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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    edited May 2019
    Mystarra said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've been drinking coffee for more than half a century and have sampled many types both here and in Europe yet I do not understand what is so exclusively wonderful about perked or steamed coffee, or the coffee sold in boutiques.indecision  Granted there are some really horrible coffee brands out there, bitter, biting, acidy, gag-me-with-a-spoon type of coffee.no  But there is at least one brand of instant (though not particularly cheap) coffee that I am happy to drink.yes  It solves the problem of cleaning the apparatus.  I just rinse and dry the spoon.cheeky  But, perhaps if one is after an electric caffeine high that makes one's eyeballs jitter then it's possible to brew it that way and make it palatable with enough cream, sugar, and pretty designs on the top but it's not my idea of a soothing cup of simple black coffee. 

    I've been around long enough to have observed that anything evaluated by subjective measures can attract self-declared "experts" motivated by one aspect or another to create heirarchies and declare superlatives and try to extract exorbitant profits from them from the groupies that swallow and extol the latest trend.  (Art and wine come immediately to mind)indecision 

    I think it’s mostly perception... Mermaid logos confuse people... I also think when people go into a place that has a heavy coffee smell billowing out the doors, they incorporate that into the experience and their perception of the taste.

    But, different kinds of beans do have a taste difference... brewing methods can make a difference too.

    Personal tastes vary as well...

    For me, one thing I noticed a long time ago was that many times I’d go to an event or a wedding and the coffee was delicious... a few of the places the events were held at were restaurant/catering halls... when I’d go for something like Sunday brunch, the coffee tasted different... okay, not delicious.

    Why was that?

    I started to ask waiters if they could tell me what brand the coffees were when I came across one I really liked... on two occasions I actually tracked down the coffee and bought some, but it wasn’t anything like it tasted at the events... 

    At some point at one place I noticed that they used regular dinner style coffee makers (one carafe at a time) for brunch, but for a big party in the next room they had a huge old industrial (probably 3 gallon or more) electric percolator...

    I also noticed at another event that the coffee I liked usually left behind a fine “sediment” (not grinds)... 

    My guess was the flavor I liked was based on percolating coffee cooking longer and using a metal filter (many of the old electric percolators have reusable metal screen filters)... regular coffee filters drop hot water onto the grinds, which immediately filters through a very fine paper filter which removes any fine particulate material (which contributes to the flavor)... the percolators keep bubbling up the hot coffee over the grinds over and over... building the flavor...

    I guess.

    None of the affordable stovetop percolators produced the same flavor, probably because they lack the same filter type as the big machine... So one day I tried a cheap French press and it came close enough to producing the flavor I liked... it also eliminated the need to clean out the stupid coffee maker.

    Yeah, I actually analyzed it that much... and that’s not ever a tenth of the nonsense effort I put into figuring out what was special about that taste or how to simulate it.

    But it’s all personal taste... also I tend to do stuff like that... going to stupid lengths to figure out why something inane is the way it is.

    Nevermind my making tools for specific purposes or having unique methods of doing things.

    This aspect of my nature is an endless source of frustration to my wife who is the opposite of me in that regard... She’ll be like “Oh for gods sake, it’s just a bamboo spatula, stop fixing it”... and I’ll be like “its got the perfect radius to scoop out the edges of the pan and stop stuff from sticking and burning, and it’s the perfect hardness and not too fiberous so the edges aren’t stringy if you sand it”.

    the trouble with perkolating, how do you know when it's done?

    when the toaster dings, there no uncertainty if my pop tarts are done.

    That's what the glass knobby on the top is for, to let you see how dark the brew is getting.  Just use your calibrated eyeball.  But if the fluid percolating in the glass knobby starts coming out in sticky globs you've made it into something that might sell in a boutique somewhere.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    Mystarra said:
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've been drinking coffee for more than half a century and have sampled many types both here and in Europe yet I do not understand what is so exclusively wonderful about perked or steamed coffee, or the coffee sold in boutiques.indecision  Granted there are some really horrible coffee brands out there, bitter, biting, acidy, gag-me-with-a-spoon type of coffee.no  But there is at least one brand of instant (though not particularly cheap) coffee that I am happy to drink.yes  It solves the problem of cleaning the apparatus.  I just rinse and dry the spoon.cheeky  But, perhaps if one is after an electric caffeine high that makes one's eyeballs jitter then it's possible to brew it that way and make it palatable with enough cream, sugar, and pretty designs on the top but it's not my idea of a soothing cup of simple black coffee. 

