Figured it is time for a new one.
BTW- A couple months ago I mentioned I was thinking about getting Calphalon anodized pans, and I forgot to mention that I picked them up. They were just too good a deal to pass up. One of the big complaints in all the reviews I read was about them sticking, and people bitching that they are not non-stick and hard to clean. I’ve been using them for several months now, and I don’t get it. The only ting I have had stick were eggs, and that was operator error. As for cleaning, I’ve never had anything easier to clean. Let them cool, soak them in water for a half hour, and you can basically wipe them clean with a sponge. Are people just doing it wrong or something.
Also, was looking at another teapot, perhaps for something that makes just one cup, and I saw this monstrosity. You have to be pretty into tea to need that.
I’ll be rooting for Kentucky because they beat the ‘Eers.
eemom
just in case anyone’s hungering for new flame war:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reconsidering-the-goldstone-report-on-israel-and-war-crimes/2011/04/01/AFg111JC_story.html
Personally, I think AIPAC got to him.
cathyx
You need a teapot that size if you’re going to finish that pound of tea you bought from Amazon.
arguingwithsignposts
I’ll be rooting for injuries, because I’m all about the underdog. Go Butler!
The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik
Because you can never have enough stupidity on Fox News…
Huckabee calls union support for Dems “Forced Labor” and Healthcare Reform a “Modern-Day Poll Tax.”
It’s impossible to satirize these idiots anymore.
WereBear
Yes.
What you just described is enough for people to complain about.
According to a friend of mine, trained in Cornell customer service; 3% of the population are unable to be pleased.
D-Chance.
VCU lost. Vegas is VERY happy, right now.
MikeJ
If you need teflon for food not to stick, you shouldn’t cook.
stuckinred
I use the costo brand but I think the main problem people have is from using too high heat.
Butler
So I was flipping through the channels today and saw Bachmann on C-span. Naturally I stopped to watch, because she’s just so damn entertaining. It was a replay of Tea Party Rally which took place this week close to the Mall on DC. Typical TP crap of course. But then the speaker after Bachmann, some no name TP organizer rose to gave a speech.
It was… well it wasn’t exactly good, but it actually hit on a number of cogent and relevant topics. She referenced the economic culture of the 1920’s as a bad thing, then referred to the Depression without ripping Roosevelt or the New Deal. Finally she ripped into corporate executives and the culture of incredible greed as a bad thing. At no point were their dog whistles or your typical Tea Party insanity.
It was, frankly, stunning to hear from a supposed Tea Party leader. The crowd of Tea Partiers wasn’t really feeling it, as they were silent the whole time. It almost made me think that there may be a sliver of rationality and hope in that insane movement.
And then some other guy came on stage to crank the crazy back up to 11, while the whole time wearing (I kid you not) a bluetooth headpiece in his ear the entire speech.
Martin
1.5L of tea? I drank that today. I drank more than that yesterday and the day before. 80 degrees + outside project + fresh lemons. I can drink a half gallon of iced tea per day, easy.
darkmatter
Cole, you should get this if you’re interested in making sure that your tea stays hot for a few hours. Thanks to Giant Bomb, I ordered one and can’t wait to try it out.
Stillwater
@Butler: It almost made me think that there may be a sliver of rationality and hope in that insane movement.
You almost thought there might be a chance of a possibility…
Jules
John…..we use this kettle:
http://www.adagio.com/teaware/utiliTEA_kettle.html?SID=c110944f5b5ac64fab50d46ab9d8a05d
and I use this:
http://www.adagio.com/teaware/ingenuiTEA_teapot.html?SID=c110944f5b5ac64fab50d46ab9d8a05d
to brew. I get a cup and a half out of it.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Proving that wingnuts are clueless in all countries, Shiv Sena, an ultranationalist party in India (with the nationalism being primarily for Maharashtra, though I’m sure they can work up a good hate for Pakistan, too) condemned the idea of Poonam Pandey stripping naked in public if India won the World Cup today, which they did.
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Martin
@Butler:
There is, but it’ll never go anywhere. My mom is in that crowd. She’s decidedly sane on most topics and would agree with most people around here but she hates Democrats with a white hot passion. Her view of Democrats is based on Democrats of the 1960 and 70s, that worked to preserve union gigs through market regulation at the clear expense of the market and consumers. Well, they’re all dead and buried, but she hasn’t given up that view of the party.
Anyway, there’s a decent number of tea partiers that kind of fit that bill. They hate the banks and to a lesser degree the CEOs. They hate government corruption. They just trust the other party more for a variety of local, anecdotal, and historical reasons.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Martin: You and me both, though I also want some mint and plenty of sweetener.
Davis X. Machina
For tea, get an airpot, and a heavy-duty timer.
Beats waiting for the kettle to boil, and it’s better to make tea with just-below-boiling water anyway — mine holds at just over 200º. Zojirushi is the Mercedes-Benz of the airpot, but there are others that work as well for half the price.
The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik
In more lighthearted things, if you guys want a nice timewaster game online, try GIRP. No, that’s not a typo, but you might be jabbering nonsense too while you get hang of the game.
JenJen
Great sports night. Have the Wildcats on, but there’s big doings in the NHL tonight (last week of the regular season) so I’m flipping over to Sabres-Caps, and I have Habs-Devils going on the computer.
Wooooohoooo! Also, Go Reds!! Gosh I love April.
General Stuck
@JenJen:
Me too. And about those Reds on opening day?
TheOtherWA
This winter while battling the cold from hell, I bought an inexpensive electric kettle to keep me only moments away from a cuppa tea at all times. So much faster than a regular kettle on the stove. I love it.
Wish I could have afforded a zojirushi. Their rice cookers kick ass.
RJ Orr
Harney & Sons has two sizes of very good filters at
http://www.harney.com/Filters-Strainers/products/319/
Heat up water, when hot more some into the cup to warm it,
when the whistle blows, pour the water out of the cup,
put in the filter with tea, pour water into the filter in the cup
and you are ready to go.
They have many good teas too.
JenJen
@General Stuck: Oh man. That was the one of the most exciting baseball days of my life. I’m still rubbing it in with my friends, who wanted to leave after the 8th when we were down 6-3. Leave early on Opening Day? Blasphemy!
Staying paid off big time. These Reds are just amazing.
