It sounds like a lot going on there in your neck of the woods. The pork roast
sounds good too. I have never heard of an electric pot. I thought one crock pot
was the same as the next pot when it came to things like that. I am glad to
hear that you have not killed Pat with your cooking. Is the birds name Gabby?
From: audio-pals-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:audio-pals-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Thomas McMahan
Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 2:35 PM
To: audio-pals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audio-pals] Re: Surely to Goodness
While exiting at high speed too right?
Nah not much happening here really. Pat’s mom got her knee replaced last
Wednesday, so Pat’s sister has been over there mostly the past few days, which
means Pat has to survive with my cooking. So far she’s alive and not
complaining, but it usually has to be pretty bad before Pat complains *lol*.
Speaking of cooking, I put a pork roast in the electric pot yesterday, cooked
it at medium for quite a few hours then turned it down to low while I was
sleeping, and now have it back up to medium. When done it should be fall apart
barbecue. The electric pot has a lot more power than a crockpot. The medium
settings are hotter than crockpot for anyone who hasn’t ever used one before.
I haven’t ever done a pork roast with one either, we do have a roaster that
sort of works the same way and I’ve done pork with that, but with the pot it’s
cooking in the sauce. Danny won’t like that since it’s a wet barbecue,
although I bet if I passed him a sandwich of it he would still eat it.
At some point on a nice warm day we are going to move Pat’s mom’s bird over
here. He’s lived here before so he and our bird know each other. It’s
becoming more of a challenge for Barb to take care of him, and I think she
worries about him being isolated to much. SO there will be some adjustment
period when he comes over here, because he won’t be used to having people
around him all the time, and he is much more gabby than our bird, but he is
also much more social than our bird too. Being a cockatoo, they are less apt
to imprint to just one person as a macaw does, thus he’s more apt to be
interactive too. So our house will get louder. It may force Patti and I to
become day people too, or we’ll have to move bedroom upstairs, which I wouldn’t
mind actually come to think about it. I think Pat could handle it now too.
The electric bill will increase some because we would be running a window unit
up there, but it probably wouldn’t go up to much. It’s more of just the matter
of moving back up there and cleaning stuff up up there.
Other than that not much else, just killing zombies. Oh also not this past
Sunday but the Sunday before we went over to church for the morning service
instead of going on Saturday evening. Pat did well with it, no problem.
Hopefully we can keep doing that and they can just cancel the Saturday evening
services, we are usually the only ones that show up over there for that. Our
preacher has cancer, and it’s an aggressive form of it, this would give him a
break so he can get more rest, or spend more time with his family at least too.
Probably best for him to make what memories he can because the clock is
probably ticking pretty loud for him now. We can already tell it’s sapping his
strength some. So I am thinking in a year or less the church will be having to
explore hiring another pastor, but I also know the one we have will keep doing
what he can until he drops too, just that sort of person.
So the future is offering a number of changes to come probably.
Oh also Josh, one thing that is often forgotten concerning the wages for women
verses men is that the cost of benefits are typically higher for women for
healthcare needs, so weigh those costs and see if that equals out the equation
a little more to a balance. People often forget that the benefits package is
also their wage, it’s not coming out of the company’s pocket even if they do
say they are matching or covering it, in reality it is just a cost of labor to
stay competitive and it’s all a wage when totaled up. They just don’t give out
of the goodness of their hearts, they count it as their wages they are paying
you, it’s just that you don’t see it. Well not until you deal with the
insurance company and find out you are in a disastrous HMO *lol*.
Same with the taxes paid out, they say it’s them paying half, but in reality,
they are just paying half of it before they give you the rest, because if you
weren’t there they wouldn’t be paying for that slot, thus it’s actually part of
your wage package..
The advantage is that they can deal with the leverage of a group of employees
verses you as an individual trying to leverage an insurance company to get the
best deal possible. Which is what you might do if they just converted it all
into cash and paid you.
On May 5, 2015, at 7:24 AM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Surely to goodness I of all people can get someone stirred up on here *LOL*. If
not I guess I am losing my touch. So, what is everyone up to? I am
contemplating a few things such as future plans, politics and how to get the
state to recognize disability as part of diversity rather than something
separate, making an app for my universities disability office so that students
can post questions that hey otherwise would not be comfortable asking, how to
help Amanda get back in the job force, and while I am at trying to figure out
how to best help Amanda get back in the job market also thinking about the wage
gap that exists between males and females working in the same field and same
position. It was much larger than it is today, but it is still about an .18
cent difference. Whether I should just get a job or go on to graduate school.
With Amanda being out of work it is very tempting to start putting in
applications now that I am finished with the undergraduate part of things. One
professor that my final was an essay and that I was worried about the grade in
that class wrote me yesterday and told me that I currently have the highest
grade in her class. So, only one grade still out. Hey Heaver, you are pretty
opinionated what do you have to say about all of this? *LOL*. Yes, I called you
out Heaver. Bethann, are you going to just sit idly by and fight the urge to
respond? Surely not, that is not in your character. Don, I am going to have to
change the subject line to your name in order to get you to respond, c’mon
don’t be shy you will never get any of your shine sold by being shy *LOL*.
Besides who has ever heard of a shy biker gang dude *LOL*. With all you have
done taking on Castro in Cuba, riding through the psychological investigation
office wall on your bike, and chasing wild women all over town there is no
reason to be shy now. Danny, I am guessing that you finally got moved back in
your tree. Is that a safe assumption? Have you and the squirrels settled any
disagreements that may have lead to the eviction from your tree? Jamie, are you
keeping the peace there in Scotland, keeping your dance music down to tolerable
levels? Liz, I hope that Roy will disable the blizzard machine now that I am
finishing up with school *LOL*. Suzi, how is the bowling game coming along?
Bowling any 300’s lately? Tom, hopefully you are keeping your neighbors in line
there in Illinois. How is Pat doing? For the newer members that I have not
really gotten to harass…I mean get to know due to school implementing time
constraints on me *LOL* I hope to be able to get to know you all better now
that school is out. I also hope to post to the group an audio letter before
long. Well, now that I have hopefully started a firestorm of messages I will go
for now *LOL*. As all my hippie brothers and sisters would say peace *throws up
a peace sign while exiting* *LOL*.
