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Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup Recipe | Made this recipe tonight. It came out AWESOME!!! I'm very pleased!! Two notes, it did seem to need the full 10 hours to cook and also, I did strain some of the fat/water off the top at the end before mixing it all together. - http://cullyskitchen.com/slow-co...
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made this tonight. yummy! but mine didn't take as long as it said at all. i checked it at 7 hours and it was done. probably was done earlier, but i didn't think of checking it. i used a ham steak, and chicken broth instead of water, so didn't add any salt.
- Christa
Christa, I do wish more slow cookers had similar temps. Low on one can be medium on another and so on. My old slow cooker I often felt that Low was really too high, it would often hit a rolling boil, which is not what low should do. When I researched my current slow cooker, I was looking for one where the low setting was rated as actually low. I'm pretty happy with it, but I should likely start making notes that my cooker might take longer than others. Sorry about that. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
OH LORD. the new version of the "color of your bra" stupidity is back on FB. :|
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(╯°□°) ╯︵ ┻━┻
- Jennifer Dittrich
You know what's not back on FB? THIS GUY!
- Chris Z.
You're much closer to this meme's source than I am.
- Andrew C (✓)
You're much closer to this meme's source than I am.
- Andrew C (✓)
WHERE CAN I FIND THIS?
- Andy
" Okay pretty ladies, it's that time again...support of Breast Cancer Awareness!! So we all remember last year's game of writing your bra color as your status? Or the way we like to have our handbag handy? Last year, so many people took part that it made national news and the constant updating of status reminded everyone why we're doing this and helped raise awareness!! Do NOT tell any...
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- holly #ravingfangirl
at least, that's what some people are trying to make the next "thing"
- holly #ravingfangirl
I've been hoodwinked.
- Andy
DON'T TELL ANYBODY. RAISE AWARENESS. *headdesk*
- Jennifer Dittrich
So what do pretend travel plans have to do with breast cancer awareness? And what are people who do this supposed to tell their friends when they don't actually travel to those places?
- John (bird whisperer)
No
- Janet:#TeamMonique
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Thank god they used *two* exclamation points. Otherwise I would have ran right out and told all the males.
- Laura Norvig
yeah, this is one of the stupidest things i've ever seen on FB. and there's a lot of stupid in there. i always fight it by linking to the American Cancer Society breast cancer page. http://www.cancer.org/cancer... oh, and i tell the stupid secret.
- Christa
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 heheheheheheh.
- jambina
I'm tired of raising awareness. Can I just raise my shirt instead? Y'all can just look at my bra for yourselves.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Yes, please, Amanda. And don't forget the pic.
- Laura Norvig
Or the way we like to have our handbag handy?????
- Meg V. Meg
Inspired.
- Meg V. Meg
oooh, not long at it will be Reese's Peanut Butter Egg season.
Kelli H., John (bird whisperer), Starmama and 6 other people liked this
confession: just a month or so ago I found a package of Eggs i bought at the end of last season and forgot about. HAPPY SURPRISE.
- holly #ravingfangirl
(it's already peanut butter egg season in the stores near my house...right alongside the peanut butter hearts)
- Hookuh Tinypants
uh oh.
- holly #ravingfangirl
CADBURY EGGS! although you need to eat 2 of them to make them as good as they used to be.
- Christa
NO. THOSE THINGS ARE VILE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VILE.
- holly #ravingfangirl
^ that
- Kristin
pure sugar goo inside chocolate? how can that be wrong?
- Christa
*shudder*
- holly #ravingfangirl
Me too, Christa, except I'm not supposed to have them anymore :-( but these days when I find the Russell Stover sugar free marshmallow eggs I get that old giddy glee.
- Starmama
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Russell Stover's sugar free candies are spooky good. You almost forget...almost...
- Hookuh Tinypants
I would totally eat this. #dontbeahater Cheeseburger Pizza: McSecret revealed. | King Arthur Flour – Baking Banter - http://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog...
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since this didn't seem to come thru...
- holly #ravingfangirl
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we love Godfather's Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza. the pickles are what really makes it work.
- Christa
Hmm, I think there is a Godfather's in my new town - the Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza sounds like an excellent way to nourish myself this weekend... ;) I'll have to look into that!
- WebGoddess
Am I the only one around here that thinks it is a terrible idea to contact someone through LinkedIN and just assume they'll get it? And not just "oh hi, how ya doin?" I mean "Hey want a job?" or "Hey, wanna speak at our conference?" Wouldn't you follow up via email or something?
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Terrible idea. Facebook, on the other hand...
- Meg V. Meg
I've actually had pretty good luck with it. YMMV.
- RepoRat
Actually I think that's the kind of thing LinkedIn is for, ie, professional opportunities and professional networking. But I would only use it if I couldn't find an email address to approach someone as a conference speaker.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
That is a terrible idea, yes.
- Steele Lawman
I almost never check or update my LinkedIn page, so that would be a terrible way of reaching me, for sure.
- Rachel Walden
That's one reason I deleted my LI account. I didn't want people to think it was a useful way to reach me.
- Jason P
never assume that someone you don't know uses a particular social media thing as much as you do. just because a person has an account somewhere (*cough*G+*cough*) doesn't mean they check it as religiously as you do. find their email/phone and contact them the traditional way.
- Christa
I get an email every time someone sends me a message on LinkedIn, which isn't very often, so I know to check at that time? But it sounds like most of y'all do not have that setting enabled. I still wouldn't rule out LinkedIn, but yes, look for a damn email lazy person.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
What Christa said. I have a hard time understanding why folks I don't know want to connect with me on LI when the site itself specifically advises users only to connect to folks we know well. So presumably one would have proper contact info for someone they want to hire or invite to speak, unless it's so one they've lost touch with over the years.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
I am seriously annoyed by all the people endorsing me who have no idea who I am or what I do. I haven't checked out to see if I can un-endorse myself.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
I also get an email if there's a LinkedIn message, and so far the only possibility I've had of an actual part-time position came through just such a message last Fall. So I'm staying on LI, for what it's worth. (No idea whether this will eventually lead to anything...)
- Walt Crawford
@rochelle like I keep getting endorsed for metadata. It's like these people have never met me!
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
People may have email notifications turned off for whatever socnet. Heck, who know if someone even checks an email address all that much. I don't use my yahoo much anymore, and check that as little as once a month...
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
They are endorsing you because they want a pat on the back back.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I *never* check my LI account.
- Anne Graham
what the hell is linked in?
- Rochelle's favorite Royce
Linked in is a fencing company.
- Andy
Private prison-management firm.
- Steele Lawman
My email notifications from all social networks go into an "Other InBox" folder that I look at, oh, maybe once or twice a month ... so it would definitely be hit or miss for me.
- Laura Norvig
Discussion re: car repairs reminds me of my recipe for a good life: trustworthy mechanic, stylist who listens, bff who calls you on your shit, loyal pet, supportive boss, someone who will hug you on request.
having 50% of that isn't bad, right?
- Christa
oh man. *$ new vanilla spice latte is soooooooo good.
word to your mother
- SteVe C
oooo.
- Christa
i have to see how it is with soy, since i can't take very many regular lattes. or i wonder if it's just a new syrup i can have them add to brewed coffee. must inquire further.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Now I say, "Hi from one of the many diners on LI!"
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Hi, MC! Hi to Scott, too!
- Anne Bouey
Also I am SO GLAD I I packed my furry boots
- Mary Carmen
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HI MC!
- holly #ravingfangirl
i miss NY diners! have some fries and gravy for me!
- Christa
Christa, Scott is having cheese fries. that's kinda close. He turned down the gravy.
- Mary Carmen
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aw, man! Nebraska does not understand fries and gravy at all.
