Guess?

I think we did this before & you wouldn’t disclose. Libra?

ha, we probably did and yeah I'm super private, sorry! No to Libra.

I love almonds (but have a feeling I wouldn't be able to afford the "Kind" bar).

Sometimes my supermarket puts the "Lance" bars on sale: a box of 6 for $2.50 - I only get them when they're on sale.

I’m clueless with prices. I have no idea what Kind bars cost. I only eat a certain number of foods & Kind Healthy Grains are a must-have. I eat some kind of nut every day.

So the Lance bars - what else is in these things? Are they nutritionally sound? I ask since I never heard of them. As a vegetarian, I need protein!

They're kind of like Peanut Brittle, but lean much more toward the peanuts than the brittle.
They're very hard & crunchy - I advise people with dental work, like me, eat (chew) them very slowly & carefully.
Not all gooey and sugary sweet like Payday, but probably not as healthy as Kind bars.

Lance Peanut Bar Ingredients:
Peanuts, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Salt.

I bought these on a whim one day, having never heard of the company before, and found them to be very nice.

Well this year my dental bills are $3k so far (root canal, etc.) so am careful with brittle things.

Will try these. I’m fine with these ingredients.

Yuh-Jung Yuon Minari giving her candid view of my fellow Brits. So funny. :p

https://youtu.be/waKbUhBuNDM

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She was quite funny in Minari, same in here. Sometimes some drop pearls from their mouth (this is a saying in my country), but it's obvious she was grateful for the award and very excited / emotional and she didn't mean that part.
Minari was an amazing film but last year's Parasite outperformed Minari. Even though Minari was more like an American film since Lee Isaac Chung was born in US and Bong Joon Ho is a Korean director.

Sure she did. That’s why it was so funny.

She did but she said it as if she wanted to add something more positive after that (which she didn't) because she was overwhelmed by winning the award !

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...LZO44_VFO59CNC

Here's a playlist I put together some time ago of my favorite scores from science fiction films. My only rules when creating it were that the scores needed to have some science fiction vibes (not feel predominantly action-y, emotional, etc., if that makes sense) and the score also had to be written for the film (which was why I didn't include anything from 2001: A Space Odyssey, for instance).

Feel free to recommend some other scores to add to this list if you can think of any.

On a side note, the score from Solaris is my favorite in this list.

Have you heard the soundtrack for The Last Starfighter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaDY7DPe2LM

I haven't, but I'll watch the video tomorrow (it's 2 am for me right now). Thanks for the recommendation!

I was approached by someone in my church last Sunday. Apparently there's a program on, (streaming? YouTube? somewhere else?), and they're batting around an idea to do a bit of a "life biopic" of me... For now I've declined as I've got too much on my plate trying to get a book published, but I did keep the option open as perhaps a way to promote my literary work.

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A nice lady yesterday in Whole Foods with her small daughter who was running everywhere in the store.

In bare feet. Ewwwwww! :(

Sure is toasty in Connecticut this week. Thank goodness we got the AC put in the bedroom yesterday. I’m fine at 90 degrees, but each degree higher is very uncomfortable for me. My walk today was challenging.

I’m not complaining though. Any temp that is not cold is fine with me. 😎

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I prefer the cold to the heat... especially during my walks.

Have completely run out of shelving for my dvd collection. Came across these on Amazon & two of them arrived today. Rather good. Each one holds 40 DVDs.

Had my first-ever gel polish manicure today. Didn’t manage to photograph my own hand, but this photo shows what it’s like. Nails look nice: we’ll see how long a gel mani lasts.

Interesting... all my movies are in storage, but in boxes, and over time I forget what's packed where. So the idea that you can see all the titles is a good one. Might be something for me to look into!

I didn’t know these things existed until I spotted them on Amazon. Very sturdy & they look very attractive filled with DVDs. No need to shove them in the back of a closet. And, as you say, one can see what’s inside each bag. Definitely will buy more as the need arises.

Very toasty here in Connecticut.

It's hotter here, ugh! I live in western Washington state where it usually would be in the 70s at this time of the year. We're noted for having a cooler coastal environment. It's been over a 100 here in the last couple days!!! We don't have AC in the house, and my vehicle's AC doesn't work. The other night when I went to bed it was 90 degree in the house and 80% humanity:mad::mad::mad:

Article in the NY Times about this. Turns out you Seattle-area folks think AC is for wimps. But, now suddenly, you all need it.

We have a single AC in the main bedroom. When I come out of the bedroom & stand at the top of the stairs, the rising heat from downstairs almost knocks one down. My downstairs thermometer will register 90 degrees later, for sure.

Nah, not true that would be a case of news media hyperbola, I.E. creative writing. If anything people here are 'babies' about high heat, I know I am!

Most new homes here have AC, but in the past they didn't because a normal summer high was in the 80s and then only in latter July and August, so AC wasn't needed back before the 'warming' started.

