Posted on 06/30/2004 4:30:11 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Sen. Hitlery, at an appearance in San Francisco: Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
Mexican and United States officials signed a pact that, among other things, will allow work in Mexico to count toward the United States Social Security system requirements. The agreement still has to be ratified by the Senate. (EN - Let's hope not!)
Sen. Kerry says there is no reason to open his divorce records. (EN - This means there is every reason to open his divorce records.)
The Army is recalling thousands of individuals back to active duty to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Saddam and 11 of his top lieutenants have been turned over to Iraq. They will be arranged before an Iraqi court on Thursday. Genocide is expected to be among the charges. There is debate going on in Iraq on reinstating, for this purpose, the harshest penalty in that country's legal system: hanging from the neck until dead.
Halliburton is warning investors of additional losses in the second quarter of 2004. (EN - And here I thought the Administration was taking care of Halliburton--at least that's what the left claims...)
And apparently UOx42 still can't come to terms with Paula Jones. In his book, My Life [sic, probably should read My Lie], UOx42 again denies sexually harrasing the former Arkansas state employee.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
I think the Wheat farmers have a little more sense than the Corn Farmers do. When I take food to the field they don't want anything that can't be eaten with one hand while the other hand is on the steering wheel. Not even PIE.
They stop just long enough for me to toss a lunch bag into the cab and then they're off and running again.
We actually called them "cabbage bread". You take ground beef and pork and brown them with onion and add cooked chopped cabbage. You roll out the bread dough and cut in in squares and put the meat filling in and seal up the edges like an apple dumpling. Bake them till brown maybe 45 minutes.
They freeze really well too. One of those packages of 3 loaves of frozen bread dough makes about 20-25 bierocks (the real German name for the dish I believe). I rarely have them around for long, even when I freeze them. We always made the bread from scratch when I was a girl though and then it takes a full day to make a batch of them with the yeast proofing and dough rising and all that. Much more convenient to use the frozen dough IMO.
Oh, and I add a little ground cumin to the filling which isn't authentic German at all but a taste that I like. Heresy I'm sure!
Prairie
That sounds delicious; I'm half German and should have recognized that name but actually cook more Polish food because my husband's grandparents came here from Poland and we use their old recipes a lot.
I'm pretty tired and am going to call it a night.
Understandable when you're trying to get the field cut and our guys used to eat in shifts with some of them still running the combines while the others ate.
Sometimes the dust was so blowing so bad from the combines and the wind that it was hard for them to hunker down that keep it out of their food. Sometimes we took supper to the fields too in addition to lunch and those were really big cooking days.
But everybody works hard during harvest. Not much wheat to worry about in that neck of the woods this year, it was too dry earlier and most of it got a late frost which finished doing it in.
Prairie
'G night!
That is really cool. I have bookmarked it and will be looking at it again before Sunday.
We planned to be landed by the 30th for three reasons:
our youngest's birthday is today. She is 14.
I wanted to celebrate America's birthday in AMERICA.
Tax purposes. You get credit for having your kids with you in the US for 6 months or more.
It is good to be home.
Thanks tillacum! The burn just completed!!! I'm watching on the monitor our 2 guys that I work for that are out at JPL. They are ecstatic!
/john
Way to go! I'm so proud of you and all our rocket scientists.
Sometimes I feel like my job is a soap opera. LOL. The Indian liason was canned this week, oh darn. Apparently I was not the only person having problems with him. His last day is Friday, today he came and asked me three separate times when the assignments would be made. My reply? When it's ready, I'll email you. Nope, couple of hours later, here he comes again wanting to know when the assignment will be made and the code in the area. Me: "Um, we have problems. First build and we have run into problems. When it is ready, I will send out the normal email." Two hours later he comes back and wants to know if he can install the build, etc. So I spend 20 minutes or so putting together what I have with temp files and zip it up for him to install on his local system (like he told me he was going to do.) Turns out he is putting together stuff for the offshore people to test this evening. And at that point, it wasn't really ready yet.
Rolling my eyes at this point. I wanted to shake him and say "What part of NO, IT'S NOT READY do you not understand???" His replacement (who I really like, I trained him too in Feb) came by an hour or so later and helped me with some Test Director questions, then I finally had what I needed, so we did the assignment.
I think this other guy will work out just fine. I can understand his English, but more importantly, he can communicate. The first guy's English was horrible, and I was guessing at the gist of what he was saying. And as it turns out, he wasn't doing his job.
I hate confrontation, but I am so glad I went to management about it. It needed to be done, I wasn't the only one, and we get a better employee. Wins all round.
Now I just need a full-time job...
Well, mostly out. I've picked up some very part time coding, automating manual processes and interfacing to the web, just like I used to do, only I'm having to use MS this time. Blech. But the extra bucks will help.
When I left for work this AM, I had 2 folding dollars to my name. Sometime during the day, something happened, and money that was locked up has been released. I can afford to pay rent, electric, and phone this month. And best of all, I can afford to drive out to see mom this weekend. Thanks to all who have been praying.
Best of luck on finding a perm position.
I was contract for many years, but I enjoyed it. It was as close to being my own boss as I've had. I managed myself like a business, with my hours as the income source. I marketed, aquired skill-sets, set goals, purchased insurance, etc. like a very tiny business.
/john
Hang on for breakfast!
However, the science that will be coming back from there for the next 4 years, will be an ongoing reminder.
I have bunches of original calculations, computer runs and memos in my cube that I pulled and looked at yesterday. They are all for the fuel tank and its internals. The worst environment for the tank was, believe it or not, PROOF pressure testing on the ground and then during its ride launch aboard a Titan IV in 1997. After that, it was all cake for the tank.
There is a SUPER benefit from the mission success, and that is that all the strength analysis I did on the tank can be used as known correct procedures to the point that the predictions of it's flight worthiness were proven out.
Thank you SO MUCH, Jemian! I'm glad you're home! Back in the greatest country that has ever existed!
Lessee... Do I believe that proof pressure testing (250%?) in an oxidizing atmosphere under one gee or being kicked upstairs under umpteen gees through an oxidizing atmosphere is tougher than coasting through flat space? Um. No. You are correct about the toughest conditions.
BTW, did you guys put a slow spin on it to alleviate thermal stresses? I know they are tiny, but they build up.
Just a science junkie asking questions. ;>) Congrats again.
BTW, what would a cook know about thermal stresses on thin-walled pressure vessels? Harumph. Ignore me... 8>)
/john
Sometimes I transpose things... which is why I'm not a rocket scientist... ;>)
Testing on earth is tougher than space is the point I was trying to get across. Oxidizing atmosphere, 1 gee, all of that.
I'm tired again. And it's beginning to show.
/john
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