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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #60 on: September 13, 2008, 08:53:22 AM »
This should take us to page three.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #61 on: September 13, 2008, 08:53:43 AM »
And now I must head downstairs to check the mail and get lunch started.

WBBL.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #62 on: September 13, 2008, 08:56:40 AM »
Greetings from the Central Park Zoo!
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #63 on: September 13, 2008, 08:59:18 AM »
Quote from: Edisaurus on September 13, 2008, 04:00:21 AM
Good morning!

I'll have a nice long drive to thing ab out the TOD; I'm driving to NC and picking up my brother and taking him to the Fig Festival and meet my friend Siglinda:

http://www.goathouserefuge.org/figfestival.html

It's a fundraiser for her animal shelter. She's one of the most amazing people I've ever known and I'm looking forward to my brother meeting her. And we'll have some bro-sis time, too!

Sounds like fun.  I hope they raise loads of money for the shelter.
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« Reply #64 on: September 13, 2008, 09:01:03 AM »
Since I didn't post yesterday... heck, I didn't even get online all day, except at work, which is strictly work stuff...

yesterday's TOD:

I've made a list of the DVDs in our collection that I have not watched, and finding it extensive have resolved to do something about that.  So far, I've watched a documentary called The Adventures of Errol Flynn, which is a biography, and another documentary called Chuck Jones, Extremes & Inbetweens, which has some biographical stuff in it but isn't really a biography.

And Heroes Season 2 has arrived, so I've started watching that, as well.

BOOKS:

At the Japanese Table, by Lesley Downer.  So far, lots of introductory material - I just started going through the recipes yesterday, and have only found one that interests me so far, Miso Soup with Pork.  But, like a lot of cookbooks, the author has started with soups and will (hopefully) get to more complex dishes later.  I need to find me some bonito flakes, and kombu.  And red miso.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #65 on: September 13, 2008, 09:01:14 AM »
Quote from: Cillaliz on September 13, 2008, 05:01:10 AM
I've had an upset stomach and headache most of the night. So, I called in sick this morning.  I've been sipping some hot tea. Which isn't really helping. Oh did I add my sinuses are aching. Sheesh!  Anyway, I'm going to go back to sleep for awhile and then try to venture out and get a pancake or something....perhaps a poached egg.  

I'm sorry this trip is not going as you had hoped, or expected.

Feel better soon!
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #66 on: September 13, 2008, 09:04:51 AM »
Hello, I'm awake again after sleeping another 3 1/2 hours. I called and told them I wasn't going to make it this morning and went back to sleep.  I still don't feel great but my stomach feels better. I haven't eaten anything today so I'm going to go find something to eat.  As much as I was disappointed with what the school is, I didn't really want to miss it all together. I did do the home work, after all.  
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« Reply #67 on: September 13, 2008, 09:08:15 AM »
Something else Mom made that I've never found anyone able to match... her lemon meringue pie.  She used a graham cracker crust, with a really good lemon filling (made from lemons from her father-in-law's trees, which would arrive by the bagsfull), and the meringue was swirled and toasted under the broiler, not that silly beehive dome I see too often elsewhere.

Chef Jay Caputo beamed when I told him the lemon tart I had at his restaurant, Porcini House, was the closest and best I've had since Mom's.  I didn't have the heart to tell him that his would have been better with a graham cracker crust.
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« Reply #68 on: September 13, 2008, 09:08:45 AM »
Thanks Jane and Laura.  I'll see what I feel like after eating.  I may just say heck with it at this point and take the metro into the city to see the WWII and Pentagon Memorials.   They are really the only two places I wanted to see if I had time this trip.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #69 on: September 13, 2008, 09:08:58 AM »
DR Michael S-We are HOUSE fans in this house.  I believe it was during season 3 we almost stopped watching, then the last two seasons were better than ever.

I read Hugh Laurie now makes $400,000 per episode.
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« Reply #70 on: September 13, 2008, 09:10:22 AM »
DR Cilla, I hope you don't go home without doing something fun.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #71 on: September 13, 2008, 09:11:48 AM »
DR Cillaliz - Glad to hear you're feeling better today.  Even if you don't go back to school, maybe this trip will end up being a much-needed R & R for you.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #72 on: September 13, 2008, 09:21:28 AM »
Sounds like Hurricane Ike was terrible but not as dire as the most dire predictions by almost everyone - in fact, about half of what they predicted - a very good thing, because of this thing had been what they predicted it would have been truly horrendous.  I did read something amusing - gas prices jumped back up because of FEAR that the storm MIGHT get near some oil places.  Of all the things about this storm, somehow that is the most predictable.
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« Reply #73 on: September 13, 2008, 09:22:08 AM »
I suppose if the storm doesn't get near or do damage to the oil places prices will drop again, but only after several threats from the government.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #74 on: September 13, 2008, 09:47:54 AM »
Quote from: Jane on September 13, 2008, 09:08:58 AM
I read Hugh Laurie now makes $400,000 per episode.

Many people do not realize that some of our more illustrious HHW denizens make at least that much per post.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #75 on: September 13, 2008, 09:49:12 AM »
CNN tv reports that people waiting in long lines at gas stations are watching the prices being revised upwards as they sit there.

Do the prices ever come down that fast?
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #76 on: September 13, 2008, 09:57:29 AM »
Too bad I didn't get gas earlier in the week.  I repeat because it needs to be repeated: The price rise is based on FEAR not actual problems.  It looks like there will be no actual problems.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #77 on: September 13, 2008, 09:58:18 AM »
I know FJL will be interested to know that NYMF is doing their usual stuff - touting about seven shows out of all the shows, and only the ones with name power and sold out shows.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #78 on: September 13, 2008, 10:09:38 AM »
Good Afternoon!

Greetings from the southeast corner of Central Park. John wanted to have his face drawn by one of the "freelance artists" that line the paths here, so his father and I are taking a little sit-down break while he's being rendered in charcoal.
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« Reply #79 on: September 13, 2008, 10:12:15 AM »
I gotta tell you.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #80 on: September 13, 2008, 10:12:43 AM »
Still very overcast here.  Yesterday the sun didn't come out until almost three or something.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #81 on: September 13, 2008, 10:14:13 AM »
Quote from: JoseSPiano on September 13, 2008, 10:09:38 AM
while he's being rendered in charcoal.

I guess that's better than being rendered in chicken fat.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #82 on: September 13, 2008, 10:14:52 AM »
I will win the Powerball.
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« Reply #83 on: September 13, 2008, 10:15:03 AM »
I will win the Powerball.
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« Reply #84 on: September 13, 2008, 10:15:21 AM »
I will win the Powerball.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #85 on: September 13, 2008, 10:16:23 AM »
DR JoseSPiano's avatar makes me want to grab a napkin to catch the drips.
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #86 on: September 13, 2008, 10:16:53 AM »
Page 4 is nearly nigh!
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #87 on: September 13, 2008, 10:18:37 AM »
Quote from: singdaw on September 13, 2008, 09:47:54 AM
Many people do not realize that some of our more illustrious HHW denizens make at least that much per post.

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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #88 on: September 13, 2008, 10:19:08 AM »
Quote from: singdaw on September 13, 2008, 10:16:23 AM
DR JoseSPiano's avatar makes me want to grab a napkin to catch the drips.

Ummm... Nevermind...
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Re:THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
« Reply #89 on: September 13, 2008, 10:21:50 AM »
DR Cillaliz - I hope you start to feel better, and I hope you have a good time in DC.

*The National Gallery of Art and The Museum of the American Indian have wonderful food service/cafeterias. ;)
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