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I could never get any of Martha Stewart's recipes to come out right, either.
I also am having trouble logging onto SI lately.
Kabobs is what we are having tomorrow. We grill on Memorial Day, rain or shine.
Stuff is good. I am just getting into gardening - last year I started planting flowers - peonies, roses, butterfly bushes, crape myrtles.
We had such a long hard winter I almost lost the butterfly bushes and the crape myrtles, and the peonies were just roots so won't bloom for another year or two, but the roses are beautiful.
I haven't sprayed yet but have been out on my moveable seat clipping dead cane and deadheading the flowers. My husband watched me for a while and said, "you're turning into a Rose Person." I said, what? He said, "with your gloves and your bench and your clippers, you're turning into a Rose Person."
I have to say that roses intimidate me, but they are so beautiful, I feel that I must learn. And I fear I planted too many peonies, which I never was familiar with as they don't like hot climates like Louisiana. I may wish that I had reserved more room for roses, like Reine des Violettes.
http://images.google.com/images?q=reine+violettes&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
I loved the first Matrix, saw it several times. I have seen previews for Matrix Reloaded, it looks like action-adventure with lots of chopsocky moves floating in the air.
It was the ambiguity of the original that appealed to me.
After I picked the kids up from seeing Matrix Reloaded the first time, typical teenagers, all they say is "awesome."
But later Nick asked me whether it would really be better to wake up and leave everything you love, your family, your house, your friends, your pets, your toys, to live underground being hunted and never see anything you love again, just to be free. So apparently Matrix Reloaded makes you think some, too.
My response was that if the way you had all the things you liked was by sucking the life force out of others, that was wrong, no matter how much you enjoyed your life.
That seemed to satisfy him a little, but not much.
Anyway, I said, it's only a movie.
We saw X-Men 2 when it first came out and I was too cramped by the crowded theater and that made my physically uncomfortable. I don't want to go through that just to be the first to see a movie. I did it plenty when I was a kid, though.
Well, where is everybody? SI's servers are down - or some computer thingie - and the ISP tech support isn't answering its page. Bob is afraid we won't be back on until Tuesday.
Poor Bob. Oh well. The theater was too crowded - the line was out to the parking lot so we gave up and came home.
Spent a little while this afternoon at a public rose garden full of old roses, so will spend some time researching the ones I liked. Always something to do on the Internet.
Olive and tea sound wonderful, thank you, and are those peanuts I see on the counter?
Hi Rudi - what happened to SI this time?
Oh, well, Nick wants to see the Matrix Reloaded again and it's time to go.
Toodles.
Hi Bob - wishing you, Matt and iHub the best.
We have beaucoup azaleas, but that's part of the "thing" here. They don't smell like skunks, that's for sure.
Cherries are at least 1/2 inch across.
Hi August - it's a beautiful day here, as well. Think I'll visit a couple of nurseries and see what they've got in the way of pear trees. Last year we planted a Moonglow and a Seckle - for some reason I thought they would be good "mates" - but they bloomed at different times this year, the Moonglow much earlier than the Seckle. The Moonglow has no babies, and the Seckle only has a couple. Last year the Seckel was covered in fruit, so it must have been pollinated by another tree at the nursery. Maybe it's a bee problem, but the other fruit trees have lots of babies, so I think the pears are just not compatible.
I have made up my mind - next year, I will order bees. I am going to try honey bees - always wanted to try that. Also will get some of those carpenter bees or wood bees or whatever they are called.
I don' t know how to start a thread here.
Speaking of rare fruit - my paw paw trees I planted in fall, 1999, look like they are going to make it. They were just whips when I planted them and last year didn't look like much, but this year they look like little trees. I've always wanted to taste a pawpaw ever since I was a kid and used to read some books that were written "Beneath the Pawpaw Tree." It's going to be a few more years until I get to taste one, but there's little more optimistic than planting a tree.
The pecan trees didn't make it - maybe the soil is too damp back there.
Cool recipe. I love salsa. It's time to plant tomatoes - I confess to being a lazy bum and buying my tomato plants at a nursery - your recipe makes me want to try romas. Our favorite is Brandywine.
Two years ago, when I bought my tomato plants I bought one that didn't have a label, and the plant was sort of broken looking, but I felt like buying it because the stem was as thick as my thumb, and I have big hands. It was so productive! Many, many tomatoes, small compared to Brandywines - maybe 3 inch diameter - good flavor. Last year, when I went to buy tomato plants, again I saw a plant without a label, sort of scruffy looking but the stem as thick as my thumb, again very productive, same size tomatoes. So I am hoping for a repeat.:)
We only have 1/3 acre, mostly trees, so I won't plant onions or cilantro, and will depend on the local Korean market, but we will plant peppers - habaneros is what my husband likes. This year I will try a couple of chipotle plants. Maybe some jalapenos, and some tomatillos.
