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Re:THE BIG SQUARE HOLE
« Reply #210 on: January 26, 2008, 05:54:41 PM »
Quote from: singdaw on January 26, 2008, 03:52:53 PM
Well, this IS a family site.   :)

But, if you must...

Go here and then search on "birthday cake."

Oh my!
That's what I call fun!
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« Reply #211 on: January 26, 2008, 05:57:15 PM »
Speaking of fun. . .I once must again say THANK YOU, DR GEORGE!
I'm spending the evening listening to foreign tongues!
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« Reply #212 on: January 26, 2008, 05:57:28 PM »
Quote from: JoseSPiano on January 26, 2008, 03:15:32 PM
Well, the next time you're in the city, I'll have to take you to Grom for their Hot Chocolate.  It's basically their gelato base heated up.  Sooooooo good.  Soooooooooo rich.

I still want to taste the basil infused hot chocolate.  That sounds fabulous to me
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Re:THE BIG SQUARE HOLE
« Reply #213 on: January 26, 2008, 06:03:02 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on January 26, 2008, 03:26:30 PM
She also asked me once again to thank all those HHWers for their cookir orders, withyour help she was able to surpass (by a couple of boxes) her goal of 100 boxes sold.

Please tell Vixter I would buy from her, but I have a neighbor who I promised to buy from and little old me can only eat so many cookies
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« Reply #214 on: January 26, 2008, 06:26:14 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on January 26, 2008, 03:56:11 PM
I went supermarket shopping today and had the rudest teenage boy as a cashier......
You were absolutely right to go to the manager.  And I don't blame you for walking away from that disaster of a cashier.

At our store (I'm pretty sure by state law) cashiers must be at least seventeen years old.  Baggers can be hired as young as fourteen, but they are not working the registers.  They have to be at least fifteen to wrangle carts.

I consider myself lucky to have a good working relationship with our two baggers, Kenny and TJ.  I treat them as adults, not as kids, and they appreciate that kind of respect.  We have a new cashier, age 17, named Caitlyn, who is similarly responding to the adult treatment.  And dang, she's got the smarts!

The young workers who don't show any respect for the customers get weeded out fairly quickly.  Your cashier wouldn't last a week at our store.
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« Reply #215 on: January 26, 2008, 06:28:20 PM »
Quote from: DearReaderLaura on January 26, 2008, 04:03:49 PM
Good for you, Vixmom. Follow up with a written letter.
ABSOLUTELY!
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« Reply #216 on: January 26, 2008, 06:32:32 PM »
I was lucky at work today - only one customer deserved bitchslapping.  He was out to gouge as much he could from the store, trying to make me accept two coupons for the same item.  Then he tried to blow me off by claiming the store was into "Game Theory."  Whatever that was supposed to mean.

The customer behind him thought he was totally disgusting, and told me so.
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« Reply #217 on: January 26, 2008, 06:34:10 PM »
OK, I've wound down from work enough now.  Time to get dinner on the table, and then watch Torchwood with der B.

Or is that accompany der B in watching Torchwood, with John Barrowman and James Marsters?  Grammaticaly correct, that sort of thing.
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« Reply #218 on: January 26, 2008, 06:51:47 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on January 26, 2008, 03:26:30 PM
She also asked me once again to thank all those HHWers for their cookir orders, withyour help she was able to surpass (by a couple of boxes) her goal of 100 boxes sold.


Is it too late to order the cookies?
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« Reply #219 on: January 26, 2008, 06:54:19 PM »
Quote from: Jane on January 26, 2008, 03:30:58 PM
The snow & ice melted so we had a nice walk on the trails today.  We fear a snow storm is headed our way tonight-hope the reports are wrong.

Rain vibes!

We were supposed to have snow this morning - we had rain.  We are supposed to have snow tomorrow, Monday, and / or Tuesday.  I don't think it is going to happen.
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« Reply #220 on: January 26, 2008, 06:57:42 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on January 26, 2008, 03:37:57 PM
I know that different countiesd sell at different tiem.  Here in Suffolk County we sellour cookies ans candy about a month  to 6 weeks behind the Girl Scouts in Nassau County, so perhaps in New York they sell their nuts now...


Of course it is all sealed in cans so I expect it must have a reasonably long shelf life  


I never knew that Girl Scouts had nuts.  That might have changed my entire high school social life.
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« Reply #221 on: January 26, 2008, 07:06:10 PM »
Good Evening!

