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WILL YOU SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI PLAYER UP?!?Stilton, smoked Stilton, Jarlsberg, sage Derby, port Derby, Manchego, Emmenthal, Gruyere, vintage Cheddar, Yarg.I only eat sharp cheddar, extra sharp cheddar, mozzarella, queso de papa, Monterey Jack, Munster, marbled cheddar, babybel, asiago, parmesan Oaxaca,Romano, camembert, ricotta, brie, gouda, havarti, port salut, Colby, pecorino, and gouda.This made me stop to wonder if any of the stores that I shop at have this same issue....and then I remembered that I live in the midwest. We take our cheese very seriously, and I'm pretty sure no store would dare pull this stunt for fear of rioting. ;PThe saddest part of the whole thing is that the corner store has a "decent" cheese selection, but the old Andronico's at the top of the street had a fantastic selection. Safeway bought them out (so there are now two Safeways within half a mile of each other, plus a third another mile up the same road), and assured all the offended high-end shoppers that they would continue to cater to the high-end, high-profit niche.
Nope.
Andronico's old amazing cheese selection is now over half Safeway Select. And gods, if you think Kraft Mild Cheddar is bad, you've never tried Safeway Select *anything*.
SPRANG sprangsprangsprang SPRANG sprangsprangsprang SPRANG sprangsprangsprang SPRANG sprangsprangsprang SPRANG sprangsprangsprang SPRANG sprangsprangsprang (etc.)
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Put the sprang away, there's a good chap.
Gods, lyrics, you horrible, horrible mistresses you.
I really loved the music for Delain's We are the Others.
Then NobodysWife made me read the lyrics and read the story behind the song.
Now I tear up every time I hear it.
Damn you, lyrics!
EDIT: Fair warning: If you've ever been an outcast (a punk, a goth, a mod, a geek, etc.), the first time you hear the song you might sob a bit.
Yeah, however the S. O. P. H. I. E. Foundation does some great work, appearing at a few of the alt festivals over here. And there was a good documentary from her boyfriend last year.
PS. I've seen Delain live before, they rocked.
However today it's a folk/black metal festival in Selby.
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It's never gotten 37 degrees C here. 33 maybe. I know 31 is still ok for me.
There are times I wish I could...not eat so much. But what can I say? I'm a greedy gut.
Normally I am too! That was what also made it not so nice. I can really ejoy a good meal, but I could barely finish a plate of my favorite dish :(
(which is duck chimmichurry by the way)
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Captain Yesterday pointed out people were worried!
I'm ok!I had a lovely vacation in the UK, but came home into a ridiculous heatwave. Regular temperatures of 90 degrees Fareheit during the day. (37 degrees C at some points) which made me not want to do anything but not move and drink water.
Of course, the heat was murder on my body, and I managed to catch a nasty stomach bug, and Ive been pretty under the weather ever since, but its been looking up lately. Ive been managing to eat a bit more, and therefore have more energyI'm just glad you're safe
it's good to see you.Pepto bismol chasers in the abscondi-cave for you today!
Thank you!
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Freehold - Nope. I was at one time, but again, they have a building maintenance crew for this stuff. They come to me instead literally because they think it's part of IT's responsibilities.
Ah, I feel you. I have this as well. If it has a power cord, it has to be for IT right?
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I just wrote a TacticsLion-length rant about missing being able to shop easily for good cheese. and then I deleted it.
The regular cheese discussions make me happy I love in cheese country.
You live in Wisconsin too!
I just wrote a TacticsLion-length rant about missing being able to shop easily for good cheese. and then I deleted it.
are you familiar with Grandpas in Ohio? I would gladly kill for their jams, jellies and cheeses.
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I set up AV stuff for a large hotel downtown and I can't tell you how many times I'd get a call that something wasn't wasn't working and I'd get up there and find out they didn't turn on the power.
I just wrote a TacticsLion-length rant about missing being able to shop easily for good cheese. and then I deleted it.are you familiar with Grandpas in Ohio? I would gladly kill for their jams, jellies and cheeses.
I hate distance shopping for anything edible. Even if it's in jars. I will make exception for coffee roasters I know we'll.
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I set up AV stuff for a large hotel downtown and I can't tell you how many times I'd get a call that something wasn't wasn't working and I'd get up there and find out they didn't turn on the power.
