The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[StarWarsGirl]

Never saw Gone with the Wind but this was good.

Hated, hated, HATED that movie. Four hours of my life that I will never get back.

 

[MinnieM123]

It was nasty but we are fine. Lots of down stuff, lots of water, my neighbors basement has water with a current.
In and out of warnings for tornadoes all day. They missed us. Amen. Still we had 60 mph sustained winds, river went over but all the mess I just look at the towns that are flattened, many of which you will see roofs on ground, foundations but no clue to what happened to the house that was between the roof and foundation so we were blessed.

Thank goodness you and your family are fine. At lunch time today, I asked a friend at work if I could borrow her laptop for a few minutes, that she had brought in from home (it's not connected to the hospital system). I wanted to briefly look up WDW Magic, to see if you had checked in with your pals here today. I was relieved to read that your family was spared from the tornado in your area.

 

[Gabe1]

Down a foot! Didn't take the wildlife long to come out of hiding and make some lemonade out of the lemons.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

 

[Gabe1]

Thank goodness you and your family are fine. At lunch time today, I asked a friend at work if I could borrow her laptop for a few minutes, that she had brought in from home (it's not connected to the hospital system). I wanted to briefly look up WDW Magic, to see if you had checked in with your pals here today. I was relieved to read that your family was spared from the tornado in your area.

Thanks. We feel totally blessed.

 

[Gabe1]

Hated, hated, HATED that movie. Four hours of my life that I will never get back.

Me Too! Hate was too mild of a word for my review.

When my DD and I came out of the Winnie the Pooh movie a couple years back we too were muttering that was an hour of our life we'd never get back. And we loved every Pooh movie before that.

 

[Gabe1]

Well I came home from work and hubby had a surprise for me. He bought me a game used hockey stick signed by one of my favorite Minnesota Wild players Mikko Koivu! He said he thought about saving it for my birthday or Christmas but he didn't know where to hide it. What a nice surprise! I was also a little surprise at how tall the stick is. I am 5'8" and the stick is as tall as me.

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Congrat's on your stick. I spied a real cool refrigerator!

 

[Gabe1]

I pray no one gets hurt and there is minimal damage, none if possible.

Yep, that would have been nice. Several hurt, last I heard one death loss of many horses and farm animals. Two towns gone, one with no houses left standing. And yet two silos out in the field the tornado hopped right over them and left them be.

 

[Gabe1]

No other travel plans as of now. I'm a contractor so I don't get the perks that other people in my job get. Which leads to no paid vacation, personnel or sick time for one year. But I do get healthcare for free until I go to use it, that is.

But I'm already planning my escape route to another job. I like it just not the company I'm being pay by.

People say it takes up to a year to get up to speed.

Understandable. Glad to see you are setting your goals and gaining experience. Well done!

 

[Goofyernmost]

I've always poked them, probably because my Mama always did.

From the interwebz:

Do you need to poke a potato with a fork before baking?
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December 27, 2007
You have to spend only one afternoon cleaning bits of potato from your oven to know that exploding tubers aren't an old wives' tale. Because of their tough skin and moisture content, these root vegetables build pressure inside as they're baked. Small holes in the skin are necessary to release that steam - just a few on both sides of the potato will do the trick.


For best results, place potatoes directly on an oven rack so that air can circulate around them. Wrapping spuds in aluminum foil traps the steam, resulting in less-crisp skins. When baking sweet potatoes, put a cookie sheet on the rack below them to catch their juices - it's no fun cleaning up that, either.

I think that might be the problem. I would never have spent a day cleaning an oven. My philosophy is that, it's an oven, it's hot in there, eventually it will burn off and if it doesn't there certainly won't be anything left alive in it to cause any trouble. Same with my George Foreman, I clean that once a week whether it needs it or not. I don't fix what ain't broken.

Never saw Gone with the Wind but this was good.

I used up 4 hours of my life watching that movie because my sister wanted to see it and I was talked into going because "it was such a great movie". It was a spectacular, in that sense, but, I frankly couldn't get myself to "give a damn".

Spoiler

When I noticed that one of Scarlet's suitors was George Reeves ( early TV's Superman) after that I kept waiting for him to jump in a phone booth and save the country.

However, in reference to your picture. That was possibly the funniest thing that I had ever seen on television. It was funny enough just visually, but, when she said... "I saw it in the window and just had to have it". I almost wet myself laughing. I couldn't stop. Best scene ever!

 

[Gabe1]

Sorry, but, try as I may, I just couldn't find an image of red poop.

Thank God! The Lord does bless us in mysterious ways.

 

[Gabe1]

Hopefully no one catches him red handed.

*ba-dum-tshh*

 

[Gabe1]

Some people can spend a day in IKEA, I can spend a day at Cabela's.

Cabela's reminds me of our Bass Pro Shop, love that store. It is massive inside.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Me Too! Hate was too mild of a word for my review.

Phew! I am so glad that I am not the only one. It was on a list of recommended viewing for when I took screenwriting (similar to a summer reading list, we had a summer viewing list). I chose it because we had it. I had the DVD subscription to Netflix at the time. Should have gotten something else from that list.

My screenwriting teacher didn't get it. I told him that Scarlett's a b*tch the entire way through and she never changes or gets better; just so selfish that it drove me crazy. He challenged me to find a movie where a woman changes. @JenniferS would have been proud of me; I immediately said Titanic. He shrugged, told me I was right, and walked away.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Ugh. School.

Spanish professor has been horrible about getting grades back to us. We've done lots and lots, and lots of assignments. She has given us two grades back, yet the assignments keep coming. Today was the last day to withdraw from a class. Oh, your grades should definitely be on Blackboard by then, she says.

Just checked. No grades.

I doubt I would have to drop the class because I think my abilities are good enough (and one of the grades she gave back was a 95, so I assume the other assignments are similarly graded). Just annoyed. And remembering why I turned down the free ride from this school two years ago and went to my school.

 

[Eric1955]

Hated, hated, HATED that movie. Four hours of my life that I will never get back.

 

[Eric1955]

Cabela's reminds me of our Bass Pro Shop, love that store. It is massive inside.

I love Bass Pro Shop. Never anything I want to buy there (except food) but I just like going in there.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Just waiting for confirmation as to the September opening date, and Hubby says, "S-crew it. We're booking Coronado Springs ... WITH DDP for all five of us".

Not sure when he won the lottery and didn't tell me.

Sounds good, Coronado is one of my favorite resorts at WDW.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Congrat's on your stick. I spied a real cool refrigerator!

Yeah, I'm a little obsessed with collecting magnets, especially Disney ones too. Not much of the actual refrigerator is able to be seen anymore!

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Ugh. School.

Spanish professor has been horrible about getting grades back to us. We've done lots and lots, and lots of assignments. She has given us two grades back, yet the assignments keep coming. Today was the last day to withdraw from a class. Oh, your grades should definitely be on Blackboard by then, she says.

Just checked. No grades.

I doubt I would have to drop the class because I think my abilities are good enough (and one of the grades she gave back was a 95, so I assume the other assignments are similarly graded). Just annoyed. And remembering why I turned down the free ride from this school two years ago and went to my school.

As a teacher I work really hard to provide quick feedback on assignments to my students (middle school and high schoolers). I need to see how they are doing in case I need to reteach something just as they need to see how they are doing. It really irritates me when teachers take a long time to give feedback to their students. We have a teacher who hasn't graded the last two essays he gave his students, one is from 3 weeks ago! Some of the kids have complained to me but their isn't much I can do but sympathize with them. So I can see how annoying your Spanish situation is, especially with the deadline of withdrawing from the class.