(Honestly, there were so many most-exciting-baseball-games-ever last season, I’m starting to love getting used to it!)
WereBear
We have a Krug electric kettle, for conservation and time reasons. Most excellent.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik: Can you imagine how the Onion folks feel? It seems like just last year, ore at least 2008, so many of the MSM headlines would have been *obvious* Onion links. Sigh.
The Dangerman
@efgoldman:
Lackey’s a head case; personally, I think he got his big contract and then stopped juicing. As a member of the 2002 Angels (a.k.a. perhaps the most juiced team ever), he’s suspect from the start. And I’m an Angels fan!
Neither him nor Papi should go to the HOF.
D-Chance.
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Transparency abounds. They even give awards for it…
Yutsano
@efgoldman: Theo’s rep as a wunderkind may just be slipping. Which is unfortunate as he really has done some good things with the Sox. Plus, okay, yeah, he’s cute, and his twin at least keeps him semi-grounded.
Joel
Gotta root against Kentucky here:
1) Pitino used to coach them.
2) Pitino Jr. currently coaches them.
mr. whipple
How’s that working out?
General Stuck
The Reds won again today, so no matter what happens, they are 2 and 0 and that will do.
The Dangerman
@efgoldman:
Only charged by association, but he sure is brittle and went to shit in a hurry after his big deal.
Arclite
burnspbesq
Two potentially excellent college lax games on espnU beginning at 4:00 tomorrow afternoon: Hopkins-Carolina and Duke-Syracuse.
JenJen
@General Stuck:
Boom!
Mark B
Wow, that was a quick turnaround. If KU gets hot shooting the 3, this could turn into a game. [edit] I mean UK … duh
Arclite
@burnspbesq: Women’s NCAA Div 1 Basketball games are also tomorrow. Did I mention who’s playing?
Wil
Has anyone tried that Swiss Diamond cookware? http://www.swissdiamond.com/
A friend of mine has one of their pans and likes it, but he doesn’t cook much. I do and it’s spendy stuff.
Anyone have some experience with the Swiss Diamond pans?
Corner Stone
@WereBear:
Show up naked. With or without cupcakes. And we’re good.
stuckinred
@Arclite: The Chief Academic Officer from the University System of Georgia is taking the presidency at UCONN. She’s going to both final fours and she has not a clue.
stuckinred
@Wil: A glowing review from Amazon:
Corner Stone
I’ll just say, when I flew back into Hobby on Friday I heard more “UCONN!!” shouts than anything. And there were a bunch of Kaintuckee t-shirted people around.
But the UCONN fools were def more vocal.
MizB
@Arclite-MWWAAH XXOO GO HUSKIES!!!
General Stuck
I can’t even watch it. Too nervous. just catching the running score on espn.
vtr
Water for tea must be sat the boiling point. That can be accomplished with a cheap sauce pan, actually.
Also, cast iron. I mean, jeez!
Joel
cook’s illustrated loves the t-fal with the red dot in the middle for cheap nonstick. I own one and agree.
Otherwise, if you’re going to drop major dough on a nonstick, go all-clad, they’re the best and have a lifetime warrantee.
Wil
@stuckinred: Hmmm….thanks, I’ll go read through them. Since I never use Amazon, it didn’t occur to me to look there.
Stillwater
@Corner Stone: Excellent beat downs in the Why Not Here thread, btw. I try to recognize excellence when I see it.
Wil
@Joel:
“All-clad”?
Que es?
Comrade Luke
@Jules: I use the same setup, and it works great. I love the dial that lets you choose the water temp. I was overheating my water before; now green tea is actually drinkable :)
Gin & Tonic
@Wil: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=all-clad
Gin & Tonic
Huskies!
darkmatter
In moderation hell. Send rescue party.
Comrade Luke
If Edgar Martinez doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame, there shouldn’t be a Hall of Fame.
Pontiac
I have Calphalon hard anodized I got back in grad school.
Excellent stuff, good price. And made in Toledo, Ohio. (which is really and oughtta be Michigan) :)
soonergrunt
OK, so. It was a beautiful day. Upper 70’s here. My wife asked me to build some new raised-bed planters, which I described here. One of them looks great. The other one–well. Did you guys know that it hurts like hell to drive a 3-inch deck screw through the wood and into your forearm, and that when you drive the screw through your radius bone, you get stuck there?
I didn’t know these things either, but I do now.
Yutsano
@Pontiac:
I’m sure we can find some way of blaming Aaron Burr for that.
Comrade Luke
This Future Sanctions Semifinal is quite the game.
Calouste
Wachovia Bank apparently laundered billions of dollars of Mexican drug money, yet no one goes to jail or even court. The War on Some Drugs is also the War on Some People involved with drugs.
General Stuck
Well, they can’t win unless they hit their foul shots
mr. whipple
@soonergrunt: Holy shit. Hope yer ok.
mr. whipple
UConn givin it away :(
soonergrunt
@mr. whipple: A few stitches, some local anesthetic, and some tylenol 3. A dressing that makes it look worse than it is, and some antibiotics, and I’ll be right as rain in a day or so.
Thanks!
It’s more about feeling like an idiot. I realized what I had done and I was laying there feeling like “you gotta be fucking kidding me.”
Arclite
Jeez, so many turnovers by UConn. What the hell??!?
mr. whipple
YESSSSSSS!!!!!~
mr. whipple
@soonergrunt:
I’m gonna show that to the wife. “See, this is why I don’t want honey-do’s. I could kill myself.”
Arclite
That’s it. Game over. Win: UCONN.
suzanne
@WereBear:
It’s way more than 3%. I’d put it at 10.
I have been meaning to get a cast-iron skillet for my eggs. Recommendations?
soonergrunt
@mr. whipple: Glad I could help out! LOL
mr. whipple
Freaking awesome.
Go Butler!
jenn
@soonergrunt: Yikes! I’m trying to figure out precisely how you’re going to be right as rain in a day or two, having just shoved a screw into your radius. Ouch. Hope you’re right, though!
General Stuck
Drat. good run for the frosh. Say what you will about Calipiri, he is a hell of a good coach.
MizB
UCONN HUSKIES UCONN HUSKIES!!!!!!
