The Coffee House

Gary A. · Feb 16, 2015

Appleton Guy- I'm glad you sawed that thing down. It was gonna hurt someone.

We have Kohl's here. $70 is pretty good.

minicoop1985 · Feb 16, 2015

I think you mean Astro, Gary. lol

limr · Feb 16, 2015

Y'know what's funny? I checked the Kohl's store locator thingy and the map only shows stores in the Northeast, even though they ask you what state. So I only checked the map. Didn't realize it was all over the country.

Bet you didn't have Caldor, though

table1349 · Feb 16, 2015

limr said:
Y'know what's funny? I checked the Kohl's store locator thingy and the map only shows stores in the Northeast, even though they ask you what state. So I only checked the map. Didn't realize it was all over the country.

Bet you didn't have Caldor, though

Shuck's now there girlie girl. We'uns here in the sticks even gots one of them there Kohl's stores. We even gots us a Sears & Roebucks and they still gots catalogs which is a real good thing to help keep you occupied and provide some paperwork when you are in the little house out back down the path.

I hear tell that we'uns may even be getting one of them there Cosco places some day. My won't we be uptown then. Ma & me will have to put on our Sunday go to meeting clothes and visit that there place when she get here
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Gary A. · Feb 16, 2015

What's a Caldor? I betcha you don't have good Mexican food. On to more pressing matters, the bread is in its final rise, in a few hours It'll be into the BBQ.

limr · Feb 16, 2015

Gary A. said:
What's a Caldor? I betcha you don't have good Mexican food. On to more pressing matters, the bread is in its final rise, in a few hours It'll be into the BBQ.

Caldor was a department store that went out of business years ago. Kohl's is what moved in to all the old Caldor locations, so the two stores are always linked in my head.

Mexican food - granted, you are much closer to Mexico and surely have excellent options for food, but remember that there's not exactly a shortage of Mexicans in the New York area

Though having said that, we're still better known for our pizza and bagels.

astroNikon · Feb 16, 2015

astroNikon said:
limr said:

Gary A. said:

Costco?

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Actually, I got it at Kohl's (just checked - you don't have that store in Cali. It's only in the NE.) It was on sale for $70. Even on Amazon, I never saw it cheaper that $90-100. So I decided to jump on it. I had to exchange it - I ordered a medium online going by their wrist measurement guide, but when I got it, it was huge. I've got weirdly small wrists

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we have Kohl's in Michigan
all over the place

minicoop1985 said:
I think you mean Astro, Gary. lol

No. Pretty sure Gary means Lenny for the Kohl's thing

but me for the Rooftop Snow Drifts ...

sm4him · Feb 16, 2015

astroNikon said:
limr said:

Gary A. said:

Costco?

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Actually, I got it at Kohl's (just checked - you don't have that store in Cali. It's only in the NE.)

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we have Kohl's in Michigan
all over the place

oh .. NE .. NorthEast .. not Nebraska

Plenty of them here in the SE too. Or at least in TN. One of my favorite places! (Which in shopping terms means that I might actually go there MORE than one time a year!)

sm4him · Feb 16, 2015

Gary A. said:
What's a Caldor? I betcha you don't have good Mexican food. On to more pressing matters, the bread is in its final rise, in a few hours It'll be into the BBQ.

Ooooh...if I get to/have to work from home tomorrow, I might just make me a batch of bread. Not from homemade starter yeast, but my grandmother's recipe of bread, so...yummy! But that means I'll also have to clean up the kitchen. It's kind of a mess because I've been playing with water drops for a few days.

sm4him · Feb 16, 2015

Well, "sort of" good news for me! Our buses are going to stop running completely after their 7:15 p.m. lineup from the transit center. That means that I'll be able to quit working by about 8 p.m. instead of 11:30 p.m.! I'll have to get UP and start working again at about 4 a.m. though.
Of course, the reason WHY isn't so good. Somewhere between 1-2" of ICE currently on the roads and still falling. We *might* get a dusting to an inch or snow on the back end of the storm, late tonight.

Just hoping that the power stays on, with all this ice on the lines!

Gary A. · Feb 16, 2015

sm4him said:
Gary A. said:

What's a Caldor? I betcha you don't have good Mexican food. On to more pressing matters, the bread is in its final rise, in a few hours It'll be into the BBQ.

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Ooooh...if I get to/have to work from home tomorrow, I might just make me a batch of bread. Not from homemade starter yeast, but my grandmother's recipe of bread, so...yummy! But that means I'll also have to clean up the kitchen. It's kind of a mess because I've been playing with water drops for a few days.

It's been a week+ since I started my culture, then starter and now ... in about 30 minutes I will bake in the BBQ. (No sense to heat up the house.) Everyday I had to mess with the dough. I'm cooking the waste starter right now just for the heck of it.

snowbear · Feb 16, 2015

limr said:
Hope it's just a mild cold and nothing more!

Oh, it is definitely more than a cold. The apartment next door had a pipe burst so the water for the building (it's a quad) is shut off. We went up top the local warehouse store and got 12 gallons of water to handle things until they turn the pipes back on.

There's maybe an inch to an inch-and -one-half on the roads; not enough for 4WD. It looks like the county got a grant for plows because I saw more than two, and none were agricultural tractors. Picked up dinner while we were out - plain chicken stock.

snowbear · Feb 16, 2015

sm4him said:
Well, "sort of" good news for me! Our buses are going to stop running completely after their 7:15 p.m. lineup from the transit center. That means that I'll be able to quit working by about 8 p.m. instead of 11:30 p.m.! I'll have to get UP and start working again at about 4 a.m. though.
Of course, the reason WHY isn't so good. Somewhere between 1-2" of ICE currently on the roads and still falling. We *might* get a dusting to an inch or snow on the back end of the storm, late tonight.

Just hoping that the power stays on, with all this ice on the lines!

Stay safe.

limr · Feb 16, 2015

Both of you stay safe and warm!

sm4him · Feb 16, 2015

snowbear said:
limr said:

Hope it's just a mild cold and nothing more!

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Oh, it is definitely more than a cold. The apartment next door had a pipe burst so the water for the building (it's a quad) is shut off. We went up top the local warehouse store and got 12 gallons of water to handle things until they turn the pipes back on.

There's maybe an inch to an inch-and -one-half on the roads; not enough for 4WD. It looks like the county got a grant for plows because I saw more than two, and none were agricultural tractors. Picked up dinner while we were out - plain chicken stock.

Well, UGH! That sounds even worse than what I'm dealing with, Charlie! At least I'm not sick. And I have water. And...I'm about to go make sure the faucets are all dripping.