Awesome!
-jk
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Last night I had Culver's for the first time in probably 6 months. Best fast food money can buy.
Some posts in the EK board infuriate me...
I should post less...
So, the offer isn't open to everyone?
The GF's sister is now engaged.
The pressure is on.
(Doesn't help that today is her birthday)
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
How Mrs. OPK bagged me:
https://youtu.be/eX15un8nf3o
Don't befall the same fate my friend!
She would only marry you after you won your first case?
Some other boards I post at remind me that educational outcomes vary widely.
In a bit of very sad news - Cafe Algiers in Harvard Square has closed after 40+ years. And for me, it isn't one of those places that I will miss but when I think about it, no, I never really went there. I really went there. A lot for someone who no longer lives in Cambridge. I'd pop in for brunch or a hummus plate or sometimes just for tea 4-5 times a year. It was my go to place for meeting theater friends in the Square.
Just last week I walked by wondering if I had enough time to grab something before I had to pick up son #2 from his class. I decided I didn't and went somewhere I could get take-out. That was my last chance. I'm sad I didn't get to say goodbye. (They closed super quickly announced on Friday that Sunday would be it.)
Yesterday : 12 oysters, 2 soft shelled crabs, one shrimp posted boy.
I am banning myself from all threads on Duke's Women's basketball team. Per doctor's orders.
Oh man, you're making me rubberneck at the crash site.
Yeah, potential carnage there.
OPK - you are too important to me, stay away from WBB threads for the time being. Instead - go make a wanker of yourself in the President's thread! ;) There's a topic going on right now that could get BD banned if she's not careful. Must not take the posting bait, must not take the posting bait.
Must. Not. Feed. The. Troll.
Just dropping in to say hi, after many moons away! So, I gather I should avoid the thread about the election? ;)
Newton_14 to the rescue, getting rid of all the negative one.
Rats, I always miss all the fun.
Corned beef hash, roast beef hash, or hash browns?
Their people may need to get in touch with my people. Who are really cats. I don't have any people. Just a bunch of cats.
I wonder if my avatar and signature gave that away? FWIW, avatar is the sister and the signature is the brother.
Corned beef hash.
Hash browns,
Poached egg.
Now I wish I was eating a real breakfast . . . .
They were handing out infarctions in that other thresd.
No problem. Just add:
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Ingredients include oats, coffee and chocolate. What else could you possibly need? :rolleyes: ;)
Back and better than ever?
Thought yesterday was Thursday pretty much the entire day. Sigh.
No worries, the show must go on. Unless you are staying on Ocracoke Island.
Last day of chemo!
Thank you all!
Today is also my mom's 80th birthday. The oldest two sons of BD are on their way to Logan to fly down to Durham to say Happy Birthday in person!
Vibes for his last day of chemo.
Oh yes! Mega vibes and I hope it's a nice milestone celebration tonight.
Probably about to get sent on Sabbatical, so wanted to wish everyone a great Halloween until I return.
Mashed tater orders will still be taken here though, if I have access.
"All we are saying is give peace a chance." - John Lennon
And this:
https://youtu.be/wB5r6HeOA-8
I was in eighth grade and getting ready to go to school, when I heard the news on the radio via a local NYC station. Still remember it vividly as I listened to the report in my kitchen.
And, being both Irish and a tad macabre, I can now present The Cranberries:
https://youtu.be/tsN86H0yzrE
I love the Cranberries!
If I could write songs and sing like Dolores O'Riordan - I'd be on tour right now.
There were a lot of great women led bands(lead vocalist) of the late 80's/early 90's when I was in college. Concrete Blonde was a personal favorite.
Must be a slow news day. Or everyone is tap tap tapping in that other thread?
I have been posting in that other thread. Probably more posts in the last 24 hours than in all the prior days.
OPK gave me food for thought in that thread. I must know research the candidates stance on potatoes and gravy to aid in my decision making process.
:D And yes, the pun was intentional.
I'm having a similar problem.
Trump is all "our potatoes must be baked again! They are good potatoes. Great potatoes! Only from Idaho! We will make our baked potatoes great again!!!"
Hillary is all "I like potatoes the way you do. And I brought my own hot sauce in my purse."
Gary Johnson is all "I don't think it's the role of the government to dictate potato preparation. But when I get the munchies, Lay's Wavy chips are killer."
Jill Stein believes in cooking potatoes by solar power, otherwise raw.
Potatoes are merely a ketchup delivery tool...
I don't really like ketchup. I rarely eat it.
No worries, I'll eat your share...
Steak and stake, two different things.
Lime and Lyme, two different things.
Bread and bred, two different things.
Ketchup and catsup, the same thing? I don't think so.
Shady, shady, shady.
Shady.
A rose by any other name . . .
Maybe I should go to a fast food restaurant and drink straight from the ketchup spigot?
By the way, I love mustards also.
Hey, to win this war against the "others," we need to start some sort of game here. Any ideas?
Brings up a ridiculous memory of young motherhood when pre-teen son of weezie would delight in gathering ketchup packets, placing them under car tires in the parking lot and waiting for the rude noises produced when those cars backed up. Boy-centered hilarity of the particularly hapless kind.
Then mom would oversee the clean up while mildly berating the junior hooligans. I need to remember this for the post Thanksgiving table "Laughfest At The Expense of Others Festival..."
I have an idea... what's the best live show you have ever seen?
Daniel J. Travanti playing the lead in A Touch of the Poet at the ART (American Repertory Theatre) in the early '90s. Absolutely stunning piece of theater, the kind that makes the audience sit there in stunned silence for a few moments before jumping out of their seats.
Lia Cirio in Boston Ballet's 2015 production of Swan Lake - oh man, finest performance of Odile/Odette I've ever seen - redefined for me what I mean when I say a ballet is a classic.
The only semi-interesting story I have music related was one summer afternoon/evening in the San Fernando Valley. Some of the guys from Guns N' Roses were visiting someone in my neighborhood. Long story short, they ended up playing a few songs from their soon to be released Use Your Illusion albums.
Every time I've visited DBR in the last few days that other thread has been above this one. Enough of that.
Almost went to a Halloween party tonight. Decided to pretend I like baseball.
Yellow mustard is for when no other mustard is around...
Missed yesterdqy's football game. Dealing with car issues.
There's something shameful in watching the start of the Marine Corps Marathon from the comfort of my bed while enjoying a cup of coffee, isn't there?
We're still 156 pages ahead. There's 10 days to go.
Keeping us above TPT (The Presidential Thread) whenever possible.
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FatherPK was in food packaging for years So I have long been fascinated and impressed with Chic-Fil-A's catch-up* packaging. You can pull off the tip to squeeze and spread it on your sandwich, or pull off the top and use it as a dipping reservoir. Genius on a industry-specific level.
* Apparently you can spell that name of this tomato-sugar paste anyway you want, so this is my new preferred method.
mayonnaise.
If you like that stuff, we can't be friends.
Funny story, at a friends wedding reception, someone asked him how he knew he found the right woman. His response, "she hates mayonnaise".
They are now separated.
Why bother with the biscuit?
http://carsbikesbacon.com/view/13738/mp
Better source of carbs:
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Drove my new old car today. Debating 3 potential choices for a new daily driver, an RDX, Outback or Golf R.
I'm not really a condiments kind of girl although I will occasionally use a hint of mayo as "sandwich glue". I like a cold cut, a piece of cheese, and some lettuce on my sandwiches. That's usually enough.
But all in all, I'd mostly rather have soup.
I had French Onion soup today. Supposedly, it isn't good for cats. I ate it at a restaurant and not at home.
I've had a couple outbacks - really liked it. Drove well (especially in snow) and was comfortable on long trips. Liked the heated outside mirrors (great to keep 'em clear in rain), wiper defrosters (before driving -they didn't do much at highway speed), and bun warmers. I suspect it has a lot more space than the other two.
