Meanwhile, I’m still thinking…
Oooooo, fun! I only got to participate in a couple of lockdown-era Zoom parties, and work only used Zoom/Teams for audio and screen sharing, so the novelty of it never wore off for me.
Removing the tooth doesn’t remove that last bit of problem root. I have a bit of root left from a root canal but it was so deep, it can’t be gotten at without going at it from the nasal cavity. It did stop bothering me completely after a couple of years. But, you may have a problem with the tooth itself, so get a second opinion.
Yesterday breathing required gills it was incredibly wet air, packing a ton of heat then a wild and crazy storm barreled through last night with tornado warnings.
Amazingly power stayed on, yet still treated to the hum of area generators just across the lake.
I got a new phone. Or should I say, my husband made me get a new phone and now I can’t do anything with it. 
I’m currently posting from work, where I stay logged in (despite the sad example set long ago by @Hal_Briston). However, I can’t log in with my phone. I seem to have forgotten my password, and although I’ve requested a password reset sent to my email, it hasn’t come. Does it usually take a long time?
I know this is a really first world problem, but I’m frustrated out of all measure.
Nope. I would check your spam/junk folder, since you have a new phone it might be sent from an address your email provider doesn’t recognize, and was flagged because it seemed suspicious.
Same here. I was wondering why it felt so uncomfortable even though the outside temp was moderate and the A/C had not come on. No wonder – humidity was 100% and the dew point was naturally equal to the current temperature. It would have been a good time to bake something in the oven, forcing the A/C to turn on and dehumidify.
That said, it’s been a pleasant summer here in southern Ontario, cooler than normal on average, with just the right amount of occasional rain. Greenery is thriving and the grass is exceptionally happy but needs mowing more often than usual.
Just before the pandemic hit I decided to join the 20th Century and upgraded my flip phone to a smart phone. I went to Tracfone and purchased a Samsung Galaxy J3 Orbit, which was perfectly adequate for my needs at the time. Since then I’ve been finding ways to use it that I hadn’t previously considered, and adding apps as I needed them.
One of those apps was Slack, which a convention I work for uses for staff communications. This week I received an email from Slack informing me that effective September 1 Slack will no longer be supported on my phone, as it is running on Android 9. When I attempted to upgrade the OS on my phone I found out that no upgrade was possible, as the phone will not support a higher version of Android.
So it looks like I’m going to have to bite the bullet and buy a new phone. Besides the cost, I’m not looking forward to the possibility of having to install the apps I need on the new phone, not to mention I don’t know if I’ll be able to transfer my contacts, calendar info, etc to the new phone.
I’m sure everyone has been anxiously awaiting another update on the tragedy of Stouffers entrees being discontinued in Canada! 
If not, you’re gonna hear about it anyway! This stupidity on the part of greedy corporate suits pissed me off no end.
The phase-out date was sometime in the fall, and indeed the local grocery where I used to buy it most of the time has been stocking fewer and fewer varieties until now they have almost nothing at all. They’re now using the shelf space for some other brand of frozen entrees that to me looked pretty mediocre, but thought I owed it a try. I was wrong – it wasn’t mediocre, it was possibly the worst frozen dinner I have ever had, and keep in mind that here I speak in my capacity as a dog, and we canines tend to have fairly forgiving tastes! 
On the bright side, another supermarket – one that doesn’t normally deal with Stouffers and emphasizes freshly made prepared meals – seems to have bought up a big stock of Stouffers from some warehouse at a rock-bottom price and is practically giving them away at 2 for $5 (they were normally more than twice that). Last week I bought up as much as I thought my freezer could hold. Having freed up a bit more space since then, I went back today hoping they still had some left, and they indeed still had a number of my favourites, but they were going fast and I was just in time. I practically cleaned them out and somehow managed to fit it all into the freezer.
And thus, my friends, ends my sad tale of Stouffers. As I watch my stockpile grow smaller in the weeks to come, I will be saddened by knowing that I’ll likely never see Stouffers again. It’s not that they’re particularly awesome, it’s that they’re mostly decent quality, very convenient for small meals, and there’s just no real substitute on the market.
As an android user you should be able to back up all data and configuration info to the cloud. Then when you activate your new phone, restore everything including re-installing the apps you had installed. YMMV, but that’s been my experience in my last two upgrades.
I am a fan of Stouffers since childhood so actually, yeah, and thanks for the update!
They have the best frozen Mac and cheese** for sure. That is a serious bummer.
**You may call it Kraft Dinner. But do you really do that when it’s Stouffer’s?
I had forgotten about the option of uploading my phone data to the cloud, probably because of my basic paranoia regarding cloud storage for my personal data. But I just checked and there is a cloud function on my current phone.
I also seem to remember if when I upgraded from my flip phone to the smart phone that someone at tracfone was able to assist me in transferring data. I do know that my unused minutes and time were transferred. Which is good, because I recently extended my time to September of nextr year.
Oh yes. This is my favorite Stouffer’s meal:
I used to like to bake it in the oven and would make my own tartar sauce from scratch, then after it’s done put the sauce right on top of the fish. It was so freaking good.
I haven’t had that in a long time, though.
Thank you for reminding me of that one! An old favorite of mine too. I’ve been getting a handful of these for days I don’t feel like cooking and I’ll have to add that one.
By the way, this is the basic Atamasama tartar sauce:
Mayo, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, dill, salt, pepper. Mix it all up with a fork.
(I don’t like relish and hate pickles in tartar sauce, even though it’s pretty common. I love eating pickles on their own but hate them in things, even on burgers. I’m weird.)
I’ve never had their mac and cheese, mostly because that’s one of many things that the supermarket I mentioned that specializes in freshly prepared meals does very well. Actually, there are two that do fresh prepared foods very well, the other one being Pusateri’s, the upscale one that I keep talking about (I saw a review once that rated Pusateri’s one of the ten best places in the world to shop for food, on a par with Fauchon in Paris). Ironically, although almost everything they make is fantastic, I don’t like their “grown-up mac and cheese”. They make it with truffles, and for me that just doesn’t work.
Back to Stouffers. The primary role of Stouffers in my culinary life is that if I have no particular inspiration for dinner or haven’t been shopping for a while, there is (was) always Stouffers in the freezer. Stouffers Salisbury steak with mushroom sauce is not just tasty but quite an attractive presentation if you push all the mashed potatoes to one side to make room on the tray, and then make up a miniature Caesar or Greek salad and add it in there. Looks even nicer since they switched to white trays instead of black. Add a glass of wine, some cheese and dessert and you’ve got a nice small dinner!
I’m with you on the relish, I scrape off any sauce with pickle relish.
When I was bottle feeding a very wee kitten her first litter box was a stouffer’s container. It was seriously cute.
Reminds me of me.
When the New England Candy COmpany went out of business, I ran all over town to find a roll here, and a half-empty box there, and managed to amass a horde… of thirty-some rolls of Necco Wafers.
So that’s how I felt, watching those rolls of chalky goodness slowly disappear.
Luckily, someone bought the name (and most of the recipe?), and started making those disks in Mexico. But they’re not quite the same.
For one thing, they have flavor. Which is antithetical to the Necco experience.
This would be my go-to. When we upgraded my wife’s phone, the friendly man at the contract AT&T store spent a lot of time helping us get her info off the old phone (some sort of Microsoft phone(? she got it because it was cheap) on to an I-phone.