Growing up, in Bloomington, we had a liquor store called 7-8's because the phone number was 888-8888. They answered the phone, "seven eight's." We would yell, "nine ten," and hang up. We thought we were sooooooooooo funny.
NICHOLAS OTTO IS EIGHT! And may you never be late to your own birthday party, would be an unexcused tardy! When you're my age you'll be a wise sage, And, I hope getting "here" will be a life full of cheer!
I do believe there are many recipies for this in the Whittemore cookbooks...
The vinegar and a stick of butter are to encourage the meat to fall apart yet stay tender, not stringy... which is why you need to drain it once it's cooked.
I have been without a stove for two days and will continue without one for the remainder of the week. The end result will be crown molding and a tile back splash. Yea!
Forrest Whetaker plays Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" Des said it's very good, it hasn't come to Omaha yet..."Borat" is at the dollar theatre, it looks funny. Tonight are the Golden Globes, I remember when I was on, for a few seconds!
Eventually, robots will have to be given legal rights (and accept certain responsibilities) if advances in artificial intelligence (AI) continue to create sensitive quasi-organisms, according to a paper solicited for Sir David King, the UK's chief scientist. According to one AI researcher, "If (robots are) granted full rights, states will be obligated to provide full social benefits to them including income support, housing and possibly robo-healthcare to fix the machines over time." A December Financial Times report on the paper noted that robots might also have to pay taxes and be available for military service. (Some of the ideas in the paper track visions described years ago by writer Isaac Asimov.) [Financial Times, 12-19-06]
Happy Birthday! Do you get to stay home from school because your birthday is a national holiday?
I think most robots will become so specialized and so unlike humans (except for novelty servo-quasi-humans for self-indulgent rich people) that even the advances in AI will not create "thinking" beings as we think of them. But we will have nanobots floating around in our bloodstreams keeping us healthy (and under surveillance if Dick Cheney has his way.) and self-driving cars so we can sleep on the way to work.
Happy Birthday to Nicholas Otto! Now you live 1 1/2 hours away from us. Maybe Zane and Braden and Ty can play some time - after the weather clears up...
We saw Borat. Some hideously funny moments, some pretty hideously gross ones, no real surprises. No blood, guts, or gratuitous violence but some extremely gratuitous nudity (think a naked fight between Borat and his 300-lb. sidekick) Given the choice again (from what was at the dollar show), I think I'd choose the Will Farrell movie. Da Bears pulled it out again! I didn't watch all the second game on account of watching Jack Bauer save the world. Guess I'll have to skip the Golden Globes tonight for the same reason.
Yah, it took us TWO hours to understand why they call it 24. We kept wondering why it was called 24...when it seemed to span, only, the course of 1 hour...I think we decided that the season is a series of 24-one hour shows. Man, confusing. (laughter)I know...the whole world knew that except for us! Ha, ha. All this being said...we loved it! Although, it is pretty far fetched that Jack was able to do all that he did in 120 minutes! I haven't done, nearly, that much in 38 years. Furthermore, the torture that he can endure...yet still save the world and run all around New York! I'm sorry...but, one of those kicks to my head...and, I'd be dead.
Ah man we thought you were eight One more year 'til that awesome fate Seven is fun and you'll enjoy it best Try to forget that we flunked the test What test you say?...the one about you being eight.
Nicholas Otto you're seven, not eight? We must get to the bottom of this faulty post date! There can't be mistakes As you blow out the cake! Ask your Dad if this was ever his fate!!!
Aren't those ice bows called sun dogs? Or something like that? Or am I thinking of the patches of light on either side of the sun which also mean impending cold weather...
It's 8 below this morning. I put the key in the ignition of my out-doors-kept car and it turned right over. WHY DON'T THEY MAKE OLDSMOBILES ANYMORE? HOW COULD AMERICA HAVE REJECTED THAT?
There was a news trailer this a.m. said many of the school buses wouldn't start, so if your kids have been waiting more than 10 min. there should return home...well, many parents are already at work..I wondered how the kids would know! It's -0 here too.
Schoolbuses in CB were stalling because the fuel was jelling. They don't have cardboard covering up 3/4 of the grille to keep the engine heat in, that's why. We're having a hearty bean-with-leftover-veggies-and-meat soup tonight with cornbread. It's in the crock pot and it already smells good. Come on over.
