Oh ok...I have to look for that. YOu find it in regular grocery stores? Thanks!

Make enough for KiwiJ just in case she is hungry later.

Don't let Traic have any...he's already full of beans.

LA

I'm sorry. Did someone say something? I thought I heard a noise. Must just be my imagination. Covering my ears now. NANANANANANANANANA. Not hearing anything. NANANANANANANA...

ROFLMAO...

I'm wondering when Traic will stop reacting to abuse by shutting it out...

Hmmm...

LA

NANANANANANANANANANA...

Hi Myrta,

I am good. I started to make rice and bean a few weekends ago and DS1's GF "took over". She messed things up royally. She cannot follow a recipe. I cannot do magic in la cocina, but I can follow a recipe. Theya are discussing taking a weekend trip to Savannah. When they go, I will have my way with the kitchen and will make the rice and beans. I also have a good friend in Puerto Rico who is going to FedEx me some rice and beans!!!!! He understands what a loss it is!!!!!! DS1's GF is one of those people who never met a recipe she likes. She "embellishes" recipes. The rice and beans were awful. Her fault. Even she admitted it. Guess what her solution is: next time, add more anise! I cannot wait for them to go to Savannah!

HI Todd...glad you are doing well. Any new treatment?

Please dont put any anise in the beans. That will make them taste awful. Definetely wait until they are off to Savannah. I am sure you can do better> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Hey, I am going to Puerto Rico too!! Cannot wait to eat the good food! yum <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Houston, we have a problem.

Everybody got up. DD1 went straight to the PSP and DD2 followed with her Game Boy. WW got up and I was in the garage lifting weights and she wanted to go run so I got dressed and we went.

When we got back, WW was trying to help DD1 learn to use Formula 1 on the PSP and now she is addicted. WW and DD1 are fighting over the PSP. Right now my top priority is to buy another Sony PSP for DD1 because WW has taken hers but, long term, I may never eat food again unless I make it myself. I just hope WW and DD1 can learn to trade and share the games. I think with the PSP that they can play against each other. OMG. What a mistake this was... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Video games are the scourge of Earth. DS3 is addicted to xBox 360. When it was released shortly before Christmas, DS3 could find it nowhere. He called 56 stores in Atlanta and found one that was getting eight game consoles the next morning. He talked GF into "camping" out with him in front of the store. In the rain. They got there at 11:30 the night before and were fourth in line! They each bought an xBox 360; DS3 sold one on eBay for twice what he paid for it, ergo he got 360 free. Now GF is a video game "widow."

traicionado, have you had the "we share our games and toys" talk with DD3?

Video games are THE scourge of the earth or A scourge of the earth? I contend that the earth can have multiple scourges.

Yesterday was really busy. I made (yes - made) a shower curtain rod, cleaned the garden three times, hung planters for gemela, reran a cable that suddenly became in the way of said planters, cut fronds off the palm tree that gemela needed removed. If you have never pruned a palm tree, you will have no idea the effort involved (and blood). Gemela got a tee time for 6:10 PM. I took a piece of 2x8 pine and my router and spent about an hour and made a special stand/holder for the golf cart. While a bit crude, this beta version was quite functional. I now have the only golf cart in Saudi Arabia with built-in DVD. The DDs loved it last night. They were totally involved in their movie while we played golf.

Now I am looking at the Bose stereo and thinking maybe today I will give the golf cart a surround sound system. I just can't figure out where to put the sub-woofer. Needs some thought.

If I replace the DVD player with a laptop computer (with DVD drive of course) with WiFi capability and get real-time GPS for the golf cart, I am thinking maybe I can finally figure out how to play hole #8. That second landing area still has me perplexed.

Then there is the voltage problem. The PC, stereo, etc. don't readily run off 36 volts. I am currently working on making a resistor but all I have for wire are old clothes hangers. It is working but turning out larger than I would have hoped.

Gemela and I seem to be going back to the status quo. Maybe things just need more time. I don't know. To be honest, this past week has been very confusing. I'm still not sure what any of it means or if it is nothing more than, as ToddAC put it, a speed bump in the Plan A road. Who knows? I do know that, if it weren't for DDs, well...

I had a palm tree removed. It cost NZ$2,000 to remove and about $10.95 to buy.

But what is that in REAL money? I can't even find that on my exchange rate chart.

About NZ$1.00 = US$0.60. I think.

Wow! A vacation paradise! That's where I'm going!

To be precise US$1 = NZ$0.63991

Yes, you are right. The exchange rate works extremely well in the favour of Europeans and Americans.

And still they whine about the cost of goods and travel in NZ.

Americans whine????????

Well for one thing, why did you guys decide to put NZ so far away from the rest of the world? Why didn't you put it closer? Bermuda had the right idea. First rule of real estate? Location, location, location. NZ may have a lot of nice things to offer but what about resale? You are never going to be able to sell NZ or, if you do, the country will go at a significant loss.

OT - But I talked to Carl Sagen 20 years ago, and he said that NZ would be the only place that would survive WWIII. I used to want to move there.