General Stuck
Now where is Cole?, let’s have some more knock down drag out blog fighting. :-)
scav
@soonergrunt: Were you clothed and did it involve a mop or a vacuum cleaner? The Cole-Baroque form of extreme accidents is apparently spreading.
Roger Moore
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
The don’t like the idea of other people having fun, and certainly not if it involves or alludes to sex. I’d think you would have seen enough people like that here in the US to understand the mentality. How people from the culture that wrote the Kama Sutra as a religious book could be that uptight about sex is beyond me, but it’s apparently true.
On the tea brewing front, I have a coworker who swears by these. The glass pot part is fragile- hey it’s glass- but the brewing part is durable and makes good tea. It’s good for the classic Chinese approach, where you use a lot of leaves and make several cups in turn by re-extracting them.
MikeJ
Did I miss the Seddy pleasing iCarly by watching basketball?
BigHank53
John, if you’re looking for a small teapot that’s easy to use with loose tea, I will recommend pretty much anything made by Beehouse. Most of them are even set up so you can pull off the metal lid for cleaning or microwaving your water.
I can’t speak for the automated tea monster, but the Breville electric kettles are some of the best on the market. Any electric kettle is 600% easier than one on the stovetop.
Roger Moore
@suzanne:
Yes, get a cast iron skillet. Unless you’re cooking a bunch of eggs, 12″ is probably too big, so you should go for an 8″ or 10″. Also, you should cook bacon in the skillet before the eggs. It preheats the skillet, greases it, and tastes good with eggs.
Arclite
@General Stuck:
Kentucky is going to be downright scary next year.
Bob Loblaw
@General Stuck:
I know! Just look at how his teams never make their free throws, commit dumb fouls, and force bad shots in crunch time year after year after year.
Bad night for Stuckie. Cole calls him a whiny dicksuck and UK gets bounced. I can’t imagine which hurts worse for the guy.
suzanne
@soonergrunt: Holy shit, Maynard. I hope you have good pain drugs and an up-to-date tetanus immunization.
Hang in there. And don’t do that again.
mr. whipple
@jenn:
Too bad he’s not an Orthopedist. He coulda charged big for implanting that screw.
soonergrunt
@jenn: Because I’ve had worse, mainly. I don’t mean that to sound like I’m all tough or anything, cause I’m not, really. It’s all relative, though.
@scav: I was clothed, but it was a short-sleeve shirt, for whatever that’s worth. There were some perfectly serviceable clamps on the table, but I decided I could just hold it in place, and that would be OK.
This is because (according to my wife) I don’t always have all of my dogs barking.
General Stuck
@Bob Loblaw:
EAT SHIT Loblaw!
Kathryn
@General Stuck: ok, not basketball (and nothing to do with Loblaw). General, how do you get the hummingbird pics at night? Are you using flash or floods? And how late do they feed?
soonergrunt
@suzanne: Yeah. I’m OK on that front. They did give me a tetanus booster, though. I don’t think I’ll do that again. I’ve checked that box, so I’ll have to come up with something else next time. I have some work on the roof that I was going to do tomorrow, but will need to wait until next week. That’s got some interesting possibilities, don’t you think?
@mr. whipple: LOL. I’m sure that the ER bill will be pretty impressive as it is.
Yutsano
@suzanne:
Oh shit. She’s going all blog mom on us. Where’s the alkyhol? I need to ameliorate this situation.
General Stuck
@Kathryn:
My set up is a feeder just outside a window, and I set my monopod and camera inside about 3 feet away. The dark pics are at night, or around dusk and I use the camera flash with manual focus.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@suzanne: Lodge. It’s really all you need.
Peter
@suzanne: If you can, get an older one at a flea market. The cooking surface will be a lot smoother than the new ones, so the surface will be much more non-stick. They don’t make ’em like they used to.
I threw away all our teflon a few years ago- it creeps me out. We have one hard-anodized aluminum pan that I like OK, and which can take non-plastic utensils. But iron is the shit.
scav
@soonergrunt: Ah yes, famous last words. usually muttered by my father as he didn’t move the ladder (fell into pile of loose boards with rusty nails) or didn’t take the crampons (a broken hip that eventually required a mountain rescue that he arranged for himself using a marine radio to call a boat that called the coast guard that called the S&R team). Yes, the man didn’t have his crampons but did have a marine radio on a hike in the Olympics.
General Stuck
@Arclite:
They should be, but I said that last year and four of the super frosh went pro, so who knows? As long as Calipiri keeps winning doing that, helping freshman get pro contracts, he should be alright with KY fans, but they will keep him on a short leash.
Corner Stone
@soonergrunt: You do understand your name is not “Dalton”, right?
Because pain does hurt.
Martin
@soonergrunt: Oh, ow. Yeah, don’t do that.
Of course, I don’t know how you do that with a deck screw. Didn’t you get some kind of mental feedback before the screw hit the bone, or were you just in the zone on that one?
soonergrunt
@scav:
You know, when you think about it, you can almost see the gears turning while he’s deciding what to pack, and since it worked out, you just wonder if it was exactly how he envisioned it.
Scott Alloway
A couple points:On Calphalon – never cook using a lemon marinade. It causes degradation in the pan. I’ve used Calphalon classic for 20 years and love the pans. Saute, sauce pots, stir fry. Have 16 of them,
For frying pans, I use cast iron. 13 different sizes and shapes. Once they’re seasoned, they’re great for all kinds of cooking.
All-Clad are beautiful but are really tough to keep in classic condition. My only All-Clad is a Belgium waffle maker (a 60th birthday gift from my wide – requested BTW).
Between regular jobs, did a year in a cookware store and learned a lot about what to use in cooking.
But in the end, It’s what you are happy working with in the kitchen. Post script on the Calphalon: I use a peanut oil wipe on the “disfigured” pan. Makes it look like new.
Hope this helps.
D-Chance.
Missed the game, but any team that only shoots 4 of 12 from the free throw line doesn’t deserve to win. They’ve got no one but themselves to blame for that.
Corner Stone
@Martin:
There are a lot of things that “should” have happened.
But knowing soonergrunt as well as I do, I’m pretty sure I can see it going down just this way.
