My head hurts. I hate that. It's probably because I got up early to come to work early so I can go to the hockey game this afternoon. Go Grizzlies!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T10:58:09-05:00
I never got to thank you for sending me the link to the book organizing app. I downloaded Libib and it's so good! I just scan the bar code on the back of the book and all of the book's information uploads into the app. I only did a small portion of my book collection and I'm surprised that I'm up to 111 books.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T10:59:48-05:00
Hockey? I think the Capitols are playing this week. I can only tell when I see a sea of red shirts on the subway.
I do know that Overchkin has gotten 500 goals. They had some ceremony up on the tv screen of the restaurant I was at last Thursday.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T11:01:06-05:00
Morning GM. No, Mrs. BaKhan need not worry. I was just so happy that he turned me on to this book app and now I can finally keep track of what I have. I'm making a guess that I have at least 300 books currently in my collection.
I should download that app....what's it called? And does it work on Android? I only have an iPod, and even that I hate. >.>
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T11:04:20-05:00
@Geist, thats great! Someday, I will have to do the same... Sadly I will need to do a lot of work first. When we moved into our new house, 2.5 years ago, my mother inlaw decided to help me out by putting my books away for me. Sadly, she didn't really notice that each box I had packed was alphabetically organized and labeled, and she just put books up willy nilly. Seriously, I don't think it could be any more random or heartbreaking. I had always kept my collections organized and alphabetized, and whenever I added a new book, I just put it away where it should go. The thought of reorganizing it all from complete random, is pretty depressing. Sigh... thanks mom... X(
@BaKhan: I had the same thing happen when we had our carpets steam cleaned a few years ago, except with movies. I *finally* have 99% of it back to how it should be organized, but there are some recent acquisitions I haven't gotten around to putting in there. And some I forgot I lent to friends that I recently got back.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T11:18:43-05:00
@GM, I had gotten so bad with my movie collection that I had to start a sign out book and put a limit on how many one person could borrow at a time! Chaos, I say, chaos! Fortunately now, I only have one friend that borrows movies and he's always good about it. I've still got a few new ones that I haven't watched yet, but other than that, they are all alphabetized. My OCPD wouldn't have it any other way... ;)
@BaKhan: Did you look at TO:7S new update? Those Apocalypse Demon figures will be amazingly annoying to paint.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T11:23:41-05:00
@GM: It's called Libib. I haven an Android phone but I do believe they have an app that will work for an Ipad. BaKahn posted a link that had a list of different book organizing apps and I choose that one because you can also keep track of DVD's and music.
I've only had a few problems with some of the bar codes that I scan for some of the books. One book I scanned listed the book in Russian! Other books, the bar code listed in the back tied in with a completely different book. No worries as all you have to do is put in the information manually.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T11:33:04-05:00
@GM, those apocalypse demons are going to be so sweet! I can't wait! They will be tough, but hopefully not too tough. Some of the sins are going to be even harder! I spent some more time painting this weekend. I have now finished all six heros for Z:BP and started on the necromancer, then come the 64 zombies! At least those will be a bit easier... XP
Now I just need a secure password keeper app...so many passwords, so little memory.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T12:28:03-05:00
@GM: I've a few duplicate copies of books and DVDs that I've purchased simply because I've gotten that I already have a copy. (I'm going to be giving some of those duplicates away at a white elephant card game I'm going to this Saturday)
I think you can also list your collection on the app but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.
@Geist: I have a duplicate of a book at home, only because my friend handed it to me thinking it was mine(we were just about to head out to a movie, so I didn't check then). I'm giving it back to him Thursday when we go get food.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T12:34:22-05:00
Hey All; I have been reading occasionally what everyone has to say, but otherwise have been pretty busy living a dull life ... figured I'd pop back in and see if 100K comments had occurred yet.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T12:35:24-05:00
Try sorting out possible duplicate books when you have 2700 books!
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T12:40:33-05:00
Otherwise I have been doing genealogies for everyone in my family ... which job only gets larger the farther back in time you go. I was lucky, in that one set of first cousins had an easy name, and was able to tie them back to Puritan times ... everyone else is mainly Irish Famine immigrants.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T12:41:25-05:00
Hello there GCoD! Good to have you back.
