On Monday, January 21, 2019 at 3:14:50 PM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:06:37 -0700, jay > wrote:
>
> >On 1/21/19 8:50 AM, ChattyCathy wrote:
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2yJQeVYv24
> >>
> >> I love fresh watermelon - but I'll pass on this. Even if I owned a smoker.
> >>
> >
> >CC, it looks pretty good! I may try making one next time I fire up the
> >pit in the spring.
> >
> >jay
>
> Might give it a try with one of those seedless dwarf sized warty
> melones, usually $3. With a large watermelon I like to scoop out the
> flesh with a melon baller, same with a cantelope and a persian
> melon... put it all back into the warty melone shell. add some grapes,
> whatever fruit you like and place it in the fridge over night and add
> a couple cups of vodka or bubbly champagne so it maserates over
> night... that I know is superb, never gets wasted, although some folks
> can't stop fressing until they are wasted.
>
> Today I went to a new neurosurgeon to see about getting epidural shots
> in my spine. My last doc picked up and moved the entire facility to
> Noo Joisey. This doctor came highly recommended. After reviewing my
> last MRI and givng me three back x-rays he gave me an appt. for the
> shots this Thurs at 3 PM. He knew my last doctor and the entire
> staff, plus reviewed all my reports on line. He seemed very confident
> that he could help me. he xplained that most of my pain was from
> arthritis and spinal stenosis. He explained that nothing could cure
> that but the shots could relieve the pain for a while. He told me
> that back surgery won't help, it'll just lead to more surgeries. He
> explained that back surgery is indicated for trauma from a damaging
> accident, but will do nothing for pain from aging. We'll be there
> Thurs. afternoon.
> On the way home we had to pass The Gold Coin, brought home a large
> corrigated carton of Chinese food (chinks), more than enough for
> tonight, tomorrow night, and and the next night. My wife said my spare
> ribs are much better, my fly lice is better too.
> Any way it was a very busy day, it went very fast.

Last night I went to a Chinese restaurant with my son and his family. One of the things we had was beef broccoli cake noodle. Cake noodle is a local specialty that every Chinese restaurant in the state serves. Everyone on this rock loves that stuff! When the Hawaiians go to a Chinese restaurant on the mainland they are saddened to hear that nobody there knows what cake noodle is. That's the breaks.

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Several times during the dinner I went outside the restaurant to watch the lunar eclipse. It was a most amazing sight. The crispy gau gee we had was filled with the most amount of stuffing that we had ever seen. I made a joke about the gau gee gets stuffed like that only once in a red moon.