Did you try Frumious Bandersnatch?
Leftover creamed spinach with feta makes a good omelette filling. Goo didn’t get any though, because I put sriracha on top.
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Howdy, all! Work was a little busy the last two days, but mostly what kept me from posting was annoyance about the new “reply” functionality (and not really having the time to get into it). So I was super happy to read this just now:
THANK YOU!!!
I looked at a couple of threads about it, but didn’t have the time to read everything and figure out what’s going on…also, I hadn’t noticed that the “A” was a toggle (and I never moused over it). I don’t mind composing in a monospace font, and I don’t even care about WYSIWG vs having a preview pane: what bugs me about the new editor is that the reply window becomes a “pop up” over the thread – that can’t be moved or resized – vs being under it. That doesn’t work for my (usual) quote-as-I-read posting style. 
I think I actually exhaled a little after I toggled the slider! LOL!
Anyway, I’ve been lurking all week and have read everything, but I got too far behind to engage with folks in this post.
I finished assembling all of the Lego botanical sets yesterday. Originally I was going to build the last one today, because I was going to be in the office (vs working from home like most Thursdays) to catch up with my boss after her vacation, but yesterday afternoon she told me she’d be working from home today and tomorrow. I didn’t want my week of “Lego lunches” to spill over to Monday, so I wound up building two sets yesterday. Here’s a photo of all five sets on the window ledge:
I’m really happy with how they turned out and how they look together. As always, a larger image can be see in my Lego photo album.
Next up – getting back to sets that I’ll display at home – will be Wicket the Ewok, which I pre-ordered three weeks ago and should be delivered tomorrow.
Continuing the Lego theme, this weekend I’ll be going to a big fan expo: there will be hundreds of displays that were designed by fans from all over the country, including some fairly large/complex/impressive ones (and including a few from two friends of mine). I went last year, and it was cool to see what people way more creative than me are able to come up with! Last year I went with my “nephew” and his GF, but they’re in TX these days. The only other friend I have who’s into Lego enough for something like this is a woman from work (and her husband): luckily, they were already planning to go and don’t mind me meeting up with them there.
Also luckily, the heat and humidity are supposed to break this weekend – starting tomorrow. Today is another “stay inside” day (currently 80°F with a heat index of 102), but there are supposed to be strong storms this evening. 
No vehicles, people, buildings, or passing squirrels were harmed. I think it took all of 10 minutes until the battery ran down - no, it wasn’t fully charged. In fact, it’s been charging now for better than 2 hours. Luckily, I don’t need to whack any more today.
I just finished making a chicken-grape-apple-celery-pecan salad to go with the corn for supper. BTW, do you have any idea how much tarragon is in a 3.5 ounce container? This much! The jar is 8” tall! I’ve got tarragon to last till I die!!!
Hard to tell - those kids truly love each other. My sibs and I never got along like those two do.
Looks like someone has an addiction… 
But a very cute addiction!
OK, back to my book till it’s time to steam the corn.
I’ll add another thing about computer fixes. Mrs. Nott’s codicil is “Try it at least 3 times before giving up.” The definition of insanity apparently doesn’t apply to 'puter ailments.
JtC mentioned flamethrowers and poison ivy close together, maybe in jest. Burning poison ivy is more hazardous than touching the stuff. The smoke can really mess you up.
FCMoom, many stores will give you a coupon for the same discount later, at the customer service window, for BOGOff items they’ve run out of.
Within the week I’ll try an exciting new activity: Draining the water heater. Never done it before, but the hot water is getting yellowish, so I’ll drain the tank and flush the sediment, but not right this minute.
Volume was down, so they cut 2 whole sets(6 pacakge cars) out of the 300. But the 100 was slammed, so I spent most of the sort on the 100 Sort Table. Except to help the guy load iregs into Middle Red. Also, some company order 144lbs of hydraulic fluid. The box broke somewhere, but that Hub just yeeted it into the truck and sent it to us. Unload yeeted it onto the Irreg belt, where it got dumped. The Hazmat guy brought it to me, since it somehow managed to not leak. We got it reboxed, and I got it over to Middle Red, where it did not fit, because that package car was cubed out with bulk loads, 10 tires, and 8 big pieces of furniture. I did my Senior Day shopping afterwards.
Me: < walks into apartment, walks towards kitchen >
Spot: < starts yowling >
Me: “You have food.”
Spot: < continues yowling >
Me: “You have food, look at the sign.”
Spot: < jumps up on table, reads sign > “Bother.”
But is the chair comfortable?
AWWWWWW!
If you need help wrecking stuff, I could loan you some of my cow orkers.
If she changes her mind, we do have a loose one at work in the overgoods pile.
That came out great!
In either the A or M mode editor at the upper right of the popup you’ll see a double downward-pointing chevron. Click that to minimize the edit window to a colored bar at the bottom. Once minimized, click the colored bar to re-expand it.
