracks my "top 10 states for natural beauty" list. I would consider MI, WV, NC, VT and ME but ultimately discard them. Mayyyyybbbbeeeee ME sneaks in. I need to think on it.
Well, I did say 'natural beauty' so your first point is more or less corollary. Perhaps if the ranking was 'natural beauty 400 years ago' some of the Eastern states, with their pristine old growth forests from boundary to boundary might have ranked higher but, today and for me, hard to beat the Western states for natural grandeur and splendor. Not for nothing that when most of the rest of the world thinks of the U.S. our (mostly) Eastern cities and Western vistas spring to mind...
I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred
Destiny is all
Back to work?
Nope, I have today off and 7 weeks of vacation next year.
But I thought they left you in charge? No wonder you can’t implement anything.
Granted I haven't been to any of the most famous natural landmarks out west (Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone), but I have driven through Texas and Arkansas and Kansas and Missouri and Indiana and Illinois and Colorado and Wisconsin and California and Oregon. (California and Oregon would make my top 10.) Looking out the car window from any place on the highway in Vermont beats any other state I've ever visited. If you want to claim that Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon has more natural beauty than any single location in Vermont, I won't argue. If you want to claim that because Arizona has the Grand Canyon or Wyoming has Yellowstone that the whole state is more naturally beautiful? Nah. All of Vermont is beautiful from the highway, not many states can claim that.
Nah, can't see us being number one, but I think we merit top 10 consideration...lots of beautiful states out there, California is really tough to beat all in all.
We are tentatively removing your probation (and resuming beer and cheese shipments) since you have shown sincere signs of remorse.
My bill at Lowe's yesterday was $50.50. A day later, I'm still not sure how to feel about that.
I've been trying to remember for years what the "Devil's Order" was. Only happened once in probably 2-4 years of running a register there (forget exactly how long it was before my long, scruffy college hair was relegated to the kitchen) so it was an unusual paring of items I think.
I did include VT on my original short list of Eastern states (along with NC, ME and WV) for potential top 10 inclusion. And, I do have a preference for big empty spaces so tough for the East to compete.
I'll also disagree with BD that 'pound for pound' Vermont is more beautiful than states like Arizona or Wyoming. Both are much more than their most iconic spots. Granted, you have to like the spartan desert but Arizona and its red rocks are beautiful to me. Wyoming has plenty more to offer besides Yellowstone.
I think my unassailable top 6 are (in no order) Alaska, Hawaii, California, Utah, Montana and Colorado. After that, I'm choosing among WA, OR, AZ, NV, ID, NM, WY in the west and NC, WV, VT, and ME in the East to round out my top 10.
Didn’t say most of AZ was red rock country but, what, maybe a third of it is? The portion on the Colorado Plateau?
I do like the Sonoran Desert, too, and have camped far enough south in AZ to be stopped by the border patrol to have my car inspected. Enjoy Chiricahua and that area.
Certainly didn’t grow up there but I think all of the places I’ve been in it are pretty. But I’m a fan of Desert Solitaire (mostly not AZ, I know) and big empty spaces so no surprise I like the desert. It’s certainly not everyone’s c up if tea.
Shiprock, New Mexico is my favorite mission trip location. The people are wonderful and the scenery is gorgeous. It is very brown but the textures are amazing. There are some beautiful sunsets, too.
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My toddler just jammed his finger in my belly button, looked me straight in the eye and farted. What. a. power. move! This kid is destined to run a major Hollywood studio or something!
Night two, no success.
This may be the longest span of days that I have had a fever that I remember going through. I don't like it.
It is day 3 so I'm actually pretty lucky.
I do not get sick often (hope I am not jinxing myself!), but when I do, it tends to kick my butt. Including fever for days to a week or so.
No telling what it could be. Could be COVID and the tests are just not catching it. Did the swab tickle your brain? If not, maybe not enough information.
^ might could be the old fashioned flu, which seems to be having a resurgent year.
Stayed home today with a bad cold (pretty sure that’s all it is, I am lacking the symptoms typically associated with COVID). Better safe than sorry.
I pull for the ACC. Also I believe you have a family member who plays for Clemson don't you Dink?
Whenever posters use this shorthand, that Spaceballs song plays in my head...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCApeXCE0W8
I'm seeing a lot of online hubbub about this blind Bulgarian mystic, Baba Vanga, and her predictions for 2022. Here's what she sees:
- A virtual reality takeover for the coming year.
- Another pandemic, this time discovered in Siberia, that is caused by a frozen virus that will be released by climate change.
- A prediction that many cities will face water shortages that will result in political consequences as alternative solutions are used.
- The invasion of Earth by aliens with the arrival of an asteroid.
- Famine in India due to a drop in temperatures that will result in locusts attacking crops.
- More earthquakes and tsunamis with “intense bouts of floods” in Australia and parts of Asia.