2700 books? Impressive. I should be upping my collecting as the weather gets warmer. I plan on traveling on the weekends to the different book sellers on the east coast.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T12:42:15-05:00
How is Rowena doing? Is that dice box guy still being a douche?
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T12:45:38-05:00
Rowena has learned how to cuddle under the covers, now that it is ten degrees outside and I am not turning the heat up at night. The other day I found her under a quilt on the sofa in the basement, toasty and warm.
Dice box guy I gave up on, they just have no clue or interest in fixing their faults.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T12:46:45-05:00
Even worse on the books, I calculated the linear distance my bookshelves would extend if they were end-to-end. Nearly 145 feet total. Yikes. Then I realized, that's over a ten story building in height.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T12:51:02-05:00
*squeal!* How cute! But how cold is your house? Cats usually don't need blanket protection when they have a year round fur coat. My two cats would sleep on top of the covers on my bed thanks to the warmth from the electric blanket that I had that kept their bottoms warm.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T12:53:32-05:00
By the time I retire (probably won't happen but I can hope) I will probably have about that many books that are comprised of crafts, fiction and cookbooks. I wanna have something special built for my first edition autographed books.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T12:55:34-05:00
I've been trying to find a good bookshelf for my kitchen. I want to put my cook books there, obviously, but I also want to display some of the cooler kitchen gadgets that I have. Its been a tough go! I want something minimalist, but functional for both uses.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T12:58:43-05:00
I need a floor to ceiling shelf to put all the extra spices and other homemade stuff I wanna make. Getting said shelf up three flights of floors is another issue.
@BaKhan: You could always build a suspended shelf over one side of your island. I mean, you do have LOTS of space there.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T13:04:44-05:00
Bookshelves are always a problem. I'm lucky in that there is a local firm called "Remanufactured Business Furniture" and I get used Steelcase shelves from them. Up to 12 now ... plus various older wood ones for smaller books.
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T13:17:16-05:00
I'm stoked about those Apocalypse figures. I look forward to the challenge.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T13:42:23-05:00
99945! You guys are booking. I hope I'm at least around when you hit it. Do me a favor and only make it to 99999 by tonight and then all go to bed. ;)
Like I said, I'm not too broken up about it. It's just going to be spamming. But more importantly, the 1 year launch birthday is in 2 days!
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-18T13:43:41-05:00
As I live and breathe. .welcome back, GCoD.
10 degrees? I'll take that. That would be around 20° warmer than here.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T13:46:04-05:00
We've had a mild winter, so the recent cold snap doesn't bother me as much. we had 11" of rain in December though, that was soggy.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T13:52:31-05:00
According to the weather man, we are due for 12" of snow this starting Friday into Saturday. Time to go for a booze run before this happens.
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T13:58:59-05:00
Yes. It would be a shame to be stuck inside with no booze. Especially with the run on all the stores that comes with a snow storm.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T14:01:47-05:00
@LZ: Tell me about it. I went to the store last night for some breakfast stuff and all of the shopping carts were gone. Which was weird because there was no line at all for the register.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-18T14:03:21-05:00
Shopping cart theft must he big out east?
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T14:05:26-05:00
Well, you know, sometimes you just need a shopping cart. It's not like you can go buy one, after all.
We figure the package is just one of the bad ones. You know how when you buy a box of frozen chicken breasts, there is a chance of not all of them being the nice ones...well....this whole box was like that. =/
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T14:36:43-05:00
@GM, specifically why I don't buy frozen meat! It ruins the texture and, you can't tell if its any good before you buy it. At least when its fresh you can see the colour of the meat and make an informed decision. The only thing that I'll buy frozen is sea food (which wouldn't really apply in your case...), because this is Alberta damn it! We're well and far away from the ocean, sadly.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T14:38:58-05:00
@BaKhan: but you are closer to Alaska which means you get all that good seafood first. They have to freeze it and ship it down to my area, which is why it so pricey.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T14:45:37-05:00
@Geist, frozen is frozen though, I doubt the stuff I buy in the grocery store is any fresher than what you get. Regardless, I always stock up on king and snow crab when its in season, every once in a while we get dungeness crab, which is the best for crab cakes, imo. For a bag of king crab, its normally around $30 a pound, pretty pricey here too.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T14:52:58-05:00
$30 a pound?! Good thing I have a slight allergic reaction to shellfish. Too much and my face swells kinda like this: https://www.google.com/search…
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T15:12:54-05:00
@Geist, yikes! Shellfish allergies can be the worst, be careful! I'll have to remember that for when you come up to visit! No shellfish for you or GM. Well seeing as how this is Alberta, there is no shortage of beef, we'll go that route!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T15:24:48-05:00
I can tolerate a little shrimp. I avoid crab because even when I eat a little of it, my mouth feels itchy. Scallops are fine. I don't eat raw oysters just because they kinds look gross.
