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RuthW
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Hush puppies in my experience are basically deep-fried cornbread.
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Sir Kevin
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They are piss-poor excuses for leather shoes: the last pair I bought to wear on stage were made in Red China and wore out inside of a year!
I do enjoy the hush puppies you can eat, although they are not part of our ATKINS diet!
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Maybe they're not as good as they used to be, but I remember with great fondness a pair of Hush Puppies™ I had when I was a student, 30-odd years ago. They were v. comfortable, and I lived in them until they wore out, which IIRC took quite a while.
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Firenze
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Speaking of the cheap and comfy student footwear - do you remember desert boots? I can remember my Top Outfit - desert boots, flared cords, puff-sleeved blouse, all topped off with an M&S cotton baby doll nightie worn as a smock. And lots of folksingery long hair.
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basso
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
They are piss-poor excuses for leather shoes: the last pair I bought to wear on stage were made in Red China and wore out inside of a year!
I wore Hush Puppies for years. My favorite brand at one time. I never expected to get really long life from them - the soft soles wear out really fast.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Firenze:
... do you remember desert boots? ...
I most certainly do. They were probably the most comfortable shoes ever. Worn with jeans (straight - IIRC by the time DBs reached Orkney flares were on the way out) and sweatshirts bearing logos like
IDONTGOTO
UNIVERSITY
or the logos of improbable ones like Harvard or Princeton (I think I had both at one time or another).
**sigh**
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Welease Woderwick
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The logo I remember best is the:
BORINGOLD
UNIVERSITY
That and the one of the two smiling geese Fly United.
Brother in law got another problem with his operation wound so they are all back off to hospital again this morning - whether he'll be admitted or not we just don't know; the consultant said just to bring him to out-patients this morning and he'll take a look.
[That bit about my brother in law should not have appeared here but rather than delete it, which is sorely tempting I shall just apologise - sorry!]
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The discussion of remembered footwear reminds me that when I signed up here back in 2001 some of the shipmates were going on about Blundstone boots. I bought a pair. They lasted about eight years and I am still wearing their successors. They are remarkably comfortable.
I haven't seen any mention of them on the ship over the last few years. They must have fallen out of favor.
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Kelly Alves
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Well, since they last that long, nobody's needed to re- buy them. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I wear these cool shiny black boots that lace up and also have a side zip. One of the neighbor kids stopped me on the street and asked me why I was wearing cop shoes. I said, " I didn't know I was."
Turns out his mom is a cop, and I had picked up the same tactical boots she wears. Cop, preschool teacher...I only know they make great work boots.
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Originally posted by duchess:
I got to meet up with Grits last week, which was so awesome. It felt like I knew her for ages. It made me think of the ship again...
It was so great! It is the neatest experience to sit down with someone who has been very real in your life, yet without that true reality of personal presence. I'm so glad we were able to make that happen!
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Hi, Grits and duchess! Miss you guys!
(I'm all happy- also because it's raining here, which is a very cool thing in SoCal. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) )
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jedijudy
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Rain! *sigh* I do miss it.
Normally August is very, very wet. Not this year.
But it is hot! When I got into my car after w*rk, the temp was 108. By the time I was half-way to my destination, it had cooled all the way down to 100. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Oh JJ, I can't even contemplate temperatures like that. We had a couple of days in July when it felt like close to 100° with the humidity, and that was unbearable enough.
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The 49ers have just moved into their new stadium in Santa Clara (about 30 miles down the Peninsula from SF). It cost about $1.3bn to build -- and you know the team didn't pony up those bucks.
They just played their first game there on Sunday. Temps were about 80°F, and the fans were apparently unable to cope with the heat. I don't know if there's something wonky about the stadium design or the fans (hush, Raider Nation!) but I don't think anyone expected that.
People are already saying that they miss Candlestick.
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I was all set to do my civic duty yesterday and vote early. I got there before 9, so I could get to w*rk on time.
