Someone you know and trust comes up to you with something you don’t recognize and says “Taste this.”
Do you? How big a taste do you take?
A coworker brought in some of theselast week. She’s a very sweet person, so I didn’t expect her to be messing with me. Still, I just took a tiny little taste, and the flavor wasn’t bad. The texture was like a gummy bear, sorta. It was, overall, different.
Would you have tried it? Have you faced similar situations?
Happy Moanday!!
W00T! FIRST!!
Up, caffeianted, and sheveled. Off to work. It is my Moanday and my Firday all at once.
Mooooommmmm!. Would I taste something from someone I know? at least a litte. From a random stanger? nope.
And that reminds me of Can you lick the science?
I feel proud of me cos I saw the pic and thought “hey, looks like a lichee.” OK, they’re cousins.
Pretty much everybody at work is on holding pattern: we have a ton of stuff to do but, because this is one of those projects which have its own data-management team, we’re spending a lot of time waiting for the data team to do their stuff so we can do the testing which in turn will define our data. Superlogicalisticospialidocious, aye? Thing is, since we’re all suffering from the same problem, we at least all get to be bored together. It’s a very collaborative boredom.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN I was a slug abed and did not arise until seven a.m. :eek: ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin out and N.O.S. with a predicted high of 91 with a fair to middlin’ chance of rain/tstorms/apocalypse this afternoon/evenin’. We shall see. The big item on the agenda today is spiffin’ da cave. Rah. Sup shall be chikin enchiladas, refried beans, and Mexican rice (OLÈ!), with fart fest to follow.
Whether or not I would taste sump’n would depend on how well I know the person askin’. Also, I’d need to know what it is that wonts tastin’. Way back when I was a productive member of society, I would if I knew the co-irker well. As to what the thing is, say somebody insists they have a recipe to make fart blossoms that I would like. First, that person is a liar cause there is no way to make fart blossoms taste good. Second, well, fart blossoms, ICK!
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day. Rah.
Happy Moanday Y’all!
Morning all. Plane leaves in 6 hours, so have a little time to see something. Could go to one or two museums here in town, but think I’ll opt for the “Reptile Gardens” cause I like the creepy crawlies…except those with 8 legs, they can all die…
So home by 10pm and neighbor is going to open a back window so I can get into the house tonight. With my luck somebody will call the cops on me…
I’m sorry, tasting something new is something I have to work up to, friend or not I’d probably politely decline.
All y’all have a good Moanday.
**MetalMouse **- if I was your neighbor, I’d climb in the window, then leave the door unlocked for you. Of course, I’d probably also fill your living room with ballooons full of glitter… 
The big meeting is in about 45 minutes. **FCD **is a bundle of nerves.
Ugh. Awake since five and a bit cranky about it. Taste this? Well, our neighbors came over on the 4th. I told them to bring something sweet and they brought ice cream. The wife also brought a few small “ice cream” sandwiches for us to try. The brand was something called “Tofiti”, which set my taste bud alarm clanging, but I tried one. One bite. Gag. The aftertaste was worse than the actual taste.
Tofu “ice cream”?? :eek:
Twenty minutes and counting. In about 10 minutes, I’ll take the ice and the beverages out there. I wish I had an insulated bowl, but I don’t. Eons ago I had an ice bucket, but I almost never used it, so it’s gone. Oh well…
I am now officially grateful that my asthma means I can’t eat tofu ice cream.
Howdy, Irking of course. Not much to report here. Blurf
Saturday I had my computer’s OS upgraded to High Sierra. While I was at the Apple store, I connected to the office with OpenVPN and Microsoft Remote Desktop. I wanted to ensure I could start working at 06:30 today. This morning I tried to connect with OpenVPN and got an error message. I’m dead in the water until IT gets back to me. 
Howdy Y’all! I hereby declare da cave defilthyfied. OK, it’s entirely within the realm of possibility you wouldn’t catch some horrible disease if’n you visited. I call that a win. 
Enchiladas (OLÈ!) are made and ready to be baked up when the time comes. I got a call back from the church lawn guy about treatin’ b’hai grass in the playground and dawg park. He shall look at it and give me an estimate. Waitin’ on a call from the HVAC people to take a look at what could be a problem over there as well. The excitatement level of my life knows no bounds!
MOOOOOOM hope the meetin’ goes well.
FlyBoy hope the 'puter woes are fixed soonest.
MetalMouse hope the trip back to Nawth Alibama is uneventful. Post if you need bail money for breakin’ in your house.
