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In other news, thank goodness for safe following distances!
I don't know whether they've changed things in the new "Antilock Braking System" (ABS) generation, but back when I attended driver training, the absolute, inviolable, #1 rule of hazardous driving was, "If you hit an unexpected patch that affects your control, DO NOT HIT THE BRAKES, no matter what!"
Ice, deep water, mud, gravel, potholes, or whatever. If you hit the brakes, you were almost certain to spin your car out. I know that of my friends who got into spinouts and crashes in bad weather it was always, "Well, I felt myself losing control, so I hit the brakes, and that's when I totally lost it."
Well, either people are still idiots, or they're teaching them something totally different now that ABS is commonplace, but we were driving home and the pickup truck in front of me hit a long patch of fairly deep water (3"-6") on the freeway. The driver proceeded to slam on the brakes. This would have guaranteed a major crash in the pre-ABS days.
Unfortunately, the Celica doesn't have ABS.
So I hit the brakes up until I hit the water, then went ahead and "rode it out" like I was supposed to, and stopped with a good 50-60' margin. So not even a remote chance of a collision. Except that's because *I* was following at a reasonable distance, and knew what I was doing when I hit the water.
What kind of moron hits a deep puddle on the freeway and slams on the brakes to come to a complete stop? That just seems like doing your utmost to get rear-ended...
EDIT: And who doesn't drive naked?
Not to mention stall out your car,or truck.
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*Lets Cover Turtle writhe in her blankets for a while since he needs it.*
*nuzzles Cover Turtle*
I think gloomy weather in winter just makes people depressed. And I'm not allowed to drink these days because alcohol is 7 calories per gram so that's sad as well. Sigh. All this stuff about clean living...
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So while we haven't heard from Hi yet, I just signed on to Final Fantasy and his characters were tending the guild gardens just 2 hours ago, so he's obviously OK... just not communicating with us.
I'll track him down... eventually.
OK that's more promising, since if an android or space alien replaced him, it wouldn't be tending the guild Gardens.
OK that's more promising, since if an android or space alien replaced him, it wouldn't be tending the guild Gardens.So while we haven't heard from Hi yet, I just signed on to Final Fantasy and his characters were tending the guild gardens just 2 hours ago, so he's obviously OK... just not communicating with us.
I'll track him down... eventually.
Pretty much exactly what I said to Shiro, except I used "hacker", as in, "If a hacker took over his account, I don't think he'd be gardening..."
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OK. Finally got a text. He was indeed extremely sick and in bed, but is now recovering.
Time to get his "address".
Pesky man!
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Laundry folding, eh? I used to do that. Tala's very domestic. She takes joy in cooking, cleaning, and stuff like that, in her words, "for her man."
I'm not a believer that women need to do that. Men are no better than women, and a I certainly don't believe that "a woman's place" bull.
However, it is really, really nice, for me at least, to be with someone who's old school like that, especially since my ex wasn't. Tala also actually appreciates when I do around the house stuff, instead of only pointing out what I missed or ignored, like my ex-wife. Every now and then when she's at work I'll go out of my way to clean up a bit more, cook a meal or whatever, and she's super grateful, really laying on the praise. In addition to being abusive, her ex was a lazy a@&#%$@ who didn't do s!&*.
Oh - Update about Tala's mom! She's starting to get better! She's no longer on a respirator. Her oxygen levels are getting better. She was talking fully today on the phone instead of in gasps like when we video-chatted her yesterday! Apparently the hospital she was in for the infection (before the one she got transferred to yesterday) had a humidifier near her and didn't drain her, or something like that. She's planning on suing them (and possibly the insurance company for denying her at-home care when she clearly needed it).
I'm a very lucky man. This has been an excellent year. I mean, lots of it sucked, but the parts with Tala...she's super.
I need to go look up aprons now, for...no reason in particular.
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Yeah I get people that like to mess with me about cooking. I'm like brah women love a man that can cook. I don't know why they get that idea really there are so many male chefs.
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Yeah I get people that like to mess with me about cooking. I'm like brah women love a man that can cook. I don't know why they get that idea really there are so many male chefs.
You don't want my Dad baking. He once put salt instead of sugar in a cake. Well granted, if you're working with unsalted butter, you need to add a bit. But just a bit and not like a whole lot like my Dad did. He's inconsistent. Sometimes it'll turn out all right, sometimes it'll be >.<
My brother, before he went to States, didn't touch the cooking pot at all, preferring to bum off our domestic helper/my mom's/my cooking.
My uncle only eats eggs for breakfast. We're not sure what he eats for lunch and dinner. Maybe more eggs...
Yeah I get people that like to mess with me about cooking. I'm like brah women love a man that can cook. I don't know why they get that idea really there are so many male chefs.You don't want my Dad baking. He once put salt instead of sugar in a cake. Well granted, if you're working with unsalted butter, you need to add a bit. But just a bit and not like a whole lot like my Dad did. He's inconsistent. Sometimes it'll turn out all right, sometimes it'll be >.<
My brother, before he went to States, didn't touch the cooking pot at all, preferring to bum off our domestic helper/my mom's/my cooking.
