Vunderwuss? Lest ye forget, I spent 42 of my 46 years living anywhere between Motown and Indianapolis, with my childhood near South Bend. I know low temps and snow, and Hunney, I’ve had ex-girlfriends colder than you. 
It serves me well to point at these sutherners and make fun of them when they freak out at the sight of a single snowflake.
OKAY. The damned walk between buildings is LONGER than 300 yards. Hell, I’ll say it’s 5 miles. How the hell should I know? All I know is that every hour, my daughter has to walk it, back and forth for 7 hours. She will be an icicle. #1 son has to walk it 3 times I think. He of the no hat. (luckily he has the thickest head o’ hair this side of Chicago).
Hunney? :eek: I’ve got a cyberstalker now! <runs…to make sure I’m home alone>
Hee.
Off to DO SOMETHING. Not sure what.
bobbio, you forgot the obligatory swampy swoon picture of you all geared up to go along with the OP. Seriously, though, really good OP!
Very scary and sad weekend here. All those poor souls devastated by the tornados Friday morning. They are still counting. Luckily for us, the stormy weather was in the wee hours and was over by the time we had Dad’s funeral mass. It was lovely, BTW, and we waked him real good afterwards.
All the family had left by yesterday so it was just Mr. Anachi and I watching the SB. I felt sorry for the folks who thought they were gonna get a nice tropical night but instead got pouring down cold rain. I thought Prince was a real trooper, though.
boofae, aw, that cheese just looks like mint chocochip ice cream to me.
Much to do after being out Thursday and Friday last week so I should get to it.
Hi, all.
Super Bowl - I never ever realize it’s Super Bowl weekend until I get to the grocery store for my weekly shopping trip and find the place mobbed. And all kinds of football shaped treats everywhere. Although I am thinking about going home and watching some of the ads on the Internet!
Cold - It was a balmy nine degrees out this morning. The temp should actually start going up in February, our cold snap is almost gone, but now it will snow a LOT LOT LOT. By Friday, it’s supposed to be all the way up to 25! Shorts weather!
Miscellaneous - My coworker’s car went off the road on Friday night. She’s unhurt, but a bit freaked, and the car is being plucked out of the ditch today. Eek.
So…hi, all. This may be the only chance I really get to follow the MMP, I’m not sure.
Morning, all. I watched the Puppy Bowl, too, for a few minutes and then switched to a What Not To Wear marathon. Can you tell I’m not a football fan? Sorry about your Bears, though, MBG. I have several other Chicago friends who are in deepest mourning today.
That cheese is…gag. It sounds awful, but it looks SO MUCH worse! Whatever possessed you to actually lay out good money for that abomination, BooFae? Oh, wait, I know – I probably would have, too, just out of sick curiosity. And then would have been curiously sick.
Today will be exciting. My first blood donation towards my surgery. I have to donate two pints of blood for myself, a week apart. Today should be fine, but if next week I need a fainting couch and smelling salts, you’ll know why.
People who set fires in strong winds deserve to be charged by the fire department for their services. Good on you for being there to clean up after his idiocy, though. And I’m glad the people got out of the burning house; that is scary.
Off to do something constructive like work till noon, when the REALLY important part of the day happens – tickets for the Great Big Sea show in DC in April go on sale. Hey, what’s important?
Good morning everyone.
Hoo-doggy Bobbio! It sounds like you had one hell of a day. Still in all, I greatly appreciate folks like you being around.
I did watch the Stupor Bowl. Not because I’m a particularly big fan of football, because we were invited to a friend’s house to watch. Our original plans called for staying home, playing WoW, but turning on the game just so we knew the score. Mr. Taters was in a football pool, and the only reason we were interested was to see if he had won some money. He didn’t really. Well, he won on a reverse score, but that was enough to win back the money he put in the pool.
At any rate, we had fun visiting with our friend, his parents, and his brother. Turns out his brother may get to play for the Ravens. He’ll know more in a week or two.
Frankly, I didn’t care who won, really, but I was glad to see the Bears lose. Sorry MBG. It’s only because of the last game they played against the Seahawks.
It’s not particularly cold here; about 46 degrees, but it’s a damp cold and it’s sinking into my bones. I just can’t warm up.
That cheese looks and sounds purely disgusting. I’m all for trying new things, but never in a million years will I try that.
Well, I should work now. Not that I really want to, I have a real case of the Monday blahs.
When I was living in Belgium, I came across chocolate milk cheese in the supermarket. Some years later I mentioned it to someone I work with as we’d been talking about things like pepper cheese and stuff like that. She didn’t believe this chocolate cheese existed so next time I went over to visit friends in Belgium, I bought some and gave it to her.
She still works down the corridor from me, and when I saw the lurid green cheese I thought of her and decided I had to get some. See? I didn’t want it at all, it was all for her.
Well, you can watch them all here if you like.
We did drive up to Potomac Mills Saturday. And they had the bed we wanted in stock, and it was pretty inexpensive. Unfortunately, the box for the headboard would not fit in the vehicle we took up there. I was going to just tie that box to the roof and take our chances, but the GF wasn’t too thrilled with that idea, and nothing is worse than being trapped in a vehicle with her for 2-1/2 hours when she’s nevous, so we didn’t buy it. Instead we walked around. So we were gone from home for 9 hours, and only bought 3 cork thingies to put under hot pots/pans for $1.69.
