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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited February 2018

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Deep red dawn sky giving way to grey-streaked blue and a gusting wind is picking up anything not fixed to the ground, feels a little like autumn :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    Is snow ?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    ...

    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    tawt i taw easter candy in lotto tix store

    Easter pastries on sale here already :)

    Yes, my local market has hot cross buns in the sale ad.

    Dana

    Why are the buns cross?  Did someone make them angry? :-P

    Hot and cross sounds like a bad combination...

    Hot Cross Buns

    Hot Cross buns are real???? I thought they made them up for a song.

    We got those here as well ;;)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Mistara said:
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    tawt i taw easter candy in lotto tix store

    Easter pastries on sale here already :)

    Yes, my local market has hot cross buns in the sale ad.

    Dana

    Why are the buns cross?  Did someone make them angry? :-P

    Hot and cross sounds like a bad combination...

    Hot Cross Buns

    Hot Cross buns are real???? I thought they made them up for a song.

     

    yummy

     

    yummuy - tee hee, one of those words spelled the same backwards and forwards, think theres a special word for those kinda words

    A palindrome:)

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Deep red dawn sky giving way to grey-streaked blue and a gusting wind is picking up anything not fixed to the ground, feels a little like autumn :)

    Blue sky and 61F here right now!  Tomorrow is supposed to get even warmer...maybe breach 70F!  Feels like Spring.  It won't last, though.   frown

    Dana

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    Is snow ?

    looks more like pixelation to me.   needs attention from Auntie Alias.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    Is snow ?

    looks more like pixelation to me.   needs attention from Auntie Alias.

    It was obviously shot through a window screen.

    Dana

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    DanaTA said:
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    Is snow ?

    looks more like pixelation to me.   needs attention from Auntie Alias.

    It was obviously shot through a window screen.

    Dana

    glass is much better for windows.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited February 2018

    ...exactly, due in part to the screens on the outside of the window.  Phone camera doesn't have focal range settings.

    Still coming down two and a half hours later.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited February 2018

    Dr.s appt on Thursday.  that happened fast.  gues it helps when nurse neighbor makes the apt for ya.

    is happening too fast, terrified.  up there with ferris wheels, subway tunnels.

    they jabber senstive fingers.

     

    she was throwing big medical words at me.   kinda like when i talk computers to people, what it's like for them lol

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    tawt i taw easter candy in lotto tix store

    Easter pastries on sale here already :)

    Yes, my local market has hot cross buns in the sale ad.

    Dana

    Why are the buns cross?  Did someone make them angry? :-P

    Hot and cross sounds like a bad combination...

    Hot Cross Buns

    Hot Cross buns are real???? I thought they made them up for a song.

    Hot Cross Buns in the shops are the first sign it is No Longer Christmas. Along with Cadbury's Creme Eggs. (usually on Boxing Day!)

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    Complaint: My central heating pump just went "Bang clatter clatter clatter kaboom silence." And now there is no more hot.

    This is the second major failure in my heating system so far this Winter. Ho hum!

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    tawt i taw easter candy in lotto tix store

    Easter pastries on sale here already :)

    Yes, my local market has hot cross buns in the sale ad.

    Dana

    Why are the buns cross?  Did someone make them angry? :-P

    Hot and cross sounds like a bad combination...

    Hot Cross Buns

    Hot Cross buns are real???? I thought they made them up for a song.

    Hot Cross Buns in the shops are the first sign it is No Longer Christmas. Along with Cadbury's Creme Eggs. (usually on Boxing Day!)

    Actually the company I use for my on line grocery shopping has had Hot Cross Buns as a regular item permanently since last Easter. They have removed the normal fruit buns, which were not good, and now stock the hot cross ones, which are really nice.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited February 2018

    Crossed buns sounds painful. surprise

    Well, I accomplished part of my mini-adventure.  Had lunch, yum, meat.  But I didn't go to the movie.  Weather in Erie turned rainy so I slipped between the drops coming out of the restaurant, got into my car just as the clouds opened up, so I just drove home.  However, I did stop at the big truck stop outside of Erie (rain hadn't reached there yet) and oogled at all the trucker stuff.  Clamps and fuses and lights oh my!  And CDs & DVDs and bungie cords galore.  Lots of trucker stuff. smiley Bought an ice cream bar for dessert (much cheaper than the $8 that Outback wanted to charge me).  Looked at the display of super rich fudge but decided against it. 

