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A coupla comments (I'm at work, so I get to use numbered bullet points, like in a presentation):
1. It was good to meet some people--Doxey, Sobo, AlpineK, Alpinfox, Blake, Lunger (?), Olyclimber, MisterE, Suzi and Wrecks.
2. Would have been more fun if MORE PEOPLE who SAID they would come would have come. (My dog Chase really wanted to meet Scooter Bug! He was so bummed.)
3. Seemed like there were quite a few people who were not on cc.com?? Not a bad thing, they were cool peeps, but I was looking forward to meeting people I'd been bs'ing with online, ya know? Putting faces to names, and shit.
4. The beer was plentiful and tasty.
Thanks!!5. Except for the fact that the weather might be poorer up there, Chatter Creek is a way cool campground. Nice to have the covered kitchen with the rain and all.
6. Next time, get verification that the group camp site reservation went through--although the reservation system should handle this electronically. (Bit of a mix-up on that, hence, we/I missed out on socializing Friday night, which was why I went over early. Not to rub anyone's noses in it, but it was a bummer to arrive, in the rain and the dark, at 9:00 on a Friday evening, and not find anyone to drink with.)
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edamame beans with rock salt. Mmmm.
Delicious! I first had edamame beans in 1999 on a visit to Manhattan. It seemed so exotic--shortly after, they became more common out here.
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One of my mainstay quickie favorites is to boil pasta (spaghetti, fettucine, shaped pastas) in water with a little olive oil. While that's cooking, open up a jar of tasty marinara sauce (not Prego--as with wine, something in the mid price range, at least). Dump half the jar into a pan on the stove, plop in 3 TJ's frozen turkey balls--um, turkey meatballs--put a lid on it (it will splatter), and heat on low-medium while the pasta boils.
Drain the pasta, test the meatballs to make sure they are cooked through, then pour over the pasta. Maybe sprinkle on some garlic powder, or crushed fresh garlic--often too much trouble--and a generous sprinkling of shredded (or grated) parmesan cheese. Sprinkle on any other herbs you might want--parsley, oregano.
Open up a bag of TJ's organic herbs and/or arugula, put two handfuls in a bowl, slice some green onions and cucumber on top, sprinkle on equal parts olive oil and seasoned rice vinegar, add some fresh-ground pepper.
Pour a glass of wine, and you're set.
OTOH, sometimes I have frozen waffles with peanut butter and syrup, and a tall glass of skim milk. YUM!
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It's interesting to hear about the wars from the Canadian perspective. In graduate school I took a seminar that was solely about the effect of WWI on Canada--the country lost a disproportionately large number of men, and appeared to have a profound social effect.
Re: WWI, I recently saw a movie called "A Very Long Engagement" (I think it came out last year?), and although it's a bit of a romance and a mystery, it's very much about the war. Some scenes take place in the trenches, and it's pretty horrific. Desperate men would mutilate themselves to be removed from the war, and then sentenced to death if it was determined/discovered that they did it themselves--it was considered being a traitor. Worth watching--an enjoyable film, but also historically enlightening.
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An "aha!" moment--I'm watching this movie where a Land Rover gets stuck in the sand in the Australian outback. After shoveling doesn't get the vehicle unstuck, the key character decides they have to build a "dead man." They dig a hole, put a spare tire in the hole, attached to the winch chain (going to the vehicle), they bury the tire, and use this improvised anchor to winch the vehicle out of the sand (only, it doesn't work, because it's the movies, and the script writers have something else in mind for the hapless victims).
I've only encountered "dead man" anchors in snow climbing--it never occurred to me that it was not unique to that medium. Turns out it's a technique used in other applications as well. Cool!
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Let me be the first to say: Who the fuck let out a yell every 30 minutes from the time I went to bed until 1:50 a.m.?? Holy mother-fucking Christ.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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My maternal grandpa turned 81 last week (the first day of Autumn--that's how I keep track of his birthday), and my maternal grandma, his wife of 63 years, turns 81 in Dec.
They met when my grandpa was stationed in New York City, before shipping out to the Pacific. My grandma was one of the girls serving food and drinks at a USO dance, on Staten Island, where she was born and grew up--they met, and shortly after married, before he went out to sea. My mom, their first child, was born while he was on a ship in the Pacific. He didn't see her until she was over a year old.
My grandpa was on a ship in the Pacific when Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was one of the first to be discharged at the end of the war, because he had seniority, and a newborn baby at home.
He has gone to regular reunions on the East Coast of his shipmates over the years; they held the last one a couple of years ago; not enough living to make the reunions worthwhile.
I recently read one of his letters to his young wife (they were both 18 when they married), and he wrote to say that he figured he would take to farming when he got home, if that was OK with her, since that was what he knew, and he thought that would be the best thing. He also said he was sorry for "saying those things," and would she forgive him. He had seen some friends die, and he couldn't tell her the details, but he was sorry. The letter didn't indicate what he had said to her.
After first living in Tennessee, my grandpa's home place (my grandma told me recently she hated it there--she was a city girl), they eventually settled on a farm in Idaho, growing potatoes, and my grandpa's nickname to friends who knew him back then is still "Spud."
He eventually took up bricklaying, and taught my dad the trade, as a young newlywed to my mother. They we all moved out here to WA when I was a baby.
My grandma was most effected by the Depression, I think. She buys stuff on sale, by the multiples, even when she doesn't need them. I helped them moved recently, and they must have had 30 cans of pork and beans, at least. I remember going shopping on Saturdays with her, and she would drive clear across town to save on a package of toilet paper. Her parents had divorce, which was exceedingly rare in those days, and money and food was scarce. She remembers her dad bringing by bags of food occasionally.
My grandparents are my most favorite relatives! They're supercool. I hope they never die!
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That's rich
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Two things that should not be allowed on cc.com: the pros and cons of bolting, and politics.
It would make for a happier world!
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Oops, my bad--for a minute there, I forgot what site I was on.
Off I go, back to www.niceblandpeople.com.
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Are we going to have dwarf tossing?
Hey! That's so not politically correct. Or nice.
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But that's what beer and tarps are for--to keep you warm and dry.
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Minx, I am--and I'm heading over this evening. PM me with directions, and I'll stop in.
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If I was a black American, I think I might have a chip on my shoulder about bs like this that keeps coming up--or, out into the open.
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The author of "The Book of Virtues," Bennett answered a caller's question by taking issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that the nation's abortion rate is up.
"But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," Bennett said.
He went on to call that "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."
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If you could please move your property to Snoqualmie Pass, because that's the way I'm going, I'll be happy to pick up some wood. Get on it.
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Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you
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I don't know what a Mullionaire is, but I bet it's great!
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Somebody should shoot Halliburton and put it out of our misery. I'm sick'n'tired of hearing about the damn company and its noncompetitive bid awards.
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Dr. Flash Amazing here, with a friendly reminder that the Doctor clocks dough like Trump uses AquaNet.
AmazingCo, Inc. owns all y'all, so you better recognize.
Hey, honey, ya married? Me, I always wanted ta marry me a millunaire. You don't gots ta be pretty, just have them nice, deep pockets, like. A gal like me, she gots ta keep up a certain kin'a lifestyle, ya know.
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uhhhhhhhhh, we started this whole worthless thread with that joke.
Well, at least you didn't say the joke was worthless.
Spying on some dude getting rid of his Happy Meal.
for your MPV biatch. 
Teddy Bear Crisis!
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