OT: Days of our Lives aka the Beacon's Billboard

[water_moon]

Well, I was going to try them out but with that solid endorsment, I think I'll pass. Although I'll be happy to try out any good cookie recipes you've got. My girls and I can do some baking while mommy is away.

There's a fun and yummy recipie for egg free (kids can eat the dough to their hearts content) chocolate cinnamon cookies I sent corax that do best w/ an extra hand when they come out of the oven to get dusted in powered sugar. I'll see if I can find it, or maybe corax can send it on if he still has it...

 

[farting bob]

Corax baking? now there's a photo i'd like to spam across the www.
Anyway, disappointing that the cookies turned out to be wrong, maybe you can make your own recipe WM?
And i always used to eat the raw dough with eggs in when i was younger, and its done me no harm. :flip::bonk:

 

[water_moon]

And i always used to eat the raw dough with eggs in when i was younger, and its done me no harm. :flip::bonk:

Then you're lucky you didn't get Salmonella or Staphylococcus and throw up your toenails.

edit: and it was a recipie he was making for his gf for a picnic, IIRC. I said before that I don't think bb. can go into a cookie, so rather than waste (the rather expensive) bb, I made some sorbet. (I'll prob throw a few into some muffins, too.)

 

[farting bob]

Then you're lucky you didn't get Salmonella or Staphylococcus and throw up your toenails.

Indeed i am (although my brother has had salmonella before, but that was because of bad meat, not bad eggs.

 

[LeorictheDark]

Hello all. Everyone having good days I trust?

Staphylococcus

Very good spelling WM.

I must admit that I love raw cookie dough. Especially peanut butter cookies. *homer voice* Ohhhhh Peanut butter [/homer] Do you have a favorit recipe Water_Moon?

 

[piscene]

My mom used to make us egg nog when we were kids...the real kind with raw eggs and milk and nutmeg. None of us ever got sick, but I wouldn't try it with my kids.

I think that salmonella was less of a problem in the 70s than it is today. Now we have more mega-farms and super-drugged animals, and its changed the nature of animal-borne diseases.

 

[water_moon]

Very good spelling WM.

AS if!!!! I had to look them both up, my spelling is so bad (I often misspell people and because) that I have a google or dictionary.com window open when ever I'm on SPF at this computer. The other comp. has MS word for spell checking.

I must admit that I love raw cookie dough. Especially peanut butter cookies. *homer voice* MMMmmmm, Peanut butter [/homer] Do you have a favorit recipe Water_Moon?

My fav recipe is for googy butter cake (a St. Louis tradition), rather than a cookie. Though I am partial to the choco cinnamon cookies (I don't bake them as much becuse they're much better w/ an extra hand) and I make this cinnamon bread once a week or so.

 

[grogs]

@grogs - bec still having trouble adjusting to a lifestyle away from friends and family? Grats on the move, might have saved your life...you never know right M8?

Bec has her moments, she is still getting used to life in city. It'll take her a while and I'm trying to be as supportive as I can. Work is really good, I've been lumped with a load of files to attend to, but I'm loving the change of environment. I'm working some fairly long hours atm, but things will settle down once I get on top of my workload.

ps work blows.

You still under the pump? It gets like that though ay.........

@everyone - hope things are well in your part of the world....

-grogs

 

[goltar25]

Ack, I'm posting in the DOOL. The world is about to end. Oh wait, I'm still not posting in the EMB, so we're safe for the moment.

@ronin: I'm, a Mesmer Elementalist too. Goltar is Tyron Stormrunner (ranger base) and Chibbi Stoneheart (warrior monk). I'll look for you and fyi goltar, too.

Close, but not quite. My characters are Tyrion Stormrunner (ranger/mesmer) and Chibbi Steelheart (warrior/monk). Have to have it spelled right if you're going to find me there.

 

[OpethAZ]

See, that is the problem with things from a store, you just never know quite what you are getting labels be darned. I think my chickens are about a month away from laying their first eggs, so very excited about that. Cannot wait to do some baking and cooking with real eggs and not Frankenchicken eggs.

 

[water_moon]

See, that is the problem with things from a store, you just never know quite what you are getting labels be darned. I think my chickens are about a month away from laying their first eggs, so very excited about that. Cannot wait to do some baking and cooking with real eggs and not Frankenchicken eggs.

You still have to be careful with them, they can still make you sick. I grow all of my own veggies I can to avoid pesticide (some just can't be grown here, and I'm thinking that several others are going to be a pain at this high altitude)

 

[corax]

Staphylococcus

hehehehe Staphs are one of the micro-organisms that cause mastitis in cattle *runs away*

Sorry I haven't been around the last few days ive been doing this thing caleld living. its kind of fun. been working heaps on my karate, hassling the job people to actually train me. and harassed a bank manager for being a moron.(i didnt actualyl harass him).

anyway its been really rainy lately and it was flooding in parts of town. also went to the library and borrowed out a stack of pratchett books i hadnt read before.

and if the weather clears up on Sunday corax is going sailing. huzzah!

 

[Snuva]

The summer is arriving - today the temperature rose up to 14 degrees celsius. Soon I'm gonna go to my family's summer cottage. It's in the middle of the woods 30km from the city. There is no electricity and no tap water.

My only activities there will be household chores (making firewood etc.), meditation and reading to university entrance exam. Maybe a bit of chilling out with my friend who's summer cottage is 1,5km from ours. Hopefully I can get back to schedule with my studying there, because there aren't any computer games or other entertainment to distract me.

I go there with my parents and my big brother, but my parents will come back later today after taking a sauna bath. Me and my brother will spend two nights there, atleast that's the plan. I've been looking forward to this for a quite some time.

I'll be back soon,
Snuva

 

[ToastedTacoGuy]

i just bombed my second math test of the week. except that this one was a retest, because i bombed the first one a month ago. last week i got help from the teacher, had her explain everything step by step on what i did wrong on my old test, and she gave me a bunch of problems to do, and i did them all correctly. so when i take a look at the new test it looks pretty easy, and im doing really well until problem 5, the last one. I could not figure it out for the life of me. i am so angry right now that i want to break something and i feel like throwing up. i currently have a 72 in the class, and this was my chance to raise the grade to a high B. I think the part that makes me the most frustrated is that i knew how to do all of it, my mind just went blank at the exact moment that it shouldn't have, and the teacher wouldn't give me the time i needed to refocus and finish the test. so yeah my day really sucked.

 

[water_moon]

i just bombed my second math test of the week. except that this one was a retest, because i bombed the first one a month ago. last week i got help from the teacher, had her explain everything step by step on what i did wrong on my old test, and she gave me a bunch of problems to do, and i did them all correctly. so when i take a look at the new test it looks pretty easy, and im doing really well until problem 5, the last one. I could not figure it out for the life of me. i am so angry right now that i want to break something and i feel like throwing up. i currently have a 72 in the class, and this was my chance to raise the grade to a high B. I think the part that makes me the most frustrated is that i knew how to do all of it, my mind just went blank at the exact moment that it shouldn't have, and the teacher wouldn't give me the time i needed to refocus and finish the test. so yeah my day really sucked.

Some people have test anxiety. Goltar had a friend in college who had it and after her doctor talked w/ the school, they gave her extra time on all her tests and had her take them in a seperate room.

Practice tests are helpful for training to focus when in a test taking situation. (SAT prep standard practice)

I used to have problems remembering what I needed for tests, I would remember history in math, and get econ math confused w/ calculus. The thing that was suggested for me was differnt colored inks for differnt classes. (pencil for math, blue for history, black for philosphy, green for econ, purple for Italian)

Try some differnt things and find what works for you, or talk to the teacher to find if there's another way to demonstrate your knowledge like teaching a class session (or write a lesson plan), tutor another student having difficulties, write a test and the answer sheet, arrange alternate testing procedure w/ the school. Etc. You know you know, now convince the teacher you know.

 

[piscene]

Soon I'm gonna go to my family's summer cottage. It's in the middle of the woods 30km from the city. There is no electricity and no tap water.

That sounds awesome. That is just my type of getaway...total disconnect from society and technology. Sit around a read books til it gets dark, then have a nice fire. I hope you have a blast.

 

[water_moon]

I'd love a summer cottage, I have to get the first house first though. Poor goltar is way sunburned, but I'm not too bad. How was everone's weekend?

 

[corax]

i wish i had a fire.

i love fire. its soooo purrrrty


my weekend was good. except for cindy breaking my clutch.

 

[piscene]

my weekend was good. except for cindy breaking my clutch.

You kids need to take it easy.

The girls and I had a great weekend. My wife will be out of town till next weekend, so we had lots of good daddy/daughter time.

Put some aloe on that sunburn for Goltar...I'm fair skinned and blond, so I know sunburn all too well.

 

[Severoth]

Well lets see thought I may as well cast my hand into this thread.

Just out of interest what music do people play listening to DII?

I have recently been listening to the new Garbage and NIN albums. Both are excellent, and nothing like chopping up or frying some baddies to some good tunes.