Posted on 02/26/2011 1:38:34 PM PST by Squawk 8888
That's if you drive into D.C. from BWI, which *I* wouldn't do, but that "back way" from Dulles avoids the beltway.
One exception is India -- but the other meals are so tasty...
Ladies and Gentlemen give it up for "Dunderbeck's Machine"!
[Uproarious applause...]
There was a strange old butcher, His name was Dunderbeck.
He was very fond of sausage-meat, and sauerkraut and speck.
He had the finest butcher shop, the finest ever seen,
Until one day he invented his wonderful sausage machine...
Oh Dunderbeck, Oh Dunderbeck! How could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.
For all the neighbor's dogs and cats will never more be seen;
They'll all be ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine!
One day a very little girl came walking in the store.
She ordered up some sausage meat and eggs, a half a score.
And while she stood a-waiting she whistled up a tune,
And the sausage meat it started up and danced around the room!
Oh, Dunderbeck, Oh, Dunderbeck! How could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.
For all the neighbor's dogs and cats will never more be seen;
They'll all be ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine!
Once day when he was working the machine it would not go.
So Dunderbeck, he climbed inside to see what made it so.
His wife she had a night-mare and came walking in her sleep;
She gave the crank a heck of a yank, and Dunderbeck was meat!
[All together, now...!]
Oh, Dunderbeck, Oh, Dunderbeck! How could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.
For all the neighbor's dogs and cats will never more be seen;
They'll all be ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine!*spew*
Hiya, Handsome! How are things with your sweet little family?
I’m just as fine and dandy as ever. The little girl woke me up before six, crying in her bed for “uppie”; then didn’t want to do anything but hang on my neck for a half hour or more, and I hadn’t the hard-nosed practicality to refuse.
Of course, I couldn’t lie back down with her and snuggle in my nice warm bed; oh no. “Uppie” constitutes a strict injunction against either involved party being prone or seated. The “carrier” must be in a standing position for the indulgence of “She Who Is to Be Carried”; and shall remain so until the latter shall consent to other disposition.
Heckuva way to wake up, but I know I’ll come to miss it all too soon, so I’m taking what I can get while it’s available.
Wise man, you are. I still wish I could sit with my son on my lap. His size would prohibit it, now, however. 6’4” and 200+ pounds...
LOL, I remember my grandfather teaching that one to me, my summer with him in Mexico.
OK...good news, the external hard drive is home, along with the old tower and its drive. Bad news, the old tower is Dead, Jim.
So tomorrow, I’ll check all the documents and photos to make sure I have what I need.
The guy said I could probably copy a few more things if I needed to, but that the drive wouldn’t be viable for more than a few minutes either way.
So it looks like I’ll have to recycle it. *sigh*
I didn’t do it!
But seriously, I’m sorry about your tower. Have some dark chocolate!
I have a casserole in the oven, and now I have to take a shower, and then look over my Sunday School lesson for tonight.
I think your CD came. Century Media in El Segundo, California?
The best wat to recycle a hard drive is with a hammer.
LOL!
I did it. Most likely, trying to put 10# of data in a 5# drive. Eventually, I’ll have to have another desk top, with lots of memory, but for now, the Dell and the Toshiba external drive will work. At least this time, I didn’t lose the data!
Odd thing: My son called last night asking me if I had photos of his previous VW, Jewel. As soon as I can in the morning, I’ll check it out and send them to him.
I told the computer guy that all I really needed to save was personal photos and documents. He already knew about the PAF files, so he saved them, first!
So if I can rescue anything else, it will be a bonus.
Hah! I thought of that before I took it to the guru! But if someone wants to replace the hard drive with something newer, that’s OK. I can’t lift the monitor any more, so it will all have to go to someone else.
I’m not sure, but I think Best Buy recycles, though it may be just the stuff they’ve sold and no one else’s. I’ll check with Fry’s, too.
Checked my cellphone last night and was worried for the calendar: No teleconferences and no meetings today. Got into work and checked the laptop: No teleconferences and no meetings today.
So now I'm trying to pick up where I left off on a whitepaper a month ago.
Stomach suddenly knotted up during lunch and remained so. But some kind soul had brought in some blackberry tea and left it in the upstairs lunchroom. I'd never heard of blackberry tea before, but it's working marvels.
They still sing it at my kids’ camps.
At breakfast.
With everyone brandishing a sausage on a fork.
It seems to have no negative impact on their appetites.
Nor mine.
Tht and calming tea were the inspiration for the Sireenian tea that makes the Inquisitor hallucinate in the rabbitoid story.
[Only the ‘real’ teas don’t do that and probably taste far better.]
I think BB will take anything, but call first to be sure.
It’s only Sunday here.
Share some Sunday with me.
That should be the one. You can open it and check if you feel it’s necessary. And if you ship it here overnight I’ll pay you back.
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