This week couldn’t have happened the way it did without the SDMB.
I changed my transmission oil (slipping is gone)
I made banana bread (it came out delicious)
I bought the picture frame for the farewell present for my kids’ nanny. (will give it next week)
I called the Save a Sato association (no luck on that one, though).
The universe still conspires against me making blondies. (God is my witness that I plan to make all the recipes posted in that thread)
All through the advice of Dopers who have responded to my threads over the past couple months. I know I haven’t been to careful about thanking all the people who have bothered to respond to my OPs. So here is a sincere thank you to all of you.
If anyone else has neglected to thank their benefactors, feel free to jump in and do so or let us know how it went with your problem after you got the input from your fellow dopers.
And the best part is, you get to look super-competent to all your friends and relatives that don’t know about the Dope!
My hot-water tank stopped making with the hot water a few hours before I was leaving to go out of town for a holiday gathering with my family. A quick search of the archives yielded more than a few helpful looking threads and by following the posted advice I fixed it. All by myself and everything!
My sisters were jealous, Mom was awed and Dad was proud, of course none of them realize I know little except for how to search here.
I am so much better informed about what’s going on in the world since I started Doping that it isn’t even funny. It has changed my attitudes and my opinions on things and broadened my horizons.
Have you tried adding orange zest and some orange juice concentrate to your banana bread? It’s even better!
(Where’s the banana bread thread?)