I vote for Winston for next week’s MMP.
Just a quickie drive-by; I’m off to work. Yeah, it’s freaking freezing cold here, too.
I shall be wearing three shirts to work today.
The new job is going well, I had a great weekend, I just wish it wasn’t so damn cold.
Have a good day, everyone!
We should be grateful to BooFae. I mean, think about it… we’ve all seen the grossest thing we’ll see all week. Surely none of us will have to encounter anything grosser than that cheese! So, she’s done all of us a public service. Plus none of us had to actually smell or touch it. ::shudder::
It’s cold and windy here. Well, it is! I say in two weeks it better start warming up cause we get Spring early and I want my Spring on time dagnabbit! Course that means pine pollen all over everything, but at least it’ll be warm out.
I’m supposed to watch one of those internet thingy’s this afternoon all about some job readiness skills curriculum (curricula? curriculi?) stuff. That is, unless I “forget”. Sometimes I “forget” stuff like this.
So … any thoughts on whether she’ll ever forgive you?
Swampy - I hope you realize you have just challenged Loki to reveal something even more disgusting at some unspecified point later in the week. Now, I think, would be a good time to be afraid.
Ya know what today is?
the First day of baseball season.
Go Sox!
I got a phone call at 5:30 today that about 14 buses didn’t start because it’s 11 below zero.
I call the superintendent. Uh, yeah we CAN either get them running, or sub other buses for the morning…So, ok, school is in.
We’re the only school district within 10 miles having school today. And yeah, I stayed home.
The tongs then get sterilized by blowtorch, none of that autoclave sissiness!
You know, all it would require for a barf smiley is a color tweak on Mr. Blowjob. Or is it Ms. Blowjob? In any case, it must give bad BJs, because it’s supposed to be embarrased.
Ooooh, Bobbio, that remark about cold girlfriends is naaaaasty! Made me go all :eek: Good thing you and rigs know it’s a joke, though, I wouldn’t want to see a Pit thread about “woman assaults fireman”.
Thanks for the link, Sean. I used to love those TV programs that were just compilations of ads from different places, but I haven’t seen one in years. 'twas kind of funny seeing the same women talk about how wonderful the New Elena is in three or four different languages.
Morning, all.
Sorry you had to miss most of the game, VunderBob. We had our own little bit of excitement - we were watching it at a friend’s house when suddenly the entire block experienced a blackout. You could hear the frustrated cries for miles. Fortunately one of our other friends offered their apartment so we hauled ass and managed to see the halftime show.
And 'twas all for naught, as the Bears lost. 
Ah well, good game, anyway.
It’s really cold. Ow.
That cheese is fricking disgusting. I’m impressed. Thanks for the pic. I’ll never ever try it.
I’m doing spaghetti for lunch. It’s that kind of cold day. I want hot chocolate and snoozes by the fire. I read half of High Fidelity at the laundromat. It’s pretty good. I like Nick Hornby’s non-fiction, so I thought I’d give a novel a try.
Mindude, no matter what manner of filth or other oogyness Loki may manage to track in or bring to bobbio as a love offering, he just cannot top that cheese.
After seeing that cheese, I think I’ll forgive Loki and Maddy the VunderDogs the next time they snack on catbox crunchies…
Which, I’m sure, are less gross than that cheese. ::shudder::
Not much to them. I used a pound of ground turkey, a bag of pre-chopped Cole Slaw mix (without any of the dressing), some onion, some bean sprouts, commercial egg roll wrappers, soy sauce, ground ginger, powdered garlic, 1 beaten egg, and a shot of cayenne hot sauce. I can’t be more specific, because this is something I make by eye, not measurement.
Brown the turkey (or other ground critter of choice) in a little oil, with garlic and ginger to suit. Set aside, and add the veggies. When it starts to sizzle, shut off the heat and go put out a burning Winnebago 
When you get back, reheat and finish stir-frying the veggies. Add the ground critter, a couple of good shots of soy, hot sauce to suit, and more ginger and garlic. Don’t drown it in liquid, because you want the stuffing to be pretty dry. What I do is more like Moo-shoo critter, actually.
Take everything off heat, and set aside for a couple of minutes to cool. Beat the egg, and start separating the wrappers. You need to decide how many layers you need. I used one, and it was bad because I baked them instead of frying, and the wrappers stuck to the pan. Next time, either 2 layers, or oil the sheet. If you fry them, one is probably enough.
Take a wrapper, and lay it out in front of you like a diamond. Add a heaping tablespoon or thereabouts of the filling, and place it cross-ways to the side points of the diamond. Roll the bottom corner up over the filling, and bring in the side corners. Brush the egg on the top point, and fold it up and over the rest. The egg is your glue.
Either deep fry until the skin is bubbled and brown, or back them at 400F until the wrapper is brown, about 10-12 minutes.
An Oriental cookbook can show you how to do the wrapping if you’re still confused.
Oh BTW, I have to take a dish that falls under the category of “fruits and vegetables” for the potluck lunch my department’s having this Friday. Any suggestions? I could just chop up a bunch of fruits (or vegetables) but I don’t want to be boring.