The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[MOXOMUMD]

Onion soup. My favorite.

Mine too! YumYum!

 

[Andrew C]

Wow I have been gone forever. Too much independence day partying.

 

[betty rose]

I don't remember all the details about the plane, I remember them saying there were only a few left of that model, I just thought it was cool. My grandfather was in WWII in the Europe theater and he didn't talk about it much, he wasn't there for D-day but was there about a week later. I remember that he got wounded and had a piece of shrapnel in his neck because of the war. He never got it removed, it was supposedly in a place that if it wasn't removed correctly it could have paralyzed him. He had four other brothers that all served in WIII, only one was in the Pacific theater (he was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and was severely tortured but despite that he was the nicest man). All the boys survived WWII which was pretty lucky. I guess that is where my interest comes from. Really anything from the turn of the century (1900's) to the late 1950's is my favorite time period.

I want to express my sincerest sympathy. I 'm so thankful that your family were willing to serve. We also had family members in that horrible war, I'm so proud of all who served.

 

[betty rose]

Out for tonight, I'm such an early bird...party on... people!

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Okay now to the part of my Paris trip you will have been waiting for....Disneyland Paris. The park was nice, it has been a little neglected and they are sprucing it up. My husband compared it to an Impressionist painting...pretty from far away but a mess up close. The food here was terrible at the quick service restaurants and better in the sit down restaurants. Some rides like Big Thunder and Pirates were in my opinion the best versions of the three main Disney Parks I've been too. Ask if you have any questions but I'll get some stuff posted today and post more tomorrow.

Disneyland Hotel at the entrance


Train Station




The Molly Brown

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Wow, no reason to upgrade or something?

Long story short with details I prefer not to talk about, my ex pays for the phone. I can't demand an upgrade.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

The daytime parade


American scenes in it's a small world


the dragon in the bottom of the castle

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

The castle at DLP rivals my love of Cinderella castle in WDW.


It was the original Star Tours in DLP, except in French


Dream's their nightly show.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

The Dreams show started at park close, and after the show was done the cast members were very serious about getting guests out of the park. I was a little disappointed as one of my favorite things to do at the American parks is find a bench at night and relax. I did get some good almost empty night pictures though, as hubby had to go to the bathroom before we left the park.

 

[FutureCEO]

Disneyland Paris looks so beautiful. The Americans parks have no greenery except for AK.

 

[Andrew C]

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The Dreams show started at park close, and after the show was done the cast members were very serious about getting guests out of the park. I was a little disappointed as one of my favorite things to do at the American parks is find a bench at night and relax. I did get some good almost empty night pictures though, as hubby had to go to the bathroom before we left the park.
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You are getting me excited for my October DLP trip!

 

[Gabe1]

Wow I have been gone forever. Too much independence day partying.

We have a double-header. 4th last weekend and this weekend is Summer Fling. (know to many in town as Beer Fest 1.0 with Octoberfest being Beer Fest 2.0 followed up by Wine Fest and the week after Craft Beer Week competitions. )

I don't go to most cause some of these peeps are beyond toasty. One year I was looking at one older-ish man and swearing that I knew him. I did, just didn't recognize him at first without being in uniform, it was one of the Deputies. Yeah, he is retired now, whoosh he was toasty that night.

 

[Gabe1]

Well lets see how long I can stay awake. I'm out in the gazebo, not the place to fall asleep but I can hear the Summer Fling music.from here in my comfy chair, adult juice that isn't in a red cup. Kinda peaceful.

 

[Gabe1]

Thank you so much! I need 'em. We are all on vacation right now at WDW and it's been a little bumpy so far. Hopefully it'll get smoother as we go along.

Hope it is an amazing trip. How old is your DD?

 

[Gabe1]

Oh, we only have 2 window a/c's; one in the bedroom, and one in the livingroom. A few years ago, the landlord wanted to put in central air, and I begged him not to do that. The reason was that running a/c throughout (when we're not in every room, every hour of the day), would kill us on the electric bill. As much as I love the colder temps, we only use the a/c's when we really need them (such as nighttime for sleeping), and then on the hotter/more humid days in the summer, downstairs in the livingroom. Luckily, our place is so small, that the smaller a/c window units are certainly adequate.

For the most part I grew up with central A/C when we moved out of the city. My folks installed the central the first summer. I actually kinda get individual units though, more cost effective really. My condo had two units but they were in the wall units vs in the window. Same thing but better location.

 

[Gabe1]

I hope you do not have to prepare a burial for your poor tomato plants.

Thanks, me too. They have all the signs over watering and no heat for growth or drying up excess moisture. We are suppose to have 4 days of hot and humid in a row but both Saturday and Sunday call for rain.

 

[Cesar R M]

They're good for a lot of things. They make good packing materials as well. Newsprint with no ink means wrapping plates and things without a telltale ink blotch left on them that has to be cleaned off. When you are starting up a run it used to take about 50 to 100 copies (if not more) before you actually got any useable copies. Those were bundled up and taken to paper salvage places. I used to get them home, pallets full at a time, and burn them in my wood stove along with the wood. They burned as long as a log and were cleaner and more thoroughly consumed. Never needed to get the chimney cleaned. Just threw them in there in a bundle.


Part of the problem is that they really plan it that way. For example, I have a George Foreman grill that I really love and it works great. I am at a point where I need to replace the top and bottom grills. I went searching and found that I can buy the top and bottom grill for $125.00 total. I can buy the entire machine, brand new, for $95.00. So a unit that works perfectly well, will be junked because I'm not going to spend and additional $30.00 to fix an old grill when I can get it brand new.

Another culprit is the absolute gullibility of the public. Do you notice now that everything has a freshness date on it. These are items that are sealed and have a shelf live of years and they have made it so you throw it out if it goes past that imaginary date. Even things like milk, which you can tell when it is bad quite easily, just take a sniff, have dates and without checking I've seen people throw it out because it was a day past it's "recommended" date. Soft drinks, beer (which by the way has aging as a need to come into it's prime) and other things to numerous to mention are now being tossed out due to some vague, undefined dating process. Sometimes we get exactly what we deserve.

while I agree with almost everything, I disagree on the milk.

I bet a lot of vendors got sued by suehappy people, because the milk was expired in the stores(as in smelling bad).
so the thing was mostly health issued.

 

[Gabe1]

One of my duties at work is proofreading articles written for medical journals, etc. I like proofreading, and catch all kinds of errors. Autocorrect is lame in many ways, and we never rely on it.

I just saw one of my posts quoted and I used the word wuss. Now I don't know what I was planning on using in lieu of wuss but wuss in not a word that is generally part of my vernacular.

 

[Cesar R M]

I know what you mean about the grill and replacing it. I was going to get my couch recovered because the upholstery is really worn but it costs less to buy a new couch and love seat!

yeah, but sometimes you have to check carefully.

as some companies.. to drive down costs.. put less quality materials.
So, the new couch might have "agglomerated wood"(compressed shredded wood) than real wood beams.
things like that.
I've seen the same drop in quality in clothing washing machines as well.

the older ones could easily withstand a hurricane or a bomb.
now they get corroded by just sitting there.

 

[Cesar R M]

did you know, you can buy a USB compatible phone like these? so you can still SLAM your phone while using your cell phone as an antenna