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The guys from the office used to eat lunch pretty frequently at a chain soup and salad bar place called 'Sweet Tomatoes'. I went to another one in a different town once. It was setup exactly like the other one. I blew into the bathroom to wash my hands and there was a little stool in front of the mirror and a couch. I'm thinking, what the heck? And then a lady walks in behind me. The only thing different with this location was the men and women's rooms were switched. She was a pretty good sport about it.

Molasses brined chops the other night. When I was growing up everyone was worried about trichinosis. My mom would fry those poor, skinny chops to death.

I guess I always assumed the outside of the women's toilet would be spotless. I'm always learning here on OAF!

Oh yeah, me too -- that's always first choice. But... it's nice to have the option not to lay on the ground if it's not necessary. Also nice to hold up high overhead if you want that perspective.

I've heard him mentioned a few times here too. After this mention I looked him up. Seems to be a bit of a conspiracy theory guy who's sure MDC is a bunch of crooks.

One thing I like about both my Fujis is that the back screen flips up and down making low or high shots easier. The next generation cameras are going toward a flip to the side configuration so all the people doing VLOGs can see themselves. I wouldn't like that nearly as much.

Nice photo you made there. Good job getting down on the ground for the better angle!

I can appreciate your adapting to your new family’s preferences. Seems like a good long-term strategy. 😄

I guess your claim that everyone loved you made me want to poke at you😄 But I get the point. Not everybody wants turkey, especially the guy who has 50,000 turkey sandwiches for lunch under his belt😄 We do a pretty traditional roasted turkey with mashed potatoes, gravy, sides, etc. Folks here appreciate it, or have enough tact to eat it without complaining.

This breaks my heart😄

I have a love/hate thing with Costco. I love the quality meats, seafood and most of the produce. I dislike the experience including the crowds and the parking. I do get a chuckle out of seeing people trying to spend their way into savings. Make your list, buy your stuff and get the heck out. No need to buy 3 dozen socks or 2000 Ibuprofen because it was ‘a deal’ 😄

Menu is the same, the scale is TBA. Traditional fare. Everybody loves me too😄

Safer here in ‘the city’ 😄

A few recent meals. Cod baked in a foil pouch with carrots, onions, herbed butter and Vermouth and some buttered Hawaiian peas: As my baby brother used to say ‘Meefoaf’ and a twice-baked potato: Bow tie pasta with mushrooms in an Asiago cream sauce with herbs: Marinated shrimp tacos with mango salsa and a chipotle mayonnaise sauce:

I guess I was overdue for another one of those.

Nice shots! Congrats on your purchase. Hope it does well for you. I’m pretty much a stills guy at the moment. If some grandkids come along I’m sure I’ll venture into video. I’ve been very happy with my move to Fujifilm. Love the build quality, intuitive manual controls, film simulations and smaller form factor. Great images right out of the camera so I don’t need to spend a lot of time on the computer. Liked the system enough that I just today took delivery today of their X100V, a fixed lens (35 mm equivalent, so slightly wide) rangefinder-style camera. It’ll replace my pocketable point and shoot that shot craps a while back and be my grab-and-go camera. Controls and menus are nearly identical to my X-T3, so not much new to learn. Here’s the two of them side-by-side:

I made pretzels not long ago and whipped up a cheese sauce. It was just flour and oil roux, added some milk and cooked for a few minutes. Added cheese, a little grainy mustard and a dash of cayenne.

This is one of my all time favorite thread titles!

...and sensationalizing. It's darn near impossible to find good, solid information.

Yep. Br. Dominic and I kinda hit it off. He let me take his picture: As I was leaving he stopped me and said, ‘May your fortunes be like the capital of Ireland: Always Dublin.’

They were just people in monkey costumes. C’mon man! 😄

Henny Youngman would be proud!

Butch Cassidy was a good one except for that stupid ‘Raindrops are Falling on My Head’ part. The Sting was great. Never knew the Robert Shaw connection.

The rapist for 200 Alex 😄

With a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time