Early voting doesn't start until 10. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
My parents mail their ballots in. I think I'm going to start doing that, too. Otherwise, normally I'd be at my polling place Tuesday before going to w*rk. However, that's the day the piano tuner comes in (very early...and I'll adjust to his schedule however I can fit in!) so, likely would miss polling hours.
*sigh*
I'm just whining, you know. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Rain, glorious rain - a slow, lovely dripping rain has fallen at last!
It's been wonderful for the "farm crops". The horses love it, but the dog hung out on the porch.
The clouds and the fog on the mountain were so beautiful, I had to just sit on the porch and stare and sigh.
God sure makes some gorgeous scenery. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Lamb Chopped
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Do horses really like being rained on? I've wondered about that (yeah, city girl, I know).
We've got an almighty fat groundhog in the garden, eating our watermelon and peaches. In fact, I think we've got a family of them. Oh dear.
My stepdad was telling me how to cook them.
Though I think the heat here may do the job for us. 107 on the heat index.
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BessLane
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It's been an incredibly mild summer here, until this past week. August finally kicked into high gear and we've had high 90's with heat index well into the 100's. Of course, the folks who complained like hell about the col this past winter are now whining about how hot it is. Geeze Louise...it's August in NW Tenn, it's usually this hot for weeks and weeks at a time...
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
... My stepdad was telling me how to cook them ...
The watermelons or the groundhogs?
You can keep your 100° temperatures to yourselves - for quite a bit of July here it felt like the low 90s with the humidity and it was horrid. Mercifully August has been more civilised.
And I promise I shall try to restrict any complaints about the cold in the winter to the odd "brrrr!!".
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
We've got an almighty fat groundhog in the garden, eating our watermelon and peaches. In fact, I think we've got a family of them. Oh dear.
Awww, they are probably cute. You could put out separate food for them perhaps?
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Mamacita
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OK, brush with fame story: my son took a flight home today and bumped into Malia Obama. Literally. While getting ready to de-plane, they both stepped into the aisle at the same time (the secret service man having stepped back and gestured to my son to proceed) -- at this point my son said he was aware there was a "tall young African-American girl across the aisle" but hadn't had a close look. Well, he and Malia collided mid-aisle and spilled her Sprite all over his shoes. He said she was quite adorable and all teenaged-girly, saying "Ohmygod, I'm so sorry!" over the spilled soda. He didn't mind at all.
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Kelly Alves
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Boy,howdy, it's 4AM and 40 minutes ago we got woken up by a long, vigorous 6.1 magnitude earthquake. All ok here, but waiting for aftersh--
Wait, Malia Obama?
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Sir Kevin
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Wow! Is everyone OK? I endured several when I lived in Pasadena as a boy....
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Lyda*Rose
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Boy,howdy, it's 4AM and 40 minutes ago we got woken up by a long, vigorous 6.1 magnitude earthquake. All ok here, but waiting for aftersh--
Wait, Malia Obama?
Whoa! 6.1- that was quite a shake. I'll check out news for the Bay. Glad that you are okay. How's your household stuff? Nothing broken, I hope?
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Kelly Alves
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We are totally fine, except for worrying about our North Bay relatives. The town of Napa seems to have been hit the hardest, and that is due to the large number of wine cellars to be found there. There have been only three critical injuries reported so far, but lots of property damage and those who make a living with bottles-- wine producers and merchants-- are taking a big material hit.
Thank God this all happened at 3 AM. From the look of the pics, if people had been walking around supermarkets when it hit...( shudder.)
This is the biggest we've had since Loma Prieta, in the Bay Area, so people are nervously calm, if that makes sense.
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Hi. Woke up to the news of that quake. Hope everyone in the area is OK and that the aftershocks happen when you're in safe places.
I have been reminded to update my emergency kit.
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Kelly Alves
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Turns out there was a fire in a Napa mobile home park-- three homes burned to the ground, as water mains were cracked at the time of the fires.
