Terminalcoffee discussion

I'm feeling scared.

How come?

I was feeling bored at work, but sifting through old threads is pretty entertaining!

It usually is :)


When I get bored I either come on here or go to YouTube LOL

I'm wishing I could remember my college algebra.

My adult son is living with me and going back to college. That's what I want, but I was used to living by myself. Have to get used to living with someone again. My home was an island; now it's a hub.

People need to learn that caring or worrying is abrasive if they have not taken the two seconds to realise how your sickness, physical or otherwise, actually plays out. If a person is barely breathing they don't want or need people to come into their space and talk at them, even worse to keep talking expecting an answer. At that point an answer to anything is a waste of breath. An answer to cloying worry is a waste of breath at any point. How does one tell his parents and grandparents to stop polluting the sparse air one has?

I agree. Write out a note. "I can answer yes or no questions but anything longer, we may need to communicate in writing."

Mark said: "An answer to cloying worry is a waste of breath at any point. How does one tell his parents and grandparents to stop polluting the sparse air one has?"

I respond to my mom's cloying worry by assuring her that everything is fine and never telling her anything that's going on in my life or my son's life unless it's positive.

If I ever had anything positive to say it would be immediately placed in to the category "lie".

If you want them to get off your back, you have to lie.

Hehe...yup

I'm waiting, with no great expectations, for America to be Great Again!

Of course I stopped eating Frosted Flakes in the last millennium so Tony probably isn't going to be much help either.

I love the smell of oxalic acid and acetylene in the Kitchen, it smells like
like

shiny pots and pans!
:)

I've been thinking of putting my cast iron frying pan in the oven next time I do the auto oven cleaning. It's high heat, which should incinerate the gunk on the outside of the pan. What do you think?

Sometimes I feel like a ghost haunting myself. Sometimes I enjoy the sensation of this forceful (seeming) disconnect, while others it is everything I can do not to concentrate on the echo of my own voice, the reflection of my own face, the...sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it, knowing that soon, always soon, the revolution of this ever-threatening anxiety will steal away any semblance of my practical, sentient self and leave me a distraught husk, the version I strive to capture but am too inept to artistically contain. Sometimes I am just too tired and restless and, after having dissolved a near obsolete amount of xantax under my tongue, a veritable wisp of a dose, am hoping to exhaust my mind enough to where I will grow tired and anchor-eyed and eventually, without realizing, succumb to sleep. Sometimes I am grateful for this. Sometimes I regret it.

And you?

OK, this is for people who were on here in 2007 or thereabouts. I just saw something from Gus Sanchez on Goodreads. I am now following him as an author. Who remembers Gus?

Scout wrote: "I've been thinking of putting my cast iron frying pan in the oven next time I do the auto oven cleaning. It's high heat, which should incinerate the gunk on the outside of the pan. What do you think?"

Do you need to season your pan? I went to a cooking class with Emeril Lagasse a long time ago and he suggested putting an oiled cast iron pan upside down in the oven (put a pan underneath to catch drips ) and baking it for an hour or so, not too hot.

I seasoned my pan years ago, and it's been a good one. I'm actually talking about trying to remove the gunk from the outside of the pan. My neighbor says he occasionally put his on his outside grill to remove the gunk. I was thinking I might try putting mine in the oven when it's doing the self-cleaning thing to see if it will dissolve the gunk. Please don't ask why there's gunk to begin with. It's my fault, I know.

'Gunk' is such a perfect word for all kinds of muck.

Cynthia wrote: "OK, this is for people who were on here in 2007 or thereabouts. I just saw something from Gus Sanchez on Goodreads. I am now following him as an author. Who remembers Gus?"

I remember Gus. I'm only in TC about four times per year now, but back in the day....... I'm glad he's doing well.

Cynthia wrote: "OK, this is for people who were on here in 2007 or thereabouts. I just saw something from Gus Sanchez on Goodreads. I am now following him as an author. Who remembers Gus?"

Hell yeah I remember Gus. I occasionally shoot him a message here. He used to get mildly upset at some of the off-the-cuff posts I'd spew here - mostly about music - but hey, it would be a pretty boring world if everyone liked the same thing, no?

Hey Cynthia - How's the world been treating you?

Cynthia wrote: "OK, this is for people who were on here in 2007 or thereabouts. I just saw something from Gus Sanchez on Goodreads. I am now following him as an author. Who remembers Gus?"
I do!

Phil wrote:
I remember Gus. I'm only in TC about four times per year now, but back in the day....... I'm glad he's doing well. ..."

Phil! Phil that used to hang behind the ficus with Larry and Jim? Hello!

Sally wrote: "Phil wrote:
I remember Gus. I'm only in TC about four times per year now, but back in the day....... I'm glad he's doing well. ..."

Phil! Phil that used to hang behind the ficus with Larry and Ji..."

Hi Sallers! Been a very long time! Your kid must be ready for college now, right? Hehehe.

Your kid must be in grad school Phil!