Now a nice, well marbled steak cooked medium rare (leaning more toward the rare side) is sooooo good. Serve it with some sauted onions and mushrooms and you got some good eating right there.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-18T15:34:44-05:00
I spent my early 20's avoiding crabs.
:-P
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-18T15:35:21-05:00
Mushrooms are the fungus from the Devil's taint!!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T15:36:25-05:00
I love seafood, but I'm literally the furthest away from both oceans you can get at my lattitude. Right in the exact middle of the continent, give or take just a couple miles.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T15:36:41-05:00
Hey Cane! Come back for the 100,000 comment lottery?
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Hooray for kitty shelters!
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I shouldn't be away this long on a weekday. It makes alot of catch-up work.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-18T15:38:11-05:00
There's only one thing I would pay $30 per pound for. The local cheese house had some 13 year old chedder.
Words can't describe how good it was. If they still have some, it would be about 16 years old now. Probably would want north of $40 per pound now.
Eric 'Trinkets&Nopes' Baumgarten 2016-01-18T15:39:11-05:00
Good luck with 100,000 Zem. I'll probably miss it.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T15:47:18-05:00
@Trinkets, lolz! I bet you did! Wow, $30 a lbs for cheese? Must be pretty awesome?
@Geist, unless you really want a personalized tour of the Canadian mediacal system, we'll just be avoiding creatures from the sea. As I said, world class, sterling, organic beef, lots of it! Any cut you want, although, New York strip is my favorite, with rib eye being a close second.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T15:53:57-05:00
Mmmm... Nebraska beef makes the best steaks. Plus, we can get them hours from a cow, like how you can have seafood minutes from the ocean on the coasts, but steak there is days old and frozen. It's one of the best things about Nebraska. A full steak dinner can be like $20 here compared to way more for not as good elsewhere.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T15:57:12-05:00
I spent my early 20's avoiding crabs.
LMAO! Funny Trinkets.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T15:58:39-05:00
Mushrooms are the fungus from the Devil's taint!!
You take that back. I love mushrooms on my salad and sauted with some veggies in a nice olive oil. Wrap in an omelette and we got breakfast.
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T16:26:50-05:00
Good meat needs no gravy, and usually no sauce
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:27:01-05:00
I recall reading an account of a passenger on a Spanish ship on his way to the new world in the 1500's, talking about how the meat had gone bad, but luckily the sauce hid the rancidity.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:27:06-05:00
Oh, and researching why some people did or didn't get benefit deductions is a pain.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:27:46-05:00
Geist nailed it ...
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:28:00-05:00
Congrats GM. I'm always the bride's maid. Never the bride.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T16:28:05-05:00
Theres a vegi dish I make that has green and yellow zucchini, cherry tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and fire! Cook it up on the Q and its so good, so simple too! I'm sensing ya'll aren't much into vegi's?
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T16:28:05-05:00
That's unfortunate. Of course, steak sauce (except Mad Cow) exists for those who cook their meat to shoe leather
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T16:29:33-05:00
I like a lot of veggies, just not the ones that are harvested off Satan himself...
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:30:10-05:00
@GCoD: That makes sense. I mean, who would have thought snails would be edible but leave it to the French to think so.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:30:34-05:00
@LZ: Those who over cook a steak need to be flogged.
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T16:30:49-05:00
Congrats, Geist! You did what Zem has been dreaming about for almost a year! Here's to shattered dreams!
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:31:26-05:00
@BaKhan: Would you make me that dish when I visit?
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:31:31-05:00
Now Rowena is saying it is nap time; she walked in, hopped on the desk, and occupied the space between chair and keyboard.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:32:25-05:00
Veggies are good, except that squash is a veggie in biology only, same goes for zucchini.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-01-18T16:32:37-05:00
@Geist, but of course! I plan on showing that I've got some cooking chops here too! ;)
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T16:32:43-05:00
I agree about flogging folks who overcook meat. I understand that restaurant chefs reserve the almost bad meat for people who like their shoe leather, since they won't know the difference
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:33:00-05:00
Are you guys sure? I thought that GM actually got the 100,000 comment crown. I'm number 100,001.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:33:42-05:00
Counting backwards, it does look like GM got it. At the moment though, it looked like Geist did ...
