ann Posted April 13, 2016 Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 Happy Grilled Cheese Day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted April 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2016 I'm doing grate, but I could be cheddar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Ha! Grilled Cheese Day is a new one on me! I love it! Must joyfully sing now! ♪ In a gouda velveeta, baby.....♪ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 15 hours ago, kbobam said: ♪ In a gouda velveeta, baby.....♪ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted April 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 My dear departed cat is Facebook friends with Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live fame.   Watching the Season 6 episode of X-Files in which she stars and that made me go check Brother's Facebook account to see if they're still friends.  Sure enough, they are.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 What am I doing up this late? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 Looking for photos like this. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 you know me so well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 Glad Castle was cancelled.  No, I didn't hate it.  Just that the story was that if it returned for a new season, Stana Katic wouldn't be there.  And the thought of Castle without Beckett was almost as bad as McMillan & Wife without Wife.   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 The evoluation of math teaching: http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/kartoffeln.htm#Versionen Oh, how I love this stuff. In the German section there is also this version: Integrierte Gesamtschule 1999:Ein Bauer verkauft einen Sack Kartoffeln für 50,-. Die Erzeugerkosten betragen 40,-. Der Gewinn beträgt 10,-. Unterstreiche das Wort "Kartoffeln" und diskutiere mit deinen 15 Mitschülern aus anderen Kulturkreisen darüber. Waffen sind dabei nicht erlaubt. I try my very best to translate it: Integrated comprehensive school 1999: A farmer sells a bag of potatoes for $50. His production costs are $40. His profit is $10. Underline the word "potatoes" and discuss with your 15 foreign class mates. Use of weapons is not allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 LOL! Â Both as a former math teacher and as an American, I appreciate that more than I can say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 My husband just spent two hours cleaning our living room. I'm exhausted from watching him. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 He did find some marbles I had misplaced. Maybe I'll decide I have something to post tomorrow.  I'm going to sleep now though.  LOL -- he really did tire me out.  I was more than a little worried about what he might throw away, so I had to tell myself over and over "let it go, it's for the best".  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 Speaking of Bulgaria, did I ever tell you I was there once, illegally, in 1966? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 No! Do tell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted May 26, 2016 Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 Well. Me and another stupid 19-year-old on FSU's foreign study program (in Florence) thought we'd be different and go to Greece and then Istanbul and then who knew where, maybe Jerusalem? on our Christmas break, partly because everybody else was going to Paris or London, (how booooring) and partly because we would both be fulfilling a personal fantasy . . . we would take the Orient Express. So we did. Got on the Orient Express in Trieste with thousands of migrant Turkish workers and some chickens in wooden cages (this was before the Orient Express had regained its former glory, or some of it, anyway). Had to stand in the aisle all the way to Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Got off there to change to another train for Athens and couldn't find it, and our old train was pulling out, so we said "what the hey, we'll go to Turkey first" and jumped back on. That time we shared an 8-person compartment with 8 very polite Turkish laborers. Lots of hand signals. Until about 3 am when the lights went on and there was a military guy (with a red enamel star on his cap, which made the hair on the back of my neck stand up) in the door demanding something, and all our Turkish men were rustling around and presenting papers and passports and stuff. So we did too. But he kept yelling at us and we had no clue what he was saying so he left and came back with another similarly-dressed guy who spoke rudimentary English, who then said "Where are your visas??" We promptly became mouthbreathers. I remember thinking "Visas?? Visas? Where the hell are we??" Well, after we said "No visas," he said -- and I quote, for it was ever after burned into my brain, "If you have no visas you must rest in Bulgaria." And 2 guys with guns took us off the train. I remember thinking "Mamma and Daddy will never know what happened to me. Ever. A card from Trieste about the Orient Express and then nothing. Ever again. And where the hell is Bulgaria??" Long story short -- we spent about an hour trying to bribe the boss military guy they took us to. He only wanted German D-marks or American dollars. We had Yugoslavian and Italian money and American Express travelers checks. We finally decided to weep piteously to see if that would help and it did. He took the travelers checks. And gave us a six-hour visa good from Sofia to the Turkish border. And told us not to come back. We said "Alrighty!" and scuttled out of his office to discover that they had held the Orient Express for us. Oh, fulfillment beyond our wildest dreams. People were hanging out of the windows of the train clapping and laughing as we stumbled back to it. That's how my Christmas vacation started that year. And Bulgaria has held a strange fascination for me ever since.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted May 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2016 What a great story! It did remind me of those people we hear about on the news now being locked up for years as spies and I say I have no pity on them because they should have known better .... but now I have to have pity on them because you almost was one.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted May 27, 2016 Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 Yup, I almost wuz one. >>shudder<< Or . . . wuz just . . . gone . . . A legend in my own time . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 "boy sprouts" ... reading an old letter from my Dad ... that's what he called those kids who go camping and work on merit badges and stuff ... what a card .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 What a wonderful adventure, Â Just a little bit envious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted June 10, 2016 Report Share Posted June 10, 2016 Someday I'll tell you what happened when we got to Turkey . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2016 I have been feeding the birds in the backyard.  I hope I don't come to regret it.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2016 Big John says to tell everyone hi. Â *waves* Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted June 28, 2016 Report Share Posted June 28, 2016 It's Shark Week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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