Total waste of time. Only tells them that they got a “live one”, and keep on calling.

But I improved my Spanish with Peanuts in Spanish! I think it counts.

I love the comments here. We read to our older son well into middle school. We had our own “book club” in that I made him a deal: For every 10 books you read you get a pizza. He had already done the Burger King book thing, “read X books, get a hamburger”, or the Library’s “read X books, get Y, sponsored by McDonalds”,…

I wrote this in 2011, in telephone terms, millions of years ago. When the Do Not Call list was new (and for about 20 minutes thereafter), it actually did something. Then the telemarketers decided to just toss the DNC list out the window, call people any way they can. So, yeah, the DNC list has become an empty threat.

I keep a file of boilerplates on various topics. My email allows me to add blocks of text from a file, so I insert file.txt and it’s covered.

I loved llama, but I finally had to remove it. So sad.

from food to font

I have lots of interests, but among my more unusual is that I raise earthworms (composting worms). I’ve been doing it for years, and enjoy it very much. Occasionally, I sell a few for $$.

Ever been to the Gardenweb “Name That Plant” forum?

Yes, there’s German there, too, but I’ve been following thehistoryofenglishpodcast.com, and it is indeed Latin based.

I had hoped that my music background would help. I was told that, no, actually tone deaf people learn Hmong more easily. I’m still going to lean on that music crutch, though, until I am certain for myself it won’t help.

There are 5 languages in my family Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish and my main language, English. All Latin based. I speak some of 3 of them. Not well anymore, but I could resurrect something of them if I tried. Now I need to learn Hmong. Not Latin based, tonal, few places to get help learning it. I think I’m…

Everybody does things differently. But I don’t eat the whole bag in one sitting. It lasts me several months, maybe most of a year. I generally cook a few (2? 3?) cups of beans at a time, eat out of the pot once, freeze the rest, and use them up of the course of a couple of weeks. When the beans in the freezer are…

I buy my pinto beans in 20lb bags. Other beans in smaller bags, like you have.

Yes! You should make your own refried beans!! You can make a ton for cheap! I sort and rinse my beans, then pressure cook them for an hour. I don’t even bother to really fry them, I just open the pot when it’s done, throw in some salt, garlic, and some fat (coconut oil makes very rich tasting refried beans), get my…

DH & I know some of each other’s passwords. I think I know almost all of his. I’m his Tech Support, and while I don’t exercise my ability to know every corner of his computer or phone, he couldn’t hide much from me if I went looking, but I would not invade his privacy.

• What is your favorite pot? My pressure cooker(s), hands down. I use them constantly.

We read to our son almost from infancy. We probably read hundreds of books to him. By the time he was 7 he was reading Louis L’Amour’s Last of the Breed. Those little library and Burger King prizes that they’d give kids for reading 5-books-get-a-hamburger during the summer weren’t going to cut it, so I made a deal…

I’m not going to eat a banana peel unless I’m starving, like haven’t had anything to eat in 3 days starving. I’m happy to give my banana peels to my earthworms in the compost pile. Sharing and all that.

. . .and at 29, her biological clock is ticking pretty loudly.