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T16:34:38-05:00
"squash is a veggie in biology only, same goes for zucchini."
I do believe you mean in a culinary sense; squashes (including zucchini) are fruits from a biological/botanical perspective.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:35:20-05:00
So I'm doing genealogies for all my family ... and found one distant cousin who died in 1926 having fallen down a flight of stairs, and fractured his skull. He died several hours later. My cousins who are in his bloodline, without prompting tell me "There's great uncle William, he got tossed down a flight of stairs and broke his head open when the husband came home and found him ...."
Geist got it. I was 100,001(just as good, because it starts and ends with 1 :P)
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:39:08-05:00
@GCoD: That is an awkward way to die.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:39:51-05:00
As long as one of the KC got the magical comment, it's all good. Would have been nice if Elan got it but, eh.
Lord Zombitten 2016-01-18T16:40:26-05:00
@Cane: That is quite the way to go.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:41:05-05:00
Another fellow had his head backed over by a dump truck in 1941. Another was apparently murdered (there was an inquest with no result from the jury).
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:41:29-05:00
So my mom says, well, they have way more Irish on their side, maybe they were all drunk.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:43:19-05:00
Awkward indeed. We found his death certificate from Missouri, and his obit in the paper. His wife signed her name prominently with her first married name ... and the obit says "beloved husband of ..." but I don't think he was so beloved at the end, eh?
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2016-01-18T16:45:43-05:00
Hey, if Geist got the 100K comment, that means I got the 99,999 one ...which is okay by me ...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T16:45:54-05:00
Squash is actually a fruit, not a veggie. It's a berry, like pumpkins, cucumbers, and watermelons.
Zucchini is ok with other vegetables, but squash is satan's... manboobs? That works.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T16:46:02-05:00
By my count, Cane got it, though the counter is sometimes messed up a little. I think the conversation lapsing the milestone is really fitting for us! Back to the good 'ol days.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T16:46:25-05:00
I was wondering why I suddenly came back to nearly a full page of short comments.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-01-18T16:46:58-05:00
That had to be a shock to the wife when she found out her husband had been sleeping with someone else. Back in 1941, it would have been cause for a scandal.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-01-18T16:47:41-05:00
That had to be a shock to the wife when she found out her husband had been sleeping with someone else. Back in 1941, it would have been cause for a scandal.
Morning kittens.
Did I come into a love affair here?
My head hurts. I hate that. It's probably because I got up early to come to work early so I can go to the hockey game this afternoon. Go Grizzlies!
I never got to thank you for sending me the link to the book organizing app. I downloaded Libib and it's so good! I just scan the bar code on the back of the book and all of the book's information uploads into the app. I only did a small portion of my book collection and I'm surprised that I'm up to 111 books.
Hockey? I think the Capitols are playing this week. I can only tell when I see a sea of red shirts on the subway.
I do know that Overchkin has gotten 500 goals. They had some ceremony up on the tv screen of the restaurant I was at last Thursday.
Morning GM. No, Mrs. BaKhan need not worry. I was just so happy that he turned me on to this book app and now I can finally keep track of what I have. I'm making a guess that I have at least 300 books currently in my collection.
I should download that app....what's it called? And does it work on Android? I only have an iPod, and even that I hate. >.>
@Geist, thats great! Someday, I will have to do the same... Sadly I will need to do a lot of work first. When we moved into our new house, 2.5 years ago, my mother inlaw decided to help me out by putting my books away for me. Sadly, she didn't really notice that each box I had packed was alphabetically organized and labeled, and she just put books up willy nilly. Seriously, I don't think it could be any more random or heartbreaking. I had always kept my collections organized and alphabetized, and whenever I added a new book, I just put it away where it should go. The thought of reorganizing it all from complete random, is pretty depressing. Sigh... thanks mom... X(
@BaKhan: I had the same thing happen when we had our carpets steam cleaned a few years ago, except with movies. I *finally* have 99% of it back to how it should be organized, but there are some recent acquisitions I haven't gotten around to putting in there. And some I forgot I lent to friends that I recently got back.
