Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

The files we sent him were 55 Gig. Ain't gonna send em via FTP. We had to go buy a 64 gig thumb drive to deliver the project. The main image was 30 gig alone.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

He doesn't use dropbox. He uses an ftp server I run that you upload your file and it sends a download link to the recipient. It hides the file, you can only get to it from the link. It also automatically deletes the file after 14 days. Has a desktop app you can see if they downloaded it or not. You can also just drop the file on the app and it will upload it with your login. Instead of dropbox it calls the feature Drop Ship.

That alien sounds like it almost has the "somebody else's problem" field from the Hitchhiker's Guide Books. Has a space ship that becomes invisible by generating a somebody else's problem field. Nobody can see it because it's somebody else's problem.

I knew that but I figured dropbox would be a punishment for the guy.

[Porsche-poor]

ok time to fess up. Glen knows as we are planning to meet at the parade. My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer three weeks ago this Friday. So far it looks to be a small operation and follow that up with radiation. We have out most of this years trip plans on hold cause we just don't know yet. I am still hoping to make the parade since it is only 5 hours away this year. I'll probably get Connor (oldest) to go with me if things go smoothly.

[GH85Carrera]

I sure hope all goes well for your wife.

I have met up with Pelicans at Parade for many years. It is part of the fun of Parade. Looking forward to meeting you David.

[RKDinOKC]

Sorry to hear about the wife.

Have to highly recommend getting some Nutrilite XX from an Amway Distributor and taking 2 times the recommended dosage. They are daily vitamins.

Mom had breast cancer and immediately had it removed. Started her on the Nutrilite XX religiously at 2 times the dosage. The really impressive thing was that all of the lumps in her breast disappeared. The doctor and mamogram technicial both noticed it.

One of my older brother was diagnosed with prostate cancer from his PA and biopsy. Had him take it. He spent some time doing research and after 3 months went to California to have Prolotherapy. It was new then. When he got out there the cancer was gone.

Have heard of several people taking Nutrilite XX with similar results. This is just my family members.

Whatever you do DO NOT let her take Tamoxafin after the surgery and therapy. It is what cause my Mom's strokes and post stroke dementia. The only studies they have done is that the women didn't have cancer come back. That's because most of them died from strokes and they didn't want to even hear about that, only if the cancer came back.

[Porsche-poor]

interesting cause that is what they are talking about doing.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I sure hope all goes well for your wife.

I have met up with Pelicans at Parade for many years. It is part of the fun of Parade. Looking forward to meeting you David.

the plan at this point is to still come. We will have to see what path they go down first to be sure.

I'll have to find my Pelican parts hat to wear.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Yeah, I (fondly) remember the Friday night fish fries. Good stuff. Even in public school, if you bought their hot lunch on Fridays, they were serving fish.

The kids tell me it is shaped like a fish but it isn't fish. Emily said the texture is gelatinous like lutefisk. They don't eat the school lunch when it is "fish".

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I've been there, stopped in when I was writing a book on Ertl toys. It's a pretty impressive place for being so far off the beaten path. The location where they filmed The Field of Dreams is in a cornfield near there too, as I recall.

The field is there but there has been a lit of fighting between the two owners and I am not sure if you can visit anymore. They filmed at the school in Dyersville also for part of it. I don't think there is much at the Ertl plant any longer either. Haven't been out that way to visit for a few years.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by flipper35

The kids tell me it is shaped like a fish but it isn't fish. Emily said the texture is gelatinous like lutefisk. They don't eat the school lunch when it is "fish".

We were served breaded fish sticks, like you can buy in the stores. Not great, not terrible...just like you'd expect from school food.

[Porsche-poor]

I gave up on school food about the 6th grade. You could look at the menu and decide which days you wanted food from the school or from home. I would pick a day and go to lunch only to be part of the late lunch crowd and they would be out of the good food and I would get stuck with a hockey puck hamburger. I gave up and started helping my mom make my lunch so the food was good.