    I've been around long enough to have observed that anything evaluated by subjective measures can attract self-declared "experts" motivated by one aspect or another to create heirarchies and declare superlatives and try to extract exorbitant profits from them from the groupies that swallow and extol the latest trend.  (Art and wine come immediately to mind)indecision 

    I think it’s mostly perception... Mermaid logos confuse people... I also think when people go into a place that has a heavy coffee smell billowing out the doors, they incorporate that into the experience and their perception of the taste.

    But, different kinds of beans do have a taste difference... brewing methods can make a difference too.

    Personal tastes vary as well...

    For me, one thing I noticed a long time ago was that many times I’d go to an event or a wedding and the coffee was delicious... a few of the places the events were held at were restaurant/catering halls... when I’d go for something like Sunday brunch, the coffee tasted different... okay, not delicious.

    Why was that?

    I started to ask waiters if they could tell me what brand the coffees were when I came across one I really liked... on two occasions I actually tracked down the coffee and bought some, but it wasn’t anything like it tasted at the events... 

    At some point at one place I noticed that they used regular dinner style coffee makers (one carafe at a time) for brunch, but for a big party in the next room they had a huge old industrial (probably 3 gallon or more) electric percolator...

    I also noticed at another event that the coffee I liked usually left behind a fine “sediment” (not grinds)... 

    My guess was the flavor I liked was based on percolating coffee cooking longer and using a metal filter (many of the old electric percolators have reusable metal screen filters)... regular coffee filters drop hot water onto the grinds, which immediately filters through a very fine paper filter which removes any fine particulate material (which contributes to the flavor)... the percolators keep bubbling up the hot coffee over the grinds over and over... building the flavor...

    I guess.

    None of the affordable stovetop percolators produced the same flavor, probably because they lack the same filter type as the big machine... So one day I tried a cheap French press and it came close enough to producing the flavor I liked... it also eliminated the need to clean out the stupid coffee maker.

    Yeah, I actually analyzed it that much... and that’s not ever a tenth of the nonsense effort I put into figuring out what was special about that taste or how to simulate it.

    But it’s all personal taste... also I tend to do stuff like that... going to stupid lengths to figure out why something inane is the way it is.

    Nevermind my making tools for specific purposes or having unique methods of doing things.

    This aspect of my nature is an endless source of frustration to my wife who is the opposite of me in that regard... She’ll be like “Oh for gods sake, it’s just a bamboo spatula, stop fixing it”... and I’ll be like “its got the perfect radius to scoop out the edges of the pan and stop stuff from sticking and burning, and it’s the perfect hardness and not too fiberous so the edges aren’t stringy if you sand it”.

    when the toaster dings, there no uncertainty if my pop tarts are done.

     

    My toaster constantly lies to me... it bings when stuff isn’t done, bings after it’s burned stuff to a crisp that was set to lightly toast... I wouldn’t trust it with my precious pop tarts... 

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Holy mooly... I’m sitting here waiting in the car and it is raining crazy hard... I’m blasting WBAB and reading the forums and didn’t notice how hard it’s raining... the lightning fixed that.

    Gah... I have to go out there now... 

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    None of my fish are volunteering to check on my laundry.  I guess I need to get up and check on it.  Wonder where that catfish is?

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,281
    McGyver said:

    Holy mooly... I’m sitting here waiting in the car and it is raining crazy hard... I’m blasting WBAB and reading the forums and didn’t notice how hard it’s raining... the lightning fixed that.

    Gah... I have to go out there now... 

    Would you please share some of that rain with eastern North Carolina. We are sweltering and everything is tinderbox dry.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,097
    Charlie Judge said:
    McGyver said:

    Holy mooly... I’m sitting here waiting in the car and it is raining crazy hard... I’m blasting WBAB and reading the forums and didn’t notice how hard it’s raining... the lightning fixed that.

    Gah... I have to go out there now... 

    Would you please share some of that rain with eastern North Carolina. We are sweltering and everything is tinderbox dry.

     

    Amen!!!

     

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298
    carrie58 said:
    Charlie Judge said:
    McGyver said:

    Holy mooly... I’m sitting here waiting in the car and it is raining crazy hard... I’m blasting WBAB and reading the forums and didn’t notice how hard it’s raining... the lightning fixed that.

    Gah... I have to go out there now... 

    Would you please share some of that rain with eastern North Carolina. We are sweltering and everything is tinderbox dry.

     

    Amen!!!

     

    It is getting warm today.  I mean it will be hot later today.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    going to the manorvile petting zoo tomorroww  bottle feed the babies heart  afzp.org

    complaint - they double fence the roo, can't bottle feed the roo  pout pout*  no fairs!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ohhh  just wasted the lasat 20 minutes of my life cuz i accidentally hit the scroll lock

    aduhh adoyyy

    geek humor  the radio said prices of cemetary fees going up due to cost of living.
    been giggling , why is that soo fuuunnnyyy?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

     

    Charlie Judge said:
    McGyver said:

    Holy mooly... I’m sitting here waiting in the car and it is raining crazy hard... I’m blasting WBAB and reading the forums and didn’t notice how hard it’s raining... the lightning fixed that.

    Gah... I have to go out there now... 

    Would you please share some of that rain with eastern North Carolina. We are sweltering and everything is tinderbox dry.

    If you need it to rain just take all your tools outside or decide to work on/take apart your computer outdoors... it will rain instantly.

    I was thinking of starting a rainmaking business, based on my ability to make it rain by doing anything involving stuff rain will destroy.

    I could probably flood the Sahara just by removing the roof from a convertible while repairing it.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    Mystarra said:

    going to the manorvile petting zoo tomorroww  bottle feed the babies heart  afzp.org

    complaint - they double fence the roo, can't bottle feed the roo  pout pout*  no fairs!

    Make sure you go to the right place, the Manorville Heavy Petting Zoo is right next door (well, one farm over)... Things get weird there really quickly...

    I made that mistake once... just once.

    Ok, twice... but the second time I was really bored.

    Oh, and by the way that kangaroo is a thief, watch your belongings around him and if he’s got his little three card monte table out, tell him you aren’t interested... It’s a total scam, he cheats every time.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    edited May 2019

    Non-complaint:  Wheee..., mini-adventure this weekend.  I'm off to Rochester, NY area for a gem & mineral show.  Ooh, pretty rocks! yes  144 miles, 1 and half hours, look at rocks,  have lunch, drive back.  If I find a rock that I can afford and can't live without I'll let it follow me home.  Pet rocks, very quiet, very easy to train to sit and stay, never need feeding, and rarely need a bath.smiley

    Apparently I've switched my collection disease over to pretty rocks instead of semi-precious gemstone rocks carved to look like animals.  It's getting hard to find affordable carved rocks that are different in material or animal than I already have.  I have way too many elephants as it is.  In my desperation I even have a jade kangaroo, a malachite triceratops , and an obsidian starfish. Gettin' kind'a weird.indecision

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    My one drive is full complaint.  I am currently on a metered connection so I got to go to the One Drive website to delete unwanted and unneeded stuff.  Does stuff in the recycle bin count towards my quota?  I wish I knew a way to check the online One Drive where the big files are and also where the bulk of the data is.  The data taking up my storage.  There is no way to upgrade the One Drive storage any more than I have.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:
    Mystarra said:

    going to the manorvile petting zoo tomorroww  bottle feed the babies heart  afzp.org

    complaint - they double fence the roo, can't bottle feed the roo  pout pout*  no fairs!

    Make sure you go to the right place, the Manorville Heavy Petting Zoo is right next door (well, one farm over)... Things get weird there really quickly...

    I made that mistake once... just once.

    Ok, twice... but the second time I was really bored.

    Oh, and by the way that kangaroo is a thief, watch your belongings around him and if he’s got his little three card monte table out, tell him you aren’t interested... It’s a total scam, he cheats every time.

    beware those nickels he selling.

    bright shiny stolen goodsfrom the austrich he in cahoots with.  can't help themselves they pluck those shiny bits off tourist shirts.

    dang fumble fingers hitting the scroll lock, dunno how it happens. have to catch my fingers in the act.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,298

    I want to see Good Omens with someone who looks just like David Tennant.  Oh wait there is a reason he looks just like David Tennant.  Ooh David is such a good actor!

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    Some agency is doing road work after midnight in the residential neighborhood.  ahh. :(

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016

    Happy Birthday to Victoria. laugh Why do I have a feeling, when I look at her, that this isn't her first 20th birthday?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    TigerAnne said:

    Happy Birthday to Victoria. laugh Why do I have a feeling, when I look at her, that this isn't her first 20th birthday?

    You have to remember that she came to us fully growed up    and she has actually aged quite well.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    I accidentally touched the “Post Comment” button, but the forum said I needed a body...