Martin
@soonergrunt: Heh. Who of us does have all of our dogs barking? When I was using the hole auger the other day, I made sure to wait until my wife was out on an errand to get it started. I figured if I managed to gore my foot up in the damn thing, I could at least make up a good cover story for whatever stupid thing she would have warned me against doing had she been there.
soonergrunt
@Martin: It hurt like hell, but I didn’t know what it was. For a second or so, I thought I might have a splinter, and then I felt my arm get pulled in tight and compressed against the wood, and I thought ‘huh?’
That whole thing of ‘feel initial pain, feel arm being pulled against wood, release trigger of drill’ took about maybe 2 seconds I think.
@Martin: The hell of it is that I used to be the Safety NCO in my last unit before I retired from the Army. I was the guy walking around going “hey! Stop, and think about what you’re about to do, and then go get the proper equipment, dumbass!”
Kathryn
@General Stuck: And you don’t get flare off the window? ok, so how fast are you shooting for those? [I am really impressed, btw, and just curious, not trying to snag your technique. But I just love hummers and have had no success in photographing them: “and this blur is a RTHB, i swear…”]
Martin
@Scott Alloway:
I would advise calling her your ‘wide’ in person, btw. I’m hoping you’ve figured that out by 60, though.
mr. whipple
Falls: #1 cause of household fatal accidents.
Just sayin’.
General Stuck
@Kathryn:
the window is open, so no glare and I usually set the camera on shutter priority, but have forgot exactly what setting, but it has to be fast. You can get the exif info on my flickr photos. When I start shooting again here in a few weeks, it will come back to me the specifics. But it is very hard to get an in focus shot on manual focus, as you can imagine. So I take maybe 100 or so shots, and maybe get 5 or 6 that are in focus.
soonergrunt
@mr. whipple: There’s possible falls, reciprocating saw, electrical work, and a hole saw involved, as well as more screws to be driven.
I’m installing a ventilation fan in my second bathroom, and venting it out through the roof.
Martin
@soonergrunt: Ah, the ‘huh’ moment. I had a 16d ringshank nail clear through my foot many years ago. There was a ‘huh’ moment in there when I couldn’t lift my foot, but every time I tried (frantically) it kinda lifted my other foot a little bit because it was standing on the board my other foot was now nailed to.
It really all goes downhill from that point, doesn’t it? Un-located pain is somehow more tolerable than when you can see what’s happened.
Hope your arm heals up okay. Anything that gets the bone ups the healing time by an order of magnitude.
Yutsano
@soonergrunt: HIRE. A. CONTRACTOR. They gotta eat too.
mr. whipple
That’ll make ya walk in circles.
soonergrunt
@Martin:
That’s awesome.
mr. whipple
There’s possible falls, broken neck..
reciprocating saw, amputated limbs
electrical work electrocution
and a hole saw involved, coring wounds
as well as more screws to be driven. we know that story!
Hope yer premiums are current :)
soonergrunt
@Yutsano: What? And risk somebody else getting hurt on my property? ;)
Actually, I just might do that for the bathroom vent. That way the electrical work is done by a pro, and I won’t wake up in the middle of the night worried, even though it’s basic wiring.
General Stuck
@Kathryn:
Here is the link to my flickr page. When I start posting new hummer pics, leave a comment, and I will help you best I can to get a technique down.
suzanne
Mark and I got some Calphalon nonstick bakeware for our wedding, not even a year and a half ago, and the Teflon is already wearing off one of the pans. I do use a Scotch-Brite on it when I need to, but I am really friggin’ displeased. I don’t even bake that much. Lame.
WaterGirl
@soonergrunt: Ow, ow, ow. I read your post, at which point my face scrunched up in horror, and then I read all the replies, and I can’t seem to stop my face from scrunching up, still.
When I am reading BJ, I often think how glad I am that you are still with us after your health scare earlier this year, but it never occurred to me to suggest that you not drill metal through your arm into your bone.
I have to say, though, your understated delivery is reminding me of Cole’s post the day he screwed up his shoulder. You guys are something else. Good thing you are such a good healer.
suzanne
@soonergrunt: I do all the home repairs around here (yes, I was the one who came to the relationship with the power tools), and I never touch anything electrical. Too much can go wrong, and the fuckups aren’t funny, like they are with plumbing.
Corner Stone
@suzanne: Teflon is bad. Really freakin bad, unless you’re a Mafia Don.
MikeJ
@General Stuck: Saw a hummingbird in my backyard in the fall, so I rushed out to get a feeder. Saw two over the winter, and none in over a month.
Hope that as warm wx returns I’ll get a shot. At ’em.
Martin
@soonergrunt: Well, in carpentry, most injuries happen during production work. Once you stop thinking about what you are doing, that’s when you start leaving fingers on the table saw.
Now that you’ve gotten that little reminder of what cutting corners can do to you, I expect the roof job will go much more attentively and safely.
Two tips:
1) get some roof brackets. They’re little metal doodads that you nail under one of your shingles, and you stick a 2x6x whatever length in them. Serves as a barrier for anything you might drop (hammer, drill, etc.) from sliding off the roof. Including you. They’re cheap. You install them a foot or two up from the eaves.
2) If you get on the roof with a ladder, tie it off at the top so it can’t slip or fall over. Just run a largish eyehook into the wood up there and tie the ladder off. It’s hard enough to haul your crap up if your ladder is shifty.
If you’ve got a steep roof or you’re on the 2nd floor, get a harness. It’s worth it. Using saws and whatnot when you’re off balance is really asking for it.
Kathryn
@General Stuck: I love this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxpecker/4998922609/
It’s just that you couldn’t see this at all without the photography. And you got it so sharp all the way across, and it’s such an amazing angle. I’ll be watching for when you start the new season. It’s too early here, usually they migrate back in around May 1 in NJ. Do you ever get the juveniles flying in to the feeders? Thanks for the help.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: I always tend to see hummingbird moths which are pretty cool but I wouldn’t mind the real deal every now and again.
asiangrrlMN
Stoopid March Madness. Harrumph. Oh well. Go, Butler!
@Yutsano: Hi, hon. How you be?
Kathryn
@General Stuck: Thanks, bookmarked. And btw, charlie is adorable but looks a bit overwhelmed by the blizzard.
Mark S.
