OT - NO POLITICS The Dog Days of Summer continue

[BMC]

Raining hard here. Under a flood warning until 6:45PM. All that badly needed water is just running off

 

[Fenway]

Mr. McKay received this cable from an old CBS colleague: “Dear Jim, today you honored yourself, your network and your industry. Walter Cronkite.”

 

[PlayMakers]

A bunch of NHL players train at my team's home rink with Jon Lounsbury (he's a skills coach who works for the Oates' skills group). Matty Berniers trains there, Ryan Donato, Charlie Coyle and others.

My oldest son, Liam, plays for the junior team there, and he was getting on the ice a little early and Coyle and Donato were lingering passing the puck around. Donato passed the puck to Liam, and he passed it to Coyle and Coyle passed it right back, so my son one-timed his pass bar down. They were like... damn!

Liam said they were really nice. He said Coyle was "like a super handsome Hulk."

 

[Fenway]

 

[Fenway]

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[Troublesome 85]

Man some goats surrounded me at one of my stops today. Some wiener dog was barking and trying to attack me too

 

[Bruinaura]

Made an attempt at bagels/buns using two ingredient dough: self rising flour mixed with nonfat greek yogurt. Pleasantly surprised! They look a little overdone outside, but they're fine. Good flavor. I even baked them in the Ninja grill instead of my big oven. Super easy.

I just wish yogurt wasn't so expensive. I know you can make your own in the Instant Pot but not sure I'm brave enough to try that yet...

 

[Kovi]

I am sitting at the gate. Boarding in a half hour. I am a wreck. Might cry. Might vomit. Might do both simultaneously who knows at this point.

The journey begins!

I heart this post.

I thought of you on our flight back to PHX. I ended up using 3- .5 A's throughout the weekend. One for each flight and one during the wedding because it was loud and windy (it was outside) and disorienting.

So psyched you gave it a try!

 

[sarge88]

I’m in a kind of neat but weird situation with my daughter, which is really making me regret being a commuter in college.

She’s living at UMass Lowell, playing club soccer but is working with me 30 hours a week.

So I’m pretty certain that I see my kid more than 99% of parents whose child lives at school.

The bonus is that I see her so much that I get to hear about all the fun she’s having.

Neither of us were/are ”party animals”, but just hearing her talk about the guys playing whiffle ball outside the dorm and her planning on playing intra mural hoops this winter makes me wish I had that experience 30 something years ago.

 

[McGarnagle]

Made an attempt at bagels/buns using two ingredient dough: self rising flour mixed with nonfat greek yogurt. Pleasantly surprised! They look a little overdone outside, but they're fine. Good flavor. I even baked them in the Ninja grill instead of my big oven. Super easy.

I just wish yogurt wasn't so expensive. I know you can make your own in the Instant Pot but not sure I'm brave enough to try that yet...

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Instant Pot Yogurt is easy. I'm actually making it right now. I don't even have the model with the yogurt button but still can make it following simple instructions.

Bring the milk to just under a boil, then put the pot in an ice bath to cool it. When it's cool enough that you can put your finger in for 10 seconds without getting burned, put it back in the IP, add live culture yogurt to it and whisk, set it on sous vide between 110-115 degrees, leave it for 8 hours and you've got yogurt.

I've done 4 or 5 batches and never had a failed batch.

 

[TD Charlie]

Isn't Muir Woods great? Such big trees, and it's a lovely tranquil setting with the forest surrounding the stream. Even though it can be get quite busy it still feels like a calm, relaxing place to be. Sausalito is nice too. Great views back across the bay, food is good, although not cheap!

Great part of the world.

One of the coolest places I’ve seen. I wish we had another hour to roam and relax. The smell of the trees was the icing on the cake

I heart this post.

I thought of you on our flight back to PHX. I ended up using 3- .5 A's throughout the weekend. One for each flight and one during the wedding because it was loud and windy (it was outside) and disorienting.

So psyched you gave it a try!

It was a game changer. I still didn’t enjoy the flight at all, but for six hours I think i did extremely well

 

[sooshii]

A bunch of NHL players train at my team's home rink with Jon Lounsbury (he's a skills coach who works for the Oates' skills group). Matty Berniers trains there, Ryan Donato, Charlie Coyle and others.

My oldest son, Liam, plays for the junior team there, and he was getting on the ice a little early and Coyle and Donato were lingering passing the puck around. Donato passed the puck to Liam, and he passed it to Coyle and Coyle passed it right back, so my son one-timed his pass bar down. They were like... damn!

Liam said they were really nice. He said Coyle was "like a super handsome Hulk."

Pays to get on the ice early!

 

[BNHL]

Instant Pot Yogurt is easy. I'm actually making it right now. I don't even have the model with the yogurt button but still can make it following simple instructions.

