The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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CraigC:​

During the pandemic, a local restaurant asked some chefs, foodies, local TV personalities, etc. to come up with some creative empanada fillings. Since I used to work there giving courses, they asked me for 4. One that I used was a semi-soft white cheese called "queso telita", sweet chile jelly and grilled veg. You might well be able to get Venezuelan cheese in Florida (because there are more Venezuelans there than locals :roflmao: :roflmao: ) so give it a go. If not, you can try with "queso guayanés" or any simple white cheese.
 
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CraigC:​

During the pandemic, a local restaurant asked some chefs, foodies, local TV personalities, etc. to come up with some creative empanada fillings. Since I used to work there giving courses, they asked me for 4. One that I used was a semi-soft white cheese called "queso telita", sweet chile jelly and grilled veg. You might well be able to get Venezuelan cheese in Florida (because there are more Venezuelans there than locals :roflmao: :roflmao: ) so give it a go. If not, you can try with "queso guayanés" or any simple white cheese.
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I'm a native.:D
 
I love my low-budget 1960's-1970's mystery/thriller/horror movies, and today's choice (Point of Terror, 1971) is chock full of bad dialogue. Some examples:

"Be careful with her, she collects men like playthings."
"How do you know so much about it, huh?!"
"Let's just say...I've seen her in action."
"Well, you haven't see my action, Baby!"

"You drink too much."
"I do everything too much!"

And my favorite:
"What's your name?"
"Tony Trelos. Trelos. T-R-E-L-O-S. S...as in..sex."

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JAS_OH1 said:
So I went to the doctor for my BP check today after my GP had cut my blood pressure meds in half 2 weeks ago. My BP was 112/80 today! I am hoping he decides to cut it in half again soon, we shall see. Maybe I don't need to be on the damn stuff anymore!
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You know, I noticed that my blood pressure has dropped drastically since I got my gall bladder removed back in February. Coincidence?
 
JAS_OH1 said:
You know, I noticed that my blood pressure has dropped drastically since I got my gall bladder removed back in February. Coincidence?
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When I was in hospital for my hip replacement back in October last year, my blood pressure dropped so low they took me off my diuretic and BP meds. The reason it dropped? Solely because I always go hypokalaemic during surgery so they have to give me IV potassium during and after surgery. Now that my potassium is back down to it's usual low (despite supplementation at prescription levels that would kill most people) I need both my diuretic and BP meds again. The irony is that likely as not, it is my diuretic that causing the hypokalaemia! Frustrating is not the word. Lol
 
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So I did the shopping this morning. That was an ordeal and a half to say the least.

It rained yesterday... 51mm here at our end of the lake, and quite substantially more in Canberra +100mm in parts over the space of 24hrs.

Our 51mm however has the flood plain closed again which means an 80km diversion each way (but only if the highway is actually open in both directions, 1 carriageway routinely floods and gets closed) or a 40km dirt road diversion each way where the road has been repeatedly washed away and you can only average about 30kph with frequent stopping and crawling along at a snail's pace to drive across newly exposed boulders, mud and quick sand (it's the only description I can give...)

The weekly shop took an extra 1hr each way. Next time we're forecast torrential rain, I'll do the shopping whilst it's raining. It will be easier!
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
So I did the shopping this morning. That was an ordeal and a half to say the least.

It rained yesterday... 51mm here at our end of the lake, and quite substantially more in Canberra +100mm in parts over the space of 24hrs.

Our 51mm however has the flood plain closed again which means an 80km diversion each way (but only if the highway is actually open in both directions, 1 carriageway routinely floods and gets closed) or a 40km dirt road diversion each way where the road has been repeatedly washed away and you can only average about 30kph with frequent stopping and crawling along at a snail's pace to drive across newly exposed boulders, mud and quick sand (it's the only description I can give...)

