What are you doing today?

Hi, Real-Deal, and welcome!!! :)

So I went to the grocery store and laid in some supplies for the upcoming next several days and have now gotten out the Spode Christmas pattern dishes for use on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and the matching coffee mugs that I'll use to enjoy my coffee during the holiday season as well. Got some silver polish at the store so now can do a proper job of cleaning the silver -- a long overdue project! Glad I went to the store today, as it was not too busy, but I suspect that tomorrow and Thursday the place will be full of last-minute food shoppers.
 
Spent 35 years drinking coffee from the iconic Anthora paper cups in NYC... so I only look down on the styrofoam ones.

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JayMysteri0 said:
👀 Holy Crap! I haven't seen one of those in ages. I think the last one I drank out of actually came from a machine that served Chicken Broth.
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You can even buy packs of them online; someone licensed the rights. Since 1963 those things have been stacked in NYC delis... 🥰
 
Clix Pix said:
Styrofoam cups --- UGH!

Paper cups -- doable but still not wholly desirable. A real cup made of china, pottery, stoneware or even glass is much more to my liking.
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Yep... once I came upstate for good, the paper ones faded from memory pretty fast. Saw those Anthora ones online one day though and felt pretty nostalgic for the old deli routines of a weekday morning. Not least because I didn't have to MAKE the coffee lol just stand in line with all the other half-conscious folks on autopilot.
 
Went on a grocery run. Of course it started to rain it stopped about half way there. but if you want to ride in portland you deal with the rain about 42 out so not so cold. wondered around showing y wife Christmas lights so it took care of both of the issues. 14 mile round trip and 75.00 later for some Christmas Day food.
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Clix Pix said:
Styrofoam cups --- UGH!

Paper cups -- doable but still not wholly desirable. A real cup made of china, pottery, stoneware or even glass is much more to my liking.
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I use to believe that... till I managed a coffee-based cafe; it took us forever to wash and clean at the end of the day. "Real" cups lasted a grand total of one week.
 
Clix Pix said:
Styrofoam cups --- UGH!

Paper cups -- doable but still not wholly desirable. A real cup made of china, pottery, stoneware or even glass is much more to my liking.
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A heartfelt and profound amen to that.

ronntaylor said:
I use to believe that... till I managed a coffee-based cafe; it took us forever to wash and clean at the end of the day. "Real" cups lasted a grand total of one week.
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In civilised spots such as France or Italy, even espresso - consumed in a hurry - is served in "real cups", bless them.

Back from the farmers' market: Laden down with Cheese, fruit, vegetables, and bread.
 
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Working from home today as the COVID rate is sky high where I live and in the county where I work too. A close work colleague of mine tested positive on Saturday and I’m hoping I don’t develop any symptoms, not that I got too close to him last week. Currently in my office in my converted garage avoiding the wife and kids causing mayhem in the house lol.
 
DT said:
Yeah, so this is a little tricky. When you take a photo with a "smart device", the relative up is stored with the image, so "up" us always up, even if the photo was taken with the camera oriented such that the image would be 90° left or right (or even 180° upside down). When you send the photo, whether that's Airdrop, uploading through a browsers, whatever, the OS and the interface by which the image is acquired, is supposed to coordinate and send a version that's been fixed so up is up :D

What are you using to access this forum? Browser? (if so, Safari, or something else like Chrome?) Tapatalk?
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Safari, and I held the ipad on it’s end, narrow sides on top and bottom to take the shot and it appeared oriented correctly on my ipad in my photo library. Your saying I needed to take the picture with my iPad oriented in the landscape direction, I think?
 
Today's early morning visit to the market:

Cheeses purchased (in he cheesemonger's, where the queue - masked and distanced) took the best part of twenty or thirty minutes to arrive at the shop: Stilton, Gorgonzola Cremosa, Bleu d'Auvergne, Camembert, Taleggio, St Nectaire, Abondance, and 30 month old Comte.

There is already a shortage of lemons (although I managed to lay hands on some, in a stall I normally don't frequent) - which is irksome, as circus fruits are perfectly in season just now.

Anyway, I purchased lemons, limes, grapefruit and oranges; also apples and mangoes.

As for vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, onions, celery (I have sufficient garlic and carrots), aubergines (eggplant), courgettes (zucchini), and peppers were all bought.
 
A wash has been put on, and I have had a shower (having returned earlier, from the farmers' market).

And a crate of Belgian beer has been delivered.
 
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