Lisa, I think they supposd Yuppies wouldn't buy a car that started with "old"...that's why they tried the commercials "it's not your Father's oldsmobile", etc..
We can not get the superbowl here. Mediacom( our cable provider) and the CBS station showing it are in a big fight. Mediacom has pulled CBS affiliate here. What to do? Not that I really care, but is the only pro football game I watch all year. Sometimes I'll watch part of a Packer game.
I guess that's why they killed the Taurus too. Too solid and dependable and average. Florida and the Bahamas are starting to sound pretty good right now. Any feedback on the Golden Globes? I only saw the last part because of watching Jack fail to prevent the detonation of a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. But there's four more out there somewhere. If employers everywhere would play the soundtrack of "24" during the work day, I think it would cause their employees to rush around working fast with a sense of urgency and impending doom. Then the employers could have nice quiet offices where they talk calmly and kindly and their employees would think they had the best boss in the world.
Yes Yes - as said as it sounds, Lord John Browne is retiring as CEO of BP. He was "Lorded" (which is like being Knighted, but better) when he completed the merger with Amoco. At the same time he also added an "e" to the end of his last name.
He had said he wanted to resign at the end of like 2008 I think, but I guess everyone thought it would be better if he retired earlier.
Here is a excerpt from a news story on a report that came out today:
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--An independent panel set up to review BP PLC's (BP) refinery operations in the U.S. Tuesday said it found "significant" problems at five refineries and said company goals, such as cost-cutting, often overrode safety concerns at its plants.
The report, commissioned in the wake of a deadly March 2005 blast at the Texas City refinery, found that although BP aspires to be a safe company, it hasn't provided effective process safety leadership in making certain its management and U.S. refining workforce understand what is expected of them regarding process safety performance.
"Significant process safety culture issues exist at each refinery, not just the Texas City facility," said the panel, chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker.
It's probably the guy who was supposed to take fingerprints at dad's office. He never showed up b/c he couldn't find a ride. Any cable company that doesn't show the superbowl is run by morons.
Actually I feel bad for the cop. He kindly gave a guy a ride across the bridge on a very cold night and somehow when he was out of the car letting the guy out of the back, the guy slipped around him, jumped into the front and drove off. I bet he'll never do that again.
Jack Bauer is tougher than Chuck Norris. I don't know if there's room in his world for a sidekick, except for the wonderfully sullen and scowly Chloe. I hope they don't soften her up too much.
We have updates running across the bottom of our tv screen promising to let us know about the mediacom situation, I think with us it's Fox also. No real information, just lots of information letting us know they'll update the information.
I watched most of the Golden Bears, I mean Globes...the little blonde girl on stage the globe girl was Jack Nicholson's daughter...Forrest Whitaker won for best actor, his speech was the best because he cried! Ugly Betty star, America, won best actress in a tv show, she also was very genuine. I didn't like Tom Hanks intro for Warren Beatty...it was tacky (kept mentioning balls) but Warren twice reconized his wife in a very sweet way. Cameron Diaz wore white, which is better with her new dark hair. Meryl Streep's speech was very good and clever, nice dress. Hottest guy, nice suit...Jake Gyllenhall!
I've never watched 24. But I'm gonna guess Jackie Chan is tougher than Jack Bauer. I watched him leap up a two story wall like a spider in one of his older movies over the weekend. Wouldn't you love to be in a movie with Jackie Chan? Every day you'd go to work thinking, "What is he gonna do today? I can't wait to see it!"
Cathy, I just put my a roast inot my new crock pot, thanks for the reminder, now, I'm off to work. I was at the airport with my frind last night for a "pickup", plane was delayed, I got home at 1:30. Of couse all the bars at the airport were closed, we just sat and waited! Last night we had frozen entrees (lean cuisines) for dinner, and I got mad at Mike because he was eating right out of the plastic (sorry Mike) at least I pour it out onto a plate and light a candle! We always defy the calorie count, because after about 10 minutes we heat up 2 more!
I think the Hamburger Helper commercials where they show a family of FIVE and say, "One pound, one dish, one family," is so lame. Tom, easily, eats an entire HH meal.