The weekly shop took an extra 1hr each way. Next time we're forecast torrential rain, I'll do the shopping whilst it's raining. It will be easier!
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I was about to post how I drove 15 minutes to Lowe’s for paint, left the card with the paint name on it at home, texted my wife (who’s out of town) to confirm what I thought was the right one, got no response, so I drove 15 minutes back home, found the card, confirmed that I was correct, drove 15 minutes back into town, and as I was walking through the doors into Lowe’s…she texted me that yes, that was indeed the right paint. 🤦‍♂️

But I won’t post that now. :wink:
 
My MIL gifted me money for my up coming birthday ( august 14) and I bought this bronze Goddess statue with it for my altar. I wanted it for a very long time, and I am glad to have a beautiful memory attached to it.
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In case you didn't know yet, I love wolves and dogs. My username is also used to describe a werewolf in navajo.
 
TastyReuben said:
I was about to post how I drove 15 minutes to Lowe’s for paint, left the card with the paint name on it at home, texted my wife (who’s out of town) to confirm what I thought was the right one, got no response, so I drove 15 minutes back home, found the card, confirmed that I was correct, drove 15 minutes back into town, and as I was walking through the doors into Lowe’s…she texted me that yes, that was indeed the right paint. 🤦‍♂️

But I won’t post that now. :wink:
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Let's just put it this way, anything I've forgotten, we'll have to manage without. The trip to the cinema has been postponed and I'm hoping that come Monday the road will be open again (this is a drive 9km each way to find out exercise) because I have to take hubby into Canberra and I've got an eye test in Canberra at 9am. Tuesday I've a doctor's appointment that will be murder to get to avoiding flooding. I'm actually not sure I can get there if the place itself still has flooding (see here
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for a video clip. Straight ahead half way through the video clip is the direction I need to approach from. The alternative is over 100km extra each way. I need to collect the medication within 2 days before I run out and to make life fun it's a restricted drug (S8)... I can't go to my closest part-time pharmacy, the road is also closed due to flooding... and I have to collect hubby from somewhere off the coach on Tuesday. Usually it is at the local village but I can't get there... (the road is often shut for extended periods during flooding because it's on a flood plain)
I also have you be back there on Wednesday for physio (Hubby and I both have appointments. ) Closing the local road is difficult but not impossible to get around, close more than 1 and life becomes impossible to get around. There simply are no alternatives. The number of roads I met yesterday that were closed made life exceptionally difficult to navigate. And to make life fun, when I got to the back of the closed road yesterday there was an unmarked patrol 4x4 in a gate way just 100m passed the road closed sign. Their game? To stop and question vehicles driving around the road closed sign and to do so at a point where it was obvious their intention rather than stand at the sign and turn people away.

We've discussed (putting it tactfully) putting problem with them in the past when we've not had the road closed sign up and we've driven through the flood water and approached the back of the road closed sign. Telling them you live inside the closed area doesn't help or get you anywhere. The only thing on your side at that point is the fact they can't send you back through the flood water, but they won't allow you to drive through it to get home. They just expect you to drive the 80km detour instead of the 9km to your home the direct way. There's also no guarantee that you'll actually be able to complete the alternative route either and these roads don't get recorded closed anywhere, so you can't actually establish if it is closed before you set out. That's the really frustrating part. You're just expected to know. Yesterday our landlady came out to check in the sheep, or tried to. Having negotiated her way through the maze of closed roads in South Canberra, driven over 100km to get to the junction, they were turned away. Their choice, another 80km to go around with no guarantee the road was open (it was if you needed to turn left off the highway, but not if you needed to to right) or to turn around and drive home. Plus the only way back was also closed because the highway was closed in 1 direction across another flood plain due to flooding!

It really does become a case of local knowledge and guesswork. If this road is closed here at this depth, then that road(s) will also be closed. Ironically my escape route is a minor single track dirt road that gets washed away frequently but it runs along the ridge rather than the flood plain so they don't close it. You've got to do 20km along it to find out if you can drive through the flooding at the other end (sometimes you can, sometimes you can't, it depends on how long ago life started draining and if the storm surge has passed through that village)...

I've reached the conclusion that if it rains, your best option is not to plan to go anywhere for a couple of days. Hubby would not have made it into work yesterday in pre covid days.
 
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