Virtual Birthday Party, Day 2

[wiseheart]

Dear all,

Day 1 of the party has been a great success: 170 comments on 2 pages so far. As agreed, I hereby kick off the second day, so that we won't lose everything like last year, should LJ crash our party again.

Threads of interest can still be commented on, but I ask you to start any new threads here from now on

And now: on with the party!!!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

First topic of the day

Since the food topic did go a bit under all the others on Day 1, perhaps we can resurrect it here. Let's talk about favourites. What do you like, what was the best you've created yourself or eaten by somebody else. Which cuisines do you prefer?

[sammydragoncat]

I don't know about the best thing I ever made, I know what is a general crowd pleaser at my house when it's made - Enchiladas, Pork chops with Fideo & beans on the side, Chile Verde, Lasagna, Roast Chicken.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Birthday presents, hobbit-style

As we all know, Hobbits give presents on their own birthdays to their guests. So, take a look at my Interests list, and if you can find a fandom we share and have a particular wish, I'll write you a story (most likely very short ficlet) before October 9.

Name your gift!

[sammydragoncat]

You already gave me one with your Sherlock update

[scifimimi.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday :) hope all is going well :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

THank you. Things are mostly good, I can't complain... much. What about you? It's been eternity since I heard from you.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I must be off now, people. It's insanely late over here and I have to work tomorow... I mean, later today. ;)
Feel free to have fun in my absence, the water is fine and the virtual cookies are on the sideboard. I'll rejoin when work has spit me out again.
Good night!

[sammydragoncat]

good night

[sammydragoncat]

If you combine Day 1's comments and Day 2's you have hit over 200 comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Go us!

[scifimimi.livejournal.com]

yw....things are going well here, just started a new job in April. I am glad things are well with you. *hugs*

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I like a number of Italian (or Italian-American) dishes: lasagna, pizza, all sorts of filled pastas, pesto. Happily, the Beloved has just made a half-dozen jars of pesto from a bumper crop ["a very big harvest" for you non-native speakers] of basil he grew in our small front garden bed this year. We'll be eating it on pasta, on bread, on homemade pizza (one of my specialties) and, to be honest, occasionally straight from the jars, over the winter. Mmmm...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Oh, pesto -- I'd forgotten how much I like it -- my OH detests it, unfortunately.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Please pardon my rudeness: I just waltzed in tonight and forgot to announce myself. [waves to the Birthday Girl]

And please give my greetings to Mum, as well.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You're always welcome, my firend - any time, any place, you know that. *hugs*
Mum sends her love, too.

BTW, have you heard of Jasta lately? I tried to contact her but to no end...

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Sorry, no cooking advices, recipies and other food-preparing comments from me. According to my daughters, I'm a lousy cook. As for myself, cooking is just one step above a necessary evil. But occasionally, I try my hand at something more elaborate when I have guests. It is almost always edible.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as bad food - only ungrateful guests who aren't hungry enough!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So, since we've been discussing food anyway, wish me luck! I'm going to bake apple tarts with 18 (!) ten-year-old kids tomorrow afternoon. Yep, baking season at school has started. *g*

[sammydragoncat]

Good luck with baking with 18 10 year olds - I couldn't do it, though you will have apple tarts to look forward to.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

I just mislaid half a sausage and I have no idea where I left it... I hope I´ll find it before the local vermin do.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Sorry, shouldn't spoil your birthday-to-be with sordid tales...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Should we stay on this page?

Since today seems a bit calmer than yesterday was, I thought we could stay on this page for another day or two? What do you think? We can then switch to the new entry when we hit 100 comments and a second page, eh? No need to break the party into tiny little pieces.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I think it feels more like a party if we stay in one (virtual) room. Damn LJ for being so dodgy that one has to worry about it being deleted!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

New topic: Reimagined fims/series

Now, since we had so much fun with tearing the Hobbit film to pieces (gently, only gently, of course), let's discuss some sci-fi. Or rather how a new generation of directors/showrunners likes to turn an old classic upside down and inside out.

My personal grievances are:

The films The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Andromeda Strain, as well as the series Battlestar Galactica and Kirk-era Star Trek. And no, I don't even consider "Enterprise" part of Star Trek at all, sorry.

So, what are your battle scars in this area? (If it isn't sci-fi, tell us anyway!)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I quite enjoyed the first Star Trek Reboot film (haven't seen the 2nd one yet). [Ducks]

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, and by the way: does anyone else have problems reaching Hotmail? It's the second major interruption since they "reimagined" themselves as Outlook. I never had any problems before, and I've been using the service since I first hit the internet sometime in the Stone Age.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

PS: I'm getting issues with the internet. Deeply serious issues! I mean, it's bad enough that Yahoo Groups went down on the toilet and I still can't access my own folders in the Files section and therefore all the stuff I saved there. But now Outlook is down as well, and that was the other place where I stored my stuff - is someone out to get me, seriously?!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Completely pointless photo:



I just wanted to see if I can add pictures to my comments. It was taken 2 or 3 years ago in Eisenstadt, during a town feast, by the way. It was fun, although the weather was bitter cold.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

More picspam, just because I'm pissed with the internet in general, having completely failed to insert a pic about the chocolate festival from url. My own pics are on my laptop, sent to my Outlook account, which, of course, is down at the moment, so I can't upload them to the Scrapbook (which is a painfully slow process anyway), so something else will have to do.



Yeah, it's me, looking down from the cloister of Moissac. Oh, and have I mentioned that when LJ transferred my pic from the old Scrapbook to the new one it ate more than half of them?

So much about advanced technology.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Okay, now this is weird. I can't access Outlook through Firefox, which is the new, advanced, etc. etc. browser. I can, however, access it through my ages-old Internet Explorer, although all it can give me is Outlook Basic, since it can't deal with the new bells and whistles.

So, how do I make it work through Firefox again?

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Hmm... web service owned by Microsoft that only works with a Microsoft browser... hmm...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm giving up. Definitely no more entry for Day 3.

I tried to bounce us over to Page 2 with mindless one-liners, but since it didn't work, I deleted them. Night-night.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I think we're in serious need of some interesting new threads to wake everyone up again.

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Happy third day! A bit late, but I had a number of phone calls to make.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And I'm actually on duty in the school library, but nobody is here at the moment,so I'm putting the abysmally slow computer to (mis)use for my own nefarious purposes.

[artemis10002000]

just dropping by to say I won't be around much for the rest of the week, father is visiting so my computer time is severely limited.. and what I do have is mostly spent on writing my paper of doom

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Awww, shucks, sorry to hear that! Good luck with the paper of doom!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

And since we're talking about remakes anyway, what do you think about Primeval - The New World? Like it? Hate it?

[sammydragoncat]

I haven't seen it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Picspam #1 - As promised, photos from the chocolate festival.



This was your average stall - and there were dozens of it, each name-worthy chocolate manufacture was represented.

[sammydragoncat]

mmm - chocolate :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Picspam #2 - the Chocolate Festival had its own coffee boy. Not Ianto, granted, but still hot - and he even roasted his own coffee beans!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Is that a coffee roaster? I've never seen one.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Picspam #3 - Ever sampled "naked pralines"? Well, we did. They are basically the mix the pralines are made of, but not entirely hardened yet. They taste a lot better than in finished form, I swear. The one I tried was raspberrry flavoured and blew the mind.

Plus, Mum was on TV through them. They filmed here while sampling the naked bonbons, and my colleagues all greated me on the next day with "Was that your Mum on TV?" *g*



BTW: that's not Mum. That's the lady who sold the pralines.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Fame at last!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Picspam #4 - The Jam Cupboard

This was an actual, old-fashioned kitchen cupboard, full of home-made jams, syrups and spirits that you could all sample. Bilbo would have been ecstatic.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Oh, this looks wonderful!