Haven’t tried those but I would. If you offered something I would probably take a pretty big taste; if it was Plant probably smaller. Situation and other factors come into play with how brave I’m going to be. A friend at work, a good friend, offered me a taste of “meatloaf”. From the grin on his face and all I knew something was up so I went a little conservative. I’m a pepperhead; I love hot things. But this was meatloaf with ghost and other chili peppers built in and basically ripped your throat out. I was good and I tried some more but I was glad the first was a little nibble.
But I thought you were nice, damnit! That is pure eeevil!!!
Tomorrow is Cow Appreciation Day.
Ruble, if you can get rubber chickens in time, I bet they’d give Bessie a free oil change & some C-F-A social media publicity for you!
Happy Moonday!
So much for getting anything done outside. It was in the 70s this morning, muggy, and raining.
My son managed to get one bird’s nest down, the other one is stuck. I couldn’t get either of them down when I tried, but he is taller and can reach better.
I did gt him to put one more bag of mulch down, and I did the final weeding along the porch, the porch is swept, so I am calling it done (although I think we could still put down a little more mulch).
When I was weeding the other day I almost grabbed a handful of dog poop. I was talking with the neighbor yesterday and she told me it is a woman across the street who walks her dog every morning and lets it poop in our yards. I need to find out what time this walk takes place so I can be out there.
First time I have talked with the neighbor since they got back together. Since they are looking to buy a house together, I guess they have kissed and made up.
I managed to sleep in until 7 this morning, which would be okay if I hadn’t stayed up until 1am irking.
I’m tired and need a nap, but Ripple is restless so off to the park we will go. At least nobody should be there in the rain.
I finally ordered furniture, I’m still not sure about it, but I can always send it back if I don’t like it. I am getting two wing chairs and a set of nesting end tables to replace the couch. I’ll keep my existing love seat until I find something I like better. Since it is from Home Depot, they aren’t going to pick up the old furniture. However, the neighbor will help my son get the couch out, or if need be, we could always take the saw to it.
I will be so happy to get the couch out of here. It is too big and bulky for me to move to vacuum behind it, and I have to keep small boxes behind the legs to keep it away from the wall because the heat/ac vent is behind it.
I have to call Home Depot because I was supposed to get $100 off if I ordered over $1000, and it didn’t come off the order. I may have missed the dead line, but CS can’t do anything until the charge actually shows up on my card. I also want to double check that I get 0% financing for 6 months. I could just pay for it, but why use my money when I can use theirs for free? I got some more river rock, so we can finish up the side yard. For whatever reason, my son hates mulching, but he likes using rock.
Hope your meeting goes well, FCM
Safe travels home MetalMouse.
Now I’m off to get a shower, take Ripple to the park, and then order groceries to pick up tomorrow.
Get the chickens? Hell, I already HAVE the chickens. And I am thinking of hitting a Chik-Fillet <sic?> for a free sandwich. The weather is supposed to be good for once.
Supper tonight will be ham, cabbage-n-onions, and N.O.T.s-n-onions. Plus cuke-onion salad. Kinda heavy on the onions there, huh?
In reality, the onions in the cabbage kinda disappear into the mix, and the N.O.T.s are fried with onions - very yum. And I just eat the cukes of the salad. I like the flavor the onions give the dressing, but I don’t like raw onions. I don’t think I’ve used the word onion so many times in 2 short paragraphs in my life!
Hail, onions!!!
Well, crap.
Over $3,100 later, I’ll have a new computer. 
Worked ,dodged thunderstorms on the ride home. Off tomorrow.
I will gladly use my asthma to avoid tofu ice cream as well.
Gordie thinks he’s a cow. Boy ain’t right in the head.
:eek:
My new one was only $139.
I hope all goes well getting into the house metal mouse.
Moooooom, almost everything can be improved with the addition of onions. I actually have to think about where they sneak in when I go to potlucks with a certain group. One of our members (one of the baby shower moms yesterday) is deathly allergic to them and I really don’t want to have to use an epipen on Theresa.
To answer the OP, it depends upon who is handing it to me and what it is. Someone I trust and something that doesn’t have much possibility of being a prank, sure, I’m adventurous. Take away either of those factors and it’s a likely NO.
At a birthday party a couple of months ago, it was drizzling and dark, so the bonfire was moved to the big farmhouse wrap around porch. The lighting wasn’t great, so it wasn’t easy to see just what you might be putting on your plate at the snack table. One of the guys poured out a big handful of what appeared to be a snack mix from a lidded jar was surprised when several of us began giggling. He had mistaken the jar of doggy treats for human snacks. He was a good sport about it and said that they weren’t horrible but were a bit bland. 
It hit triple digits in middle Tennessee this afternoon. The temp at teh bank was 102F when I got off irk.