I am just glad to be back in Brooklyn. Everybody wanted to know where we were. The butcher almost kissed me and the guys from Marco Polo sent out a search party.
I am making Philly Cheese steak sandwiches tonight with creamed cauliflower in the mashed potato style. Plus some wine and a little pastry from Monteleone's bakery.
It's great to be home.
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Subprime rib?
Subprime rib sounds like a Jay Cutler injury.
Eli Mannning walks into a bar. The bartender says "Hey buddy, here to watch the playoffs?"
Jay Cutler walks into a bar. The injury report says "Jay Cutler walked into a bar."
My roof is leaking. Not badly. Just water drops falling intermittently from a window top (inside) to a window sill. A towel on the sill keeps the water from splattering onto the floor. Anyhow, my question is should I just live with it till spring or call a handyman now? Reason I'm hesitating is I figure if he comes and brushes snow away to reveal roof will he be able to find the crack or the weakness in the wet roof? I'm of course anxious about living under a failing roof (2nd story of a cape style house) but maybe should hold off for a worker to deal with a dry roof in spring. Thoughts?
Roethlisberger aorta know better - he's made of sternum stuff than that.
Michael Vick PUP - rabies.
Should have added -- also how effective would repairs on a wet roof be? Wet doesn't seem like the best condition to try to repair.
Perhaps an ice dam is forcing water up under the shingles.
I have just spent a month dealing with window flashing, gutters, downspouts and caulking. There is much that can an go wrong, but all of it can be repaired by a reasonably competent, coordinated person.
But given that you live amongst the ice floes, feel free to disregard my opinion - you need someone familiar with local conditions. Personally, I wouldn't allow the water to permeate the structure.
Did I mention I just replaced a joist in a crawl space? Very difficult job - turns out the tub drain had been leaking since '84, as near as I can tell. I prefer to nip those things in the bud. NIP IT!!!
Thanks Sixty. I wasted the whole day standing on one foot then the other when I should have called for help. At least now I can mumble about an ice dam and the guy'll think I know what I'm talking about.
Or not - that's all just supposition from a guy who thinks it uncivilized to allow ice to occur anywhere other than in a mint julep.
Damn ice!
@ricpic: Althouse had a similar problem pre-Meade. Many theories were proposed and hashed out in the comments in this series: link
chick, I've got the icicle problem as well. This happened to me once before when it warmed up to the mid-thirties after a significant snow storm followed by weather in the teens. It's the ice probing for a crack, widening a crack, I don't know, and then when it warms the water does what water does...or something. Anyhow I panic and then become paralyzed. Kicking myself for posting but what's done is done. Now I just have to call a handyman and hope he can deal with it in mid-winter.
Now I just have to call a handyman and hope he can deal with it in mid-winter.
You should engage the opinions and advice of a local who knows your conditions and housing stock. When I last lived in Madison (some 30 years ago) I was more of a randyman than a handyman.
And no need to feel all embare-assed asking for advice. We're not that type at all.
Bad Prime Rib? Isn't cooking it almost fool proof?
How many SOBs (Souls on Board) were ordering Prime Rib that night?
Was the ship sailing at full capacity? The specs say it accommodates over 3600 passengers. If so, that's a lot of choice if not select meat to be served.
On the plus side of 6, the dude in the black and white gingham style swim trunks appears to be ahead of the curve when it comes to fashion wear.
ricpic, get it looked at now.
ricpic, as others have said, you have an ice dam. If you need to have the roof (shingles) replaced at a later date, consider going with a steel roof. I did my hip roof house a couple of years ago. Don't wait like I did, to do it when you're 63 years of age. It was an ass-kicker of a job. Very steep pitch on my roofs.
Thanks ELB and AllenS, gonna call someone today.
I'm with Sixty. When water is leaking, there's no telling how long it's been leaking or where the source is. Logic suggests straight up from where you detect it, but it could be getting into the structure at a different point, and showing up at your window after running hither and yon.
Alternative action: caulk the window to hide the leak and sell.
Variation on the alternative action: list your house and let the potential buyer's house inspector diagnose the problem for you. Refuse to budge and let the deal fall through, then go about fixing the leak.
Ricpic - If you can see an accumulation of snow where the leak my be, use a roof rake to scrape it off. A bit of sunlight to melt the small amount remaining and the leak will stop. Still need to get the repairs made, though.
Michael Haz said...
Jay Cutler walks into a bar. The injury report says "Jay Cutler walked into a bar."
At the risk of sounding incredibly ignorant, I still don't get it.
Does it have something to do with "kilt him bar, when he was only 3"?
Ignorant --> Ignarant --> Ingarant
He injured himself when he walked into a solid object, in this case, a bar made of some material more substantial than whatever part of his body encountered said bar.
Leave Davy Crockett out of it. He was a hero.
And the correct spelling is "ignant".
Although "ingarant" does have a certain ring to it.
Say, have she and Ritmo-o-less consummated their unholy union yet? Good thing she is beyond her child bearing years - one Rosemary's baby is plenty.
Eli Manning walks into a bar.
The Bartender says "Hey Buddy here to watch the playoffs."
Eli says "Nah I just wanted to borrow a towel. I want to dust off my two Super Bowl MVP trophies."
The Bartender says "Why would you come here for that?"
"Oh" Eli says "Aaron Rodgers recommended you guys. He says he gets his jizz rags from you and they are really soft. Like chamois or something."
Say, have she and Ritmo-o-less consummated their unholy union yet?
They're both consummate pot-stirrers but I don't know if the meat has touched the consommé (broth). Probably, yes.
...have she and Ritmo-o-less consummated their unholy union yet...
Does sharing the same vuvuzela count?
There is no need to consummate personal unions when the bulging and bottomless kitties of Greater Unions are used to fund and further the goals of Obama and Occupy.
The "ground game" and community organizing that supposedly won the election for the Democrats and their union base, went beyond the local barber and beauty shop connections being touted, to include a deliberate blitz of internet interactions with the intent of promoting agenda, deflecting criticism, and derailing the types of "conversation" the current administration claims to value but ultimately wishes to suppress.
The disingenuous twisting, deflection and derailment reflects an agenda beyond personal sharing, reason and reflection.
What's a jizz rag? Did Scott Joplin invent that?
Wow, MamaM -- I didn't know you did politics too.
Well, huh, Wikipedia repeats what I had heard wrt the origin of the word jazz. Interesting...
I always thought it was "ignernt.' Go figger.
Who made up Egg Sandwiches?
I like mine with advocodo.
Go Pack!
tits.
It's good to be missed...
Raw meat dipped and cooked in hot broth is common in Switzerland and is called Fondue Chinoise. Ostrich meat is commonly used.
La Befana visits all the good Italian bambini tonight; when does does Bronco Bama fly back to D.C.?
Lots of good TV starting up soon: "Downton Abbey" tomorrow; "Justified" on Tuesday (where's Darcy BTW?); "Mad Men" can't be too far behind...
I just did it.
I walked the rare clumber out during half time and some guy walked by me and say oooh Papi! So of course I turned back, and then we were doing it by a parking garage while the rare clumber was watching.
Afterwards he let me know he had never done that before. I was like don't lie bitch. I have seen your tattooed tight ass before-.
Plus, that is my spiel. I say I am am married or pretend to be all nervous before taking the plung.
Gay spics have an element of women in them that I find a real turn off. They are not completely "straight acting and appearing". I need to know that no one would ever be able to tell your gay-like my husband-no one has a clue and that is required in my book.
Nancy boys turn me off. Or even a hint of fag and I turn soft.
I prefer they don't open their mouth before we do it because I am concerened I will detect some gay in them and then I am through.
Now back to the Pack.
Where is mamam hanging her old red state tits?
Those things need attention too.
They be past their due date as the country is changing democraphically but they are still valued and needed in this ever changing country where fags are taking over and the brownies are finding their voice.
chickelit said...
Wow, MamaM -- I didn't know you did politics too.
And she does it well.
I just got back from dinner & drinks w/ some Aussie friends who asked me when the US is going to start booming again to pull the rest of the world out of the economic doldrums.
I'd had enough to drink--and am too used to internet posting now as a manner of discourse--that I launched into a tirade that was basically "You fuckers thought the US should be more like the rest of the world? Well, guess what? We are, now, w/ equally fucked up social welfare and health care policies. So we aren't going to be pulling you or Europe or any of the rest of the world's motherfuckers out of your own economic ditches anymore. Cuz we are exactly as fucked up as you."
It really sucked to say that.
Dammit, how I hate those stupid social-media assholes who organized the shit out of this last clusterfuck of an election.
So Titus, bro--leave MamaM's beautiful, bounteous, benevolent, buxom red-state tits alone. She's a righteous lady who speaks the truth.
Watched "The Hunger Games" with my kids from Netflix. At first, I was upset because I could really see the future of America--all those Blue state elites who don't give a flying fuck about the people in the rural districts. I mean, Stanley Tucci was so convincing and so over the top as the flamboyant game host that I wanted to get my checkbook out and join the NRA to make sure that shit never happens for real.
My son (who's 14 and has actually read all the books) assured me that it doesn't all turn out well for the Blue State fucks in the future.
Bravo, Chip!
We will all become John Galt. Then we will all become Eric Rudolph. Then we will all become Spartacus.
Plato called it Kyklos. The cycle of governments. Beginning with chaos, a powerful figure emerges and establishes a monarchy. Monarchy deteriorates into tyranny. Aristocracy supplants the corrupt system, only to deteriorate into an oligarchy. The people rise up and overthrow the wicked overlords and establish a democracy. As we all know, democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner, so it isn't a long fall into anarchy. From the chaos...
OWS was only a sampler platter.
It's Darcy's birthday this weekend, I believe. (And a big one, if I'm not mistaken.) I hope she's out partying.
What good is the end of the world as we know it if we don't feel fine?
Lock and load, baby. Cold dead hands. Viva Wayne LaPierre!
On the other hand, maybe I'll just stay home and see what's on television. Maybe there is a football game or something to divert my attention.
"Oh" Eli says "Aaron Rodgers recommended you guys. He says he gets his jizz rags from you and they are really soft. Like chamois or something."
That's what they say about Tony Romo's mouth.
chickelit said...
Raw meat dipped and cooked in hot broth is common in Switzerland and is called Fondue Chinoise. Ostrich meat is commonly used.
January 5, 2013 8:12 PM
Also known as Chinese or Mongolian "Hot Pot" I see it a lot with sea food, but it works with just about anything you might want boiled or stewed I am not surprised the Swiss would pick it up given their fondue tradition. It would be a hearty treat in the winter after skiing.
Hey windbag, i.e. your list the house suggestion: that's positively Machiavellian! ;^)
Or, you might list it and it might take 6 months to get an offer, another month to have it inspected, and then where are you? Well, I don't know, but I know where I am, having just gone through that process.
Houses - sometimes I think the homeless have the right idea. I already have the look, so what the hey, eh?
I told you the movie Hunger Games was very red state/blue state.
Loved all the blue states makeup and hair.
I was talking to my husband about the movie Hunger Games and he didn't even know what a Red State was.
How long since he got off the boat, Titus?
Not that he gets boats off, or little men therein.
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