Get yourself some window box fans, set them in the open upstairs windows and have them blow out of the house. That way the warm air which rises will be expelled. I use 4 window fans two at one end of a single story house set to blow in, and the other two set to blow out at the other end. If the outside temp is much cooler than the inside I can drop the house temp by 10 degrees fairly quickly, even more depending on how the temperature variants are.

Can’t do this. All our windows are screened.

So are ours. The box fan sets just on the edge of the window, up against the screen.

We don’t have windowsills.

Glue?:p

Husband says “don’t even think about it!”

🙂

Exercise has been challenging.

Some respite coming along tomorrow for the rest of the week.

We've been having similar weather. I changed my exercises to shorter workouts, but more times during the day, so I'm still exercising the same amount of time over the course of the day, but it's easier to finish the workout without feeling like I'm going to pass out from the heat.

Yesterday was brutal. Sounds smart what you do. A friend & neighbor does mini-walks several times a day. Today is much cooler with a lot of rain, which started yesterday.

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That's stupidly hot, Stirch. You do have my sympathy.

Of course now it’s the holiday weekend the weather has gone **** up. :rolleyes:

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I only heard about this on the radio today... (it was obviously a commercial intended to air before July 4, 2021).
I got a kick out of it anyway... Bill Pullman reprises his former role as the President of the U.S.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqu57JYp9zg

Toasty in Connecticut today.

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Any MOFOs also AMC Apes?

Got a few hundred shares at $9 average - Main thing for me is I do not want the theater experience to die. How is AMC or other chains doing in different areas/ Looking pretty strong here in Pensacola. Really tough to beat the IMAX experience.

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Movies. I'm starting to think that there are a lot of them.

Dang, how come it’s August already!

Very toasty this week in Connecticut. 98 degrees Friday - that’s hot! :fire: :fire: :fire:

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I'll never get used to these Fahrenheits.

Ugh, I hate Celsius with a passion. Ditto metric measures & a 24-hour clock.

Where do you live if you don’t mind me asking?

Currently in Switzerland. A place where we consider that calibrating our temperature scale on the melting point of water is more handy than on the melting point of some ammonium chloride solution.

That being said, I'm still shocked Switzerland doesn't use a temperature scale calibrated on the melting point of cheese.

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The situation in Afghanistan is appalling. Especially for women & children.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...le-killed.html

It is, though I'm sure the Mail will welcome the refugees with open arms. :rolleyes:

- Those poor people will now be chased by barbaric headcutters.
- Yeah, I hope we can shelter them.
- Are you crazy !!? They are barbaric headcutters !!!

:facepalm:

Amazing photograph. 640 Afghani men, women & children managed to get onto this plane bound for Qatar before the ramp closed. Good luck to them.

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Personally unknown but middle-eastern neighbors have risen a big afghan flag up their garden's mast. I find this very moving, a bit heartbreaking.

Maybe get to know them now?

Connecticut weather channel scared us to pieces over the weekend. I was afraid to go to church yesterday for fear of the rain & draconian winds. Off I went & it was fine & I got home unscathed.

We had a ton of rain & it’s still raining today, but it will be over by tomorrow, which will be dry & sunny.

Much Ado About Nothing as WS said.

How did @cricket (eastern Mass) & @gbgoodies (Long Island) survive Henri?

It turned out to be weather that wasn't even worth mentioning. Very little rain or wind. The forecast of wind had me worried about my trees falling.

We got a lot of rain, but very little wind. There was a lot of flooding in some areas, but it didn't affect us much.

It was nice to have cooler weather for a few days, but it's supposed to go back up to being too hot again starting Tuesday.

Good to know. Hot weather has returned to CT & this is helping to dry the unfinished floor of our basement.

Tom Cruise actually making a movie in my hometown. Wowser. Surely a first for Birmingham.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...irmingham.html

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Is there any free smartphone application (using android, here) that allows you to murder telemarketers ? Because when I just hang up they do not die.

I was going to suggest bypassing technology altogether and resorting to witchcraft, but then I remembered all of my past bosses are still alive, and so maybe it is not as effective as I had previously hoped.

How very tacky of my hometown that Tom’s car was stolen outside his hotel (and it’s a fancy hotel) & all his belongings in the car are gone too. Not to mention all his security detail didn’t prevent this. Apparently car thieves can work around the car fob now. :rolleyes:

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Only discovered last week that there is a hashtag symbol on the lower right of my Twitter keyboard next to the @ symbol. :p

Last week of summer. :bawling::bawling::bawling:

In God’s name, why? :rolleyes:

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I noticed for the first time today that Family Dollar has an aisle solely devoted to Christmas stuff. Even though it’s only October 8. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Best sight all week: a guy rollerblading to work with his little dog in his backpack. Amazing! :)

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I'm bored.

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Scary last night when I accidentally locked myself out of Twitter. (Wasn’t paying attention & somehow it didn’t read my thumbprint for my password.) Horrible scenario then of finding my password, getting a phone link from them & still not be able to log in. Multiple attempts & then they locked me out.

