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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Yeah, it's the one with 'amnesia chick' that we watched at Entmoot.
Huh...if that was watched at Entmoot, I missed it. I think Jen did, too. First time I'd seen it was when we watched it together.
Oh, did y'all watch it in Ft. Collins? Maybe y'all were downstairs watching anime when we watched it at Entmoot.
My ironing board just broke and collasped!! Thank goodness I was holding the iron when the weld gave, so we all just got a good scare when the board hit the ground but no one was hurt. I've had that ironing board for about 35 years, and from what I've seen, the new one won't last 35 years.
Yikes!
Okay here's what I did...I ain't skeered of raw eggs.
I put one egg in a measuring cup, filled to the 3/4 cup mark with Land o' Lakes Fat-Free Half 'n Half. Added one packet of Splenda and a few drops of vanilla (approximately 1/4 to 1/8 teaspoon). I added a couple of shakes of ground nutmeg and then blended the whole thing with a hand blende. It needed more nutmeg so I gave it a couple more shakes.
Tastes ok escept that it's more milky tasting than eggy. I think next time I'll just fill it to the half cup mark. Right now it's chilling in the fridge. Gonna add the bourbon next...
I suppose those who are skeered of eggs could use Egg Beaters. I'm not sure where I stand on that. ;-) Doesn't sound bad - especially once the bourbon gets added!
In other news, I think Tam has some variation of Stockholm syndrome. Here I've been dosing him and poking his eyes and all that, and instead of hiding from me, he's following me around trying to get into my lap at every opportunity.
Polar Sea? Really? That's neat... what are they showing?
That was a really good boat. See all that red paint? A few layers down... some of that paint was mine. :-) A while ago.
The Polar class are amazing boats. Flabbergasting amounts of power. 20,000 shaft horsepower to ~three~, count 'em, three shafts, for 60,000 HP to the solid stainless variable pitch props. 16ft diameter water-thrashin' monsters they are.
That ship could ~cruise~ through ten-foot thick ice at an easy six or seven knots. Just drive through it. We didn't have to start the "backing-and-ramming" technique until it got to 20+ feet. When backing and ramming, she broke through ice 50 or 60 feet thick, many times.
Neat stuff. :-)
Aye, that it was. And I heard me exclaim as I flew out of sight...
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
It showed it doing some ice breaking - was pretty cool :~)
Are you in SF?
I'd wayyyyy rather be in a ship that can break ice than in a sub that can travel under.
Nothing to do with anything, of course. Just reminded me of a book I read awhile back that had a lot of ice breaking parts - thriller by Alistair McLean. Ice Station Zebra. Considering I'm skeered of enclosed spaces, I had no business reading it. *shudder* Enclosed space under water AND under ice. Ack and double ack.
And, of course, as if it wasn't enough to give me the heebie-jeebies as it was, they had to go and have a fire, too.
Ungh...
Yes... am in SF now. Watching Two Towers on TNT. Odd, that. Icebreaking is neat stuff. Kinda wierd to be up on the bridge wing, looking down and seeing sheets of ice the size of tennis courts, ten feet thick, come shooting up the side of the ship as broken pieces of the stuff we're driving through... breaching and falling like a whale. Neato. :-)
Huh...Wikipedia now has full synopses of a lot of books. Inneresting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra
... This time I'd say it's her who's being "nasty, nasty" and that.
Submarines surfacing up under ice always seemed like a wildly improbable thing to me.
Yah, if only a few feet thick... that's one thing. But ten or twenty feet... that stuff is as hard as concrete.
Something I learned about was the difference between driving through "new" soft ice and "old hard" ice. Experienced drivers could tell the difference by just looking at it. "New" in this context was ice less that just a few hundred years old. "Old hard" ice was ice that was many hundreds of years, to possibly thousands of years old.
Breaking "old hard ice" is sortof like breaking concrete of the same thickness, if only that concrete were floating on water in the Bering sea. It sounds exactly like that, from the inside of a steel ship, as well. :-)
I recall a LOT of the book being about searching for places where the ice was thin enough to surface...don't remember just how thin they said it had to be. Just remember it being tense, 'cause all the while I was thinking "get me OUT of here!" I would NOT do well at submarine duty.
Didn't know that about new and old ice. That's interesting!
Well, those submarine dudes are not like everybody else. They run a pretty thorough psych profile on them for good reason... not everybody can handle the realities of submarine service.
Me? I'm in the club of folk that likes how thousands of years of naval science and technology has resulted in some pretty good designs for things that float.
Getting into something that floats perfectly well, and intentionally sinking it, well... that's right up there with jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. It jus' don' make no sense.
LOL!! Is that you, Santa?
And for the techies in our group:
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