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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Working a long middle today. Supposed to be pretty cool again. The veggie chili came out great, and hot enough, though I could have made it hotter. Didn't quite melt anyone's face but we have several days worth of leftovers.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. it's wonderful Wednesday! Working that long middle again today. I worked the schedule for next week on Monday, and today we get to do ordering.
Still issues with the HVAC in the fuel kiosk and it's supposed to be a bit warmer today so we may need to get some assistance to guard and leave the door open in the hottest part of the afternoon. We'll see.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! The problem with the HVAC first turned up when someone came to open on a chilly morning and changed it from COOL to HEAT. Heat didn't come on, and then later in the morning, when it warmed up, COOL didn't come back on either. They came out and supposedly fixed it but the next day, wasn't working again. They came back and supposedly fixed it again. There weren't any chilly mornings for a while and the COOL seemed to be working fine. Then, once again, on a chilly morning it was switched from COOL to HEAT and, once again, nothing worked after that. Heat wasn't working, air conditioning wasn't working. Clearly, something about switching from COOL to HEAT was breaking the whole system. The thermostat would always show that it was working, but the system itself was NOT working. They came out last Saturday and worked on it, and claimed they'd be back Monday with a part. Haven't seen them since. Did my best to escalate this last night before coming home, as the afternoons are getting quite warm again. For the first part of the week, temperatures were remaining relatively cool and the kiosk wasn't getting too bad, but the afternoons are getting pretty warm again and it's definitely a problem.
But I'm NOT WORKING today so, at least for today, it's not MY PROBLEM.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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J finished off the last of the veggie chili tonight. I had already warmed my food just before he got home and was eating it. After warming his chili, the microwave decided to go PFFT when I went to warm something else for him. Apparently there is something in the innards behind the control panel generating enough RF interference to reset the panel after the microwave runs for 1 second. It had reset a couple of times in the last few days but I wasn't too concerned, figuring maybe just a glitch or minuscule power failure.
So while I warmed his other food in the toaster oven I installed a piece of foil (inside a thick plastic bag) behind the control panel to keep RF interference and alien mind readers from messing with the control panel.
So, yes, a new microwave IS in our future, but for the moment we can keep using the old one. The turntable was getting kind of creaky too, and I'm sure that the "money's worth" issue on the old one has long been taken care of.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Working another long middle today. It's suppose to get pretty warm this afternoon, so I sure hope they got the air fixed.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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The "repaired" microwave is still apparently running fine. At work the AC was working until just a few minutes before I got there today. Then the fan motor died and after hours of work the Kroger techs got that replaced and the unit was finally running about 3:30 this afternoon. For how long this time? Who the heck knows? But I survived the early part of the afternoon with a couple of bags of ice and a box fan, replaced my backup drive at home since the old one bit the dust on the 14th, got the main grocery shopping done and made dinner. OK. It was frozen pizza, but it was DINNER.
I'm feeling quite accomplished...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! Working a short middle today. My back was really aching last night, but a couple of PM ibuprofen pain pills finally helped me get to sleep.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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In good news, I was able to get the old backup drive to spin up again and I'm now running a secure erase on it. The bad news on that is that it's a 2 TB drive so this secure erase is going to take a LONG time as it has to overwrite the data on the whole partition. I may see about cutting it off after just one or two passes instead of letting it go the whole 7. I expect it to run AT LEAST all night and well into tomorrow at the least.
But at least then I can feel secure in disposing of the drive without having to physically take it apart and destroy it, assuming it will stay spinning long enough for the secure erase to finish. I kind of beat it up in case it was just getting sticky and then managed to get it going so we'll see.
The new drive is purring along nicely. It's 5 TB so will hold a LOT more backup data. I got one that was formatted for PC as they are almost always cheaper than one that's formatted for Mac. And the only real difference is the format. It only took me a short while to reformat it for Mac and probably saved me at least $100 in price.
The pizza last night was not microwave, it was Tombstone. Baked in the regular oven. Quite good actually.0 -
Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Closing tonight, but just a 5 hour shift.
Got all the laundry done yesterday evening, after working my 4 hour middle.
My secure erase is still running on the old hard drive backup! It should finish before lunchtime I think.Hi Ed
I agree having sold Mac and PC formatted drives in the past. As long as they were USB based only the format was different and the price
5Tb is a large drive. I have been going the other direction and getting 2TB Portable drives vs 3 or larger externals just to have space to put them away offline and reduce the Medusa of wiring by the computer.
