Hope your team wins.
Saturday Morning Open Thread
Beautiful day here, and despite being pessimistic this morning, I’m in a great mood. Good day for cleaning, football, some video games, and soup. A few quick notes:
1.) My email finally overwhelmed me. I had several thousand messages in my account, many of which are unanswered, in no small part because you idiots keep signing me up for crap I can not or will not read (like the daily updates from Michelle Bachmann and David Vitter). Please stop it. I don’t care for updates from Phyllis Schlafley. I really don’t. At any rate, I was so overwhelmed I just deleted everything, including the trash, so if you sent me an email and I did not answer, I never will unless you send it again.
2.) When I upgraded to Windows 7, I lost all my pet pictures. In other words, feel free to send pics of your pets so I can post them, as I have none.
3.) A little bit of barley goes a long way. I had a ginormous pot of beef soup the other day, and at the end put about a half to a cup of barley in. Holy sweet jeebus does that stuff expand and suck up fluid. It gave it the soup great texture, but I had to add more broth and stock. How come no one has made paper towels out of barley? Couldn’t you dump barley on oil slicks and soak it up? Again, sweet jeebus.
Have at it.
Friday Night Open Thread
Hard core dork tonight- Monk, White Collar, and a lot of Dragon Age, which I will tell you is by far the best RPG ever made by Bioware. Even better than KOTOR.
Dropping the Ball
Look, I know unemployment is over 10%, there was a shooting in Texas and another in Florida, the Republicans just staged a hatefest on the Capitol steps, and Afghanistan is still an issue, and Health Care reform is moving forward slowly, but what happened to all the hard hitting journalism we are used to?
There are serious questions that need to be answered. How many women were at Obama’s basketball game today? Did he sneak a smoke? What do Michelle Obama’s arms look like today? Aren’t there any anonymous sources out there who will tell a reporter that the White House hates “teh left?”
Inquiring minds, folks. Do your damned jobs.
Open Thread
General Winfield Stuck, The odd couple.
Yutsano, honeybee.
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Morning Open Thread
I got nothing, and the news coverage is dominated by the shootings in Ft. Hood, and I don’t have anything to add to the speculation there.
I will say this, though- the speed with which Lily picks up anything even remotely edible and begins to chomp on it while I am walking her is frightening, and would lead a casual observer to think she had never been fed once in her life. I’m beginning to understand the term “trashhound.”
Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu Edition
Your weekly soul- and tummy-warmer, thank you Bad Horse’s Filly:
it’s always good to have a soup recipe on hand for when the cold weather returns. And there’s nothing better on a cold night than Creamy Potato Cheese Soup.
On the board tonight:
(1) Cream of Potato Cheese Soup
(2) Orange-Walnut Spinach Salad
(3) Pear and Sour Cherry Crisp
Click the blue text for recipes and shopping list. Mmm, taties & cheez!
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