The 44th TPBM Random Chat and Leg Lamp Compactor

Terri, just in time. I made plans to get my toesies done with my mommy tomorrow, want I should send you some video??

short5 wrote in post #12593879
Yo, not caught up, made it home. It was painless, easy, and we are hanging with our dog!!

Welcome back

ZANE!! You're back!! *happy dances*

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12594045
Enjoying your shots as usual, Didier.

Thanks for that. I do need to order coffee soon. I actually just went trough a couple pounds of store bought beans, and ethical blend from Costco that was not too bad at all. Not that I don't have some beans left, I have been just too busy and tired to bother roasting for the last week or so.

I have not ordered from Roastmasters. Are their prices a bit higher than Sweet Maries? A quick look has then near $1/lb more.

It's been fluctuating depending on what the coffee is. prices are going up everywhere...it's part of the FTO campaigning to give workers a fair wage. Coffee prices are just skyrocketing. And I'm not opposed to workers being paid a fair wage. Prices per lb have gone up anywhere from $2-4. It's wild. Obviously retailers want their same profit margins...and the workers (who were being paid sometimes less than a dollar a day for work) are still making less than a living wage.

misspix wrote in post #12594222
Hi Jim!

Hiya Terr Bear

Permagrin wrote in post #12594351
It's been fluctuating depending on what the coffee is. prices are going up everywhere...it's part of the FTO campaigning to give workers a fair wage. Coffee prices are just skyrocketing. And I'm not opposed to workers being paid a fair wage. Prices per lb have gone up anywhere from $2-4. It's wild. Obviously retailers want their same profit margins...and the workers (who were being paid sometimes less than a dollar a day for work) are still making less than a living wage.

I have no problem paying more, as long as it is the workers getting the extra wages.

Welcome home Zane.

Javamania now has several of their product labeled "Fair Trade Organic". They have Fair Trade Organic Sumatra for $25.95/2 pound and Sumatra Mandheling at $27.95/2 pound. I generally buy 2 pounds at a time as the smallest is 12 oz. and more expensive per ounce at $13.95 for the Sumatra Mandheling.

A couple weeks ago when I bought my last order, they gave me a discount due to the commodity market going nuts the past few weeks on coffee. Guess I'm considered a good customer.

neil_r wrote in post #12587058
My german dive buddy has just sent me a few pics from our holiday, hows this for a graceful soul with a little camera

Cool!

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12588864
Things I'd like to do on a long plane flight but I know I never will:

• Halfway through the flight, pull down a big duffle like bag. Tell the person next to you that it's your parachute then ask them where their 'chute is.
  
• Create a rumor that the old lady that's sleeping in 4F is the Air Marshal.
  
• Knock on the cockpit door and yell, "Hey, what's keeping you so long? I gotta GO!".
  
• Build a nine hole mini golf course throughout the cabin.
  
• Keep staring out the window and tell people, in a William Shatner voice, "There's.... somethingonthewing!"
  
• Try to climb into the overhead compartment and ask the stewardess for a pillow and a blanket.
  
• Tell everyone you see that Bob Seeger is up in first class and he's going to film his next music video while in flight.
  
• Start a Karaoke party, but only play instrumental music.
  
• During the inflight movie, keep asking the stewardess for popcorn, Milk Duds and a large Coke.
  
• When it's the most quiet in the cabin, quickly stand up and shout, "Oh, Geez! Who cut one?!"
  
• While looking out the window, tell your rowmate that you would swear the plane passed that wave twenty minutes ago.... You're flying in circles! You're lost!
  
• Calmly stand up, get to the middle of the aisle in the center of the plane and yell, "It's DANCIN' TIME!" and start groovin'.
  
• Tell the lead stewardess that she shouldn't be scared, but Elvis is loitering in the bathroom. Again.
  
• If you're in first class, take a peek back into the coach section then tell your other firsties that the peasant class and the rabble are rioting with pitchforks and torches! Hide the silver!
  
• If you're in coach, take a peek up into the first class section and then tell the rest of the peasant class and rabble of the elitist scum and bourgeois pigs that are trampling the rights of us, the citizens of the world! Viva la Revolucion!
  
• Half way through the flight, put on a WWI pilot's costume, complete with scarf and pilot's hat and start heading to the back, explaining to other passengers that you need to man the tail gun as you're now flying over enemy territory.
  
• Tell the guy two rows back that it's his turn to go to the cockpit and fly for a spell.
  
• Start walking to the back of the plane. Start to laugh and say, "I CANNOT believe how easy it was to take those handcuffs off!"
  

NRLOL!!

cfpackerfan wrote in post #12588915
Nevermind, LOL. I decided that joke might have been in poor taste.

I dwell on poor taste, shoot me a note.