    I know my body is beat to hell, but it’s still fairly body-like... maybe a little more walrusie... still, it’s got a head and arms and feet and most of the digits it started out with...

    Are they suggesting I dig up a body from the local cemetery?

    How would they even know?

    It seems like a lot of effort just to make a blank post.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    back from my outing already went so fast  fell as;eep on way home, hicj isnt easy, the county doesmt believe in shock absorbers for its busses

     

    saw a anner, for a full 4 seconds thought vicki 10 was out

    was the only one there driving a walker
    i feel stiff, but i today think i more limber for my age i could prolly do a few  kama sutra poses,  my vicky doesnt know any

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    edited June 2019

    Non-complaint:  Gem & mineral show was a success!  Picked up three items.  1) a crystal of carborundum (ooh, sharp & scratchy) 2) a box set of five clear, nearly flawless, quartz geometric shapes (Tetrahedron, Hexahedron, Octahedron, Icosahedron, and Dodecahedron)  3) A wonderful 4.5 inch high stone carving of a pair of of aqua colored dolphins leaping above a black onyx wave.  and the whole thing rocks fore & back when you touch it.  Wheee... cool!  Happy happy.  THIS was the thing that I couldn't do without despite it being a bit beyond my budget but I talked the seller down 20% so it all worked out OK.  Picture below. (I was so excited about the quality of the carvings that I forgot to ask what the aqua colored stone issad)

    Complaint:  The weather.  Cloudburst just after I left home at 8:00AM but it didn't slow me down much and quit just when I was planning on stopping for a McDonalds Egg McMuffin breakfast..  Then for the rest of the drive (2 more hours) it was OK.  However, on the way back towards home during mid-afternoon I ran into about an hour and a half of major rain.  It got so bad at one point that I had to pull into a rest stop and wait for a break.  Then just as I got back on the Interstate the heavens opened and three times the sky turned black and I entered a complete whiteout from my headlights reflecting from the rain and hail.  Worse than a snow whiteout.  As bad or worse than anything I ever experienced in Florida cloudbursts.  Scared the s*** out of me.  Thankfully traffic was relatively light and the whiteouts were brief so when I came out of the 3rd whiteout I saw a string of cars ahead of me that had pulled off to the side of the road all with their flashers on.  I joined the string when I found an opening in the line.  About 10 minutes later as the rain lessened just a tiny bit we, one by one, started getting back on the road and proceeding at about 45 miles an hour instead of the posted 65.  Made it home without damaging or witnessing any damage but first thing I did once I was unpacked was have a shot of brandy.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    Mystarra said:

    back from my outing already went so fast  fell as;eep on way home, hicj isnt easy, the county doesmt believe in shock absorbers for its busses

    They buy them with shock absorbers, but they have them removed for ascetic purposes. 

     

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Gem & mineral show was a success!  Picked up three items.  1) a crystal of carborundum (ooh, sharp & scratchy) 2) a box set of six clear, nearly flawless, quartz geometric shapes (Tetrahedron, Hexahedron, Octahedron, Icosahedron, and Dodecahedron)  3) A wonderful 4.5 inch high stone carving of a pair of of aqua colored dolphins leaping above a black onyx wave.  and the whole thing rocks fore & back when you touch it.  Wheee... cool!  Happy happy.  THIS was the thing that I couldn't do without despite it being a bit beyond my budget but I talked the seller down 20% so it all worked out OK.  Picture below. (I was so excited about the quality of the carvings that I forgot to ask what the aqua colored stone issad)

    Complaint:  The weather.  Cloudburst just after I left home at 8:00AM but it didn't slow me down much and quit just when I was planning on stopping for a McDonalds Egg McMuffin breakfast..  Then for the rest of the drive (2 more hours) it was OK.  However, on the way back towards home during mid-afternoon I ran into about an hour and a half of major rain.  It got so bad at one point that I had to pull into a rest stop and wait for a break.  Then just as I got back on the Interstate the heavens opened and three times the sky turned black and I entered a complete whiteout from my headlights reflecting from the rain and hail.  Worse than a snow whiteout.  As bad or worse than anything I ever experienced in Florida cloudbursts.  Scared the s*** out of me.  Thankfully traffic was relatively light and the whiteouts were brief so when I came out of the 3rd whiteout I saw a string of cars ahead of me that had pulled off to the side of the road all with their flashers on.  I joined the string when I found an opening in the line.  About 10 minutes later as the rain lessened just a tiny bit we, one by one, started getting back on the road and proceeding at about 45 miles an hour instead of the posted 65.  Made it home without damaging or witnessing any damage but first thing I did once I was unpacked was have a shot of brandy.

