Post Race!

[Gruff]

I want all of y'all to check out my latest contribution

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...r&goto=newpost

Wheels within wheels.
You did good. Wheely you did.

[Pc Monk]

Post race is getting awfully serious. I may have to take a walk.

[dday9]

I hate eating jambalaya plate lunches from grocery stores. They're always too wet.

[szlamany]

Have you been to this place?

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaura...Louisiana.html

[dday9]

No, but I've probably passed it 50 million times. Airline Highway is an alternate route that connects Baton Rouge to New Orleans so when there's a wreck on the bridge then we take Airline.

[szlamany]

I googled for "jambalaya plate lunches" - not knowing what it was - and pretty much got that hit near the top.

Still don't know what it is

[dday9]

Y'all don't have plate lunches outside Louisiana?

[szlamany]

Never heard of it here in the northeast.

[dday9]

Places, either restaurants or some grocery stores, sell lunch. What they have is a certain meal that they sell every single day.

There is a tradition like:
Sunday: Ham
Monday: Red beans
Tuesday: Can't remember
Wednesday: Can't remember
Thursday: Can't remember
Friday: Can't remember
Saturday: Gumbo


Sunday is the holy day and so naturally you need to cook something a little more upscale, which was ham. Monday use to be laundry day and since it took forever to wash clothes, the cooks had to cook something that required almost not constant watching. You basically stir red beans once an hour. Plus you get to throw the left over ham into the red beans, les ben rouge. Saturday was the last day of the week and so all the left overs from the week was thrown into the Gumbo.

It has moved away from the traditional schedule and each place has their own item they serve, but every day of the week is the same thing.

Here is a website's menu of my favorite lunch plate place: http://www.hackettscajunkitchen.com/...&id=3&Itemid=3

[szlamany]

Diner's in our area - back 50 years ago - would typically have a blue-plate special. They would cycle through the same meals each day of the week (and actually have blue plates for serving that meal on that day).

I can still go to a local greasy spoon here in CT and randomly get a blue plate - the current owners probably have no idea why there is a stock of blue plates in the restaurant.

[dday9]

Side note, did you know that Zydeco actually means a mixture of beans in Cajun French?

[szlamany]

That's 100% more Cajun French then I knew before!

[Gruff]

The Safeway grocery store near work usually has three soups/stews to go every day. jambalaya happens two or three times a week. For a couple bucks more you can get corn bread as well. (Too sweet and fluffy for me. I like mine heavy and grainy with less sugar.)

The soups not authentic I'm sure but it goes down nice.

[homer13j]

Friday: Can't remember

Uh... maybe fish?

[Gruff]

Taking a late lunch today. Just got back from the store with chili, corn bread and ice tea. *Munch Munch*

[Gruff]

Monday before last I had a mild heart attack. My kidneys went for a walk and didn't come back until dinner. Everything seems to be back to normal (For me.) except I burst an artery in my right eye. It hasn't cleared up yet so I have this crappy swirl of brown occluding my vision. It's driving me bonkers forcing my focus through the left. Writing and editing code is a pain in the rear right now.

[dday9]

Uh... maybe fish?

Only during lent.

[dday9]

Monday before last I had a mild heart attack. My kidneys went for a walk and didn't come back until dinner. Everything seems to be back to normal (For me.) except I burst an artery in my right eye. It hasn't cleared up yet so I have this crappy swirl of brown occluding my vision. It's driving me bonkers forcing my focus through the left. Writing and editing code is a pain in the rear right now.

Holy smokes are you OK?

[Gruff]

I really need to do some all body maintenance. You know like going for walks and such. I'm a 65 year old 240 lb diabetic. Things just break down quicker.
So relatively speaking, yes I am OK.

Part of the problem was two of my doctors not keeping each other informed as to my meds.

The weather is finally clearing up and we are getting sunnier days. I'd like to take walks, but I am so out of shape doing a two block jaunt tuckers me out.

Maybe I can find one of those canes that folds out into a seat so I can rest every so often.

[Pc Monk]

these days been different , less people care about

[dday9]

I have updated my snippet website to a WordPress blog: https://ddaysnippets.wordpress.com/

[dday9]

I much prefer that style and if nothing else it will prompt me to add more snippets.

[dday9]

My wife is pregnant again!

[Gruff]

Congrats!! Hope its a healthy delivery.

[FunkyDexter]

My wife is pregnant again!

Congrats!

For some reason I got a mental image of you staring at her belly in confusion and saying "how did that happen?"

[FunkyDexter]

Ooh, Suggestion for a name: Moddy McModFace

[Pc Monk]

[dday9]

For some reason I got a mental image of you staring at her belly in confusion and saying "how did that happen?"

I had thought about joking saying that I've been out for the past 3 months, but everyone would know that's a lie

[FunkyDexter]

It was meant to be a reference to your own potential naiveté rather than <ahem> anything else.

BTW, how's the business going? Those targets looking any closer yet?

[dday9]

Actually it has really picked up this month. I set the goal of 40 items in 2 months and so far this month I wrote 23 items, so I am on pace.

[dday9]

There were 3 days this month where I wrote as many items in 1 day as I did the whole month of March.

[FunkyDexter]

That's cool. Any idea what the uptick is down to? Growing momentum? Seasonal trends? Hard work and a growing sense of panic?

[dday9]

I have been monitoring my marketing like crazy, but really it is nearly all location:
Me: "So how did you hear about our agency?"
Them: "Oh I was passing by and saw your sign"

[FunkyDexter]

Yeah, that makes sense. Is it a direct effect (i.e. they walk straight in when they see the shop) or a brand recognition thing (i.e. "we saw your shop a month ago and now we're looking for the insurance")? If it's the latter then perhaps a few tactically placed billboards/radio ads etc. might be a worthwhile investment (budget permitting of course). If it's the former then I guess you just ride the wave (no pun intended)

[Gruff]

Maybe a bit of humor on a sign would help.
FREE INSURANCE!!!
(Free dog house insurance with every home policy sold.)

The goal of course is to get people to remember you.

[dilettante]

Nah, better to go more "classy" for example:

[dilettante]

Maybe I can find one of those canes that folds out into a seat so I can rest every so often.

Just wear a pointy hat. Then when you feel tuckered out you can perch on a corner of the nearest house's stoop and sit still like a garden gnome until ready for more.

[dday9]

Nah, better to go more "classy" for example:

Would you be interested in...

[Gruff]

Sounds good, but homes are about a half mile apart minimum around here plus no stoops.
I could drag arond a portalbe stoop I suppose...

[FunkyDexter]

Gruff 6, please report to Carousel for Renewal.