What is in your cup?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

A rare beer in my glass. I felt the need after spending the last hour having my 10 year old daughter pulling out cactus needles from my back after one of ours fell on me while I was reaching in the kitchen window to unplug the mower cord (you couldn't make it up...)

I think your daughter deserves a beer, too.

[pdurrant]

Ouch!

I had my sparkling apple juice. Now another Coke Zero.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by issybird

I think your daughter deserves a beer, too.

Thankfully she has no desire to drink beer yet. We have that challenge still to come...

Another beer for me, though .

[poohbear_nc]

I too have just imbibed an Old Peculiar. Fortunately, no cacti or lawn mowers were involved!

[dreams]

Originally Posted by orlok

A rare beer in my glass. I felt the need after spending the last hour having my 10 year old daughter pulling out cactus needles from my back after one of ours fell on me while I was reaching in the kitchen window to unplug the mower cord (you couldn't make it up...)

OUCH! *even though that must have been a perfect photo moment - I did have a big smile picturing the sounds that must have accompanied the unfortunate incident*

A double beer time, agreed.

Right now, I'm trying to decided if I really need to do what I put off doing yesterday or just keep enjoying doing nothing much on my holiday quiet time.

[Stitchawl]

, I love the colorful clothes she wears
And she's already working on my brain
I, I only looked in her eyes
But I think of something I just can't explain.

I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
Good good good good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
Good good good good vibrations
She's giving me excitations

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0yoiBYbT2I )

Good morning, all. And a special good morning to Pin Cushion! Sorry to hear of your pointed lesson in Feng Shui, and glad that daughter and beer were on hand to help deal with the problem. Aloe with lidocaine (Sold as 'Solarcain') helps with the pain. A propos the Feng Shui comment, "cactus should NOT be kept inside the house. They are good luck OUTSIDE but bad inside (with the exception of succulents that don't have sharp spines such as Christmas Cactus or similar.) The sharp 'killing arrows' (as the sharp points are called) keep negative energy from entering the home. Inside, these 'killing arrows' can get you when you least expect it!

I'm having a quick breakfast of Assam tea and miso soup, and then off to Kobe in search of Keemun tea today. I'll take the train so I can spend most of the day reading instead of driving in traffic!


Stitchawl

[ProfCrash]

It is good that I don't do the daily song, I have all sorts of great children's lullabies...

Formula for Lucas, I had water with my Five Guys. And a white chocolate mocha at Starbucks.

[Stitchawl]

He shoots! He scores!!!!

700gm of unbranded Keemun tea was found today. We'll actually, I found a lot more than that, but that what I bought in Kobe's Chinatown district! Packaged in the same 100gm packs that my little (now defunct) Chinese used to sell, even with the same label and at the same price, ¥300 (about $4 USD.) I guess the importer provides the labels for the shops, as I bought from two different stores and both used identical stick-on labels but both did their own bag filling! I found some in the first shop I entered, but the tea was rather loosely packed so I only bought 200gm from them. But further down the street (Kobe's Chinatown is only on one street and is two blocks long) I found another shop that used a vacuum sealer bagger so I bought another 5 packages.

Then further on, I found an Oolong and Pu-erh specialty store that had some outrageously expensive teas for sale! They did have a Keemun but they wanted ¥1250 ($15) for 100gm. Based on the fact that I prefer the $5-jar caviar to $75oz caviar, and prefer the ¥350 Green Japanese tea to the ¥2500 Green Japanese tea, I decided I would probably like the cheaper Keemun too so left the shop!

I bought a lot of other goodies while I was in that district, stocking up on dried shrimp, dried scallops, several different soy sauces, jugs of preserved mustard greens, fermented black beans, dried sheets of tofu skin, and a slew of other foods. I even scored a package of sweet duck sausage... but that has to get saved for next weekend's 'off-diet' treat.

So right now I am drinking my new unbranded Keemun, a great big smile on my face, and wondering just how I'm going to explain the seven bags of tea sitting on the kitchen table to my wife...


Stitchawl

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Good morning, all. And a special good morning to Pin Cushion! Sorry to hear of your pointed lesson in Feng Shui, and glad that daughter and beer were on hand to help deal with the problem. Aloe with lidocaine (Sold as 'Solarcain') helps with the pain. A propos the Feng Shui comment, "cactus should NOT be kept inside the house. They are good luck OUTSIDE but bad inside (with the exception of succulents that don't have sharp spines such as Christmas Cactus or similar.) The sharp 'killing arrows' (as the sharp points are called) keep negative energy from entering the home. Inside, these 'killing arrows' can get you when you least expect it!

Not having anything better to hand she used antiseptic Savlon cream (not sure if it's a UK only brand?), and all seems well today.

