Reporting in from my SQl class. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :clunk:
I am not even going to pretend I read last week - so rosie’s sig to all!
I am in Tunisia right now running another training class for young impressionable junior managers…BWAHAHAHA!
I am soooo looking forward to sleeping in my own bed next Tueday night - this will be a 2 week business trip and I am exhausted!
Toodles!
Those are scary! First time I had one of those I thought I was having a stroke.
:::::VROOOOOOOOOMMMMM:::::::! Drive-by post.
It’s Monday, it’s crazy, and I don’t want to ever have to work again. Unfortunately, I need that green stuff to keep the creditors happy.
So, I plod on…
Hugs, smooches and gropes to all.
Happy Monday, all!
My university years were refreshingly goat-free. We did lots of other stupid stuff, mind you, but being a big city sort of uni, we didn’t have access to livestock larger than a squirrel (and those we had plenty of). We did move our entire living room out into the quad on a particularly nice summer day, though, complete with TV plugged into an extension cord. And one winter, we made some very anatomically correct and inappropriate snowmen.
Oh, and my roomie and I managed the “Wall of Ass” for three years. All male visitors were required to drop trou and pose for a photo (we even had some quasi-celebrity ass, courtesy of a mildly popular Canadian swing band).
Pie, why not make chocolate chip and pepperoni cookies? Mmmmmmm. 
Time for N.O.L.! I’ve got leftover pumpkin and black bean chili with cornmeal biscuits. Nom nom nom.
Lunch was good. Beef-and-rice cabbage rolls with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese. Which is kind of odd because no place I’ve ever been to serves it with cheese, though I always make them like that at home, so it was nice to find that the supermarket’s own deli/bakery made them like that fresh in individual-serve containers. They’re pretty good, too, and it’s actual ground beef too. (I’ve run across numerous places that serve “beef” cabbage rolls, only to find that the beef was of the corned, rather than ground variety. That’s just weird, and not tasty. It’s like eating corned beef hash with cabbage.)
Back to the grind once again.
Howdy Y’all! I did manage to motivate and get stuff done.
I dropped off a lawn mower to be reparied, went by the church to see if I needed to get charcoal in addition to foodstuffs for tonight. Good thing I checked cause we do need charcoal. Charcoal and foodstuffs bought and safely stored at church. Lunch fed to HfH workers. I was gonna go get a key made while I was out but didn’t think about it 'til I was almost home, so I didn’t. Then I had a nappy poo cause, well, it’s my day off and I can. So There! 
CutiePie nobody would notice one missin’ cookie, I’m sure. Go ahead.
Puggy the low here today was 38 Amurrkin! :eek: Then again, it will warm back up to the low 80s for highs this week. Thus is Fall in south Jawja.
But it ain’t raht, Ah tell ya!! 
Ok. So apparently I’m an idiot. Fuck.
Ok, I feel better now.
Cabbage rolls made with corned beef? Bletch! I’ve yet to run into that, but then again, I don’t really order cabbage rolls anyplace other than Country Style (the Hungarian restaurant, that is, as opposed to the coffee-and-donut shop). Their cabbage rolls have ruined me for any other cabbage rolls in existence, and their other dishes ain’t half bad either.
Everything okay, Soapy?
Nearly time for Quit O’ Clock. Wheeeeee!
Yeah, everything is fine now. :smack:
I do need to find a place that has good cabbage rolls. I’ve never mastered the art of making them from scratch (it’s the cabbage bit; I never seem to get that part right as they always break when I fold 'em, and then I can’t keep 'em sticking together) so I’ve had to rely on buying them from other places, and after several places inexplicably made them with corned beef I became a little gun shy trying anyone else’s. Even the ones that are properly made can be bad; fatty ground beef (or not-ground-beef), tough cabbage, weird tasting tomato sauces. It’s amazing how many people can screw up such an otherwise simple dish.
I think there’s a recipe for cabbage rolls in the blog, Mork. And it seems to me that someone made something with cabbage roll ingredients, but without the rolling, which seems awfully attractive to me. Haven’t had a cabbage roll in an age…and it’s getting to be the season where they would be yummy.
Although both my undergrad and graduate years were spent at universities with strong agricultural programs, I don’t believe I encountered any goats. (Both unis are more cow-oriented.) I did once spend the night on a friend’s floor on a new rug that was woven from goat hair and found out I’m allergic, though.
Never knew that goats could be shepherd’s assistants, Nava. That was fun to read.
Gotta go mail the nephew’s birthday card and get some groceries.
Back later with more…
GT
Home. Went shoppin’, got some stuff, gonna have fish for dinner. My next “cheque” for my iPhone app hasn’t arrived yet. (I use quotes because I asked the guy just to pay me in iTunes gift cards. It’s easier than waiting the 30 days(!) the banks need to clear an international personal cheque.)
The blog? Is there an (un)official SD blog or somethin’? I must have missed that memo. I would like to make me some good and proper cabbage rolls though. It isn’t tough, doesn’t take too long, and at least I’d know what went into 'em.
One trick for cabbage rolls is to freeze the head of cabbage rather than par boil. The leaves seperate easily once thawed, and it’s much easier. About 20-30 minutes in the freezer will do.
Oh. My. Og. Introduction to SQL is Teh Boring. Somebody please shoot me so I don’t have to go back tomorrow or the rest of the week. I’ll never bitch about thumb twiddling again.
@Soapy - Freeze it? There’s one I wouldn’t have thought of. Half an hour will do it? Will it effect the outcome of the rolls? (i.e. tough or rubbery leaves)
@Doggio - I’ve never learned SQL but I’ve had to work with it a few times in maintaining my blog, and it was really dull even just doing simple SELECT … FROM statements. I can’t imagine having to learn all of it.
Every time I read about somebody working in SQL…
I picture squirrels at a keyboard.
Psst, Mindy… Mumper’s Recipe blog is thisaway. There’s a recipe for baked cabbage casserole which was provided by swampus, but it doesn’t look much like cabbage rolls at all (aside from containing cabbage, that is).
I miss proper homemade cabbage rolls. 
I’d make some, but The Boy hates cabbage with the blazing heat of a thousand suns… so I have to settle for ordering them when we got out for Hungarian food.
Vundy, my condolences. I’ve been spared the agony of SQL, thankfully, but I’ve been through enough boring training sessions to understand the pain.
Speaking of blogs, I’ve just been told that I’ll be featured this weekend as a Foodista Blog of the Day. struts OK, it’s not that big of a deal, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless.