The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

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[catmom46]

I'm sure there's cheaper gas in the country but I got gas for $2.05 today. A price not seen in a while.

That's a price we'll never see again out here. Lowest it's been in recent years was just under $3.

 

[catmom46]

Pie crust making is a killer to me. It's really hard to make from scratch. I've chilled the dough and even that doesn't help much. I put in enough water to just hold together the dough, but it still falls apart before I can roll it out very much. If it add too much water, the cooked consistency is weird and not flaky. Some people just always make great pie crusts (apparently you're one of them), but I've failed.

According to the cookbook I use, the key to a good pie crust is the fat used. Butter makes it flavorful and easy to handle, while vegetable shortening or margarine makes a flaky crust. So if you want both, you can combine fats. I usually like to use all butter, though. If you want the recipe, I can PM it to you.

 

[catmom46]

The poor tourists always get a bum rap!

Out here they deserve my disdain of their inability to realize that I need to get to work, so they need to get out of my way on the road!

 

[donaldtoo]

So, to wrap up our NOLA trip report...

We had a 2-room suite. We let DDs have the nicer one. DS slept on an air mattress on the floor in our room. The place was nice.
I took these pics just before we left, so the rooms weren't in the best shape. And, again, please excuse the photo quality of some/all of these pics.

Mine, DWifey, and DSs room...



The girls room...



The hotel used to be a bank.
The old bank vault, the elevator lobby, the restaurant, and the front desk and doors out to the valet parking...






While we were waitng for our car (y'all know the story ), a Saints game day parade, and some Saints fans throwing beads off a bus (at least we had a bit of entertainment while we waited )...




And, finally, riding (I wasn't driving ) off into the sunset back to Austin...



Thanks again for indulging me, gang!
It was such a great trip...!
More great family memories to last a lifetime...!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

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1 day until Fall.

very cute!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

We spent a great deal of time in school on cursive and did my kids. My handwriting isn't and never was pretty, very legiable but ugly by teachers standards for girls, I was at a male standard, teachers 'bar' not mine. We could not have the privledge of writing with a pen until the teachers subjective 'bar' was reached, one standard for girls and one for boys. I'd like cursive to still be taught but lighten up the skill requirements, homework practice and grading.

I agree with the touch typing though. 4th grade all students in computer lab 3x a week were taught touch typing, keyboarding from a program. There was a mat that eventually went over the keys so the students could not peek. Every student had to complete the program sucessfully. One of the better skills our elementary students were taught. Both of my kids had excellent typing skills that greatly improved through high school and college.

Me I'd like to pull the rug out completely on the common core philosophy. Could be the strangest, poorly conceived concepts ever inflected on students. The check a father wrote to a school district demonstrates how silly it is if applied in real life.

id honestly censor the signature just saying.

 

[Cesar R M]

What I find ridiculous is the differing standard for boys and girls. The standard should have been the same across the board. Although my experience is that boys have poorer handwriting in general than girls, there are men with nice handwriting and women with lousy handwriting. Standard should have been legibility and for individual students to improve to that standard. Hmph.

The amount of college students who can't touch type is almost silly. I did an online typing test a while back and can do about 80 words a minute. Not bad. And is why I prefer to type when possible. We were taught in middle school how to touch type, but the tech ed teacher made it fun. He had us use online games for practice. When you were finished your work, that was what you were allowed to do. That's how I learned. That, and with playing piano, it came naturally.

theres a lot of different standards for kids and girls..
The most annoying are under the excuse of "boys will be boys".
aka boys can dress the hell they want, but girls should never show any bits of skin.. because it "unsettles the boys".

its facepalm inducing imho.

 

[Cesar R M]

Worryingly i didnt have to think to read this !!!

The mind is amazing..It reminds me these tests where they change most letters for numbers, and the brain can still read the content just fine.

But in our case.. I think we have been with kids online too much. (l33t speak and bad english online)

 

[Cesar R M]

Made by BONNIE cowBELL

Inspired by Mr. Walken?

great minds...

 

[Cesar R M]

$1.85 here and I'm loving it. Of course it would be nice to keep going down.

dang.. can you guys sell us gas?
our government expects us to pay the lower gas prices worldwide by paying 4x the real rate. So they can still milk us and have their corrupted trips worldwide and illegal buyings.
my country is soooo corrupt its not even funny.

 

[Goofyernmost]

That's a price we'll never see again out here. Lowest it's been in recent years was just under $3.

Last Saturday I paid $1.98. I can't remember when the last time it was that cheap. Actually, I remember that when I went to WDW in 1983 the price was .99 per gallon. I thought that was terribly expensive.

 

[ShoalFox]

This week is so weird. I don't have school tomorrow thanks to Yom Kippur, but I still had school yesterday and today and still have it on Thursday and Friday.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Happy Midweek Y'all
Only 9 days until "National name your car day"

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Last Saturday I paid $1.98. I can't remember when the last time it was that cheap. Actually, I remember that when I went to WDW in 1983 the price was .99 per gallon. I thought that was terribly expensive.

Dang i wish i could get fuel that cheap.One of the supermarket forecourts ran a promotion a few weekends ago where it was 99p a Litre.Doing the math with the exchange rate and converting it up to price per gallon it comes to approx

Spoiler

$5.77 a gallon

 

[catmom46]

Dang i wish i could get fuel that cheap.One of the supermarket forecourts ran a promotion a few weekends ago where it was 99p a Litre.Doing the math with the exchange rate and converting it up to price per gallon it comes to approx

Spoiler

$5.77 a gallon

Ouch.

 

[Gabe1]

That's a price we'll never see again out here. Lowest it's been in recent years was just under $3.

I paid $2.60 Saturday today I saw $2.53 a gallon. Sure goes up faster than it comes down, all while the reserves are at an all time high in the US.

 

[Gabe1]

dang.. can you guys sell us gas?
our government expects us to pay the lower gas prices worldwide by paying 4x the real rate. So they can still milk us and have their corrupted trips worldwide and illegal buyings.
my country is soooo corrupt its not even funny.

Most are. Have you noticed how many of our leaders are in prison?

 

[Songbird76]

That's a price we'll never see again out here. Lowest it's been in recent years was just under $3.

We're only paying $6.06 per gallon right now. That's the lowest it's been in YEARS. A couple of years ago we were paying almost $10 per gallon.

 

[Songbird76]

According to the cookbook I use, the key to a good pie crust is the fat used. Butter makes it flavorful and easy to handle, while vegetable shortening or margarine makes a flaky crust. So if you want both, you can combine fats. I usually like to use all butter, though. If you want the recipe, I can PM it to you.

May I have the recipe, please?