The RNC is $20 million in the red so here’s the new idea:
Why don’t they just sell tickets to their debates? Maybe do some cross-promotion with the WWE?
soonergrunt
@Martin: I’ll remember all that. Like I said though, I think I might hire this one out simply because it means screwing with the electrical, and I get nervous about that. I probably shouldn’t worry about it, because I’ve done ceiling fans and such like, but I still get nervous about it. I put ceiling fans in my kids’ rooms, and both times I read, reread, and read again the instructions, and checked, rechecked, and triple-checked the work before I turned the power back on, and have had nary a problem in five years, but whenever I’m in either of their rooms, I look at those fans and a tiny creeping feeling of doubt edges up.
General Stuck
@Kathryn:
Yes, there are a few hummers already here, and I will put up feeders in the next few days. they are all adults of four different species, and not in great numbers. Almost to the day every year, around July 1The fledglings show up in high numbers and more adults that were tending them, and it is quite a show with lots of hummers flying around.
Mark S.
@Mark S.:
Whoops, if anyone cares, here’s the link to that article.
Corner Stone
@suzanne: Hey, didn’t you one time say something about a great place to eat in PHX? Chinese or Japanese fusion with something?
I’ll be in AZ shortly and thought I may have time to check it out.
Roger Moore
@General Stuck:
You’re presumably running at whatever the X-sync speed for the camera is. X-sync is as fast as you can practically go, and is usually around 1/250 for a higher end camera. If you’re getting most of the light from the flash, though, the real “shutter” is from the speed of the flash, which can be much, much faster than any mechanical shutter.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
Alright, alright. Let’s just settle down and stow that kind of talk.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: The back may have finally done the big adjustment on its own so now all that’s left is residual soreness and stiffness. Hopefully that all sorts out by Monday.
I’m wondering how much of the news optimism about the shutdown is bullpuckey throwing. It seems like whenever it’s about to pass they do all doom and gloom stories and now they’re all chipper and happy about things.
@Corner Stone: Great dim sum place on Sundays called the Golden Buddha. It’s in the Chinese Cultural Center downtown. Serious nom and pretty authentic too.
Corner Stone
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Bastards.
suzanne
@Corner Stone: Ohhhhh yes, the Chino Bandito! Chinese/Mexican/Caribbean fusion. One in north Phoenix, one in Chandler. Was on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, and some of the food is spicy enough that you’ll be feeling it later. Friggin’ delicious.
General Stuck
@Roger Moore:
Thanks, I don’t know all the specs and had to do trial and error to start getting decent pics, and confusing with the flash and manual focus.
asiangrrlMN
@soonergrunt: Dood. I just read your story. OUCHIE! Glad it was relatively-minor. But, seriously. OUCH!
@Yutsano: I’m glad your back is better. I don’t understand the whole we’re shutting down, no, we’re not bullsheetrock, either. You just tell me when we need to start pinching pennies, and I’ll stop buying the caviar.
@General Stuck: Your link to your Flickr page went to the main page of Flickr. You fix. I want to see Charlie.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Corner Stone: The real bastards here are the AP. Trying to jinx my White Sox.
At least no one is trying to Jenks them this year.
Corner Stone
@suzanne: Sweet. Thanks for that. My dad lives south of Tucson but I sometimes arrive in PHX for bidness, and I have been meaning to ask you about that again.
Martin
@soonergrunt: Hiring out is never a bad idea if you’re uncertain. I hired out the vent in the kids bathroom. Let someone else drill a hole in the roof and try and work in the coffin sized space in the attic there. I’ll do the stuff that I don’t mind doing.
Roger Moore
@suzanne:
Why would you ever need to use Scotch Brite on teflon? If it’s working right, the stuff should come right off. Should. I haven’t cooked with teflon in about a decade, since I got better cookware. I’d rather have something hard that I can clean with an abrasive if I really need to.
asiangrrlMN
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): TWINS! ALL THE WAY! AL CHAMPS!*
*onlytobesweptbytheyanksinthefirstroundoftheplayoffsagainsigh.
Corner Stone
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Nope. In 2005 they swept my Astros. Fargin War!
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore:
Me too baby. Testify!
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Joe Mauer shall indeed break my heart yet again. And he still ain’t married.
soonergrunt
@asiangrrlMN: The worst thing was the time. Six hours in the ER. And they do every possible thing they can think of doing. A freaking sonogram to make sure the arteries were OK. I’m like “well, it’s not fountaining blood like when I was 17, or swelling my arm up, and my capillary refill in my finger nails is normal so why do we need a sonogram? And if I didn’t lose any feeling in my arm, hand, or fingers, do I really need a neurosurgery consult? I talked him out of that on the condition that I would call my doctor the instant I had an abnormal feeling in my arm.
Corner Stone
@Yutsano: Of Phoenix ?
I freakin’ love dim sum. That sounds like a two-hitter for me next time I’m in AZ.
suzanne
@Roger Moore: Well, it’s obviously cheap crap. That’s what we get for registering at Target. But even I am shocked by how crappy the cheap crap really is.
@Corner Stone: Ohhhh, enjoy. The atmosphere is shit (think folding tables from Costco) but the food is great. Half-hour lines at the counter are not uncommon. Make sure when you go that you tell them it’s your first time, and they’ll give you an array of samples.
Gin & Tonic
@suzanne: Scotch Brite is a tool of the devil, far too abrasive. If you need to scour, use a plain sponge and kosher salt.
Kathryn
@asiangrrlMN: Here’s the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxpecker/
suzanne
@Yutsano: Is that place good? My new job is just down the street from there. Shall have to investigate.
I had to give up Chino Bandito during the pregnancy b/c I couldn’t handle any spice. I tried eating it once since she’s been born and it was still pretty rough. I’m working up my tolerance so I can eat there again. I miss it.
Corner Stone
@suzanne: I kind of like the idea of it being my first time.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: He’s just playing the field. You know. There’s a local restaurant that is a Pan-Asian restaurant that does a great dim sum. VERY tasty. But their tripe was bland. The only disappointment.
@soonergrunt: Holy caca. That is a lot of time. And, still, I’m glad you got it checked out. And, you WILL call the doctor if your arm starts swelling like a balloon, yes?
Yutsano
@Corner Stone: Oh yeah. Good friend of mine introduced me to it when I went to go visit a few years ago. When I went for my friend’s wedding last year I insisted on going there before I got on the plane. Worth every single bite.
