Roll Call Twelve

its unsettling costello

made me mad
made me hurt

well i got an airsoft pistol and rifle maybe thatll do. but dont understate a knife.

My dad took my old knife and won't give it back, so I ordered a new one, this is the time I need it.

My cat had a serious medical condition that cost $1,200+ and the past few days were the worst I've ever experienced. I went completely psychotic after I got back from the er before her surgery and the voices were harassing me and the music was so loud for days. I'm doing better now and so is my cat thankfully. Sadly my car is doing terribly and now I lack the funds to fix it and everyone is giving me grief for it.

I found out the loan I took out for living expenses got denied which sucks since I really needed that 2k. I have no idea what to do and I don't know how to find out what caused me to not have that loan. I expected to have this loan each semester during school, but now I'm at such a loss. If anyone has any ideas on this subject please let me know.

I feel so emotionally drained that I started thinking more clearer. I am going to make a room for my cat at where she is currently living so she will have fresh food and water at all times. The person that was taking care of her does not feed or give water to his cats regularly which really triggers me. All he cares about is his hoarding and alcohol.

This would be an interesting experiment.

Hypothesis: Chicken feed mixed with buttermilk improves growth compared to normal chicken feed (Causal claim)
Independent variable: Chicken feed (2 levels - 1. ordinary chicken feed & 2. chicken feed mixed with buttermilk)
Dependent variable: measurement of growth (height and weight)

What was buttermilk like before?

This human loves drinking plain buttermilk. It is quite yummy.

hi all! how is everyone? well i talked to my job about my hours. i was working 80 hours every 2 weeks. but im part time. they said i can work 20 hours a week come december 26th. so they will illegally work me til then. whatever at least my hours will go down. it was way easier than i thought to talk to them. it was really fast and i felt good about it. T said i needed to do it to practice being assertive and i did it.

i might be moving soon but my job has to fill out this paperwork saying that my hours will go down soon but they said they dont do that. so i have to find a way around that. because my apartment im moving to is income based. my job doesnt want proof that they are illegally working me and not giving me benefits. walmart is so screwed up.

That was pretty much how I'd imagined it. Then I started wondering if an argument could be made that wet feed vs dry feed would make the difference. So I thought, ok, add water to the non-buttermilk group's feed. Then I wondered about calories. But I guess you could give them as much food as they wanted.

Maybe I was overthinking it.

The term buttermilk used to refer to three different things: milk that had become soured; the milk left over from making butter with sweet cream/milk; the milk left over from making butter with sour cream/milk.

The buttermilk we buy at the store is cultured. It has added bacteria to simulate the traditional soured buttermilk.

I made some butter yesterday just so I could see the traditional buttermilk. It's pretty easy. Put some cream in a small jar with a lid and shake it until the fat separates into little butter clumps, then drain off the buttermilk.

I gave the butter to my coworker since I'm currently dairy-free, so I don't know how good it was. I sipped the buttermilk, and it just tasted like skim milk to me. That makes sense, since the alternative to buttermilk suggested by the authors of the 1925 article was dry skim milk.

Btw, I learned that you can actually overchurn butter. If you keep shaking the jar past the time that the butter and milk separate, they'll go back together and not separate again. I got some bad advice from two friends who'd helped make butter as children. They remembered having to shake the cream for a loooonnnngggg time. So they thought I hadn't worked at it long enough and told me to keep shaking. Maybe to a child it seems long, but it only took about 10 or 15 minutes.

Buttermilk always remind me of my dad. He loved it. I've never been able to develop a taste for it.

When I was about 10, my sister and I got some kind of illness at a babysitter's house. Nothing serious. The doctor said we had to drink a cup of buttermilk daily for a week. I seriously don't know how I survived it.

I suppose a doctor would never give that type of advice today.

my dad loves buttermilk

weve been snowed in for 2 days!!! havent left the house even on the porch.

My son had dinner last night with one of the students from his class. He'd asked her out once, but she had a new bf and wasn't interested. So, she called him a couple of days ago and asked if he wanted dinner.

He just called and said she only wanted to be friends. Apparently she'd stopped taking her meds a couple of weeks ago, had a breakdown, and ended up in the hospital. Her new bf dumped her, because she hadn't told him she had a sz dx. My son had noticed she'd dropped out of the class but didn't know why.

Anyway the point isn't to gossip about this woman. I just think it's cool she called my son for support. I hope it turns into an ongoing friendship. My son even mentioned it would be nice to have someone he could call on some day for support if he ever needs it.

