Huh. It’s lovely and warm here. 1C! Above freezing! I’m going to walk along the boardwalk before I go to work.
Mr. Lissar wandered home. He’d gone to the bank. Microchipping is a good idea. He’s grading for his blue belt in Karate today, right before he goes to work. It’s very eciting. This is the only time he’s graded when he’s not sick or has broken bones.
We ate the last of some lovely creamed chicken with peppers last night. Still got ham-lentil soup kicking around. That will probably be dinner for me, and breakfast for Mr. Lissar. After that I’m making chicken soup out of the leftover chicken. Soup is good, because I can put it in a thermos. We’re eating a lot of soup.
Not doing anything festive tonight. Attacks Things Husband will probably come over after work, and we’ll drink tea and pretend it’s whisk(e)y.
Mocha’s okay, Magic. Hot chocolate is better. Whipped cream is the best.
It just started snowing here too. This must be the snow we were supposed to get yesterday.
We have homemade potato soup last night, with graded cheese and ripped up bacon to put upon it. Mmmmm yummy. And the bacon was that thick ham stuff, juicy and pliable. I like the thin crunchy stuff too, but for potato soup the thicker and less crucnhy type works great.
Glad to hear that you and Taters had fun, scout. Every time I hear about a Dopefest or two folks from SDMB meeting in real life, I’m always glad that no one involved is a psycho killer.
Ted, I used some of that nasal spray that’s full of zinc and supposed to shorten the cold’s lifespan to able three days. Worked fine for me a month ago. You may want to try some of that. And get well soon.
I’m not going anywhere for Memorial Day weekend, so I’m up for a cookout! If TaxiDriver doesn’t want to have it at his place, we can go to a park. Lots of chocolate–that sounds like a good plan!
Lissla, how about some hot chocolate with whipped cream? And shaved chocolate on top? And here I am at work with no hot chocolate–just boring old green tea.
It’s 6 weeks until commencement at IUPUI. I finally got the attention of the Dean of Engineering, and yea, verily, they’re going to let me graduate.
So I started looking at the costs for cap, gown, and announcements. The minimal package is $115 :eek: , and the annoying part is that I might need 10 announcements if I’m being really magnanimous, but the minimum order is 25.
Note to self: if you want to bleed people dry financially with a sure-fire racket, go into either real estate or school supplies.
Hey scout, don’t forget about me! We met briefly at the SoCal dope fest (Surf Dope?) a while back. Unfortunately, I was tired and grumpy so we didn’t talk much, but I think I count as a non-psycho-killer. For now, anyway.
Hot chocolate. Maybe I should stop at Tim Horton’s on my way to work. Mmm. Failing that, there’s a Second Cup right next door to work. Assuming I want to pay $3.50 for a hot chocolate, that is.
I have just sterilized the kitchen with bleach. No one is ever allowed to use it again, because it’s so clean. From now on it’ll be take-out every day, with paper plates.
Please send prayers and good thoughts to a good friend of mine, who just checked himself into a mental hospital, and has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Among other things, it’s going to seriously screw up his school year, and he doesn’t have much money, so I’m not sure if he can afford to redo it.
2)So get the 25 pack and send the other 15 to Dubya, your Senator, etc. Remind them of the huge campaign contribution you gave 'em and hint that it’s time for a cushy gummit job for you and about 100 of your friends. Okay, the 100 friends might be streaching it a bit, but anyway, it might be fun. If nothing else, you’ll get to meet some interesting people with badges.
3)Re: bleeding people dry, you could sell those point-of-sale credit card machines, and the service that goes with them. those bastiges can do whatever they want and the gummit apparently don’t give a rat’s posterior.
*** Note to everybody who isn’t VunderBob, I read every word of your posts too, and I laughed, I cried, they became a part of me, but they were so majestic in every way that I couldn’t bring myself to sully their shining perfection by commenting on them.
I’ve been playing Irish music in the shop this morning, and I’m reminded of the fact that I really don’t like Irish music all that much. Hmmm.
I bet you could find 15 MMPers who’d cherish an announcement from you, even if it didn’t come with cash enclosed…
OK, that was uncalled for! What I meant to suggest was that you look elsewhere for announcements - you’re not required to buy them from some “official” source, are you? I expect any printing company could take care of you. And if you have a decent printer of your own, well, there you go! OK, that might be a little tacky…
I didn’t graduate. I’ve got my diploma and all, but I was a December grad and Purdue just did a single ceremony in the spring. I wasn’t about to go back for that. I had a life to live, dagnabbit! Plus the year earlier, I’d sat thru my brother’s graduation. Boring enough for both of us!
Also, what FCM and scout said. I did my own extras for my high school graduation about a million years ago. You can probably design your own original and take it to Kinko’s or equivalent and have them print it on nice stock.
Oh, and it’s encouraging to see so many large-mug advocates (big muggers…tee hee Tupug).
