The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Rustyoznail]

We play it very loose. You can't assume the offense guards etc are going to stay on their side of the scrimmage line. If they played rugby, theirs a fair chance they'll blow through the defence and take the pass, then keep running.

Oh, and after a touchdown, the other team has to skol a schooner of beer.

 

[Duleigh]

Oh, and after a touchdown, the other team has to skol a schooner of beer.

Sounds like Ammo Ball - its a variation of softball with a keg of beer at second base.
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Happy Hump Day y'all! Breakfast was a big, ripe tangelo (haven't had one, they're incredible) and a hot cup of Java.

Coffee's on!

 

[Candy_Kane54]

It's been a week since @TxRad has posted anything. Anyone know his status?

 

[Duleigh]

He wasn't sounding good, I hope he's resting and building his strength back

 

[MrPixel]

Hope he's not back in the hospital. He was trying to check-in when he was home in spite of feeling poorly.

 

[Handley_Page]

Fingers crossed for Tex.

Any Tea in the pot please ?

 

[Duleigh]

Plenty of tea for you HP

Dinner tonight was "Tater Tot Hotdish" North Dakota's culinary addition to the American culture. Ground beef and venison, cream of mushroom soup, tater tots and cheese.

Coffee is ready for those so inclined.

 

[Lifestyle66]

Spent the day offloading four yards of mulch with a pitchfork on the road berm in front of the house and weed eating the hillside behind the house, while the wife power washed the deck and patio.

Dinner tonight for both the wife and I was a stout beer, Italian panini, and three games of darts at the local brewery.

Now sitting down for an episode of our latest series while drinking the evening's "coffee" (a local winery's chardonnay).

 

[Rustyoznail]

25 x 1 1/2 minute fights tonight at karate. I'm now sitting in my car looking over the bay. Beautiful night. The only thing ruining it is I stink like a wet dog.

 

[MrPixel]

Hi, Russ.

Lordy. I'm up at this hour trying to get a cough under control. Hopefully the mucus pill I just took will do its magic toot sweet. This whole allergy bit has knocked me for a loop. I've never been this sick without something actually wrong like a disease or something. Ugh.

Been writing like crazy, though. I can't seem to stop. This "fourple" I've been writing about over the past several months simply can't keep out of sexy trouble. This stuff is fun!

Just finished a cover for the series and uploaded it. Not urgent, but I am curious how long it takes for Laurel to give it the okey-dokey.

 

[Handley_Page]

Plenty of tea for you HP

Dinner tonight was "Tater Tot Hotdish" North Dakota's culinary addition to the American culture. Ground beef and venison, cream of mushroom soup, tater tots and cheese.

Coffee is ready for those so inclined.

Thank you; the Tea was great.
Please would you send to me a real [proper] recipe for this dish ?
Especially if it is for one,. . . .

So there I am in the bathroom, not wearing a lot and a voice floats up the stairs; "Are you in, Dave ?"

It is difficult to answer that, one way and another. A Yell through the door usually works, but this time ? It transpires that the nursey-type to take a sample of
blood (they don't tell you a time when they are coming; just "Thursday".
That's not a lot of help to me.

Meanwhile, it's bright morning.
Any coffee in circulation please ?

 

[TxRad]

Ladies and gentlemen, Please put the shovels away. I am still above ground.

I've made two trips to the er since I was here last but I escape both times. I'm out of pain pills and ready to kill something.

I'm supposed to be filling my pill boxes but I've been catching up in here. Storms last week, storms this week. I have a visit scheduled with my VA doctor tomorrow afternoon. The storms are supposed to be out of here by then.

I'm also applying for a hospital bed so I can rest and sleep. At present I am totally worn out.

Let me get these meds boxed so I can go pass out.

 

[Duleigh]

Please would you send to me a real [proper] recipe for this dish ?
Especially if it is for one,. . . .

Tater Tot Hotdish is an individual dish which can be as complex or as simple as you want. Most on line recipes go way overboard with bizarre ingredients like canned veggies. Canned veggies are a side dish, tater tot hotdish is meat and potatoes, the way food was meant to be. Here's the closest thing to what I've made for years, but I leave out the sour cream and some times use cream of chicken instead of cream of mushroom, it makes the cheese flavor stand out. We always have left over ground venison so that gets tossed in.

Tater Tot Hotdish by another name

Also - don't use pre-shreaded cheese. It's full of sawdust to keep it from clumping. Get a block of cheese and a grater like the old days. I want to make Great Britain grate again.

Ladies and gentlemen, Please put the shovels away. I am still above ground.