Ryan eats like that, too. If I ask him if he wants a salad, he says no, but if I make it for him and put it in front of him, he eats it. I have to sneak vegetables into his system so he lives long enough to take care of me when my bones start to snap from osteoporosis.
BAck to the person who couldn't sleuth through Stevo's office: Was northwest Iowa too far away from Des Moines for DCI to do investigative work on who left Dad the not-quite-written-in-blood threatening letter?
Jackie Chan is best because not only does he do cool stunts, he also admonishes the characters in his stories to be nice to each other. This advice is given to everyone from mean street gangs to organized crime. And a line in every movie is sure to be, "you got the stuff?"
This weekend we made fish tacos. SO Yummy. Here's how:
Rub tilapia with chili powder and salt, let sit while you make the slaw. For the slaw, get a bag of shredded cabbage, squeeze a lime or two over it, add some olive oil, plenty of fresh cilantro, green onions, finely diced plum tomatoes, and we also added finely diced red pepper. Grill your tilapia, then fill a soft corn tortilla with all the goodies and some shredded cheddar and jack. Top with a hot sauce if you like. I prefer cholula, not tabasco. Very easy, very healthy and very very good.
Newsflash: Update on the stolen cop car: Monday night Council Bluffs police answered acall about a naked man running around in the snow. When the officer got out of his car to apprehend the guy, he shouted, "I'm the one who stole your car!" and ran around to the passenger side of the cop car and tried to enter through the passenger-side front door. The police chased him around a while, finally tackled him, tazed him which seemed to have no effect, but finally got him cuffed and bundled into the back seat. They are describing him as a "person of interest" in the cop car theft of Saturday night.
Again. Jackie Chan might be "better" but Jack Bauer is tougher. Within 4 hours of being sprung from a Chinese torture dungeon where he was held for 6 months, without even getting to take a shower, he shaved off his prison beard in a basin of cold water without getting any shaving cuts, sacrificed himself to a terrorist who made a deal with the US to be able to kill him, escaped (after more torture) when he found out the terrorist wasn't going to honor the deal by biting a guard to death in the throat while handcuffed, talked the president into halting a major anti-terrorist operation to let Jack do it alone, saved an innocent kid, made a deal on behalf of "the West" with a former terrorist, shot and killed a friend who was about to kill the former terrorist, cried (he was weakened by his 6 months of Chinese torture and jet lag) and helplessly watched the explosion of a suitcase nuke. This is by 10:00 AM on the day he landed at 6:00 AM after being sprung from the Chinese torture dungeon. He quit his job at the anti-terrorism unit which will simply allow him to save the world unfettered by rules and regulations, but I bet he'll still be able to call the president on his cell phone whenever he wants. And he's not afraid of Chloe. He's TOUGH.
Amazing how his voice came back to him within minutes of his release.
I couldn't believe his luck in regards to the lap top. Here a grenade explodes in the storage locker...with the lap top inside...and, the most recent, "blah, blah, blah," was saved and alerted them to the prisoner that was about to be released and build a nuclear bomb! God help me if I dripped some diet coke on MY key board...I would, probably, lose everything!
Well, we didn't watch 24 last night, we watched Toy Story which Jude very much enjoyed. On Saturday night we watched Narnia, which was too scary for Jude but was really good and makes we want to go buy the set of books and read them all again. I think I actually had a crush on Aslan when I was a kid. I was so jealous of Lucy.
Jim, Erin and Co. I am glad you made it back to IA. How are the kids adjusting? And Happy Birthday Otto!
Jack makes his own luck. I forgot the whole part about tracking down the prisoner and coordinating a raid on the storage locker place. And from that four hours you can subtract time for commercials. Lucky for Jack the streets of Los Angeles never have traffic jams.
Yeah Lisa, what letter? Why does Randy always slink away while I'm taking the kids to school? He needs to eat a healthy breakfast. It's the most important meal of the day.
Mary how's your friend? Ellen had a friend die in a car accident on Friday. A 15 year with a school permit. He strayed over the center line and ran into a pickup. The ones in the pickup walked away.