    On the way back I listened to my CD of "The Gadfly" suite by Dimitri Shostakovich.  Several interesting pieces in it.  Parts of it are very lively.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWReGCOFCGo  for example at 5:10 & 12:50 Other parts are romantic, or forboding or sound like circus music.  Moods abound in this collection of pieces.  Some of the themes are recognizable from movie backgrounds.  However, the most famous theme from the Gadfly is probably the piece titled "Romance" at 19:30.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    hot buns makes me think of something else entirely

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i cant think of a more epic love story than Han and Leia

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    aww content paradiso remembered my birthday.

    well thats it then, scratch another orbit on spaceship earth. joy ride lol

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    At home I never prepared a pot of coffee or tea.  At work, yes.  We always had one or two pots brewing at work but at home, for decades I've used instant coffee or bagged tea.  HOWEVER, I'm very particular about the brand of instant coffee I put into my mouth.  Some of it is absolutely horrible. Aghhh, gag me with a spoon!  Once I found Folger's Instant Coffee it became my one and only despite being a little more expensive than the chemical cocktail the other companies produce.  And, yes, I know Europeans, and American Starbucks groupies think coffee has to be made by hand in gold plated machines and curl your hair when drunk, but I'm not of that opinion. cheeky 

    Have you considered using the Keurig K cup machine to make single cups at home? I agree Folgers is the best instant coffee and I used it for years before I got a Keurig machine. But the keurig  individually brewed cups are lots better and with careful shopping you can still get k cups for $0.25 to $0.35 each or you can get filter cups to use your own fresh ground coffee.

    I use my Keurig to make hot water for soup and instant coffee.  The pods aren't recyclable in Austin so it adds a ton of non-biodegradable trash to the environment.

    If you don't care about that, though, many pods have some seriously good coffee. :-p

     

    NOTE: ex-Californian here. That should explain it all.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    I'm still thinking up amusing images for a "couch princess" smiley

    Temps in the mid 60sF today.  Spring is here!  Well, at least for the next 16 hours.  Snow again within 36 hours.  So, today is the day for a mid-winter mini-adventure.  I can't decide whether to go west 60 miles to Erie, PA or ... or ... hmmm, there isn't really any other direction to go that isn't going to break my budget. indecision

    North to Buffalo is just too much metropolitan congestion to deal with for something as unimportant as a meal. 

    East 30 miles to Salamanca, NY is shorter but the only thing in Salamanca is cheap gasoline and cigarettes and casino gambling on the Indian reservation, and huge antique consignment shop.  I like the idea of cheap gas but my tank is full already.  I don't gamble and neither do I smoke.  Although, I like the idea of the huge antique consignment shop but it's huge and my feet are in a non-cooperative mood, and I'm still trying to repair my budget from the excess of shiny things I bought at on-line auctions.  (I'm cured now but still paying the price. sad). 

    South, hmmm,  well, south there's essentially nothing but forests & mountain villages 'till you get to Pittsburgh (120 miles).  Like Buffalo, too much hassle for a cheap mini-adventure.

    So, I guess Erie it is.  Outback Steakhouse, here I come.  Mmmm,  yum, real, unground, red meat filet, baked sweet potato, brown sugar & butter, thick warm brown bread covered in butter, brocolli smothered in melted cheese, my arteries are clogging already.  AND I get to bring back a doggie bag for part of a meal tonight or tomorrow.  Double yum! yes

    Also, to round out this mini-adventure I think I'll go to a movie while in Erie.  "The Post" (story of the publishing of the "Pentagon Papers" revealing the government lies during the Vietnam War) is playing there but isn't and won't be playing here.  I suspect that it's too sophisticated or wrong sided politically for this area, to be profitable for the theater. frown

    Going to EERIE, PA huh?  Say 'hi' to the Munsters and Morticia/Gomez for me!! :-O

    A couch princess is a woman that sits on the couch all day watching soaps, making her hubby bring her cake frosting to eat.  :-|

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    tawt i taw easter candy in lotto tix store

    Easter pastries on sale here already :)

    Yes, my local market has hot cross buns in the sale ad.

