The ice cream talk made me hungry and the cucumber talk reminded me that I had a cucumber that needed to be consumed. I just made a wonderful cucumber, onion, cherry tomato salad with dill and a balsalmic vinaigrette. Then I added the last bit of mozzarella cheese to it. Yum Mee!
Inara: Mal, this isn't the ancient sea. You don't have to go down with your ship. Mal: She ain't going down. She ain't going anywhere.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tamara - Jul 06, 2008 4:15:30 pm PDT #6719 of 10003
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2008 4:16:59 pm PDT #6720 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Root beer in general, Erin. It's too rich for me.
What's the deal with Pokerstars.net? I'm trying to work out where they make their money.
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2008 4:17:26 pm PDT #6721 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We used to live by an A&W drive-in when we lived out in the country in the late 70's. We would drive up and get giant root beer floats in the real glass root beer mugs, on the trays that attach to the windows. It was pretty rural, so we would listen to really loud cicadas and eat our root beer floats.
Erin is me.
The A&W is still there. But it has a drive-through now. They got rid of the old system where you parked under the awning thing and ordered over an intercom and they brought you the tray with all your stuff that they'd attach to the window, and only once did they spill my brother's float all over the inside of the car door, making the power window switches all sticky....
sarameg - Jul 06, 2008 4:20:59 pm PDT #6722 of 10003
I'm so going to do more regular backups next machine. I swear! And I'll probably eventually have to get cable or DSL or whatever. Anyway.
Basically, the only stuff that'd kill me to lose are the pictures, mail and music. And the music is on the external already (so it doesn't have a backup, except the ipod, so it sort of does.) Mind you, this laptop only has 9.something GB. And I've only used up 5.
I got the external drive originally because my ipod was 30GBs. My poor old laptop couldn't sustain it!
Jesse - Jul 06, 2008 4:22:38 pm PDT #6723 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What's the deal with Pokerstars.net? I'm trying to work out where they make their money.
Huh, weird. When I played online free poker, the site had a real-money sister site, but that one doesn't seem to. Mysterious!
brenda m - Jul 06, 2008 4:23:24 pm PDT #6724 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Soft serve and custard both come out of machines, but are entirely different animals.
Need to get my hands on some custard soon. Possibly in float form. Yum.
sarameg - Jul 06, 2008 4:28:53 pm PDT #6725 of 10003
Erin is me.
Me too, sort of (not rural)! When I got old enough, dad and I'd ride our bikes over. And then it closed, and so we went to Sonic. I had a baby A&W mug forever. We tried to find every A&W between here and the midwest. For the longest time, there was only Aztec, NM and near Champlaigne, Ill. (Champagne? it was a long time ago.) Bygod, we'd stop there no matter the time of day.
There's now an A&W/Long John Silver place near me and I get a burger there just about every friday. I love their cheeseburgers. Always with generous slices of onion and their "secret" sauce (I'm pretty sure it is thousand island dressing or just ketsup and mayo.) I'd get a float, but it would probably make me ill, and I don't want to taint those memories. I loved the creamy iced rootbeer that'd form on the ice cream. God.
(there's also a A&W/KFC across from a Baskin Robbins/Dunkin' Donuts not a couple miles further. Cracks me up.)
Jessica - Jul 06, 2008 4:31:49 pm PDT #6726 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH and I are finally catching up on Slings & Arrows S3 (we watched the first 2 eps before Dylan was born...and then Dylan was born...), and realized for the first time that Jeffery's nemesis is played by the same actor who played Marco in The 4400. Knowing this has suddenly become very distracting, because instead of seeing a character, I'm seeing Marco with a silly affected accent.
SuziQ - Jul 06, 2008 4:33:38 pm PDT #6727 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I am not a soda drinker, but a root beer float is an essential part of summer. But I'm very picky - must have good root beer in a can and cheap vanilla ice cream.
Though, I did have a blended root beer float drink at Warped and that seems to have satisfied my "it is hot and I need a root beer float" cravings.
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2008 4:35:05 pm PDT #6728 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My dad would take us all to the A&W after Wednesday night or Saturday night church. It was sorta' a thing. In 4th grade I had these white pants with rectangular patterns sewed all over them with red and white thread. One night after church I spilled part of a float on them. Later my teacher asked me about the stain, and I told her about the float. It was hardly embarrassing at all. But those were some weird pants.
Anyway, that's my biggest A&W memory.