Good to hear from our Fearless Leader! When you get to the VA look to see if the socks they promised me are laying around there.

It's is Thursday! The Hammer Strikes! Coffee's On!

 

[Lifestyle66]

Ladies and gentlemen, Please put the shovels away. I am still above ground.

"This for everybody going through tough times,
Believe me, been there, done that,
But every day above ground is a great day, remember that."

(Lyrics from the song "Time of Our Lives" by Pitbull & Ne-Yo.)


Welcome back to the land of the living (outside of ER.)

 

[Rustyoznail]

G'day MrP. Or good night. Or morning. Man, I'm tired.

I should have added I was waiting for dinner from a food truck. A lamb kebab that was, no kidding, as big as my forearm. I left a quarter for lunch tomorrow.

Good to see you back Tx. Please try and give us advance warning of your trips to the ER. A minimum of two days would be nice.

 

[Duleigh]

Busy day here at the doghouse. Had to get the hot tub ready to be hauled away, then my son's dog got out and chased the neighbor's chickens. Currently the dog is back in our yard and the neighbors chickens are lining the fence taunting the dog.

Dinner tonight is ruben sandwiches while watching A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. I love that play.

 

[NotWise]

UNM vs Clemson, Friday 3/22, 3:10 PM eastern time. Looks like I'll be listening on the radio.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

UNM vs Clemson, Friday 3/22, 3:10 PM eastern time. Looks like I'll be listening on the radio.

UNM is an 11 seed, Clemson is a 6. On Thursday, all three 11 seeds beat the 6 seeds. Enjoy!

 

[Handley_Page]

Dinner tonight is ruben sandwiches while watching A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. I love that play.

I reckon that the film is hysterical.
See :-

And now coffee.

 

[orangecurious]

good morning all... coffee is ON!

 

[Handley_Page]

Hooray; the Coffee !
Oh sh#t;
I need a new presse. . . .

 

[Duleigh]

WE MADE IT TO FRIDAY!!! Thank you for getting the early morning coffee @orangecurious. I'll grab the dregs and put on a new pot for our late risers in the Central, Mountain, and Western time zones.

Time zones are horrible, when I lived in central, the evening news came on at 10:00 PM, which was a convenient time. In Mountain it came on at 9:00 or 10:00, sometimes 11:00 depending on the channel you were watching. Here in the east it comes on at 11:00 which is far too late. It interrupts my catching up on Archer episodes.

 

[MrPixel]

Time zones are horrible

No argument from me. Back in the '70s I was managing a specialty computer facility in Los Angeles, with complex custom software on top of a custom OS. App support was in New York, OS support was in Chicago. The "phone tag" was horrible - invariably, the somebody I needed to talk to was either at lunch or already gone for the day.

 

[Duleigh]

No argument from me. Back in the '70s I was managing a specialty computer facility in Los Angeles, with complex custom software on top of a custom OS. App support was in New York, OS support was in Chicago. The "phone tag" was horrible - invariably, the somebody I needed to talk to was either at lunch or already gone for the day.

Been there, done that. When I worked for Comcast most of the sites I supported were up and down the east coast (I built most of them for Adelphia) I started work at 4:30 AM because I was mountain and my sites were all on the east coast. And those DST/Standard Time conversion cluster f... conference calls were a slaughter house and I couldn't hang up until all sites said they were good. As the job evolved so did the responsibility and I was covering ALL time zones, but I figured what the hell, I was saving the company nearly $25 million a year. They eventually decided to round up those savings and add my salary to the toll.

But back in the 70's wasn't all software custom on top of custom OS?

 

[MrPixel]

But back in the 70's wasn't all software custom on top of custom OS?

Not in the minicomputer world. Custom app, of course, but OSes were off-the-shelf. DEC's primary and standard OS was RSTS/E. I was trained on RSTS/E. However, the application package was written around a predecessor, DOS-BATCH, and the app people had screwed with it, adding all sorts of patches and hooks. I got to code some comm patches and a couple of disk drivers.

I was never able to talk with the OS team enough to understand the justification, but it created headaches and delays when we needed app features. "Oh, sorry. Steve is overcommitted and what you're asking for involves a couple of OS hooks. It'll be six months before we can get to that." It was really frustrating because DEC was rolling-out RSTS updates especially for newer hardware, and we were stuck mucking around in the old OS.

45 years later I still have my DOS-BATCH manual. Should probably stage a ritual bonfire for it along with a whole bunch of ancient systems docs. Like I'm going to need it, and it's not worth the postage if I put any of it on eBay.