I misread hotel as brothel.
Not sure why, but it made the sentence sound like a real adventure.
The regular cheese discussions make me happy I love in cheese country.
Seems to be hard to find good Dutch cheese in the UK, Old Amsterdam aside.
I set up AV stuff for a large hotel downtown and I can't tell you how many times I'd get a call that something wasn't wasn't working and I'd get up there and find out they didn't turn on the power.I misread hotel as brothel.
Not sure why, but it made the sentence sound like a real adventure.
There was a known brothel across the street.
There was a known brothel across the street.I set up AV stuff for a large hotel downtown and I can't tell you how many times I'd get a call that something wasn't wasn't working and I'd get up there and find out they didn't turn on the power.I misread hotel as brothel.
Not sure why, but it made the sentence sound like a real adventure.
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So, when I'm attending technical meetings on behalf of my team, I prefer to take my notes in a draft e-mail using Microsoft Outlook (our preferred corporate e-mail program) so that the moment the meeting ends, I can send out my notes to the team.
No problemo, right? It's a mindless, type, copy-and-paste and Outlook just has to sit there.
Nope.
Outlook, in its infinite wisdom, consistently tries to sync the draft to the server. And for whatever reason, always fails after about 10 minutes. Even worse, once it can't sync with the server, you are no longer allowed to type into your draft. The classic, amazingly-irritating-beyond-all-belief, "Even though everything you're trying to do is local, I have no network access so I'm shutting you down," approach that I loathe.
So yep. To take notes I have to take Outlook to Offline mode before I even start the meeting.
WTF, Microsoft?
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For me, having lived through two generations of beloved felines so far, "Memories" is the saddest song in existence.
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As an all-too appropriate addendum to the cheese conversation, my doctor yesterday informed me that I have a major obstruction and in order to avoid the ER I need a full day of laxatives and toilet. Which I can't manage until Saturday, because I've been out sick so much this year. Yech.
Sorry for the TMI, misery loves company.
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Captain Yesterday, what did you do at work this morning?
Well, I personally set travel fashion back about 30,000 years.
And I still have an hour until lunchtime.
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That workplace shooting in Middleton was about 5 minutes from Zelda's sister's house. 10 minutes from the school she works at. Unsurprisingly, they put the school on lockdown.is everyone alright?
Yes.
Zelda's sister is a teacher at that school, and there was a brief scare when they heard that a software company was involved. One student's parent works at a software company in the area. Turns out not at the same company, but just across the street from the incident.
Then, last night, police were in Zelda's sister's neighborhood searching a couple houses related to the shooting.
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I just wrote a TacticsLion-length rant about missing being able to shop easily for good cheese. and then I deleted it.
If you (or anyone) is so inclined, there's a thread for that.
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"I remember saying 'whore' a lot!"
"Do you guys really stop and count up when you get to say these things?"
"Yes!"
"I am suddenly not looking forward to Huck Finn."
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"I remember saying 'whore' a lot!"
"Do you guys really stop and count up when you get to say these things?"
"Yes!"
"I am suddenly not looking forward to Huck Finn."
that was a very difficult book.
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You are on a different continent to me.
And Drejk.
And Woran.
And Mort.
*Sniffles*
Why isn't Cover Turtle on the list...
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My vote for saddest song.
Not good at the 'sad songs' kind of thing…
I just go into full sobbing and weeping.Don't even remember what most of the particular songs are…
Just that they server as emotional- and memory-triggers to often trobling times in my life. Maybe its a kind of 'soundtrack of your life thing'
Can see what I've listen to most recently though.
Lets see…
Ghost (Recommend), Nirvana, various mash-ups, FLESH, Tiamat, Opeth and Mastodon.
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Freehold! It's 95F plus humidity (heat index of 104)! Will you please make autumn show up this year?
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Why do I make the big bucks?
Two words; ingenuity.
You are on a different continent to me.
And Drejk.
And Woran.
And Mort.
*Sniffles*
Why isn't Cover Turtle on the list...
; _ ;
My vote for saddest song.Not good at the 'sad songs' kind of thing…
I just go into full sobbing and weeping.Don't even remember what most of the particular songs are…
Just that they server as emotional- and memory-triggers to often trobling times in my life. Maybe its a kind of 'soundtrack of your life thing'Can see what I've listen to most recently though.
