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ProfessorTomoe
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Book recommendations thread, Return of the
ProfessorTomoe replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I'll toss in a blatant family self-promo here, although the book as a whole is much more than that. It's called Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers. I recommend it because a part of it talks about a distant grandfather of mine, Louis G. Phares, who helped form the Texas Department of Public Safety from the Highway Department. It's not a happy story, since there's a lot of political messing with the process he used, and he wasn't exactly the friendliest person on earth, but hey - there's a good segment in the book about him. BTW, he was responsible for coordinating the capture of Bonnie and Clyde. Texas Ranger Frank Hamer may have carried out the raid, but it was with the organizational help of Chief Louis G. Phares. -
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ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I hit my catastrophic limit in 2009, too. That's the only thing that let me get the gastric bypass. We all know how catastrophic that turned out. I'm probably going to go to a dermatologist to get rid of this nodule on my ear. I fully expect to lose my ear and part of the right side of my face. -
Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required) (Content TV-MA)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I am officially a catastrophe for 2017. Several of my prescriptions have had no copay within the past few days. I called Blue Cross's customer service line to find out what's going on. They told me that I'd met my catastrophic limit with a prescription that had been called in on October 3rd (post-hospital stay). Now I've got to figure out the best way to take advantage of this for the rest of the year. -
Pre-game show on FS1 for the ALCS (Baseball: American League Championship Series). The game is in Houston, where the Astros will be taking on the New York Yankees. GO 'STROS!!!
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Good: Someone ate the cat grass! Questionable: It wasn't Loudmouth. I witnessed Baker barfing this morning. There were bright green leaves in the outcome. He hadn't even processed them. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that the grass is growing, seeing as how the planter only gets afternoon sun.
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Had my leftover sushi for lunch. Better than what I had last night. Here's the deal: I always order a fancy roll with a coating for that night's dinner, plus a simple roll or two for the next day. In this case, the "next day" rolls were red snapper (okay) and shrimp (wow). I usually get two shrimp rolls, but last night I thought I'd be adventurous. Screw that, I'm going back to just the shrimp rolls for day two.
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Back to the pu erh pearls. I need the caffeine.
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Trying the sample of white tea pearls (not quite as big as the pu erh, but almost) that I got with my backup IngenuiTEA brewer. First brew was what I've always imagined fresh brewed white tea is supposed to taste like—light, clean, pure, the glorious essence of tea. It outshone the sushi I got from my local Chinese delivery place. The only problem with it was that it's supposed to be brewed at 180°F, and my Keurig will only go down to 187°. No big deal, just steep for a time on the short end on the scale (3-5 minutes). Second steep wasn't as ecstatically good, but it was still pleasant. Third steep took it a bit too far: bitter notes came out. I guess you can only get two steeps from these things, unless @Don Edwards or someone else knows a trick to stretch it further. Can you tell I'm having too much fun here?
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Yeah, how'd y'all like the production values I stuck in? Took me a while to figure out Corel VideoStudio X10 Ultimate. Something tells me I underused it ...
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Finally, on YouTube—Loudmouth and Baker's Lazy Day!
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HA HA! Mrs. Prof was getting on my case about my recent tea binge after I showed her one of the pu erh pearls. I told her I could use them five times over. She dared me to compare them to her bottled Nestea, which she gets at Sam's club. It wasn't even close. Her bottled tea came in at 41¢ a bottle, while the pu erh came in at 30¢ a cup (based on 5 steeps per pearl). She gave an, "Oh, well ..." and went back to work. Didn't even acknowledge the difference. Bleh.
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I made Mrs. Prof a plate of Utah cheese and chocolate/cherry rustic crackers as an apology for asking her to knock it off already when she was rambling during the baseball game. The cheese and crackers came via a Woot! a couple of days ago that just arrived today. The cheese is something called "Seahive," rubbed with Utah salt. The order also included a cheese called Promontory, but it tastes too much like a fine cheddar with good crystallization to be put on the rustic crackers. I put the pu erh leaves in the fridge so I can use them again tomorrow. The Tiptree Little Scarlett strawberry conserve also arrived today. I was expecting something like Bonne Mamann's Wild Strawberry, but this is sweeter and more cloying. It needs a more substantial bread to stand up to it.
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No barf from Loudmouth that we know of yet tonight, although he did leave behind a very smelly cigar in the litter box. Here's hoping that he doesn't barf ... and that the probiotic starts working soon!!!
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It''s probably going to be necessary. I have a feeling I'm going to have to put in a placeholder JPG and then plonk in the video afterward.