[flipper35]

They changed the state law and all the food is from one company base here in WI. We had the fish sticks as well. At least the breading was somewhat crisp and we could dip it in tarter sauce.

David, sorry to hear about the health issues.

[RKDinOKC]

Have a friend that was a hospice nurse. She said all the patients she had that were taking tamoxafin had strokes and post stroke dementia. Said the first thing they did was get them off the tamoxafin.

When I got the doc to take my Mom off it, even then he said it was either the cancer coming back or having strokes. Told him that cancer was preferable to brain dead from the strokes but without cancer. Doing the Nutrilite thing she never even had any lumps let alone the cancer come back in the 15 years before the post stroke dementia the tamoxafin left her with took her out.

[GH85Carrera]

When we lived in Hawaii and I went to Radford High School every single lower classman had to help serve the food on the food line. The tray received a big glob of very gummy stick rice each day. It could be next to the mashed potatoes and gravy, but the kids got the rice. I served on the line twice in the one year I went there. We had one hour and 15 minutes for lunch. If the kid did not want the school lunch they could go anywhere they wanted. Many kids went across the street to a food truck serving manapuas. It was a rice cake stuffed with some sort of fish.

When the Samoan boys came down the line we knew to put lots of food on the tray.

[RKDinOKC]

Pepper liked the left over dirty rice from lunch today.

Can't imagine, she doesn't like peanut butter.

[Porsche-poor]

a dog that doesn't like peanut butter? that's crazy!

[GH85Carrera]

Our female long hair dachshund is "different" in may ways. She was supposed to take some pills recently for a cough. When I first tried to give her one with a small dab of peanut butter she sniffed it and licked it but would not take it. We had to buy a soft dog treat to get her to take it. She had never seen peanut butter before.

The funniest thing is she like to make a production out of any meal. The male short hair will eat anything we put in his bowl and snarf it down quickly. The female has to have my wife feed her a few pieces one at a time first. She will not just eat the food in the bowl like most dogs.

The total exception is "new" food. We keep a supply of dog in the laundry room where we feed them. The main supply is kept in the garage in a big plastic tub. When I go to refill the small laundry room supply from the garage supply she figures that is the "good" new food and digs right in.

[RKDinOKC]

Yeah, my first dog I used peanut butter on the TV knob to train her to turn it on and off. This was before we had a remote. It was great to just tell her to turn on the TV. She also loved it when I put some peanut butter on a cracker and stuck it to the roof of her mouth. She would spend several minutes licking it off the roof of her mouth, then come back and beg me to do it again.

Yep, think this dog is a little crazed. If is sit in the lazy boy with my feet up and lift one of my knees, she will dive her head under my knee sticking her head out the other side then bark at me to scratch her head.

[Porsche-poor]

all pets are a little off. I have a lab that would sooner call an Uber car to return a ball than go get it. Not sure he would have been a very good hunting dog. The bostie is a creature of habit she has to be told "dinner time" or "breakfast" before she will eat.

[RKDinOKC]

My first dog, Penny was great. She wouldn't take ANYTHING from someone unless I said it was okay. She could be offered her favorite treat and wouldn't take it unless she looked at me and I said okay. However, once you did give it to her, then by golly it was hers and you better leave it alone. She never bit anyone over it, but she sure growled and snapped.

Was able to always keep food in her bowl and she never over ate. In fact, as a puppy if you could see the bottom of the bowl with food still in it, she would bring the bowl to be filled up. When we ate she was lay down an politely wait for you to give her your last bite and to slick up your plate. Only then would she eat from her bowl. AND don't anyone bother her while she is eating. Once she walked off, bowl empty or not, you could do what you wanted and she didn't care. It was like, "I'm eating, LEAVE ME ALONE!"

If she would have been but in the pound they would have labeled her as a mean dog and put her down because she growled at being bothered while eating.

I used it as an advantage to train her to snarl and growl when I made a fist. Really handy. If I wanted her to look mean all I had to do was make a fist.

Pepper, she doesn't care. I can bother her up to taking food out of her mouth and no reaction.