Krak really knocked himself out on composing that post, eh? Big hand for Krak. That must have been exhausting; take a well-earned rest now. Big hand, big hand!
Morning, Glories! The best is ahead. (How hard is that to believe, considering the condition we're in?)
Return of the Vic? Best news so far today. Hiya, Vic!
If communications
You would perfect,
Know women are roundabout,
Men are direct.
There are exceptions,
but you'd be a fool
Not to recognize
this is the rule.
Good night, Gracies.
"may the road rise to meet you"
I was thinking of this the other day. We were driving from Tulsa to OKC one hot summer's day. We were, fortunately, in the left-hand lane of the four-lane highway, when we passed, in the right-hand lane, a wedge of highway that was elevated by at least a foot and a half. With bad luck, it would have been elevated like a launch-ramp. Worse, it was a wall in front of the next car to come at it.
This was before cells. All we could do was pray.
Sometimes, the road rising to meet you can be a bad thing.
Houdini taught Dr Who how to escape from handcuffs.
Hey, thanks for the video-heavy ONT, CDR M ("seedy aurem?"). Downloaded and gonna go watch now before beddy-bye.
DOWNLOAD AND STORE EVERYTHING before they take over the net. Repeat.. DOW
Hardly ever read a Haunted Tank. Knew there was a Tank Girl, but not much about. But, the crossover made me laugh. Good one.
rickl: If a As race war breaks out, the media will bear a very large portion of the blame with their slanted reporting and outright lies.
Updated cynically
@votermom: I'm out of bacon. It's very sad. Very sad.
For some reason, I just suggested bacon'n'egg sammiches to Milady, and she said, sounds great, if only we had some bacon.
Commiserating sadz 
rickl: My main takeaway from this thread is that ThunderB has bangs. I like bangs.
Mine is that ThunderB is female! Or a guy with mascara. And bangs.
Little upside-down exclamation point eyelashes... heh... memorable image.
I want fig trees!
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Y'know, that long comment of mine didn't look that long in notepad, but looks like a comment bomb here. Gurk.
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Milady got her license renewed earlier this month. Went to the new agency location, which is closer and more convenient, and was in and out in about five minutes.
Gotta go in myself on Monday, when I'll have my own report.
But, basically, here in civilization, the DMZ and even the Post Office are as a rule staffed with friendly people who do their job efficiently and with a smile. (Some of the customers in line at the post office can be troubling, like one loon recently who had some kind of petty stamp problem, but the staff were friendly and patient to a fault even with him.) I've read it's not this way out in the wilderlands?
Stringer Davis: ...80% of all pressure cooker accidents have been shown to be frauds...
So, are you just going to make that unsubstantiated claim, or do you have specific examples, you pressure cooker troofer?
Kroger: Kroger sells canned food! No need to do it yourself!
Yeah, here's a food thought. (Long one, sorry.)
My grandmother, to my uncle's new bride: Never can anything that you can just buy off the shelf. Gramma spoke from experience, after decades of raising and canning their garden produce.
There's a big trade-off in that idea, it's true, but oh, that Economy of Scale! That same EoS is what makes store-bought bread instead of home-made so popular and fast food instead of home-cooking so successful, right?
Milady and I were practically founding subscribers to Mother Earth News life. We were all about fresh home cooking and gardening and canning and making bread and our own yogurt and...
Actually, when we started out, you could barely find good, plain yogurt or decent whole bread even at the "health food store" (with the nice white-haired old lady that smelled like B vitamins - the store, not the lady). By gramma's rule, we really couldn't find what we wanted on the shelf back then. Anyway, Milady is a master in the kitchen, and you cannot find anything equivalent to her baked goods or pizza sauce, or anything else, even today.
When we had the kids at home, to some degree, baking fresh bread was more sensible. It was even part of the Home Schooling. Now, with kids gone and just the old grumps at home, well, they deliver pizza, right?
(Thinking back, when the kids were young, we still lived in Chicago, and the EoS meant ordering in or dining out was easier. We went out for food we couldn't easily make at home. Gyros, tzatziki, baklava! But, three kids, mostly meals at home.)
