Salt Peanuts

Hope everything turned out okay, Shelly.

I hate you.

I think I'll be getting one as well. I've been meaning to start trying to make bread at home.

If it makes you feel any better, it'll mostly be going into my daughter's college fund. I miss the time when I could use the tax refund as "fun" money.

Went to the tax appointment. It looks like we'll be getting decent chunk of money back this year. On top of that, our tax person may be able to get a sizable chunk of money back from last year's filing.

Last night, attempted to file my taxes, trying to make sense of bunch of new tax forms that I hadn't seen before. I eventually gave up and made an appointment with H&R Block for this morning.

Had some friends over who we hadn't seen in a while. It was fun and they enjoyed the vegetable risotto I made for lunch.

Same here. I would've forgotten about it if I hadn't seen your post, so thanks for posting.

Won't be able to make it this time - it's my daughter's birthday weekend and the families will be here.

Looked at flight tickets with my wife and mother-in-law to Myrtle Beach for my brother-in-law's wedding in October. I was surprised to find (as I fly about once every two years) that they (airline companies) are now charging for just about everything, including option for all of us to sit together. When we finished pricing out the tickets, those "optional" items ended up costing more than one of the tickets.

Good luck with the sale, Ken!

Häagen-Dazs strawberry ice cream

Happy Birthday, Zach! Have a great one!

Anyone here uses/used a Lensbaby system? It seems like a fun tool and was wondering if it was more gimmick than substance (as I see them come up fairly often on used market).

Happy Birthday!

I know it's a long shot, but anyone around here with SSD as their main drive running LR3 with its catalog on an external drive (regular HD)? I've been thinking about sticking SSD into my MacBook mainly to get LR3 to run bit faster/smoother, but I'm wondering having its catalog on an external drive would negate any and all benefits of internal SSD.

I guess I should've got the live chicken.

Happy Birthday!

Assuming you can connect the SSD to your computer externally, I'd make a clone of your HD onto SSD using either Super Duper (not free) or Carbon Copy (free) before you install it. This way, your iMac will boot up with all your data/files without needing to restore from Time Machine once SSD is installed.

^ I didn't have my glasses on and read that as "(Santa Clause) 10K race."

Slow-cooker ribs. This is the second time I made it, though I used different rub and sauce this time. It came out pretty good.

That looks fun, Nate.

^ Nice. I've been wanting to get one for our kitchen, though I keep missing out when they occasionally go on sale.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Doug!