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Even with the wait time between posts, I can probably get it done before TRMS.
I watch almost every night.
I view it as a long running real life spy novel doled out one chapter a night.
Hooray! 12 days early! Now we can celebrate "The 12 Days of LTE".
On the first day of LTE, my true love gave to me . . .
a peppermint cream PopTart.
On the second day of LTE, my true love gave to me . . .
Congrats Bd.
And Rachel Maddow is good by me.
Huge congrats to the gang for the fabulous PW'ing job the last month or so. I'm finally caught up on the LTE and it doesn't even sound/look like I've been missed <sniff>. Now that yinz have exceeded your goal a few days early, how about some help over on Ymm, Beer, especially for you sippers of fine, hand-crafted ales (you know who you are ;)) that frequent the LTE. 15K by MN on 12/31/17. That's about 14 posts per day which I know it totally within the realm of possibility considering the run-up here. Who's with us? I'll provide a link:
http://forums.dukebasketballreport.c...?3840-Ymm-Beer
There's even a Pop Tart-like beer out there. Who can name it? (sporks might be involved :o)
;)
Only if it's on Ymm, Beer. :p
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The truly sad thing is that I don't really drink beer. It's a failing, I know.
And the thread survived!
-jk
Just to update everyone, we are surviving the mini Snowpocalypse in Atlanta, but are hanging on only by sheer rugged individualism.
No word yet on when/whether FEMA will make an appearance to restock our grocery store shelves with milk and bread. After all, everyone only bought enough yesterday to last for two weeks.
Thanks to everyone for your prayers, thoughts, and support. (Send beer.)
#Atlanta Strong
Still snowing here in Asheville, 26 hours later.
It has now started snowing in Boston. Small flakes. The flat part of the roof just outside my window is cold enough to preserve individual flakes for inspection. I can't see details but I can see the outlines. I can look out on a field of tiny white stars.
How poetic! Just started here in the Philthy burbs; calling for 1-3" here, so no biggie. Re-stocked the firewood and kindling on the porch for this evening.
This morning, Mrs. Turk and I had a verbal joust with Sunshine, who just got her driver's license last month and is full of piss and vinegar. She wanted to drive to work today, but we insisted we would give her a ride, given the length of the drive, the type of roads, the unreliability of the weather guessers, and her lack of experience on the frozen stuff. I actually think she does quite well behind the wheel, and we'll get her a bit more practice under more controlled circumstances.
Thanksgiving turkey broth + ham hock + 15 bean mix + some kick = perfect drizzly day pregame meal.
Yay! The local sheriff dept culled three deer from our woods this weekend. Venison for Christmas.
I will say - I like the looks of over 1000 pages and over 20,000 posts when you look at this thread from above.
I went to my first hockey game yesterday - not NHL. I know it was a hockey game because there was a fight. ;)
Time for me to snap out of a distinct slide into "grumpy-holiday-weezie"...
Last day at my old job. Bittersweet.
Not really, it's mostly sweet.
{slow relaxed exhale}
Never gets old,
https://vimeo.com/148990643
I post this here because the true acolytes on the other thread would scoff. I only like to dole out scoffs...I don't take them very well. :cool:
Pretty sure they will be looking at you 'more funnier' after you do. My children (older than yours) are pretty used to the looney tunes I bring to the table.
As long as they can keep me from breaking out into a dance, they feel they are in control of the situation.
I've never been to a hockey game nor have I ever sung "Star Wars".
I plan to sneak out of work tomorrow afternoon to watch a Star War.
I ******* HATE Christmas
Family friend was hit riding his bike to work. Driver didn't stop but 2 witnesses did. Case finally came to trial this week. Defense didn't call any witnesses. Jury took less than 2 hours to return a verdict. That seemed fast to me but probably not to those waiting in the court room. Guilty on all counts. Apparently, he used the "you can't prove I was driving the car" defense.
So, now the menus are set for three days around Christmas. Most of the trudging through grocery stores has been completed. Final perishables next week. Several $ thrown into the Salvation Army kettles because it makes me feel less irritated.
I'm paying it sideways to get some of the muttered blandishments off my permanent record.
409: cleaner, Chevrolet engine, or the time of weezie's last LTE post?
5:09 as well.
Little Deuce Coupe or maybe Little Saint Nick?
Smithsonian National Zoo, "ZOOLIGHTS" tonight with some very small people in tow.
Cold, crisp weather forecast with plenty of bribery candy stuffed into my pockets for husband-of-weezie if he gets fussy.
409 is a prime number. FWIW.
Now, I’m getting 845 though.
Formula 409, Beach Boys sang about the a 409 in this case in a Chevy Impala, and at the time I posted 4:09 Central time zone on Friday was her last post in this thread. Do any other threads matter?
I think we're resting on our laurels.
10th anniversary in 2 days! Does everybody have their PopTarts?
I have Poptarts, Zima, and vats of flash-frozen mashed potatoes in the bomb shelter. I’m ready for anything.
Happy Birthday LTE.
I'm eating a strawberry PopTart as I type this.
Cheers!
Happy Birthday, LTE! Double digits!
I have strawberry PopTarts on hand, but, I've changed my mind. I need something more special. I plan to go out later and get either brown sugar cinnamon or cookies and cream.
Happy birthday, LTE!
I have no Poptarts. :o
Happy Birthday, LTE!
Everyone celebrate with Pop Tarts and fizzy drinks!
How about Christmas cookies instead? And beer...the perfect combo.
Happy Bday LTE! You share this distinction with my mother.
I hope an alien anthropologist writes their dissertation about this thread someday.
Happy 10th, LTE!
I might end up in a rest asylum if I hear that horrible Honda Holiday Roads commercial a few thousand times more.
The father needs to turn around and clock the kids in the back seat with a big flounder. And the idiots heading up to grandma's who encounter the herd of moose need to be vaporized and removed to Jupiter.
Happy birthday to us!
There is a bless their hearts missing in their somewhere.
"One of these days, Alice - pow! Straight to the moon!" - Ralph K.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, go Duke!!!!
Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas!
“One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
Merry Christmas all!
Murray Christmas
Happy Day After Christmas, my peeps!
Only one present to return later this week so that's not too bad. My family must have bought into my story about being a 5'10" supermodel/rocket scientist in my youth. It's been a while since my sweater size was a small.
Happy Boxing Day!
On to New Year's Eve...
I will be huddled in the basement with 3 dogs who are extremely afraid of the fireworks. Will have some soothing music playing to help calm them down.
I have not been a fan of fireworks for a long time, mainly because I heard enough loud booms while serving in Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club. But out of consideration for veterans with PTSD (which I don’t have) and my having 3 sensitive dog, I vote for a total ban of fireworks.*
* I realize a ban on fireworks will not happen, just like my desire for a ban of anything that is light powder blue.
I too would love a ban on fireworks as I watch my cats hide in fear. After a few live fire exercises as both an Army brat and in myself(no PTSD either, in during the '90s when deployments were minimal) fireworks are both boring and merely a source of potential bodily harm to hands and fingers.
I have a party to go to with a bunch of physicists. The Russians among them will make me drink at least a little vodka. Then I will make them listen to me sing "Auld Lang Syne". I've been doing this for the past few years. It's become a tradition. New Year's Eve is my least favorite holiday but now that I celebrate it with a bunch of physicists every year, it's not so bad.
Tell them this one:
A physicist walks into a bar. He orders a beer, turns to the stool next to him, and offers it a beer. He finishes his drink and then leaves.
The next day he returns to the bar, orders a beer, and offers a beer to the stool next to him before finishing his drink and leaving.
This continues on for a week before the bartender finally asks, "Why in the world do you keep offering that stool a beer?"
The physicist replies, "The laws of physics dictate that there is a slight possibility that at some point the matter above this stool could reform into a beautiful woman, who would then accept the drink."
The bartender is puzzled for a second before replying "The bar is full of beautiful women. Why not see if they will accept your drink?"
The physicist quickly laughs before saying "Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening?"
Freezing rain starting at 5 PM NYE through Tuesday morning. Only if we are lucky.
Black eyed peas soaking, smoked turkey ready to add tto rice, garlic, jalapeno pepper, bay leaf, thyme. Cornbread fixings assembled. Bloody Mary ingredients checked.
Here comes 2018!
Number 3 son has finished and submitted 9 of 12 applications. Of the three that are left, one is due Tuesday, one on the 15th, and one not until February 1st. Time to start pushing Number 2 son who is applying to 12 schools as a transfer student. I've asked both of them if they wanted me to lay off and just let them get the applications done without me. Both realized that no, they wouldn't get done unless I kept them on task. And both have been rather nice about me pushing them ever since.
That said, UVA's supplemental essay questions had even me rolling my eyes.
Number 10, due on Tuesday, is Stanford with it's 8 short answer questions and three additional essays. And he's not getting in. Except. He's applying because of his communications with the chairman of the Classics Department. He doesn't really want to go to Stanford but he does want to study with the professors in Stanford's Classics Department.
Tell us BD and let's see if we can help the lad!
And while you're busy browbeating them into those essays, tell them that the "Legend of the black-eyed peas luck" includes good fortune in meeting lovely young ladies in the coming year.
It's fun to watch guys fall for stuff like that. :cool:
He has them done now but UVA's questions were (paraphrazing): 1) Pick something from the world of art, science, mathematics, or literature that has surprised, challenged, or unsettled you and tell us why. 2) Students often paint messages on a bridge on campus. What would you paint there and why?
My kids don't do early decision. None of them have ever had a clear cut first choice plus making those November deadlines, just not gonna happen. Number 3 wants to study an unusual combo of subjects and most of the schools that have the combo are ones he wouldn't have a prayer of getting into if he was looking to major in biology on his way to med school. I told him to give it go at a bunch of places because he only has to get into one.
Will 2019 ever get here?
Sure.
The reaches - Duke, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell
Small liberal arts - Bowdoin, Dickinson, Union, William & Mary
Bigger state schools that have the programs he wants - UMass, UVA, Michigan
Safety school - Vermont
Right now, I'd say William & Mary is the first choice. I'm fairly sure he will be accepted there. I have no idea what his reach schools will do with him. He is a good student but not a great student, A's and B's. His SAT scores are good but not great. Then, of course, he whips out a perfect SAT subject test score in World History. He's already taken Classical Greek at the Harvard Extension School and Intro to Historical Linguistics at Harvard Summer School (and got A's in both). Both of the profs wrote him letters of recommendation. He only scored a 4 on the AP Latin exam but he's one of only 1800 kids in the whole world who did at least that well. He's one of only 6500 kids who even took it. In his essay he tells the stories about what lit the spark in him in terms of wanting to study Latin and then historical linguistics. Then he talks about the questions that fill his mind on the subject and what he hopes to learn in college. Then he talks about the language he created in an attempt to develop his own language isolate. (Language isolates are a particular fascination with him.) So, who knows? And if he gets into all of them, he may still pick William & Mary. I figure he's really only competing against other kids who want to study classics - if they have the department, they will all admit at least some students who want to study that.
I kept my woolly warm Duke hat on all day.
I'm kinda enjoying the cold snap!
Looks like Wojo (my '06 Chevy Trailblazer) has kicked the bucket.
Great start to 2018.
How is he doing?
Winds really kicking it here in the Piedmont of VA. Schools cancelled because superintendent didn't want kindergarteners being blown up into treetops.
It was my bad idea to start a juice fast yesterday. I'd really rather eat a few dozen cookies.
It's looking like a bona fide blizzard in Boston right now.
Very very cold here in Asheville. Bracing winds, low temps.
Was in Providence for work and had to bug out early. No flights, had to take the train and got home after midnight. Glad to ride this one out at Stately Turk Manor. Only 4-6" here.
A nice 65 degrees here in Vegas. We really could use that precipitation the east coast is getting. Hasn’t rained here in like 110 days.
For the record -- I would SO watch the Gorilla Channel if it existed.
Ruined birthday. January birthdays stink on ice to begin with and this loss didn't help.
Aaaargh. :(:(:(
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy birthday, Weezie and Mtn.Devil!
Weather lulled us into a false sense of security this am. They had predicted freezing rain but the temp was 37 and road surfaces were reported as warm enough to avoid freezing. Unfortunately, my brother-in-law found that the bricks of their front steps and patio didn't follow this report. They were slick, causing gravity to take over. His hip is not happy with the discovery - he will be having surgery this week to repair it. Any prayers and vibes you can send his way (and to his wife/my sister) would be appreciated.
Wince! Sorry for the BiL's impending surgery. That, as the kids say, bites.
Thanks all for the birthday wishes, too. They sure seem to get closer...
Would the "Golden Globes" be considered a micro-aggression to the flat earther folks?
I'm kinda tired a lot lately.
I'm happy to report that my brother-in-law came through surgery just fine. He is the proud owner of a large rod in his femur. He actually came home yesterday. He will be learning to navigate around the house with a walker - not always easy as the door to the powder room is too narrow for the walker and the room itself is small. Lessons in geometry.
Good luck to your brother-in-law. I'm one week into 4-6 weeks of my own lessons in geometry navigating with crutches after having a torn labrum repaired. Back to work on Tuesday and reaping the benefits of having one of the larger classrooms in my school. Hopefully it's a bit easier to navigate than the tiny hallways and bedrooms in my parent's house where I spent the week to avoid stairs.
