COLD DARK ROOM

[ZEROPILOT]

I mailed the rest of my cards out.
All of the overseas cost the same. A buck twenty five.
Cheap. I also got the last of my TORTOISE gift. But now I must wrap it all and I'll mail it Wednesday. Dentist tomorrow

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I mailed the rest of my cards out.
All of the overseas cost the same. A buck twenty five.
Cheap. I also got the last of my TORTOISE gift. But now I must wrap it all and I'll mail it Wednesday. Dentist tomorrow

That's very reasonable.
Evening, Ed.
You're going to wrap and mail the dentist tomorrow ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Night night Roommates.
I'm starting to look like my sofa, so time to go and do a bed impression instead.
See you all tomorrow.

 

[Moozillion]

Any chance of a recipe? It looks yum!

Here's the recipe. Everything is in American measurements. I'm not too good at translating to UK measurements, I'm afraid.

Pistachio Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Cake ingredients:
1 box plain yellow cake mix (the type without pudding in the mix)
1 box instant pistachio pudding (or any type you like)
4 eggs
1/2 Cup vegetable oil
1 Cup sour cream

Topping/Filling:
1 Cup chopped pecans
1 Cup sugar
4 teaspoons cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350* F
Heavily grease a tube or bundt pan.
Mix all cake ingredients for 10 MINUTES (NOTE: the batter gets VERY thick, so it is best to use a stand mixer. If you try to use a hand mixer it WILL burn up the motor!)
Sprinkle topping in creased pan and rotate to coat pan with topping (similar to fluorine pan). Pour excess back into bowl of topping.
Pour approx 1/4 batter into pan.
Sprinkle with approx 1/3 of topping.
Repeat twice. Finish with last 1/4 of batter.
Bake 1 hour.

NOTE: You need NOT measure 1/4 of cake batter precisely as you pour it into the pan- just pour a broad ribbon of enough batter to make a thinnish layer over the topping and gently push and pull batter to the edges with a spatula and smooth it.

 

[johnandjade]

good mornooning roommates! another doris day in paradise begins. hope everyone is well,

good luck at the dentist ed!


lets see what's behind today's door...

(searches for door marked 6 )


WAHHH!!! its monty python in LEGO!!!

 

[JoesMum]

Good morning John. I knew you'd be an excellent custodian of the CDR advent calendar

Good morning CDR

I'm up in the dark to take JoesDad to the station as I need his car today. I have to go to a school half an hour away to chair some behaviour panels for them and daughter needs my car.

The positive side of this is the school is minutes from a rather large shopping centre which will hopefully be nice and quiet this morning.

 

[JoesMum]

It's very foggy outside. You can see more in the darkness of the CDR!

 

[johnandjade]

Good morning John. I knew you'd be an excellent custodian of the CDR advent calendar

Good morning CDR

I'm up in the dark to take JoesDad to the station as I need his car today. I have to go to a school half an hour away to chair some behaviour panels for them and daughter needs my car.

The positive side of this is the school is minutes from a rather large shopping centre which will hopefully be nice and quiet this morning.

good morning mum . hope you're well. do you have the new car yet?

 

[JoesMum]

good morning mum . hope you're well. do you have the new car yet?

I should have it next month hopefully. Definitely by the end of February.

 

[johnandjade]

KFC breakfast roll .

 

[JoesMum]

KFC breakfast roll .

That actually really appeals on a foggy cold morning like today

 

[johnandjade]

That actually really appeals on a foggy cold morning like today

chicken am, no egg, extra bacon and brown sauce. only a pound with an out of date voucher

 

[ZEROPILOT]

having to deliver prematurely View attachment 193875

ed, it's going in the post tomorrow, still few things i want to send but haven't got yet


not my TORTOISE folks!

Thanks, John.
You shouldn't have gone through all of that trouble.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

WOOT!!! Got my card from Ed/ZEROPILOT today!!!
Thanks, Ed!

Could you de code my scribblings?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Yesterday after work I did my chores and took a shower. I ended up taking a nap on the couch with Suki and awoke an hour later feeling warm. The A/C wasn't blowing cold. (It was 78 degrees. We keep it at 73)
I found that the condenser unit had tripped it's breaker. So I reset it. It quickly cooled down the house and all was well.
Fast forward four hours. Kelly's home and we're all in bed about to go to sleep.
All of a sudden, DARKNESS. SILENCE. The power went out. A peek out of the window revealed that my neighbors still had power, so out in the garage I went. The A/C breaker was again tripped. But this time, the main breaker outside was also tripped. Not cool.
I've called the air conditioning company out. The thing is still under warranty. Hopefully it's something easily remedied.
In the meantime, I've powered down about half of the house to allow the air to run without overloading anything. It worked for the rest of the night and I'll be leaving early this afternoon to go meet up with the tech. I'll cancel my Dentist appointment.
Here's my guess. It's 20 days out of warranty. $300. Why? Because everything is always $300.
Wish me luck.

 

[Kristoff]

Morning, roommates!
Expected kiddie theater-related nightmares but instead dreamt of conversing with John about degu and, for some reason, Rudyard Kipling.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Morning, roommates!
Expected kiddie theater-related nightmares but instead dreamt of conversing with John about degu and, for some reason, Rudyard Kipling.

Have you had the pleasure of speaking with John in person? (Phone)
He has a GREAT Scottish voice. I love it.

 

[Kristoff]

Yesterday after work I did my chores and took a shower. I ended up taking a nap on the couch with Suki and awoke an hour later feeling warm. The A/C wasn't blowing cold. (It was 78 degrees. We keep it at 73)
I found that the condenser unit had tripped it's breaker. So I reset it. It quickly cooled down the house and all was well.
Fast forward four hours. Kelly's home and we're all in bed about to go to sleep.
All of a sudden, DARKNESS. SILENCE. The power went out. A peek out of the window revealed that my neighbors still had power, so out in the garage I went. The A/C breaker was again tripped. But this time, the main breaker outside was also tripped. Not cool.
I've called the air conditioning company out. The thing is still under warranty. Hopefully it's something easily remedied.
In the meantime, I've powered down about half of the house to allow the air to run without overloading anything. It worked for the rest of the night and I'll be leaving early this afternoon to go meet up with the tech. I'll cancel my Dentist appointment.
Here's my guess. It's 20 days out of warranty. $300. Why? Because everything is always $300.
Wish me luck.

Morning, Ed!

That's not cool about your A/C. Hope it's fixed quickly.

 

[Kristoff]

Have you had the pleasure of speaking with John in person? (Phone)
He has a GREAT Scottish voice. I love it.

I've read somewhere Apple's Siri couldn't understand Scottish accent a few years back. I wonder if I would fare any better :shy:

 

[Kristoff]

It's very foggy outside. You can see more in the darkness of the CDR!

Morning, Linda! Hope by now visibility outside is better than in CDR. Have a nice day