The Coffee House

[JonA_CT]

cold and rainy first Advent sunday. After mass I went to see COCO the wonderful new Pixar film with wife and daughter. cinema is wonderful!

I've heard good things...I don't think my daughter is quite old enough yet to get through an entire movie in one sitting.

Do they dub the movie with German-speaking actors/actresses for the performances there? Or do they play them in English? (I know you Europeans are much more proficient in other languages than we are here in the US)

My son and me watch the movies in English ... my wife likes English subtitles ... but daughter is seven ... can 7 year old American Girls read German? ... it was 3D ... don't need it ... Commercials were pityful, only Aldi was world class ... Disney idiots were allowed to create a stupid short ... in exchange Disney did not have a say in tje main course ... good for us!

1. arrive half an hour late
2. book 2dimensional
3. enjoy
4. watch Aldi commercial

Nope, most Americans are not even bilingual (and German is only taught sparingly here, although my university has a program where you can graduate with a dual degree in German and in engineering, which is quite successful).

I was just curious, that’s all.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

It’s unusual but German is one of the four Foreign Language courses offered at the HS here (Spanish, French, Latin). I think way back when there was a teacher of another subject who was fluent and it was added to the options as a one year experiment and proved to be very popular. There is also an exchange program with German HS students each year and the students in the German Language program have an annual trip to Germany during one of the school breaks.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary received an early Christmas gift from Nakedwines.com.

 

[smoke665]

@SquarePeg may your kindness be rewarded ten fold. In this hurry up, all about me world, it's nice to know there are some like you still out there.

 

[davidharmier60]

Not sure why Square Peg is being thanked but I'll add my thanks!
Soon Dave will be studying the inside of his eyelids.

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[JonA_CT]

This afternoon's project. Sorry Jack, you can be in next year's photo. It's nearly impossible to do a family portrait by yourself. It'll be a long time before I attempt it again. I think everyone cried during the process.

 

[smoke665]

Nice looking brood @JonA_CT . I equate the task of taking a group family shot to hearding ducks. You get them all lined up going in the right direction and one #$%@ jumps out of line and the others follow. Being one of the ducks in the line puts you at a very bad disadvantage.

 

[terri33 4]

Just back from my 81 year old uncle’s place. He’s in remission after having stomach cancer last year. One of the lucky 13% (IIRC) to survive the type of cancer he had. The chemo really did a number on him though and he doesn’t have a lot of energy these days. He mostly just watches sports on tv and walks his dog around the block. He called while I was out shopping with Princess this morning to report his tv had died and asked me to keep an eye out for anyone looking to give one away. We decided to forego a few items from our wish list and use the money to get him a new tv. Bumped him up to a nice 47”. Knocked on his door a half hour later with a tv covered with a big bow. It was a fun surprise and we got it installed in time for him to watch the kickoff of the Pats game.

Now I need to call Comcast and get him a HD box. His cable box is about 20 years old and did not have a HDMI port!

In other news:
Our HS team won the state championship yesterday, 21-0. Hopefully a parade will be happening which would be a great photo op for yours truly.

Now, that's the true Christmas spirit. Sounds like you made his day!

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

2nd attempt at the pretzel caramel chocolate cookie bars was a bust. Caramel too sticky/hard. Cookie not soft enough. Flavor great - texture not so great. Also should have used dark chocolate instead of semi sweet. Going to give them one more try tomorrow before tanking the idea and going back to one of my standby recipes. Have a cookie swap coming up (9th year in a row with the same group of neighbors) and running out of new ideas!

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Have you tried the site Cookie Recipes ( it's Allrecipes.com )

 

[Dave442]

Did the pizzas for dinner tonight, wife did BBQ on Saturday so that trumped my plan to make pizza on Saturday. Wasn't fair that she did the BBQ in less time than it took me to make the dough and the pizza sauce, but I'll win next time as I doubled the amounts and have dough and sauce stashed away for two more pizzas.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary will trade vino for pizza.

 

[Frank F.]

yes, Gary, Coco is great. Alas the Frozen knock off short film is beyond measurable low quality and it is not short at all.

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. 52F and the air is still and the sky clear.

Gary’s first coffee and the morning paper. It should break 70F. Yesterday was a good day for Gary, more than 19,000 steps transversing nine plus miles.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary learned a new word from reading the paper "imbroglio".