Paul's Journal

01/10/2010 19:01 #50790

Garret county spiral cut ham

If you like ham on the bone, this is the best. Its also free of
preservatives, hormones and antibiotics and nitrates. I bought it at
the coop but it comes from garret county farms

It was really expensive last week at like $5.99/lb or ~$52 for an 8 lb
ham. That same ham is now only $2.99/lb at $25 total. 8lbs is so
much ham, you have enough to eat for a week, plus make soup with the
bone and you can still freeze half. Its totally cooked and has a
delicious smoky maple glaze so it's also no work minus figuring out
how to eat all that ham. I mean that's competive with deli slices ham
prices and this is so much tastier and healthier.

jason - 01/12/10 11:22
Himay, I'm betting you can go to the coop and get that price without being a member.

himay - 01/12/10 11:18
Is that price available to the non-members as well? Looks like it from the sticker, but I just wanted to check!

I might have to go pick one up tonight; I haven't made a ham in a while.

tinypliny - 01/10/10 20:25
You are a big Coop consumer.

01/09/2010 18:11 #50782

Our gas bill

You think it would be crazy expensive but with insulated walls, plastic wrapped
windows, closed doors and keeping it not very hot we manage to get the bill down to $230 and that real not estimated.

matthew - 01/11/10 17:00
we keep the most of the rooms at 60 except the rooms we use the most. The upstairs den, where we spend most of our time, is usually around 70. The tortoise room is kept a little bit warmer than 70. Some rooms we don't heat at all like the bedrooms on the third floor. So it's not like we are living in 60 degree temps all winter long. That would be horrible!

jenks - 01/11/10 16:16
I know it's not nice to brag, but... MAN I could not live with my heat at 60.
Fortunately, my heat is included in my (astronomical) rent, so I crank it as much as I want. My thermostat claims it's set at 78. Which can not be right. Because while it is nice and warm in here, there is no way it's 78. That's like tropical.

matthew - 01/11/10 10:58
I'm so proud!! Let's see if we can get next months bill down to $200.

libertad - 01/10/10 10:49
WOW! That is incredible. My last apartment I got a bill for $450 for one month and that was with plastic on the windows and running space heaters in the rooms to keep warm. I was so cold in that place and am so happy I don't have to worry about gas bills anymore.

paul - 01/09/10 22:22
We had it at 55 night, 60 during the day but we had a portable heater in the den.

uncutsaniflush - 01/09/10 22:01
I am very impressed. I've got plastic on 18 of our windows. And our daytime thermostat setting is 66 and nighttime is 60. I wish our gas bill would be 233.

01/09/2010 13:28 #50780

What did I tell you?
Category: web

about running with chopsticks.

The article this came from had other weird xrays

tinypliny - 01/10/10 20:26
YIKES, that child's sense of smell is gone to the chopsticks.

01/09/2010 00:50 #50775

Buffalo tastes

I spent all day programming. At the end of the day I just wanted a
hamburger. Buffalo meat will have to do.

01/05/2010 23:56 #50751

Talking Carl

This app for the iPhone is so fun. It's 99 cents but the way it
works, we all get to use it on our phones on our family plan.
Anyways, he repeats after you in a funny voice and you can tickle
him. We justified the purchase by (e:Matthew) saying the kids would
like it.

tinypliny - 01/06/10 23:04
Ah, the joys of searching for that tip-of-the-tongue word. Honestly, I don't think I have ever seen a viewmaster much less own one. I faintly remember something like it but it had just 24 pictures of Delhi and was handed out at one of those sucker bus tours of the city when I was 2 or 3 years old. You couldn't put anything new in. I think it got water damaged and smashed later so it BECAME a kaleidoscope...

heidi - 01/06/10 22:36
(That was actually a cool little google challenge... I couldn't think of what they were called, and it took me several tries to get the right descriptive words... "picture disk toy" was a big fail, as was "fisher price 70s toys". "toy camera story pictures" didn't work either.

I vaguely remember a Donald Duck story with mine in the '70s, "story viewer toy" got me Toy Story (the movie) but the "shopping results" gave me a current version - it didn't look like mine but definitely the right concept and the right word... ViewMaster!
:::link:::

Collector/museum site
:::link:::

heidi - 01/06/10 22:26
I think (e:metalpeter) is describing a classic ViewMaster! :::link:::

tinypliny - 01/06/10 21:28
A kaleidoscope?

metalpeter - 01/06/10 18:43
He Isn't a toaster he is one of the those toys that you look through the eye things and you put that round disc in and see pictures he even has that front slot and his back is the eye piece.

tinypliny - 01/06/10 08:45
Is he a malformed toaster?