Thought I’d start off this year with my currently favorite song (sorry for the ads):
And yes, I am still looking at my December calendar. Time to move on to the new year. They seem to come faster as time goes on. Life is like a roll of toilet paper – the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
Don’t know that it gives me much comfort, but it seems to be true!
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OK, here in about 8 hours I expect to be notified that I won the baby contest.
Date…………Shift 1…………..Shift 2…………Shift 3………..…Shift 4
…………….Midnt-6 am…..6am-noon…..….noon-6pm………6pm-midnight
1/2………..Bonecrusher………Tedtam….………OH4……………El Gordo
1/3……………Adee.……….…Shannon………Katfish………………..OH4
1/4…………Mharper…………..Texmo………Bonecrusher………Mharper………..
1/5……………..Hubby…………Tedtam…..…….Hubby………..
1/6…………Texanadian……..SuperD………….SuperD……………….
1/7…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
I’ve been trying to limit the dates in a show of solidarity for Lovely, but since we’ve lost two days from the original start of the baby pool, I’m reluctantly adding Jan 7th as a possible delivery day. Sorry, honey.
She is sooooooooooooooo ready to have this baby!
Tissue alert. Man saves abandoned church, and is saved from cancer.
Good morning again Hamsters. Still damp, chilly, and gloomy, however we’ve made it to 50 now. Golly.
So how is LD doing this morning? And does winning the baby contest involve any duties for the winner? Guess we should have asked that. 🙂
Winner gets bragging rights. I can’t afford a gift!
LD did share with me that she had one contraction last night.
One.
She waited for more, but no dice.
Harry Reid has broken bones. I suspect he ticked off one of his union buddies, myself. I notice that the press release doesn’t specify the type of exercise equipment that broke.
#5 TT
Could have been gas.
🙂
You calling my daughter a gas bag??? 😉
#7 MHarper
I promise you it wasn’t gas.
Oh no! I did not know that LD would see my comment. Now I’m running around with my hair on fire!
🙂
#6 TT
I notice that the press release doesn’t specify the type of exercise equipment that broke.
I heard it was a blow-up girlfriend doll. And not the first time he’s been banged up.
#6 Tedtam
The Lord moves in strange ways….
Just like the Polar Vortex follows AlGore wherever he goes.
The comments to that article are clever and hysterical. Great entertainment and most aren’t ugly. Can forgive the ugly ones that likely come from folks who have and still truly suffer from his presence as Senate Majority Leader.
You just know there will be comedy skits somewhere on this.
Tedtam’s article link (from NYT no less) says it was an elastic exercise band that snapped and he fell over backwards. That happening could certainly result in him hitting himself in the face.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It had to be an elastic collision in the physics sense as well as the proximate cause. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
#10 Mharper
Oh no! I did not know that LD would see my comment.
She likes to lurk, just to keep an eye on me and make sure I don’t get (too far) out of line.
The plethora of available straight lines BEGGING for snarky retorts has me headed for the local E.R. to get stitches in my tongue! *evil grin* 🙂
WOW – who tripped over the power cord to the server?
It was him! /pointing
Kevin Sorbo shares a joke:
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels .
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says,
‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, Given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3. I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?’
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.
I think I remember an email recently telling me that bluehost was doing some hardware upgrades at some time. I guess that happened.
I think the long season of Christmas ads is finally over. When does the long season of sad doggie commercials end? I thought they ran concurrent.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Greg Ward threw three touchdowns in the final 3:41 of the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, two after Houston recovered onside kicks, and completed a game-winning 2-point conversion as the Cougars beat Pittsburgh 35-34 with an improbable comeback Friday.
Pitt (6-7) led 31-6 when ACC offensive player of the year James Conner had his second touchdown run with 14 minutes left in the game.
Houston (8-5) went on to the biggest comeback in an FBS game this season, and the third-largest ever in a bowl game.
It is really important for the Rs to start acting like they are in the majority and put a stop to this sort of thing.
WOW – who tripped over the power cord to the server?
It was him! /pointing
Twren’t me, I think it was Tim. 😉
Before wagonburner blames me….
It was me.
I thought that cable was a snake.
I thought that cable was a snake……..Hoe or shovel? 😀
.410
I told SD that beer wasn’t gonna sit up there.
Harry no reach around Reid probably had a hot date with Pelozi, forgot his Viagra and was so excited to try and ______________ his pen_s pump blew up injuring him.
His or hers Felipe?
🙂 Panzón.
Pea soup fog and thunder in the barrio. Weird.
Well Elly Mae has gone off to that big cement pond up in the sky. She was one of my favorites growing up. R.I.P.