    Well I hope none of your crystals are a shard from the dark crystal... it would suck to have Garthim come busting down you door late at night looking for it.

    That carborundum you bought, is it the “unicorn poop” type that is all chromatic and sparkly?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Complaint... 

    My friggin’ right leg is killing me... Like really hurting... it’s actually making me a little nauseous.

    The stupid thing is it’s actually my back that’s the problem... I have a messed up disc in my lower back which puts pressure on the sciatic nerve, causing pain in my leg instead... feels like the tendons in the back of my thigh have been ripped.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Gem & mineral show was a success!  Picked up three items.  1) a crystal of carborundum (ooh, sharp & scratchy) 2) a box set of six clear, nearly flawless, quartz geometric shapes (Tetrahedron, Hexahedron, Octahedron, Icosahedron, and Dodecahedron)  3) A wonderful 4.5 inch high stone carving of a pair of of aqua colored dolphins leaping above a black onyx wave.  and the whole thing rocks fore & back when you touch it.  Wheee... cool!  Happy happy.  THIS was the thing that I couldn't do without despite it being a bit beyond my budget but I talked the seller down 20% so it all worked out OK.  Picture below. (I was so excited about the quality of the carvings that I forgot to ask what the aqua colored stone issad)

    Complaint:  The weather.  Cloudburst just after I left home at 8:00AM but it didn't slow me down much and quit just when I was planning on stopping for a McDonalds Egg McMuffin breakfast..  Then for the rest of the drive (2 more hours) it was OK.  However, on the way back towards home during mid-afternoon I ran into about an hour and a half of major rain.  It got so bad at one point that I had to pull into a rest stop and wait for a break.  Then just as I got back on the Interstate the heavens opened and three times the sky turned black and I entered a complete whiteout from my headlights reflecting from the rain and hail.  Worse than a snow whiteout.  As bad or worse than anything I ever experienced in Florida cloudbursts.  Scared the s*** out of me.  Thankfully traffic was relatively light and the whiteouts were brief so when I came out of the 3rd whiteout I saw a string of cars ahead of me that had pulled off to the side of the road all with their flashers on.  I joined the string when I found an opening in the line.  About 10 minutes later as the rain lessened just a tiny bit we, one by one, started getting back on the road and proceeding at about 45 miles an hour instead of the posted 65.  Made it home without damaging or witnessing any damage but first thing I did once I was unpacked was have a shot of brandy.

    I thought of you when this popped up on my screen   ( iws doing a search for Irish Crystal, but didn't actually mean this sort of crystal)

    It's fascinating though  Apparently it's called Rare Irish Blue WAVELLITE Sun Rosset Crystals Specimen Mineral Ireland DLL211

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    edited June 2019
    McGyver said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Gem & mineral show was a success!  Picked up three items.  1) a crystal of carborundum (ooh, sharp & scratchy) 2) a box set of six clear, nearly flawless, quartz geometric shapes (Tetrahedron, Hexahedron, Octahedron, Icosahedron, and Dodecahedron)  3) A wonderful 4.5 inch high stone carving of a pair of of aqua colored dolphins leaping above a black onyx wave.  and the whole thing rocks fore & back when you touch it.  Wheee... cool!  Happy happy.  THIS was the thing that I couldn't do without despite it being a bit beyond my budget but I talked the seller down 20% so it all worked out OK.  Picture below. (I was so excited about the quality of the carvings that I forgot to ask what the aqua colored stone issad)

    Complaint:  The weather.  Cloudburst just after I left home at 8:00AM but it didn't slow me down much and quit just when I was planning on stopping for a McDonalds Egg McMuffin breakfast..  Then for the rest of the drive (2 more hours) it was OK.  However, on the way back towards home during mid-afternoon I ran into about an hour and a half of major rain.  It got so bad at one point that I had to pull into a rest stop and wait for a break.  Then just as I got back on the Interstate the heavens opened and three times the sky turned black and I entered a complete whiteout from my headlights reflecting from the rain and hail.  Worse than a snow whiteout.  As bad or worse than anything I ever experienced in Florida cloudbursts.  Scared the s*** out of me.  Thankfully traffic was relatively light and the whiteouts were brief so when I came out of the 3rd whiteout I saw a string of cars ahead of me that had pulled off to the side of the road all with their flashers on.  I joined the string when I found an opening in the line.  About 10 minutes later as the rain lessened just a tiny bit we, one by one, started getting back on the road and proceeding at about 45 miles an hour instead of the posted 65.  Made it home without damaging or witnessing any damage but first thing I did once I was unpacked was have a shot of brandy.