Ninth grade. Moving up quickly!

I'm feeling anxious because I know my son has put his job in jeopardy. I want to do something about it, but I can't.

Tenth grade started for my son this week. Next week my grandson starts kindergarten.

Good Lord I feel old. My girls are 29 and 26. When I was their age.....

I taught all grades, but tenth grade was my favorite. Still easy to get along with and not pretend-jaded. Don't know what it's like now, though, with all the online goings-on.

::waves::

Hi Sarah!

We've been missing you in the beer thread.

Hey Sarah! Good to see you.

Cynthia wrote: "Hey Sarah! Good to see you."

Lobstergirl wrote: "Hi Sarah!

We've been missing you in the beer thread."

Would love to talk beer sometime :)

I keep wondering, as many people are likely wondering, but afraid to mention it out loud publicly - was this damn Covid'19 virus actually caused by animals (bats?? or whatever those wet market animals they have in China) or was it actually made in a lab? Now I hear that the fu-king virus may be mutating? Go figure! Sick of being a "semi-prisoner" in my own country!

I was told by the hospital worker who called with my appointment for the vaccine that, even after I've had both shots, I'll have to wear a mask. I don't think so.

The mask is because it is still possible (though likely not probable) that you could become infected & shed enough virus to be contagious. You would not suffer symptoms, but could possibly transmit the virus to others.

I've had enough of masks, winter, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Tucker Carlson, CNN, Bernie Sanders, Dr. Pimple Popper, Wendy Williams, the far left, the far right, drinking (that's really saying something), watching TV (ditto), sitting around waiting to retire, paying taxes, the cult of celebrity, hip hop, Detroit, pickup truck drivers, Hollywood, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, and Steve friggin' Earle. And probably Bruce Springsteen, depending on what "The Letter" sounds like.

Dr. Detroit - you had enough of winter! I'm too am sick of it! I'm counting the days until spring begins... (I basically ignore all the political bullsh-t). I guess we are not allowed to use swear words on here...who knows...who cares...

Cam wrote: "Dr. Detroit - you had enough of winter! I'm too am sick of it! I'm counting the days until spring begins... (I basically ignore all the political bullsh-t). I guess we are not allowed to use swear ..."

I usually love winter, at least until March, then I'm done with it. This year is ::cough, cough...bullshit...cough,cough:: different. Sometimes I think this working-from-home thing is the greatest. Most of the time I feel like I'm this far from going around the bend.

Not to mention that Judge Judy's eyes are about to bore holes through the back of my skull.

Yes I guess I know what you mean about going around the bend... But I'm not exactly sure what you mean by Judge Judy's eyes are about to bore holes through the back of your skull. Could it be you are you watching too many Judge Judy's TV shows? I thought I recently read somewhere that her shows were coming to an end soon.

Cam wrote: "Could it be you are you watching too many Judge Judy's TV shows?"

And how...

Many of us are close to going around the bend. Phil, something to ponder. I had my first COVID shot recently and was told to wait 15 minutes in another room full of people sitting in chairs jammed up against each other. I sat down and within a minute, an elderly woman called the nurse over and said she didn't feel well, then proceeded to have a coughing fit. I immediately realized that none of us were immune after having had our first shot and that if it's true (as you say) that people without symptoms can spread the virus, then why the hell were we all jammed together in a room with no ventilation? I got up and left to spend the rest of my 15 minutes in the car.

Scout wrote: "Many of us are close to going around the bend. Phil, something to ponder. I had my first COVID shot recently and was told to wait 15 minutes in another room full of people sitting in chairs jammed ..."

Sounds like the place where you got your shot was mismanaged. Please bring it to their attention, and to the attention of your local government representatives. Sticking people in a small room is idiotic.

Will do.

I feel anxious a lot these days. Politics have gone to hell in the U.S., Jimmy Carter is going to die any day (my guess was he'd go during the Republican convention), and it's too dang hot to get my stress relief on the golf course.

I have, however, been getting regular exercise & eating right, so I've dropped 28 of the 47 pounds I'm trying to shed.

I hear you. It feels like everything great about America is coming to an end. I hope not. Obama kept telling us our best days were ahead of us. But I felt even then he was bullshitting.

I've been walking 6 miles a day for 4 years. Still haven't had Covid (I'm starting to think I have some kind of genetic advantage). If it's too hot to walk outside, I do it all inside. I'd like to lose 15 lbs. but I don't absolutely have to, my BMI is 21.8. My neighborhood is full of Little Free Libraries so I have an endless supply of books to read.

I believe the arc of justice is swinging in favor of righteousness. It's easy to be cynical.
I am very optimistic.

In other news, both of my adult children got new/better jobs last week. So nearly all is right in my world. You know what they say, you're only as happy as your saddest child. Damn Truth.

Cynthia, the world needs optimistic people in order to function. Cynicism is death.

And possibly the worst place for cynics is governance and politics, so we need you to advance to high office over there in Iowa.