You just reminded me about a bad habit my fridge has. It has the stoopit ice and water in the door feature. I will never buy another fridge with that feature again. It takes up way too much space in the freezer which could be otherwise utilized for keeping chocolate frozen. But I digress. The stoopit ice in the door feature will give you ice on demand but then waits until you turn your back for a moment. At that precise instant, one more little ice turd will drop outta the bin, bounce on the cup ledge, then cannonball to the floor where it will shatter into little itty bitty shards of ice turd all over the place. But I fixed the bugger! Now I just open the door and take my ice directly from the bin thereby rendering the stoopit ice in the door feature impotent. So there! 
:smack: :smack: :smack: Argh! I meant “own” little rebellious fiefdom. I can’t type or spell to save my life today.
Oh and Rue , it could have been the Tartars that invaded your fridge.
Wouldn’t bother me. I ain’t afraid of sauces.
He even looks annoying.
My fridge is in pretty good shape - I did a purge last week, then I went to the dump. There is some swiss cheese that’s a tad green around the edges, but I can trim that off and it’ll be fine. I want to make some potato soup, and it’s just yummerrific with swiss cheese in it. Sounds like tomorrow dinner.
Tonight, it’s meatloaf. I built one yesterday, and it’s had all night to let its flavors meld. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM… With steamed rice, gravy, and some sort of vegetable matter. Not broccoli, since we had that yesterday.
In weather news, we got ice and snow, and most of it’s melting, but there’s still a slippery spot on the driveway - unfortunately, it’s the down slope, shielded by monster evergreens so it didn’t get any sun today. I spun my wheels on it coming in this afternoon. But I got to the house OK, so there’s that.
We got a new TV this weekend - a 32" flat screen with a whole mess o’ video ports. So we’ve got the DVD player and the VCR hooked right up. And the old TV is in the garage waiting for some kind soul to buy it. Slowly but surely, I’m selling off the old stuff left behind by the former owners. Seems like every sale is one more lunch or dinner out. Woohoo!
Kalley, all appliances and anything mechanical need to be either propitiated or cowed. I am Anglo-Catholic, and I still firmly believe in the malevolent intelligence of machines. It’s a fact!
According to the Larousse Gastronomique, a clafoutis is a dessert from some region of France, consisting of black cherries in a thick batter, baked, and then dusted with sugar. In my experience (and according to the gospel of John Thorne) it’s fruit in a custardy batter. Sort of between a solid custard and a cake. It’s very good, especially for breakfast. The oatmeal one sounds good, but I’m so used to clafoutis being a contrasting custard/fruit thing that I’m all suspicous of newfangled concocotions.
It’s my veggies that end up going bad, usually. Anything self-righteously healthful always ends up insulting the bottled sauces and picking on the ice cream. It’s really sad.
Thanks, guys. So far I haven’t heard from him, and the interview was at 2, so I’m hopeful that he’s started training.
I am starving. I’m sure it would be a bad, bad idea for me to dragoon Driving Husband into taking me out for a cheeseburger or something, but I may not be able to resist. I want to eat something with real calories, dammit! Not toast, chicken broth, and rice crackers!
OK, you asked for flogging 
best i can do is with a picture of a person with a whip, but it is worksafe 
What server are you on?
The guy that comes on during the Oregon Public Broadcasting radio fund drive is named Mel and I don’t know what his exact position is. However, he has the most annoying voice in the entire world and I have been tempted to clean out my bank accounts and borrow every dime I can get my hands on so that I could make a pledge on the condition that he never be allowed to talk on the radio again. I don’t know what is so objectionable about his voice, or maybe it’s his whole attitude, but I really hate pledge drive time.
I also think that public radio stations should have a secret signal of regular programing, the location of which is sent only to paid members, so we only have to listen to the pleading once a year instead of the four or six or however many times they have fund drives. Technically, I d never have to listen to it because I put my membership on an automatic renewal and they send me letters and e-mails to ask me to up my donation amount.
Also, I may be the only public radio listener who does not think Praire Home Companion is the Gods’ gift to the airwaves. Guy Noir is good, and the ketchup commercials, but really, has anything new been said about Lake Woebegon in the last 10-15 years? The charm has dissipated. West Coast Live! is much more fun.
I play on the Proudmoore(sp?) server.