She asked if he wanted to go to a New Year's Day event at her church, and he said he would - which kind of surprised me, because he's pretty resistant to church.

We didn't get much snow, but it's soooooo cooollldd. And I don't have a working furnace. We're supposed to have snow tomorrow.

I have my sister's kitten for a few weeks, and I thought he'd be distressed by my cold house, but he doesn't seem to notice it. Of course, he's pretty distracted by all the chickens. It's a pain trying to keep him away from them.

I worked at a retail store part time before and during Christmas time they worked me like a dog until it was over (80+ hours every two weeks). A lot of retail stores are like this to save themselves money and it's terrible that they aren't willing to accommodate your disability. The work madness will be over soon and hopefully they will comply with your needs.

I'm glad you had a good experience with that. I'm not too assertive either. I was worse when I was younger. Usually by the time I'd speak up, I'd have made myself mad thinking about it, and I probably came across as too aggressive. That makes for bad experiences. And then it's even harder to speak up the next time.

I am trying to make a plan for the day but not too much of one so it won't be stressful if it doesn't go that way. I am taking one of my dogs to the vet this afternoon, but just for routine shots. That will actually be fun. She likes riding in the car. Maybe I will take her to the store for a treat too.
I made a funny re-write of a corporate document and posted it at work. Some people laughed so hard they cried while reading it. Work-me tries to be entertaining.

I need to vent.

I have two housemates. One just retired from teaching Special ED and the other on has an MBA in business and worked in her family business as a sales rep for many years but is now working as a civilian contractor for the Army.

I have to say, the housemate that has an MBA is the stupidest person I have ever met. She has ZERO common sense. Book smarts can only get you so far in life so I am surprised she is able to maintain a job, let alone any job. Seriously.

I went to the store to pick up some baking supplies for my annual cookie baking and when I came back the dogs were outside playing in the cold mud. So I said to Miss MBA that the dogs shouldn't be outside in the cold playing in the mud and that she shouldn't have gone outside to play with them knowing it was wet out from yesterday's rain. She retorts that they had to go out to pee. I said yes, but as soon as you go outside WITH them they'll start playing. So I said when it's wet outside don't go outside with them, just let them out by themselves to pee then bring them back in. So now she has to hose the mud off them outside using cold water. I said, that it's 40 degrees out and is just too cold to be hosing the dogs off. She says the dogs don't mind. I said, have you ever taken a cold shower where the it was 40 degrees out? So I repeated that it's just too cold to be hosing the dogs off.

Stupid is as stupid does.

You could control calories. I am sure there is a way to calculate how many a growing chick requires based on their weight. But... metabolism can potentially interfere with your results, since it would be different for every chick.

You could use a control group, which would be plain feed with your two treatment groups: feed with buttermilk and feed with water.

Identifying extraneous variables is hard. There are so many possibilities. Differences in metabolism, size, and activity level can definitely impact your study results if they are not controlled. This involves a lot thinking.

So old fashioned buttermilk wasn't bitter?

My mother used to make homemade yogurt. It was a bit sour but a lot tastier than the stuff sold in stores. She used to sweeten it with berries and honey. Have you ever tried making this?

Wouldn't this be called homogenization?

costello
your son has come a long way from where he was when u first joined here.

i wish something great or cool would happen to me

Like what?

like finding a friend or a boyfriend. in real life.

idk

My housemate's dog just bit me and drew blood. She is 16 and has dementia and somehow had gotten herself way under the daybed so the only way to get her out was to either pull her by her collar or tug at her legs of which I did both, and well, she got me on the inside of my arm. Ouch! So now I have ice on it to get the swelling down. SMH

Yes, it does.

No, apparently not necessarily. It depended on whether or not it was made from cream/milk that was souring. I guess they started making buttermilk because some of the recent immigrants at that time used soured milk in various recipes. Then it was touted as a healthy food. Funny how we assume a word means the same now as it did a hundred years ago.

I've considered making yogurt at home but never tried it.

I don't know. It could be. I just know, if you want butter and buttermilk, stop shaking the jar when they separate.

I always wonder who first figured this stuff out. I watched a program a couple of months ago on how they used to make steel swords in stone furnaces. I mean, seriously, who figured that out?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient...ing-sword.html

Yes, he has.

how did he do it costello

I guess he just put one foot in front of the other and moved along.

I think it's a journey. He may have setbacks along the way yet. The point is to get back up every time you get knocked down.