Man, what an education in human nature. It's fascinating, but eerie and creepy, too.
I wonder if these guys appear normal if you meet them face to face. My guess is yes.
Don't cat fights get guys hot?-g-
Although I gotta say - if I was a guy those two would make me want to wear protective gear over my most tender and sensitive parts.-ng-
Wanted to make sure you saw the rap song Jumper wrote for you.-g-
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=15745604
I don't seem to have a banning button.-ng-
What do we do about all the junk cluttering up the thread? Leave it here or zap it?
Oh, good. Glad you're here. I see we've been appointed Directors but I don't know whether we can ban people or not. We can delete their posts, that much I know.
Yep.<eom>
I tried to see if I could find the message in my Netscape cache but Netscape doesn't seem to store text the same way IE does. It only seems to save images. So you'll just have to wonder.;^)
I don't care who you are. Sorry.
Lisa - 1) if you read the thread then you know I dropped the idea when JXM told me he didn't think it was you; 2) you may be fascinated with yourself but I am not.
>>what did Jenna's postto me say?<<
She said, "if I said you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"-g-
LOL! I don't think I even read it. I'm using Netscape so don't know how to access it - in IE I do. I'll take a look at my temp files and see if it's there.
Someone did ask JXM for sex - someone who had never been on SI before or since. I think that post never got yanked, but I don't think I'm going to bother looking for it. The person's writing style reminded me of you. And you know all about it. Coincidence?;^)
No, Jenna didn't attack me. I asked her to leave and she seems to have left. And RJL hasn't shown up yet. BTW, you should edit your post - substitute RJL, while you can.
What allegations are you talking about?
You're right that I am not running this forum - RJL is, and he's got a day job, so I don't expect to hear back from him today - could be this evening, could be in a day or two, but he'll be around.;^)
One has the right to free speech, but not the right to a forum.
You're right, the thread hasn't been active. But it's ours.
Lisa - your fight has nothing to do with the CFZ. You and Jenna have two choices - you can take this elsewhere voluntarily, or you will be moderated off. Personally I am no fan of moderation but sometimes it's called for. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.
I've never been as bearish as many on the thread - more in the middle, like MythMan - his trading range call was a good one. You may have noticed me defending Meehan - his calls were really good, too, but I was defending him before they panned out. I don't do charts - just look at long term macroeconomics for the market in general, and study company balance sheets and business news for companies in specific. The companies I am interested in aren't doing so hot, so I either have to wait or else find new companies to be interested in.
My job isn't conducive to trading, and I don't really have a talent for it anyway.
I've been spending my free time studying the Great Crash - have wanted to write a book about the Great Depression for several years now and decided to go for it. Working title, "Where Did The Money Go?"
According to William Gann, from the high in 1929 to the low in July, 1932, the value of all stocks traded on the NYSE went from over $90 billion to $12 to $15 billion - that's down about 85% - we haven't seen that. Individual stocks have done that but not the market as a whole. From Feb., 1933 to July, 1933, the NYSE went up over 100%. By December, 1935, the market was up over 300% from the 1932 lows.
So there is plenty of precedent for a very strong rally - and economics were far worse then. 25% unemployment in 1932-1933.
I am not bullish about the economy - more in "wait and see" mode.
(Bob) says I should ask RJL, so I will send him a post here and also an email. Not sure how long it will take but someone has to moderate the thread, as the past several days of posts, while entertaining, don't belong here.
Hi Poet - I think you are Poet - I can't keep track of who is and isn't whom - I asked Luc (the real Luc) to ask (Bob) to transfer moderating powers to him - and he said it was OK if I asked for them, so I did. Hope to hear from him soon.
I was looking at Jenna's profile and see that charts can be posted here - can you please direct me to something that explains how? Thanks.
Will you please take this discussion somewhere else? Thank you.
Too funny. Sort of.
I gather that the intention is to prevent people from being misled, which is fine by me.
Not sure what you mean by "a bit more strict." Realize it's one of those "know-it-when-you-see-it" type of things.
People on SI CFZ expressing serious interest in this site, but the impression is that this site is less tolerant than SI.
I recognize that you guys want to be more proactive with respect to personal attacks, which undermine civility. I suppose it's more accurate to say, are the antithesis of civility.
Hi Bob, nice place you have here. Question - can people post charts directly here, or do they need to be linked? TIA
I was just checking the place over to see how it was going.
Weather is very nice this time of year. The azaleas all started popping out this weekend.
It's a good thing, overall. When I think of all the countless hours I've wasted on SI, though, the main thing that runs through my mind is "arrrrrrrrrrgh!" -g-
Hi guys - just wandering by and thought I'd say hi.
Can't play much these days, duty calls.
I need a new toy - two new toys, actually - a cell phone and a PDA. Has anyone used either of those to get email or access websites? If so, how good is it?