Random randomness

[dbt1949]

We didn't get to see her pickled eggs three weeks later. Do you have to wait that long?

[hepcat]

Anyone know a chain store that would be a local store where one can buy pickled boiled eggs? I found some buffalo hot ones but want just some plain pickled. I may have to make them but would try the store ones first before bothering if I can.

EDIT: All the recipe ones say they have got to be refrigerated. Yet when I used to see them in stores many years ago they were never refrigerated.

[Unagi]

We didn't get to see her pickled eggs three weeks later. Do you have to wait that long?

I was severely disappointed in the video, tbh.

[Daehawk]

We didn't get to see her pickled eggs three weeks later. Do you have to wait that long?

The thing I see different here is she just poured cold vinegar into it. The ones that require a fridge all showed them boiling it and pouring it in hot.

Anyways heres the eggs weeks later.

[Unagi]

CDC says to always refrigerate.

People that pickle beg to differ. (I have no idea)
And that is the whole point of it.

Apparently vinegar needs to be ‘full strength’.

[dbt1949]

I have heard that to feel comfortable while talking to a room full of people you should picture them naked.
How many of you would feel comfortable talking to a room full of naked people?

[Unagi]

Are they wearing masks?

[Daehawk]

Apparently vinegar needs to be ‘full strength’.

Never thought much about this. Always thought vinegar was vinegar really. So its like rubbing alcohol and comes in strengths. I guess stores sell 100%...I mean people need it. I wonder if theres a safety worry with such strong stuff.

[Madmarcus]

No safety worry with full strength vinegar because if I remember correctly it is up to 8% acetic acid. Now full strength acetic acid (glacial acetic acid) is another story.

[Skinypupy]

That just made me remembering how we used to line up quarters on the glass of the arcade screen, so as to claim ‘the next game’.

I imagine that no longer is a thing.

It was the first thing we taught our kids when we got the arcade cabinet for Christmas. Next quarter, next game.

Loses a bit of luster when you don't actually have to put the quarter in the machine to play, but the idea is still solid.

[Kraken]

Apparently vinegar needs to be ‘full strength’.

Never thought much about this. Always thought vinegar was vinegar really. So its like rubbing alcohol and comes in strengths. I guess stores sell 100%...I mean people need it. I wonder if theres a safety worry with such strong stuff.

Cider vinegar, white vinegar, red wine vinegar, white wine vinegar, rice vinegar, balsamic -- these are all pantry staples, and each has its uses. I just had to replace my rice vinegar last week and there were three different flavors to choose from.

[Daehawk]

I haven't bought vinegar in a decade. I wanted some last night though and in the back of my cabinet was a walmart brand of white vinegar good till 2012. I figured its vinegar it shouldn't go bad...was right. Was delish.

[Blackhawk]

No safety worry with full strength vinegar because if I remember correctly it is up to 8% acetic acid. Now full strength acetic acid (glacial acetic acid) is another story.

Some quick digging tells me that white vinegar is 5%, 'full strength' is 6%, and other vinegars are up to 20% (for industrial applications.) Note that 6% isn't 1% stronger than 5%, it's 20% stronger. It's also usually sold for cleaning, not consumption, and so it isn't tested for harmful crap that you don't want in your gut. So no, don't use cleaning products in your food.

Some more digging tells me that 5% (regular grocery store vinegar) is perfectly suited for pickling eggses.

[Blackhawk]

delish.

This is one of those words that needs to be punishable by execution. Along with 'yummy' if you're over the age of ten.

[Daehawk]

Aww shat. I just saw where Burger King's parent company acquired Firehouse Subs in Dec. SHAT! I like BK fine but I LOVE FH and dont want them to change their foods or suppliers. Damn. I hope the food isn't changing. I need to go this week and see.

Burger King Parent Completes $1 Billion Acquisition of Firehouse Subs

Restaurant Brands International Inc. announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Firehouse Restaurant Group Inc. for $1 billion. With the close of the acquisition, RBI adds a strong, loved and purpose-driven restaurant brand to its existing family of quick service restaurant brands, Tim Hortons, Burger King, and Popeyes.

[AWS260]

Life imitates art.

[Unagi]

All jokes aside, that thing looks like an absolute death trap.

[hepcat]

Favorite quote from my dad this weekend.

"I was watching "In the Heat of the Night" and I thought to myself, "I want French Toast.""

[Jaymon]

All jokes aside, that thing looks like an absolute death trap.

At that price it better be a death trap. I can't imagine paying that much for something that isn't fully functional.

[hepcat]

All jokes aside, that thing looks like an absolute death trap.

At that price it better be a death trap. I can't imagine paying that much for something that isn't fully functional.

If it's anything like The Witcher games, just put a candle on it and no one will ever set it off.

[dbt1949]

Got a phone call today from the youngest son (the one who signed his mother into the nursing home). He also did not want to do the paper work. I helped him with the paper work and have not heard back from the nursing home since. Any who he got a bill from the nursing home for $9000.
He says "Good luck with that."
I am glad I am not him.