He wasn't a super good friend but they talked to eachother a couple of times a week. I guess he donated almost all organs that could be. That makes it seem a little better. Saving lives for his. All her frieds went ot the wake tonight and then they came over here. They all had headaches from crying. They quickly recovered when Joe made hamburgers and fries for them.
Tom that is excellent news. I'm sure it is a big relief.
Monica...I'm curious how it works...his parents made the decision, right, because of his age, I think that is such a brave thing to do, when you're mourning the loss of a child.
Not to disrespect, but as a parent your situation is unique, because now you can say..."wear your seatbelt...don't drive fast, etc..."
I doubt if Ellen will argue about wearing her seatbelt. They enacted the seatbelt law when I was in H.S. and it was def. not "cool" to wear your seatbelt. But after my friend, Kathy Rahm, died nearly everyone in H.S. started wearing it. Now, we still would do plenty of other stupid things in the car, but at least we were wearing our seatbelts.
I think my kids always wear/wore theirs. I mean, it wasn't a cool or not cool thing to do, they just automatically did it. And most of their friends too. I could be deluded.
When you put that little "God forbid" incantation in the middle of imagining the worst, which we all do, it reminded me of a conversation we had in staff one day. It was about how if you say "God bless her (or him)" you art free to express your negative feelings about someone in parishspeak, as in, "Elaine, God bless her, rearranged all the Social Hall kitchen cabinets and locked up the punchbowls." or "Don, God bless him, gave an anti-abortion lecture during the Rosary before Mass on Saturday. He's a pain in the ass." It acknowledges their (usually) years of service to the parish but lets you say how you really feel. Then because everyone nodded during the God Bless, they can add a few more zingers about that particular person or subject. Parish staff:nice, but not too nice.
Sad about Ellen's friend. But youngsters won't all be better drivers or more careful because of that. In the last 18 months, 19, yes 19 teens have died in my county while driving. all from 3 area high schools. After the first couple of accidents you keep thinking, well, kids will be more cautious now, but more and more accidents kept happening. Some speeding with too many in the car, some drinking and driving. In IL you can't get any kind of permit before 16, and when I tell people in IA you could get a work or school permit at 14, they gasp. I remeber dad making us put on our seatbelts all the thime when we were really young, but since I've been old enough to drive, seatbelts are automatic. Thank dad.
Oh, I also found out that parents can go to the driver's license facility and ask that their child not be allowed to get an IL driver's license until the age of 18. No reason has to be given. What great leverage.
89 comments:
Happy Birthday Nicholas Otto.
Why are people afraid of seven?
Because seven eight nine.
Happy Birthday, Nic.
Wow, can't believe you're eight
Always thought that you were great
Enjoy your special day
Run, skip and play
Glad you're in our state!
Growing up, in Bloomington, we had a liquor store called 7-8's because the phone number was 888-8888. They answered the phone, "seven eight's." We would yell, "nine ten," and hang up. We thought we were sooooooooooo funny.
I wonder if their still in business?
they're
NICHOLAS OTTO IS EIGHT!
And may you never be late
to your own birthday party,
would be an unexcused tardy!
When you're my age
you'll be a wise sage,
And, I hope getting "here"
will be a life full of cheer!
Happy Birthday and welcome back just in time for winter!
Happy Birthday Otto! Are you enjoying the snow? You moved just in time.
Hey, Nicholas Otto!
It snowed just for your birthday! Go have some fun!
Regarding bbq beef and pork.
I do believe there are many recipies for this in the Whittemore cookbooks...
The vinegar and a stick of butter are to encourage the meat to fall apart yet stay tender, not stringy... which is why you need to drain it once it's cooked.
I have been without a stove for two days and will continue without one for the remainder of the week. The end result will be crown molding and a tile back splash. Yea!
So if I unplug my stove can I get some crown molding?
I can't wait to see it, Lisa.
Forrest Whetaker plays Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland" Des said it's very good, it hasn't come to Omaha yet..."Borat" is at the dollar theatre, it looks funny. Tonight are the Golden Globes, I remember when I was on, for a few seconds!