Hint: even while the edit window is minimized you can still select text in other posts and click the [quote] pop-up to paste that text into your post. It’ll go in wherever you left the cursor before you minimized. Gotcha: If you minimize a completely empty edit box, Discourse assumes you meant to close it. To avoid that behavior, open a fresh reply box, type a couple of junk characters, then minimize it, then scroll through everybody else’s posts quoting bits as you go, then un-minimize and fill in your pearls of wisdom between the quoted parts. Why yes, that’s how I’ve been doing it for years.
In either the A or M mode editor at the top center of the edit window in the colored bar you’ll see a short thin double horizontal line about like =====. Grab that with your mouse then drag it up or down to resize the edit window taller or shorter.
Both of these UI items are unchanged since we started with Discourse.
the youngest of the cousins are august babies. they will be 9 and 7. i like to go to the various gift stores in museums for things as they have items you just don’t see everywhere.
i had to go for allergy shots, and pafa is across the street. i reckoned on finding something for the 9 year old there. sure enough i saw this really wonderous tea cup that was hand thrown by a local artist. the inside looks like a pool or pond, and it has caterpillars and butterflies on the outside. i believe she will have fun just looking at it and holding it. it is very tactile. i added in a square chalk in the colours that are in the cup, and a butterfly bookmark.
turns out the artist was there! at the store! she was able to wrap everything for me. the artist does like insects and has had a beetle, praying mantis, and butterfly period. for her fall collection she is moving into birds. i am looking forward to seeing what she will do with crows. she has crow and raven friends along the area she hikes. i shared your “harry and his fine feathered friend” story with her, jtc.
after the shots i braved the reading terminal for lunch takeaway. thankfully not horribly insane there.
i’m thinking franklin institute or academy of natural sciences for the 7 year old.
misnomer, those look great! a jaunty window.
the storm watches and warnings are buzzing my phone. i do hope i can get home without getting soaked.
wouldn’t you know. my phone texted an alert for a severe storm at 2:45, and big thunderclap as the phone buzzed. we are in quite a line of storms according to the radar.
Whew! Busy morning! I got a couple of report correction requests sent off to BMCRA, and then started reading up on a couple of their products. (They only let four of us – it should be three – have access to setting up our members for those products, and I am not one of the four.) There are some webinars I could watch, only I don’t have JavaScript. IT is supposed to call me at 13:30. Then Teams start chiming. It was a credit union I don’t belong to. Anyway, why are they calling my irk number? It turns out they’re a member, and they want to start loading their commercial accounts receivable files to BMCRA and our own database. A bit of chatting, and then I had to gather the required documents. That took me to my 11:00 meeting with La Jefa. That took 45 minutes. Clocked out for lunch six minutes ago.
We have an automatic feeder with two bowls. Abbey will eat out of the right side (next to the water fountain) reluctantly, but Goo has to be perishing to death before she’ll eat out of that side. Catmom has decreed that the hopper will not be refilled until the right-side bowl is empty. I think it has to do with cats not wanting their food and their water in close proximity; but that’s the way it has to be.
ETA: Thursday Date Night. We went for Mexican last week, so tonight we’re going down the beach.
We had a boom and a downpour that lasted maybe 10 minutes, but we’re under a severe t-storm watch till 8 tonight. From the looks of weather radar, we’re likely to get rained on if nothing else. Glad I whacked the section of yard that I did.
FCD napped. I finished my latest trashy novel. Max chillage reigns in FairyChatEstate. Can’t wait for supper - I think the chickie salad I built will be especially yum. Not to mention sweet corn. But it’s only 3:30, dammit. 
My day has been sliding by productively if a tad vexedly.
A task that’s been sorta pending the last week-ish is the brokerage system my advisor uses is being rejiggered due to corporate merger / acquisition BS. So now I need a new account at a new website to see the same old stuff after I log in with my new login. And they also altered how and through which conventional bank they do cash management. Since the vast majority of my monthly spending money comes from that cash management pipeline into my personal checking account at yet another bank, getting the new plumbing all connected and leak-tested is kinda important.
So of course the brokerage sent out emails and reconfiged the old website to not work & send you to the new website to establish your new login several days before the new site was ready to accept enrollments. So all the enrollments crashed with a “we’re working on it” error. Gee thanks. That was exciting over the weekend.
Then they separately sent out paper checks, and an ATM card, and a PIN. Nice and timely. Hooray! Each of which were screwed up somehow. Fortunately there’s a branch of the relevant bank just across the street from my building. Fells Cargo; perhaps you’ve heard of them? What could possibly go wrong … go wrong … go wrong …
Anyhow, a visit over there, a couple of convos with “Peggy” in Bangalore, and all is seemingly well. For sure the ATM card now works, which is the one thing I’ll probably never use again.
I’ve launched a couple of test transfer transactions in both directions & we’ll see what works and what bounces off.
Oh yeah. A doctor bill I paid a month ago never actually got paid. So I unexpectedly got another snail-mail bill for the same pending balance while I was gone. Turns out “Sue” misread the chickenscratch of me trying to write down my CC number on the payment chit I snail-mailed them last month. So the attempted charge failed. Anyhow, today I read her the right numbers and $31 later the doc is fully paid for her good work.
