Maytag was gobbled up by I think Whirlpool.
I think you are correct there.... Amana is what we have still as an
upright freezer, and was what we'd bought shortly after moving here to replace the fridge that came with the house... couldn't find any when
that one died, so we now have a Frigidaire... (The stove also came with
the house, and that hasn't died yet...)
I thought your stove was GE or something. Anyhow, if
it had been a quarter century younger, it would have
died long since.
as well. In both cases we're planning with an eye to
possible medical emergencies (for me too).
Wise. :)
I'm still occasionally having my doubts.
About the travel in general...? or in how safe the places you are
heading are for y'all as things are now...?
When the travel ends, I'm afraid she will do
likewise. Certainly when I myself quit wandering
the world, my brain will go rapidly.
So often at a hotel or business my computer thinks
that I'm someplace odd, like in the middle of Iowa
or something, which is explicable because the company's
IT department is located there. Yesterday, it insisted
that I was at or near a pizza parlor called Nick's (I
wasn't), and continued to do so for maybe half an hour,
which counts as an oopsie on somebody's part. I presume
somebody was at or near a pizza parlor called Nick's.
Those ARE odd...
I figure it started when I signed up for Juno,
which was a dubious enterprise to begin with.
It might have been before, but Juno was so
incompetent that it became obvious then.
My theory is that everyone is being surveilled
to some degree, and I'm guessing I'm at one
level higher of scrutiny, where I get a secondary
but not one that has to be done by an expert.
That's been mostly the pattern in real life (at
the airport, anyway).
As I turned 64, it came to my awareness that when the Beatles
wrote/sang
that song they were much younger than 64 themselves... and it was all theoretical to them.... And how much my own viewpoint on what constitutes being "old" has changed in those intervening years.... ;)
If indeed they reprised the song in later years, they
must have felt a frisson of irony. John, of course,
didn't get even close to that age.
True... the others have, though...
Who would they get to replace John? Julian?
Maybe just go as a threesome...?
Well, to the best of my knowledge they didn't.
Peanut and squid go pretty well together.
If you say so... :)
I say so, unequivocally.
OK... and I note that you appended a recipe for squid with satay
sauce... I'd not been thinking about satay sauce as being a form of
peanuts, but should have...
You will have seen a nonpeanut satay sauce
recently.
I've had abalone, and it doesn't taste enough
different from squid or clam strips to make it
worthwhile at the elevated price it commands.
I've had it at Canton House in a dimsum dumpling....
It's very expensive when served in recognizable
chunks, probably owing to supposed medicinal
properties (the Chinese are very big on
medicinal properties, but it's all a load of
abalone) and being a bringer of good luck.
Johnny, use the words analyze and anatomy in a sentence.
Johnny (sings): My analyze over the ocean, my
analyze over the sea, my analyze over the ocean,
so bring back my anatomy.
Ana being, after all, Bonnie's older sister... ;)
Old joke. Don't make waves.
Just remarking about Lydia's two oldest girls... ;)
I was guessing it had to do with your relatives
but wasn't sure which.
Remind me, in September, to tell you the potato chip story.
Not sure I'll remember, but Nancy probably will.
Don't count on it... but I might.... ;)
No tragedy if you don't, but now it's a sure
thing you'll obsess about remembering it and
so you will, along with all the other picnic
stuff.
I think I did save it to the Picnic file, so maybe.... ;)
We'll see. There will be many entertainments
in any case. Perhaps on day three we can do a
guessing game - what did we forget to do on
the picnic?
If knowledge and understanding aren't going to make a
difference to your situation, why know or understand,
unless you find it fun to do so.
There's a bit of it being, well maybe not fun exactly, but intriging to
me... almost a need to know....
Neh, not a need to know for me or Lilli or Bonnie.
Well, I got the news that Bonnie gave in and had tests
on her spine, which detected more degenerative arthritis
but no cancer. The lump beside her spine is still
unidentified, but anyway it's not malignant.
Mostly good news.... ;)
In both cases, qualified good news.
Yup...
Most news is qualified good news.
It's been a run of beef, chili, fried green
tomatoes, and crab. A bit of airline food, as
we need to help Lilli along with her quest for
nobism, but mostly I haven't been eating that.
An unavoidable adjunct.... ;) You can eat the good stuff when you are
on the ground.... :)
She was Platinum for life, but then the airline
created another tier, so instead of being guaranteed
higher-level priority on the airline, she is now
midlevel unless she does considerable flying. The
difference is mostly in the upgrades: so long as
she keeps Executive Platinum, she gets the one seat
held for last-minute sale if nobody buys full-fare
first. Her quest is either highly practical or
totally nuts, depending on what your criteria are.
So we've gone our separate ways ... briefly, as she
leaves at 10:32 and I leave at 10:30, getting into
LaGuardia the next morning half an hour or so apart,
different routings and different airlines.
---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00
Title: Awabi Sakami (Sweet Cooked Abalone)
Categories: Appetizers, Fish, Oriental
Yield: 6 servings
15 oz Abalone (canned) 1/4 pt Water
2 1/2 tb Sake 1 oz Sugar
2 1/2 ts Soya Sauce
Empty the can of Abalone into a small saucepan and add water. Bring to
boil, reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes. Add Sake and
Sugar
and cook for another 5 minutes, stir in Soya sauce and continnue to cook
for 2-3 more minutes. Cool to room temperature, cut the abalone into
1/2"
thick slices and serve. Source unknown
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