Browncoat Bar and Grill- celebrating the awesome Roxy!!!! by MsA

Sure rub it in... free school, universal health care.... while we slave away paying loans and massive premiums for insurance
It's a good thing you're cute and we love you sweety or we just might string you up

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:09 AM

I thought I heard something recently about plans afoot to make British students pay more for Uni soon.

Fight it! Keep socialized medicine too! You do NOT want to emulate us on this one.

So nothing from Roxy in a few days, hope she stops by soon!

PS: for anybody within spitting distance of Syracuse, we open our house New Year's Eve to friends and family. Browncoats is basically both!

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Thursday, December 16, 2010 2:00 AM

Thursday morning pre-last-final-exam bump!

Okay.
I give up.

I tinkered with the first lab report and emailed it yesterday morning.

I've gone over each of the other two labs. At least twice.

I have made sure they were double spaced, TimesRoman 12 point.

I have triple checked that they contain each segment listed as required and none that weren't.

I could find nothing other than two typos I missed the first time and a shocking lack of italicization for the term Alu (unless it's not supposed to be italicized in which case I just fucked it up completely).

I have no idea what's wrong with them.
I retitled one just for shits and giggles.
I will be resubmitting them today after I take that other final.
I get whatever grade I get, and as the TA indicated they were going to have a significantly lower grade than if they were correctly formatted it will not be pretty. He made it sound like Doomsday, and since the first lab came back to me with a 40 last time I am willing to agree on that count.

Unless he's just completely broken with reality and the labs are actually just fine the way they are. (The rest of them were and got decent grades, why not these?)
Or he's gotten me confused with someone else this whole time.

I just don't care any more. I will keep telling myself that until the bloodthirsty rage subsides.

"Fuckit" mechanism engaged.

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Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:15 AM

Or I could join the bloodthirsty rage and we could re-do the entire educational system

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:34 AM

I've got a niece in grad school in Cali who's hell-bent on fixing it single-handed.

Hmm... this has potential. Cabal anyone?

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010 2:48 AM

It's Wednesday.
Where'd everybody go?

Bump!

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010 8:09 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
It's Wednesday.
Where'd everybody go?

B]

Aargh. Kitchen sink is backed up, underground water pipe must have a leak because the water bill jumped 200.00, and it's been raining since Sunday.

I hear the sound of money being slurped right out the door.

Did get my Serenity ornament, though. Shiny! Has anyone ever messed with one so that they can get the engine to light up?

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Friday, December 24, 2010 4:13 PM

Happy Christmas Eve bump!

Will someone please go kidnap Roxy?

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Sunday, December 26, 2010 12:48 PM

And it's Sunday.

Bump.

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Sunday, December 26, 2010 1:23 PM

MAGDALENA

"No power in the 'verse can stop me!"

I would kidnap her if I had the means... she is awesome & I would love to keep her captive with me & have lots & lots of fun in London with her...

CPT Magda Martin, CO of Golf Co. (Europe)
www.myspace.com/lady_magdalena
www.crazypurplewombat.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603506986
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magdalena67/

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Monday, December 27, 2010 7:24 AM

Monday morning bump!

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Monday, January 3, 2011 8:29 AM

Morning all... sorry about the lack of posting
We wen't to Utah to visit the parents/family and see my sister's new baby. Then home. NV and Johnny got sick and so did I. Twas not the new year's we'd imagined , but all is well

So how was everyone's holiday/break?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, January 3, 2011 11:27 AM

I celebrated the holiday season by spending $700.00 to fix the surprise broken water main underneath my front yard and almost spending a thousand more to fix the oil rings on my old Saturn. I'm not looking forward to my water bill.

My saint of a mechanic told me that the car would run about another 30,000 miles before the engine needs to be completely rebuilt and that it would cost more than its worth. I'll start looking for a newer used car...no point in spending that money on it.

I really am not looking forward to doing car payments again.

I've decided to get my passport so that this summer I can spend a week somewhere where there are empty tropical beaches and fruity drinks with parasols in them.

It snowed in Las Vegas this morning. The road to work was closed until 10:00 ish.

Other than that, things are great. I have an actual house to fix and money in the savings account to fix it, and the old car still runs, so I'm counting my blessings.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 11:32 AM

We're in the process of buying so I kind of envy you your house problems:)
Hey we're all planning to rob a bank or win the lottery and make browncoat island and all live happily in tropical paradise. Come with us:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 3:50 PM

Browncoat Island? Tropical paradise? Where do I sign on? And slide me down a Pina Colada while you're at it.

So last night while I was in Barnes & Noble trying to find extra paperback copies of "The Hunger Games" for book club, there was a guy standing there with a Nikki Heat book in his hand muttering to himself if this really was a Richard Castle book. I told him I'd read them both already, and while they are no Michael Connelly books, they are fun and frothy.