@GM, I had gotten so bad with my movie collection that I had to start a sign out book and put a limit on how many one person could borrow at a time! Chaos, I say, chaos! Fortunately now, I only have one friend that borrows movies and he's always good about it. I've still got a few new ones that I haven't watched yet, but other than that, they are all alphabetized. My OCPD wouldn't have it any other way... ;)
@BaKhan: Did you look at TO:7S new update? Those Apocalypse Demon figures will be amazingly annoying to paint.
@GM: It's called Libib. I haven an Android phone but I do believe they have an app that will work for an Ipad. BaKahn posted a link that had a list of different book organizing apps and I choose that one because you can also keep track of DVD's and music.
I've only had a few problems with some of the bar codes that I scan for some of the books. One book I scanned listed the book in Russian! Other books, the bar code listed in the back tied in with a completely different book. No worries as all you have to do is put in the information manually.
@GM, those apocalypse demons are going to be so sweet! I can't wait! They will be tough, but hopefully not too tough. Some of the sins are going to be even harder! I spent some more time painting this weekend. I have now finished all six heros for Z:BP and started on the necromancer, then come the 64 zombies! At least those will be a bit easier... XP
@Geist: That app will be awesome! No more getting to the bookstore and forgetting which book I am up to.
Now I just need a secure password keeper app...so many passwords, so little memory.
@GM: I've a few duplicate copies of books and DVDs that I've purchased simply because I've gotten that I already have a copy. (I'm going to be giving some of those duplicates away at a white elephant card game I'm going to this Saturday)
I think you can also list your collection on the app but I haven't figured out how to do that yet.
@Geist: I have a duplicate of a book at home, only because my friend handed it to me thinking it was mine(we were just about to head out to a movie, so I didn't check then). I'm giving it back to him Thursday when we go get food.
Hey All; I have been reading occasionally what everyone has to say, but otherwise have been pretty busy living a dull life ... figured I'd pop back in and see if 100K comments had occurred yet.
Try sorting out possible duplicate books when you have 2700 books!
Otherwise I have been doing genealogies for everyone in my family ... which job only gets larger the farther back in time you go. I was lucky, in that one set of first cousins had an easy name, and was able to tie them back to Puritan times ... everyone else is mainly Irish Famine immigrants.
Hello there GCoD! Good to have you back.
2700 books? Impressive. I should be upping my collecting as the weather gets warmer. I plan on traveling on the weekends to the different book sellers on the east coast.
How is Rowena doing? Is that dice box guy still being a douche?
Rowena has learned how to cuddle under the covers, now that it is ten degrees outside and I am not turning the heat up at night. The other day I found her under a quilt on the sofa in the basement, toasty and warm.
Dice box guy I gave up on, they just have no clue or interest in fixing their faults.
Even worse on the books, I calculated the linear distance my bookshelves would extend if they were end-to-end. Nearly 145 feet total. Yikes. Then I realized, that's over a ten story building in height.
*squeal!* How cute! But how cold is your house? Cats usually don't need blanket protection when they have a year round fur coat. My two cats would sleep on top of the covers on my bed thanks to the warmth from the electric blanket that I had that kept their bottoms warm.
By the time I retire (probably won't happen but I can hope) I will probably have about that many books that are comprised of crafts, fiction and cookbooks. I wanna have something special built for my first edition autographed books.
I've been trying to find a good bookshelf for my kitchen. I want to put my cook books there, obviously, but I also want to display some of the cooler kitchen gadgets that I have. Its been a tough go! I want something minimalist, but functional for both uses.
I need a floor to ceiling shelf to put all the extra spices and other homemade stuff I wanna make. Getting said shelf up three flights of floors is another issue.
@BaKhan: You could always build a suspended shelf over one side of your island. I mean, you do have LOTS of space there.
Bookshelves are always a problem. I'm lucky in that there is a local firm called "Remanufactured Business Furniture" and I get used Steelcase shelves from them. Up to 12 now ... plus various older wood ones for smaller books.
I'm stoked about those Apocalypse figures. I look forward to the challenge.
99945! You guys are booking. I hope I'm at least around when you hit it. Do me a favor and only make it to 99999 by tonight and then all go to bed. ;)
Like I said, I'm not too broken up about it. It's just going to be spamming. But more importantly, the 1 year launch birthday is in 2 days!