Tombstone Pizza used to be advertised on the TV, I haven't seen it there in a while however.
Cheers
Roger
I remember lots of print ads asking "What do you want on your Tombstone" but I haven't even seen any of those ads in quite a while. I guess when you're up in the top (on frozen pizza) you don't need to advertise as much.
Some of the best frozen pizza is made by Schwan's, under various brand names, but Nestlé (formerly Kraft, but they sold their frozen pizza to Nestlé) puts plenty of toppings on the Tombstone pizza and they cook up quite nicely. We usually like them when we have them, which is rarely.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Supposed to be rainy and icky all day. Joy.
Closing tonight, in the rain and cold.
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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! It's supposed to hover around 50 all day, and be rainy and totally BLECH!
I've had a pound of light red kidney beans soaking all night. Shortly before I leave for my 7 hour middle shift I'll be starting them with carrots, celery, vegetable broth, onions, garlic, herbs and seasoning for my, somewhat spicier than most, Pasta e Fagioli. I'll add the ditalini and the tomato at the end, after I get home tonight.
I've never actually used kidney beans for this dish. In fact I haven't used them much at all, as I remember kidney beans not being a favorite as a child, but I decided last night, on the spur of the moment, to give them a try again as an adult. Tastes change and there is no reason to exclude one bean because of a childhood distaste. I'm pretty sure they have been included in the 15 bean soup mixes I've made and I didn't find them annoying or bothersome at all in those so they can be the stars tonight!
Besides, slow cooking in a crock pot can make just about anything tasty and tender.
Got to drink my tea, and pet my Lilo (in my lap) and then get ready for work!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Got to get off to work. Opening today.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Friday night I'll be closing, and Monday I will start being the in charge person. Not sure if I'm looking forward to that or not but I've always been pushed toward management since I got into my forties. I managed to avoid it until then except for a brief stint as assistant manager of a small convenient store in my 20s. To be fair, they pushed all along, but I pushed back. I was a pretty high level manager when I retired from government service, though.
At least I got the schedule for next week done, with no help from the current manager!
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Howdy y'all. it's thrilling Thursday! I think I am going to try to get to the Farmers Market on Buford to get some wood ear mushrooms and bamboo. Maybe a large bottle of soy sauce and some fruit too.
I found a "copycat" recipe for P.F. Chang's hot and sour soup that doesn't sound terribly complicated. There was one restaurant in Memphis that used to make a vegetarian version of hot and sour that J loved, but then they went back to making it with chicken broth, just like all the rest, and he had to give it up.
Every recipe I found in my print cookbooks, and, at first, online, called for so many ingredients, and so many different kinds of mushrooms, and was so complicated I just didn't want to go there but with this one I can just omit the chicken, sub vegetable broth for the chicken broth, and go! We'll see how tasty it is.
No, the fruit doesn't go in the soup...but if I'm there I always look at the fruit.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Update:
Lunch was delicious! And there is enough hot and sour soup left for another meal.
I got some mandarin oranges for me and some Taylor pears for the sugar gliders.
My home made, vegetarian hot and sour soup:
Ingredients:
32 oz (1 qt) vegetable stock
14 oz medium firm, firm, or extra firm tofu, cubed
1 cup soy sauce
1 tsp white pepper
6 oz bamboo shoots, cut into strips (canned is fine)
4 oz wood ear mushrooms, cut into strips
4 oz shiitake mushrooms, diced small
½ cup cornstarch
½ cup water
2 eggs, beaten
4 oz white vinegar
Directions:
In a large pot, bring stock to boil. Add soy sauce, white pepper, bamboo, mushrooms and tofu. Stir. Let cook for 3 to 5 minutes.
While cooking, in separate bowl combine cornstarch and water to make slurry. Add slurry a little at a time and stir until thick.
Add eggs while stirring and cook for 30 seconds or until eggs are done.
Turn off heat. Add vinegar, give it a quick stir. Spoon into bowls and enjoy!
Serves 4 to 6.
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Closing tonight, but might have to make it an 8 hour close. It appears I'll be starting as manager with a severe worker shortage as the new lady has already quit! That leaves me with only 3 people, one of whom can only work weekends. This is NOT GOOD.
The stress may burn me out before I even get started right. I'm already contemplating looking for another job myself...
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Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! Happy Halloween!
