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Well, got shot twice last week: pneumonia Thursday and seasonal flu Friday. I'm hoping I can find an H1N1 clinic this week. I'm not sure any of that vaccine has made it to NM yet.


I forgot to talk about our new dishwasher! It was an interesting experience. It was a model from last year, so we got a good price on it. It's large capacity, but the cool thing is that it has a sanitize cycle, which Russet and I think is a good thing. It also purges the water lines before starting a cycle, so no stale water possible.

So it gets installed. Celeste has fun barking at the installation guys until we shut her up in the bedroom. It goes pretty smooth, and I load it up and run it through a cycle. One of the installation guys is coughing up a storm, I remove myself from the kitchen whenever possible.

And after it completes the bottom of the pan is filled with water.

I try it again. Water in the pan.

Russet is not happy, her old dishwasher did the same thing. So I call my dad. He suggests that maybe the drain line that taps in to the side of the poor excuse for a garbage disposal didn't have a blocking slug knocked out that is supposed to be there if you don't have a dishwasher. I disconnect the drain line and can stick my screwdriver 4" into the hole, definitely no plug there. The next test is to disconnect the line from the dishwasher to the vacuum breaker, put it in a bucket, and run a rinse cycle. Water comes flowing out, so it appears to be the vacuum breaker.

I disconnect everything from the breaker and blow in to the line from the breaker to the disposal; no blockage there. So it's definitely the breaker. Go to the hardware store here in town, no breakers. Cruise down to Alamogordo and find a breaker just slightly off from identical. It was easier to install the blasted thing than to disconnect the lines and remove the old one!

Anyway, the dishwasher is now great. We get some water out of the breaker when it does a rinse, but that's what it's there for. The next time my dad is in down we'll connect it direct to the dishwasher coupling and bypass the vacuum breaker entirely. The only problem is that Cloudcroft has insanely hard water: the silverware and everything else comes out looking terrible. The observatory has the same problem, so we use the same detergent which, unfortunately, we can only get at Walmart. My boss has the same problem, he pours a cup of vinegar at the start of the final rinse cycle. If I can work out the timing, we might try that.


Russet's birthday is Monday, so we're going out Monday night. If it's still open, there's a French restaurant in Ruidoso that we might drive up for. We've had two new places open in Alamogordo; a really nice more modern place that does excellent soups and salads, we haven't had sandwiches or entrees there as they're not open every night for dinner; and a new BBQ joint that's just wonderful stuff. Unfortunately they're both closed Monday.


And the final blather is that I attended a cooking class Tuesday night: it was based on the movie Julie and Julia! We did several Julia Child recipes from the movie, lots of fun! Beef Bourginione, poached eggs, steamed artichoke with Hollandaise (my dish), butter poached white fish, an apple tart, and a tomato-based bruschetta.

And we ate everything that we made! Very yummy, I learned that I do not have the arm/wrist for making Hollandaise without a blender or food processor.

It was $70 for the class, but well worth it considering the meal. Quite yummy, and none of it was terribly difficult. I dropped another $50 on a cook book by the guy who conducted the class and a bunch of ramikens. Thursday we were in 'Cruces and picked up a cast iron skillet at the store. I really like this store, it's called Las Cosas and they have two locations: Santa Fe and Las Cruces/Mesilla. Back in July we spent over $300 on a really nice knife set and THEY SENT US A THANK YOU CARD! The nicest people: they don't just have the "please spend money here", they have an honesty and sincerity that makes it fun to shop there and talk to them.

had dishwasher problems last week.  Ours wasn't draining.  It turned out to be a blocked sewer line.  It was expensive to have them clear the lines.

Y'all have been busy!

I didn't even know there was a vacuum thingie in the drain line of a dw! I don't think ours does - the line seems to go from the dw to the disposal without anything in between.

Our first dw lasted about 6 months and leaked water all over the floor. It was a new house and dw so it was under warranty. We paid a bit extra and got a quieter model.. yippee! Still louder than current ones, but at least we don't turn it on and run!

We use gel packs in our dw - Cascade I think. We don't have really hard water here, just slightly.

I like the idea of blowing the water lines out!

The broiler went out on our stove about a year or so ago. Obviously, we don't broil much! I don't know if it's a self repairable part or we need to call the GE man. We had to call him a few years back when we had a gas leak- it was installed incorrectly and had been leaking for years! Until my sister came, smelled the gas, called the gas company and they red tagged it!

I have been to Dallas 5 times in the last 5 weeks, different reasons. Last one was to go to the fair. It was fun, riding DART train was an experience.

Peanut whines most of the way there and back. We stop and let her sniff and mark but she wants to mark all the way up and back. We threatened to hang her out the window so she can mark the whole way At least she doesn't get car sick any more!

Been playing Farmville on FB the last few days. I tried to get out of playing cause I knew I'd get sucked in but my friends and cousins dragged me kicking and screaming!

Glad you got your shots! I got the seasonal flu shot, waiting for the H1N1. I'm pretty healthy overall, but ever since 2001 I get bronchitis after every cold or flu and it sends me to the ER if I don't catch it fast enough (it sets my asthma off)

















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Not that I'm watching cartoons at work or anything like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkDsGgmv5fY&feature=PlayList&p=958CC77B9A96F946&index=12&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

The cartoon Charon actually got paid, unlike the HTLJ version. Maybe if Hercules was as rich as Bruce Wayne he would pay off his debts.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB6EQjGC3Fc&feature=related

In the first few minutes the Justice League is fighting... Gamara! OK, they never call him Gamara, but the similarities are too great to be ignored. On a related note, Gamara was the answer to a clue in a local crossword puzzle recently. Coincidence?

That's veerrrry interesting! I didn't know that
















Thank you Kel, Bt and Mai for all your dollz and gifs.



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Mystress of Minutiae {{{BonaDea}}}
The Seeker of Truth and Miniscule Facts {{{dragonlady}}}
Finder of Lost Knowledge and the Lost Archive {{{Amyrlin}}}, {{{Hebea}}} -
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I sent this out in an e-mail to everyone in my contacts list for my e-mail but wanted to post it here in case some of you see this before checking e-mail. I'm gonna copy and paste it here:

I got up this morning to find a mass e-mail or e-mails were sent from my address yesterday. I have no clue what it is or how it happened, but if it has no subject please delete it and do not click on any links it may contain. One link looks like a porn site or something but I'm not clicking on any of them to see if they are harmless or not.

Shelley

for those who don't know my e-mail by sight it's shelleymorton71@yahoo.com

got it, deleted!
















Thank you Kel, Bt and Mai for all your dollz and gifs.



"If the pen is mightier than the sword and a picture is worth a thousand words, is a camera a weapon of mass destruction? "



Official Scribe to the Harbinger of Death
Mystress of Minutiae {{{BonaDea}}}
The Seeker of Truth and Miniscule Facts {{{dragonlady}}}
Finder of Lost Knowledge and the Lost Archive {{{Amyrlin}}}, {{{Hebea}}} -
you hide'em we find'em

A Fountain of Information {{{Herkite}}}
"who said you had to have only one?" {{{Calico}}}
Honorary Pygmy Amazon and important Archivist, too!! {{{frannyd}}}
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Nanaea's Special Grand Schlock Sci-Fi Horror Lovers Award Winner
Deb U Graduate 2005 - with Honors
Devious Deb - Mistress Of All Things Technical

GAS! Priestess - Ares' Official Photographer