Good luck with the return to work. I hope you don't have to navigate the halls at the same time as students very often.
BiL is retired so no workplace geometry necessary but he is extremely active in the community. (Maybe he can get sympathy donations for the local arboretum.) Not sure when he will start to tackle the stairs - for the time being, a bed was moved to the main level of the house. Had his first home PT session today. He is discovering that day 3 post op, just like day 3 after first work out in a while, brings increased pain.
Yes, he did do a number on his hip. Recovery is bound to take him longer than he thinks it should.
If I wanted to make Nephew Mike feel faint, I just brought up that a hammer was probably involved. (More likely a rubber mallet but they have to get the rod in place somehow, right?) He has headed north before tomorrow's predicted snow and Niece Amy will arrive tomorrow - she is a PT and works with people who have broken their hips. She will be great to have around for a few days.
Tonight's menu: Brown rice and ground turkey stuffed bell peppers, baby kale salad and pineapple upside down tart with mango compote.
Hey, five days of nonsense silenced?
Anybody have a pun they want to torture us with?
Is the sky falling?
Well, that would certainly take the suspicion off my mango compote.
The nerve... :cool:
Hopefully, DIK's BIL is progressing on his road to recovery...
I coach the Academic Bowl team at my school, and my kiddos won the state championship yesterday. :o
There are no threads about how the Patriots cheated to win the AFC Championship. Some folks around here are off their game.
There are some frequent posters that I expect are frothing at the mouth over the Pats win. I take great satisfaction in that image.
I didn't watch the game, I had a matinee show yesterday. I don't watch football anymore anyway, although I do make an exception for the 4th Quarter of the Super Bowl when the Pats are in it. I have rehearsal this year on Super Bowl Sunday though, so, probably won't watch it at all. I'm still glad the Pats won.
I'm looking forward to having Matt Patricia glare at the "hopefully soon to be not so completely awful and revolting" Lions next year.
That glare is terrifying. He could certainly give me a run for the money when it comes to glaring at waiters, misbehaving children and donkey rears who text when they drive.
I turned the game on the radio as I was driving home after the show, two plays before the Amendola go ahead TD. I went ahead and listened to the rest of the game. Former Pats QB Scott Zolak calling the games is a joy to listen to - he gives Gus Johnson a run for his money in enthusiasm.
I just now went and found the video for that touchdown. Wow.
Mountain Cedar/Juniper, not a fan.
We've discussed pb&j, but what about the "Elvis"? The PB & banana sandwich.
Opinions?
Speaking of peanut butter, anyone ever tried it on a burger? Much better than I ever expected.
Yes, PB on a burger isn't bad. Maybe not a standard go to but not nearly as frightening as imagined.
I for one am not a PB&J person. Jelly is bleh. But, when Lent begins out goes the booze and the PB. Too easy to consume monstrous amount of calories.
Lemme give that one a try.
Nope.
It's alumni interview season. My high school senior has already had his Duke interview. It went well. Cornell was last night (it went super well). Stanford is on Saturday. So far, he has not been contacted by Harvard. :( We'll get over it. He interviewed with a nice young woman from Dickinson College too and she had to tell him that Dickinson has cut their linguistics program! He's not going there.
Right now, his top 3 are William & Mary, Cornell, and Duke. If he gets into at least one of those, we're good.
I know many here will talk about the Beatles and the Stones, but for me, I can't imagine a better set of tracks than the back side of The Police Synchronicity.
A master craftsman still harnessing his gifts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIFp...AVMDIFpapdaMvw
And the best saxophone solo in the history of rock and roll.
I will throw in Joe Jackson's look Sharp as an incredibly well-crafted and assembled album, front to back. An underappreciated gem.
Well, at least Vandy won today.
No football today. Well, football that counts.
Amping up the snark...
I do think I called it first, but I wasn't in chat...
My senior pup has had a rough go of it in recent months...repaired otic (ear) hematoma last summer, acute corneal abrasion in October/November, and then managed to rip a claw all the way out of his paw in early January (my god, do those things bleed).
The upshot of all of this has been an inordinate amount of time wearing the dreaded Cone of Shame, but the news at the latest checkup yesterday was good. For a time, there was concern that if Walter's nail didn't grow back, he would have to have a toe amputated, because an exposed quick is an invitation to chronic discomfort and infection. But at the bandage changing on Monday, there was a little bit of nail starting to poke back through. The vet now says that it'll be another while, but there is very little chance of amputation. She also says that his underlying, systemic health is very strong for his breed(s) and age.
So I'm giving thanks today. I've been very blessed with this dog.