We got to talking (animatedly) over our mutual Nathan crushes, and I convinced him to watch "Firefly" on Netflix. I told him all about the Firefly shoutouts that go on on Castle (he remembered the "space cowboy" costume).

It was so nice to cross paths with someone else out in the dorkosphere who doesn't roll their eyes at me when I'm talking Firefly/Castle/Nathan!

We traded email addies. I hope he actually emails me. I hope he comes to one of our Firefly meetup events.

When do you find out about the house?

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:08 PM

(Slides a surprisingly large pina colada down the bar)

Order up!

We're getting ready to go house hunting. I talked with someone yesterday and we're pre-approved for a mortgage. I'm packing up my sewing room since I won't use it for the next six months anyway and I've got the time now. Which is a luxury I won't have in a few months.

On the bright side: we'll be going somewhere which, should it need a large repair, we'll be able to fix without impediment or unnecessary aggravation. Yay!
Beats the hell outta watching the siding fall off and the windows come apart and not being able to do a damned thing about it.

While I'm at it I think I'll have a pina colada too.
(Magics up a large batch of them for anyone wandering by. Then puts a Martini, a mango smoothie, and a perfectly chilled Dew in stasis for applicable recipients should they wander by, and goes to commune with the potted palm.)

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:26 PM

ROXYFREEFALL

Woman, you are completely off your nut.

The Roxy comes to drink. Help, please?

And also... I love you peoples.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DFTBA!

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Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:06 AM

HUGS and more HUGS.. whatever you need Roxy!!

Oh awesome on the house Rosie. The hunting sucks and the new mortgage paperwork bites, but once it's done the YAY is .... so YAY!

Oh good conversion there with the Castle cross over
(anyone else ever feel like we're kind of a religion?)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, January 6, 2011 3:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:

(anyone else ever feel like we're kind of a religion?)

"Kind of"? Only "kind of"?!
Um.. nooooo... never noticed it. (Goes to meditate at plastic rocket and pony shrine.)

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Thursday, January 6, 2011 5:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:

Oh good conversion there with the Castle cross over
(anyone else ever feel like we're kind of a religion?)

(Just loving my extra large pina colada - look extra rum, extra pineapple, hmm...can't remember if that's my safe word or not.)

Adding a remote controlled helicopter and exploding incense to the shrine.

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Saturday, January 8, 2011 3:14 PM

Barkeep! A pint of Guinness if you please!

(Feeling traditional tonight.)

I just spent a marathon cocoa/too many cookies/games evening with Boychild after dragging him to two open houses. (Not hunting, not stalking, more casually looking around...)
I also managed to find almost half my sewing room! Maybe I'll find another chunk of it tomorrow!
I should really review some chemistry, but Doctroid brought home a library book that he's not going to get to right away. I should also get out some yarn and start knitting my first attempt at socks, which is a goal of mine for this winter break and there's only about a week left.
Busy day, but good!

Now where's that Guinness...? (Wanders over to stare at the tap until it relinquishes.)

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Sunday, January 9, 2011 9:42 AM

Snowy Sunday bump.

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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:05 AM

Monday bump

Argh very sick and totally exhausted and yet at work

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:10 AM

"I'm sorry I slammed the student's head in the desk officer, but I did warn them I was sick and tired."

Just kidding, you would never actually do that.

Okay, can't hang around today. Too much to do!

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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:40 AM

Leaving a pan of raspberry-chipotle brownies with chocolate ganache frosting on the bar for them that need a chocolate fix to get through this Monday.

'Shame they won't let us have a margarita machine at work....

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Monday, January 10, 2011 4:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by greenka61:
Leaving a pan of raspberry-chipotle brownies with chocolate ganache frosting on the bar for them that need a chocolate fix to get through this Monday.

'Shame they won't let us have a margarita machine at work....

Ooooohhhh.... now I need to make those....

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Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:28 AM

I need to eat those

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, January 14, 2011 1:44 PM

I skipped the raspberry and ganache and used cayenne and cinnamon instead.

They were pretty good.

I even wrote down what I did not too long after doing it so there'd be a chance of reproducing it if it turned out well. (GASP!! That's almost a recipe!)

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Friday, January 14, 2011 3:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by stinkingrose:
I skipped the raspberry and ganache and used cayenne and cinnamon instead.

(GASP!! That's almost a recipe!)

Cayenne and cinnamon sounds good!

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Friday, January 14, 2011 3:22 PM

Barkeep, give me whatever. It's been a day!

Early this morning, my dog, in her infinite wisdom, decided to chew up and swallow my disposable razor, which she stole out of the shower. She threw up most of it, but I still had to call work and tell them I would be late because the vet didn't open until 7:00.

Worried most of the day. They took x-rays, and there is still a blade inside of her, but she's been sent home with lots of dense canned dog food to "coat" it as it makes it's way through.
She goes back for another x-ray on Sunday.

On the other hand, I stopped at the Starbucks drive-through after I left her, got up to the window to pay for my coffee, and the car in front of me had paid for it! Someone had paid it forward! That never happens to me!

