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  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...good to see your appetite is back.

    Big pot of dead bird in yellow Thai curry with green onions and petite carrots on the schedule for tonight.  That will last me four days. Nighttime temps gonna be around or below freezing all week so need to stay warm and the best (as well as tastiest) way is from the inside.

    Dead bird curry, yum!  I prefer dead bird to dead cow for Thai food, or non-trayed dead fish.

    ...yeah have moved away from beef in a lot of my cooking with a few exceptions (my burritos as well as Pho and occasionally in Teryaki), and I still like a good burger now & then.  Not much of a "steak & potato" person anymore.  When I can find (and afford) it I'll sometimes use buffalo for my burritos. Much better and healthier than most ground beef you get at the market (especially that stuff that comes in those big tubes).

    Used to love shrimp but lately it seems I'm developing a sensitivity to it. 

    Gads this spell check really needs a better dictionary and some recoding.  I'm finding more and more that I have to manually fix typos as the suggestions are sometimes so off base for what are common typos it is ridiculous.  Apparently "when" is no longer a correction option for "whne" (it used to be) and while it finally flags typos like  "teh" and "adn" it doesn't list "the" or "and" as possible corrections. 

    My beef (pun intended) is that most of the Thai places I go to use so--so grade beef or a tough cut, ruining the experience.  Nowadays if I want beef I get ground sirloin or a good cut steak and cook it all myself

    Now I want Thai food and the online delivery service doesn't have anything decent.  Feh.

    Lovely weather here, upper 50f's all week. Wibdow and curtains open. :) Snacking on Romaine lettuce leaves, so healthy and tasty.

    Buffalo is so lean.. good stuff, I can get ground buffalo delivered.  Makes killer burgers.  I've done a turkey burger ot two before as well/

    Damn, I really want Thai food!

     

    ...there is a place I like to go to, close to where I used to live, that does both Thai and Vietnamese.  Their Pho is some of the best I've had, nice and tender almost paper thin slices of beef with veggies and rice noodles in a hearty broth.

    That sounds really tasty!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  OMG..., Jane Fonda (Barbarella) is 80 years old.   surprise http://www.erienewsnow.com/story/37042252/jane-fonda-celebrates-80th-birthday-with-big-bash-in-atlanta

     

    OMG!  I had no idea!  Interestingly weird movie.  Lots of fake sex.

    Back in the day it was shockingly weird.  Caused quite a controversy. yes

    This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0bBj_e5B4 was my favorite scene I think because of the guy wearing fur.  I didn't suspect until 10 years later that I was gay. surprise

    Weird is right!  I still rent it on occasion when I start feeling too normal. ;-P

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Captain has riveting blue eyes smiley

    winter wonderland outside.  i live up a hill, really hoping grocery delivery truck can make it up.
     

    complaint - nuthin on my w/l is in the holiday sale or fg

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    My Friday in 3 three-word sentences:

    Thai green curry.

    Mouth on fire.

    Night in bathroom.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    Mistara said:

    commuter nightmare comin hope 

    big flakes falling, my bus skidded, bus! skidded!

    i'se paler than a hospital sheet.

    ...I was on a bus during a sleet and freezing rain storm back in the 60s.  When we approached a light that just turned red, the driver hit he brakes and the bus began sliding sideways right towards a railway underpass with bridge supports in the middle of the street.  He hit the accelerator and steered into the skid getting the bus to point forwards again narrowly missing the central bridge supports.

    There was another time when I was something like 11 or 12 and we had a heavy snowfall.  School was called off at mid day and I remember the city bus I was on (one of the old gas powered ones they had - see below) getting stuck in deep snow at a stop and several older passengers got out to help push it actually getting us out and going again.

     

    that is a cute bus.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    oh gawwd bad girl eating the pie filling. >.<

    felt guilty not making it from scratch anyhoos

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    oh gawwd bad girl eating the pie filling. >.<

    felt guilty not making it from scratch anyhoos

    Didn't you buy the brand that's guilt-free? *snort*

    Pie filling omg yummy!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Complaint: too stupid to have ordered the Thai curry 'mild' and went for 'regular'.  Reaping reward of my own stupidity.

    Non-complaint: groceries on the way, with cheese, chips and dip! Wheeeeeee, Top Chef marathon!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    oh gawwd bad girl eating the pie filling. >.<

    felt guilty not making it from scratch anyhoos

    Didn't you buy the brand that's guilt-free? *snort*

    Pie filling omg yummy!

     

    the most guilt ever devil godiva

    guilt driven visions of aiko-diva on horsies

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    oh gawwd bad girl eating the pie filling. >.<

    felt guilty not making it from scratch anyhoos

    Didn't you buy the brand that's guilt-free? *snort*

    Pie filling omg yummy!

     

    the most guilt ever devil godiva

    guilt driven visions of aiko-diva on horsies

    Godiva is worth being guilty over! ;-P

    Best chocolate I ever had was in Paris, a little no-name shop next to the hotel I stayed in.  Every bite made me swoon and made my toes curl *blush*

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,377
    TangoAlpha said:

     

    One thing about those puppet shows: you never saw a character walk through a doorway . . .

    laugh​   Unless the puppeteer was drunk!  laugh​  

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,268
    edited December 2017
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    oh gawwd bad girl eating the pie filling. >.<

    felt guilty not making it from scratch anyhoos

    Didn't you buy the brand that's guilt-free? *snort*

    Pie filling omg yummy!

     

    the most guilt ever devil godiva

    guilt driven visions of aiko-diva on horsies

    Godiva is worth being guilty over! ;-P

    Best chocolate I ever had was in Paris, a little no-name shop next to the hotel I stayed in.  Every bite made me swoon and made my toes curl *blush*

     

    Before Godiva went plebeian and started displaying their product in chain department stores and drugstores all over the US, it was hard to find their chocolates.  Back in the '80s and '90s we lived in downtown Washington DC and there was a tiny Godiva store in Union Station (the grand old train station that had been converted to a hoity-toity shopping mall as well as a modern train & bus & subway (Metro) station)  We used to take a Metro sidetrip to Union Station just to grab a few Godiva goodies by the piece 'cause that was the only way we could afford them.

    Union Station: Washington DC https://www.amtrak.com/stations/was

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,268
    edited December 2017

    Locked in the house watching the snow pile up on my car while I work on this guy's new computer getting it ready for him.  Listening to my library of music.  Re-discovered another old standby.  The "Symphonie Fantastique" by Hector Berlioz.  Of course I must repeat the, perhaps apocryphal, story that the composer was inspired to write this music during an opium dream while escaping from his shrewish wife.  Especially the movements named "Witches Sabbath" and "March to the Scaffold". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQXtC6B3CKQ  Conducted here by a bearded Leonard Bernstein. surpriseyes

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhh..., it's snowing still.  Lake Effect from lake Erie.  My car still isn't completely dug out from the first snowfall and now it's buried again.  And unfortunately, now the temperature is just a few degrees below freezing.   Just warm enough to turn it all into heavy, sticky, back breaking glop.  I tried to dig out my car a couple days ago but after I got about 3/4 done my heart started going wonky and I had to quit before I became a lump buried under the snow 'till spring. no  I need to find me a healthy, enterprising young'n with a shovel.

    Non-complaint: An old computer repair customer of mine bought a new computer and brought it to me to set up and transfer data from his old computer.  So, this will help out with my budget problems for this month.  But since my SS income actually went down a dollar next year and health insurance payments and co-pays went up as well as everything else, my calculations indicate I won't be able to reliably balance my budget next year without a little supplemental income.  So, I'm started word-of-mouth advertising that I'm "back in business".  But this time I'm not going to be cheap with prices 20 years behind the times.  If they want me to do the type of job I can do, I'm going to charge modern prices for it.  And I'm the only one around here who will do house calls, and believe me that's going to cost too! yes I'd gotten used to being retired.  Don't want to work again but apparently I have to. indecision

    ..yeah, I hear you on that.  This was a spendy couple days, 71$  for renting a van to move the rest of my things out of storage yesterday and 59$ for my Net service today. Fortunately I am on our state's health plan so I don't have Medicare premiums to deal with (yet).