As I live and breathe. .welcome back, GCoD.
10 degrees? I'll take that. That would be around 20° warmer than here.
We've had a mild winter, so the recent cold snap doesn't bother me as much. we had 11" of rain in December though, that was soggy.
According to the weather man, we are due for 12" of snow this starting Friday into Saturday. Time to go for a booze run before this happens.
Yes. It would be a shame to be stuck inside with no booze. Especially with the run on all the stores that comes with a snow storm.
@LZ: Tell me about it. I went to the store last night for some breakfast stuff and all of the shopping carts were gone. Which was weird because there was no line at all for the register.
Shopping cart theft must he big out east?
Well, you know, sometimes you just need a shopping cart. It's not like you can go buy one, after all.
Hello cane!! Glad to see you back here! On my break at work.
I finally finally finished all the backyard kitty shelters.
Yay for kirrend having hidey holes!
I think LZs phone has been at the sauce again.
Also...trying to eat chicken that tastes like its pure cartilage is disgusting. Looks like I will be buying food today. -.-
What the heck kind of chicken are you eating GM? From the nuclear factory?
We figure the package is just one of the bad ones. You know how when you buy a box of frozen chicken breasts, there is a chance of not all of them being the nice ones...well....this whole box was like that. =/
@GM, specifically why I don't buy frozen meat! It ruins the texture and, you can't tell if its any good before you buy it. At least when its fresh you can see the colour of the meat and make an informed decision. The only thing that I'll buy frozen is sea food (which wouldn't really apply in your case...), because this is Alberta damn it! We're well and far away from the ocean, sadly.
@BaKhan: but you are closer to Alaska which means you get all that good seafood first. They have to freeze it and ship it down to my area, which is why it so pricey.
@Geist, frozen is frozen though, I doubt the stuff I buy in the grocery store is any fresher than what you get. Regardless, I always stock up on king and snow crab when its in season, every once in a while we get dungeness crab, which is the best for crab cakes, imo. For a bag of king crab, its normally around $30 a pound, pretty pricey here too.
$30 a pound?! Good thing I have a slight allergic reaction to shellfish. Too much and my face swells kinda like this: https://www.google.com/search…
@Geist, yikes! Shellfish allergies can be the worst, be careful! I'll have to remember that for when you come up to visit! No shellfish for you or GM. Well seeing as how this is Alberta, there is no shortage of beef, we'll go that route!
I can tolerate a little shrimp. I avoid crab because even when I eat a little of it, my mouth feels itchy. Scallops are fine. I don't eat raw oysters just because they kinds look gross.
Now a nice, well marbled steak cooked medium rare (leaning more toward the rare side) is sooooo good. Serve it with some sauted onions and mushrooms and you got some good eating right there.
I spent my early 20's avoiding crabs.
:-P
Mushrooms are the fungus from the Devil's taint!!
I love seafood, but I'm literally the furthest away from both oceans you can get at my lattitude. Right in the exact middle of the continent, give or take just a couple miles.
Hey Cane! Come back for the 100,000 comment lottery?
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Hooray for kitty shelters!
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I shouldn't be away this long on a weekday. It makes alot of catch-up work.
There's only one thing I would pay $30 per pound for. The local cheese house had some 13 year old chedder.
Words can't describe how good it was. If they still have some, it would be about 16 years old now. Probably would want north of $40 per pound now.
Good luck with 100,000 Zem. I'll probably miss it.
@Trinkets, lolz! I bet you did! Wow, $30 a lbs for cheese? Must be pretty awesome?
@Geist, unless you really want a personalized tour of the Canadian mediacal system, we'll just be avoiding creatures from the sea. As I said, world class, sterling, organic beef, lots of it! Any cut you want, although, New York strip is my favorite, with rib eye being a close second.
Mmmm... Nebraska beef makes the best steaks. Plus, we can get them hours from a cow, like how you can have seafood minutes from the ocean on the coasts, but steak there is days old and frozen. It's one of the best things about Nebraska. A full steak dinner can be like $20 here compared to way more for not as good elsewhere.
I spent my early 20's avoiding crabs.
LMAO! Funny Trinkets.
Mushrooms are the fungus from the Devil's taint!!
