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  1. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Goodness we seem to be sensitive today.
  2. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Wife is delivering son to California for Stanford's summer session for HS students. She'll stay about a week. She better NOT come back sounding like a valley girl!
  3. Hercule

    What's for Dinner?

    Chicken breast stuffed with feta and covered with bruschetta and baked, buttered brown rice and a salad. Son will have plain chicken breast poached in hot sauce instead of the feta chicken.
  4. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When somebody tells me to have a good day I so much want to reply "NO, MAKE ME!!"
  5. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I try, but I'm not always successful. I can actually remember, as a very young kid, being utterly consumed with wanting various things. As I look back on it, it wasn't at all a pleasant feeling. Now, as an aging adult, I find there are few things I actually want beyond what I need. And then...
  7. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I found quite some time ago that with maturity comes a transition from quantity to quality. In other words, when you grow up you tend to appreciate finer things.
  8. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Overnight, under cover of darkness, gas prices went up $.40. I'm glad I filled up on my way home yesterday.
  9. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Ooooh, I'll have a bacon, cheddar, tomato omelette please. Oh, and burnt rye toast.
  10. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Agree regarding blue cheese! As for limburger, my one and only exposure was in Germany when I was on a highschool tour. Partucularly nasty yet the old folks with us at the time devoured it. I didn't get past the smell. I wouldn't mid giving it a try now that I am more refined. What I absolutely...
  11. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hirtenkaese is a cows-milk "feta." As opposed to true [Greek] fetta which is a sheep/goat-milk product. "Cottage cheese" as Americans know it is something different. Perhaps you would know it as "quark" ? Clearly I was wrong about the Farmer's cheese, which is more akin to fresh mozzarella...
  13. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If I like anything in mine (and I prefer small curd, full fat) it is a bit of dill. I like that as a dip with potato chips. Most often, though, just plain spread on burnt, buttered toast - Jewish caraway rye preferred. The problem I mostly run into is getting cottage cheese that is firm...
  14. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have found that store brand dairy products are often superior to the name brand versions.
  15. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I hear your pain. Those solicitations are bothersome. Within a month of buying and moving in to our new house we began receiving cards, letters and calls asking if we wanted to sell. When my wife gets such calls she simply replies "but where will I live then?"
  16. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Good for you! In this day and age of everything being so complicated it is very rewarding to be able to do things for yourself.
  17. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Like most, I like and can appreciate the creativity behind some of the commercials seen on TV and heard on radio, enjoying them perhaps even more so when I can identify with their tongue-in-cheek elements. But I find myself kind of offended by Progressive’s “Progressive can’t save you from...
  19. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We know what that's like. Ours just turned 14 and has a touch of senility. She usually comes looking for someone to feed her around 2am and about 5am. If I or wife (she never bothers son) don't comply she'll knock something over or off. She's always been a little terrorist that way. A very hard...
  20. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I experience that on many work days - I typically get up at 6am. Its the worst when the alarm actually wakes me up. It usually doesn't. In my experience being awake an hour or two, or so, before you have to get up is entirely different from actually getting up. Being a light sleeper I...
  21. Hercule

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Good for you for realizing that. I work at a mid-size liberal arts college that is just stupid expensive. I see the general population here and I wonder where they're going and what their education will actually get them. As we go through the college search process with my son, I try to coach...
  22. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Why am I not surprised? Despite our regular carrier being the nicest guy on the planet, this recent incident only reinforced my absolute disgust and mistrust of the USPS. Horror stories are everywhere. My wife works with a woman whose daughter recently got a job with the PO. She totaled 2 (yes...
  23. Hercule

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just last night saw Branaugh's Murder on the Nile. We really enjoyed his Orient Express but felt this one fell a bit flat. 3/10 as far as period pics go in my mind: there were just to many incongruities for the period portrayed. Didn't need the prologue back story about his mustache, which was...

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