    Beginning to think of finding something that's 12 - 16 hrs a week (that I can do without requiring a strong back/arms/legs, having to stand on my feet for hours at a time, or deal with customers) just so I can have a little bit of a cushion.  That won't be enough to reduce my benefits or have to pay taxes.. No way could I deal with 40 hrs a week any more particularly given the types of work I'd qualify for (pretty much all that have a heavy physical component).

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Mistara said:

    commuter nightmare comin hope 

    big flakes falling, my bus skidded, bus! skidded!

    i'se paler than a hospital sheet.

    ...I was on a bus during a sleet and freezing rain storm back in the 60s.  When we approached a light that just turned red, the driver hit he brakes and the bus began sliding sideways right towards a railway underpass with bridge supports in the middle of the street.  He hit the accelerator and steered into the skid getting the bus to point forwards again narrowly missing the central bridge supports.

    There was another time when I was something like 11 or 12 and we had a heavy snowfall.  School was called off at mid day and I remember the city bus I was on (one of the old gas powered ones they had - see below) getting stuck in deep snow at a stop and several older passengers got out to help push it actually getting us out and going again.

     

    that is a cute bus.

    ...yeah we used to have a lot of them they were used on the route that went through my neighboruhood.  Actually kind of stylish looking for the day (Milwaukee's fleet entered service in mid to late 40s) and they had real leather seats. Last ones were retired from service in 1967. 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    oh gawwd bad girl eating the pie filling. >.<

    felt guilty not making it from scratch anyhoos

    Didn't you buy the brand that's guilt-free? *snort*

    Pie filling omg yummy!

     

    the most guilt ever devil godiva

    guilt driven visions of aiko-diva on horsies

    Godiva is worth being guilty over! ;-P

    Best chocolate I ever had was in Paris, a little no-name shop next to the hotel I stayed in.  Every bite made me swoon and made my toes curl *blush*

     

    Before Godiva went plebian and started displaying their product in chain department stores and drugstores all over the US, it was hard to find their chocolates.  Back in the '80s and '90s we lived in downtown Washington DC and there was a tiny Godiva store in Union Station (the grand old train station that had been converted to a hoity-toity shopping mall as well as a modern train & bus & subway (Metro) station)  We used to take a Metro sidetrip to Union Station just to grab a few Godiva goodies by the piece 'cause that was the only way we could afford them.

    Union Station: Washington DC https://www.amtrak.com/stations/was

    ..our station here in Portland is still a train station.  It was fully restored rather than "modernised, and has the original granite interior so train announcements echo in the large waiting room like in the old days .

    Full panorama

    Street approach.

    Waiting room.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324

    Well, still no gift card or store credit. It's been over 24 hours.
    Would really like access to my money.
    Some people buy gift cards they get two emails, two numbers.
    Maybe someone else has mine.
    This is a recurring problem. DAZ can get their "New Sale!!!!"
    chromium squirrel emails to me just fine, but not ones that
    are actually worth something.

    On a lighter note, rode motorcycle yesterday. Gotta remember,
    when I adjust the handlebars for a new seat, always, always
    remember to tighten them back down again. Got it.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Petercat said:

    Well, still no gift card or store credit. It's been over 24 hours.
    Would really like access to my money.
    Some people buy gift cards they get two emails, two numbers.
    Maybe someone else has mine.
    This is a recurring problem. DAZ can get their "New Sale!!!!"
    chromium squirrel emails to me just fine, but not ones that
    are actually worth something.

    On a lighter note, rode motorcycle yesterday. Gotta remember,
    when I adjust the handlebars for a new seat, always, always
    remember to tighten them back down again. Got it.

    oh   whoops

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    Chohole said:
    Petercat said:

    Well, still no gift card or store credit. It's been over 24 hours.
    Would really like access to my money.
    Some people buy gift cards they get two emails, two numbers.
    Maybe someone else has mine.
    This is a recurring problem. DAZ can get their "New Sale!!!!"
    chromium squirrel emails to me just fine, but not ones that
    are actually worth something.

