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MickinMD

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  1. ... from least to most classy: Road Street Avenue Boulevard Lane Way
  2. I do the same. It stores information so you can generate a chart of your heartrate throughout the ride and how much time your heart is in various rate zones.
  3. I run the free Mozilla Firefox, mainly because I use a lot of folders: news, financial, sports, bicycling, chess, food, weather, TV, Amazon, Youtube, etc. and it's easy to organize them.
  4. They got their TV show in the mid-70's when Doo-Wop music was getting "acceptable" again to the hard-rock crowd and movies like American Graffiti and Grease were popular. I had always liked Blue Moon and other 50's - early 60's rock and liked their show.
  5. We watched a little of D.C vs San Antonio while waiting for Easter dinner to finish cooking. It was football played by skilled players, coached by veteran coaches including Wade Phillips, and fun to watch.
  6. Messages. I use my laptop for emails, weather, calendar, stocks, etc. If I'm out and about I'll check some apps like Google Calendar and the Amazon app to see if a sale price in a local store is good.
  7. The newer ones haven't done very well, but the old ones like West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Oklahoma, and South Pacific had great story lines that the music fit into.
  8. We're getting a 90% eclipse in Central Maryland/DC and I'll settle for that.
  9. I liked putting together easter baskets when the family kids were little. Now, teens and 20's, I get them a 12 oz. pecan nougat Mary Sue Easter Egg. Eight bucks each but no fuss.
  10. Happy Easter! I felt unusually tired Sat. nite and decided to wait until this Easter morning to cook the sauce and noodles and assemble my 10 lb lasagna. It wowed everyone at Christmas - my homemade sauce and Italian sausage were the key things - and I was asked to make it again for Easter to go with the ham and other stuff the extended family is bringing to the meal. I did canning for the first time last Fall and followed a spaghetti sauce recipe my sister found that makes killer sauce where Worcestershire and Soy sauces make it great. I made the sauce too thick, so I have to dilute the quart of sauce with a 15 oz can of tomato sauce and it's still great. Anyway, I need that much for my lasagna recipe. It's now assembled and I'll let it sit out, covered, at room temp for a couple hours to promote the sauce soaking into the noodles, then take it to my brother's house and bake it. The sauce is 1 lb meatloaf mix (beef, pork, veal), 1 lb uncased mild Italian sausage, a 6 oz. red bell pepper, a 10 oz onion, 1 quart of my homemade, canned spaghetti sauce that I made too thick plus a 15 oz. can of tomato sauces to thin it out, and some garlic powder and dry Italian seasoning. 24 oz cottage cheese, 16 oz mozzarella, and about 4 oz of Parmesan are the cheeses. The noodles are Dreamfield's high-fiber noodles. They're made the right size: three of them cover the entire 9.5" x 13" lasagna pan and there are 15 to the pound, so 4 full layers plus a top layer barely fit into 3" high Blue Granite lasagna pan.
  11. Before i planted veggie seeds, I emailed to friends and relatives photos and descriptions of every tomato and pepper I for which I had seeds and asked which and how many they wanted me to plant for them - for free. My seedlings are growing and things would be simple if I didn't get a rush of post-planting "I want bell peppers that turn red," "I want big, slicer tomatoes - red ones," "I want yellow bell peppers," "Can my neighbor get two Sun Gold cherry tomato plants?" etc., all AFTER I planted seedlings. My cousin said I should have replied, "You'll get what's left over after those who reserved plants get theirs," and that's what I'll do next year because it's making me go to a lot of extra trouble now. Here are the tomatoes. In the front two 6-cell trays on the right are 6 Brandywine (the revered original Sudduth strain!) and 7 1923 Abe Lincoln seedlings. Last year was so rainy the Brandywines tended to be a little mushy though still tasted amazing. But those suddenly asking for big, beefsteak, slicing tomatoes want a different type. 1923 Abe Lincoln or the 6 Polish Soldacki's hiding in the back should be fine, but i've never grown them before so I don't know how well they'll produce. So I have to transplant some of each into more 6-packs (I have room for 6 more 6-packs in my micro-greenhouse). Fortunately at this size, moving the small seedlings is easy with a kitchen teaspoon - they won't even wilt when transplanted. P Here are peppers, eggplant (growing well on left, 2nd 6-pack back). in the next-to-right front 6-pack are 5 Lady Bell Peppers and 4 New Ace Bell Peppers. They took they're time sprouting so the empty 6-pack tray behind them are more seeds I planted when I didn't think I have enough to meet requests. The 6 pack next to left has just one Tomatillo growing and I've got more seeds in a 2nd six pack behind it plus more "Golden Marconi Sweet Peppers" where only one sprouted. If the tomatillos sprout - my sister wants 2-3, I should be fine.
  12. A friend from childhood got married and had a boy. The mother was sure we were all addicted to chocolate because we ate too much of it when young, so she forbade us from giving the kid chocolate. It didn't matter: he grew up loving it.