Lets see…Ghost (Recommend), Nirvana, various mash-ups, FLESH, Tiamat, Opeth and Mastodon.
What are you talking about!?! She was kidnapped from her mother and forced to live in Ohio. OHIO.
If there's anything sadder than growing up in Ohio I haven't heard about it.
Edit: oh! I see, you were saying you aren't good at saddest songs, not I am no good at the saddest song thing. Ohio still sucks.
You are on a different continent to me.
And Drejk.
And Woran.
And Mort.
*Sniffles*
Why isn't Cover Turtle on the list...
; _ ;
Because you're underneath the earth, with four elephants on your back, holding the whole thing up. Good job!
In other news, I ran another sidesword class last night, which went noticeably better than the last one. I now have to run one more next month, and they want it to last an hour. Blimey.
You are on a different continent to me.
And Drejk.
And Woran.
And Mort.
*Sniffles*
Why isn't Cover Turtle on the list...
; _ ;
My vote for saddest song.Not good at the 'sad songs' kind of thing…
I just go into full sobbing and weeping.Don't even remember what most of the particular songs are…
Just that they server as emotional- and memory-triggers to often trobling times in my life. Maybe its a kind of 'soundtrack of your life thing'Can see what I've listen to most recently though.
Lets see…Ghost (Recommend), Nirvana, various mash-ups, FLESH, Tiamat, Opeth and Mastodon.
What are you talking about!?! She was kidnapped from her mother and forced to live in Ohio. OHIO.
If there's anything sadder than growing up in Ohio I haven't heard about it.
Edit: oh! I see, you were saying you aren't good at saddest songs, not I am no good at the saddest song thing. Ohio still sucks.
^^'
Turtles don't do words very well either!
Because you're underneath the earth, with four elephants on your back, holding the whole thing up. Good job!
That explain why I'm so durned tired and sore all the time! :p
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Typography mini-rant!
I have a coworker who has set her default email font to a larger-than-standard, bolded Comic Sans. This is combined with a general lack of punctuation from a rushed, very concisely worded message. All in all, these factors contribute to making all of her messages seem about ten times as aggressive as they're intended.
And it makes me crazy
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I get to do something I can honestly say I never thought I'd have to do, I'm waiting for Crookshanks to get done with cheerleader tryouts.
Nope, still looks f~@#ed up typing that.
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Yeah, cheerleading has REALLY changed since we were in high school (at least I was). Instead of an exclusive clique for popular girls to snub the rest of the population, it's athletic, competitive, and one of the most dangerous sports offered at high schools. (I *loved* gran's joke about people who think that cheerleading isn't a sport but video games are. Just try to mimic a cheerleader for 2 minutes. You'll end up on the floor.)
Speaking of change, I'm actually getting worried about just how much our weather might be screwed up this winter. Normally some time between August and the end of September (typically towards the end) we get a week of 90+°F weather known as "Indian Summer". It's our official mark of "the end of summer and the beginning of winter", as the highs in the area typically go from 97 --> 77 --> 57 over the course of just a couple of weeks.
Yeah; our weather can be really screwy. I still remember when we were living in Richmond and my brother came down for Thanksgiving (in late November) and sat on the deck enjoying the 85°F weather.
But I've been living in the area for 50+ years now, and I don't remember ever not having an Indian Summer at all.
Maybe in October...
EDIT: LOL. I Googled it and found a nice article that pointed out that we don't even officially qualify as EVER having an "Indian Summer", as the Old Farmer's Almanac defines it as a period of hazy skies and high barometric pressure after the first frost of the season. Having no frosts, we lose out!
(Some even insist that it has to fall between November 11 and 20 to qualify, so we've just misnamed it. Typical Californians.)
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Uh yeah, we haven't had an Indian summer either, it's gone from hot as hell to slightly less hot but infinitely more humid, kind of like Florida without all the elderly people from New York and New Jersey to make it unbearable.
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California has fast casual summers, much like an Indian summer but with soy.
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Florida's summers never end and are hot and humid.
Uuugh.
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As an all-too appropriate addendum to the cheese conversation, my doctor yesterday informed me that I have a major obstruction and in order to avoid the ER I need a full day of laxatives and toilet. Which I can't manage until Saturday, because I've been out sick so much this year. Yech.
