h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I suppose my best 'non-resolution' is to complain about the weather. One day is sunny and way up around 4C, the next morning is -22C. Snow that is more than half ice?

You'd think after 50-some years, I'd get used to it. Nope ...

I'm out of the habit of posting here. but will have another 42 just for old times sake

"There are British themed bars!?" - Pastey


Let me elucidate. The Bayview Duck is a Bar & Restaurant in Bayview Texas. The bartender is married to the owner's daughter. The Bartender is from Weymouth and his wife is originally from Arizona. They both previously worked at another restaurant/bar owned by her mother called The Hoagie Ranch, which specializes in hoagie style sandwiches. The mother saw an opportunity so she bought what would become The Bayview Duck and decorated it with everything she could find that seemed British to her, including various flags, a suit of armor, a canon, several stained glass pieces and all sorts of kitsch with an authentic Brit behind the bar.

Bayview, Texas is a quiet little community on Galveston Bay Southeast of Houston, not far from the Johnson Space Center. This was not the most obvious location to open a British themed bar/restaurant but somehow it has remained open for nearly 20 years now. A few others have opened in the general area but none have lasted for more than a couple of years. The Duck just barely gets by. But I like it so it's my "local".

Me too, but that's maybe the good thing; if you like a post on h2g2, you actually reply!

Yes, the couple were posing as visitors. I have no details on just how they did it, or how they got rumbled, but it's vile.

If I ever get out to Texas, and it is something I'd like to do, then I'll definitely have to visit it!

Are you still on lockdown, Lil? I wonder if you could persuade them to steal the cook?

I'm sort of not-really-in-the-habit here myself, whoops ...

Me too Mol.

LTP strikes again!

2016 is now a good year, first day in my own classroom was great!

On the resolution thing: I don't remember the last time I made a resolution for the new year. I was never one for doing so.

I forgot to let you know how the beef-in-beer went down. Osh was eating it - cautiously, but he was eating it - and then DH said 'Well I think your 21st century twist on medieval stew is really delicious.'

At which point Osh laid down his fork, said 'This is stew, isn't it?' and was mighty put out. But he'd already started eating it so he was obliged to at least carry on eating the bits he liked (ie the meat and the carrots).

I had it again last night as there was just me to feed and it had matured really nicely.

Mol

Such a difference a name makes - with some folks and food. Sometimes, I am quite happy to not know what I have until I am done. If it was good for me, then no problem trying again. Reguardless of components.

*is at the table with her laptop, learning Blender*
Matina, would you make some cinnamon rolls, please?

Ooo clean cups. It switched to some horrible weird skin. Yellow,blue, orange and green on white. How discusting on the eye it is.

I posted my resolutions on my own blog: https://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=blog-20160118

Short version: #1 actually start working on making a game, and #2 I should enjoy things more enthusiastically.

Tod, that shows how out of practice I am. The F number should have been enough to identify the thread ecumenically...

KM, pestermom? *goes off to look*

Oh, that's just one of the domains of a friend of mine, who's hosting me more-or-less gratis (I have to pay for a couple of fiddly bits specific to my own bit).

Well, you raised an interesting point about the dark side of stories and characters for children. Does Peewee Herman count as being in that category? Not because of his escapades in real life, but because the environment on the set of his teevee show was... strange. Mickey Mouse club it wasn't.

(The Mickey Mouse Club was waaaaay before my time. And I most certainly did NOT have crushes on Annette and Doreen )

A FTTF Mug! Thanks Matina!
And mmm, that coffee sure is yummy. I wonder how it can keep warm and tasty after so many days of absence

So nice to be back!

Lil: I think you might be misinterpreting what I was talking about. I was describing "dark" characters, such as Shadow the Hedgehog, who are nevertheless age-appropriate for preteen audiences, and that's perfectly okay.

It's been decades since I encountered anything to do with Peewee Herman, but it seems like Peewee's Playhouse would be more along the lines of ... the sort of thing C.S. Lewis was talking about when he said, "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."