What are you doing today?

Apple fanboy said:
Remind me to never come round for porridge!
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lizkat said:
I've been known to make savory oatmeal or sometimes use cracked wheat or bulgur and add some mediterranean herbs and a few minced veggies, almost like a pilaf. But for breakfast, garlic, uh no.
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Apple fanboy said:
Sugar or honey in mine.
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Okay, garlic for breakfast, never (not even for me, although I will have a savoury breakfast - eggs - scrambled, fried, boiled, and/or cheese on toast - fairly frequently, especially in summer).

No, breakfast is usually freshly squeezed citrus juice (orange juice, or grapefruit, or some mix, perhaps with lemon juice), coffee (bliss......the one utter non-negotiable), that is, real coffee, usually (usually, though not always served with organic hot milk, sometimes, with a dash of cream) and toasted rye bread, or baguette, with French or Italian (apricot) jam, or homemade jam (from the people who deliver my vegetables), or homemade marmalade.

Cheese - instead of jam or marmalade - in summer.
 
Pumbaa said:
[...] a pound of stake?
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This is just, hahahah, wow :LOL:

OMG, and autocorrect is trying to do this:

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Hahahahaha!
 
Speaking of, I've been wanting to rewatch Let Me In, and yes I get it's a remake, and YES, I get as a film fanatic I'm supposed to like the original better (and I usually do), but I __prefer__ the 2010 movie, I have better affinity with the Americanization, plus it's Matt Reeves, so it's a director about to release something, possible amazing (The Batman).

OK, fine, we'll do a back-to-back for a full appreciation of the source material and proper comparison :D
 
DT said:
Stellar crab cakes too, so their pasta incorporating them is *chef's kiss* :D
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Maaaaannn!! Also been craving crab cakes (and salmon croquettes) since I discovered my grandmother made some of the latter in the middle of the night for my cousin. A while ago Grams said she is retired from cooking, so it was a shock. She made several dozen so my cousin could take some home.
 
I want to eat at that restaurant! Sounds delicious!!! Pasta is definitely one of my favorite foods and a staple around here....

Sometimes I wonder if I'm really that much out of sync with other people or whether my instincts are actually right on the money. On another site (Not MR) there is a member who now lives in the US with his wife and they've raised their children here, but both of them still have family and friends back in Ukraine..... Needless to say, they're worried and upset about that whole situation as for them it is so much more personal and real than it is to many of us. He posted a beautiful image of a lovely handmade candle holder that a friend gave them to express her concern and caring, and his wife put a candle in it and they are keeping that candle lit now.... A lot of us saw that post and responded with our own expressions of concern for him and his extended family. (Discussion of politics isn't permitted on that site so that's about as far as anyone can go with this aspect of things.)

So anyway after a while another member started a new thread about what to do when the news is sad or something like that, and I'm not sure what I was thinking I'd see when I opened the thread for a look, but I found it actually rather jarring, because it was a bunch of photos of her happy family and cute smiling grandchildren all having fun doing this or that, and to me that just struck a really wrong, rather sour note right at this time. If I were someone worrying about my relatives struggling to survive in a country which is being torn apart and invaded, the last thing I'd want to see is photos of someone's happy family having fun somewhere far from this awful reality. Is it me? Am I being hypersensitive or is the other member being anything but sensitive?
 
Clix Pix said:
I want to eat at that restaurant! Sounds delicious!!! Pasta is definitely one of my favorite foods and a staple around here....

Sometimes I wonder if I'm really that much out of sync with other people or whether my instincts are actually right on the money. On another site (Not MR) there is a member who now lives in the US with his wife and they've raised their children here, but both of them still have family and friends back in Ukraine..... Needless to say, they're worried and upset about that whole situation as for them it is so much more personal and real than it is to many of us. He posted a beautiful image of a lovely handmade candle holder that a friend gave them to express her concern and caring, and his wife put a candle in it and they are keeping that candle lit now.... A lot of us saw that post and responded with our own expressions of concern for him and his extended family. (Discussion of politics isn't permitted on that site so that's about as far as anyone can go with this aspect of things.)

So anyway after a while another member started a new thread about what to do when the news is sad or something like that, and I'm not sure what I was thinking I'd see when I opened the thread for a look, but I found it actually rather jarring, because it was a bunch of photos of her happy family and cute smiling grandchildren all having fun doing this or that, and to me that just struck a really wrong, rather sour note right at this time. If I were someone worrying about my relatives struggling to survive in a country which is being torn apart and invaded, the last thing I'd want to see is photos of someone's happy family having fun somewhere far from this awful reality. Is it me? Am I being hypersensitive or is the other member being anything but sensitive?
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No I think that’s how I would feel. When I lost my daughter, it was tough seeing kids with their parents. Just reminded us what we had lost. Nowadays it’s not as raw, but sometimes you still get a rather sad reminder.
 
Well after not having a second car for a while I am picking up one. I’m going back to the office more often now and the need is there. Got to get a train up to Banbury this morning which will be fun as Wales are playing England at Twickenham. I travel on the London line as far as Swindon so hopefully beyond that i’ll at least be able to sit down. Driving back down to Wales then this evening, so a long day ahead. It didn’t help my wife went out to celebrate her 40th last night and didn’t get home until 2am. I waited up like the fantastic husband I am of course, knackered [emoji13].
 
