Talked to my kids about this on Friday. We are a pretty non-violent family - we yell. I don’t think my kids have ever even hit each other. I said it was just fine to sucker punch a Nazi.

We bought our house from a wannabe Bob Vila, too.

I have two square feet of usable counter space for food prep. I measured. Plus a pull out cutting board. I have no where to go but up.

I had to pause the playback to laugh at that face for a good minute. That and “jewy” because you someone really wanted to say that to the press.

That’s so weird - I’ve seen a bunch of new places where the bathrooms outnumber the bedrooms. My “must haves” are pretty basic - at least two full baths, 3 bedrooms, more than two square feet of counter space, and a garage that we can park both vehicles in.

Exactly. She learned to skate playing hockey with her brothers. She had a much better family support system but she wasn’t rich or pampered.

Thank you! Good luck with the repairs!

Nope. We have no idea where to start! We just need to hide the water damage from when the water main broke.

The fruit fly thing is morbidly satisfying.

What kind of dish soap?

We are selling our house! I have projects galore. We are going to hire out for a lot of the work but there’s still so much to do. The big one we are doing is cleaning out the basement and skim coating the walls.

Bank! But I work in corporate operations. My “customers” are technologists who want shiny new software applications.

What do you make? We do this on occasion but stick to California rolls. I would love to expand our menu.

We made pasta! It was ugly and the pesto had waaaay too much garlic, but the kids had fun making the dough and using the hand crank machine.

Just do it! It may not be perfect but it’s still bread! There’s an older book by James Beard - Beard on Bread that’s awesome. It has tons of instructions and explanations and troubleshooting.

Not that I recall. They were actually pretty healthy - lots of veggies and lean meat. They weren’t fried and I didn’t use soy sauce. They were more in the potsticker/ gyoza mode than wontons. I haven’t seen them there since.

One summer I had a horrible bout of bronchitis and was home alone for a weekend, I lived off a bag of frozen potstickers from Costco while binge watching Top Chef. Basically, dumplings saved my life.

Wow. That’s fascinating. I learned about them in a series of YA books where evil magicians used them to attack the good guys. They were described as mindless almost unstoppable creatures controlled by their master/creator with no independent thought processes. Entirely creatures of evil.

I cannot imagine the reaction of the tech companies that sell that software. Several major players, including Oracle whose CEO is on the transition team, have entire divisions devoted to that type of reporting software.

Not in the smoking sense. I made this account in June 2013 to respond to a pissing contest entry and wasn’t clever enough to come up with anything else. Then I lost the key to my other account.