I want him!!!
Meet you halfway?
Wife’ll kill me.
FCMom? Neil Boortz? :eek:
I knew there was a reason I like you so well… 
BBBobbio, that link was just sent to me today and it’s the first time I’ve seen or heard of that guy. You like me so well because I’m nice, dammit!
Congrats BBBBobbio! And we’re expecting more stories of Hooterville, Mayberry, et al. 
I’m home today - I had to go in for lab work this am, so had fasted since 8 pm last night. After they drew the blood (two large vials!), I went to a coffee shop in the building and got a small coffee, and the one egg breakfast (one egg fried, homefries and wheat toast). It tasted really good, but then as I waited for the bus to go to work, my stomach started bubbling! Ok, this next is TMI, but I wasn’t sure I was gonna make it to work!! I did, but just barely. I don’t know if it was what I had eaten or what, but I was sick, so I called home and they came and picked me up. I was at work for all of 10 minutes today!! It’s a good thing they did come and get me, though, because my tummy is still upset. 
I’m sipping ginger ale now.
If I’m not too late to this, oh boy, do I love Indian breads!!! I can make chapatis and puris, although I haven’t in a while because they are so labor intensive. Once you get into the groove, though, they move pretty quickly. I do make chapatis when we have tandoori chicken. I gotta say, though, that it took several tries before I finally went to the Indian store and found some chapati flour that they finally turned out right. laughs I don’t really know what the difference is, but the chapati flour makes the best chapatis. And puris, of course.
Morning, and happy Hump Day!
Right, first things first:
CONGRATULATIONS
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Now that that’s taken care of and it’s almost lunch because that took longer than I expected…
Busdude - Ah, the antics of the feline race. We have four such furballs, and mostly they get along – or at least do well at ignoring one another. Occasionally there’s a bit of a scrap though and we have to break it up. They all get along very well when a can of food is opened up though.
Mika - How the heck do you get through 100 pages in an hour? It takes me weeks just to get through a 700 page novel. Thing is though I like taking my time, even when things get exciting. I like absorbing the story in something approaching real time – it just seems more natural that way, and lets me enjoy and savour every detail as I go.
McUne - Baklava is a pastry. Dozens of tissue-paper-thin layers of flaky phillo pastry dough stuck together with honey, occasionally filled with a nut paste of some sort, sometimes drizzled on top with chocolate or somesuch. It’s incredibly light-tasting despite looking pretty substantial, and it’s hatefully addictive.
Heff&Roo - You don’t listen to music on the go? I couldn’t do without mine. It makes bus trips a lot more pleasurable, especially when the music and the in-ear monitors drown out just about everything. As for naan – much of the store-bought stuff is pretty plain, little more than large pitas, really. Real naan, like the sort you get at an Indian restaurant, has more flavour, and is baked differently. It’s excellent when it’s all warm and soft and you can fold some butter chicken into strips of it.
LiLi - Baklava? ::perk:: Wait … that would be bad for my diet. Dangit. Hey, uh… any 0-calorie Baklava, by any chance?
They’re coming. I have a boat operation class Saturday, the Rescue Squad picnic immediately following, and an ambulance shift Saturday night. I can just smell this weekend’s tales brewing, Herbie.
ETA: Mork, you have too much time on your hands. Na-noo, na-noo.
Evenin’ all!
Noor decided she didn’t want to sleep this afternoon and stayed awake from 2pm right through until 7pm (except for a couple of 10-minute naps in the car) - by the time we got home from the mall and put her in her cot, her eyes were fairly hanging out of her head! I think she was actually asleep the second her head touched the bed - soooo cute!
tarra, I hope you feel better soon! Sounds like your tummy is making the same kinds of noises that Noor’s was last week!
My Swedish Meatball turned out really nicely, thank you very much and surprisingly we actually have leftovers, so that will come in handy sometime next week!
Mork, you show-off. 
The weather seems to be decent, so I’m taking my papers off to the beach to grade. Muahaha.
(Someone doesn’t know what baklava is? It’s not my favorite dessert, but everyone should try it once.)
Nah, I have never been a slow reader and I average about 100 pages in an hour for a book I am really into. Though there was a thread once on how fast you read; I was nowhere near the fastest. I don’t like taking my time the first time around. I am one of those that always needs to know WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? I love secrets & surprises but I love finding them out more. I shake my Christmas presents every day, for comparison.
On the other hand, books I like I re-read multiple times. So that’s when I get the little details. And I love coming back to a book after a few times and discovering new little details. One of my favorite all time books is The Count of Monte Cristo (don’t watch the movie) and I am always finding new little details in it.
Speaking of which, I DID finish HP7 at lunch! Woohoo! I am only going to say this: I am eminently satisfied with the conclusion of the series. Off to the HP thread!
I’m with you, Mika. I don’t linger over details for my first read. I finished that damned HP7 book in four hours the night I got it.
