General Discussion

On our lunch menu today, will be:  tuna salad sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, your choice of potato chips or fries, choice of cole slaw or garden tossed salad.

And on our supper/dinner menu tonight:  meat loaf w/mashed taters & gravy, shelly beans w/onion and your choice of cole slaw or garden tossed salad.

Desserts:  chocolate cake, white cake w/white icing, strawberry Jell-O w/peaches mixed in it, and apple and peach cobblers.

Message From:
The Cook

Mookie wrote:

And....I went outside to find Millie and The Driver yesterday and almost stepped on a junior Mudchicken.  I kept running in front of his "camera" wanting to see what he was looking at, but he kept shooing me away!  Our campus has been surveyed every year by future Mudchickens, so there shouldn't be a square inch that hasn't been looked at and yet it never changes in looks.  Obviously they are looking for buried gold and just haven't found it yet!  Hmmmm....?

Are these the second year Civil Engineering students doing basic route surveying? (If they are, Kudos to Cornhusker U for keeping surveying in the program - many places are stupidly demoting the course to an elective or deleting it altogether - We are seeing some really clueless graduate Civils these days/ worthless button pushers)

-or-

The Nebrasky faculty has failed to cull the herd of underclassmen to a managable size. Now, the Nebraska State Surveying Association in conjunction with the plain white boxcar with shackles & chains people are helping the state perform a valuable service. Anyone asking the instrument man with the transit/level/theodolite/total station what he/she was "taking pictures of", videotaping or spying-on is invited to a Wild & Gurley party in the boxcars down the street behind the BNSF/Amtrak Depot. The party animals are then whisked away, after being suitably pickled, on a one way trip to the Nevada desert and set loose. Keeps NU from having to waste money on additional  dorm living space. Plenty of room for next year's incoming class...

/// heads off to check this year's crop of barrier asparagus along the Nebrasky border. 

mudchicken wrote:

Mookie wrote: And....I went outside to find Millie and The Driver yesterday and almost stepped on a junior Mudchicken.  I kept running in front of his "camera" wanting to see what he was looking at, but he kept shooing me away!  Our campus has been surveyed every year by future Mudchickens, so there shouldn't be a square inch that hasn't been looked at and yet it never changes in looks.  Obviously they are looking for buried gold and just haven't found it yet!  Hmmmm....? Are these the second year Civil Engineering students doing basic route surveying? (If they are, Kudos to Cornhusker U for keeping surveying in the program - many places are stupidly demoting the course to an elective or deleting it altogether - We are seeing some really clueless graduate Civils these days/ worthless button pushers) -or- The Nebrasky faculty has failed to cull the herd of underclassmen to a managable size. Now, the Nebraska State Surveying Association in conjunction with the plain white boxcar with shackles & chains people are helping the state perform a valuable service. Anyone asking the instrument man with the transit/level/theodolite/total station what he/she was "taking pictures of", videotaping or spying-on is invited to a Wild & Gurley party in the boxcars down the street behind the BNSF/Amtrak Depot. The party animals are then whisked away, after being suitably pickled, on a one way trip to the Nevada desert and set loose. Keeps NU from having to waste money on additional  dorm living space. Plenty of room for next year's incoming class...   /// heads off to check this year's crop of barrier asparagus along the Nebrasky border.

ROFLMAO

wow

will take a plate for work tonight CW.got to get back at it.matt has some flower seeds he needs to plant from school so we got some stuff aroundthe only thing that grows faster than the plant is him!

stay safe

joe

The meatloaf is out of the oven, shelly beans are thoroughly cooked, and the sides are ready and on the warmer bar.  Hope everyone enjoys their supper, and this beautiful, warm and breezy evening!  

Joe, got containers ready and waiting for you in the cooler.  

On a knee update:  not hurting today like it was yesterday, but is still swollen.  Guess I stood a little too long preparing the meatloaf, and putting the beans on to cook.  

Hear a train horn, so know there's a train over at the Va. Ave. crossing.  Too bad I'm in the middle of cooking our supper here at home.  We could grab the camera and head over that way. 

Message From:
The Cook

Datafever wrote:

Willy, I've been in the middle of plenty of severe thunderstorms.  Let me assure you that the power of a bolt of lightning is pretty awesome.  You are not missing anything by having that thunderbolt miss your house, any more than having a tornado miss your house.  I'd say that the Man upstairs is looking out for you.

I'm not saying that cloud-to-ground lightning missed us, I'm saying that the actual thunderstorms themselves missed us. I've been in severe thunderstorms too, and they're awesome, that's why it's a pity they missed us by such a small margin. It looks like we got two tenths of an inch of rain, so it wasn't a total loss, but locations that got a direct hit from the storms picked up around an inch of rain. Oh well, there are more chances this weekend, so I can't give up hope yet.

We're expecting big storms tomorrow.  I love them, but my boss freaks out.  She always says that she has to go home to comfort her dog, but I think it is more the other way around.

Is there any leftover dinner?  I didn't get a chance to eat earlier and I am starving.