Subj : Re: Retry Resend Eggs! To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Jul 13 2020 17:44:18 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 03-Jul-2020 08:35 <=- NB>> Trying again on the three you didn't get... ;) BM> Thanks! ...Check for the ones I probably should have received BM> yesterday (July 2nd): had zero to download. Normally not an unusual BM> event, just with the intermittent missing messages something to check. I've been trying to keep a little closer eye on things now, watching for your responses to ones I've just sent... But there still is (more often than I'd like) the day (or two) I just don't send out anything.... doesn't help my backlog, either, of course... ;) NB>>> Just waiting for this to cycle back around... ;) Last week, on a NB>>> "it's too hot to cook, so let's pick up something cool at Wegmans NB>>> for supper" foray (Thursday, I think), I found those 2-pk packages NB>>> of hard-cooked and shelled eggs...! There was a whole slew of them NB>>> in the "quick-grab" dairy display in the front of the store... funny NB>>> I never noticed them there before... :) Grabbed one package, and as NB>>> it's good until July 7, haven't done anything with it yet, but NB>>> expect it to be an addition to a supper salad at some point... :) BM>> Horray! I haven't 'explored' to see if Hy-Vee has the hard boiled BM>> eggs. Did buy a dozen eggs at 88› -- advertised special, limit of two; BM>> got just one dozen as didn't need two. NB>> Our store still has the bags of 6 (cooked, peeled) both in organic NB>> and regular... those are in dairy, next to the uncooked eggs... but NB>> this finally answered the question of where that odd 2-pk at the NB>> checkout had come from (at least potentially).... ;) BM> Yes: doubt the store is just going to buy a case of cooked eggs just BM> for the check out. The 2-pk eggs are at the front of the store with other quick-grab dairy, so sorta just for the checkout... I haven't seen the 2-egg packages anywhere else in the store... :) BM> I still haven't seen any at Hy-Vee; admittedly not BM> doing an all-out search for them but not at the Eggs portion of the BM> store. Which is 'to the left' of some meats which initially seems to BM> not make sense but transitions from (starting partway down to the BM> right) kielbasa, lunch meats, breakfast sausage, bacon, EGGS! So lunch BM> to breakfast! They're clever!! (Milk and orange juice is on the back BM> wall two aisles away.) Each store has their own way of being clever in their setups... ;) Yours does sound particularly clever... BM>>>> space between us whereas the drivers sitting lower see their hood and BM>>>> have to guess the spacing. Or could be just when I see my rear view BM>>>> mirror filled with a reflection of a semi it just looks really close! NB>>>> Probably some of each... :) BM>>> There have been times when I've been tempted to step out and check; BM>>> the problem of course is the other driver would probably think I'm BM>>> being confrontational just for getting out of the car, much less BM>>> approaching. NB>>> Yeah... probably best to just stay put and wonder... ;) Maybe you NB>>> could set up the experiment with a friend that has the larger NB>>> vehicle... have them come up behind as at a light, and then go out NB>>> and see... :) There's also the possibility that some of those higher NB>>> riding vehicles actually have less stuff in the front of their vehicle NB>>> than a shorter normal car's hood would extend... :) BM>> Possible, and right on probably best to stay in the car. ...Might be BM>> able to get by with it in an eccentric manner: use a tape measure. BM>> "Whadaya doin'?!" "Just checking for six feet. COVID-19, y'know!" NB>> [wary shake of head] Dunno about that... tempers are likely to be NB>> getting short with all the isolating people have had to be doing... NB>> even eccentric might not seem very humorous... ;) I'd only do it NB>> with someone I knew, and that was already in on the operation... ;) BM> Right: don't want to end up being a news headline! Measuring with BM> someone I knew would be a lot less dangerous (at any time!) but BM> probably skew the results. They would either know ahead of time I was BM> going to check something, so drive differently, or end up being BM> considered even more -- umm, 'eccentric' than they thought I was! You could maybe just warn that at some time, you might jump out of your car to check out something... not tell them exactly what you want to measure, lest it influence their driving... ;) BM>>> Would seem when moving there was always air rushing under the hood but BM>>> could see where above a certain speed a spring or something else in BM>>> the latching assemblies moved/flexed. And yes, that would cause me to BM>>> slow down too ==> something's not right and so slow down to be a little BM>>> safer/easier to stop, etc. NB>>> And just a little concern that in a moment I might have become NB>>> airborne, even.... BM>> Probably impossible under those conditions but seeing a hood rise and BM>> one would wonder what else. NB>> Given a slight rise in the road, not totally out of the question... NB>> probably not more than an inch or so, but that's enough to not have NB>> control of the car until it returns to the pavement... ;) BM> Cue that scene from _Smokey and the Bandit_! Don't need to... ;) NB>>> I can eat leftover pizza warm or cold, depending... but fresh NB>>> certainly is better nice and warm with melty cheese... :) BM>> Agree! I prefer leftover pizza cold just because it never seems to be BM>> right when rewarmed: crust gets soggy, hot spots next to cold spots, BM>> too hot.... There are devices and techniques to reheat pizza which BM>> appear to work, for us generally just something else to store. And BM>> often to me the cold leftover slice has a different flavour from when BM>> it was originally hot. NB>> As long as it still is good, just different, that's not too bad... ;) BM> To me it tastes good and that's all I really am concerned about; BM> wouldn't continue if it didn't! And no, I would not want a fresh BM> pizza that way. Well, unless a dessert pizza and that's another BM> category. Yup, dessert pizza is a different category... :) NB>>> Just as easy to glance and toss into recycle, though... ;) But nicely NB>>> done might be enough of an eye-catcher to at least read once... BM>> Or glance at the back: ooo - blank! Slice with letter opener and BM>> becomes scratch paper! NB>> That works, too... ;) BM> Saves money from buying scratch pads, though have purchased because BM> 'fit the job'. Maybe need/prefer all the same size. clean edges, etc. Some jobs, any piece of scrap will work... other jobs, some uniformity is more helpful, especially if the scraps need to be kept for a while... ;) ttyl neb .... Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when car windows are down --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .