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Had NO idea what SCA stands for. Well, first I googled SCA and found the following:
Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Security Control Assessor
Strong Customer Authentication
Sales Comparison Approach
Supplemental Course Academy
Secondary Credit Assessment
Single Case Agreement
Software Composition Analysis
SpinoCerebellar Ataxia
Service Contract Approval
Side-Channel Analysis
Special Conservation Area
Smoking Cessation Aid
Sexual Compulsives Anonymous
Sexual Child Abuse
Service Center Agencies
Safety Codes Act
Special Consideration for Admission
Finally I quoted and imagine my surprise to see that there was a link to wikipedia for the Society for Creative Anachronism
BTW, that was the next one that came up on Google

Because how can you get any pudding if you don’t eat your meat? :slight_smile:

It means Best wishes on your birthday
Yum on the chili dogs!

Ninja’d. Good job RealFish

Now I’m watching Division 3 HS bball championship. One of the coaches used to be a player for MSU so go Flint Beecher! Will be watching Elite 8 shortly.

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It made perfect sense. I try to keep the fact that I have two growing kids that I need to be fed, even if one of them prefers eating paper to any real food (well, not that bad but still, it’s a nervous habit of BtY’s) We’re lucky enough to have no problems with paying most of our other bills, but by the end of the month, money does get tight enough that the emergency boxes make a huge difference.

Oh gods, no! I hated having to put one on every day to be “respectable”. Still hate having to do it when I have to go out for appointments and other “responsible” things. Then again, if I didn’t have boobs that can be mistaken for floatation devices, I could probably get away with not needing one…

I do my best. :smiley:

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A happy birthday to Ariel wet one! It sounds like you took care of the humans and the equines.

Glad your knee is feeling a bit better real fish. You likely did some (temporary) damage to your arms when you fell.

Got most of the stuff out of the way, but I was missing one document for the taxes. I made another appointment for next Saturday. :frowning: Now I’m messing around in the studio. I think that I’ll make some popcorn later.

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So I was bouncing back in forth between the 200 slide nd smalls. And you, the SSLAWs kept going down. I napped, and now it’s time for hockey and a Vieux Carré.

I see what you did there. :wink:

At least I’m not a parent.

Sounds like one of my hockey rituals.

Plus trying to use reason with toddlers is like talking to The Wall.

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We had some pretty nasty wind and rain here last night. (read: here=much of the Southeast). Nothing bad here in Nashville, but my best friend in Jackson, TN lost a carport when a tree fell on it and another friend in Alabama) lost the roof of her house. Luckily, no one was hurt in either location. I got to see pictures of both though and… yeah, I’m glad no one was near either place.

We had another bout of bad weather a few weeks ago and we actually had some trees go down then. One of the ones in the complex came out roots and all. They cut the tree and replanted the stump. A friend of mine sent me video of his drive home and there were a lot more on his drive home. I’m just glad we didn’t have more of this today.

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Ooooh, I like this one! Would probably get me fired, but I’ll sure be thinking it.

Will have to catch up with the other posts later … much, much later. Am currently on break, enjoying a cup of Easy Mac (don’t judge!) & an extravagantly flamboyant sunset.

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Happy Saturday!

It was a cool 40 something at the park this morning. It rained all night and everything was soaked.
I stupidly left my hat in the truck and I needed it.
Just as we were getting ready to leave, rain started pouring down.
There was a lull, which I knew wouldn’t last, but we all left together and we all got soaked.
Then the thunder and lightning started.

My son checked the attic, and there was no leak.
That said, there was a puddle of water around the washing machine this morning. My son cleaned most of it up before I got downstairs.
The washer has been giving us issues that come and go for the last few months. I’m not ready to buy a new one, but it needs to be done soon. It’s only 8-9 years old, shouldn’t need replacing. It was a cheap one though, and you usually get what you pay for.

I suppose I should have worded it
I can’t imagine me putting catsup on a hot dog.
Nor could I imagine me putting catsup in mac and cheese. I’ll put stewed tomatoes in mac and cheese though.

I made spiral ham today.
My son read on the tag ‘Use in 5 days’.
We went to the grocery store Toosday, so today was 4 days.
I got the ham out of the wrapper, it smelled good.
And why in the hell do they wrap up hams like Fort Knox.
It smelled better and better as it cooked in the oven
It tasted so good. Ripple and Echo agreed.
Then I realized, I didn’t buy it Toosday, I had bought it the previous shopping trip.
Which was 2 WEEKS AGO!
How long before I DIE?

I think I will be fine. It wasn’t slimy or moldy, and it smelled good.

Happy Birthday Ariel

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IDK…you may have a day like Moooooom did yesterday. Let us know.

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I usually rely more on sniff-testing than on printed dates and haven’t gotten food poisoning yet, so far as I know. If it smelled and tasted right, you should be fine.

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Oh, my gosh, I’m all for soldiering through, but when I see ortho doc, I may just use my good leg to kick him in the…joint. After I walked 50 feet, I got that stabbed-by-a-penknife (in the library, by Colonel Mustard) pain again. I made it 2.5 miles, but my teeth were gritted. Hmph.

I mind if people use ketchup because a wiener with ketchup is too John Wayne Bobbitt for me.

No, it’s a Chicago chain, though they have one location each in Arizona and (I think) California. And many restaurants offer Italian beef, but some are better than others. It’s beyond delicious, and Portillo’s is perfection.

We love you anyway. :slight_smile: How did you discover the grape jelly addition? Did someone introduce you to it, or did your jelly-laden toast slide onto your eggs or what?

Wow, there’s hope for me yet!

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Same thing happened to my sister this week. TV less than two years old. Geek Squad said it might be this board (fixable) or this other board (not fixable). It was the latter. So they order a TV supposed to be there today (two days after repair visit). Nope, wasn’t in the warehouse where the computer said it should be. Maybe they’ll be able to ship one in by next Wednesday. Maybe.

Meanwhile my retired sister has no TV for a week. Whole lot of knitting and reading going on. I sent her a box of library book sale mysteries (our favorites) that should get to her Monday. I love USPS ‘media mail’ rates. I could barely carry the box and it cost all of $10 to send. In this case the government was here to help.

Just an all-around bad week for tvs. Hope yours arrives soon and is installed easily (and they cart away the dead one). If not, let me know and I’ll send off a passel of your favorite books to you. Yer on your own for knitting. @purplehorseshoe or @JaneDoe42 could no doubt fix you up with some needlework to wile away the hours. @LH75 could get you started on some nifty paper pieced quilting. I

Boy, you ain’t kidding! The fall out of middle class gives me nosebleeds regularly.

8 months out of the year my local food bank has a weekly fresh vegetables and fruits, come one, come all, no questions asked. I really miss it in the winter months (it’s a fresh air distribution out of a modified food truck so has to pause during the coldest months).

This is as good a reason as any. Go for it~without you they wouldn’t have a job that gives them such meaning. Line up, smile at them, make eye contact and say “thank you for being here”. That’s what I do when I collect my weekly fruit and vegetables and they seem to like having an old geezer lady regular. Sometimes I linger at the end of the line so we can chat a bit. I benefit from that as much as the vitamin C in the fruit! Human contact drives away social scurvy!

Shouldn’t matter at all. Ham is by definition already preserved by salt and nitrites (i.e. the curing of ham). In the old days the pioneers cured hams by smoking it and then let it hang in the smoke house til they used it months later. Other things than ham killed them.

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It will arrive Thursday. I hope Mrs. L.A. is able to get it into the house. (It weighs over 70 pounds.) I’m not getting home until Friday. She says she doesn’t mind watching the 26-inch TV until the new TV comes.

The installer is me. Even with Wifey’s help, it’s a chore hanging it on the mount, and it will be a chore getting the old one off. Should be pretty much plug-and-play, since the new one is also a Sony. I may or may not have to talk to Xfinity to make the remote work.

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Nellie any chance that your fitness center has a NuStep machine? If so, I’d recommend trying it. start with maybe 4 or 5 # of pressure.

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Your sister’s library has a large selection of audio books! Ours has CDs, DVDs and downloads. I can sit at my desk and go online to browse the catalog for the entire county and then download my selections to my phone so I can listen wherever I stitch. Tis wonderful!!!

I am so glad that happens in other places. Isn’t it nice to get a weekly mystery box handed to you by people who are happy to do it? We are still drive-through but there is still someone taking names and number of people in the home so there is some social interaction happening.

Before the world ended, we all took our babushka carts or wagons with us and chatted while we were in line to “shop”. I miss that, I miss chatting with neighbors and it was really nice to not have to take foods we weren’t going to use and only the amounts of food we were going to use.

The last trunk load I got included a bunch of glass bottles of some sort of Mexican tonic water. We tried unsuccessfully to give it to friends and neighbors and it was still in hubs’ trunk when it was grocery day. He left it sitting in one of those parking lot islands, totally planning on picking it back up on his way back to the car if it was still there. It wasn’t and I’m hoping it isn’t sitting in the grocery store lost and found because some good dooby turned it in. Hubs says someone stole it.

This…not to mention all the packaging you were complaining about helped to keep the wild bacteria out.

I’ve found that waving cash at delivery guys works wonders.

There was no Tai-chi today and I really miss it. The instructor is also on the BOS for the local community association and the community center was having a baked potato dinner, so she needed to work there instead.

Low carb hubs wasn’t going to go and I don’t like spending large amounts of time in poorly ventilated rooms with a bunch of anti-vaxxers so I brought reusable containers and brought my dinner home and he made eggs, sausage and toast for himself.

Flyboy, a while back, one of my surplus boxes had a loaf of Oroweat KETO seeded bread which I gave to hubs. He deemed it carb acceptable (lots of fiber and good stuff) and eats it toasted. He made a samwich with it, ate two bites then picked out the filling and threw the bread away, so I guess heat does something to make it more palatable.

GG really does have his trick down now as long as I have his full attention and move the treat just right. (Who’s training who?) He will sit down when I show it to him and when I move it up will sit up enough to reach up with his left paw and touch my hand. He doesn’t do the cute paws folded in front of himself thing yet, but it’s a start. We’ve only been working on this for 6 months or so, it could happen!

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Evening all. Went by the soccer fields to watch the other coaches train (I’ve done all mine years ago) and have got my 10U girl’s team set and our first practice is Monday, so I got a message out to the parents. Shoulder still hurts when I cough, sneeze, or hiccup, did a look around the web and the only thing they suggested was pleurisy…feel find otherwise so hope that it’s just sore muscles; not having any pain around the ribs or chest. Did nappage this afternoon and a Big Bowl O’Salad for dinner and that’s about the size of my accomplishments for the day.

Have read all but absorbed little, so I’ll try to do better tomorrow. Take care all.

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This is why I stopped going to my food bank’s regular distribution-so much of the box was stuff I couldn’t use and I didn’t have a way to distribute it to someone who could and you have to take the whole box. I wish they could figure this out for those of us in one person households with health related dietary needs. The weekly fruit and vegetables distribution is different (also no names or family size needed)-I can choose what to take, so no waste. It’s usual for me to take most choices, except for onions and celery. If I don’t want one of the choices I turn to the next person in line and say, “I can’t eat these, would you like mine?” they almost always say yes and it makes the attendant smile too. Those people are so often feeding a family and four more big fat onions will be used. They do it Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays and if you want to come all three days in a week, fine by them. There are two sites within a mile of my house, depending on the day of the week. The timing often works out so I can stop at the Lincoln Fresh! :apple::broccoli::mango::bell_pepper::eggplant::tangerine::leafy_green::kiwi_fruit::sweet_potato: truck on my way home from teaching my refugee literacy classes so it’s not even another trip out of the house, just a quick stop. It usually works out to be a full plastic grocery bag each time, of stuff I choose. It never goes to waste. If a vegetable is the least bit unusual they will have recipe sheets to hand out and occasionally samples to taste. Got to try some great salsas that way.

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The food banks here are income based and we don’t qualify so I don’t really know how they work. (We are still getting our 25% discount on our electric bill despite us reporting income that is disqualifying every year. We don’t call them to argue, LOL!)

I have a friend who gets paid to manage the local food banks and he tells me that they do try to customize the food boxes for each recipient in smaller areas but it adds so much time to the process that the bigger food banks just cannot do that.

Happily I’m able to share most of our unwanted food with people or chickens, almost nothing goes to waste.

That is amazing! It is seriously wonderful.

Do you know who is funding this? I’m sure it is mostly volunteer run, but someone is paying for gas and stuff. Many blessings on whoever it is, what a great program!

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Sara Lee Delightful Multi-Grain bread is good. Mrs. L.A. likes it too; though since it’s like five bucks a loaf, she just gets regular $1.99 bread for herself. The Keto buns I got were not bad. But I’ve had other keto breads/buns/pasta that were pretty awful.

Wifey bought sourdough bread today, so I made grilled corned beef (leftover from St. Pat’s) & Swiss sandwiches with ‘thousand island’ (mayo, catsup, and sweet pickle relish) for lunch.

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Thank you. I will tell him because he’s not really willing to experiment due to it being so pricy and him being so picky.

I love good sourdough bread.

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Try Rustik bread if you see it in your store. It is great bread for store bought. I like both the sourdough and the ‘hearty grains and seeds’ ones. I have to have good bread to survive and these are very good.

I freeze them and just take out a few slices at a time since I’m a one person household. My store stocks only a few loaves at a time and way up on the top shelf so you may have to look for it. It’s about $4.40 a loaf but life is too short to eat mediocre cheap bread.