Not a true SUV, but it got down fire roads to get to interesting mountain biking trails.
-jk
Thanks for the input, it definitely is on the list due to space/size particularly for things non human. A little more background, I have an Audi A4 right now, got it up in Boston area when I lived on the North Shore. I got it then because it had a decently strong engine(got the V6 over the Turbo 4 offered at the time) and I felt I needed a four door vehicle. Oh, and all wheel drive for winters. It also had enough get up and go to have fun in traffic. FWIW, I lived in an apartment at the time. Fast forward 7 1/2 years, the A4 has served me well. I've hauled yards of mulch in it(in bags, just fold down the rear seat) 10 foot long boards, and various other sundry items. However, I've often had to beg/borrow for help getting stuff home, mainly because the form factor of the item just wouldn't fit in my vehicle. Since moving away from Boston, I've owned homes. They have different needs compared to apartments. And I went from having a couple cats to having a clowder(not a hoarder, one was from a hoarder, 3 were abandoned as kittens, and the last one is blind). So, that says to me I need a different vehicle going forward. Or at least one that can handle different form factors. All three on my list do that. The Outback has the most space but not having driven one yet, I'm concerned what I'll think about the CVT. I know the 3.6 is an option and likely the route I would go. The RDX carries less but does have more space than my current car and can accommodate more shapes. It also has a pretty strong engine and has more get up and go compared to the Outback. The final one on the list is a Golf R. Massive horsepower for a little car = lot of get up and go. But not a whole lot of space to carry stuff. Some different form factors can be handled due to it being a hatchback, but ultimately this choice is about having some fun.
Oh, and all three have the latest collision avoidance, lane departure, etc. doo dads such that they get a plus from the IIHS(I work for an insurer). That is a must for me going forward.
Okay, so there it is. I guess I really need to get out and do some test drives.
We went from a minivan and a Honda Civic to a Honda Accord and a Honda Civic now that our oldest has graduated from college. (He's driving a Mazda something or other.) He's living at home for a little while and every now and then the whole family does things together - and we have to take two cars. That's the only drawback to getting rid of the minivan.
There was an ad years ago that called out a guy in a tan minivan, I think while he was at the gym. I think of that add whenever the word minivam comes up.
When headed to Woodman's the fried clams were always a side.
When I was a kid, the only seafood we had was the occasional Mrs. Paul fish sticks during Lent because PapaPK did not like seafood. Then some fried Calabash during beach weeks at Duke which was, well, just fried stuff. It was not until I went to Charleston on business at about age 30 that I actually had real seafood. Changed my world.
And then there was discovering sushi by just throwing some homemade tuna rolls down with wine before I could Think about it. Now, it's hard for me to think of much tummies than really good sashimi.
No mayo though.
When I was young, we would go visit my grandparents at their house in Los Angeles. Always on the list of things to do was go deep sea fishing. Dinner that night would be rice, vegetables cooked tempura style, and whatever we caught that day(sashimi).
Few things better than catching trout in the NC/SC/GA mountains, then eating them freshly cooked over a camp fire.
Last weekend - 96 mini cupcakes and 24 regular cupcakes baked and frosted.
This weekend - steamed and pureed a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, baked pumpkin bread and soft baked pumpkin cookies (with oatmeal and white chocolate chips and dried cranberries).
Next weekend - no baking planned.
I spent a couple weeks sailing from Seattle to Vancouver island with my uncle and aunt. We bought salad, bread, and wine. We caught lots of seafood.
The salmon my aunt turned into a pâté was sublime. The oysters, crabs, clams, etc, we gathered were awesome, too.
Btw, she's very French - her father had a vineyard, albeit table wine. She learned good cooking!
-jk
I enjoy the turkey sandwices after Thanksgiving. Two pieces of bread, some turkey, some mayonnaise, and some salt.
The World Series is going back to Cleveland.
Does Cleveland have a signature food item? You know, like a Philly cheese steak?
Boss is flying into the US for a week tomorrow. Fun times.
Does this qualify?
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My boss is a couple desks away...