    Dana

    Why are the buns cross?  Did someone make them angry? :-P

    Hot and cross sounds like a bad combination...

    Hot Cross Buns

    Hot Cross buns are real???? I thought they made them up for a song.

    They're all the rage in the U.K! ;-p

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    DanaTA said:
    Mistara said:
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    tawt i taw easter candy in lotto tix store

    Easter pastries on sale here already :)

    Yes, my local market has hot cross buns in the sale ad.

    Dana

    Why are the buns cross?  Did someone make them angry? :-P

    Hot and cross sounds like a bad combination...

    Hot Cross Buns

    Hot Cross buns are real???? I thought they made them up for a song.

     

    yummy

     

    yummuy - tee hee, one of those words spelled the same backwards and forwards, think theres a special word for those kinda words

    Except I don't think yummuy is a real word.  You had it right the first time.

    Dana

    It's actually Yummu, Sumerian deity of ot pateries.  Not the most popular deity in the Sumerian panthen, oddly enough.

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

    ...interesting.  I like the idea of no sharp edges.  I've seen the manual ones (where I last lived the people there I was renting from had one) but never knew someone made an electric one.

    We've had it for many years.  The new one has different logo and colors.  Nice little battery run item.  And it came with an extra too, Safety Jar.  I use that a lot.  Works on a wide variety of lid sizes, from soda bottles to kosher dill spears bottles!

    Dana

    ...oooh I could definitely use that.  I have an old jar wrench but it's just that...old and doesn't hold tight to the lid much anymore.

    I had a jar wench once.  She moved on to executivve assistant at Intel...

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    AAAUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Deep red dawn sky giving way to grey-streaked blue and a gusting wind is picking up anything not fixed to the ground, feels a little like autumn :)

    Sounds nice, but not a day to be The Flying Nun...!

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Chohole said:
    DanaTA said:
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    Is snow ?

    looks more like pixelation to me.   needs attention from Auntie Alias.

    It was obviously shot through a window screen.

    Dana

    glass is much better for windows.

    Don't you have window screens over there?  They're important for keeping bugs out when you want some fresh air.

    Dana

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...all you folks having lovely spring weather.  Opened the shades here when I woke up and

    GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

    Is snow ?

    looks more like pixelation to me.   needs attention from Auntie Alias.

    Darn pixies ruin everything!!!

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    edited February 2018
    kyoto kid said:

    ...exactly, due in part to the screens on the outside of the window.  Phone camera doesn't have focal range settings.

    Still coming down two and a half hours later.

    If I put the camera right up against the window, it usually focuses well.  Of course, I try to avoid the screens.  We have windows that raise to open, so I can shoot out the top window, which has no screen behind it.  In the kitchen, over the sink, we have a sliding window.  On the left, there is no screen.

    Dana

    Post edited by DanaTA on
  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Complaint: My central heating pump just went "Bang clatter clatter clatter kaboom silence." And now there is no more hot.

    This is the second major failure in my heating system so far this Winter. Ho hum!

    Well, that blows.. erm, wait.. doesn't blow.. oh, bother..

    That's not good.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Chohole said:
    DanaTA said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    tawt i taw easter candy in lotto tix store

    Easter pastries on sale here already :)

    Yes, my local market has hot cross buns in the sale ad.

    Dana

    Why are the buns cross?  Did someone make them angry? :-P

    Hot and cross sounds like a bad combination...

    Hot Cross Buns

    Hot Cross buns are real???? I thought they made them up for a song.

    Hot Cross Buns in the shops are the first sign it is No Longer Christmas. Along with Cadbury's Creme Eggs. (usually on Boxing Day!)

    Actually the company I use for my on line grocery shopping has had Hot Cross Buns as a regular item permanently since last Easter. They have removed the normal fruit buns, which were not good, and now stock the hot cross ones, which are really nice.

    The first time I heard the phrase 'hot cross buns' was at a bondage club in San Francisco!!!

    Rather ruined thing for me... :-/

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