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When you say beans, I am wondering exactly what that means?

I could see refried beans with eggs/onions/mushrooms scrambled. However with about a hundred types of beans and prep methods this is a curiosity to me
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Good Afternoon All!
43F and overcast

Got the new spot for the RV started yesterday. Maybe more today if the temp gets to 50F. Until then ima installing the new ( to me ) servers for web, mail and stuff like that. Thanks Patrick for the BIOS update link! It is amazing how you *think* that you have all the files needed to get stuff back in operation. Still have both old servers, so I can go and get said files that are missing. More a PITA than anything. Also updating the backup app for those files. All the html stuff has been done along with the supporting files for the users. Need to do the mariaDB .sql stuff and then I can get back to web design of which I usually do early in the am. Of course, my honeydu list has grown more so the railroad stuff gets pushed out; probably will get to that when the snow flies!

Later
Wondered how you were getting along. Glad to have been of help.
 


Well, howdy there internet peeps, and those enjoying a glass of whiskey this evening.

It's Troy (with whiskey) again

Wife and I made it to the distillery for our date night. Rather expensive one, but my bottle of Engine 765 Rye was $65 of it... and it hits the dinner bill, so the autogenerated tip included that. I didn't back out any, since our girl was good, and the place mostly empty for dinner.

Here's the bottle:

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We did have cocktails made with house-distilled

spirits. Wife had the "Double Apple" cocktail, and I had the Wisconsin Old Fashioned:
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For food, wife had the Mac N Cheese. I had Beef Manhattan.

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Food was good, but the facility is noisy due to hard concrete floors, masonry walls, and such. Be a decent place in when the weather is better for patio sitting. We'll go back, but save it for date nights, not normal dining out.

The special Engine 765 Rye is good. It will have to be a once-a-year purchase at $65/750ml. I top out at $35 a bottle except for specials like this.

Definitely smokey, with a sharp Rye bite. Caramel notes on the finish. Overall I like it.
 
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That was my Mom's favorite!

A simple recipe I learned from my Mom. Hotdogs, baked beans, a little mustard and ketchup backed in the oven. My oldest daughter still makes it and so do I.

I prefer Bush's Onion flavored. Truth is I like any baked beans.

I never had any desire to have baked beans for breakfast.
 
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I've known drivers to continue driving while suffering a stroke, a Heart attack is far more serious.
When I had my stroke it took me 20 mins to decide I needed help, another 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, (and then they made me walk to the ambulance), 20 min drive to hospital, then 30 mins waiting in the ambulance, because of Covid, 30 mins later had a stent in and was on the ward.
Not my best day.

As for getting the body returned, British Embassy is dealing with that.
Heart attack: "1967 Drivers World Champion:* suffered one and died during a Bathurst 500 race, I think it was. Just pulled over to the side, and he passed on.

[* This was the predecessor to today's "F1"]

TIA (stroke): My little sister suffered just such a stroke at the wheel heading home one day on a major freeway, managed to get the car off the side of the road and up the off-ramp before calling 911. The way she described it: "The world suddenly turned a quarter turn left."

I can barely deal with stuff like that when I goof up my "screen-preferences," and insert a ninety degree left rotation to the image. There is usually a count-down, which goes something like "if you don't accept this configuration, the screen will revert back to the default condition in 25 seconds. 24, 23, 22.... But if you don't sort it out, it never returns to normal--it just goes black, so you have to power off and restart.
 
It's the "Fame Factor". If you're a huge Utah Belt fanboy, have at it. I saw some of Allen McClelland's old V&O stuff hit e-Bay some time back, and it went for stupid money. Crude modeling by today's standards. You could still see the Pennsy stripes showing through the blue paint on the E unit. I myself happen to own one of Dick Truesdale's SP Fire Train models painted and lettered for his "Halfhollow & Huntington" railroad. I paid market price for the model at the time, no "fame factor" surcharge. He has some fame factor being the guy behind Westside Models. I was put in touch with him by a painting client & mutual friend. Nice guy, since passed on. I was going to strip and repaint it prototypically, but then I saw some of his stuff at a brass show BrassTrains put on a couple of years back. They made a big deal about it, so I kept it as is. Sentimental value. 🤷‍♂️. Maybe someday someone will offer me a ton for it. :) It's in the photo gallery here somewhere, but here it is again. From the days when model railroads had a much higher dose of whimsy than they do today. View attachment 154346
Two really elaborate tank cars right there.
 
Yep. I have a smart TV I keep dumbed down. I KNOW someone (from the darknet or the CCP) is in this Windows PC right now. I have not booted it up for nine months in Windows since I discovered it last December. As a defense I keep only a set amount in my primary account, and I've lowered my daily limits for both withdrawals and ATM direct cash withdrawals. I know they are in here right now. The most sophisticated of them can burrow so deep that they can read the characters of your Windows login itself.

For the last nine months, and when I first joined here, I used a Linux USB boot stick. I still do use it a lot. IMO every PC user should pre-build one so they can log in in the event of an emergency. You might have to enter your email account info each time you log in...and your screen preferences, if only to see what Linux thinks you are trying to do...etc. It was only mildly annoying, really. I quickly got used to it, and in fact, it was somewhat "freeing" NOT to have to scan email with each login. To set the screen size and resolution. Ok...I could deal with it. Maybe ten extra seconds each time.
I got a call yesterday. From Shanghai.
 
Slowly still going up, $627
 


Just make sure its flu only if she wants to stay unvaxxed. Walgreens would not the place, as they have so many "accidents."

Didn't go to Vietnam but still experienced the protests.
In 1969, got the treatment at Detroit Metro. Punched one boy in the face and the rest got control of their mouths


"Politicians hide themselves away they only started the war
Why should they go out to fight They leave that all to the poor"
He might not have either. The next day, watching the replay.
 
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