Some of the historic buildings in Napa, which apparently hadn't been retrofitted, were severely damaged. There are apparently evacuation services being orovided in town for people whose homes have become uninhabitable.
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Piglet
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Hope you're all OK. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Mamacita
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So glad all my Bay Area shipmates friends are reporting in Ok after the earthquake.
And a big WOooHOOOOO to the Jackie Robinson West team from Chicago's south side, who won the National Little League championship on friday! Chicago has winning team! The city is giving them a big parade this week.
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Kelly Alves
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I heard about that! Go, team!
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Piglet
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We had pictures on the Weather Channel this morning of one of the historic buildings cracking in the earthquake - it was awful to watch a beautiful stone building splitting apart like that.
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Brick and stone are particularly poor building materials in an earthquake because the strength relies on the mortar between them. The photos I've seen so far were brick or stone buildings, mostly in the older districts of town (which may have been rebuilt following the 1906 quake.)
The good news is that the region around the epicenter of the quake is the most sparsely populated part of San Francisco Bay. While the estimates are that nearly a million people felt the quake, the bulk of the population in the immediate area are in relatively recent subdivisions where buildings are low and less likely to collapse. Most of the structural damage appears to be in the older districts of Napa, Vallejo and Sonoma. Well, that and the mobile homes that caught fire due to gas leaks where the fire department had trouble fighting them due to broken water mains. (The same problems they had in San Francisco in 1906.)
Much of the commercial damage reported so far has been to bottles (especially wine - this is the heart of the California Wine Country, after all.) I was interested to see that the photos of store shelves showed that they did not have the extra rails designed to keep the bottles on the shelf that insurance companies require in places such as Hollister where quakes are common.
There may be some longer term effects, however. I have a report from a brewery that some settled yeast got sloshed up in the tanks, and the beer may be murkier than normal for a few days.
While grateful that damage was relatively limited compared to what it could have been for a quake this size in a major population area, our hearts still go out to those affected as they deal with the aftermath.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by piglet:
We had pictures on the Weather Channel this morning of one of the historic buildings cracking in the earthquake - it was awful to watch a beautiful stone building splitting apart like that.
Yeah, that was a shame-- those are gorgeous old buildings. As Carex said, though, they were constructed of the least earthquake safe materials you could think of besides matchsticks. That's why the retrofitting campaign of the early 90s was so important. It was pretty aggressive in San Francisco itself, but I guess not so much in the North Bay.
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Just had a deputy pull up in my driveway. I'm freaking out cause my husband isn't home and I'm scared it's about him. He gives me a summons to appear in court because I missed jury duty (along with 36 other people) and the judge wants to know why. Well, I never NEVER got the notice, and I would have been there if I had, since the two things that make you a part of the system are 1) voting and 2) jury duty. So very not happy right now. It's not my fault some clerk didn't mail out the notices.... ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Kelly Alves
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Ah, crap. Hope they are reasonable about it.
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jedijudy
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It's kind of a big clue when 37 people all miss jury duty!
What Kelly said.
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
That's why the retrofitting campaign of the early 90s was so important. It was pretty aggressive in San Francisco itself, but I guess not so much in the North Bay.
My sister's house in Kensington was retrofitted extensively in the 90s before she bought it, especially on the ground floor.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
It's kind of a big clue when 37 people all miss jury duty!
Seriously! I hope all 37 of you got summoned to appear in court at the same time. That might suggest to the judge that there was a wee little problem with the mailing.
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BessLane
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In one of the odd little twists that fate likes to toss around, my ex-husband is also one of the folks going to court on Tuesday. I wonder why he was even called for jury duty since he's not a US citizen, but either way, at least I'll have a friend in the courtroom with me ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I'm not going to think about court this weekend, we've got too much lined up to do. The not-for-profit I work with is hosting our 2nd annual dove shoot this weekend and it's going to be huge. We've got twenty-something soldiers coming in for the event. Hubby and the nephews are on the way to pick up the really big smoker, and get started on the food. 7 butts, 6 chubs of bologna and I think he said 30 lbs of chicken. I'll be exhausted when it's all said and done, but it's so worth it. Plus a couple of folks from Team Benelli will be doing a shooting exhibition so that's going to be really cool!