    On a lighter note, rode motorcycle yesterday. Gotta remember,
    when I adjust the handlebars for a new seat, always, always
    remember to tighten them back down again. Got it.

    oh   whoops

    Nearly ruined the new seat when the handlebars pivoted into my gut.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Petercat said:
    Chohole said:
    Petercat said:

    Well, still no gift card or store credit. It's been over 24 hours.
    Would really like access to my money.
    Some people buy gift cards they get two emails, two numbers.
    Maybe someone else has mine.
    This is a recurring problem. DAZ can get their "New Sale!!!!"
    chromium squirrel emails to me just fine, but not ones that
    are actually worth something.

    On a lighter note, rode motorcycle yesterday. Gotta remember,
    when I adjust the handlebars for a new seat, always, always
    remember to tighten them back down again. Got it.

    oh   whoops

    Nearly ruined the new seat when the handlebars pivoted into my gut.

    hmm, probably didn't do you much good either

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,268
    edited December 2017

    Untightened motorcycle handlebars.  Hmmm..., that could have been one of those once-in-a-lifetime mistakes! surprise

    Complaint:  Didn't sleep well last night.  Worked too hard on computer issues still buzzing in my brain.  Then about 4:00 AM I woke up with heart fibrillations, 'cause I forgot my evening pills, and leg cramps 'cause I've been out of bananas (potasium) for over a week.  Car is still not dug out of snow, kitchen pantry (canned goods) is completely empty, no income until Wednesday.  It's stopped snowing and is now melting rapidly.  Perhaps by Wednesday the snow will be slumped off of the car and I can slide down the river of underlying ice that will be my driveway to go get groceries with new money. Yea! smiley I'm not without food though.  I have lots of frozen 1lb bags of ham and ground beef, several slices of frozen pizza, one cheapo frozen dinner, one tiny old onion, and 1 and a half bags of frozen cooked shrimp & a bottle of cocktail sauce (Yum!  Sunday treat!).  I also have a little oatmeal and some dry cereal but no milk.  Oh, and about a pound of chocolate candies of the Halloween type.  In a pinch though I could walk to the grocery store, but it's a long walk for me and I can only carry two small bags home.  I think it's time to admit I'm getting old and need help sometimes.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    8 days?!  still haz to finish tidying, bake cookies for santa, mix trail mix for the reindeer

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,470

    Unplug computer with bad battery and the computer gots turned off.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Untightened motorcycle handlebars.  Hmmm..., that could have been one of those once-in-a-lifetime mistakes! surprise

    Complaint:  Didn't sleep well last night.  Worked too hard on computer issues still buzzing in my brain.  Then about 4:00 AM I woke up with heart fibrillations, 'cause I forgot my evening pills, and leg cramps 'cause I've been out of bananas (potasium) for over a week.  Car is still not dug out of snow, kitchen pantry (canned goods) is completely empty, no income until Wednesday.  It's stopped snowing and is now melting rapidly.  Perhaps by Wednesday the snow will be slumped off of the car and I can slide down the river of underlying ice that will be my driveway to go get groceries with new money. Yea! smiley I'm not without food though.  I have lots of frozen 1lb bags of ham and ground beef, several slices of frozen pizza, one cheapo frozen dinner, one tiny old onion, and 1 and a half bags of frozen cooked shrimp & a bottle of cocktail sauce (Yum!  Sunday treat!).  I also have a little oatmeal and some dry cereal but no milk.  Oh, and about a pound of chocolate candies of the Halloween type.  In a pinch though I could walk to the grocery store, but it's a long walk for me and I can only carry two small bags home.  I think it's time to admit I'm getting old and need help sometimes.

    And just think that when we were younger we walked to the shops through 3 feet deep snow and it was 5 miles each way, uphill in both directions

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:

    oh gawwd bad girl eating the pie filling. >.<

    felt guilty not making it from scratch anyhoos

    Didn't you buy the brand that's guilt-free? *snort*

    Pie filling omg yummy!

     

    the most guilt ever devil godiva

    guilt driven visions of aiko-diva on horsies

    Godiva is worth being guilty over! ;-P

    Best chocolate I ever had was in Paris, a little no-name shop next to the hotel I stayed in.  Every bite made me swoon and made my toes curl *blush*

     

    Before Godiva went plebeian and started displaying their product in chain department stores and drugstores all over the US, it was hard to find their chocolates.  Back in the '80s and '90s we lived in downtown Washington DC and there was a tiny Godiva store in Union Station (the grand old train station that had been converted to a hoity-toity shopping mall as well as a modern train & bus & subway (Metro) station)  We used to take a Metro sidetrip to Union Station just to grab a few Godiva goodies by the piece 'cause that was the only way we could afford them.