Count me in for making your own cards, maybe print them on fancy paper from the fancy-paper store. I gradjipated ages ago and I’m still ticked about the fifty announcement things I had to buy when I only needed maybe three. Plus, I may still have about four hundred name card things that I was forced to buy in high school. I don’t know what to do with them, because they’re totally wrong for origami, but I paid for them and I refuse to throw them away. Grrr…
VunderBob, be sure to hang your tassel from your rear view mirror, along with a rosary and mardi gras beads. And a cd-- shiny!
Waterloo, finally facing my Waterloo, doot doot, giving up the fight, I feel like I win when I loooooooose! Ooooo ooooo ooooo!
Giant mugs! My sister had one that must have held a gallon o’coffee. We ordered it from a silly catalog sort of place.
Did you know that St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland died in 460 AD and was born in Brittain? (that’s England, next to Ireland, AD means ano domini in the year of our Lord, Ireland is very green, that’s why. Because he was a good guy in Ireland. Yes, but the IRA came much later. No, Bono is not a very usual name. No they don’t all have red hair and there’s no such things as leprechauns so the people in Ireland couldn’t all be one, could they? No the cross isn’t based on clovers and it’s Kel-tic, not Sell-tic. Some people pronounce it gwauck a molee but that doesn’t make it correct. No the men wearing skirts are Scottish. I don’t suggest checking for yourself, sonny. Plaid doesn’t neccesarily equal flannel. Wool usually. I’m sure the sheep thing is exagerrated at the very least. St Patrick was the sort to have had visitations from angels, so the sheep would have been safe, I’m sure. Yes, the mattress sheep are very cute.) Go home.
Me? Caffeinated? Only slightly. It’s my students that would make you bonk your head against FCMom. They seriously asked all of those plus a surreal debate on whether Kurt Cobain is really dead or living in hiding like Elvis. And everybody knows Courtney shot him, never mind she couldn’t even put lipstick on properly at the time and she got away with killing her husband, yeah, right.
I see. So the ingredients are: caffeine + students + St. Patrick’s Day + Kurt Cobain (dead or alive, and why?). I would, of course, never want to bonk my head against FairyChatMom, as she is far too nice, but perhaps against a nearby wall.
I had to sit through the 3rd and 4th sales presentations of the week today. You will be shocked to know that today’s vendors (like yesterday’s) would be highly honored to have our business, would do an outstanding job of what we want them to do (even if they haven’t actually grasped what that is), and we will love them forever if we just select them. Is it really obvious that I don’t do well sitting in silence for most of the day?
My St. Paddy’s Day dinner is quite green. Green chile and cheese tamal (thank you Trader Joe’s) and green beans. I’m having an orange for dessert, which will undoubtedly make Irish Catholic Grandma spin in her grave. The obligatory chocolate was served as an appetizer tonight. (Listening to lots of people blather makes me eat chocolate.)
Re: the announcements, etc, upon re-reading, it looks to me like he meant it was a package deal, but I dunno, I’m just running my mouth here.
{b]Bob,** do you hafta go through the ceremony to get your diploma? I never got higher than an A.S. so I don’t know, (I’ve got three of them though, so they should add up to at least one B.S. dontcha think?) But anyway, I never did the ceremony(s). I just had them mailed to me. After my high school graduation ordeal, I swore I’d never do it again.
I feel that I should retract or at least modify my mini-rant earlier vis-a-vis credit card machine companies. The company we ended up going with has been very easy to work with, (with one exception), and we don’t really hate them with the heat of a million blazing sons. Their competitors however, had us ready to commit mayhem on their persons before we made our decision.
Ashes[sup]2[/sup], thanks for clearing that up about the kell-tic, sell-tic controversy. So how come those basketball players call themselves the Sell-ticks?
Re: Kurt Cobain - I just don’t get it, he never did anything that hadn’t been done by somebody before him, and done better. Plus as a person, he was kinda a train wreck. What’s the attraction?
On the gripping hand, I always felt kinda sorry for Courtney. I think she hadta have had help to get that messed up.
So … do you suppose that colcannon would freeze okay? I got a little carried away and I now have a huge bowl of it. I can force my boyfriend to eat some of it tomorrow but I don’t even think that between the two of us we’ll make much of a dent. I didn’t want to cook a whole corned beef brisket for myself so I bought a package of cold cuts, warmed up a few slices and cut it into strips and mixed it in with a single serving of the colcannon. It was pretty good but it’s mostly just mashed potatoes with some boiled cabbage in it and lots of butter. The cabbage adds a little interesting texture.
So anyway, if it doesn’t freeze as it is maybe I can use some for a pot of potato soup and freeze some of that? Hmm, that could work.
Oh, and I think I like Guiness but it needs to be really cold.
I was a wearing the green a lot today. The only clothing that wasn’t green were my shoes, socks and bra. I also wore a necklace with a green stone, a shamrock pin and a claudaugh ring. I only saw about 4 others humans and for only a few minutes but at least I was very green.
So, could I interest anyone in some colcannon?