    Well I hope none of your crystals are a shard from the dark crystal... it would suck to have Garthim come busting down you door late at night looking for it.

    That carborundum you bought, is it the “unicorn poop” type that is all chromatic and sparkly?

    Interesting that you should mention "The Dark Crystal"  Yesterday, just watched it again for the first time in a few decades.  Still fun.  But, yes indeed, I have a shard of dark crystal (1.5x1.5 x1.0 inches) and it is all chromatic and sparkly.  Dark mirror-like flat planes at all scales and orientations, sharp corners, besparkled with purples and violets, and greens and gold and blue and it looks like it would make you bleed just by looking at it.  Deep magic, thar be within it. surprise  Very difficult to photograph quickly.  The photograph doesn't do it justice and is nowhere near as magical as being in its presence.frown

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,119
    Chohole said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Gem & mineral show was a success!  Picked up three items.  1) a crystal of carborundum (ooh, sharp & scratchy) 2) a box set of six clear, nearly flawless, quartz geometric shapes (Tetrahedron, Hexahedron, Octahedron, Icosahedron, and Dodecahedron)  3) A wonderful 4.5 inch high stone carving of a pair of of aqua colored dolphins leaping above a black onyx wave.  and the whole thing rocks fore & back when you touch it.  Wheee... cool!  Happy happy.  THIS was the thing that I couldn't do without despite it being a bit beyond my budget but I talked the seller down 20% so it all worked out OK.  Picture below. (I was so excited about the quality of the carvings that I forgot to ask what the aqua colored stone issad)

    Complaint:  The weather.  Cloudburst just after I left home at 8:00AM but it didn't slow me down much and quit just when I was planning on stopping for a McDonalds Egg McMuffin breakfast..  Then for the rest of the drive (2 more hours) it was OK.  However, on the way back towards home during mid-afternoon I ran into about an hour and a half of major rain.  It got so bad at one point that I had to pull into a rest stop and wait for a break.  Then just as I got back on the Interstate the heavens opened and three times the sky turned black and I entered a complete whiteout from my headlights reflecting from the rain and hail.  Worse than a snow whiteout.  As bad or worse than anything I ever experienced in Florida cloudbursts.  Scared the s*** out of me.  Thankfully traffic was relatively light and the whiteouts were brief so when I came out of the 3rd whiteout I saw a string of cars ahead of me that had pulled off to the side of the road all with their flashers on.  I joined the string when I found an opening in the line.  About 10 minutes later as the rain lessened just a tiny bit we, one by one, started getting back on the road and proceeding at about 45 miles an hour instead of the posted 65.  Made it home without damaging or witnessing any damage but first thing I did once I was unpacked was have a shot of brandy.

    I thought of you when this popped up on my screen   ( iws doing a search for Irish Crystal, but didn't actually mean this sort of crystal)

    It's fascinating though  Apparently it's called Rare Irish Blue WAVELLITE Sun Rosset Crystals Specimen Mineral Ireland DLL211

    So very pretty and delicate.  Thanks for the name of it.  

    I've one more mineral show to attend this year.  There's one in Erie, Pennsylvania in a few weeks.  It's only 60 miles away.

    I must have taken the long way 'round, to today's show in the Rochester, NY area.  Because on the way I passed through Cuba, Atlanta, Naples, and Bristol.surprise  Scenery along the way was beautiful (when it wasn't raining).

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    McGyver said:

    Complaint... 

    My friggin’ right leg is killing me... Like really hurting... it’s actually making me a little nauseous.

    The stupid thing is it’s actually my back that’s the problem... I have a messed up disc in my lower back which puts pressure on the sciatic nerve, causing pain in my leg instead... feels like the tendons in the back of my thigh have been ripped.

    ouchie boo boos  

    feel better soonest!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2019

    yanno iphones can snap hdr pics 

    https://iphonephotographyschool.com/hdr-iphone/

    free editor

    https://download.cnet.com/Picturenaut/3000-12511_4-75452677.html

     

    of cousre the phone has nothing to find those hdr photos

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Phone says this is hdr but attacment says joeg. Totally confussd

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