I agree wholeheartedly that the cacti shouldn't be in the house (this isn't my first mishap with the little bleeders - a little while ago I couldn't stop my reflex action of catching one as it fell from a window sill, and ended up with "killing arrows" in both hands). I have mentioned the fact they they need to be moved often, to the extent that my wife is getting tired of hearing it. "But they are my babies, I've nurtured them since birth" etc. etc. The UK weather isn't exactly conducive to outdoor living for many plants - not sure how cacti would cope (at this point, not sure I care).

Black coffee, accompanied by a breakfast biscuit.

[ProfCrash]

Sounds like a very successful day Stitchawl. Reading, train ride, tea, lots of Chinese goodies. I totally would love to find an Oolong and Pu-erh store. That would be all kinds of awesome.

Lucas is fighting my cold from last week, mainly his nose is stuffy. It is a dam good thing that we don't remember anything from this age because I am not sure how many of us could love our parents if we remembered all the suctioning and other crap they did to us. Sure it makes him feel better but it has to be scary having this person towering over you with a weird looking thing sucking crap out of your nose. Toss in the indignity of diapering and every or would be working with a shrink by age 2.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by orlok

Not having anything better to hand she used antiseptic Savlon cream (not sure if it's a UK only brand?), and all seems well today.

I'm just glad you came out of it OK. Imagine if it were some 'other' area than your back...

I have mentioned the fact they they need to be moved often, to the extent that my wife is getting tired of hearing it. "But they are my babies, I've nurtured them since birth" etc. etc. The UK weather isn't exactly conducive to outdoor living for many plants - not sure how cacti would cope (at this point, not sure I care).

Two hours of work with some Plexiglass from the DIY shop, and you should be able to make a 'window ledge' extension for them. She can still see them, the temps inside the little 'greenhouse' would be warm enough to keep them OK (remember, it DOES go below freezing in the desert in the winter time,) but 'technically' they are out of the house. Win-win!

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Sounds like a very successful day Stitchawl. Reading, train ride, tea, lots of Chinese goodies. I totally would love to find an Oolong and Pu-erh store. That would be all kinds of awesome.

I thought of you (as Astra) when I went inside that shop. Just imagine a store with three walls, floor to ceiling shelves, with just about nothing but Pu-erh and Oolong. I was almost tempted by some of the Oolongs, but this shop's prices were just waaaay too high. Keemun is a cheap tea... usually. And they wanted $15 for 100g. Just imagine what this shop would sell a good Ti Qwan Yin for?!?

but it has to be scary having this person towering over you with a weird looking thing sucking crap out of your nose.

Now think about the more aboriginal groups... Eskimos, American Indians, Ainu, etc.... that didn't have 'a weird looking thing' and had to use their mouths... That IS how it was done. My, how ever nice is progress!


Stitchawl

[ProfCrash]

This is what I am using.

http://www.amazon.com/Nosefrida-Aspi...I2BAPPAN3PDUXC

It works so much better the the bulb things. A little baby saline spray and then a good couple of sucks and he is all cleared out. It looks weird and sounds gross but it works great.

[Stitchawl]

I am SOOO glad my kid is 37...


Stitchawl

[ProfCrash]

LOL

It looks weird but it works great and you can see all the crap that was in his nose.

[Stitchawl]

All alone at the end of the of the evening
And the bright lights have faded to blue
I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have
Loved me and I never knew
You know I've always been a dreamer
(spent my life running 'round)
And it's so hard to change
(Can't seem to settle down)
But the dreams I've seen lately
Keep on turning out and burning out
And turning out the same

So put me on a highway
And show me a sign
And take it to the limit one more time

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwASi...eature=related )

Good morning, everyone! A wet day in the Kansai, and I'm drinking more unbranded Keemun tea (and grinning like a mad fool!) I must have had 3-4 large mugs of the stuff between dinner and bed time, and spent most of the night alternating between sleeping and waking up to run to the loo. It was worth it though. And, between you and me, it could have been worse. I might not have woken up...

Another train ride today, this time into Osaka. As long as it's raining so hard, and I'm too damn lazy to put on my waterproofs (rain gear for us 'Merkins,) I may as well go down to the computer district in Osaka and see if I can find an auxiliary fan for my tower. The sort that can fit into a slot in the back of the cabinet, and pull some more heat out of the tower. I had one for the last few years but I guess the bushings in the blade wore down and it began making just too much noise. These things are cheap; just $4-$5 dollars for one, and 30 seconds to install. I keep my computer on 24/7 so I'm really conscious of heat build-up. The more fans the better! This one sits right under the video board and helps keep that cooler too.

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

It looks weird but it works great and you can see all the crap that was in his nose.

Oh... well... in THAT case.... I always wanted to be able to see all the ....ARE YOU PUTTING ME ON?!?

I'm gonna have another mug of tea, grab my Sony, and hit the trail!


Stitchawl