My uncle only eats eggs for breakfast. We're not sure what he eats for lunch and dinner. Maybe more eggs...
SO your male half of the family is to blame! for shame!
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SO your male half of the family is to blame! for shame!Yeah I get people that like to mess with me about cooking. I'm like brah women love a man that can cook. I don't know why they get that idea really there are so many male chefs.You don't want my Dad baking. He once put salt instead of sugar in a cake. Well granted, if you're working with unsalted butter, you need to add a bit. But just a bit and not like a whole lot like my Dad did. He's inconsistent. Sometimes it'll turn out all right, sometimes it'll be >.<
My brother, before he went to States, didn't touch the cooking pot at all, preferring to bum off our domestic helper/my mom's/my cooking.
My uncle only eats eggs for breakfast. We're not sure what he eats for lunch and dinner. Maybe more eggs...
On the other hand, all my aunts on my Dad's side are pretty good cooks, and consequently a little...horizontally inclined. I think it's an occupational hazard.
My mom didn't know how to cook (she is the youngest in her family), until she married my Dad. She sort of regrets not picking up those traditional recipes from my maternal grandmother, but I don't blame her. Traditional recupies are a LOT of work (you're stewing that duck for hours and watching the flame all the time) and back then since most were illiterate, they didn't exactly measure. It'd be a pinch salt, half a clove, one stick of cinnamon bark, some galangal - there were no exact measurements.
I don't think that helped your case. You have still convinced me Mort men are the reason for the men can't cook stereotype.
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Just explaining why my mom didn't learn to cook. I am hazarding a guess one of those pre-requisities for learning how to cook is that you need to be a greedy bum. If you're not a greedy guts, you'll probably be disinclined to learn to cook.
My mom and my brother are both skinny buggers, so what do you think =P
I'll say there are two types of people in the world - those who eat to live, and those who live to eat.
If you're the former, you're probably going to be quite in shape, but if you're the latter, you might be a little tubby.
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Once you get right down to it, I did a cooking screw up before, like adding too much salt to season the frozen fish. Then there was once I was cooking sesame oil chicken in States, I added sugar instead of salt(how was I to know my brothers salt came in pink flakes), but I examined the crystals, got suspicious and scouped most of it out for a taste, realized I added sugar instead. So I added salt after. The chicken turned out fine - apparently secret ingredient X to a good sesame oil chicken is sugar.
I didn't follow the recipe above I just winged it.
Yeah its not to surprising but salt and sugar n meat can work with the right medium. I mean heck teriyaki sauce is practically sugar and salt.(soy sauce i think it is more salty then actual salt im pretty sure.)
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Yeah its not to surprising but salt and sugar n meat can work with the right medium. I mean heck teriyaki sauce is practically sugar and salt.(soy sauce i think it is more salty then actual salt im pretty sure.)
How do you make your own teriyaki sauce? I've never tried. I fantasise living alone in the States, I think I could be really skinny if I just cooked for myself. Every dish would be like chicken, fish or vegetables. No red meats, no carbs.
The only problem is I'd probably eat chocolate cake and pizza everyday for breakfast. (Self baked, of course)
Again without gym classes I'm not sure if I could get enough exercise to lose weight. But again there's always lots of Billy Blanks Tae Bo on youtube even when outside gets too cold to run.
soy sauce, honey, brown sugar. After they are nice and darkened sesame seeds added in. Its a little tricky because its take awhile to get to the right point and it can go from that point to burnt in a blink. Burnt soy sauce is not a good smell.
I find its good on about everything.
Gran is so hard to please.
I like it on fish. I have not but I do really like Miso soup.
Never really cared for teriyaki, personally. As for soy sauce, I use it in a few marinades and occasionally put it on rice, but that's it.
Is it too sweet for you?
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Never really cared for teriyaki, personally. As for soy sauce, I use it in a few marinades and occasionally put it on rice, but that's it.Is it too sweet for you?
I think Grans more Conservative in his food tastes. NHK was showing Miso seasoned fish and Miso salad dressing as well. Since I don't like traditional salad dressings like mayo, balsamic vinegar, miso has potential. Surprisingly I'm cool with olive oil and salt as a salad dressing.
It is often paired with pineapple. I guess just think they go well together. That is not how I do mine.
I like oil and vinegar or Cesar for my salads.
I like honey mustard. I don't care for thousand island.
What did Batman say to Robin before they got into the Batmobile? "Get into Batmobile, Robin."
Really Robin should be glad it was more then a grunt and a look.
Maybe it was Adam West Batman. He seemed more chatty.What did Batman say to Robin before they got into the Batmobile? "Get into Batmobile, Robin."Really Robin should be glad it was more then a grunt and a look.
That's true, There could of even been some dancing.
The of course theirs christian bale batman Robin! *unintelligible growling*
Uh oh FaWtL's budget just took a hit.
Ah ok. As long as everything is worked out.
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MrT cooks. He likes cooking. I also like to cook, but I find his dishwashing skills... lacking. So if he cooks and I do the dishes, our workload is nicely divided.
I pity the Fool who doesn't know how to cook.