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Make Mine Black
By Jimmy Johnson
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80 responses to “Make Mine Black”
Unless it’s changed, USPS tracking is not real-time each time it leaves one facility for another like the big boys. When USPS started their tracking service it was one scan when accepted and one scan when dropped off.
And if you order anything online and get a tracking number that tells you it is FedEx Smartpost, you are going to be waiting a while. That is where the shipper turns it over to a FedEx carrier who sends it to the nearest major USPS hub and gives it to them to deliver. A******n prime sent me a guaranteed two-day delivery that way last year. It arrived 3 days late and the tracking information showed it was delivered two days before it actually showed up.
The amount of sugar which will remain in solution (with excess falling to the bottom of the container) is determined by the present temperature of that solution/drink and not its history.
If one loads sugar into a warm drink, some amount x will saturate the warm drink. If the warm drink is then cooled, a lesser amount y will stay dissolved, with the excess [= x-y] precipitating out.
If one simply puts the sugar into the cool drink, the same amount y will dissolve if the drink has the same volume and temperature in both cases.
c x-p:
1. Lovely. We sure do have a way of spoiling all their fun.
2. We just experienced the Northern Hemisphere’s earliest sunset. Many years, it’s 7 Dec. It’s all Kepler’s fault.
Peace, emb
I’ve borrowed and shortened this account from an online friend. I wish I could tell stories as well as he:
My lovely wife has always been an animal person, and over the years she’s softened me. Our home has always corralled a herd of beasts of every ilk. It’s always hard, and saddens us when one passes on, but the strangest phenomenon occurs. I never actually thought about it until recently but just before a loved pet passes, we mysteriously attract another. Right before the passing of our dog Jubilee, a stray we named Jazzie showed up. Jubilee’s passing was hard, but Jazzie filled the empty spot and almost seems to be the embodiment of Jubilee’s spirit.
Just before a beloved cat died, a stray showed up and adopted us. I wasn’t too enthusiastic but he quickly wormed his way into the household and became integral, and in fact was with us for 14 years. When he was aging suddenly another stray showed up in our carport. I was adamant no we weren’t taking her in but she faithfully followed me around as I worked outside and I finally acquiesced and she became my lap cat. When I worked out of my home office she would lie quietly in my lap and often talked to me. The old cat seemed to pass on his personality to the new one.
These animals have become family. So it’s pretty incredible how with the passing of one family member another arrives. Why I never noted the pattern earlier I’ve no clue but in retrospect there is no question strays are sent to fill a void in our family.
Yesterday, I noticed a guy about my age hanging around my house…
I didn’t mean to make my last comment Anonymous. For some reason my name disappeared and I didn’t notice. I was interested to read about the difference in adding sugar to warm or cold tea. Cracker Barrel used to have the best tea by far, but it isn’t the same now. Has anyone been to the Corvette Museum? I drove by it, but I didn’t have time to stop. Maybe another trip.
TR, I love that story.
c x-p:
As they used to say in the ’60’s, “If you aren’t part of the solution, then you are part of the precipitate.”
😀
I went by my mom’s apartment earlier this evening, and she proudly showed me that her two Christmas cacti are beginning to bloom. One has white blooms and the other red.
She also asked me how she could listen to some Christmas music. I tuned the FM radio in her kitchen to a local “All Carols-All the Time” station and found the holiday music channel on her cable system. After the first two “carols” on cable, I began to wonder who exactly curates the content there. About that time, she commented that she knew the songs but not who was performing them. “No ma’am,” I thought to myself, “you probably don’t know who Barenaked Ladies and Lady GaGa are.”
Then Elvis started singing “Blue Christmas”, and she said, “I know him.”
Good for you Ghost. And best wishes to your mom. I showed mine where to find the music channels on our satellite service. So when she’s not watching Oak Island or Ghost Adventures, she’s listening to the all Elvis channel. She spent her life working to make a home for us, so it’s worth it to help her enjoy the life she has now, just like your mom.
My brother put up a Christmas tree and decorated it, and she has the fun of watching the cats play with the tree while the rest of us hunt up the decorations and rehang them.
Mindy from Indy, I think this is the kind of thing you need. All you would need to do is to heat the rod till it softened enough to put the candy cane crook on it. Unfortunately, this dealer is in the UK, but if you search for acrylic spiral rod you have a good chance of finding it.
Mark, where’s the link?
Here: http://www.hindleys.com/index.php/materials/plastics-foam/rods-tubes-block/rods/acrylic-rods/decorative-rod-bubble-rod/spiral-candy-cane-acrylic-rod-9-5mm.html
Mark – Your last name wouldn’t be Claus or Kringle would it? You seem to be able to find anything. 🙂
emb
Meteorological winter has already begun.
Debbe
Tear Mender SKU# 887 235
The reader holder is by ReadeRest (readerest.com) ares are by
a distributor other than True Value – ours are retailing about $6.99
not a big mover about 3 a year.
Just got a new product —
Chicken Poop lip balm to prevent chapped lips –
“put Chicken Poop on your lips to prevent licking them.”
True Value SKU# 190 308
We put 25 out this morning and within 2 hours they were all bought.
Mark, if you can find where all the naughty girls live, we need to have a talk.
Bat-Guano Crazy Lady was a big fan of H2 programming on cable, mostly the pseudo-scientific entertainment (UFO/Aliens) programs. I knew she was just a big grown-up geek girl, and I thought that was kind of amusing…at first.
Debbe 😉 I enjoyed seeing the “Little Susies” on the Dead Flowers video, even if I did have to see Keith Richards topless to get to them. Some things you just can’t unsee, hon.
This could be my theme song. No, really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSi9DJAgarw
Mindy from Indy, nope, neither of those. Even before the net came along I had a talent for finding things, from lost car keys to good sales on things. Most of the time now, I can use the net, but I know I have to keep looking, trying different search terms, till I find what I am looking for. I just seem to be wired for that type of thing.
Ghost, can’t help there, although a lot of the naughty girls seem to be online too, gauged by the stuff that shows up online! If you have a name in mind, try Zabasearch.
It’s okay Mark, your secret is safe with me. (Gotta keep up those appearances, I get it. 🙂 )
Thunder was limping worse today. I am going to attempt to keep her on the porch for a few days. Keeping fingers crossed she uses the litterbox I put out for her. If she won’t use it, she can’t stay inside. So far, so good. She slept most of the afternoon.
I thought I sent a post here this aftetnoon, gone to cyberspace.
Mindy I sent you some photos I snapped that might work on your tree to Facebook. Ran into big clear and iridescent ornament assortment. Those are big, look good, inexpensive. If you like any I’d like to buy them and send them to you as a gift. You have done many, many things I think make you special and I’d like to say thanks.
Caution – this link contains pictures of Sean Connery, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophia Loren, among others. A young, buff Clint Eastwood and one really well filled sundress may cause bps to rise. You all are welcome.
http://twentytwowords.com/these-pictures-show-how-classy-the-past-really-was/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=22G+-+M+-+Classy+Past&utm_content=2015-12-02+125+%2810%216037433139177%21qwaya%210%29&utm_term=Nostalgia+-+F+18UP
Today’s real time is a hoot! Arlo gets another elbow to the ribs. Almost as good as the “please just look at the pictures” strip. Ha!
Curmudgeonly (!!!) Ex-Professor: I do understand every word you wrote concerning solubles and precipitates. I learned about super-saturation before I could pronounce it. My mother made rock candy for me. I won’t bore you with the recipe; I’m sure someone can help you with it. Later in chemistry I learned the words and rules of nature similar to how you pompously describe it, and successfully made alum crystals. But I would never dream to tell a forum full of southerners they don’t know sweet tea. I might ask if they have noticed the sludge in the bottom of the pitcher when rinsing for the next batch. This technique introduces an opportunity to: first, check the information I have; second, gauge another’s interest; third, allow them to not feel stepped on. What was to be demonstrated, by my dictating to you without invitation.
In fairness I have not taken the time to perform your experiment under laboratory conditions. I do know my Coca-Cola® syrup won’t settle out no matter how much ice I put in it, must be wizardry.
As another, bless his heart, is fond of saying regardless of his level of intended offense, and feigned innocence: peace.
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Good morning Villagers….
And a big welcome to our ten year lurker….AlohaCJ I never could keep quite for that many years.
Gasp….yesterday’s horror started as I drove down the road and saw the escalator and the “spent hen” truck. Had tears in my eyes as I walked up the steps, Andrew was standing there and told me not to look in. They took a break and I walked some allies to see if belts were clear. Started bringing in eggs, they came back in and started purging again. Unfortunately, I had to check the front lines and I saw how they grabbed and threw the hens into the kill boxes. I won’t go into any more details….Agri is a cruel business.
They are finishing up today, and they will be up front and I still have eggs to bring in…..I will keep my composure, as I know that George the Rooster and his Miss Prissy are safe and warm.
Old Bear, thanks for the info…..Lordy, when the boys start scraping the manure off the curtain backs I’m going to have them carry buckets and start selling me some of that chicken poop lip balm….I’ve got a fortune in that pit 🙂
TR…loved reading your story, and I believe in it too.
Indy Mindy, did I miss something? You have a new cat? Hope Blacklight takes to Thunder.
Jerry, just click on the link I posted yesterday morning on the “Half Baked” thread, it will take you to the video of Elvis. I’ll work on her comments and the other video
Have a blessed ‘hump’ day…….
GR 😉 glad you stuck it out on the “Dead Flowers, knew you would enjoy the pics…..but without further ado….may he rest in peace…..I will………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWCfSyBmvs
my cell phone yesterday
http://cheezburger.com/8539337728/funny-cats-image-must-be-a-low-battery