True, but if you don't hear properly, listening is harder also.
Hearing loss comes in various flavors, some of them
In a throwback to the previous post, I read "hearing tofu."
involving distortions of some kind. Absent that, it
can be an incentive to more attentive listening, so
the defects can be compensated for to some degree.
It's the attentive listening (or lack thereof) that is usually the down
fall. I've noticed also that if the background noise is at a certain
level, not always loud, I don't always hear as I should.
Willful listening is mostly a good thing, but
trying too hard may create artifacts, and people
might make up stuff based on false inputs.
Not Allegany or Mohawk?
Nup, it was a DC-4 or -6.
From where to where?
Across the Appalachians from Cincinnati to Washington.
After the first flights to/from Germany, the next few were puddle
jumpers like that--Jacksonville NC to DC, DC to Albany outbound.
Homebound was Albany to DC, then DC to Kinston NC, then to Jacksonville.
The Kinston/J'ville leg was basically up to altitude, then down--don't
know if there was much, if any horizontal flight time.
On puddle-jumping aircraft or full-sized MATS
behemoths?
As I recall, the ghostly aura of Greenland at
night is kind of cool in the summer; that
remembrance might be colored by its remoteness
An interesting memory, none the less.
I remember an atmosphere of twilit mystery, but that
could be romanticizing a little.
Probably so. (G)
I'll have to go back and do it again, but that would
involve staying up through prime sleeping time.
- it was quite a long time ago I learned to
sleep on the airplane.
I've not mastered that yet, no matter how much I try.
Practice makes perfect. Necessity is the mother
of invention.
OTOH, I usually sleep well the first night after landing.
Sleeping however you find it is a good thing.
Either nasty or a strong dislike will make me push away,
fast. > ML> I try to avoid finding such things on my plate
in the first place.
It's unavoidable sometimes.
Not very often, but I admit there have been dire
meals that involved finding blue cheese on my plate.
I'd nibble at a bit of that, then leave the majority of it on the plate
(or give it to Steve).
I can see eating it to fend off starvation but
not otherwise.
I would have liked to have sunscreen maybe a dozen times in
my life - fewer times than I'd have been happier with a
revolver in my pocket.
I don't want to look like a lobster so tend to use it more often.
Doesn't generally happen with me, though some of
my medications have come with the photosensitivity
side effect.
Don't know what some deranged mind might think, just that it's open
for > all kinds of possibilities.
One really can't go through life thinking that way. I'm
as likely to rouse a psycho by giving a buck or not
giving a buck to a panhandler as by wearing even a
provocative hat. I've been attacked enough based merely
on the color of my skin, mostly but not exclusively
before being Asian became fashionable in the US.
Some crazy people out there.
But it basically doesn't matter what you do, they'll
find you if it's your time, Christchurch hat or no.
Seems like a lot of American places do prefer to cater to the bottom line. Too many people with no sense of adventure to their eating
have
All successful ones pay a lot of attention to the
bottom line, but too many try to pad that bottom
line by catering to the lowest common denominator.
Which ends up not good for their bottom line.
One wishes that bad behavior gets its back in the
end, but how do you explain fast food empires?
re-enforced the "cook to all tastes, from bland to boring" concept.
That's true, and that's why one does look for
authenticity in restaurants, both in the sense
of true to their roots and in the sense of
intellectual/artistic integrity.
If available, may as well.
My point is it's a far, far better thing to do.
Clean Dave once got a pack of dog treats made out
of duck parts, and we tried them as is and found
them rather enjoyable.
Gourmet dogs eating duck?
Sacerdote's dog. What do you think?
His dog, his treats. Our dogs had their treats but Sam had a weakness
for pop corn. Like the first kitten we had, he wouldn't let us enjoy
ours until he had his handful (or more) put out.
---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01
Title: Krestianskiy Zavtrak (Peasant Breakfast)
Categories: Cheese/eggs, Pork/ham, Russian
Yield: 4 servings
5 tb Unsalted (Sweet) Butter 3 c Smoked Kielbasa Or Bratwurst
2 c Pumpernickel Bread; -Cut Into 1/2-Inch
Cubes
-Preferably German, Day Old Salt And Freshly Ground
-Cut Into 1/2-Inch Cubes -Black Pepper
4 oz Bacon; Smoky, Chopped 8 lg Eggs
3/4 c Onion; Finely Chopped
----------------------------------GARNISH----------------------------------
Fresh Dill; Finely Chopped
Melt 4 Tbls of the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute the
bread cubes in batches until golden brown and crisp. Transfer to a bowl
and set aside. Wipe out the skillet with paper towels. Fry the bacon,
in
the skillet, over medium heat until it renders out the fat. Add the
onion
and saute until it begins to color, about 8 minutes. Add the kielbasa
and
cook, stirring, until the onion and kielbasa are nicely browned. Melt
the
remaining 1 Tbls of butter in a medium-size non stick skillet over medium
heat. Add one-fourth of the kielbasa mixture and one-fourth of the bread
to the skillet and distribute evenly with a wooden spoon. Break 2 eggs
into the skillet. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring the whites gently with a
thin spatula. When the whites are almost set and the yolks are still
liquid, reduce the eat to low, cover the skillet, and cook for another
minute or until the desired doneness is achieved. Slide the hash and
eggs
onto a plate. Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make three more
portions. Serve immediately sprinkled with the dill as a garnish.
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