Eventually, robots will have to be given legal rights (and accept certain responsibilities) if advances in artificial intelligence (AI) continue to create sensitive quasi-organisms, according to a paper solicited for Sir David King, the UK's chief scientist. According to one AI researcher, "If (robots are) granted full rights, states will be obligated to provide full social benefits to them including income support, housing and possibly robo-healthcare to fix the machines over time." A December Financial Times report on the paper noted that robots might also have to pay taxes and be available for military service. (Some of the ideas in the paper track visions described years ago by writer Isaac Asimov.) [Financial Times, 12-19-06]
I'll take robo-healthcare!!! Me first!
Ed, I never use the term "united kingdom" ...is it used often at work?
Happy Birthday! Do you get to stay home from school because your birthday is a national holiday?
I think most robots will become so specialized and so unlike humans (except for novelty servo-quasi-humans for self-indulgent rich people) that even the advances in AI will not create "thinking" beings as we think of them. But we will have nanobots floating around in our bloodstreams keeping us healthy (and under surveillance if Dick Cheney has his way.) and self-driving cars so we can sleep on the way to work.
Happy Birthday to Nicholas Otto! Now you live 1 1/2 hours away from us. Maybe Zane and Braden and Ty can play some time - after the weather clears up...
We saw Borat. Some hideously funny moments, some pretty hideously gross ones, no real surprises. No blood, guts, or gratuitous violence but some extremely gratuitous nudity (think a naked fight between Borat and his 300-lb. sidekick) Given the choice again (from what was at the dollar show), I think I'd choose the Will Farrell movie.
Da Bears pulled it out again! I didn't watch all the second game on account of watching Jack Bauer save the world. Guess I'll have to skip the Golden Globes tonight for the same reason.
Why would you drain a perfectly good stick of butter?
Ok - put Fleishman's in instead. Save the real butter for you english mufffin.
Yah, it took us TWO hours to understand why they call it 24. We kept wondering why it was called 24...when it seemed to span, only, the course of 1 hour...I think we decided that the season is a series of 24-one hour shows. Man, confusing. (laughter)I know...the whole world knew that except for us! Ha, ha.
All this being said...we loved it! Although, it is pretty far fetched that Jack was able to do all that he did in 120 minutes! I haven't done, nearly, that much in 38 years. Furthermore, the torture that he can endure...yet still save the world and run all around New York! I'm sorry...but, one of those kicks to my head...and, I'd be dead.
It all takes place in one 24-hour period. The whole season. When Jack Bauer says "I had a helluva day at work today" he's not kidding.
Hey -
Who wants to go to the Creighton/Drake game in Des Moines on Sat. Feb. 3rd? The game starts at 7:35.
I am gonna go.
I'll go, but only if you hold my hand.
I wanna hold your hand...
We have 3 1/2 to 4 inches of very fluffy snow. I'm leaving work early to go home and shovel it while it's easy. It's sparkly.
thank you!
I am seven years old not eight. The snow was not sticky so I could not have a snowball fight.
Ellen Jayjack cut her hair. It's cute. She looks almost 21.
Ah man we thought you were eight
One more year 'til that awesome fate
Seven is fun and you'll enjoy it best
Try to forget that we flunked the test
What test you say?...the one about you being eight.
HAPPY >>SEVENTH<< BIRTHDAY! NICHOLAS!
Nicholas~ Ask your Mom for a spray bottle with water in it. That will help you make snow balls.
I'll play waitress! Eli and Liam can bartend! :-<> :-)
Nicholas Otto you're seven, not eight?
We must get to the bottom of this faulty post date!
There can't be mistakes
As you blow out the cake!
Ask your Dad if this was ever his fate!!!
Aren't those ice bows called sun dogs? Or something like that? Or am I thinking of the patches of light on either side of the sun which also mean impending cold weather...
It's 8 below this morning. I put the key in the ignition of my out-doors-kept car and it turned right over. WHY DON'T THEY MAKE OLDSMOBILES ANYMORE? HOW COULD AMERICA HAVE REJECTED THAT?
There was a news trailer this a.m. said many of the school buses wouldn't start, so if your kids have been waiting more than 10 min. there should return home...well, many parents are already at work..I wondered how the kids would know! It's -0 here too.
Where's Veterans Hill?
Schoolbuses in CB were stalling because the fuel was jelling. They don't have cardboard covering up 3/4 of the grille to keep the engine heat in, that's why. We're having a hearty bean-with-leftover-veggies-and-meat soup tonight with cornbread. It's in the crock pot and it already smells good. Come on over.
Lisa, I think they supposd Yuppies wouldn't buy a car that started with "old"...that's why they tried the commercials "it's not your Father's oldsmobile", etc..
We can not get the superbowl here. Mediacom( our cable provider) and the CBS station showing it are in a big fight. Mediacom has pulled CBS affiliate here. What to do? Not that I really care, but is the only pro football game I watch all year. Sometimes I'll watch part of a Packer game.
I guess that's why they killed the Taurus too. Too solid and dependable and average.
Florida and the Bahamas are starting to sound pretty good right now.
Any feedback on the Golden Globes? I only saw the last part because of watching Jack fail to prevent the detonation of a small nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. But there's four more out there somewhere. If employers everywhere would play the soundtrack of "24" during the work day, I think it would cause their employees to rush around working fast with a sense of urgency and impending doom. Then the employers could have nice quiet offices where they talk calmly and kindly and their employees would think they had the best boss in the world.
We're still trying to find out who the cop is. They seem to be trying to keep it a secret.
Yes Yes - as said as it sounds, Lord John Browne is retiring as CEO of BP. He was "Lorded" (which is like being Knighted, but better) when he completed the merger with Amoco. At the same time he also added an "e" to the end of his last name.
He had said he wanted to resign at the end of like 2008 I think, but I guess everyone thought it would be better if he retired earlier.
Here is a excerpt from a news story on a report that came out today:
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--An independent panel set up to review BP PLC's (BP) refinery operations in the U.S. Tuesday said it found "significant" problems at five refineries and said company goals, such as cost-cutting, often overrode safety concerns at its plants.
The report, commissioned in the wake of a deadly March 2005 blast at the Texas City refinery, found that although BP aspires to be a safe company, it hasn't provided effective process safety leadership in making certain its management and U.S. refining workforce understand what is expected of them regarding process safety performance.
"Significant process safety culture issues exist at each refinery, not just the Texas City facility," said the panel, chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker.
You're only as good as your last disaster.
It's probably the guy who was supposed to take fingerprints at dad's office. He never showed up b/c he couldn't find a ride.
Any cable company that doesn't show the superbowl is run by morons.
Actually I feel bad for the cop. He kindly gave a guy a ride across the bridge on a very cold night and somehow when he was out of the car letting the guy out of the back, the guy slipped around him, jumped into the front and drove off. I bet he'll never do that again.
Jack Bauer is tougher than Chuck Norris. I don't know if there's room in his world for a sidekick, except for the wonderfully sullen and scowly Chloe. I hope they don't soften her up too much.
We have updates running across the bottom of our tv screen promising to let us know about the mediacom situation, I think with us it's Fox also. No real information, just lots of information letting us know they'll update the information.
I watched most of the Golden Bears, I mean Globes...the little blonde girl on stage the globe girl was Jack Nicholson's daughter...Forrest Whitaker won for best actor, his speech was the best because he cried! Ugly Betty star, America, won best actress in a tv show, she also was very genuine. I didn't like Tom Hanks intro for Warren Beatty...it was tacky (kept mentioning balls) but Warren twice reconized his wife in a very sweet way.
Cameron Diaz wore white, which is better with her new dark hair.
Meryl Streep's speech was very good and clever, nice dress.
Hottest guy, nice suit...Jake Gyllenhall!
I've never watched 24. But I'm gonna guess Jackie Chan is tougher than Jack Bauer. I watched him leap up a two story wall like a spider in one of his older movies over the weekend. Wouldn't you love to be in a movie with Jackie Chan? Every day you'd go to work thinking, "What is he gonna do today? I can't wait to see it!"
Jackie Chan may be more athletic, but Jack can torture a guy if he has to. Who would you rather send into Mediacom to deal with the morons?
During prime time, too. He's a scorched-earth kinda guy.
Don't say, "Prime Time," around us.
During family time.
Cathy, I just put my a roast inot my new crock pot, thanks for the reminder, now, I'm off to work. I was at the airport with my frind last night for a "pickup", plane was delayed, I got home at 1:30. Of couse all the bars at the airport were closed, we just sat and waited!