Belmondo wrote in post #12590804
Töday is Hömecöming Day!!

Lol!

Harm wrote in post #12590827
we need to decorate the room for Zane....

Thanks!

Harm wrote in post #12590868
Turkish Delight, belly dancers, Turkish tea....

or

hot dogs, doughnuts, and a big gulp

LOL, I'll take tea and a dancer please.

cfpackerfan wrote in post #12590997
Cardboard microwave pizza and orange gatorade.

*sigh* Now I know I am home

Becky N wrote in post #12591444
And olives, lets not forget the olives

Hey! Thats just wrong.

Harm wrote in post #12591455
yes...olives!!!!

So wrong

Skrim17 wrote in post #12591463
we can string them all around the room!

Oh so very sick wrong

Harm wrote in post #12591475
make a lei out of olives for him

Gah, olives touching me kind of wrong!

misspix wrote in post #12592009
*shudder* Yes. That ^^ will scream 'home' to him.

Becky N wrote in post #12592012
I like

*starts covering christmas lights with olives for unique teeky light affect*

Terribly creative kind of wrong

Permagrin wrote in post #12592048
LOL. He will love this!

Becky N wrote in post #12592094
*Hands Permie string to tie to pizza cardboard for spinners*

You are good, I think you are in the wrong field of work.

Harm wrote in post #12592116
Paint the cardboard Olive Green

Dood, wrong in a military paint scheme kind of way.

DDA wrote in post #12592119
*bringing some brownies to the party!!*

DDA wrote in post #12592131
I'm uploading pictures of Crakow (creative spelling ) to my website as I type. In the meantime, 2 shots- The main market square by night and the inside of the basilica (vertical pano)

Very nice shots!

DDA wrote in post #12592142
I didn't say there were chocolate chunks or walnuts inside

Poison brownie wrong

Becky N wrote in post #12592185
*back to formulating a mix drink that uses orange gatorade*

Well back in the day I kinda liked mine straight with a side of oxycodone.

Skrim17 wrote in post #12593975
Zane!! Enjoy the olives! *puts a lei on the flame*

Gah! Olive assault kind of wrong!

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12594045
Zane, sorry about all the olive decorations around. I tried to hang some girlie photos for you, seeing you could not access those sites on your trip. Some of the more prudish patrons seemed to have taken them down.

I knew I could count on you, thanks for trying.

Skrim17 wrote in post #12594073
I just drew onthem with magic marker

LOL!

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #12594101
In olive green.

:p

misspix wrote in post #12594222
Welcome home

Thank you Terri

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #12594296
Welcome back

Ahhh, memories of the little B&W T.V.. Thanks Dano

Permagrin wrote in post #12594351
ZANE!! You're back!! *happy dances*

Mouse! Nice jig you got

Becky N wrote in post #12594647
Welcome home Zane.

Thanks Sarge.

Glad you're back safely, Z. Even with your daily reports, the place just wasn't the same.

short5 wrote in post #12593879
Yo, not caught up, made it home. It was painless, easy, and we are hanging with our dog!!

Glad you and Leyla are back safe and sound and had a great trip.

Didier - nice photos - love the Pano

Hi Guys. busy day at work - and I am glad to be home and relaxing, especially since Spike is cuddling again.

Glad you're back, Zane

monkeygirl wrote in post #12594881
Hi Guys. busy day at work - and I am glad to be home and relaxing, especially since Spike is cuddling again.

*like*

Hey Zane, glad to see you're back.

Heather, how is Spike doing?

Hi Guys, Tim Spike seems to be holding his own right now. The vet we were sent to (not our reg. vet) put him on a special diet for Urinary stones, so we have to wait and see. He wants us to do the diet for three months and see if the food is working. My only concern is that the other cats want to eat the food Spike is getting and I am not sure if it is good for them. Got to call the vet tomorrow and see what they say. When I sit down on the couch, he usually comes out and lays on my lap between me and the computer.

Turning the computer off and heading to bed soon.

Have a good night everyone.

Happy Birthday, Pete!

Stopping in real quick before bed. (I should have been in bed hours ago)

My Grandma died this morning. She'd been suffering with Alzheimer's for several years, and as hard as it is to let her go, we are thankful that she's finally freed from the ravages of that horrendous disease.

2 of our H.A.R.T. dogs died today as well.
Cookie, our little black poodle who had suffered terrible abuse.
And Nani, our old chocolate lab with cancer who had just been hanging on for the last few months.

It's been a rough day, and I'm not sure I can cry anymore.

I head to Colorado tomorrow morning to be with Grandpa for a few days.
I don't know if he's got internet or not. I'm taking my laptop just in case.
I'll check in when I can.

Love and hugs,
Cat