Bring the milk to just under a boil, then put the pot in an ice bath to cool it. When it's cool enough that you can put your finger in for 10 seconds without getting burned, put it back in the IP, add live culture yogurt to it and whisk, set it on sous vide between 110-115 degrees, leave it for 8 hours and you've got yogurt.

I've done 4 or 5 batches and never had a failed batch.

I use my MV Power for several strains,no boiling unless using non dairy milks. Mostly L Reuteri or SIBO (multi strains).

 

[Alicat]

cortisone in the back has helped me over the years. Good luck.

Thanks! I've done really well with cortisone shots in the past so I am hoping for one here. I just want relief that I know I won't get from PT, salonpas or stuffing my face full of motrin.

 

[BMC]

Mr. McKay received this cable from an old CBS colleague: “Dear Jim, today you honored yourself, your network and your industry. Walter Cronkite.”

Such an incredible job he did covering that event. I remember watching it, there was so much confusion & shock. WTF would attack an Olympic Games??? Well we found out. And then the IOC decided to continue with the Games afterwards which pissed off a lot of people. I was only 9 at the time & didn't understand everything that was happening but in retrospect that was the wrong move on their part.

 

[Troublesome 85]

Prime delivery is cool but once again its a job were in the interview I said I wanna be somewhere I can move up. 2/4 of my last shifts I been sent home as an extra. Sunday sent my resume to 30 places. Been getting calls all day. 3 interviews lined up already.

Good to be an experienced worker.

Ill say looking at what some these places are paying is making me laugh.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

reminder:

Sunday is the 21st anniversary of that fateful Tuesday AM IN 2001

 

[BMC]

Somebody send me a bucket

 

[BNHL]

Had a MRI on my lower back this am.

Hopefully it will give them some idea as to why I’m in so much pain and my legs are falling asleep.

My guess is a bulging disk(s). They can be rejuvenated with a dedicated, daily, 7 days a week stretching routine. Pain-numbness-weakness. When the weakness creeps in it is time to take serious action. Inversion tables help some people,and some chiropractors have DRX 9000 Spinal Decompression machines,which could prevent surgery if the MRI shows bulging or herniation. I am anti surgery for spines,anti opiates,semi anti injectable steroids. A course of prednisone has helped me,so has 300 ibuprofen in a month,but the disk remains weak and that's where decompression and grueling stretching icing routines fit in.

 

[Kovi]

thinking about about getting either the Amazon Firestick or Roku although don`t know much about either. Any other products like this that you folks have tried and liked?

We do youtube tv (I know I know it's pricey) and Chromecast. I don't miss cable at all.
My BIL does Firestick, he seems to like it

 

[Troublesome 85]

People saying they cant find work. Bunch of malarkey. 6 interviews next 2 days maybe more.

 

[Troublesome 85]

My good friend always says some the realist stuff.

 

[GahdenRinkRat]

I hope the Orange line from Sullivan to North Station is fixed for the first pre-season game

For daily commuting, the Orange line alternatives are a nightmare. Last Thursday (9/1) my trip home, (I work almost across the street from the TD garden and live in JP)took from 4:40pm until 7:30pm. I literally could have walked home faster Gridlocked traffic and closed streets due to Allston Christmas ( moving trucks everywhere) and a Sox home game at Fenway added to the merriment, My husband works on the outer Cape and was home an hour before me.
Today I drove, paid the ridiculous early bird rate for Garden parking($26.00) but got there in 35 minutes and home in 45 minutes. Back to the T tomorrow…..really hoping the Orange line actually reopens on 9/19. Last week I saw a woman have total meltdown pulling on the locked doors at North Station T stop(green line also not running there) and screaming. We can’t be a world class city without functional public transportation, this is NOT THAT.
End of rant.

 

[Fenway]

For daily commuting, the Orange line alternatives are a nightmare. Last Thursday (9/1) my trip home, (I work almost across the street from the TD garden and live in JP)took from 4:40pm until 7:30pm. I literally could have walked home faster Gridlocked traffic and closed streets due to Allston Christmas ( moving trucks everywhere) and a Sox home game at Fenway added to the merriment, My husband works on the outer Cape and was home an hour before me.
Today I drove, paid the ridiculous early bird rate for Garden parking($26.00) but got there in 35 minutes and home in 45 minutes. Back to the T tomorrow…..really hoping the Orange line actually reopens on 9/19. Last week I saw a woman have total meltdown pulling on the locked doors at North Station T stop(green line also not running there) and screaming. We can’t be a world class city without functional public transportation, this is NOT THAT.
End of rant.

The T says 60% of the work has been done with 13 days to go

 

[TD Charlie]

Drove the pacific coast highway today. Unreal scenery. Just took forever due to all the photo opportunities. Oakland to Anaheim took about 12 hours, including a couple fuel stops, dinner in Santa Barbara, and a supply run at a random Walmart. Of everything I have seen in California so far, pictures can’t even come close to doing it justice.