The thunderstorms came through in a hurry. A real gullywasher heavy rain for maybe 30 mins, but that may be it for tonight. We saw the diffused lightning flashes in the south, hearing distant thunder, then within just a few minutes the rain was beating down on us.
P L E N T Y MORE precip a comin before that last wave of energy passes by mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmebbe by lunchtime tomorrow
I was just looking at what I could see on Doppler radar south of me and headed my way… I don’t doubt there will be more tomorrow, but it’s not visible to me now.
T-storms and a panicked German Shepard here in Sugar Land. Might as well see what is on the telly this time in the AM.
Saw this at the Boat Show. Gotta get one for the boat.
The brunette in the leg chair either just woke up or can barely stay awake. Wish she would trade chairs with the hottie in the little red dress.
Good soggy morning Hamsters. Well we apparently have escaped thunderstorms right over us but heard the racket at a distance early this morning. Not exactly balmy 46 and breezy with mostly dripping trees rather than rain at the moment complete the rather dismal scene. Rumor has it sunshine will return some time tomorrow.
Still raining here, and I’m afraid if I walked across the back lawn to empty the gauge, I might sink in up to the ankles.
If you’d like a treatise on the warped morality and complete disconnect from reality of the modern “progressive” look no further.
They are following Distelmans to Auschwitz, they say, to learn more respect for their fellow human beings. In Auschwitz they intend to find out why the right of the individual to decide over his own life is inalienable — and why people must be absolutely free to make their own decisions in this respect. Auschwitz, they say, is the antithesis of everything that they hope to achieve, and they are seeking to reflect there upon what it means to kill out of humility and love.
Radar indicates the rain is fast moving NE. It’s already way past our immediate area north of Richmond, and there’s nothing coming from the west. Dare we hope it’s over for a few days? Hark, there’s a thinning of clouds to the east with some bright spots poking through. And the gloom isn’t so dark.
Rain gauge has a half inch in it from yesterday through this morning. Was able to read it thanks to no large puddle in front of it on the driveway and it being mounted on a fence post about a foot back from the edge of the concrete. Had it been in the yard, rubber boots would be needed to get to it.
The Chron is drying out section by section draped over sundry items inside the house. It was not double bagged this morning and landed in a puddle. Numerous attempts to get the ever-changing line of new carriers to put it in the newspaper holder next to the mailbox have a 90% failure rate. Maybe that’s because it’s a Houston Post holder? Ah, a relic of the past when there actually was a real newspaper in Houston. 🙁
A hack that’s possibly useful
And a hack that’s a useless useful idiot.
#45 Phil: Your 2nd was of the Orange Skinned Lying Bastige; henceforth OSLB.
Heartcrusher left to go back up to Urbana, Ill. at approx 0200 this am. As of about 10:00 she was an hour from Little Rock, Ark. She has been in the rain pretty much the whole time. Prayers for her safe trip would be appreciated.
#43 Hamous
Difficult and repulsive as this article is, one needs to read the entire piece to fully absorb the enormity of the insane disconnect present in the euthanasia advocate’s mindset. Particularly noxious is the theme of this outing that boils down to looking at the worst degradation of humanity they can think of to prop up their firmly and not so firmly held self images as kind, helpful, and humanitarian instruments who place their patients on the Rainbow Bridge for the journey the patients profess to desire.
The troop leader, who apparently is notorious for his craft of euthanasia (which he defines as meaning the good death), seems to credit or blame attendance at a Jesuit school for setting him on the eventual road to atheism in adulthood. Obviously the Jesuits don’t preach atheism…. Anyway it strikes me that it’s a whole lot easier to convince yourself that this is good (despite confining moral codes) if you don’t believe there’s a higher power to confront you in the day of reckoning at death.
Sometimes, 2 sentences is all it takes.
My two sentence horror story: “The populace continued in its illiteracy, ignorance and selfishness. Thus, Obama was elected for a third term.”
…boils down to looking at the worst degradation of humanity they can think of to prop up their firmly and not so firmly held self images as kind, helpful, and humanitarian instruments…
That’s what I took away too. The whole concept is so bizarre that it makes it incomprehensible. What next? Abortionists traveling to the scene of Manson’s Tate murders to find out why the right to abortion is inalienable?
Just heard a cool line on Gunsmoke:
“Move that gun just one more inch, and I’ll kill you.
Just for practice.”
Never heard of a hat gun. Is that like a hat pin?
-20 here today.
No baby yet?
Barf Kitty was really clingy this morning.
Until she barfed.
Three times.
/sigh
Fixed the hat gun. /rolling eyes
No baby yet. Lovely says she’s still “two in one”.
Hubby and I are feeling like today’s the day. That could just be wishful thinking, though.
Heartcrusher is less than 20 miles from crossing the Mississippi at Cairo, ILL. on her way to Champaign ILL.
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels .
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says,
‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, Given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3. I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?’
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.
I’m getting deja vu all over again. . . . .
43
Disgusting.
Just an update since everyone is betting on the birth…
I have eaten spicy food at least once a day since Tuesday, but I also have a high tolerance for spicy food.
I bounce on an exercise ball for about an hour a day, off and on.
I chase a toddler around all day.
And we just walked about a mile and a half.
Still, no consistent contractions….this one looks to be stubborn as the first one so far.
Just heard the bad news. The Obamas’ vacation is over and they are headed back.
I have a feeling that traffic is going to be particularly gnarly this coming monday morning in Houston.
Heartcrusher has safely arrived in Urbana Ill. That is one long wissin trip.
Still, no consistent contractions….this one looks to be stubborn as the first one so far.
Have you thought about a Palomino? 😉
#65 Bones, I’m glad that your Baby Girl made it back OK, I’m betting that she went through some bad weather, I hope no/not much snow.
SO, what is that big, bright, blinding ball of fire that I see in the west?!?!…….HUMMM thinking back,….OH! Yup, that’s it!! THE SUN!!!! Not seen that sucker since Christmas!
#63 El Gordo
Gee, maybe they’ll take the long route back and stop over in Nork so Obama can give the Un one a piece of his mind about Sony.
#67 SD: It rained the whole wissin way. No snow, some fog, ground mist and lots of road spray. Basically a real nasty long trip, but relatively easy sans the boredom and loneliness of doing it alone. I called her several times to try and break up the monotony.
I finally squished out to the fence to empty the rain gauge. 1.1″ for yesterday and this morning. I was packing up the Christmas display this morning — restricted to the mantel wall in our family room, so not a big operation. But I didn’t even notice when it finally stopped raining.
Interesting article. Kids really can’t use computers…and other implications.
A teacher phones my office, complaining that his laptop has “no internet”. I take a walk down to his classroom. He tells me that the internet was there yesterday, but today it’s gone. His desktop is a solid wall of randomly placed Microsoft office icons. I quickly try and explain that the desktop is not a good place to store files as they’re not backed up on the server, but he doesn’t care; he just wants the internet back. I open the start menu and click on Internet Explorer, and it flashes to life with his homepage displayed. He explains that the Internet used to be on his desktop, but isn’t any more. I close I.E. and scour the desktop, eventually finding the little blue ‘e’ buried amongst some PowerPoint and Excel icons. I point to it. He points to a different location on the screen, informing me of where it used to be. I drag the icon back to it’s original location. He’s happy. He can’t use a computer.
/snip
Not really knowing how to use a computer is deemed acceptable if you’re twenty-five or over. It’s something that some people are even perversely proud of, but the prevailing wisdom is that all under eighteens are technical wizards, and this is simply not true. They can use some software, particularly web-apps. They know how to use Facebook and Twitter. They can use YouTube and Pinterest. They even know how to use Word and PowerPoint and Excel. Ask them to reinstall an operating system and they’re lost. Ask them to upgrade their hard-drive or their RAM and they break out in a cold sweat. Ask them what https means and why it is important and they’ll look at you as if you’re speaking Klingon.They click ‘OK’ in dialogue boxes without reading the message. They choose passwords like qwerty1234. They shut-down by holding in the power button until the monitor goes black. They’ll leave themselves logged in on a computer and walk out of the room. If a program is unresponsive, they’ll click the same button repeatedly until it crashes altogether.
/snip
When it became apparent that computers were going to be important, the UK Government recognised that ICT should probably become part of the core curriculum in schools. Being a bunch of IT illiterates themselves, the politicians and advisers turned to industry to ask what should be included in the new curriculum. At the time, there was only one industry and it was the Microsoft monopoly.Microsoft thought long and hard about what should be included in the curriculum and after careful deliberation they advised that students should really learn how to use office software . And so the curriculum was born.Schools naturally searched long and hard for appropriate office software to teach with, and after much care they chose Microsoft Office . So since 2000 schools have been teaching students Microsoft skills (Adobe skills were introduced a little later).
/snip
Windows 7 (I hate 8, but that’s another story) and Mac OS X are great operating systems. They’re easy to use, require almost no configuration, include or provide easy access to all needed drivers, and generally ‘just work’. It’s fantastic that everyone from the smallest child to the eldest grandparent can now use a computer with absolute minimal technical literacy, but it’s also a disaster. It didn’t used to be like this. Using an OS used to be hard work. When things went wrong you had to dive in and get dirty to fix things. You learned about file systems and registry settings and drivers for your hardware. Not any more.
I’m certainly no computer whiz, but compared to the examples in this article, I’m a wissin’ computer genius.
When I was on the board of a civic org in my part of town, I tried to work with a woman (younger than me!!!) that I needed to get some files from. She had no concept of files, folders, browsing, or any of that stuff. I witnessed her save an important spreadsheet to her “My Pictures” folder, because that was the current directory at that instant. When I tried to explain it to her: total incomprehension. She sent me the membership list, which turned out to be totally corrupted. She had “sorted it” in some defective manner which resulted in a random jumble of names and addresses.
I still remember my amazement when a VICE PRESIDENT asked for computer support because she couldn’t read her Excel spreadsheet.
I couldn’t either – it was all gibberish.
Then I realized – we were working in Word.
My next problem was how I explained she was an idiot without losing my job.
I want to be this cool when I get to be her age!
/still grinning
1976
I have to admit I kinda like The Avett Brothers, but man, what a bunch of hipster dufuses. Watching them on ACL now.
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels .
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says,
‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, Given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3. I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?’
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels .
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says,
‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, Given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3. I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?’
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.
After trying many brands of coffee makers over the years I decided years ago that the good ol’ Mr. Coffee just couldn’t be beat. But this last one has been a disappointment. It is really slow and the warmer doesn’t keep the coffee hot enough.
I thought someone on the couch may have a recommendation.
No bells and whistles, please. Just auto shut off.
I’ve had a Cuisinart for seven or eight years and it’s worked great. It does have one whistle. I like grinding my own beans and it’s got a built-in grinder. I’m sure they make them without that.
80 Shannon
After buying coffee makers and grinders all across the cost spectrum, I finally became disgusted with the higher end. I went on Amazon Prime and looked at the cheapest drip coffee makers and bought a Hamilton Beach maker for $17. After 2 years, I bought another one as backup. I use a Cuisinart grinder I bought on sale for $19. It has worked fine everyday for 4 years.
Note: While the HB coffee maker has pause & serve, it doesn’t have auto shutoff. You could probably get that for a few dollars more.
Morning, everyone! Rise & Shine! Any babies yet?
Hey, I saw a great joke on FB late last night.
An old, blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels .
After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, ‘Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?’
The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.
In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says,
‘Before you tell that joke, Cowboy, I think it is only fair, Given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3. I’m a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
Now, think about it seriously, Cowboy. Do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?’
The blind cowboy thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.
#80 Shannon: We just got one of those new hipster douche Keurig 2.0 coffee makers. I will state for the record that I had absolutely no input into the decision. It uses those pods and makes one cup at a time. I love it, I can only drink one cup at a time and when I want another it is always fresh. It also shuts off after doing that one cup. When you want to do the next one just toss the old pod and shove in a new one. You can even adjust the strength and/or volume of the coffee. It makes a cup in about 60 seconds.
Shannon says:
JANUARY 4, 2015 AT 7:44 AM
After trying many brands of coffee makers over the years I decided years ago that the good ol’ Mr. Coffee just couldn’t be beat. But this last one has been a disappointment. It is really slow and the warmer doesn’t keep the coffee hot enough.
I thought someone on the couch may have a recommendation.
No bells and whistles, please. Just auto shut off.
I found that drip coffee makers have a problem with well water. Like Texpat, I’d buy the cheap ones, but only b/c that was the “disposable coffee maker” price. No amount of cleaning with vinegar and other miracle cures would prevent eventual calcification of the innards and a quick trip to the trash bucket and Walmart.
I gave in to the Keurig thing about two years ago when Significant Other gave me one for my birfday. If I’ve got to use distilled water, I might as well have the convenience of single cup brewing.
The price of the coffee is the main drawback. The goal of the guy who designed the dangting seems to be figuring out how to make people pay $50 a pound for coffee. But there’s about a kajillion different blends and flavors out there, some cheaper than others, and you can get a basket to replace the pods (but its a PITA to clean).
I got my Black and Decker 12 cup coffee maker several years ago at Wallyworld, and I think it cost around $7-$8. At the time I decided to get 2 of them since they were cheap – the second one is still in the box waiting to be called into service. I have contacted NASA and a few other scientific bodies to help explain how water (or coffee or other liquid) can run uphill, against the force of gravity every time I try to pour the liquid from the pot into the cup or more vividly demonstrated when trying to refill the water container on the coffeemaker using the coffee pot as the measuring device. No matter how careful I am, the liquid always comes out the proper place on the pitcher and proceeds to run down the edge of the pitcher to the counter top or the floor. When dumping water into the reservoir on the coffee maker, even when the pot is turned bottom side up, the liquid continues down (up) the side of the pot to eventually land on the counter top. This is one of life’s great mysteries for me – I hope that it can be understood before I pass.
Northeast New Jersey:
@ 4 PM Sunday – 60 degrees w/ heavy fog and rain
@ 12 midnight Monday – 20 degrees (+/-) clear
The weather swings here much of the time are like the Texas Gulf Coast.
I put water to boil on the cooktop while I feed the cats in the morning. Spoon some instant Maxwell House into a cup, amount depending on the size of the cup. I have a variety of small to huge cups for various types of days. Pour boiling water into the cup, stir, add aspartame packet and a splash of skim milk. Fire up hamous.org and get started on the day.
Full disclosure: I use Houston tap water, run into gallon jugs and kept chilled in the fridge to let any chlorine depart. So how many shibboleths have I violated so far: instant coffee; tap water; aspartame; skim milk. Bwa Haha Ha!
The ‘single serve’ just wouldn’t work for us. I take a large cup with me every morning so I don’t have to pay 75 cents to a buck and a half at the store for it.
#86 EG: Try taking the top off of the coffee pot. The top forms too small a spout and some of them even have a strainer type grid across the front of the spout opening (why I have no fargin idea) and that grid induces enough turbulence to make the water do wacky things. Also try not to pour so fast, they are only designed to fill a coffe cup, not the reservoir.
Good morning Hamsters. Sun is out—shock—with a determined north wind flying through that should help dry up the swamp some. It was 41 with the predicted fog absent at 6. Gonna be cold tonight.
Regarding the Keurig coffee makers, seems the company has a plan afoot to make sure you can only use their beverage pods in the newest models. They took offense at other coffee suppliers making their own pods that work in the Keurig machines and so to stop that the new machines now can read chips placed in the Keruig pods. No chip, no workie, thereby squeezing out everybody else. This understandably is causing a furor among Keurig owners, and potential owners are concerned about that feature as well.
Methinks the chip deal is going to boomerang, but I’m merely an observer as we don’t have one of those. Only a basic model Mr. Coffee comes out of the cupboard when company is staying with us. Spouse has a cup of instant Folgers in the morning at home, I have tea, and we rarely have coffee dining out. Do have a 12-cup percolator that dates from early marriage. But a dear friend has a Keurig model maybe 2 years old, and she is dreading when it fails as the chip deal is a big turnoff. And I give her great coffee pods from Door County Coffee and Tea in Sturgeon Bay, WI that she can use with no problem.
Shannon says:
JANUARY 4, 2015 AT 9:52 AM
The ‘single serve’ just wouldn’t work for us. I take a large cup with me every morning so I don’t have to pay 75 cents to a buck and a half at the store for it.
I ignore the little measuring dilly in the tank (in fact I have removed the thing) and just fill my coffee cup full of water to the level I want to drink, and pour it into the reservoir. I get exactly how much coffee I want, and its a pretty dang big cup.
There’s Community Coffee pods on the shelves that’s running @ $4.99 for 12 pods and its actually pretty good. “Donut Shop” coffee runs about $2.00 more.
ELGordo-
That the manufacturers of these units cannot produce a functional decanter has always amazed us. A ninety year old man has a faster stream than the pouring-rate design of these decanters.
Bones is right. You can pour slowly and cuss. Or pour too fast, cuss, and clean up the spills.
I just took apart one of the spent pods and I did not find a chip at all. Not in the coffee, not in the internal filter, not on the top foil, not inside the plastic cup between the plastic and the internal filter. The only thing I saw was some printing on the outside of the pod, melted into the plastic and I am assuming that is specific to the coffee, like where procured, packed roasted, etc.
One of the things that the K2 does is the spike to puncture the pod on the bottom is offset from the middle, I’m pretty sure the one on the top is in the middle.
#93 Shannon:
A ninety year old man has a faster stream than the pouring-rate design of these decanters.
Remember the good ole days when you could hit the urinal from 20 paces?
Her:
I thought everyone knew you’re supposed to slightly lift the decanter lid when pouring to avoid drips/spills. I don’t have a problem with drips/spills.
Me: glaring at her
$5 / 12 = .42 per cup.
Yikes.
It’s kind of like the insistence to put those frilly pads on the lid of the terlit, which then causes the seat to not stay up, thus forcing a male to have have to hold himself with one hand and the seat with the other.
We DO NOT HAVE those things in Casa Bonecrusher.
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… ‘No … not if I’m gonna have to explain it five times.
So far, it’s only my decanter with streaming problems.
Just say’n.
The first automated control of interconnected traffic lights was introduced in Houston in March 1922. Apparently the city has forgotten how it works. I caught every single red light on LaBranch and Crawford between Texas Ave and the Elysian viaduct today.
Still waiting….
Date…………Shift 1…………..Shift 2…………Shift 3………..…Shift 4
…………….Midnt-6 am…..6am-noon…..….noon-6pm………6pm-midnig
1/4…………Mharper…………..Texmo………Bonecrusher………Mharper………..
1/5……………..Hubby………Tedtam…..…….Hubby…………..Tedtam..
1/6…………Texanadian……..SuperD………….SuperD……………….
Not opening up anything past the sixth, in a show of solidarity for Lovely.
I see that if Arlington’s team wins today, they go on to play Green Bay.
I can’t even conjure up enough state loyalty to pull for Jerry’s kids in that match up.
Blame Adee.
#103 Shannon
🙂
#94 Bonecrusher
Keurig hasn’t done the chip thing on the market yet, but it’s on the drawing board in the new models. Suspect they let out that they were going to do it to get a reaction, which by now should be avalanche of no. Heard that on a business news segment recently and also from my friend who has the current model Keurig.
I see Louie Gohmert is throwing his hat into the Speaker’s ring.
He’d be a heck of an improvement over Boehner.
Alas, I believe it will be a boring as hell Super Bowl with Seattle slaughtering the pretty boy from Boston.
But be sure to keep it clean!
Shannon
Adee is correct. I commented about this here several months ago. When I saw major coffee companies signing up for licensing with Keurig last spring, I knew it wasn’t just a rumor.
Keurig’s patent on K-cup technology expired in 2013, which is why off-brand or refillable K-cup-style coffee pods have exploded all over the market since then. That’s also why Keurig’s fourth-quarter results for fiscal year 2013 suggested that up to 12 percent of all coffee or tea pods brewed in Keurig machines came from “unlicensed third-party” sources.
A cynic might suggest this proves that “brand loyalty” among Keurig drinkers isn’t as high as CEO Kelley would like to believe. Of course, right now all Keurig machines in existence work with any brand of properly sized pod, unlike the planned Keurig version 2.0 with its RFID-chip limitations.
Is the brand loyalty of existing Keurig drinkers high enough that they’ll pay for an “upgraded” machine that actually limits their options? CEO Kelley seems to think so; whether this means his advisers are wise pragmatists or brown-nosing yes-men is still up for debate.
#91 Adee
There is now a free attachment for the latest Keurig that prevents it from rejecting non-K cups. I saw it on FB but while looking for it again, I found this which claims you can just put tape over the sensor area.
Catholic girl’s worst nightmare.
Though the girl didn’t seem to be too worried about some of those commandments…
Hey, no one has criticized my choice of morning caffeine! Oh wait — Pyro hasn’t posted during the last 24 hours…
🙁
#111
I couldn’t stop laughing.
🙂
Be assured that those criticisms “go without saying.”
Not good enough, I want to read them!! Savor them!! It’s my right, dammit.
Okay.
When you decide to put on your big girl panties and drink some real coffee, we can fix you up.
😉
I didn’t see clowns.
And I don’t know if my favorite is the poopy monster or the rolling raccoon.
My real-life Catholic friend has posted this astonishing article on FB.
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/03/scientists-discover-aborted-baby-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/
I don’t have time right now to research this and find any other citations. I find it hard to believe. The placenta is supposed to keep all but the smallest molecules from travelling between mother and child. At least, that’s what was taught when I was a biology major.
I see the college football championship game will not be televised on broadcast TV.
I’m going to sue on behalf of the rest of us po’ folks.
It’s discrimination, I tell ya.
18 Harper
That is truly an amazing finding.
#108 Tedtam and 110 mharper42
Ha! LOL we know the public is too smart not to come up with a way around such pious hubris from Keurig.
I told my DRE this morning that I might have to miss Wednesday night’s class. She informed me that she’s 3 catechists short and has no substitute. So I’m putting together a “self taught” class for my bouncers to administer…just in case.
Pyro hasn’t posted during the last 24 hours
He and SQK locked themselves in the basement and are binge listening to the entire Marshall Tucker discography.
Michael Crichton. I sure do miss that man.
This is a keeper from him – the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect…
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise
have.)Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward–reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story–and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
I coined the term “dysrationalia” (analogous to “dyslexia”), meaning the inability to think and behave rationally despite having adequate intelligence, to draw attention to a large domain of cognitive life that intelligence tests fail to assess. Although most people recognize that IQ tests do not measure every important mental faculty, we behave as if they do. We have an implicit assumption that intelligence and rationality go together—or else why would we be so surprised when smart people do foolish things?
Go here and take the sample test to find out if you are an idiot savant.
Lovely has figuratively thrown in the towel, and anticipates that baby #2 is going to be a bit of hold out. Therefore, I acquiesce and will open the baby pool past the sixth. I suppose there’s enough space for everyone to have four slots. Feel free to cut and paste as you take your spaces. I’m going to the gym to work out a few kinks…from the last time I went to the gym.
Of course, I’m still hoping things change…soon! Lovely looks distinctly, uncomfortably, “ripe”.
Date…………Shift 1…………..Shift 2…………Shift 3………..…Shift 4
…………….Midnt-6 am…..6am-noon…..….noon-6pm………6pm-midnight
1/4…………Mharper…………..Texmo………Bonecrusher………Mharper………..
1/5……………..Hubby………Tedtam…..…….Hubby…………..Tedtam..
1/6…………Texanadian……..SuperD………….SuperD…………Tedtam
1/7……………….Tedtam……………………………………………………………………………
1/8……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
1/9……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
1/10……………………………………………………………………………………………………
1/11…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
1/12……………………………………………………………………………………………………
I like doing logic puzzles, but I’m not very successful with them. It seems I tend to overthink the answers somehow. I didn’t do well on the test because I’m just feeling lazy. I did have a handle on the card one, though…it didn’t involve math, which helped. I just don’t feel like calculating anything.
Re baby lotto:
I tried but the paste went berserk. There is something odd about that “table”. Does it have tabs in it? Anyway, it is too wide.
I hereby claim SHIFT1 for 1/8, 1/9, and 1/10.
If no baby by then, maybe induce labor?
Date…………Shift 1…………..Shift 2…………Shift 3………..…Shift 4
…………….Midnt-6 am…..6am-noon…..….noon-6pm………6pm-midnight
1/4…………Mharper…………..Texmo………Bonecrusher………Mharper………..
1/5……………..Hubby………Tedtam…..…….Hubby…………..Tedtam..
1/6…………Texanadian……..SuperD………….SuperD…………Tedtam
1/7…………….Tedtam………………………………………………
1/8…………Mharper……………………………………………..
1/9……………Mharper………………………………………………..
1/10…………Mharper……………………………………………
1/11…………………………………………………………………………..
1/12………………………………………………………………………………
Nope,no tabs, but it never posts the same way it looks when I type it in. I removed some of the spacers, and that should help.
It sounds like Hamous and I have the same Cusinart with the grinder integrated into the coffee maker. About 4 months ago the grinder decided to quit so we have been grinding the whole beans at the store when we purchase them. We tried an old relic grinder that I believe we received as a wedding gift. It is so underpowered that I believe there is a hidden 9V battery in there somewhere and the cord I plug into the wall is only for show. We really like the auto timer/start function. There is no warmer since the coffee drips into an insulated carafe. I still like the flavor from a percolater the best though.
Ummm, the Cowboys need to show up at the stadium. Please
Remodeling: Virtually the same headache as moving. Only a fraction of the cost!
I am scheduled to return to work on Tuesday and I do not see this being done. The tile guy still has to finish at least half the tile in the bathroom and then he will have to grout the backsplash as well as the bathroom. The guy that will install the wood floor will have to come Tuesday. This now means that I get to finish up the detail work like installing all the plumbing fixtures, water supply lines, and drains after work during the latter part of the week. Grrr.
Tedtam, I will take the remaining shifts on the 9th. Too bad the little one did not arrive today because then he/she would have shared a b-day with my cousin.
I wonder if you can use table html tags
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
Sort of. Borders don’t work.
I may be mistaken but I believe I previously (jokingly) claimed all day on the eleventh.
Williamson on the Fierce Urgency of Now:
And the grandda — ! — grandperson of them all, the National Organization for Women, makes NOW! its fundamental message: “What do we want? Whatever we want! When do we want it? Now!” (Which is, admittedly, a bit of an improvement over: “What do we want? Dead children! When do we want them? January 1973 and forward!”)
That Ndamukong Suh guy has one of those countenances that makes you want to jump up and down on his knee.
3/7…………………………………Texanadian……………………..
We all know or should know that the NFL and the WWF share one common characteristic, namely that the outcome of the games is determined by someone other than the players on the field. The NFL may be more image conscious than the WWF, but I’m not sure about that either. Anyway, the point is, the NFL recognizes that feel good stories always win fans, and with the education system being what it is today, the object of the game is to make “disadvantaged” entities feel good about themselves whether or not deserved. How else do you explain New Orleans in the SB after Katrina, Tennessee after failing to draw a crowd following the Oilers move from Houston, etc. Now the most depressed city in the nation at this time is unquestionably Detroit, which is emerging from bankruptcy after seeing its population decline by about 2/3. So, back to our logic questions above, who needs to have a SB team more than Detroit – no one. Dallas and J.R Ewing are not suffering, and social justice requires them to suffer, so so long Dallas. Since I don’t know who else is in the playoffs (and don’t care), I am unable to predict the eventual winner, but you can count on Detroit at least being there.
We can beat these guys, Adee.
mharper42 says:
JANUARY 4, 2015 AT 12:26 PM
Hey, no one has criticized my choice of morning caffeine! Oh wait — Pyro hasn’t posted during the last 24 hours…
🙁
Instant coffee, aspartame, Houston tap water—-
I was just thinking that if a woman of your age wants to pre-embalm to save some money, who am I to judge?
#140 EG: IMHO a SB in Detroit any time in the next 3 -5 years will be a dismal failure as most of those with the means to go will decline to make themselves a target.
You might be right. I’m only batting .500 going into this game, and if I lose this one, by average will be down to 334.
Romo resembles a fat old hog waddling around in the pocket.
El Gordo, I guess the ‘powers that be’ changed their minds at the last minute and decided Arlington gets to win.
I hope it’s -40 at Lambeau next week.
BTW, I’m picking the ugly ducklings in the college game whenever they play. Those gosh awful neon green and yellow uniforms have got to give the defensive back cataracts by the second half if not sooner.
Katfish’ll take 1/7 – 2nd & 3rd shifts
#146 and 147
LOL to both. Hope Ohio State gets blinded by the green uniforms. They actually blend in with real grass on the field.
And yea, the Cowboys finally showed up when it counted. Now on to another Ice Bowl next week in Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers knows how to do a QB sneak. He did one last week even after the Thug Suh tromped on his leg.
137 Hammie
My favorite:
Professor Krugman of the Times is arguably the most influential public intellectual of the Obama era, but when he addresses hoi polloi, his rhetorical style is pure Ph.D., where those three letters denote “pretty heavy diapers.”
#138 Shannon
Agreed, and I was concerned for Romo’s safety out there.
Forgot to mention it’s Snoopy Happy Dance time.
#142 Sarge
Oh, I see I didn’t need Pyro to cut me down at the knees. 🙁
🙂
When I used to go to Scotland on a regular basis instant coffee is all you ever got. That is all my mother ever made as well.
Who is going to argue with M42 and my mother. 😉
Congrats to that fat, scrambling hog QB in Dallas for getting his second playoff win.
May the slop be with him.
Oh that texanadian is quite a nice man; shame he had to move back to Canada, eh?
According to the twittersphere the fix was in on the Dallas game alright, I just had the fix guessed the wrong way.
http://twitchy.com/2015/01/04/how-many-zeros-on-that-check-from-jerry-jones-dallas-wins-and-twitter-is-pretty-convinced-the-fix-was-in/
Date…………Shift 1…………..Shift 2…………Shift 3………..…Shift 4
…………….Midnt-6 am…..6am-noon…..….noon-6pm………6pm-midnight
1/4…………Mharper…………..Texmo………Bonecrusher………Mharper………..
1/5……………..Hubby………Tedtam…..…….Hubby…………..Tedtam..
1/6…………Texanadian……..SuperD………….SuperD…………Tedtam
1/7…………….Tedtam………Katfish………Texanadian…………Katfish
1/8…………Mharper……………………………………………..
1/9……………Mharper………Texmo……………Texmo…………Texmo……..
1/10…………Mharper……………………………………………
1/11………Shannon…………Shannon…………Shannon………Shannon…..
1/12………………………………………………………………………………
I hope I got everybody’s choices in correctly. Lovely said she has doc appointments set up all the way to the 16th. I hope it doesn’t go that far. It almost hurts just to look at her!
Some of ’em are true genius.
Yes, they are! My favorite is the octopus.
I’d buy an Aaron Rodgers shirt, but I just can’t stomach green and gold
Mayor Porker jumped out of airplane.
She had a parachute. 🙁
We turned the floor off this morning, and we’ve been warm in the Dome all day. Think I’ll turn it on before I go to bed tonight, though.
‘cuz it’s gonna be cold in de mawnin!
Good grief.
I just realized that Taylor Swift’s new boyfriend is the son of a friend of mine. I’ve never heard one of her songs or his and don’t care to, but his mother is a real sweetheart. She’s also in my Torah class.
Professor Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit just posted this about the New York Post expose today.
IT WOULD BE CHEAPER TO HAVE HIM KILLED, AND IN MOST COUNTRIES THAT’S WHAT WOULD HAPPEN: How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations.
So I guess his loathsome existence is, in a way, proof of just how civilized we are.
New York Post expose?
Ah, mebbe tomorrow.
I’m pretty sure it is Monday 05Jan2015 yet the O\C page still says it is Jan the tooth?!?
Are we in a groundhog day time loop or something? Is my phone\computer thingie all jacked up?
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