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Basmati rice in my NEW ZO MICOM FUZZY LOGIC rice cooker, which came out excellently well, and Kung Pao Chicken out of a bag that was a disappointment. I now know I will need to hit that with rooster sauce before finishing off the left overs.

Last week I baked bird bread - that is bread FOR my birds, not bread made out of birds, LOL! They went nuts for it. Well, the parakeets did. The finches turned their beaks up at it. It was made of eggs, spelt flour, buckwheat flour, mooshed up veggies, and various bird-approved seeds and whatnot.

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Not anchovies! I'm sure there's no special day for anchovies! Yuck!

Apparently the time must have changed recently too. I know this must be so because the clock in my car seems to be correct again.

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Back again. I've had a long "drifty" period, sorry. I'm just not reliable, sadly.

So I WON'T be moving to Tejas with my son due to a blowup on DIL's part. I don't know what got into her but she started shouting at me in a restaurant and issuing ultimatums as to where I WOULD (according to her) be going. I was upset myself and asked her VERY calmly to please stay out of the conversation - which was probably not the best way to phrase it but it was a lot better than just telling her to stop yelling at me. Pretty sure that would have been worse.

Plus, when my son said "I'm not sure but even though this is a great job, I might be going elsewhere in a few years" (because he has several friends in the Political Science Dept of a University on the East Coast, which is their preferred location, and mine as well, truth be told). Whereupon DIL stated "We will DEFINITELY not be staying in TX because I HATE TX."

Ummmm ... academics don't have THAT much choice of location plus "really good job" there in Tejas plus SHE HAS NEVER EVEN BEEN THERE.

Which is all really between them. But for me - what, move me barely a year after buying this place, and then make me move again, when I never wanted to come here 3+ years ago in the FIRST place? I think not. I'd rather just stay put and wait for them to settle, or decide they are settled in TX, if that's what happens.

So no, I will NOT be moving to TX with them.

However she is STILL angry at me and is running around telling people I told her to "shut up" (which I did not). She will not leave her room if I go over there, and sometimes she will make an ostentatious amount of noise to make sure I know she is leaving the house rather than be there with awful awful me. It's been 2 months at least by now. She should either be over it by now, or at least willing to discuss it with me - but no, that's not how OCD passive aggressive people do things, I guess, LOL!

So I'm not good enough to talk to or have in the house, but apparently I'm good enough to drive over there every day to take care of their cats while they're gone house hunting in TX next week, LOL!

Oh well. Them's the breaks I guess. Perhaps she will become less angry once she's actually in a different time zone, LOL!

Anyway ... STILL not dead yet!

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I feel like the guy in Monty Python's Holy Grail - "I'm not dead yet!"

LOL!

Sorry for the technical problems. I'm not sure yet if I chose my host poorly or not. Since traffic has pretty much petered out, I am not sure how much its up and how much its down. I think its always been up for me, but I got lots of reports that others couldn't get in.

Also there is a trick to getting it to not log you off. I forget exactly what it is but I'll look at it and let you know. It's easy, I just don't remember offhand what it is. It's a little non-intuitive - but again, it's a function of the host and the way they chose to implement the software.

I've been blaming the problems getting in on an upgrade to the site software, but if they changed ISPs - maybe it was an issue with the ISP that just coincidentally happened at the same time as the update.

I think I will try to keep it up and see if things can get better over there. But honestly, as far as content, I can't do that by myself. Right now I'm not baking at all and probably won't until after we get moved again. We'll just see how it goes.

So here's the deal - my son got a job at a new University in another state. We just bought this house that I've worn myself out on trying to get it painted and reno'd. The issues here have been mostly due to 2 things -

1) the place had 3 heavy smokers living in it for many years. Result being massive thick nasty smelly tar deposits. So before I could paint, I had to clean. And before I could paint after cleaning, I had to double-prime with an oil-based primer meant to lock down the smell. I used KILZ original if anybody is wondering. And because it was oil-based, there was oil-based paint smell plus a lot more work cleaning up.

2) I decided to strip all the woodwork. This was my death knell, LOL!

Basically I wore myself out, and part of that was unnecessary and a poor decision on my part. So I drove myself into a hole that I'm still pulling myself out of, LOL!

So we just bought this place in June and its still only about halfway fixed up, and now we will be moving out of state. The question at this point being, do we put this place up for sale and I go now, or do we hold on to it for a year or two (to maximize Profit given real estate here is going up rapidly and will likely continue to do so save we have a sudden Depression/Recession again).

So I'm still sort of in limbo with no idea where I will be 6 months from now.

Sorry to be "disappeared" again, but that's pretty much my life nowadays. I will seem fine for a long while and then suddenly - dropped through the floor with no warning, LOL!

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Sorry guys. I am not reliable. I was doing well when I started that and thought I could keep up but such has not been the case. I was kind of hoping it would trot along on its own regardless of my current state of being but apparently not.

I have pretty much kept up with the registrations. The last one took me a couple of weeks but by and large I get 'em up there right away.

The issue had been that it was constantly crashing. There was nothing I could do about that. It was an issue having to do with a recently installed update that apparently took them quite some time to get a handle on. Hopefully that's stopped - at least I've not heard about any problems for quite some time and its always up when I load it.

BakerAunt, may I e-mail you privately? My son just got a job teaching where you work. I've got your work e-mail, if that's ok. So you're not too creeped out - I told Mrs. Cindy about my son's new job and our upcoming move to your neck of the woods, and she shared with me that you live and work where we are headed, LOL!

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