@suzanne: Only done the dim sum, never ordered off the menu, but the stuff I’ve had I enjoyed immensely. If you’re that close I recommend a stop in. And also the supermarket next door. I’ve never seen such good quality produce for about a third of the price.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@asiangrrlMN: Truly, the Sox nemesis. I think we went 3-15 last year. Oy.
@Corner Stone: The ‘stros? Oh, man. It’s going to be a long season for y’all, I hear. My condolences. I hope you crush the Cubs.
asiangrrlMN
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):Yeah, we OWNED you last year. But you know what? It’s getting pretty dingdang old to lose to the figging Yankees in the first round of the playoffs every Fu Shnicken year.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Wink wink nudge nudge say no more. He’s an awful damn rich bachelor now too.
Roger Moore
@General Stuck:
If you’re getting serious with the flash, you might want to go manual with everything- shutter, aperture, and flash strength. With digital, you can take practice pictures to dial all that stuff in. That way you could set your aperture to something conveniently small, like f/11, that would give you a bit more depth of field and help you with the focus. As long as the distance to the hummers is relatively constant- which it should be with a feeder- it should work OK.
General Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
oops, that’s strange, I checked it after I posted it. Looks like Kathryn has the right link up. sorry.
General Stuck
@Roger Moore:
I will try that. thanks again.
Wil
@Yutsano:
I happened to be in Phoenix some months back (what. a. Shithole.) and actually went to that Chinese cultural center, and the Golden Buddha place had been shut down by the health department.
Yutsano
@Wil: Apparently something else I need to be pissed about thanks to Sheriff Joe. Wow. They did a really decent business there and had for years. I’m hoping it was just something like a hepatitis outbreak since that just requires sterilizing everything and testing all the staff.
asiangrrlMN
@Kathryn: Fanks. I needed a dose of snowy Charlie.
@General Stuck: Charlie is just such a cutie. I love how calm he is in the snow.
@Yutsano: Yep. Quite the catch. You ever come to my town, I’ll try to take you to a game, even though I am very much against the stadium.
Parallel 5ths, I’m glad you got the Jewish back in your ‘nym.
Corner Stone
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Totally looong year. Again. That fucking Drayton won’t shell out to buy a pitching staff. We’ve got a mainly young crew of bats but pitching is gonna be a two man rotation with not much help in between.
We’re already 0-2 and my buddy is ready to take the long walk.
I’ll still enjoy a few games because it’s such a great park to watch ball in, and reasonably affordable for someone like me who works in downtown Houston.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@asiangrrlMN: grits teeth. grumbles. “can’t get past the yankees. aw. how sad.” mutters dark imprecations on the soul of Ron Gardenhire
Speaking of FTMFY:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-yankees-handsignals&active_dimension=carousel_coke_today&ysp_frm_woah=1
Corner Stone
@Wil: Ouch. And that was why I asked to be clear, because my experience of PHX is that downtown is not a nice place to find yourself.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@suzanne: I’m the opposite. Electrical work is easy, draw a good wiring diagram, test everything to make sure you’re know what you’re connecting to, hook up black to black and white to white. Unless it’s a switch with black-as-white.
Two rules: use the circuit tester every time you touch a wire, and don’t have a beer until you’re done.
Plumbing now, I always contract out. I am totally unable to put stuff together without leaks. Dunno why, but I finally figured it out and gave it up.
Yutsano
@Corner Stone: The Mariners are 2-0. I have no idea how that happened.
@asiangrrlMN: I suppose I could go sneaking around in hotels when the Twins come into town. Though that pushes the scandaluth quotient for me pretty high.
Roger Moore
@suzanne:
My first round of “better” was cheap, too. I got a set of used Corning Visions cookware from a coworker who was moving and a Lodge cast iron skillet. I think I wound up paying about $40 for all of it. I can’t use the Visions cookware with my new induction range, but the skillet is still my go to pan for just about everything. Those things never wear out. You won’t hear people fighting over who inherits grandma’s teflon pans, but they’ll argue about the cast iron ones.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Corner Stone: One-Eighth Of Astros Payroll Goes To Players Not On The Team Oh, dear.
@Yutsano:
No, no. The Twins play in Minneapolis. Duluth is much further north.
Har!
Corner Stone
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Some of the most wicked juice I found was hooking it up white to black.
YMMV.
asiangrrlMN
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Bwahahahahaha. Poor baby. *snicker*
@Yutsano: It’s Joe figging Mauer. I think you can go outside your normal boundaries of proprietary for him.
Corner Stone
Where is Keith G when I need him? He should be here helping us figure out all this cooking dilemma bs.
asiangrrlMN
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Zing! Nice. You know your MN geography!
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@asiangrrlMN: Alas, the summer tour is canceled. I have to have surgery. Pleurodesis
My damn lung keeps collapsing.
Duluth is a beautiful city.The SF of the North, as they call it
Wil
@Yutsano: It was about 9-10 months ago so maybe the problem is fixed. We went by there on the recommendation of someone who likes that place a lot, and when we told her they’d been closed, she said, “Damn, they’re always getting closed down,” in the way you’d say that if you meant, “They aren’t kissing the right asses” so they get targeted all the time.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a non-WASP non-white trying to keep a business open in the great (Shithole) state of AZZ these days.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Corner Stone: Not sure why you would have done that, but that’s why you draw the ladder (wiring) diagram over and over and over.
My most interesting move was hooking up a switch wrong. Finished up, went down to the basement to flip the breaker, came back upstairs, flipped the switch.
Blue flash. Not a good sign, generally. But at least it’ll trip the breaker.
asiangrrlMN
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Oh no! That’s sucky. And, scary. And, strong vibes that the surgery will go swimmingly. When is it?
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Roger Moore: Yeah, I like stainless steel. Still using the Revereware my mom gave me in the 70s.
Corner Stone
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
I was talking “sexually”. I meant I had a great relationship with a young lady who happened to be African American, and I’m white.
We.Got.It.On.
Oh, and ETA, no diagram needed. She knew where it all went. Thank the FSM.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Ki o tsukete kudasai. And take a laptop if you have to do an overnight stay.
