I'm bringing the cheesy potato bomb to Thanksgiving. I've already got my stick of butter.

Every time I've taken an online IQ test, I've ended up about ten points below my "official" IQ from when I was tested as a 7-year-old.

For unrelated reasons, I'd been worried that I was losing some mental sharpness the past few years. I was relieved recently when I read a work of military history I'd first tried back in 2003 and found hopelessly confusing, because this time around it was easy and straightforward. So my four years of teaching myself about Napoleonic-era combat actually taught me something. I may be busy and I may be tired, but at least I can still master complex topics if I set my mind to it.

It's like those kids who prepare such sophisticated ways for cheating on exams, and sometimes, they're so original and brilliant in facing these obstacles, they can either learn the material in a much smaller effort, or actually learn it through those preparations already and end up not needing them.

I had a high school classmate who'd make cheat sheets by writing in tiny print on unlined white paper, then taping it around a cheap white-barreled pen. When the teacher walked by, she'd clasp both hands around the pen and hold it under her chin in a thoughtful pose. She never got caught, but she spent more time making her cheat sheets than I ever did studying.

thanks!

Anytime I do an online iq test I end up scoring way around 70 something. The flaw is totally with the tests.

I'm bringing the cheesy potato bomb to Thanksgiving. I've already got my stick of butter.

My family always assigns me wine, because they know I can't -- nay, WON'T, since I have to drink it as well -- fuck that up.

And then you have to dip a blanket in ebola and give it to a neighbor and then steal his land while bleeds from his eyeballs.

It's tradition!

Being of Irish ancestry I prefer to let Fire Water be my weapon, and sweep in to build railroads while everyone is incapacitated by hangovers or the DTs.

I can not get a definative answer on brined Turkey = salty gravy. But it looks like no, but adding salt to the gravy is only once it is close to being finished. I wonder if the yesit is salty use chicken stock for their gravy. We always use whit zin for turkey gravy. Not drinkable by any of our standards , but what a match with turkey drippings for gravy.

mmm... gravy. Until DH joined the family, we didn't do gravy. and my mom is from the south. But we love DH's gravy.

OK, I'm off to Cheeseheadland... see ya'll later and have a swell Turkeyday everyone who celebrates such!

I'm pretty sure my brined turkey gravy has not been significantly saltier than my non-brined. But it's been a while since I've made either.

Sophia, what's wrong with explaining to your boss in excruciating detail just how hard/impossible it is to do exactly what they're asking in the time they're foreseeing? Proper feedback to managers helps them manage better.

I have tried, but I don't know enough about the tools I am working with to explain in an understandable manner. She's sort of like-- "Well, just right click and save the pictures, and put them in your document. "