The General Chat Thread (2024)

[TastyReuben]

Woken up at 5:15AM by weather alerts (severe thunderstorms with tornado warnings), lots of lightning and rain. Huge temperature drop, which has been the story here all winter, really wide temperature swings. 67F overnight, and we’ll be in the low 20’s by tonight.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

and we’ll be in the low 20’s by tonight.

We've finally made it into the low 20's as well, only in centigrade! 2am and it's 22°C.

 

[Herbaceous]

Record-setting warm temps yesterday, absolutely unheard of for February. Today the temp is supposed to drop, and all the moisture that’s fallen will flash freeze.

Lucky for me I can stay in - working from home today, and my trip to the barn was cancelled as horsey has decided to declare sovereignty from his left front shoe.

 

[Lullabelle]

Dave Myers, 1 half of The Hairy Bikers has sadly left us

 

[Windigo]

Dave Myers, 1 half of The Hairy Bikers has sadly left us

Yes, I saw it. I posted the news article about it on here before I saw your remark about it. I will miss him a lot

 

[Lullabelle]

Yesterday my colleague became a grandmother for the 12th time, her daughters 8th child

 

[Rocklobster]

Does anybody spend the week planning a weekend meal then eat it in 15 minutes? I laugh at myself sometimes…

 

[TastyReuben]

Does anybody plan a weekend meal all week, then eat it in 15 minutes? I laugh at myself sometimes…

That sounds exactly like Thanksgiving and Christmas!

 

[Rocklobster]

That sounds exactly like Thanksgiving and Christmas!

We’ve been planning a prime rib dinner for a couple of weeks because we don’t have a lot of free time and we also watch our red meat consumption. We’ve just finished talking for the last 20 minutes about what kind of potatoes to eat with it and should we go with gravy or au jus. I plan on knocking the dust off of the sous vide machine which means I have to start a day ahead….later today, we have a meeting planned to go over the vegetable options…

 

[badjak]

Ah, but thinking and talking about food is fun
There's only so long you can talk about the weather

 

[Herbaceous]

We’ve been planning a prime rib dinner for a couple of weeks because we don’t have a lot of free time and we also watch our red meat consumption. We’ve just finished talking for the last 20 minutes about what kind of potatoes to eat with it and should we go with gravy or au jus. I plan on knocking the dust off of the sous vide machine which means I have to start a day ahead….later today, we have a meeting planned to go over the vegetable options…

Do you have your project schedule, scope management plan, risk management plan, resources management plan, and budget lined up, with contingencies in place? I would certainly hope so!

 

[Rocklobster]

I’m submitting the quotes at the end of the day deadline.

 

[rascal]

Lazy day today started with crumpets n vegemite. Bets are on at rangiora. $40 spent. Drive this arvo then out to sons. No Sunday family dinner here so we are going to rolleston where he lives 30 mins south of us. They both work 5 mins from me but they dont mind the commute.
Besides he says he has a belated birthday gift for me. Hasn't bought me one in 3 years. Hes just got back from business trip to Melbourne . Duty free ???
We will see.
Quiet night later which suits me.
Check our bets.
Normally by now I'd be prepping


Russ

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

I don't do much online shopping, but I placed two orders lately and here's how they arrived:

This is from a long standing company in Hawaii that is going out of business, I had to order a pair of my most favorite-est slippers/sandals/flip flops I've ever owned in my entire life! (in Hawaii, it's "slippah" and des ones are da fancy kine, get leather straps and wow, da souls are killa! no steal my slippah, eh!)

When this company had "brick and mortar" shops, I'd shop here maybe two/three times a year, love the quality of their clothes! Both my Mom and I have several pieces from Coldwater Creek.

But look at these mailers will ya!
How cool are these, I ask you?
It's not those horrid grey, nasty, filthy dirty non-descript things, but something very eye-appealing.
I LOVE THEM!

 

[Herbaceous]

Been down most of the day with a migraine. First one I’ve gotten in several months, but I really wish I could go back to getting them never (they started in my late 20s).