    Union Station: Washington DC https://www.amtrak.com/stations/was

    When I lived in Greenbelt, MD the closest place for Godiva was Needless Markups (Neiman-Marcus).  I haven't had Godiva in a long time but I do understand it's not as good as it used to be, which is sad.

    Ah, the Netro.  Used to take it downtown to the Mall and visit the Smithsonian.. years ago.  I love light rail!

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Untightened motorcycle handlebars.  Hmmm..., that could have been one of those once-in-a-lifetime mistakes! surprise

    Complaint:  Didn't sleep well last night.  Worked too hard on computer issues still buzzing in my brain.  Then about 4:00 AM I woke up with heart fibrillations, 'cause I forgot my evening pills, and leg cramps 'cause I've been out of bananas (potasium) for over a week.  Car is still not dug out of snow, kitchen pantry (canned goods) is completely empty, no income until Wednesday.  It's stopped snowing and is now melting rapidly.  Perhaps by Wednesday the snow will be slumped off of the car and I can slide down the river of underlying ice that will be my driveway to go get groceries with new money. Yea! smiley I'm not without food though.  I have lots of frozen 1lb bags of ham and ground beef, several slices of frozen pizza, one cheapo frozen dinner, one tiny old onion, and 1 and a half bags of frozen cooked shrimp & a bottle of cocktail sauce (Yum!  Sunday treat!).  I also have a little oatmeal and some dry cereal but no milk.  Oh, and about a pound of chocolate candies of the Halloween type.  In a pinch though I could walk to the grocery store, but it's a long walk for me and I can only carry two small bags home.  I think it's time to admit I'm getting old and need help sometimes.

    At least you have food, which is good.  Shrimp sounds tasty!

    And yeah, getting old sucks. :-(

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Chohole said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Untightened motorcycle handlebars.  Hmmm..., that could have been one of those once-in-a-lifetime mistakes! surprise

    Complaint:  Didn't sleep well last night.  Worked too hard on computer issues still buzzing in my brain.  Then about 4:00 AM I woke up with heart fibrillations, 'cause I forgot my evening pills, and leg cramps 'cause I've been out of bananas (potasium) for over a week.  Car is still not dug out of snow, kitchen pantry (canned goods) is completely empty, no income until Wednesday.  It's stopped snowing and is now melting rapidly.  Perhaps by Wednesday the snow will be slumped off of the car and I can slide down the river of underlying ice that will be my driveway to go get groceries with new money. Yea! smiley I'm not without food though.  I have lots of frozen 1lb bags of ham and ground beef, several slices of frozen pizza, one cheapo frozen dinner, one tiny old onion, and 1 and a half bags of frozen cooked shrimp & a bottle of cocktail sauce (Yum!  Sunday treat!).  I also have a little oatmeal and some dry cereal but no milk.  Oh, and about a pound of chocolate candies of the Halloween type.  In a pinch though I could walk to the grocery store, but it's a long walk for me and I can only carry two small bags home.  I think it's time to admit I'm getting old and need help sometimes.

    And just think that when we were younger we walked to the shops through 3 feet deep snow and it was 5 miles each way, uphill in both directions

    When I lived in Otsego, MI decades ago, except for the uphill both ways that was almost the literal truth, but to/from school instead, and only 2 miles. :-P

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:

    8 days?!  still haz to finish tidying, bake cookies for santa, mix trail mix for the reindeer

    I wonder if you can barbecue reibdeer.  I don'y see why not.  Santo is too fat to barbecue...

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    edited December 2017

    Complaint: Still sick. Just when I think I'm getting better, nope... sad

    Non-complaint: Still not dead.

     

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,377
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint: Still sick. Just when I think I'm getting better, nope... sad

    Non-complaint: Still not dead.

     

    I hope that changes very soon!

    Dana

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