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On another note, however, googling your sig found me some lovely Western Swing.
The thing I miss most about migrating north from Texas - music that requires dancing, and folks who actually get up and do so.
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On another note, however, googling your sig found me some lovely Western Swing.
The thing I miss most about migrating north from Texas - music that requires dancing, and folks who actually get up and do so.
Mornin', MBV peeps!
Cup o' java and salted caramel.
Rewicked four attys (ego-c's) with CVS sterile cotton last night, instead of the usual boiled stuff I use when the silica is finally too fused to the coil to remove without more patience than I'm willing to spend on it.
I've never run into the "muted flavor" issue with cotton before - I seem to have it with just one of these attys.
Gonna have to pull a couple apart today and see what the difference is. My guess is that this one has a *slightly* thicker wick in it than I put in the others.
Stay warm and dry, all y'all dealing with that frozen white stuff!
(Quick edit): Congrats, Joie!
Cup o' java and salted caramel.
Rewicked four attys (ego-c's) with CVS sterile cotton last night, instead of the usual boiled stuff I use when the silica is finally too fused to the coil to remove without more patience than I'm willing to spend on it.
I've never run into the "muted flavor" issue with cotton before - I seem to have it with just one of these attys.
Gonna have to pull a couple apart today and see what the difference is. My guess is that this one has a *slightly* thicker wick in it than I put in the others.
Stay warm and dry, all y'all dealing with that frozen white stuff!
(Quick edit): Congrats, Joie!
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On another note, however, googling your sig found me some lovely Western Swing.
The thing I miss most about migrating north from Texas - music that requires dancing, and folks who actually get up and do so.
Western swing is something that I really can get into, but my favorite is really old cowboy.
Close but no, try Marty Robins.
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Hate to say it, but I'm on a kindle. Have not figgered out how to post you tube with it yet.
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Ooh, craft shows. Love those. What did/do you vend? I too am planning a nap later. I'd skip the errands, but I'm out of both deodorant and toothpaste, so I doubt the family would be impressed... I have enough of both to not stink up the store this morning, but after that there'd be trouble.
Cookie parties... they became a "thing" a few years ago according to the Food Network, and like most food fads they're not a "thing" anymore, but in Western MI, everyone I knew did one long before FN decided it was cool. It's basically the most laid back party you'll ever attend; everyone arrives in clothes you don't mind cooking in (if it's a holiday cookie party, kitchy holiday sweats you normally wouldn't wear out of the house are considered ideal attire). Kids are welcome, and in most cases expected. (The "you will behave yourself or so help me god..." clause applies.) Everyone brings a cookie/treat recipe that's a family favorite. Ideally, they also provide the host with the recipe before the date of the party.
The host shops for all the ingredients, and if they're feeling particularly ambitious or they have a good system going (as we do by now), they print out all the recipes on some 3x5ish slips of paper, along with any other important information.... "contains nuts," "contains strawberries," "made with splenda," "gluten free," whatever.
The night before the party, the host cooks up all *their* family favorites, and if they're smart, a test batch of some/most of the other treats.
The day of the party, the pre-baked treats are all laid out on the table (along with the recipe/important info slips nearby) and the guests all cook their own batches of their recipe. There's usually some general appetizers or cold cuts laid out too. If there are younguns present, they have a flour fight somewhere and possibly get around to making some sugar cookies on which to pour three containers of sprinkles. The adults drink enormous amounts of coffee (with or without booze) while they wait for their turn at the oven.
When you're done, you usually have 2-3 dozen of 8-10+ different kinds of goodies. Then it's time to break out the cling film/cellophane bags/cheap holiday cookie tins. Each guest gets one and can load it up with whatever they like to take home, and of course, they get the recipe to take home too.
Yesterday, we had chocolate cookies with mint chips, Heath bar cookies, lemon squares with splenda, sugar cookies, chocolate-peanut butter-oatmeal cookies, shortbread cookies, coconut sandwich cookies (the recipe for which, or one similar, was apparently served in second class on the Titanic the night before the sinking), four different flavors of meringues, and a few others I don't remember now, along with zucchini bread and gingerbread. Everyone went home in a caffeinated sugar high haze, and the two little guys who were here were so overexcited by all the *stuff* that they had collapsed in a heap well before it was time to go home (they're four and five respectively, so it was a lot for them to take in!)
The main thing that seems to confuse people down here is that it's *extremely* casual and you're not meant to bring anything (except a recipe, if you forgot to give us one ahead of time). It usually takes our friends a few years of attending to realize that yes, we mean it when we say "dress casually" and "come whenever, stay however long you like, or just come grab some cookies and leave again, that's fine too" and "Yes, of course you can bring the kids" and "no really, don't bring anything for us." We do it because a) it's fun and b) it's a nice way to "gift" our whole social circle for Christmas without breaking the bank, and without accidentally giving them something they can't eat - we compile all the recipes by about a month beforehand and then go through it to make sure we've got sugar free options, gluten free options, nut free options etc available so that no one feels left out and everyone's got a good number of choices... if there's not enough of one of those based on the recipes attendees are handing us, we plug the gaps with recipes we keep around. If someone can't attend at the last minute, we make their recipe anyway and then send them a "little bit of everything" cookie tin.