[Jaymann]

Got a phone call today from the youngest son (the one who signed his mother into the nursing home). He also did not want to do the paper work. I helped him with the paper work and have not heard back from the nursing home since. Any who he got a bill from the nursing home for $9000.
He says "Good luck with that."
I am glad I am not him.

Fun fact: There are no debtor prisons in the U.S. Yet.

[stessier]

Fun fact: There are no debtor prisons in the U.S. Yet.

Depends how you define that. See how fast you end up back in jail if you don't pay for the court ordered drug test that is a condition of your parole. Or enjoy your stay pre-trial if you can't afford bail.

[Jaymann]

Fun fact: There are no debtor prisons in the U.S. Yet.

Depends how you define that. See how fast you end up back in jail if you don't pay for the court ordered drug test that is a condition of your parole. Or enjoy your stay pre-trial if you can't afford bail.

Good point. My point is you don't end up in that position from stiffing a nursing home. Good luck trying to get any credit transactions however.

[Blackhawk]

Got a phone call today from the youngest son (the one who signed his mother into the nursing home). He also did not want to do the paper work. I helped him with the paper work and have not heard back from the nursing home since. Any who he got a bill from the nursing home for $9000.
He says "Good luck with that."
I am glad I am not him.

Fun fact: There are no debtor prisons in the U.S. Yet.

That kind of debt is a prison.

[stessier]

Fun fact: There are no debtor prisons in the U.S. Yet.

Depends how you define that. See how fast you end up back in jail if you don't pay for the court ordered drug test that is a condition of your parole. Or enjoy your stay pre-trial if you can't afford bail.

Good point. My point is you don't end up in that position from stiffing a nursing home. Good luck trying to get any credit transactions however.

Indeed. And, of course, they aren't going to let the person stay once you are past due.

[Daehawk]

They dropped all Covid bonus funds on food stamps / EBT in Dec. Mine went from $250 to $125. At the higher lvl it was 'just' enough food for a month if I really went easy on the last week. At the lower level it is now food lasts 2 weeks...3 if Im VERY lucky and eat stuff like a potted meat in a day or some soup. And now food prices just keep rising and rising. I get less and less for my $125 EBT.

Our Gov is proposing suspending the food tax for 1 month. That wont help those on EBT because we already have no tax. They dumped Covid relief right at the worst damn time.

[Hrdina]

We got Little B 13.0 a phone for her birthday last Friday. It’s something I’ve been dreading, but was becoming rather necessary as she gets more involved in multiple activities. We’ve had endless discussions about appropriate usage, privacy concerns, online safety, etc. We have all sorts of parental restrictions set up on it as well.

Still, today was her first day taking it to school and I was nervous about it. Would she get busted using it in class? Would it be a distraction? Would she lose it?

Got my first text message from her a few minutes ago, and have to admit that it melted my blackened heart a bit.

Hey dad! On my way to rehearsals in a minute or two. (It’s the end of 7th period and we got some free time). Love u! Hope that if you had a good day! I’ll see you at 6

Y’know…I think she’ll be ok.

My daughter would probably be traumatized to learn that I still have the first voice mail she ever left me (Dec 16 2014), to tell me that she had successfully navigated the walk from school to the Y for after-care. She's in college now.

[Unagi]

No, I think she would find that amazing.

[dbt1949]

When my mom died as I was looking thru her things I found she had kept every letter I had wrote her when I was in the military.

[telcta]

When my mom died as I was looking thru her things I found she had kept every letter I had wrote her when I was in the military.

When my mom dies this is one of the things that I will struggle with... seeing what my mom kept of mine all these years. I'm the only one that will be going through her stuff. I'm dreading when that time comes.

[Blackhawk]

My father never kept much as I was growing up, and most of what he did keep he took such poor care of that it was ruined before I inherited it. I'd kill to have some letters my grandmother wrote, or even a single personal thing my mother did.

When my grandmother (whom I lived with for a number of years growing up) died, they were clearing out her house. Amongst her 93-year collection of stuff that I'd grown up in, all of the relatives were warring over who got what that might be of value. All I asked for was a single table, about a foot wide and three feet long and let them fight over the rest. Nobody argued. She was something of an artist, and she'd painted the top with a scene. She kept that next to her chair in the living room from my earliest recollection until she died. It's where her coffee and the TV guide lived. She used that table hundreds of times a day for the entire time I knew her. Now it sits next to my couch, and is one of the most treasured things I own.

My mother was also an artist. The house was always decorated with her stuff, every room. My father let most of it get broken or lost in all of the moves we made. Of my mother, I have two plaster plaques she painted, one broken into pieces. She died when I was eight, and I barely remember her. Not one of her words. I don't have anything personal - not one birthday card, or letter, or recording. That absolutely kills me. I wish I had just one single item.