I took it as being a little bit of good karma sent out from the universe, and so I paid it forward for the person who was behind me. I was happy to do it. Fridays need a bitty bit of caffeinated happiness spread around.

Paige, my dog is now asleep on my bed.

I'm going to a FF viewing party tomorrow night. :)

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Sunday, January 16, 2011 12:28 PM

It being Sunday already, and nobody else having posted since Friday...

BUMP

Beef stew in the crock pot. House smells good!

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Monday, January 17, 2011 7:36 AM

SISTER

Hi all!
Been a while; busy holiday season and a long-planned visit to Orlando's Wizarding World of Harry Potter (gift to my sister; a retired librarian who is bonkers about the books.)
Need me a butter beer.

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Monday, January 17, 2011 10:03 AM

(Sets the automated bartender to "butterbeer" and pushes "GO".)

You know, I actually ran across a historical recipe for buttered beer somewhere recently. It's supposed to be absolutely lovely.

You think that recipe's one of the things they'd bring out to the black when they left Earth-That-Was?

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:47 PM

Montezuma Winery
Cranberry Bog (cranberry wine)
Like cranberry relish, but not too sweet.

I don't know why I like this stuff so much, but I DO!

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:57 AM

GEE

Erm... I'm not dead?

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 4:02 AM

SISTER

Yay! Gee is not dead. Stinking Rose; yes; butter beer was a medieval drink. The one they serve at Universal Park is yummy; I've been trying to duplicate it at home with some luck. Hope all are well.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:13 AM

Sister - I have TOTAL Harry Potter jealousy right now.. I am actually gnashing my teeth.

mmm brownies

Starving and exhausted and presiding over the snorefest that is finals

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:09 PM

Yay finals!

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:56 AM

SISTER

MSA...we had a great time! Stayed at one of the three hotels on the Universal lot so got into the park an hour before the rest of the world! My sister's a retired librarian and an HP fanatic as the books brought so many kids and parents back to reading. Finals...ick.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sister:
My sister's a retired librarian and an HP fanatic as the books brought so many kids and parents back to reading. Finals...ick.

When I was still teaching 3rd grade, I had a student - a big, tough, limited English student, who picked up one of the Harry Potter books. It was way beyond his abilit (I thought), but hey, he was reading. It took him two months to finish it, but he did, and he passed the online test, too, so I knew he understood it. By the end of the school year he had read all four of the HP books (that was all that had been published) and had turned into an avid reader. His Endlish language skills flourished, and he changed from being kind of a schoolyard tough, to being a really cool kid.

I love Harry Potter. Still have kids reading them, although the Rick Riordan books are a bit "hotter" with the kids now.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:57 AM

I adore the Harry Potter books. I've read each one so many times it's ridiculous.
I got into them after the 3rd book was published. I was watching my goddaughter for a weekend while her parents were out of town ( she was 10 or so) and she was reading the 2nd book. I read her a few chapters then after she went to bed I stayed up and read books 1 and 2, then when her parents got home I went to the store and bought 3. Been reading and re-reading them ever since
I am totally jealous of one of our elementary schools. They have a life sized realistic Dobby in a glass case.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:52 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
I am totally jealous of one of our elementary schools. They have a life sized realistic Dobby in a glass case.

No kidding? Do you have a picture? That's cool.

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Friday, January 21, 2011 6:37 AM

Ok well now I feel dumb for not thinking to take a picture

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, January 21, 2011 4:24 PM

If it ever goes missing we'll know where to look.

Today was kinda craptastic. I'm tired and it's getting colder and windier by the minute. Bed is calling.

(Wanders off to the napping loft.)

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Monday, January 24, 2011 9:47 AM

Monday bump?

Where'd everybody go?!

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Monday, January 24, 2011 10:50 AM

I've gone off to sulk because the wonderful dream house is being sold to someone else. We weren't able to get cleared before he accepted someone else's offer
Sooooooo not happy right now

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, January 24, 2011 1:48 PM

HELL'S KITTEN

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
I've gone off to sulk because the wonderful dream house is being sold to someone else.

((eHug))

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Monday, January 24, 2011 2:45 PM

DANCINGNEKO

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
I've gone off to sulk because the wonderful dream house is being sold to someone else.

((eHug))

*HUGS MsA*
Will teh late paperwork that's been done be usuable for another home? *fingers crossed that it will, and that you'll find one that beats your dream home*

*swipes a substitution justsu from Naruto and uses it to fill ninjakitty's arms with a basket filled with: 1) a properly chilled and polished Can-O-Dew, 2) box of red vines, 3) an ice cream sammich, and 4) a box of eggos and assorted toppings (whip cream, syrup, fresh berries, coconut syrup, jellies, etc.)*
*checks and reserves the sound-proffed and auto-cleaning and refilling breakables room, requesting all of teh guns and walks in with a baseball bat*

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Monday, January 24, 2011 3:06 PM