I really want aliens to make contact during my lifetime so fingers-crossed...
No one commenting on your "That's a real owl" post in the bird watching threadmakes me irrationally angry. That was a genius post.
Off to the Humane Society tomorrow morning.
http://manwillneverfly.com/
This club was started by pilots of the now defunct Piedmont Airlines. I thought it might tie in nicely with the theory regarding robotic birds in the bird feeding thread.
The “U S Navy” actually had me convinced that the 9,000 ton hunk of metal that I was stationed on could actually float on the water. Hah! The special effects that went into that deception must have been expensive. Fortunately, I was able to see through their lies, thanks to some mind clarifying liquids.
Brushing up on my Spanish. I took five years of it a lifetime ago. Anyone have a favorite app/class/resource? I've been using Duolingo, but I'm open to whatever works. My vocabulary is decent, but my grammar es muy mal.
Always fun to be working on your last day off for the year. Someone* implanted an automatic renewal clause into a contract(approved under other leadership) that we caught yesterday. I got to call the boss and tell him he needed to log in because canceling the contract was above my pay grade.
*other than me
Sometimes you want to commit a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark.
off to further enrich my dermatologist
Man I hate people. People are the worst.
I'm doing it. Just bought my plane ticket for Nashville. I'm going to the US Figure Skating Championships next week. Caveats - if I start having symptoms, I won't go. My biggest worry is that I will start having symptoms in Nashville. I'm staying in an Airbnb. If I have symptoms there, I will isolate. The hubby thinks I should go. He thinks I need the trip for mental health reasons. He told me that if worse came to worst and I was sick in Nashville with no other way to get home, he will drive to Tennessee to get me. I plan to get a bunch of surgical masks and wear 2 when I am in the arena, not because I am worried so much about getting omicron, that is the concession I will make towards trying to prevent passing it on to any of the wankers who expect me to keep protecting them while they remain unvaccinated. I will check the local CVS or Walgreen's and if rapid tests are available, I will test myself daily before I go to the arena (there are none available around here). The arena is not requiring proof of vaccination but is requiring masks.
What I am giving up though, is going to Durham first to take in the Jan. 4 game in Cameron. Anybody here feel comfortable going to that game? I'll give you my tickets. I think it's against Georgia Tech.
By surgical are you talking about N-95 or KN-95 masks/respirators? Those both utilize a middle layer known as a meltblown layer. Also known as nanofibers. That is the layer that gives you the best mechanical filtration for very small particles. I would recommend one of those over two of the more common "surgical" masks. In the common literature, I see the terms used interchangeably sometimes. If you are concerned about availability of N-95s, they are readily available. If necessary, I can ship you a box of 20.
Always be skeptical of self-descriptions.
I meant surgical, but I will defer to your recommendation and get N-95s. I won't be able to get them properly fitted but they are probably the better choice. By readily available - do you mean Walgreen's? Or should I try somewhere else?
ETA: I just ordered a box of 25 from Amazon. I need the kind with straps that go around the ears. I have too much hair to wear the ones with straps that go over your head.
I do most of my shopping on Amazon,these from Kimberly-Clark should work:
https://www.amazon.com/Kimberly-Clar...s%2C120&sr=8-2
I actually would recommend KN-95s as I would see the loops of the N-95s to be an issue over long periods of time, but there are others in the Coronavirus thread that could comment better than I. I do think it would matter more if you were going to Cameron for the game. Not to mention they are a bit less expensive. For years KMB was the competition, they make incredibly good products but old habits die hard.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
To test fit either, see if any moisture from respiration fogs a pair of glasses(sunglasses work for that). Fitting them to yourself takes a little practice and they vary with each mask but can be done.
People call me the “Uvula”. Like, they’re sure I must have a purpose but nobody knows what.
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(A great album, btw)
Some people call me Maurice
Some people call me the gangster of love
Nobody calls me the space cowboy.
Aimo is a sniper.
Rare air but still not even half of Ymo...
2022, here we come.
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I mean, what are you going to do? Just stay in bed all day?
Best actor of 2021:
Brian “The Boz” Bosworth as the sheriff of Fansville.
Fight me.
I will not make it to midnight.
Someone needs to see this. I don’t know who but someone.
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It is 70F out and mid 60s relative humidity wise and they just issued a freeze warning.
But it rains around half as many days, so more opportunity for things to dry out. :)
Raleigh gets more rain than either (by inches of rainfall, Seattle still takes the cake for # of rainy days) and still semi-regularly gets dry enough to warrant warnings about campfires and fireworks and such.
The last two weeks have been dense fog warnings every morning and sunny afternoons starting after 1 PM. Conducive to grass growth but not grass cutting as the window to mow non-wet grass is about an hour of daylight, if that. The spurge was purged but now poa annua, oxalis, and dandelions are waging war on my stand of bermuda. It is a never ending battle.
2022 starting wet and mucky.