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This one could go either here or in the Annoying thread. I'm trying to put together a video of Loudmouth and Baker lounging on the hammocks. I'm using Corel's VideoStudio Ultimate 10. I've got the opening music in and the opening titles, and I've even put in the video itself. The problem is that the video is at the wrong place, and NOTHING logical will make that video slide to its proper location. I even get a + cursor when I hover over the video clip, but clicking and dragging just turns the damned track pink and does no good. AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH
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Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
... aaaand the VST update didn't work. It finally happened. My copy of Adobe Audition CS6 5.5 is truly out of date. The latest Waves plugins aren't compatible with it. Aaarrrgh.- 2,845 replies
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Second steeping of the same pu erh pearl (dropping the "" now, who cares) has lost the coffee undertone. Tastes more like Very Strong Black Tea now, even with the repeated addition of Amber sugar crystals. Tastes better than it smells—there's a somewhat fishy smell to it. I hope that's not present in the really old stuff I've got coming from China.
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Got an order from Adagio Teas today, which included a pack of pu erh "pearls." Instructions: steep one teaspoon in one cup at 212°F for 5 minutes. I opened up the bag. Ha! The "pearls" fit an entire teaspoon, from the bottom to above. I boiled up a cup of water, dropped the "pearl" into my IngenuiTea brewer, and poured in the water. WOW. I wasn't sure if I should toss the first brewing or not with the "pearl" in the brewer, so I kept it. However, I put a couple of crystals of Amber sugar that I also ordered, just in case. On to the drinking ... hmm. Very dark. Too hot at first to get an impression. Later drinks taste like a cross between coffee and tea. The "pearls" are supposedly five years old according to the website. Nothing like what I've got coming across from Teavivre. Probably why the first steep is drinkable.
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Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
It still hasn't ended. I'm updating part of Native Instruments Komplete 11 now (a monster of a music making program), and then I'm going to have to update the VST listing on my music machine's copy of Adobe Audition. I swear, I spend more time updating things than I do creating things.- 2,845 replies
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New blog post—some forward action! How far can I take it? https://dleejackson.lbjackson.com/2017/10/back-into-the-swing-of-things-but-which-swing/
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required) (Content TV-MA)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Zofran emergency last night. Eating frozen lasagna. I didn't think I was eating too much or too quickly, but there came the signs—the muscles beneath my jaw tightening, the nausea—and it was either fight it, mad dash for the toilet, or take a Zofran. I tried #1, it was too late for #2, so I went for option #3. Of course, within 30 minutes, I was out like a light. I woke up to the 10:00 p.m. news on the TV. Only problem: our cat Baker was on the sofa instead of Mrs. Prof. I was watching the midnight replay of the news. Couldn't get back to sleep immediately, so I worked a bit on blogging and other stuff. Finally did get back to sleep, but woke up around 4am. Gave up on sleep for the moment, finished my blogging (check the blogging thread), and made some coffee, which is giving me gas (took a gas pill just now to deal with it). Also had to put some 5% lidocaine on the spot on my ear to keep it from driving me crazy. I have a feeling that all of this stuff is going to wear me out and have me sleeping through the day. I hope not, since I've got too much stuff (little things, plus some more tea) coming in today. -
It would be inappropriate for a teacher of Raven's calibre to call his students by their first names in public. Why did he not use her last name? What *is* Diane's last name, for that matter?
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Uh-oh. Two doses of probiotic. Two Loudmouth barfs. We think. (One was witnessed, the other wasn't.) If he does it again, we'll be forced to stop the probiotic to stop the barfing. We can't have it making him sick. Damn. I had high hopes for this. Still do. Please, just be a fluke ... EDIT: okay, so it was just one Loudmouth barf. He gets two more chances.
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He may be loud and his poop may stink, but he's a polite kitty. Can't fault him there.
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Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Update day. Multiple update day, from multiple vendors. The day started off with an e-mail that Yahoo! somehow routed to my spam box from G DATA, concerning an update to G DATA Antivirus 2018. Said it was being rolled out to systems on a gradual basis. Well, guess what—all three of my systems got the roll-out notice. I had to hurry and update things before Mrs. Prof got on her system, otherwise I'd never get her off. That completed, the next notification I got was of an update to Win10 on my laptop. I sat through it (haven't checked the other machines yet) and let it finish. Finally, I got an update notification about Irfanview, with it updating from 4.4x to 4.50. WARNING: unless they've fixed it, the plugins download from FOSSHub is corrupt. Grab your copy from BetaNews/FileForum instead. All of this is going on while I'm waiting for an air conditioner guy to come out and give our system a checkup. Urrgh. EDIT: now I'm running Windows Update on my other two machines. I just hope it finishes before Mrs. Prof gets home.