Back from dinner....

MMMMMMMmmmmmmm... Malecon!!!!!

I blame Baayork for this one.  ;)
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« Reply #222 on: January 26, 2008, 07:06:45 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on January 26, 2008, 03:56:11 PM
I went supermarket shopping today and had the rudest teenage boy as a cashier...

I just feel badly for the customers behind me whom I inconvienced by walking away.
   


Bravo for you, vixmom!  Maybe next time, Woody will be more careful.
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« Reply #223 on: January 26, 2008, 07:07:45 PM »
DR vixmom - Hmm.... I probably would have one or two of the cans and...

"Oh, I'm sorry that can dented your foot... And I'm sorry that one dented your nose.  You can't help that, can you?!?!?!??!"

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« Reply #224 on: January 26, 2008, 07:08:16 PM »
And, now...  I bake!

:)

Laters...
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« Reply #225 on: January 26, 2008, 07:08:18 PM »
The link takes too long too load here.  I blame Jose.
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« Reply #226 on: January 26, 2008, 07:11:57 PM »
DP Colin and I watched "This Sporting Life" last night.  I've avoided it for 45 years because it is about football.

Richard Harris sings in the movie - and it's not "Camelot" and certainly not "How To Handle A Woman'.

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« Reply #227 on: January 26, 2008, 07:17:44 PM »
TOTD:

Dusty Springfield's recordings of "Going Back" and "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today"

Rosemary Clooney's "Tenderly"

Ray Charles - "Georgia"

Eydie Gormé - If He Walked Into My Life" and "Since I Fell For You"

Dinah Washington -"September In The Rain"
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« Reply #228 on: January 26, 2008, 07:22:40 PM »
DR Jeanne do you have any knowledge of BBC series "The Street"?  There are two series available.
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« Reply #229 on: January 26, 2008, 07:31:29 PM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on January 26, 2008, 07:22:40 PM
DR Jeanne do you have any knowledge of BBC series "The Street"?  There are two series available.

It sounds familiar. The one I recall, which I did not see, sounded a bit like EASTENDERS. Relatively new?
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« Reply #230 on: January 26, 2008, 07:32:20 PM »
Quote from: Tomovoz on January 26, 2008, 07:17:44 PM
TOTD:

Ray Charles - "Georgia"

Absolutely.
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« Reply #231 on: January 26, 2008, 07:33:03 PM »
Really tired.

Good night.
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« Reply #232 on: January 26, 2008, 07:44:39 PM »
Quote from: Jeanne on January 26, 2008, 07:31:29 PM
It sounds familiar. The one I recall, which I did not see, sounded a bit like EASTENDERS. Relatively new?
Good cast: Jane Horricks,Timothy Spaul and Jim Broadbent
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« Reply #233 on: January 26, 2008, 07:45:57 PM »
and I would hope nothing like "East Enders".
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« Reply #234 on: January 26, 2008, 08:00:22 PM »
Don't blame you one bit for walking away, DR Vixmom, and I'm glad you informed the management of his people skills (or lack thereof). No reason to tolerate that kind of disregard and disrespect.
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« Reply #235 on: January 26, 2008, 08:02:49 PM »
I began my evening finishing THE JEWISH AMERICANS. I watched Episode 3 and the first of three bonus features. I'll have to get the other two done tomorrow afternoon so I can get the review posted tomorrow evening.

Next up, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - SEASON 3.
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« Reply #236 on: January 26, 2008, 08:05:16 PM »
Next, I watched the next-to-late skating group in the ladies long program. These were the skaters in places 10-6. One little girl (aged 14) whose last name was Zhang skated a perfect program. In fact, she had been predicted to win before she fell on her triple lutz in her short program. Anyway, she hit everything in her long program, skated to "Ave Maria," simply brilliant.
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« Reply #237 on: January 26, 2008, 08:06:04 PM »
Shocking story, DR VIXMOM.....good for you.
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« Reply #238 on: January 26, 2008, 08:06:22 PM »
Does anyone have $130,000 that I can borrow?
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« Reply #239 on: January 26, 2008, 08:07:01 PM »
Excellent TORCHWOOD episode tonight - with some fun teasers here and there - particularly at the end.

James Marsters is very good in his role.
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