Anyway, even before kids (last millennium), young couple us almost immediately experienced that EoS meant one thing: is this the best use of your time? What else would you do with the time you'd spend kneading or weeding every week? (Or canning.)
Having been infected with entrepreneurialism, what we'd really like to do is be on the other side of the equation. We've run food service now and then, but mom'n'pop style restaurant or small sprouts business is not much above home cooking on the EoS. Better to have our own brand, restaurants and store goods, with Milady's recipes! Then we'd be able to go to the store and buy it off the shelf. And she could experiment with new ideas at home, which is the best, and the successful experiments added to the menu and product line.
We haven't realized that idea, and may not, but I've thought more and more like that since we first baked bread together. So to speak. The Market for what we like is much greater today than ever, too.
Meanwhile, I'm glad that the Market means we've got fresh healthy eggs via a local chicken rancher, plenty of good "health foods" in the regular grocery stores, and of course the finest locally-grown grass-fed black angus in various delicious forms. And pizza delivered. Those ranchers and farmers and the pimply delivery kid with the battered vehicle, all save us the time and effort, and make buying more economical than doing every little thing ourselves. Which works for me, as we get older and as time gets tighter. And seems to work very well for everyone.
Until the Obamanation venezuelas our food supply....
BignJames: Pinto beans on kitchen walls are difficult to paint over.
That sounds like the voice of sad experience.
Pressure cooker accident pic: wow! Lucky folks if the damage was only limited to what we see. You could put somebody's eye out like that.
Saw the new thread. Went back and mentioned it. Came back and realized I could've grabbed first if I hadn't been so danged thoughtful of others. Lesson learned.
Whateverth. I'm hungry.
They tell me the food thread is an open thread. Free buffet?
Mormonism does contain irrational beliefs, though...
Posted by: Harry Reid
Harry Reid openly mocking Mormonism! This forum is amusing.
Back from a bunch of chores, and I can tell you missed me.
Speaking of the bright side, first day pain-free in a week or more.
Neuritis, neuralgia, bursitis, nostalgia... what wuzzit?
Looked up bursitis last night, and the symptoms fit. But nothing about how they manifested in me. Pain in right shoulder for a day. Then in left shoulder for a day. Then, left elbow. Left wrist. Left hand. Right wrist. All for one day each. The climax was, back to the right shoulder in sharp agony - can barely raise my arm or hardly think for the pain - for a day and a half. Then, all better. What the f is up with that?
The illustration of an inflamed bursa in the shoulder sure looked just like how mine felt, though.
Causes and cures for bursitis were especially good.
• Warm up before exercise - sure, sure.
• Don't do things that inflame the bursas. Right.
• Be under forty - oops.
• Ice packs might help. Surgery rarely.
Wow, thank you Dr Interwebz.
The Heavenly Designers had a dark sense of humor.
Milady finally gave me a big dose of magnesium-something yesterday, and I'm all well today, so she can take credit. This is the secret of doctors and teachers, too (eg get kids when learning is all they do, hang around them, take credit for their learning).
(Credit where due: the Dentist who took out my kids' wisdom teeth, checking later, says, "All healed up. Isn't that great? We have no idea why that works!")
Was that random enough? Just gushing because I'm not in pain. Feel like I got ten years back. Gotta enjoy it before the Next Thing happens...
I was all set to say, "Hey, who's this Vic newcomer and why is he cluttering up the comments with all these news links?" And Vic had to go and spoil the joke by not getting back in business yet. Can't trust that guy.
An interrobang‽‽
Morning, Glories!
Without him, Hollywood might've starved to death by now.
Without him, there would be no Marvel Universe.
Brought a lot of enjoyment to generations, from Captain America socking ol' Adolph on the chin in 1939, to -- not just acres of colorful characters, but great galactic myths, worlds full of amazing beings.
He will always be the King. Ninety-eigth anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby.
I found the puppeh!
Thanks, CDR M (how does one pronounce that?) - an enjoyably random diverse Friday Night collection.