Last night we had frozen entrees (lean cuisines) for dinner, and I got mad at Mike because he was eating right out of the plastic (sorry Mike) at least I pour it out onto a plate and light a candle!
We always defy the calorie count, because after about 10 minutes we heat up 2 more!
Mary, do you remember in Sioux Falls when we would buy those and Stevo and Mike would come home and each eat about three or four of them?
Tom eats an entire family size Encore brand macaroni/beef hot dish.
I think the Hamburger Helper commercials where they show a family of FIVE and say, "One pound, one dish, one family," is so lame. Tom, easily, eats an entire HH meal.
If you eat foods high in protein you'll feel full longer.
Ryan eats like that, too. If I ask him if he wants a salad, he says no, but if I make it for him and put it in front of him, he eats it. I have to sneak vegetables into his system so he lives long enough to take care of me when my bones start to snap from osteoporosis.
Eight is a good age to have your first beer.
or, vodka.
BAck to the person who couldn't sleuth through Stevo's office: Was northwest Iowa too far away from Des Moines for DCI to do investigative work on who left Dad the not-quite-written-in-blood threatening letter?
Jackie Chan is best because not only does he do cool stunts, he also admonishes the characters in his stories to be nice to each other. This advice is given to everyone from mean street gangs to organized crime. And a line in every movie is sure to be, "you got the stuff?"
Mmmm salad. Just like candy.
This weekend we made fish tacos. SO Yummy. Here's how:
Rub tilapia with chili powder and salt, let sit while you make the slaw. For the slaw, get a bag of shredded cabbage, squeeze a lime or two over it, add some olive oil, plenty of fresh cilantro, green onions, finely diced plum tomatoes, and we also added finely diced red pepper. Grill your tilapia, then fill a soft corn tortilla with all the goodies and some shredded cheddar and jack. Top with a hot sauce if you like. I prefer cholula, not tabasco. Very easy, very healthy and very very good.
I love fish tacos...yours sound healthier, most the restaurants here fry the tilapia.
Newsflash: Update on the stolen cop car: Monday night Council Bluffs police answered acall about a naked man running around in the snow. When the officer got out of his car to apprehend the guy, he shouted, "I'm the one who stole your car!" and ran around to the passenger side of the cop car and tried to enter through the passenger-side front door. The police chased him around a while, finally tackled him, tazed him which seemed to have no effect, but finally got him cuffed and bundled into the back seat. They are describing him as a "person of interest" in the cop car theft of Saturday night.
Cathy, these stories involving the CBPD are so funny. Still no leads on the break - in to Stevo's office?
Again. Jackie Chan might be "better" but Jack Bauer is tougher. Within 4 hours of being sprung from a Chinese torture dungeon where he was held for 6 months, without even getting to take a shower, he shaved off his prison beard in a basin of cold water without getting any shaving cuts, sacrificed himself to a terrorist who made a deal with the US to be able to kill him, escaped (after more torture) when he found out the terrorist wasn't going to honor the deal by biting a guard to death in the throat while handcuffed, talked the president into halting a major anti-terrorist operation to let Jack do it alone, saved an innocent kid, made a deal on behalf of "the West" with a former terrorist, shot and killed a friend who was about to kill the former terrorist, cried (he was weakened by his 6 months of Chinese torture and jet lag) and helplessly watched the explosion of a suitcase nuke. This is by 10:00 AM on the day he landed at 6:00 AM after being sprung from the Chinese torture dungeon. He quit his job at the anti-terrorism unit which will simply allow him to save the world unfettered by rules and regulations, but I bet he'll still be able to call the president on his cell phone whenever he wants. And he's not afraid of Chloe. He's TOUGH.
Jack was in the prison for 2 years.
No leads. They never showed up to take fingerprints, but as you can see, they've been busy.
2 years! And he never said one word to the Chinese while they had him. Tough.
Amazing how his voice came back to him within minutes of his release.
I couldn't believe his luck in regards to the lap top. Here a grenade explodes in the storage locker...with the lap top inside...and, the most recent, "blah, blah, blah," was saved and alerted them to the prisoner that was about to be released and build a nuclear bomb! God help me if I dripped some diet coke on MY key board...I would, probably, lose everything!
