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If I am already a curmudgeon at my age, I just wonder what will happen if and when I actually make it to be old. I went out today looking for a new baseball cap. SWMBO doesn't like my Milwaukee Braves cap and says I need a Brewers cap. So I go to the store and find one in my size, put it one...

I just finished reading a travel book "Getting Stoned With Savages." In it, one of the things the author does is drink a lot of kava in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). Sounds like some interesting stuff. Looks like muddy water, tastes so bad it makes you almost puke, but apparently is very...

Sounds like it will be yummy!

I used to buy cheap beer all the time. I don't very often any more, though, because it's becoming hard to find where I live. Back in college, we had an Open Pantry (like a 7-11) near us. They tended to stock all kinds of really obscure off brands from the major breweries. My roommate and I...

OK, so I admit it. I can be very impatient sometimes. And one of those times is when I am waiting for a package. The other day I purchased a camera and I did not pay extra for faster shipping. It's coming to Milwaukee from NY by UPS Ground and it's going to take a week (from the day I ordered...

It was $8 for a quart.

I generally buy 100% maple syrup in the supermarket. This is the first time I've tried "homemade" and this doesn't taste anything like the maple syrup I'm used to. I think the guy must have screwed up somehow.

I bought a big jar of "homemade maple syrup" over the weekend at a craft show. I tasted it when I got home and it doesn't taste anything like any other maple syrup I have ever had. It has very little maple flavor and also has a flavor that tastes as if it was boiled over a wood fire that was...

This one here from the Wisconsin Brat Pages (http://www.bratwurstpages.com/bratsides.html) is excellent: German Potato Salad 5 pounds red potatoes, boiled until just tender with skins on 5 stalks celery, chopped 1 large onion, chopped 3/4 pound. bacon, cut in pieces about 1/2...

I can't say that I've tried it lately, but I suspect it probably blows.

Now that I'm on a roll with my rant about this, it's the same way with potato salad. Most restaurants that serve it? It's almost not even food. The same with supermarket deli potato salad. I think maybe zoebish01 has the answer, though. They get it already made in big plastic tubs. It's got so...

I just left a restaurant that generally has decent food, but my lunch came with a little cup of slaw. I knew just by looking at it that it would be pretty much inedible. I mentioned this to SWMBO and she insisted that I taste it before passing judgment. As I expected, it was total crap. That...

Not now, but I was over the weekend (went on a nice camping trip with SWMBO). (Actually, part of the time I was hi, too, but don't tell anyone).

Well, I finally got my system up and running again by doing a repair with my Windows Re-install CD. Before that, though, I did get a hard drive enclosure and backed up my HD to another HD. Then I got a bonus. I found an old 40 gig drive in the attic and put in in the enclosure. It should be...

Hmmm. I wonder... could I take out the old drive, install it in an enclosure and then copy data from it to my laptop?

That sounds like it might have some promise. I wouldn't actually mind having to do a clean install as my system is getting a bit old and probably was getting pretty cluttered up with junk anyway. If I could retrieve some of the stuff off the drive I would be happy.

Can anyone refer me to a good computer forum where I can get some help fixing my desktop? I tried updating to Service Pack 3 last night. It took forever, about 45 minutes with a pretty fast broadband connection. When it finished and I tried to restart.... blue screen of death. Safe mode? no...

Wow. I was really taken aback this morning when I saw the headline on msn.com about Brett Favre retiring. This year everyone pretty much thought it was a sure bet that he would come back next year. That made the contrarian in me say he probably would retire this year. But I still was pretty...

I remember a few years ago watching a movie set in the future where all restaurants were Taco Bell. All I can say after reading this news today is thank God for homebrewing and thank God for micro-breweries. Apparently from now on BMC will be B M/C. Or something. Question: if Miller and...

I'm a bit confused about this whole hop shortage deal. Here's what I think I know: 1. Hops were over-abundant for a number of years so growers have decided to produce less. 2. 2007 was a bad year for growing hops and some crops were actually destroyed by weather. 3. Most online homebrew...