for new x-rays. Meanwhile I'm typing one handed. Been eating out of what
we have on hand but Steve brought home 2 very generous portions of baked ziti from the America Legion meeting supper last night. Cook was a
member who does great Italian cooking so looking forward to that
tonight.
for new x-rays. Meanwhile I'm typing one handed. Been eating out of what
we have on hand but Steve brought home 2 very generous portions of baked ziti from the America Legion meeting supper last night. Cook was a
member who does great Italian cooking so looking forward to that
tonight.
Ouch! I wish you a quick recovery.
I got back from hiking, camping, and visiting a friend in Takilma.
Sunday night we went to a fundraiser for the Spanish class trip to
Mexico. The teacher is from Nepal. She and her daughters prepared
a Nepali dinner that included freshly made naan, a pea and potato
curry, a red lentil dal, brown rice, mixed greens in a savory broth,
a spicy hot mint/coriander sauce and a milder red sauce. I love
mint sauce so i took plenty of that. We also got some strawberry
cake made with home grown strawberries. Indian food is my favorite cuisine and i thought it was kind of magical to eat Nepali food out
in the boonies.
Thanks, I saw my ortho doctor on Tuesday. New x-rays showed no breaks
Both look ugly now; I'll have
some new scars but it could have been so much worse.
That sounds good. We did some boondocking in a national forest near the Grand Canyon and again at a remote trailhead in southeastern Utah on
this past trip. Also spent a night at another trailhead near Capital
Reef National Park, also in southern Utah.
he said that he owes me a big slice of Black Forest cake. (G)
Thanks, I saw my ortho doctor on Tuesday. New x-rays showed no breaks
Both look ugly now; I'll have
some new scars but it could have been so much worse.
Hooray for no breaks. Now to make up some yarns about the scars. It happened during a fight over the last slice of cake. You should see
the scars on the OTHER guy!
That sounds good. We did some boondocking in a national forest near the Grand Canyon and again at a remote trailhead in southeastern Utah on
this past trip. Also spent a night at another trailhead near Capital
Reef National Park, also in southern Utah.
Nice! I have passed through Utah a couple of times and thought parts
of it were beautiful.
he said that he owes me a big slice of Black Forest cake. (G)
I was not aware of the distinction. We have a German restaurant here called Black Forest, so i guess that could be extra confusing. The
German Chocolate cake *IS* Black Forest cake.
Have you eaten there? I know you do a lot (are you totally) of
vegetarian, does this place have options like cheese schnitzel?
German chocolate cake is a medium brown in color with a
coconut/pecan filling and frosting. Black Forest cake is much darker,
has cherrys, whipped cream and chocolate shavings. True BF cake is also made with kirschewasser (cherry brandy).
Have you eaten there? I know you do a lot (are you totally) of
vegetarian, does this place have options like cheese schnitzel?
I haven't eaten there for decades. I took a quick peek at their
online menu and it doesn't have a single vegetarian main dish. :>
German chocolate cake is a medium brown in color with a
coconut/pecan filling and frosting. Black Forest cake is much darker,
has cherrys, whipped cream and chocolate shavings. True BF cake is also made with kirschewasser (cherry brandy).
My version of impulse control is supply side. I never buy dessert and rarely cook it. But if someone offers it to me, then it's fair game!
I'd eat either cake, if offered to me. I'd probably prefer the GCC
over the BFC.
A few days ago i made a huge batch of veggie burgers from scratch and French fries in the nuker & frying pan. I also made ketchup out of
tomato paste, cider vinegar, and coconut sugar. Today i got a batch
of lentil soup started in the crockpot. Quite satisfactory but
nothing to brag about.
Random question: Have you ever used a computer with punched tape?
As for dessert at home, it's usually fruit or a cookie but sometimes
I'll get ambitious and make a pie or cobbler. Those are usually made for pot lucks tho, and if we have left overs, we'll take them home and
finish.
No, but back in the mid 70s I used key punch cards to enter survey data into a computer. My Population Problems class (sociology) had done a survery of about 1/4 of the campus population and we co-olated the data that way. I used some of the data for a paper for my Social Psychology (psychology) class. (I was a sociology major, psychology and art
minors.)
As for dessert at home, it's usually fruit or a cookie but sometimes
I'll get ambitious and make a pie or cobbler. Those are usually made for pot lucks tho, and if we have left overs, we'll take them home and
finish.
Potlucks can be weird. I went to one where someone made a classic
pear crisp using home grown pears, and they made it with love. Not
one other person took any besides me and the baker. I suppose the
others considered it unattractive because it was not what they would normally eat. I asked the baker if i could finish it off, and she
told me i was welcome to have as much as i wanted. We didn't remain single for long, and eventually
ended up dating each other. :>
No, but back in the mid 70s I used key punch cards to enter surveydata RH> into a computer. My Population Problems class (sociology) had
Interesting that you were a sociology major, and that you got to experience using punch cards. I read that paper tape and punch cards
were in use way past their "expiration date" because the equipment was
so inexpensive.
I recently went down a rabbithole on a rainy day. A friend sent me a video of someone creating art on an oldschool mechanical typewriter.
I found books about typewriter art on archive.org, one of which was published in 1936. I sent it to another friend and called it 1936
ASCII art. This
friend reminded me that ASCII didn't exist in 1936. I found that what
DID exist in 1936 was ITS-2, a 5-bit encoding that was often punched
on 5-hole paper tape. I wrote a script to convert between ASCII and ITS-2, and
another script to convert between ITS-2 and a plaintext representation
to simulate paper tape.
What inspired you to pursue a sociology major? The first thing that popped into my mind was "I wonder what the difference is between
sociology and anthropology?" A cynical answer could be that sociology
is about us and anthropology is about them.
I made a waldorf salad subbing
out pears for apples, thought I'd be bringing some back. When I went to
get the dish, it was empty--guess I ought to do that again. I'm glad
Nancy got some of it, (G)
As part of the general ed requirements I took an introductory course
taught by J.Whitney Shea, brother of George Beverly Shea, and found it fascinating.
I made a waldorf salad subbing
out pears for apples, thought I'd be bringing some back. When I went to
get the dish, it was empty--guess I ought to do that again. I'm glad
Nancy got some of it, (G)
I love reading your substitution success stories to accomodate the
dietary restrictions of others.
As part of the general ed requirements I took an introductory course
taught by J.Whitney Shea, brother of George Beverly Shea, and found it fascinating.
It sounds like you had an excellent teacher. What were some of the
things you found fascinating about the subject?
professionally trained in counseling but have done a lot of "kitchen
table counseling" over the years. It can be better than paying a professionaly trained counselor--a cuppa tea or mug of coffee at the kitchen table may not solve the world's problems but may help you put
yours into a better perspective.
professionally trained in counseling but have done a lot of "kitchen
table counseling" over the years. It can be better than paying a professionaly trained counselor--a cuppa tea or mug of coffee at the kitchen table may not solve the world's problems but may help you put
yours into a better perspective.
For sure! I read the book Focusing and in it Eugene Gendlin writes
about studying professional counseling on a large scale. The
researchers found equality of outcomes across all modalities. When narrowing down the
factors associated with successful outcomes, the single largest factor
was the attitude that the client brought with them. Focusing is a
process
based on those findings.
I took a co-counseling course where the instructor said that the
majority of counseling is basically active listening. She said that people are so hungry to be listened to, that if you are a good
listener then strangers will follow you around in the streets.
I have read co-counseling books from the 1970's and i think some of
their more experimental stuff was harmful or at least irresponsible. They've cleaned it up a lot since then. All that aside, i see it as a
DIY
approach, which is right up my alley. If we lived in the same part of
the world, i'd love to share a cup of tea with you from time to time.
What is co-counseling? It's a term I'm not familiar with, but then too, most of my classes were in the early 70s. BTW, Steve (my husband) says
that yes, I am a good listener.
Where is your part of the world? We do travel, most often in a camper.
We do carry teas, other than my morning British Blend, in the camper as Steve will sometimes brew up a cuppa non caffienated at night.
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