Finally dawned on me not to use the app, but enter through Twitter.com. This worked & I then deleted the Twitter app & got a new Twitter app later.

Horrible how dependent we are on our websites. :rolleyes:

I find this so depressing. :(

Frightening how my entire life is in my IPad. God forbid I ever lost it. :eek:

Do you at least have it backed up?

How do I do this?

Just get an external harddrive and copy everything you'd hate to lose onto it, @
Stirchley;.

Tyvm

Last year I put the gut of our pumpkins into our compost bin, thought I had gotten all the seeds out but I guess not. Lo and behold this year we had a pumpkin patch! Well, not really a patch as this was the only pumpkin that grew, but man, one thing I know for sure is that I'm never gonna try to plant pumpkins. They take over your yard.


https://i.imgur.com/qrRhv7W.jpg?1

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That's a nice looking pumpkin. We planted our pumpkins so late that they never got orange. So now we have green pumpkins for Halloween....scary!

Thanks! Probably looks so good because I had nothing to do with it. When I saw what was happening I just let it go. We had a bunch of flowers and two pumpkins growing but one fizzled out when it was kind of small. This one grew perfect because it was outside the bin and was resting on a small brush pile. No obstructions. Will be interesting to see if this grows again next year. We also had some tomato plants growing out of the bin. Apparently I'm not a bad gardener when I don't try to be a gardener. When I try things go south.

I love it when veggies grow mysteriously all on their own! Tomatoes are famous for that.

I once had a tomatillo grow beside a blueberry bush. At first I thought it was just a weed and was going to pull it, but thanks to me being lazy it got big enough to realize that it was a tomatillo. The thing is, I never had planted a tomatillo in many years, so it must have gotten there by a bird.

I don’t care what the New York Times says, I am gonna watch this movie. :p

Return to #boiledeggsgate

Even with @gbgoodies help, I have been wrecking my boiled eggs. My last batch was atrocious. So I found this gadget online. Might be the first gadget I’ve ever bought, but it works!!!

You put a little bit of water in the container, drop in a cooked egg & shake a few times. The little pointy things pierce the egg membrane & the shell comes off easily.

Made in America in Connecticut, which is also great.

https://walkwithamal.org/gallery/

This was the saddest thing I read yesterday. This puppet is so amazing. It made me cry.

The world is becoming so cruel. What we do to each other is mind-boggling.

@Mesmerized, read the bit where Amal met the Pope.

I'm not able to access the page. There's a pop up I can't close asking me to subscribe.

Try this link to a different publication. https://walkwithamal.org/gallery/

If you click on the thumbnails you also get a short video. The Italian thumbnail includes Amal & the Pope.

Wow that was cute. Thanks for sharing this about Little Amal. This is the first I've heard about that pupet.

Surprisingly, I had never heard of her before either. Powerful.

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Just looking at one of the videos of yesterday’s school shooting in Michigan. That one teacher saved all those kids’ lives. The shooter shouted through the door that he was a sheriff, but the teacher didn’t believe him & would not open the door. When the shooter said “bro” they all knew he was a student & they all fled. Kudos to that teacher who had the common sense not to let the killer inside.

How great it is that going to school is life-threatening. :(

Just a nice story about someone I've never heard a bad word or rumour about.

Michael Sheen turns himself into a 'not-for-profit' actor

That is a neat story, good for Michael Sheen! I've often thought if I was a rich actor being payed obscene amounts of money, you know millions, I'd donate 95% of it to worthy charities.

I wonder if you would? I know I wouldn’t.

Final post in the saga of #boiledeggsgate

The directions with this gadget calls for dropping the eggs into boiling water uncovered & boiling on medium for 10 minutes. Turns out this was the trick: no other recipe called for the eggs to be put into boiling water. They all called for the eggs to be in cold water & then bring the water to a boil.

Ironic thing is I no longer need this gadget because the shells come off real easy with the above method. Oh, well. :)

Thanks for the info. I'll pass this information to Hubby. I'm sure that he'll appreciate it. :)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z-76hgsVO0

Chills. RBR rocks!

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Connecticut got our first snow overnight. Ugh.

Was filled with trepidation at having to walk through this crap for my daily exercise this a.m., but it wasn’t too bad. Chilly, but not too cold &, mercifully, no wind. Once I got my footwear sorted, I was okay.

Felt quite proud of myself 2 hours later for facing my fear & making it through okay. Now, tomorrow, they’re talking freezing rain, which I never tackle. Ice scares me to pieces.

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Dang, why did I give up Twitter on Fridays for Lent? :rolleyes:

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That sentence poses a number of questions, Stirchley. :D

Here’s one answer: Catholic guilt. :rolleyes:

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I went to the mall today and then had pizza with my mom and sister. It was a nice time. I got 6 movies at the mall and the pizza was good. It had extra cheese and olives on it.

Give up guilt for lent, instead of Twitter;)

That post made me smile:D

Ha, then I wouldn’t be Catholic. :)