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[Rigor Mortis]

Clé deas, clé deas, clé deas,,,,

Father and brothers all in FCA used to shout out the marching rhythm at unexpected intervals. Usually there was alcohol involved.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I still mix up left and right. It doesn't come to me automatically. I have to think about it for a second to get it right.

 

[Selluwud]

I still mix up left and right. It doesn't come to me automatically. I have to think about it for a second to get it right.

How about clockwise and counter clockwise.............it takes a second!

 

[Louanne Learning]

How about clockwise and counter clockwise.............it takes a second!

Yeah, that, too! Good catch.

 

[big soft moose]

Father and brothers all in FCA used to shout out the marching rhythm at unexpected intervals. Usually there was alcohol involved.

When you find yourself humming the cadences thirty years later

C130 rolling down the strip
Airborne badass gonna take a little trip
stand up hook up, shuffle to the door
jump right out and count to four
main don't open pull the reserve
reserve don't open they lose their nerve
last thought as they hit the trees
should've joined the real infantry

 

[Rigor Mortis]

And as I now remember, it was:
Cle (clay) cle cle deas (doss) cle
Repeat ad nauseam or until the glass was refilled.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I still mix up left and right. It doesn't come to me automatically. I have to think about it for a second to get it right.

Comrade! I taught dance for decades. At some point while working through a choreography, I heard a student tell another student, "No, Catriona's right." I turned around and said, "Okay. No more right and left. That's west, north, east and south. That's northwest, northeast, southeast, southwest." I don't have any trouble with clock or counterclockwise, but left and right- uff da.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Comrade! I taught dance for decades. At some point while working through a choreography, I heard a student tell another student, "No, Catriona's right." I turned around and said, "Okay. No more right and left. That's west, north, east and south. That's northwest, northeast, southeast, southwest." I don't have any trouble with clock or counterclockwise, but left and right- uff da.

Y'all do the hand thing were the correct L indicates left? Old trick. Still works.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Y'all do the hand thing were the correct L indicates left? Old trick. Still works.

Nope, never used that, though I knew it was a thing. As a child, I relied on the smallpox vaccination scar on my left arm As an adult, my wedding ring is on my left hand. I will still say left when I mean right. It's a weird brain thing.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Y'all do the hand thing were the correct L indicates left? Old trick. Still works.

I'll imagine picking up a pen to write and that tells me which is the right hand.

 

[Set2Stun]

I only get mixed up by which way to plug in the USB cord and which time change is the "good" one

Had my second-ever blood draw today. The first one last year was a disaster - they jabbed a nerve and I almost passed out. I really, really didn't want to repeat the experience, but as a responsible adult I knew I needed to.

Thank goodness you can pay a bit to get the tech to come to your home. Made the recliner lean waaaay back, looked away, braced for the worst, and...I didn't feel anything at all. They sent a real pro this time and I was totally fine. Whew.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I only get mixed up by which way to plug in the USB cord and which time change is the "good" one

Had my second-ever blood draw today. The first one last year was a disaster - they jabbed a nerve and I almost passed out. I really, really didn't want to repeat the experience, but as a responsible adult I knew I needed to.

Thank goodness you can pay a bit to get the tech to come to your home. Made the recliner lean waaaay back, looked away, braced for the worst, and...I didn't feel anything at all. They sent a real pro this time and I was totally fine. Whew.

For regular blood work or were you donating?

 

[Set2Stun]

Oh just for medical stuff, I'd never engage in this activity voluntarily

Anything about physical health and testing just freaks me out. I wish doctors would just knock you out, do what they gotta do, and wake you up when they're done.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Sympathy from me. I don't enjoy getting poked with needles, either. To force myself to deal with my irrational fear, and incidentally to do some good in the world, I started donating blood. I donated over three gallons before I simply couldn't face the process any more. One older man in town donated almost 40 gallons over the course of his life.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

As for cadence, I always got a good laugh out of the way Terry Pratchett treated it in Discworld. Sergeant Detritus (a troll) leads the new recruits (also trolls), but since troll brains are silicon-based (like computer processors), they only count to two (i.e. binary, similar to processors). Which makes sense. Also, troll brains (like processors) function better when they're cool.

Since trolls only count to two, "three" and "four" become "many" and "lots".

So Detritus leads them off, and it goes as follows:

"Now we sing dis stupid song!
Sing it as we run along!
Why we sing dis we don't know!
We can't even make the words rhyme prop'ly!"

"Sound off!"
"One! Two!"
"Sound off!"
"Many! Lots!"
"Sound off!"
"Er ... what?"

 

[Louanne Learning]

Happy weekend everyone!

The summer activities continue, with company today and going over to my sister's tomorrow.

And we had a fabulous day out yesterday on the e-scooters, dashing through the countryside with stops to quench our thirst!

So much fun!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Tomorrow morning, we leave my daughter's house on a island in Puget Sound for the coast. We'll stay couple of days to let my grandson experience the Pacific, then back to the sagebrush steppe.

 

[Louanne Learning]

i checked a couple of stores and didn't find fresh dill.

And when I think of all the dill we had in the garden as kids!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

There is a reason it is called "dill weed."

 

[Homer Potvin]

There is a reason it is called "dill weed."

Out of 4,774 recipes in my database, dill is uniquely utilized in exactly one: the jalapeno tartar sauce. To be fair, the tartar sauce is used in 8 menu items, so technically that's 9 recipes, but only one at the prep stage. That's all I have to say about dill.