Some of the posters in that other thread are fairly transparent(not necessarily good I guess for this board).
As far as transparency goes, I haven't used transparencies since the mid-90s. Army training if I remember correctly.
Overhead projectors and mimeographs. Thinges today's youth will never understand.
Whenever my kids give me a hard time about not getting today's technology - I remind them that I can program a VCR.
They appear to be quite busy in that other thread. BTW, we are on page 888 using 20 posts per page. Not sure what that means, but there it is.
We just had a birthday pie in the office. It was delicious!
I think we all do need to do some baking between now and November 9th
Not handing out candy this year.
I thought it seemed slow and that I didn't get many trick-or-treaters, but then I realized I'd given out 7 bags of candy. So, not that slow.
They have stooped to mocking the LTE in that other thread.
What's the worst movie you saw in the theater? Extra points if you walked out.
Apparently the cutoff for overhead projectors was circa 2005. That's when I graduated from high school and my teachers used them throughout middle and high school. Last year a teacher I work with who is maybe 4-5 years younger accidentally ordered wet erase (overhead) markers instead of dry erase markers, he had no idea what they were used for.
I have walked out of two movies in my life. The first, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, was truly terrible. My brother thought it was going to be a Legend knock off or something like that. I would have sat through it but he made me leave. I saw it on TV years later. It was poorly made, poorly acted but you could tell it was done on the cheap. So, I can't really say it was the worst because it had no aspirations above what it was.
The other movie that I walked out of was KickAss. I couldn't take that movie. A friend and I went to that as a Girl's Night Out. We thought it was a comedy. We left when they put the guy in the lifesize microwave. We'd already watched Nic Cage shoot his daughter and the main character get stabbed. It wasn't funny. (I would have walked out of Natural Born Killers for similar reasons but I didn't see that in the theater. It was a rental (VCR!) and I stopped it about 20 minutes in, rewound the tape, and took it back without finishing. So, although I hated KickAss and really, I kinda wonder about people who do find that funny, I'm not sure it was the worst movie.
I think the worst movie I ever saw in the theater, and I sat through the whole thing, was the remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. I wanted to walk out but my date wouldn't let me since he'd bought the tickets. Long time ago, I think I was in high school.
I also really hate West Side Story.
I tend to judge thinks more harshly when the results smack of self-indulgence. If you're cheap and you know you're cheap and you're making the best of what you've got, I'm more forgiving. Probably comes from years of doing theater on a shoestring.
I tried to find the mocking but I couldn't.
I believe the mocking is occurring. But I didn't find it.
Does anybody here tweet?
I have a twitter account. I do tweet every once in awhile.
Mostly about ice skating - either figure skating events or the Boston Bruins.
Douglas Razzano and Adam Rippon have retweeted me.
I don't name drop that nearly as much as I name drop about the time I got Norman Ramsey and Dudley Herschbach to talk all night about Shakespeare at a dinner party when I was seated at the same table with them.
I should be in bed.
I'm exhausted.
Halloween was pretty low key this year.
Only one kid still trick-or-treats but he's old enough to go with friends and no parents. So I stayed home and handed out the candy. I do have a shirt with a witch hat made out of sequins. I wore that. And a light up pumpkin necklace.
I ran a 5k race on Saturday. Costumes were encouraged. I ran in an orange tutu. I don't really like running in costumes but a tutu over running pants and an orange tech shirt - I can manage that.
I also found this headband at the party store with a tiny witch hat on it. I wore that too. So, even though I didn't dress up and go out with the kids tonight. I did celebrate. At least a little bit.
Saturday was Hopedale. And the race course just nipped Milford.
I have now run road races in 26 different towns in Massachusetts. There are 351 - I've only got 325 to go!
I'm gonna try to get to 30 by New Year's Day.
But I'm not running one on Thanksgiving. It's too hard to get up, run a race, then come home and cook the whole meal.
And on Thanksgiving Day - I'm the only cook.
But I do think I'll run one that weekend. There's a race in Marblehead that Saturday.