@asiangrrlMN: Hell I could even get over my anti-marriage kick for him. And I’d have to move to Minneapolis. Grady Sizemore does have the advantage of being a local boy.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@asiangrrlMN: In May most likely. Whenever I can get various employees/friends to cover for me the month or so I will be recuperating.
The doc says it’s not dangerous surgery. Just very, very painful. I’ve put it off as long as possible, but now is the time, before my insurance runs out.
I will be homebound for weeks on end. I will haunt every thread until everyone is well sick of me. I might have to start trolling Redstate or something to keep my spirits up.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
Take screen shots. It could get epic.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Ugh. Grady does not appeal to me at all. You can haz. You know how there are the Grady’s Ladies? Well, when we had Johan Santana, I dubbed one of my character’s Johan’s Woman. It’s a visual rhyme. Her friend was Torii’s Houri.
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Trolling Redstate? Let me know if you do. I would LOVE to read your trolling. The surgery does not sound like it’s gonna be fun AT ALL. My sympathies.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: The Grady’s Ladies thing makes me giggle to no end. The man can cook and often does for himself. Now maybe we need to test Joe Mauer’s culinary skills. I already know he’s capable of mocking himself.
Wil
@Corner Stone: Actually I did research and find a good little taqueria (after just a few hours in PHX I knew I’d lose my mind if I had to spend ten days eating at chains).
It’s here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/pancho-taqueria-phoenix-2#query:taqueria
It’s on a corner and has an above ground pit-style grill out front (if that makes sense).
Try the cabeza, they did an awesome job with it when I was there.
There are other taquerias in that neighborhood that looked good, but I was dependent on others for wheels.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: Arigato. I have some doc friends at this particular hospital. I will let them fuss over me and review my charts etc.
I’ll at least have my phone on me and give live updates…nothing too gruesome, though. Promise.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Oh when I get my hips done I fully plan as much liveblogging as I can muster. I’m gonna be in the hospital for 7-10 days. I gotta do something to not go completely mad. I suggest you take full advantage of your down time. And thank the FSM for FMLA.
@Corner Stone: Cabeza is a popular Mexican delicacy. I can’t bring myself to eat it although I’ve had many Mexican friends try to talk me into it.
Corner Stone
@Wil: Are you telling me to try the “head”?
Because I wil totally do so.
Roger Moore
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Unfortunately, the older stainless doesn’t work either. The big drawback of current generation induction ranges is that they only work with magnetic cookware. So cheap cast iron and carbon steel work fine, and newer stainless that deliberately uses some magnetic stainless (usually 18/0 instead of the more popular non-magnetic 18/8) will work. But the older stainless pots like your Revereware (and my one old Revereware pot) won’t work. It’s still enough of an advance that it’s worth getting new cookware to work with it, but it’s kind of a drag. They’re supposed to be working on a newer generation of ranges that will work with anything metallic.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano:
@asiangrrlMN: Inspired by you-know-who, I’ve experimentally tried a little trolling at my local rag and on fb.
Trolling is HARD. It’s difficult to maintain a right-wing voice. It’s easier to channel my younger, lefty self and subject my interlocutors to every type of Marxist purity test.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): It’s not that hard actually. Just read up on the talking point of the day and stick to it regardless of facts or situation. Then get defensive and insulting when called on it. Voila! Instant right-wing troll!
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: Hips? Both of ’em? Degenerative arthritis? Yikes. You’re too young, whatever it is.
My granny (the French speaking one)had to have one replaced. A horse rolled over her in the 60s and she toughed it out for 20 years until she just couldn’t take it anymore.
asiangrrlMN
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel):
@Yutsano:
Wot Yutsy said. Pick your point and just stick to it, facts be Damascus figged. Though, if you’re trolling Redstate, your idea may work better.
arclite
@MizB: MizB, Yer too cool.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: Hmm. That’s the kind of tutoring I need. I was getting all method acting. Over-thinking.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Avascular necrosis. If you know any Latin you’re wincing right now. Nasty side effect of the steroid regimen I was given awhile back. And no it does not make me happy to be suffering the same disease as Bo Jackson. I MIGHT be able to get away with having my femoral heads smoothed out, but as that doesn’t solve the underlying problem (lack of blood supply) the only solution is new hardware. I did get referred to a guy who’s an expert on replacing parts in younger folks, so there’s that.
(Edited for proper attribution. FYWP.)
Wil
@Corner Stone:
It’s meat from the head…typically cheek and other parts of the face and head.
It’s delicious….more tender than carne asada, but without the sponginess that tongue often has. Great in tacos and tortas where you can really appreciate how tender it is. Not so much in things like burritos because its delicacy is (or can be) covered up by other textures.
The only thing to watch for is if you order it from a place that is mostly frequented by gringos…well, they don’t usually know to order stuff like that, so the cabeza you get may have been in the freezer a loooong time. But if you go to a place in a hispanic neighborhood that looks like it gets its fair share of (non-gringo) traffic, you ought to be good to go.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: Oh, man! That is a straight drag. I’m so sorry. Whatever is the least invasive alternative, fingers crossed.
It’s too bad I don’t still live in WA, maybe we could get a group rate on hospital beds.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): Well I always tell folks if you can’t get to the Mayo Clinic go to Seattle. There is a shit ton of medical knowledge here and the doctors are all really good at referring to one another when necessary. I’ve never seen such a checking of ego in a medical community before.
Corner Stone
@Wil: A mi me gusta las taquerias, y quiero la cabeza.
Yo puedo hablar espanol todo noche. Quienes conmigo?
Corner Stone
@Yutsano:
Ah, but there is a fuckton in Houston.
Haven’t we established an escalation route?
Roger Moore
@Wil:
I’ll put in a good word for birria if they have it. Anglos have a strange reluctance to eat goat, but it’s really good. It’s almost the opposite of the cabeza in that its strong point is the robust flavor that can resist being drowned out by all the other ingredients in something like a burrito.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: Yeah, I can buy that. No offense to my local MD homies, but I’m always a little suspicious of a doc who chooses to live here. It’s not a bad community, but it’s crushingly dull and with scenery only a row of corn or beans could love. Good docs live in fun cities. Why the hell wouldn’t they?
Yutsano
@Corner Stone: I think we’re on some final glide path that ends in Not. Well. Either way I’m buckled in and I haz snacks.