And I got the car back from the shop first thing and also got it washed.
So much for stupid administrivia.
The good news is most places’ happy hours start in 5 minutes. I just need to decide which one to visit. Upon careful consideration I think I’ll take this advice:
See you at the beach, Flyboy! It’s a date. 
The Beach is across the street from where we’re going. We’ll be on the beach side of the road.
Thanks for all of the positive Lego comments! 
Well, in the past 28 months I’ve assembled 61 sets (70,593 pieces) and spent $9K. I’m always completely up front about my Lego problem.
That is exactly the look on his face! 
Yep, I’ve always known about the chevron: a minimized editing window doesn’t work for my posting style, either. In fact, a big reason why I hardly ever post in the evenings is that when I’m on my iPad the editing window nearly always minimizes by default as soon as I go back to the thread.
I know about – and love/frequently use – that feature in M↓ mode. In A mode, though, the window being in front of the thread vs below it would still bother me.
I’m generally pretty good about being aware of/using Discourse features and figuring stuff like this out; I just hadn’t had the time to mess with the new rich text editor yet because of my day job being on the busy side.
Understand you’re no techno-goofball. You earn your living fiddling with text input. Just trying to save you any unneeded voyages of discovery. Trying to post on a tablet without a real keyboard is difficult already; fussing with an unfamiliar UI to boot is doubly vexing.
Actually, I need Flash… which was discontinued like a hundred years ago. IT is looking for a workaround.
I actually do know to not burn poison ivy or oak, I’ve read that many times. I’ve just never seen it before and I’m a typical ‘merikan who touches unknown things with my bare hands. Unless they look squishy of course. I don’t poke unknown squishy things with my bare fingers.
I’m currently convinced that it is kudzu and went out this morning and cut all of the vines at the base of the fence and will pull them down in a couple of days. The neighbor has bindweed on her fence so getting rid of the kudzu might just invite another problem in but at least hubs won’t be fussing over me touching a plant in our yard. Bindweed does have pretty flowers, though.
We do that once a year but we used to live in AZ and the calcium in the water was horrible. Don’t drain the water into your holding tank, the calcium will clog up your filters.
They look super cute and do brighten up the view quite a bit.
Makes mental note cause that sounds awesome.
Isn’t living through a full remodel an experience? One that you will remember for the rest of your life.
Let me add my belated “Welcome back”. I also try to reply to everyone but some days folks are just so very busy!
The main reason I won’t go to the wrestling/gospel show alone is because I will need a Designated Driver. I’ll drive after one drink but those sort of things call for more than that. Plus, once you get back in the hollers, the road signs tend to go away with cell coverage and I can get lost with a functional GPS.
About forty years ago Hubs and I came to an agreement. If we are going somewhere and I’m giving directions and we get lost…it is his fault because he knows better. That agreement still stands because after all these years, he still listens to me when I sound like I know where I’m going .
I would love to borrow a goat but I haven’t heard of anyone in the neighborhood. GG liked it when we had those horses in the yard that afternoon, he’s probably love to watch one going after the vines.
I used to combat that with finger-less gloves and thermal undergarments. Then I’d melt on my way across the parking lot to get to my car, but at least my fingers stopped getting numb half an hour after clocking in.
Hubs found the perfect alarm sound for both of us. My phone can be sitting right next to me and I’ll drop everything and start looking around. And…I can’t figure out how to attach a link for the very distinctive sound of a cat horking.
I also learned today that our big freezer has an alarm if the door has been left open. I could hear the loud chirp and wandered around until I found the source. The door was closed but not sealed and things were starting to get very frosty. Some butter got slightly soft buy my half-full water bottle hadn’t started melting so no worries about food safety. (I know I worry about that overmuch, but I make cheese. My food handling habits really changed after I cut into that maggot filled brie.)
Speaking of which, it is time to start dealing with dinner so I will not whine over much about how they made me work at PT today and instead brag about finding baby worms in my main planter.
I use Edge at the orifice, and I do have Chrome pinned to my taskbar. Can’t watch the webinars on either of those. So the IT guy opened Firefox and put Ruffle Flash Emulator on it. Now I can watch the webinars… when I have time.
I don’t have the authority to move or delete folders from the company drive. I did find out that I can copy-and-paste. I’m ‘going home’ in 35 minutes. Copying one folder into an ‘archive’ folder on the company drive should take about three hours…. Whoops! Four hours now. I guess I can clock out at three, and just stay connected while it does its thing.
I just use frozen spinach and put in a couple of ounces of cream cheese, some heavy (whipping) cream, and an ounce or two of feta cut into cubes. The feta adds enough salt that I rarely have to add any. I used to not put the cream cheese in, but it’s better that way.
Thanks! I think the plan is to empty it from the drain valve with a hose from the unit to the driveway.
That’s how we did it after clogging up our filters that first time.
I’m talking about the grey water holding tanks we used to have (not needed here) and forgot that also wasn’t the norm. 