Wait a minute. What threatening letter? When was this? What was it about?
Threatening letter...you mean the lap top dealer? You talkin' to me?
Well, we didn't watch 24 last night, we watched Toy Story which Jude very much enjoyed. On Saturday night we watched Narnia, which was too scary for Jude but was really good and makes we want to go buy the set of books and read them all again. I think I actually had a crush on Aslan when I was a kid. I was so jealous of Lucy.
Jim, Erin and Co. I am glad you made it back to IA. How are the kids adjusting? And Happy Birthday Otto!
Jack makes his own luck.
I forgot the whole part about tracking down the prisoner and coordinating a raid on the storage locker place. And from that four hours you can subtract time for commercials. Lucky for Jack the streets of Los Angeles never have traffic jams.
I'm asking Lisa about the threatening letter.
I just had a Ghirardelli dark chocolate square with caramel inside. Salads aren't like candy.
Yeah Lisa, what letter? Why does Randy always slink away while I'm taking the kids to school? He needs to eat a healthy breakfast. It's the most important meal of the day.
Mary how's your friend?
Ellen had a friend die in a car accident on Friday. A 15 year with a school permit. He strayed over the center line and ran into a pickup. The ones in the pickup walked away.
Monica was it a close friend? Emily had a good friend die in a car crash her senior year.
Tom, that is most excellent news.
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So sad and scary. A sobering reminder at how precious and fragile life can be. So sorry, Ellen. :-(
He wasn't a super good friend but they talked to eachother a couple of times a week. I guess he donated almost all organs that could be. That makes it seem a little better. Saving lives for his. All her frieds went ot the wake tonight and then they came over here. They all had headaches from crying. They quickly recovered when Joe made hamburgers and fries for them.
Tom that is excellent news. I'm sure it is a big relief.
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Monica...I'm curious how it works...his parents made the decision, right, because of his age, I think that is such a brave thing to do, when you're mourning the loss of a child.
Not to disrespect, but as a parent your situation is unique, because now you can say..."wear your seatbelt...don't drive fast, etc..."
I doubt if Ellen will argue about wearing her seatbelt. They enacted the seatbelt law when I was in H.S. and it was def. not "cool" to wear your seatbelt. But after my friend, Kathy Rahm, died nearly everyone in H.S. started wearing it. Now, we still would do plenty of other stupid things in the car, but at least we were wearing our seatbelts.
I think my kids always wear/wore theirs. I mean, it wasn't a cool or not cool thing to do, they just automatically did it. And most of their friends too. I could be deluded.
If one of my kids died, God forbid,
I would donate their organs. At least I would know a part of him/her was living on somewhere in somebody.
Yah, I can't imagine, "why," someone wouldn't.
When you put that little "God forbid" incantation in the middle of imagining the worst, which we all do, it reminded me of a conversation we had in staff one day. It was about how if you say "God bless her (or him)" you art free to express your negative feelings about someone in parishspeak, as in, "Elaine, God bless her, rearranged all the Social Hall kitchen cabinets and locked up the punchbowls." or "Don, God bless him, gave an anti-abortion lecture during the Rosary before Mass on Saturday. He's a pain in the ass." It acknowledges their (usually) years of service to the parish but lets you say how you really feel. Then because everyone nodded during the God Bless, they can add a few more zingers about that particular person or subject. Parish staff:nice, but not too nice.
Sad about Ellen's friend. But youngsters won't all be better drivers or more careful because of that. In the last 18 months, 19, yes 19 teens have died in my county while driving. all from 3 area high schools. After the first couple of accidents you keep thinking, well, kids will be more cautious now, but more and more accidents kept happening. Some speeding with too many in the car, some drinking and driving. In IL you can't get any kind of permit before 16, and when I tell people in IA you could get a work or school permit at 14, they gasp.
I remeber dad making us put on our seatbelts all the thime when we were really young, but since I've been old enough to drive, seatbelts are automatic. Thank dad.
Oh, I also found out that parents can go to the driver's license facility and ask that their child not be allowed to get an IL driver's license until the age of 18. No reason has to be given. What great leverage.
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