Back from the farmers' market - picked up my meat, (and my garlic) and dashed into the French bakery, where my bread was already bagged, ready and waiting for me.

Now, for a restorative mug of coffee.
 
The-Real-Deal82 said:
Well after not having a second car for a while I am picking up one. I’m going back to the office more often now and the need is there. Got to get a train up to Banbury this morning which will be fun as Wales are playing England at Twickenham. I travel on the London line as far as Swindon so hopefully beyond that i’ll at least be able to sit down. Driving back down to Wales then this evening, so a long day ahead. It didn’t help my wife went out to celebrate her 40th last night and didn’t get home until 2am. I waited up like the fantastic husband I am of course, knackered [emoji13].
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This morning I took Mrs AFB to the garage to test drive the i3. Really surprised how much she liked it! Now just to decide on the new or nearly new route.
 
What am I doing today?

Six Nations Rugby.

Scotland vs France… My two favourite teams. I hope Scotland give them a run for their Euros, but I think France will win.

Wales vs England? Easy choice! Go Wales! But as it is Twickenham it'll probably be England.

Tomorrow, Ireland vs Italy… alas. We all know who's going to win that one.
 
Apple fanboy said:
What you getting?
This morning I took Mrs AFB to the garage to test drive the i3. Really surprised how much she liked it! Now just to decide on the new or nearly new route.
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Delighted to read that she liked it that much.

I have just now prepared my coffee (El Salvador with organic hot milk), as my German sister-in-law phoned to chat about Ukraine.

We chatted for well over an hour, and she didn't have to remind me of her mother's war horror stories, or that her mother - as a small chid - had been a refugee, but we did discuss that.

In fact, her mother had fled from what was then Danzig (now Gdansk) as a small child with her family ahead of the Soviet advance in early 1945.

She was outraged (and rightly so) that some of her students - she is a teacher of German at third level - find what is happening "funny".

We both agreed that one can only hold such detached views when one is protected by distance (in time, space and geography) from events elsewhere, secure and safe in this detached distance, and can feel no connection (or empathy) whatsoever with people who are suffering on account of what has been happening.
 
Arkitect said:
What am I doing today?

Treating my feet by not walking anywhere!

The past week in Rome I clocked around 65 Kilometres.
Cobble street are hell on the feet. And *sigh* my walking boots were not quite street ready yet.
Still, bella figura takes priority over practicality! 🙂
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Yeah, that kind of mileage with [assuming] new, leather boots would be rough.

FWIW, according my watch/phone, we walked 49 miles (~79km) over our week in NYC, and I did that will nearly new-out-of-the-box shoes (maybe a day or two days of a few miles prior wear), but they were magical Allbirds sneakers, which I'd like to highly recommend for your next journey if it involves lots of walking (and even more so if it's over that sort of terrain :D)
 
The-Real-Deal82 said:
Getting an Audi A4.
They are funky looking cars the i3’s. How much are they new btw?
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About £36k with the options. Got to keep it below the £40k for free road tax. Audi’s are nice. But I noticed the don’t have all the same options on the same model as the VW. In other words you have to pay extra.
Still might go the nearly new route. Can’t decide.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Delighted to read that she liked it that much.

I have just now prepared my coffee (El Salvador with organic hot milk), as my German sister-in-law phoned to chat about Ukraine.

We chatted for well over an hour, and she didn't have to remind me of her mother's war horror stories, or that her mother - as a small chid - had been a refugee, but we did discuss that.

In fact, her mother had fled from what was then Danzig (now Gdansk) as a small child with her family ahead of the Soviet advance in early 1945.

She was outraged (and rightly so) that some of her students - she is a teacher of German at third level - find what is happening "funny".

We both agreed that one can only hold such detached views when one is protected by distance (in time, space and geography) from events elsewhere, secure and safe in this detached distance, and can feel no connection (or empathy) whatsoever with people who are suffering on account of what has been happening.
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I was surprised she liked it so.
Kind of feel guilty looking at cars when such terrible things are happening in the Ukrainian. Puts things into context.
 
DT said:
Yeah, that kind of mileage with [assuming] new, leather boots would be rough.

FWIW, according my watch/phone, we walked 49 miles (~79km) over our week in NYC, and I did that will nearly new-out-of-the-box shoes (maybe a day or two days of a few miles prior wear), but they were magical Allbirds sneakers, which I'd like to highly recommend for your next journey if it involves lots of walking (and even more so if it's over that sort of terrain :D)
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It is amazing how you manage to clock up the miles during a city walk. 🙂
 
Arkitect said:
It is amazing how you manage to clock up the miles during a city walk. 🙂
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I know! I was going to reply and originally I was going to say "about 20 miles or so ..." and then I got genuinely curious and checked my pedometer stats from that week:
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I cut off 12/29 but that was another 6.7 :D
 
The 27th (above) was museum day so we walked a long way to the museum, then a long walk inside (it's 2 million square feet) :) Then took an extra long route back to the hotel through Central Park :D
 
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