Sorry for the TMI, misery loves company.
If you need natural laxatives I can recommend a packet of figs. Their apricots are nice too. Also generally I don't get constipation problems since I eat a fruit a day sometimes more. I've been known to finish a plate of blueberries all by myself, and yesterday there was the effects of a ricola incident...
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And I would eat those figs and apricots just for fun, except that it's all those calories...
And also Cover Turtle, sorry for this.
One of the tastiest remedies for constipation in my opinion is the GuiLingGao which is a jelly-like Chinese medicine, also sold as a dessert. It was traditionally made from the powdered plastron from the turtle Cuora trifasciata and a variety of herbal products.
I used to make them. And added song shan winter honey for the slight crystalline kick it would give.
Oh but again I'm not sure what happens on diabetes with all those suggested stuff... D@mn
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Freehold! It's 95F plus humidity (heat index of 104)! Will you please make autumn show up this year?
jesus christ.
That's insane.
You are on a different continent to me.
And Drejk.
And Woran.
And Mort.
*Sniffles*
Why isn't Cover Turtle on the list...
; _ ;
My vote for saddest song.Not good at the 'sad songs' kind of thing…
I just go into full sobbing and weeping.Don't even remember what most of the particular songs are…
Just that they server as emotional- and memory-triggers to often trobling times in my life. Maybe its a kind of 'soundtrack of your life thing'Can see what I've listen to most recently though.
Lets see…Ghost (Recommend), Nirvana, various mash-ups, FLESH, Tiamat, Opeth and Mastodon.
What are you talking about!?! She was kidnapped from her mother and forced to live in Ohio. OHIO.
If there's anything sadder than growing up in Ohio I haven't heard about it.
Edit: oh! I see, you were saying you aren't good at saddest songs, not I am no good at the saddest song thing. Ohio still sucks.
say what you will. Ohio women are freaking HOT. AND down with the swirl, I always get second looks there.
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Yeah, cheerleading has REALLY changed since we were in high school (at least I was). Instead of an exclusive clique for popular girls to snub the rest of the population, it's athletic, competitive, and one of the most dangerous sports offered at high schools. (I *loved* gran's joke about people who think that cheerleading isn't a sport but video games are. Just try to mimic a cheerleader for 2 minutes. You'll end up on the floor.)
Speaking of change, I'm actually getting worried about just how much our weather might be screwed up this winter. Normally some time between August and the end of September (typically towards the end) we get a week of 90+°F weather known as "Indian Summer". It's our official mark of "the end of summer and the beginning of winter", as the highs in the area typically go from 97 --> 77 --> 57 over the course of just a couple of weeks.
Yeah; our weather can be really screwy. I still remember when we were living in Richmond and my brother came down for Thanksgiving (in late November) and sat on the deck enjoying the 85°F weather.
But I've been living in the area for 50+ years now, and I don't remember ever not having an Indian Summer at all.
Maybe in October...
EDIT: LOL. I Googled it and found a nice article that pointed out that we don't even officially qualify as EVER having an "Indian Summer", as the Old Farmer's Almanac defines it as a period of hazy skies and high barometric pressure after the first frost of the season. Having no frosts, we lose out!
(Some even insist that it has to fall between November 11 and 20 to qualify, so we've just misnamed it. Typical Californians.)
cheerleaders can benchpress their fellows. For fun.
And I would eat those figs and apricots just for fun, except that it's all those calories...
And also Cover Turtle, sorry for this.
One of the tastiest remedies for constipation in my opinion is the GuiLingGao which is a jelly-like Chinese medicine, also sold as a dessert. It was traditionally made from the powdered plastron from the turtle Cuora trifasciata and a variety of herbal products.
I used to make them. And added song shan winter honey for the slight crystalline kick it would give.
Oh but again I'm not sure what happens on diabetes with all those suggested stuff...
My people just drink senna. Unfortunately senna root is hard to find, so we are stuck with the leaf.
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Not to go into TMI territory, but one family member has to routinely take 14 capfuls of Miralax combined with 2 liters of water.
Yes, it's horrific and expensive.
But holy good gravy does it clean out the system.
I drink coffee regularly, that does the trick of keeping one regular.
I don't run unless I have to.
I do however take part in some serious physical activity at work, but that's more for fun.