**Roo **-- you’re bouncing just for me? I’m touched! or, at least I hope I am 
**Mork **-- you’re probably waaay to busy to read this once again but – you’ve got too much time on your hands!
**Haze **-- nearly 800 pages in 4 hours? :eek: That’s real speed-reading territory already. I think I read in Imperial rather than metric… I can only do about 60 :o (pp/h that is)
All the baklava lovers – wait until you get a taste of K’nafe! That’s basically a ricotta-filled baklava, served warm. Yuuuuuuum!!!
Short break. I was in the studio making a mess, and Bernie started barking upstairs, so I had to come see what was going on. Um, nothing… But it felt really muggy, so I closed up and turned on the air, and I had to check this thread.
I trimmed a cat body and a monster body and lid. I just threw another monster body, and I’m about to wedge some more clay to make some more monsters. Then depending how I feel, I may go ahead and decorate my first monster.
I expect a call in the next half hour or so from my daughter, safe in Orlando. A bit ago, **FCD ** called after talking to his mom. They’re coming to visit in Sept, and they’re looking to move out of Ocala. The cost of living in FL has gotten crazy, especially insurance-wise. I don’t think they can afford to live around here, and I think they want to be a bit farther south. We shall see.
Well, back to the basement with me. Behave yourselves. And keep your feet off the furniture! Try to act like you got some couth, dagnabbit!
Ooohhhhhh! I luuuuurve kunafeh, but I only get to eat it in Ramadan! 
That’s the only time hubby will buy it, 'cause otherwise he would eat it all and get fat! And at other times, I never find the time to get to the sweet shop!
Lalalalalala :fingers in ears to avoid hearing anything to do with HP!:
I am currently re-reading the last one and I am saving the grande finale for when I go home for my Dad’s surgery.
I have officially taken pictures of my house wiht my stuff in it as opposed to the large quantitiy of liquor bottles the previous owners had and I am aiming to get them uploaded today for viewing.
I still haven’t unpacked from my training class trip last week and I am tahred and trying to avoid getting The Sick that is going around work
I’m a fast first-time-through reader and a slower multiple-rereader, too. Not only are some books fun over and over, but some are required rereading to maintain my true geek status. For example, I’ve reread the entire Lord of the Rings series, on average, once a year since I first discovered them at age 13. I’m well aware of the books’ many flaws (especially the lack of decent female characters), but they’re old friends now and I wouldn’t want to change a word. I’ve recently been rereading all of Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter books; for some reason, I’ve always enjoyed him. I enjoy her wonderfully literate writing more. Although I’m occasionally stumped by a Britishism that I can’t figure out – what, for example, does it mean for someone to be churched? I realize it involves going to church, but just how? That’s one that always stumps me when I reread The Nine Tailors.
And the best books to reread? Give 'em a few years and whodunits are great because I read so voraciously that it’s about 95% given that I’ll no longer remember whodunit. It’s like reading a whole new book again.
I am inflicted with a severe case of the Don’t Wannas today. Anybody know how to make me care about getting anything useful accomplished?
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GM just told VWife and me to get bent. “The accident was an under-ride, and we designed our airbag system to deploy when the bumper is struck. Your system was functional at the time, and the bumper was not hit. Tough shit, bucko.”
Anyone know a really sleazy ambulance chaser with a good track record in product liability cases?
Those bastards! Sounds like a design flaw to me. Sic em, bobbio. They are just hoping you will go away. You should check to see if there’s a class action suit.
Congrats bbbobbio!!
Sorry to hear about the problems with GM. Good luck with that.
:: waves at Special1 ::
mika, I just started knitting a scarf out of the pink/burgundy/white yarn you sent me. I think it’s going to turn out great. That one didn’t have a label, but I think it’s at least part wool so it’ll be nice and warm. I’m just doing a simple knit 3, perl 3 pattern, and that’s giving me some good practice. I can do a row in the 4 minutes it takes my tea to steep which is good because I’m the kind of person who needs to keep my hands busy all the time.
We’re growing basil on our balcony, and it’s growing fast but we haven’t used it much yet. So last night I had KeithT make up some pesto and poured part of it over some pasta and the rest on top of a couple grilled tuna steaks. I highly recommend that. Tuna + pesto = YUM!
Yup. A design flaw. I’ve been saying that since the day I took her home from the hospital.
Even worse, I used to work for GM on 2 different occasions. Nice way to be loyal to someone whose bought their cars for 25 years now…
Thanks for the nice welcomes, all. I think my join date is kind of misleading. I signed up as a guest in April 2004, let my guest subscription lapse, then finally rejoined as a full member…early this year? I think. I don’t post much as you can see but am trying to come out of my shell, especially around such fabulous people as those that inhabit the MMP! (Is that enough sucking up for one week? :))
SCL - those are some awesome pictures! Glad you had a good time.
I am still craving baklava, darn you all.