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Posted on 10/05/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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I'm glad it made your assignment that much easier. People like that are treasures!
My bed is calling me, so I'd better go answer. ;-)
Good night everyone! (((Hobbit Hole)))
It's an Indian recipe that is really quite good if you can get past the way it looks.
trini makes a good curry too, but that's to be expected.
My only gripe with curry is that the smell sticks to everything!
Nighty night! (((Ramius))) The week is almost over, thank goodness.
Guh Nite. :-)
My curry is Thai...
It involves chicken, pork or beef cooked in a coconut milk/curry paste based sauce (add some sriachi!) with assorted veggies. It looks like stir fry in... some disgusting yellow substance. It tastes really, really good. I like it over rice especially.
Tomorrow I'm thinking of trying crock-pot curry.
Well, if a little knife makes his "flock" feel better, a big knife has to be even better. So, with our usual ingenuity, I have developed the "economy sized" Hobbit Hole knife for special members of our armed forces. Here's a photo, with one of our regular knives for comparison.
It's a super-exotic, high-quality knife made by a small company that makes them mainly for Italian Special Forces. It is vey hard to find in this country, and would be hugely expensive, except for my bargain-hunting abilities. The maker is Ultima Ratio ("last resort" in Latin), and should retail for $350.
Because nobody is buying them at that price, a dealer is lquidating his entire stock, and I picked up this high-tech honey for $160. It also comes with a kydex sheath, and enough straps to attach almost anywhere.
The knife is being laser-engraved right now. As a test, I had them put our regular Hobbit-Hole mark on the tang, underneath the rubber handles. "Renegade Chaplain" and the 504th PIR crest will go on the blade.
Engraving is being held up right now because the only example of the crest I have is in color, and I have to reduce it to line art for the laser. While I have Paint Shop Pro, I'm a bit rusty with all the bells and whistles. If anyone can convert this color image to line art, please freepmail me, and I will send you the original.
Of course, if Renegade Chaplain lurks here, our suprise is totally busted. But I felt this had to be risked.
Izzit tomorrow yet??
You have FReepmail.
And if I don't see later, Good afternoon, good evening, and good night!
and off to work I go...
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Very cool new knife for the Chaplain!
Yes, Good Morning.
I am up at 0:Dark:30 because I have to go to Seattle all day the next two days :~\
That looks pretty good! One could clean it up a little more and take out the 'noise' so the engraver will just do the nice crisp lines. I ~can~ do this, but I am on a tight schedule this morning and maybe someone else could do it faster than me.
I'm revising a paper. The schmarty-pants who wants the cosmetic changes made is an obnoxious PhD who thinks it's clever to write his comments in Latin. If I roll my eyes any harder they'll pop out.
Oh that's charming! ;~D
Good morning!
Another crisp, cool day, though not as cold as yesterday. 34 out there right now...but there really wasn't much frost. It's supposed to get up to 65, though! And 72(!!) tomorrow!
Speaking of tomorrow, turns out I have it off! I knew the students had fall break, but I thought we had to work. Turns out we get a break, too! So...there's my gardening time! Works out perfect. I also have to go out to the house in the afternoon to help my littlest sister make cookies. It's my brother Jim's birthday and she didn't know what else to give him, but I think he'll really appreciate 'em! We're probably going to do pecan chocolate chip. 2J...don't suppose you still have your recipe laying around? Those were soooo good!
OH! And I meant to say I LOVE the idea of sending the Renegade Chaplain something special! That is beyond cool!
oooooo aaaaaaa Any idea where I can get one of those puppies?
They're just tollhouse...should be on the back of the chocolate morsels bag! That's the recipe I use...
Good morning!
g'mornin'...
Slept in the chair last night, so I only woke up ~twice~ with coughing fits. Then there was the time Luke fell out of bed.
At 4:30 a.m. (during fit number 2) I decided swimming this a.m. would be silly, so I reset my alarm. Unfortunately I reset it an hour too late...so Jr. missed the bus and I had to take him to school. He wasn't late, but I was...
In a bizarre way...I really love my life...
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