It's a brave new world.
I guess.... and he's off and flying/swimming in it.... ;)
Better he than we.
Indeed.
Perhaps people said that about us during the
turbulent '60s and '70s, but the old Michael doesn't
envy the young folks and their current uncertainties
and fast changes.
There are questions about Turkey that won't be
resolved for a while. I'd not be so confident, even
with the voters' recent slap to Erdogan's face.
He thinks he has an insider's view of things... he may be right...
We can hope so.
A bucket of violas?
That would have to be the pansy-like flowers rather than the instrument, as, I suppose, actually that bouquet would needs be...
I did however have a fleeting but amusing image of a
large pail with musical instruments in it.
A very large pail... :) Indeed amusing image, though... ;)
Or very small violas. One of the reasons for the instrument's
poor reputation is that when violin players take it up, they
tend to use undersized instruments, which naturally sound
squeaky and puny like violins but slower and in a low register.
I've semi-given up. A sufficiently large operation,
governmental or not, is going to have all the data
available; it's the littler guys that I am concerned
with and whose nefarious efforts I try to foil.
Some things, like being the house being broken into, or the computer
hacking, one just hopes one is insignificant enough to be ignored... If
a thief is determined, it'll find a way in no matter what defenses one
puts up... some mild deterent should discourage the other guys...
Pretty much it. If the federal snooping corps wants to,
there's nothing you can do. There are plenty of others,
but who cares just so they don't steal too much.
Too bad. I just encountered a box of Maine lowbush berries
that were quite good. Unfortunately, the packaging was full
of smug idiocy such that I wouldn't feel right buying that
brand (not political/religious, just pretentious silliness).
Always a down side of things.... ;0 I'm not eating the berries as
quickly as earlier in the season, so I've not tried a new box yet to see
if the first was just a bit early...
Turns out the pretty good berries didn't last well,
but if I'd picked enough wild ones in the day to have
to keep a week, maybe they'd not have lasted either.
I couldn't get it to work right, but it still takes up
space on this thing.
Not all that easy to get rid of, eh....?
It would take overcoming the usual inertia to do
so, and my eyesight and sticktoitiveness are not
currently up to the task.
Understandably...
new release, which is, as most updates are, improved in
graphics and interface and deproved in functionality.
But, but... functionality is what really counts... too bad they don't
get that....
Tell that to Mr. Apple and Mr. Gates and their
heirs and assigns. Of course, it's the focus of
the general public on form over function that is
largely to blame.
Yeah, I know...
Car keeps breaking down? Tack fins onto the back.
Brit TV confuses only a select audience!
There is that....
And one hopes that that audience is less easily
confused than the run of the mill. After all,
you're in it!
Exactly... even if not regularly viewing them any more.... :)
One tends to remember. It's really irritating in
London now, where the point has tipped, and more
people are climbing stairs the way they see in the
movies, which irritates me when I've learned to do
it the traditional way in whatever country. The
Chinese still keep left, and they may be the ones
who end up returning the world to that way, as they
don't adapt - or haven't seen the need to.
I've asked Sacerdote if there was any way one could get a
copy to download. Awaiting response.
OK.
As I wrote to one of the Ruths a day or three ago:
Here is the link to the FIDO's Kitchen cookbook -
https://archive.org/details/fidoskitchencookbook
Exactly on the first, and I've not (recently, at least) encountered the stench as I've not done it myself....
You could imagine. Multiply the smell of a chicken
place by many and note that at home there's not going
to be fresh good smell to outshout the gradually
decaying oily smell.
Yes... I can imagine... ;) Just as well I'm not doing it... (G)
It's even worse with fish.
Indeed. Staying unexpectedly at another Hampton, MSN
tried to take over again, and also something else that
my fingers were fast enough to foil before the culprit
registered on my consciousness.
You are getting good instincts/reflexes now... :)
Maybe it's just that the free high-speed Internet for
HHonors elites is getting slower.
This happens mostly in back-and-forths that have gone on
for a while; also more cutting of quotes than I'm familiar
with to preserve the context. And long ontopicizers go on
shorter messages even if they might have fit thematically
elsewhere in the packet. So in a message about (say) beef
to you the appropriate recipe might go on (say) a discussion
of Irish oatmeal with Ruth.
One just has to read all the messages, including the appended recipes,
to get the full picture, that's all... ;)
---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00
Title: PAN FRIED BLACK BASS WITH MAITRE D'HOTEL SAUCE
Categories: Seafood
Yield: 4 servings
----------------------------MAITRE D"HOTEL
SAUCE----------------------------
1/2 Clove garlic, smashed 1 tb Lemon juice
1/4 c Butter 1/8 ts Pepper
1/2 ts Salt 1 tb Finely minced parsley
----------------------------------THE
FISH----------------------------------
1/4 c Yellow cornmeal 1/4 c Flour
4 1-lb. bass, dressed and 4 tb Butter
And skinned Salt and fresh pepper
This recipe includes a very simple sauce that enhances sauteed, broiled
or
baked fish. It can be made in camp if you brought parsley and usually
impresses any old "fried fish angler."
Make the sauce first.
In a bowl set the butter out to soften. Then cream it with a fork and
then a spoon until it is light and fluffy. Work in the salt and pepper.
Mix the smashed garlic and the lemon juice, then work this liquid into
the butter. Take a bit of time to do this.
Mix in the parsley and serve in a gravy boat with a spoon.
Pan fry the bass remembering to brown the fish on both sides but not to
over cook.
Serve hot on hot plates and pass the sauce. Source unrecorded
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