Yutsano
@Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel): I am now under official obligation to inform you that Seattle sucks as a place to live. There is literally nothing to do here and it never stops raining. The traffic is terrible and the people are always total grouches. So why any doctor worth their salt would want to live here is beyond my ken.
(think he buys it?)
Corner Stone
@Yutsano: Let me tell you something really funny. (as in not me)
So I was in CHI recently, and a colleague was coming in from TOR. And his plane took off. And the landing gear wouldn’t retract! So they circled back round and landed back in TOR. And were all like, “Don’t pay any attention to the firetrucks and ambulances. Normal procedure.”
Still pretty awesome for my buddy.
Yutsano
@Corner Stone: Only had realy two scary expeiences on planes. One was landing in Portland with my family when all of a sudden the pilot kicks it into high gear and gains altitude FAST. When we approached the second time he announced there had been another aircraft on the runway where we were scheduled to land.
Other one was taking off from Phoenix. It was just after sunset and we were cruising upwards slowly after take-off. Then the plane starts shaking, and you can feel the tail of the plane suddenly getting higher than the nose. Then the pilot guns the engine and we all get slammed back in our seats. Told a friend later who’s an aircraft mechanic, and he told me the pilot most likely stalled. That could have ended badly as we didn’t have much clearance from the tallest buildings of downtown Phoenix.
I still lurve flying though.
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
@Yutsano: Mmm. To bed. I will dream of an Emerald City as I drift lazily on an ocean of Phở.
Wil
@Roger Moore:
Yeah, good birria is teh awesome.
Although I’d say the same thing as I said about cabeza….to be a little wary if you are at a place that looks like the last time someone ordered birria was six months ago….who knows what dusty corner they have to drag it out of.
But once you find a place that you know has good birria….yeah, goat is very flavorful…and it has a really interesting texture too. Feels good on the tongue. Makes me want to go to my favorite birria place right now…but unfortunately it’s in another state.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Wil: Check out Demeyer cookware. My Demeyer non-stick fry pan is over10 years old. It is oven and dishwasher safe.
Jamey
@Joel: Agreed. I have Calphalon, know how to use AND clean a f**king pan, and despise the stuff. It’s all show and no go–looks like it should be used with a Viking range–and that’s not a compliment… Calphalon simply does not clean well. I’ve never used the stuff on a heat high enough to smoke vegetable oil, and still, there’s an accumulating ring of gunk forming on these pans. Also, the handles are too skinny, which makes getting a good grip difficult.
Nothing beats le Cruset. Nothing. The older models (with the glossy cooking bottom) are incredible–I inherited my parents set, which they got as a wedding gift in the late ’50s–and nothing even comes close. Heavy stuff.
Rainy Day
I recommend YiXing teapots. They are works of art, but they are also affordable and make delicious tea. Here’s a link that shows you some of the many varieties:
http://www.yixing.com/index.html?featuredProduct=1
Alan
@Jamey:
I’ve been slowly building a cookware collection. I recently acquired a 7 1/4 quart Le Creuset French oven (Dutch oven) and love it. Between that and my Lodge 12″ cast iron skillet, I can’t think of anything else I need on top of the stove or in the oven. Cast iron is truly the best.
Comrade Mary
soonergrunt, I’m glad you’re OK, but man, this is the first BJ thread I’ve read with my eyes closed.
And the swapping of stories, guys? Really? Reads like this.
WaterGirl
@Comrade Mary: Yeah, Soonergrunt’s was bad enough, but when I read about Martin nailing his foot to a board it was “step away from the blog” time for me, and I went to bed.
You gave me a laugh with your comment and your link, though.
Two questions for you… have you taken your Vitamin D today? (had to say it)
and
What’s the deal with the tegaderm bandages?
I have a reaction to the adhesive on regular bandaids so I have to use the tatoo bandaids for kids. I googled the tegaderm bandages after you posted about them yesterday, but I couldn’t quite tell. Are they kind of like the tatoo bandaids? But there’s no white part that covers the wound? These aren’t the like liquid bandaids, I hope, I couldn’t use those either. It looks like the tegaderms only come in something close to a 4×4 size, which seems too big for a bandaid size injury.
JR
@soonergrunt: A good friend of mine, very experienced with tools/building, managed to use a nail gun to attach his thumb to the palm of his hand! He whined, “Nobody (meaning neither his wife nor his daughters Nor his son-in-law) would pull the nail out, so I had to go to the emergency room!”
I luve my Paslode nail gun, no cord, no compressor, just a rechargeable battery and a tube of butane, pull the trigger and install a 16 or 8 just where you need it.
But hundreds of dollars for something to make water hot ?? That’s what the stove is for.
JR
I was personally glad to see UConn win and go to the finals, that means Big East conference is top dog, as opposed to the SEC.
Comrade Mary
@WaterGirl: Yep, took my sunshine meds today (in front of a friend who insists on rolling his eyes, but hey, he benefits when I’m less moody and distracted, right?) Keeping the bottle by my keyboard means I don’t forget them.
Tegaderm bandages are like a big piece of thin scotch tape, but with optimal adhesivity (that’s a word, right?). They stick well to the wounded area, expose the healing-nastiness to the gaze of the world, and allow the wound to breathe and heal without scabbing. They come in a variety of sizes and can be cut down, and removal is pretty painless.
I Googled some tattoo bandages and found they’re made by 3M and are branded as Nexcare. So I think they’re the same thing, just more decorative and possibly a little thicker. I want some!
WaterGirl
@Comrade Mary: The tattoo bandaids are kind of fun. There used to be two brands, but now I can only find Nexcare, so they must have put the other guys out of business. (other ones were more fun, with wild animals and such)
I looked on amazon and it seems like you have to buy a million of them at once, like a box of 100. Does that sound right to you, or am I looking at the wrong thing?
P.S. Elbow your friend for me. No eye-rolling allowed.
Comrade Mary
You can buy Tegaderm (also branded as Nexcare) one box at a time at any decent drugstore. No Armageddon-level of stockpiling is required. Amazon seems to stock the hospital packages, not the consumer product.
Here’s the package of 6 bandages I got from the Shoppers Drug Mart across the street. (Your package will be in English only — sorry!).
WaterGirl
@Comrade Mary: Yay! Thank you.