Recent Comments

1. about 10 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   For awhile (maybe prior to 2018??) some places had you sign if it was over $something ($30? $50?) and otherwise not. I hadn’t thought about the lack of signatures lately because, very largely, i buy less than $50 of whatever in the store… though I do buy more from time to time.

2. about 10 hours ago on Stone Soup

   For several years I offered folks at work cookies for 5¢ each, just drop the money in this can. And it sort of worked, pretty near and close enough. Then we hired a new team manager and I had to stop making them available. Two packages of cookies eaten over a couple of days and not a penny in the can. Not that I’m pointing fingers… oh no!

3. about 10 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Kid psychology is a little harder than this, but then it’s a cartoon.

4. about 17 hours ago on Rubes

   Nope. I bet we cross-posted.

5. about 17 hours ago on Frazz

   _ The best I ever had was at a restaurant called Los Companeros at Copper Mountain, CO in the late ’70’s. Long gone, I expect. I’ve been a rellenos fan ever since._

   The best restaurant rellenos I’ve ever had were almost an accident: We were in The Silver Cafe in Silver City NM, a little hole-in-the-wall place with good food… and they made burgers and breakfast too. They cooked my rellenos on their flat top right where they’d cooked some bacon a minute ago. All the usual markers for a great relleno: Fluffy coating not too thick, cooked crisp at the edges but not burned, medium hot Anaheim type pepper with good longhorn cheese inside. And a subtle smokey bacon flavor. Making my mouth water just thinking about it! (And I had a much less excellent relleno for lunch today, as it happens.) They also made hot fresh sopapillas served with honey to squeeze inside. (sighs).

   The best rellenos I’ve EVER had were those my sister would make from scratch from their favorite chile variety (number something or other) grown in the Rio Grande valley (not actually in Hatch NM, but nearby) fire-roasted yesterday and cooked today. A bit hotter than “medium”. Her style was a very thin crisp tempura layer made by dredging the chiles in flour, then dipping them in egg/milk and cooking quite hot. Also good longhorn cheese stuffing. And her excellent red enchiladas as a side. Alas, she’s been gone these several years and that experience is no longer possible… even if I could get there from here.

6. 1 day ago on Rubes

   Didja know that “ravioli” is the plural of “raviolo”?

7. 1 day ago on Strange Brew

   No no no the PALM of your hand, not the fingernail!!

8. 1 day ago on Stone Soup

   One of the less obvious reasons to be terrifically glad to be retired.

9. 1 day ago on Frazz

   Sickest I’ve ever been from restaurant food was a LONG time ago in Albuquerque when I ordered a chile relleno and was served a bell pepper stuffed with mexican style dirty rice, all smothered with straight-out-of-the-can tomato soup. I never did like stuffed peppers (though I love chiles rellenos) and that just made it final. I’ve never eaten another.

10. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

    (hint, get a tankless hot water heater, never runs cold)

    When we remodeled, we TRIED for that, but the plumber said it was uneconomical to run 1 inch line clear from the meter to where we needed the hot water (near the whirlpool style tub). So we got a “next best option” which is a slightly bigger, VERY well insulated tank heater that runs at about 190º F and has a mixing valve at the delivery outlet that drops the heat to about 125º (standard household water heater heat). That gives us (barely) enough hot water to comfortably fill the tub with ~100+º water… or enough for a quite luxurious shower.