[Daehawk]

When my dad died I used to call when I knew my step mom wouldn't be there just to hear his jovial voice on the answering machine. My sister said she did the same. of course my step mom erased it or sold it or gave it away. All my dad's fishing gear and mine as well were supposed to go to my sister but again step mommy gave it all away. Same with his truck that i desperately needed. She either sold it for a couple hundred or gave it away.

My sister's fiance died a few months before my wife. If you called her and tried to leave a msg it would say mailbox full. She had messages on it from her fiance that she had missed and only found later and refused to delete them or try to clean the voicemail in fear of losing them. She finally cleaned it up this year.

As for families and shitty people at a persons death. I LOATH and despise my moms side. My grandmother raised me...my mom's mom. When she passed my mom's sister dove in and took charge. This woman was like a type AA personality in life...loud and overbearing and big. My mom was afraid of her her entire life . My mom was like 5'2" and calm and sweet. So anyways this sister and her kin dove into granny's home and took anything they could. My mom called me one day and told me if I wanted anything of mine to come get it quick while her and my sister were there alone. I got very little of my own stuff never mind anything of my grandma's or grandpa's....same for them.

This sister and her husband took what they wanted and then made a giant bonfire in the back yard and burned a LOT of the rest..they were carrying out tables and book and chairs...you name it. If they couldn't have it they burned it. Piece of fucking shit fake humans. To this day some of that side of the family..cousins and the like....if they see me their conversation is "Did you get so in so? We didn't get a lot" We really wanted so in so"..ARGH its been 3 damn decades.

[Blackhawk]

It's been 30 years since I took my year of typing in high school, split between a classroom full of IBM Selectric typewriters and a room full of computers (my class was the first one to start the transition to computers.) It was one of the most useful single classes I ever took in high school. But to this day I can't break the habits that were so deeply drilled on and ingrained in me back then, if they're unnecessary now - and even actively frowned upon.

I still double space after a period.
I still do a double return after a paragraph.
I still do a double space before a zip code when writing an address.

Times have changed. But that muscle memory designed for a mechanical typerwriter just won't go away.

[Daehawk]

I still do the first two mostly....even on commas. But I skip so much else like apostrophes and such.

[dbt1949]

I finally found me a rock and roll radio station last night. Listened to it for about an hour.
If what they played was typical of rock now a days then rock and roll is truly dead.

[Anonymous Bosch]

It's been 30 years since I took my year of typing in high school, split between a classroom full of IBM Selectric typewriters and a room full of computers (my class was the first one to start the transition to computers.) It was one of the most useful single classes I ever took in high school. But to this day I can't break the habits that were so deeply drilled on and ingrained in me back then, if they're unnecessary now - and even actively frowned upon.

I still double space after a period.
I still do a double return after a paragraph.
I still do a double space before a zip code when writing an address.

Times have changed. But that muscle memory designed for a mechanical typerwriter just won't go away.

Nowadays, the notion of even writing and forming actual paragraphs at all seems vanishingly rare.

[hepcat]

My father is the most zen like person I've ever known. It's impossible to make him angry. He also makes friends with everyone he meets. I rarely hear him discuss anyone negatively.

...except for his ex-wife, my mother. My mother ends up fighting with everyone. She's estranged herself from my brother completely. Her side of the family is basically the same. We had to have two funeral services for my grandmother (her mother) because they had formed groups after her death over her estate and couldn't even put aside their differences for her goddamn funeral. I had one favorite uncle on my mother's side who didn't really participate in all the drama, and he ended up acting like security at the thing. He just stood outside the door and pleaded with the other group to wait until THEIR service was held.

Needless to say, I've not communicated with anyone from her side of the family in decades.

[Sudy]

I still double space after a period.
I still do a double return after a paragraph.
I still do a double space before a zip code when writing an address.

I was still taught to do this in a North Carolina classroom in the mid 90s even though we had computers. I had to unlearn it in a hurry when I returned home to Ontario to start high school in '98. I still insert an extra space before postal/zip codes though. Mentally, it just seems like some extra demarcation is needed for two classes of information on the same line.

[Holman]

It's been 30 years since I took my year of typing in high school, split between a classroom full of IBM Selectric typewriters and a room full of computers (my class was the first one to start the transition to computers.) It was one of the most useful single classes I ever took in high school. But to this day I can't break the habits that were so deeply drilled on and ingrained in me back then, if they're unnecessary now - and even actively frowned upon.

I still double space after a period.
I still do a double return after a paragraph.
I still do a double space before a zip code when writing an address.

Times have changed. But that muscle memory designed for a mechanical typerwriter just won't go away.

I've switched to single spaces after a period, although it took years to fully break the habit. Many applications (including OO) will simply ignore a double space and make it single.

My keyboard confession is that after decades of teaching and writing, I'm still only a four-finger typist. Maybe five, as my right hand is more agile than the left.