Well, shucks, there go my dinner plans. My honey-bunny just called and he’s not feeling too well, so he doesn’t want dinner. No biggie - I’ll make the meatloaf tomorrow. So it looks like my dinner will be leftover pizza. At least it makes for easy dishes - like none…
We picked up another bookcase from IKEA this weekend and rearranged the furniture in the master bedroom a bit so that we can fit in a fifth bookcase without it being in the way. I will finally be able to get the last of my SFF books out of the boxes in the furnace room, and possibly the final couple of boxes of fiction, pending purchase of a tenth bookcase for the family room. (SFF in the bedroom, fiction, non-fiction, humour and reference in the family room, aviation, military and ships/naval in the computer room - my user name was chosen for a reason 
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Mrs B made her yummy minestrone soup and we had some with crusty bread for dipping and getting every last delicious drop out of the bowl.
Holy crap! Where’d this “Quick Reply” deal come from? All the sudden I go to the bottom of the page, and POW Quick Reply! Anybody else notice this thing?
Yeah, it showed up just as I was replying to another thread.
To add something, I just saw a great bumper sticker on an elderly couples PoS:
JESUS IS COMING
Look Busy!
This would be Ex’s fault.
GT
Clafoutis, see, I was thinking it was that sports guy who sells cereal for research or charity or something and it seemed you were speaking of a dessert and then my head went plewie! because dessert for cannibals is just wrong even if it is made up of former sports guys. Food made from former boy band members, especially those sporting stupid facial hair and/or pseudo tough-guy ("look! I’m a big boy now!) tattoos, would be okay. Beneficial to the gene pool, even.
So anyway, I made poppy seed and pumpkin spice muffins this weekend. Have you ever noticed that poppy seeds really don’t taste like anything? Why did we have to pile bunches of 'em in every baked good made in the 80s? Poppy seeds and raspberries, mall hair and torn sweatshirts.
There is no public radio where I live and PBS tv from San Diego makes me crazy. The second you figure out where they’ve now decided to hide your favorite show, they get to begging for a hundred years and when things get back to normal, the show is cut or buried in a new place or done. So I write a check to PBS and then stand in front of the tv and rip it into little pieces.
Bookkeeper, you don’t need new shelves, because you’re going to mail me all your books. Just like FairyChatMom is going to send me her new tv. Or will someone just come over to my place and hook my new DVR to my ancient, non-compatible tv? Thenkyew.
My home fridge is in pretty good shape. It’s my work fridge that is making the cooler of death look fresh as a daisy. Tip: don’t leave shrimp in the fridge for a weekend, especially not very slightly open. Tip 2: When the food greets you by name and launches into a high kickin’ Broadway classic tune, just shut the door and move to a new location. Learned that one the hard way.
You understand how to have fun with others and to enjoy your solitude.
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Dang it! Let me try this again. The first time I tried, I got Cannot Find Server.
Ashes! KPBS has started advertising that they are now broadcasting on KQVO 97.7 in Imperial Valley. Can you get reception where you’re at? You might give it a try. Then you’ll hear the joy of pledge breaks, too.
I need some bookcases, too. I need to make a trip to IKEA very soon.
I have had two visits to Ikea. It was two days in a row a few years back while I was doing some work in a 'burb outside of Chicago. I liked some of the furniture groupings they had but I decided my fat butt would kill any of their furniture within a year. The swedish meatballs I had in the cafeteria were really good though. I bought a bunch of ashtrays there. Now I no longer smoke so I have these little metal ashtrays in an array of colors that I don’t use. Fortunately, guests who smoke can take advantage of them as they are strategically and artfully placed all over my back porch. No one may, however, smoke while in the hot tub. Ashes are forbidden in the hot tub. But Ashes [sup]2[/sup] would be welcome in the hot tub anytime.
Ah, I am on Elune…but if you ever want to swat up an alt=) drop me an email [in my profile=)] and we can try to meet up=)
Hey all, I just realized that no one (ahem, you know who you are) got back to me on what to do in San Diego when I go in March. I still have to book the hotel room, but am looking to stay in the Gaslamp area so that I’m close to the naval station there.
Oh, and I just tried one of those Oral-B brush up thingies. I dunno, it made my gums tingle and I guess the plaque layer from the coffee and lunch is scraped somewhat off my teeth, but , well, they just ain’t all that. Good in a pinch I guess.