  13. The phishing, fake emails I get often tell me there's a problem with my insurance, membership, account, etc. - often for things I don't even have.em A typical one is Amazon and I go to Amezon and there's no problem. I report the email address to them. I always check with the site rather than click the email.
  14. I bought a pick and may try loosening a 3.5' x 11' section of heavy-clay soil in my yard that hasn't been disturbed since at least the 1940's. I stuck a sharp-pointed spade in it last year and couldn't push it down more than 1 inch even with all my body weight. I want to add the 3.5' x 11' plot to my veggie garden for carrots, cucumbers, and eggplant. I'll loosen the dirt, chop it up with a hoe and tiller, add three 50 cu.ft. bags of Miracle Gro Garden Soil with Compost, work it into the top 6 inches with the tiller, sprinkle and rake-in some organic 8-8-8 fertilizer, and grow stuff. The carrots are Red Core Chantenay, which grow 5" long, stubby, and best for clay soil.
  15. I've been doing more salads, usually lettuce, onion, cucumber, red bell pepper, cherry tomato and either chicken or ham plus a dressing, usually Kraft low-cal Zesty Italian. I go back on Mounjaro on Monday and have also bought a bunch of soups to keep digestion from slowing down too much.
  16. So, with my first new phone from Tracfone in 6 years, I forgot the SIM card is on the opposite side of the same small tray that holds the SD card. So, when my new Samsung Galaxy A54 5G phone arrived two Thursdays ago, I moved my SD card into the new phone and didn't notice I knocked out the SIM card. I couldn't find it, phoned Tracfone and was relieved they were sending me a new SIM card for $1.05 and said don't insert it until I called Tracfone and got it activated. It arrived Tuesday and was either defective or the wrong one - I spoke to about 6 people and no two had the same story - and spent 2 hours with various people trying to activate the SIM card. Apparently the 20 digit SIM ID number told them what they needed to know because it was never in my phone, as they had told me. One told me they had sent me the wrong SIM because it was the one for putting a Tracfone SIM in your own phone, not a Tracfone phone and I could get the right one at Walmart for 99 cents. I went to Walmart and all they had was the same "put a Tracfone SIM in your phone" I had and it was $9.88. I returned home, called Tracfone's ordering department and they sent me a new one at no extra charge. I asked how they knew it was the right one and the online rep said all the Tracfone SIMs work in Tracfones - which I had just explained wasn't true! So new newest SIM arrived this Good Friday morning. I was embedded in a credit-card sized plastic card, not in the extensive packaging the last one was. Tracfone's auto-activate online site needs to send you a code by TEXT to make sure it's you. How the hell was I going to get a text? So I phoned Tracfone, and got a tech who verified my account by an email code, initially had a problem, then kept telling me, every two minutes, that she had to put me on hold another two minutes. I thought this was going to be another 2 hours leading to nowhere, but after about 10 minutes. she said, "Put your SIM card in your phone and see if you can make a phone call." I phoned my BiL and he answered! Hurray! I later stopped at my BiL's and sister's house and had no trouble sending and receiving texts. I'm back in business!
  17. For our Easter extended-family dinner gathering, I'm assembling an 11 lb lasagna (ground beef/pork/veal meatloaf meat plus mild Italian sausage in the meat sauce) on Saturday and just need to take to the dinner and bake it on Sunday. I had to really search, but I found the highly prized 12 oz. pecan nougat Mary Sue Easter Eggs in a ma-pa supermarket at the end of a peninsula poking into the Chesapeake. I get them for the "kids" in their 20's and younger in the family. When I stopped in a 2nd store to get other stuff and told the cashier I didn't need a bag (we get charged 20 cents/bag now by law) because I had left mine in the car filled with Mary Sue Easter Eggs, the cashier and people in line all ask where I got them and did they have Vanilla Butter Cream and other various kinds besides pecan nougat. I brought the ma-pa supermarket some business!
  18. I try to roll all clothing into cylindrical or ball shapes and stuff them in my suitcase. Since cruises no longer require suits to be worn at dinner, I no longer have to pack them, just a dress shirt, pants, and a tie.
  19. As there's no clear understanding if they're causing a problem, I'm going to assume it's like an 8.5 A1c in type II diabetes. If you're in your 70's, something else is going to cause your demise.
  20. Last night, eating Mexican food at Mi Pueblo restaurant, my brother Tim said they'll probably have the port open in a week or so. I think it will be much longer than that, but 1-2 months at the most. Tim manages a State Roads warehouse where they're very busy making detour and re-direction signs for people that have to find alternate routes with the Key Bridge down.
  21. People are conditioned by their experiences, by their current limitations, and by what they see as societal changes that they find alarming. If I wasn't comfortably retired and healthy enough to be active, travel, etc., I would probably be a grumpy old man.
  22. There are so many rules - you can find more details on NFL.com - wrapped up in this one rule I don't like it at all It's so confusing it's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
  23. I went to the high school built on the site of the school Ruth attended in Baltimore, which was a correctional institute for boys.
  24. Maynr that's because Baby Ruth was Teddy Roosevelt's daughter.
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