Let me clarify, that I have 3 people that work for me. I work too, so that does make four of us. Even so, if I max everyone out I still need help from inside. Next week I'm scheduled for 40, which is normal, as the manager is supposed to work 40. Both of the more available people are scheduled for 40. And the weekend guy (in college) is scheduled for the 15 that is all that he can work. I have a three hour period that is uncovered and a four hour period, and if they can't cover them, then S and myself will likely be the ones working a bit of overtime. Kroger HATES overtime too so they'll be doing their best, but I happen to know that 4 people in there walked last week so they are a bit short too. Might be managers from in there covering those short shifts!
We have J's mother and sister visiting, but we already had obligations to a party/club meeting tonight that they wouldn't want to attend, as they don't know anyone there, and aren't members. They'll find something to do. I heard rumors of El Porton for today but don't know if they meant they are going (for dinner, while we're at our function) or if we're all supposed to be going for lunch. I guess I'll find out when people start getting up.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Had leftover pizza for breakfast. Sipping tea now (late tea, but I was distracted by all the clocks that needed resetting, and then watered the indoor plants. I just didn't FEEL like resetting the clocks last night so just did the two digital clocks that only require setting a switch from DST off to DST on.
Too bad you can't magically reset analog clocks that way. And come to that, why don't ALL digital clocks have that easy switch setting?
Anyway, mother in law and sister in law are still here and I guess I need to get showered as I'm sure they'll want to be going out to lunch shortly.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy, y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Off to the rat mines...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Getting ready for another day at the salt races.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Off to the rat mines again. I survived two days so far!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Today, for the first time, I woke up one minute BEFORE my alarm went off. I guess my body is slowly getting trained. Off to the salt races!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
I had a customer ask me this morning if I'd lost "a lot" of weight!
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Off to the salt races.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! I've just finished folding the last of yesterday's laundry and scheduled bill payments online so NOTHING ELSE WHATSOEVER is on the "required" list today.
This is good, since it's supposed to be a VERY soggy day, with rain at 100%. I recall hearing some thunder during the night but not terribly loud. Lilo is in my lap, her favorite spot other than on the little Apple computer that she has claimed as HER bun warmer. Well, she also likes to snuggle up with me in the bed but that's for nap time or night time sleep.
I have a small chuck roast thawing to make pot roast or stew from. I'll decide which at some point before it's so thawed that I HAVE to use it.
J brought home leftovers of several different kinds of vegetarian biryani from work yesterday where they apparently catered in some Indian food. That's a nice change for him as their fairly frequent Friday free lunch is often stuff that he isn't all that crazy about. There is always SOMETHING vegetarian but he's not too thrilled by pasta primavera or just salad, or a veggie and cheese sandwich.
No salt races or rat mines today! The staff is handling this weekend. I'll be back too it Monday morning.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Val, you might like this one! Free today! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017JMKC40/?ie=UTF8&link_code=as3&camp=211163&creative=375279&creativeASIN=B017JMKC40&tag=false
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! No rat mines or salt races today.
For breakfast I finished off the last of a pot of beef and vegetable soup that I made the other day from a ribeye steak.
I know some people would be appalled that I would "waste" a good ribeye on soup, but I don't consider it a waste. I'll put any cut of beef into a soup. If it's not tender to begin with, it will be by the time I simmer it long enough, and with a ribeye, it wasn't necessary to simmer long at all, which was really the whole point when I made the soup, as I wanted soup but didn't want to wait a couple of hours for the meat to be tender. A ribeye makes an excellent soup, by the way. Trim all the big bits of fat so only the thin marbling is left. Peas, onions, garlic, carrots, a bit of onion powder and garlic powder, a quart of broth, a little salt (not much as the broth was already salted) and pepper, some Spike herb mix and small dice a medium potato into it too and soup only took about 45 minutes to make. Of course the leftovers tasted even better the next day, but that's usually the way with soup, isn't it?
Sipping tea now with Lilo in my lap, and the dishwasher is running. I've placed a sirloin roast into my medium crock pot, on high, with a generous sprinkling of Italian seasoning, a bit of chopped onion and minced garlic, salt and pepper. I added one quarter cup of water, and the beef is already adding more juices that should be the basis for a nice gravy. Some steamed broccoli might be a nice side dish with that. And maybe even a small NS sized serving of mashed potatoes.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Since I got the roast started fairly early in the morning, it was nice and tender by lunch/dinner time. Came out delicious too! And plenty of leftover roast.
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You better believe I made potatoes and gravy! No way I'd waste those delicious meat drippings...
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Off to the salt races again. Supposed to be rainy and cold today. Bleah.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0
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