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by BessHiggs:
In one of the odd little twists that fate likes to toss around, my ex-husband is also one of the folks going to court on Tuesday. I wonder why he was even called for jury duty since he's not a US citizen, but either way, at least I'll have a friend in the courtroom with me
In most places, they mine the driving license database for names. I got a summons to appear on a jury, I believe because of that, and dutifully wrote back telling them I wasn't American, so they didn't want me.
I got a reply by return of post asking me to prove that I wasn't American. I'm not sure how they thought I should prove that, but in the event, they were happy to accept my possession of a British passport (which of course doesn't preclude me being a US citizen at all).
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BessLane
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And the ex is like me, he would Love to serve on jury duty....but he can't....
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
... dutifully wrote back telling them I wasn't American, so they didn't want me ...
D. was called for jury duty several years ago, when we were still fighting to get Permanent Residence, and the Sheriff's Officer (or whatever they're called) turned up on our doorstep, just as we were about to leave go to Saint-Pierre, where he'd been invited to do an organ recital. IIRC he went down to the court-house with his temporary visa, which satisfied them that he wouldn't have been eligible.
He contemplated saying to them, "I'll do jury duty if you give me citizenship" but thought better of it ...
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An amazing afternoon today. Old friends, new friends, good food, lots of laughs, cold beer, football on TV and that great feeling of knowing you've made some folks' day.
I had a boy - maybe 25 and in special forces - hug my neck and thank me for being his "away from home mamma", cause he and his mom watch football together when he's home, and he's 1000 miles away. Yep, I cried...
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Kelly Alves
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Aww...
Tell the judge he can put that in his pipe and smoke it.
Also see: them apples, preferred method of preperation.
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Court was extra fun yesterday ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) . We were to show up at 8:30. In addition to the folks there because of the jury notice snafu, there was a wide assortment of societies finest - meth cookers, spouse beaters, an acutal pimp, and two guys in shackles (with armed guards). Other than the two prisioners, we all had to stand in the stuffy hallways outside the courtroom for an HOUR before we could go sit down. There were about 7 of us jury folks who kind of huddled together in the back row of the courtroom. The judge starts taking pleas, hearing arraignments, and generally doing courtroom stuff while we in the back are all kind of looking at eachother thinking "really, shouldn't he just get us out of the way first?". 3 hours pass, and it's now about 12:30 and the judge announces that he's ready for a lunch break unless there is anyone else in the court who's case he hasn't heart. The most vocal (and pissed off by this point) of our little group asks what we are all supposed to do. His response is ,"Oh, just go see my clerk there and get a new date for jury service."
3 HOURS of my life, gone. Sigh.
And I was left with the realization that I really need to get to know a better class of people. I knew 7 of the folks there on actual criminal charges ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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basso
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And I was left with the realization that I really need to get to know a better class of people. I knew 7 of the folks there on actual criminal charges
And Jesus associated with prostitutes and the other undesirables of his day.
There's nothing wrong with knowing those folks. They probably need people like you. Thanks for not cutting them off as some people would.
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Originally posted by BessHiggs:
Court was extra fun yesterday... His response is ,"Oh, just go see my clerk there and get a new date for jury service."
3 HOURS of my life, gone. Sigh...
I suspect that judge has displayed poor court management, inattention to the calendar, and insensitivity to the public he works for. You might circulate this story through your friends, about the time he is running for re-election.
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BessHiggs: quote:
And I was left with the realization that I really need to get to know a better class of people. I knew 7 of the folks there on actual criminal charges [Hot and Hormonal]
Well, rats! You could have easily been excused if they had gotten to that point. Then no duty for another year.
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St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Napa had damage after the recent quake that will make some people's blood run a little chillier. (Brace yourself, JJ)
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