You take that back. I love mushrooms on my salad and sauted with some veggies in a nice olive oil. Wrap in an omelette and we got breakfast.
Good meat needs no gravy, and usually no sauce
I recall reading an account of a passenger on a Spanish ship on his way to the new world in the 1500's, talking about how the meat had gone bad, but luckily the sauce hid the rancidity.
Both zucchini and squash are Satan's dong
LOL! You folks are perverts!
Who gets the 100,000 comment?!
Oh, and researching why some people did or didn't get benefit deductions is a pain.
Geist nailed it ...
Congrats GM. I'm always the bride's maid. Never the bride.
Theres a vegi dish I make that has green and yellow zucchini, cherry tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and fire! Cook it up on the Q and its so good, so simple too! I'm sensing ya'll aren't much into vegi's?
That's unfortunate. Of course, steak sauce (except Mad Cow) exists for those who cook their meat to shoe leather
I like a lot of veggies, just not the ones that are harvested off Satan himself...
@GCoD: That makes sense. I mean, who would have thought snails would be edible but leave it to the French to think so.
@LZ: Those who over cook a steak need to be flogged.
Congrats, Geist! You did what Zem has been dreaming about for almost a year! Here's to shattered dreams!
@BaKhan: Would you make me that dish when I visit?
Now Rowena is saying it is nap time; she walked in, hopped on the desk, and occupied the space between chair and keyboard.
Veggies are good, except that squash is a veggie in biology only, same goes for zucchini.
@Geist, but of course! I plan on showing that I've got some cooking chops here too! ;)
I agree about flogging folks who overcook meat. I understand that restaurant chefs reserve the almost bad meat for people who like their shoe leather, since they won't know the difference
Are you guys sure? I thought that GM actually got the 100,000 comment crown. I'm number 100,001.
Counting backwards, it does look like GM got it. At the moment though, it looked like Geist did ...
"squash is a veggie in biology only, same goes for zucchini."
I do believe you mean in a culinary sense; squashes (including zucchini) are fruits from a biological/botanical perspective.
So I'm doing genealogies for all my family ... and found one distant cousin who died in 1926 having fallen down a flight of stairs, and fractured his skull. He died several hours later. My cousins who are in his bloodline, without prompting tell me "There's great uncle William, he got tossed down a flight of stairs and broke his head open when the husband came home and found him ...."
The count is a little hard to pin down.
Geist got it. I was 100,001(just as good, because it starts and ends with 1 :P)
@GCoD: That is an awkward way to die.
As long as one of the KC got the magical comment, it's all good. Would have been nice if Elan got it but, eh.
@Cane: That is quite the way to go.
Another fellow had his head backed over by a dump truck in 1941. Another was apparently murdered (there was an inquest with no result from the jury).
So my mom says, well, they have way more Irish on their side, maybe they were all drunk.
Awkward indeed. We found his death certificate from Missouri, and his obit in the paper. His wife signed her name prominently with her first married name ... and the obit says "beloved husband of ..." but I don't think he was so beloved at the end, eh?
Hey, if Geist got the 100K comment, that means I got the 99,999 one ...which is okay by me ...
Squash is actually a fruit, not a veggie. It's a berry, like pumpkins, cucumbers, and watermelons.
Zucchini is ok with other vegetables, but squash is satan's... manboobs? That works.
By my count, Cane got it, though the counter is sometimes messed up a little. I think the conversation lapsing the milestone is really fitting for us! Back to the good 'ol days.
I was wondering why I suddenly came back to nearly a full page of short comments.
That had to be a shock to the wife when she found out her husband had been sleeping with someone else. Back in 1941, it would have been cause for a scandal.
Oh boy! 100,029! Just what I'd always dreamed of!
As it sits, this is comment 100,032:
Geist de la Muerte Gatito less than a minute ago
That had to be a shock to the wife when she found out her husband had been sleeping with someone else. Back in 1941, it would have been cause for a scandal.
Making this, comment 100,000:
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 20 minutes ago
Both zucchini and squash are Satan's dong
LOL! You folks are perverts!
...Or the counter could be drunk. One way or the other.
One wonders how many other family secrets are buried in the past ... for nearly every family.
My counting backwards gives repeated results of Geist being 100K ... same comment you quote, GM
@GCoD: As %(&@ as my family is, I'm sure there are a LOT of nasty secrets.