The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[donaldtoo]

Well, that was refreshing, and so is the brewski...!!!

Time for a little ketchup...!

 

[donaldtoo]

The neighbors down the road are bbqing and it's wafting in my windows. I'm pretty sure I'lll pass out if I keep trying to breathe it all in. Smells gooooood!

Hahaaa...!
Isn't it awesome!!!
Especially this time of year, someone in the neighborhood is BBQ'n or smokin' somethin' most of the week. And, if your outside, it smells sooo good, indeed (a bit too warm-ish to have open windows 'round here this time of year, though! ) ...!!!

 

[MinnieM123]

This is a relatively new discovery. When I was growing up, everyone had a dog. Dogs generate from a more primitive animal that instinctively eat what they can get and not what will harm them. Chocolate was never considered a problem to my knowledge. It didn't come to my attention until recently when my daughter rescued a pit bull and told me about it. However, it was never a situation of killing the animal, as in dead, but, that it might upset their system, which, btw, should be anything but sensitive, and cause diarrhea. A problem far more significant for a house bound animal. Poison is a bit overkill to me, upsetting may be more accurate, but, that is just what I know about it. I'm not denying anything, just questioning why all of a sudden this is such a problem. Bear in mind that there are absolutely no limits to what I don't know about everything.

Vet told us that dogs are somewhat like people. What affects one, may or may not affect another.

Chocolate has long been a trigger for anaphylactic shock for dogs--animals being rushed to veterinary hospitals around Halloween, Christmas and Easter, when more of that type of food is left around unattended. There's other foods that are also on the danger list--but not every animal will have a reaction. I try to be safe, rather than sorry when it comes to foods for the dog. So far, we've been lucky. Fingers crossed!!

 

[donaldtoo]

Ah, very sensible. Never knew I was enjoying such international fare all this time.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

OK, it's 96 degrees here with a heat index of 108...and I just finished mowing the back yard...!!!!!
I. Am. Insane.
And, no...I'm not also mowing the front yard today. I'm soaked with sweat and need to rinse off. Then, I'm gonna' have a coupla' beers and play ketchup here...!!!

Sounds like you deserve a brewskie after mowing in that heat. Hubby mowed our lawn today too but we are in the mid-80s with a nice breeze.

 

[Cesar R M]

There's an interesting correlation between allergies and poverty as well, so exposure might be the common thread. My SIL teaches in a school that serves children below the poverty line and there's one kid with allergies in the whole school. When we had our baby she was in a lower income daycare because it was the only one that offered the hours we needed and same thing there, only two children had allergies. When we switched to her current school it's all middle and upper class families and at least ten percent of the families have severe allergies.

To resume, the human inmune system needs to keep working and learn what is bad and what is good. Specially during the young ages.
If you do not give them much (over-protectiveness or extreme Germanophobes) will start attacking or overreacting to anything that is usual for us.

 

[donaldtoo]

I could use a backyard makeover like that

Who couldn't...?!!!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Toshibas and old IBM (now Lenovo) where built like tanks.

Dell XPS units as well.
Now they are crap plastic (specially most of the Alienware brand)

I honestly think Microsoft makes the best Windows PCs now. I've had it for over two years now, and it's gotten heavy use. Other than that the battery life isn't as good anymore, I haven't noticed any performance degradation. When I eventually get another computer, probably getting another Surface. I also have a Lenovo laptop that basically lives in my room. Performance is still pretty good, but I have to keep replacing screws on it.

My work laptop is also a Lenovo. It works very well, but it has Windows 7 on it, which drives me bonkers. It also isn't very powerful, with only 4 GBs of ram. Excel crashes a good bit when I've got large spreadsheets.

 

[FutureCEO]

Sorry about the loss of electricity and storm, but glad to hear you are up and running again.

I have heard that too about kids and allergies. It makes sense to me, I can't remember any of the kids in my class when I was a kid being allergic to anything and now there are more allergies. Although one kid I grew up with had an "allergy" to chocolate, his mom said he did but that kid ate chocolate all the time. It just is strange to me how things have developed. However, where I teach and live is a rural community and we have very few kids with allergies. In 17 years of teaching I have only had 1 student with a nut allergy and that was a mild one (he said if he ate anything with nuts his throat would get scratchy and just needed benadryl). But I have friends that teach in more urban areas and they have had many students with a multitude of allergies, many severe. So I don't know if it is just because they have more contact with more people and see it more or what. I remember reading that kids that have pets, especially dogs, have better developed immune systems because their bodies learn to deal with all the stuff dogs bring in. And my students basically all have access to many types of animals as pets and on farms so that might be a difference. I'm sure people are born with a genetic disposition to allergies too. A modern day mystery I guess.

modern day too many shots giving to kids in such a little time

 

[donaldtoo]

We had pieces in our yard one year. I gathered them up in the morning when the dog and I went for a walk and put them on their yard in a little pile.

You should have called them, or gone to their door, and asked them nicely to please come clean up their mess instead of being so passive aggressive...!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

I unexpectedly got July 4th off! A free day! What to do...

Hope you enjoyed...!

 

[Cesar R M]

I honestly think Microsoft makes the best Windows PCs now. I've had it for over two years now, and it's gotten heavy use. Other than that the battery life isn't as good anymore, I haven't noticed any performance degradation. When I eventually get another computer, probably getting another Surface. I also have a Lenovo laptop that basically lives in my room. Performance is still pretty good, but I have to keep replacing screws on it.

My work laptop is also a Lenovo. It works very well, but it has Windows 7 on it, which drives me bonkers. It also isn't very powerful, with only 4 GBs of ram. Excel crashes a good bit when I've got large spreadsheets.

It all depends on luck, there are a lot of complains about the surface pro 4.
Many fans of the PRO 3 hoped to see reliability and all issues of the PRO 5 to fix the issues of the PRO 4.

Also, most high end laptops can be expanded in memory.
Have you tried to check if your laptop has user expandable memory?

 

[betty rose]

So @betty rose back to the Indiana thing. I got a call from my ex-sister-in-law that they're going enroll my daughter in summer camp five days a week from 8-4. I'm kinda thinking what the dingdang? She went out to spend time with the other side of the family. She'll come home to 2 weeks of actually goofing off before school starts. Can ya tell I'm a little miffed by this?

I would be too. That's not for them to do without your permission. I would be more than miffed.....I would be cussing up a storm....

 

[betty rose]

I have not ever driven into the loop of downtown Chicago. Ever. I dislike having to drive into other areas of the City too. The roads are too narrow for the amount of cars. When they were built there were dramatically less cars. There is not room to widen the main streets as their are carriage sidewalks then buildings. I'll take a bus, a train, Uber or a taxi in the Loop. Car nope.

Sister and I drove the down town loop when she was 18. I was scared for my life. She thought it was fun.

 

[betty rose]

I loved Johnny. Before Cable TV or VCRs, he was a good choice when there were only a half dozen choices.

He was great. I would love to stay up and watch him....so funny. I loved his dry sense of humor. Just like Bob Newhart.

 

[betty rose]

Blah no doubt if Disney really does replace Figment with Sadness I will not be a happy camper

Me too, who wants to be sad on a vacation? Another dumb move on Disney's part.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

It all depends on luck, there are a lot of complains about the surface pro 4.
Many fans of the PRO 3 hoped to see reliability and all issues of the PRO 5 to fix the issues of the PRO 4.

Also, most high end laptops can be expanded in memory.
Have you tried to check if your laptop has user expandable memory?

I haven't checked my work laptop to see if its ram can be expanded, but my company owns that laptop, not me. If it keeps crashing, I switch to using my Surface. I actually use it a good bit at work. The touchscreen makes moving objects on the screen easier.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

You should have called them, or gone to their door, and asked them nicely to please come clean up their mess instead of being so passive aggressive...!!!!!

Nah, then I would have to talk to them and I would rather not.

 

[betty rose]

Hello, everyone. I'm trying to cope with the family changes. It's kind of tough right now. I want to spend tomorrow catching up on here. I miss you all right now. My life has become more complicated . Hubby and I are trying to figure out what tomorrow holds. This is more stress than we can cope with at the moment. My blood pressure is through the roof. I'm trying to stay calm, but this is out of my reach. We both need lot's of pixie dust and prayers.

 

[betty rose]

Yea, bad Doctor...they don't always know everything, do they...!!!

They sure don't. I really miss my real Doctor, this just seems like a go by the book, fill in. She likes lots of prescribed drugs. So not me....