The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[StarWarsGirl]

So Microsoft is coming out with an update to their Surface tablets in May. Not the Pros, but like what I currently have. The thing is that my tablet 1. Does not support Chrome, only has Internet Explorer, 2. Does not support Kindle textbooks, which I need for school, and 3. Will not be eligible for the Windows 10 update. The new Surface 3 has the full Windows 8.1 system and will be eligible for the Windows 10 upgrade, and therefore runs full desktop programs, so I would be able to get Chrome and the Kindle desktop reader on there, so I'd be able to read my textbooks and would only have to carry it around instead of it plus my 7 inch Android tablet.

Originally, I was thinking no because I've only had my current tablet for two years, and it seems silly to have it just laying around, plus my keyboard won't work on the new ones, so I'd have to get a new keyboard. But then my dad says that if I got a new tablet, he would take my current one because he can use it for work, and he doesn't mind IE, and he would help me pay for a new one (not 100%, but part of it). Plus, since I'm a student, Microsoft offers a decent discount if I buy directly from them.

Now I'm just debating. To spend the money or not to spend the money...

 

[Gabe1]

I don't understand their policies either, but the not eating meat rule only applies to Catholics for the Fridays in Lent. So maybe their business practices cater to the many other Christians (on Good Friday), for whom the meat ban doesn't apply.

That is so true. Some religions Fast vs giving up meat for Friday. When I was small it was every Friday we did not eat meat. After we made our communion we were to Fast from Saturday dinner until after we received communion on Sunday Morning at Mass. They finally threw that out the window because so many people kept passing out or having hypoglycemic episodes.

But to what @Goofyernmost was speaking to about meat and the owners of Chick fil a they are not Catholic. They are Southern Baptists. Some are more prone to fasting in some way over banning meat.

 

[Gabe1]

Yes, I love those solid chocolate little eggs in foil, too! Your Easter basket sounds just like mine when I was little--my mom always put in a stuffed rabbit or chickie for me!! I remember hardly sleeping the night before Easter, as I knew the Easter Bunny would be tip-toeing in (paw-toeing in?? ) with a wonderful basket of goodies. It practically matched the excitement of Christmas morning after Santa left me gifts, too! Ah . . . fond memories . . .

I miss my kids following all the clues in Easter Eggs till they finally found their baskets. Gave them a lot of exercise before they ate all that stuff.

 

[Gabe1]

Ew . . . my father used to LOVE anchovies, but I always thought they were salty and just vile. Must be an acquired taste??

Or something out of that generation. My Mom liked anchovies and sardines. Either, bluck.

 

[donaldtoo]

OK gang, I'm out...
Sweet dreams to all...!
And, happy Easter to all that celebrate it...!!!
Laterrrrrr...!!!!!

 

[Gabe1]

During the fall months in the town I grew up in, it was not at all uncommon for the fathers on the street to be out at the curbside burning piles of leaves, they had just raked up from their lawns. (What strikes me even funnier about this years later, is that I never once saw any of the mothers doing this--it was a "fathers only" thing to burn the leaves. )

Anyway, on a typical fall Saturday, the smoke from all these fires would waft up and down the street; and as kids, we used to love to run through the sometimes dense smoke clouds (seriously, you can't make up this stuff! ) and I used to love the smell of burning leaves! (Note: There were a few near misses with cars that would be driving down the street, because they couldn't see us! )

Then, when I was maybe 10 years old, the town council voted to stop the leaf-burning ritual each fall, because they felt it contributed to air pollution. Luckily by that time, I had outgrown the thrill of running through smoke clouds into oncoming traffic!

When we moved to the suburbs all the neighbors did the leaf burn too, my Dad never did likely because you couldn't do that in the City 'cause there were not vacant curbs, bumper to bumper cars in street. Eventually it was banned in the suburbs for the Clean Air movement. They they started dumping all this in landfills, then they banned that too having to go elsewhere for disposal.

 

[Gabe1]

I'm a grown man yet my mom still gets me a easter basket every year.

I still make my adult kids Easter Baskets. Walt gets one too!

 

[Gabe1]

Glad you had fun. Where did you go that it was so crowded?

The trio of Outlet Malls from Kenosha to West of Milwaukee. A spring tradition first started with my DS when he went to college in Kenosha and it grew on my DD that we always went on her Spring Breaks. Now we just pretend it is Spring Break. We never did Good Friday before.

 

[Gabe1]

@JenniferS I went into the Converse outlet store, no pink slips like you wanted. They have a different one in pink but it has laces for show

 

[Gabe1]

You never had a thin crust seafood pizza?

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[Gabe1]

Is it as big as it looks?

So many things we wanted to do/try in World Showcase these past few years that just didn't happen due to that sea of humanity called Food & Wine.
This year, for sure!!!

P.S. - We ALL like food pics!

That could be the upside of not having the dining plan. More room too for the specialty treats. That is why my DD and I have opted for the QS plan lately. As much as I love so many TS places no way can I go snacking around the World.

 

[Gabe1]

Mom is very involved in church (as is pop), working with Alzheimer's patients, in the yard, etc..
Energizer bunnies, they are.

Ha! That post didn't read so well the first go around. church putting the alzheimer patients in the yard and all.

 

[Gabe1]

good to know I'm not the only one with problems when strong smells are there.
I sometimes "mini faint"( Ie, less than a sec of severe dizzyness ) when I visit carpenters who has enclosed and dark buildings. The smell makes me uneasy.

Detergents, not so much anymore ( I used to have the same when I was young)

Makes me wonder if you are allergic to something with the lumber products???

 

[Gabe1]

The sheet at the foot of our bed...

 

[Gabe1]

When I used to spend my summers as a kid in Niagara Falls, we (sister, cousins, friends) would always swim at the pool at my grandfather's hotel and then go next door to the DQ for a blizzard and a burger. I always thought the food at the DQ's in Canada were better, but the blizzards are better down here.

I had to go back and look when Blizzards came about at DQ 'cause they were not around when I was small. 1985

 

[Gabe1]

Also, the Boss is being cagey about who my partner is going to be.

Well that's not good.

 

[Gabe1]

If you were me, would you cancel your DoubleTree Suites DTD reservation and stay at Pop Century if price increase (room + parking as DT charges for parking) was about $10 a night. Or would you stay with the doubletree?

Would you do any EMHs? I'd like the Suite over Pop small rooms. Is the baby going along?

 

[Gabe1]

That fact is astounding to me, because I have always loved Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce!! But, how can that be? I can't stand anchovies!!

There are lots of ingredients in foods that get masked so I ignore it. Jello for one...... Just try not to think of it.

 

[Cesar R M]

I always stay on Disney property. Plus if you stay at POP you can eat at the yummy Art of Animation foodcourt.

I only have heard nothing but nightmare of the POP's and AOA's foodcourt.
I honestly did not like the food court at POR either.

 

[Cesar R M]

View attachment 89099 It's here.

I hope some day I will be able to taste these kind of pizzas.