It's good fun, and once you've done it a couple times, not much more work than just making cookies for yourself... just a heck of a lot more fun. And as a result, we've got a *massive* cookie recipe collection comprised of recipes from all over the world.
Morning, Sam! Yes, that's exactly what it means. Very handy.
I have! It's a very beautiful game, and like Go, easy to learn but more nuanced than it seems at first glance. Lots of fun, though. A new game came out last year that is obviously influenced by Xiangqi and Chess, although it sort of mashes them together and throws in a little luck - it's called The Duke. A friend of mine explains the rules here:
And you can watch him play it with his then-8-year-old son here: The Duke playthrough
Rodney has a whole series of those videos on his channel ("WatchItPlayed")... it's a great place to get an idea of what the modern boardgaming world looks like, and he and his kids keep the games moving and interesting to watch.
I've sat through many a deadly-dull walkthrough and/or a "playthrough" that consisted of three drunk guys with neckbeards who have never held a conversation with a real live girl, solely in an effort to try to figure out if a given game was something I might be interested in playing, and I often come out none the wiser when those are the only kinds of videos available on a new game. Rodney isn't like that at all. His rules explanations are clear without burying you in minutiae, and the playthroughs are always quite entertaining. If anyone's seen Wil Wheaton's "Tabletop" series.... Rodney was doing that well before Wil ever thought of it, and he does it better. (No disrespect to Wesley Crusher - er, Wil Wheaton - because since he's WIL WHEATON, he's bringing Eurogames into the American mainstream... but because he aims for a party game atmosphere, you won't see any real strategy games on Tabletop. Rodney's picks run the gamut, so you get a much broader idea of what's out there, and that not all gamers are geeky guys who can't go three minutes without making a geek in-joke or a sci-fi reference.)
Anyway, Sam, you sound like you would love some of the heavier "Euros" out there. The hallmark of a Eurogame is simple rules (often called "elegant" in boardgamerspeak) but lots of depth and strategy. Because the roots of Euros are in boardgaming as a family activity, most Euros have a ruleset you could easily teach a six or seven year old, but which has enough nuance, variable setup, and interesting decisions to keep people playing the same game for years. The Chinese are the undisputed masters of those kinds of games, of course. What the Germans did was say, "Let's see if we can make games with that *kind* of broad appeal and strategy, but add themes, artwork, and varying objectives."
At that, they've been wildly successful.
There's a new solo boardgame I'm hoping to pick up for Christmas (I like boardgames I can solo cause they're good for waiting rooms and the many times I'm wide awake at 3am). It's a simulation of an epidemic - viral or bacterial, your choice, each has different rules - and you're working to try to synthesize proteins in a lab to formulate a cure before an outbreak becomes a worldwide deadly plague. Throughout the game, you only have so much space to develop new proteins in the incubator, you have to watch your budget, manage your staff, etc... keeping in mind that every turn, the game "clock" is advancing closer and closer to a worldwide health crisis. It's a lot to keep track of, especially in this age of computers keeping track of all that stuff for you... but all the pieces fit together logically, and it is, as my fellow boardgamers would say, very "elegant."
Good morning to all MBV-ers!!! Just a few notes here...
1. I can never believe HOW fast I get my MBV order...it's always out of the store and into the mail in 24 hours...and in the mailbox in TWO days!! The wonderful juices, especially Get Razzed, keep me from returning to stinkies...I'm now a 2 year Vaper...and TOTALLY stinkey free for TWO years on 1/9/14!!! YEAAAAAA!!!
2. I ordered a bottle of Peach Rings 18mg, 50/50 last week...but every "toot" makes me cough my derned fool head off...has anyone experienced this? Juice tastes GREAT...but can't vape it cuz of the coughing...will more steeping help??
3. And a Merry Christmas from TriceraSanta, as played by Boo the french bulldog:
1. I can never believe HOW fast I get my MBV order...it's always out of the store and into the mail in 24 hours...and in the mailbox in TWO days!! The wonderful juices, especially Get Razzed, keep me from returning to stinkies...I'm now a 2 year Vaper...and TOTALLY stinkey free for TWO years on 1/9/14!!! YEAAAAAA!!!
2. I ordered a bottle of Peach Rings 18mg, 50/50 last week...but every "toot" makes me cough my derned fool head off...has anyone experienced this? Juice tastes GREAT...but can't vape it cuz of the coughing...will more steeping help??
3. And a Merry Christmas from TriceraSanta, as played by Boo the french bulldog:
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