- Christa
In Philly they refer to them as "disco fries.". guess they make you wanna dance.
- Mary Carmen
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Interesting.In Albany, disco fries have cheeze whiz on top of the gravy
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
there this small diner in Uptown Whittier that has the BEST Gravy fries I've ever had! Now I want some...
- Jenny...
we have the best on LI
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
cough. cough. Seriously, I know three people who could probably do this with their eyes closed. MCC, Jenica and our very own WarMaiden could probably do your POW justice and make some sense of your structure, staffing and direction.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Katherine Kott does this kind of work. http://katherinekott.com/
- RepoRat
thank you! other suggestions or feedback about any of the consultants?
- maʀtha
Just that I met Katherine at DLF and she struck me as having her head on straight.
- RepoRat
I almost started a company with her husband. She is pretty awesome.
- kendrak
R2 is the company that told OCLC to centralize everything, which caused many regional networks to close down due to the loss in OCLC revenue. and libraries lost the local consulting and training that the regional networks had offered. (full disclosure - i was the OCLC Member Services Consultant for NEBASE, the Nebraska OCLC regional network. this change by OCLC forced our network, and...
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- Christa
Sam Demas sounds like they would be excellent to you all...
- Pete #TeamMonique
Sam Demas High School Football Rules! ;)
- ellbeecee
I can also vouch for Katherine - she is thoughtful and quite effective. I've worked with her within DLF.
- Sarah
*LBC fistbump*
- Pete #TeamMonique
Sarah, can you tell me more? martha dot hardy at the geeee mail
- maʀtha
I recommend embracing anarchy for free. But then I would, wouldn't I?
- barbara fister
we expect nothing less from you :)
- maʀtha
sure - emailing you now
- Sarah
Sam Demas led our external review and R2 did a separate review of our tech services workflow. I think it's important that there be some institutional spine in place, in that an external review shouldn't "tell you" to do anything; they should point out things you might not have noticed or be reluctant to acknowledge, and suggest several ways forward. Sam is a big idea guy, so if we tried to do everything he suggested, we wouldn't have time to check out books or teach classes.
- Steele Lawman
This a little out of left field and many not apply in your state or to a university--but at my last place, we had several sessions dealing with just this sort of thing led by a person who was essentially a community organizer from the local extension office. She was fabulous, as was her successor.
- laura x
(I just mis-read Martha's email as being at "geese mail.")
- LB: #TeamMonique
(*honk*)
- maʀtha
*eyebrow lifts at considerable speed*
- RepoRat
The title was held by someone other than...?
- Julian
I think negative things about the term.
- Meg V. Meg
The people whose vision of libraries I trust and appreciate the most are probably the least likely to call themselves library futurists. It's keynote bait, right?
- John Dupuis
i'm interested in people who are WORKING for library futures, not just talking about them.
- jambina
I think of Professor Trelawney from Harry Potter. I sit around listening to them spouting nonsense waiting for them to go into a trance and suddenly say something super insightful, relevant, and meaningful. Sometimes, the trance never comes.
- Andy
There are librarians and library-watchers that I think have a pretty impressive ability to synthesize what's going on and make educated guesses about where it might lead: Cliff Lynch, Lorcan Dempsey and others in the OCLC crew, Barbara Fister, Mita Williams, Peter Brantley, Walt Crawford, the late Lee Dirks. Don't think any of them call themselves futurists. They're presentists.
- RepoRat
jambina+++ What crackpot organization actually hires someone to be a futurist? we got shit we need done NOW thankyouverymuch.
- Catherine Pellegrino
But, is that person a library tech trend spotter?
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I've been trying to think of a polite way to say that it's a silly jackassy thing to call oneself.
- Jason P
I think i might have used it in my latest bio... Was trying to thing how to capture the current research I'm doing about future roles and services for libraries, and might have boiled it down to that :( but i'm not all tech trendy and toywatchy. Although, i guess i might be jackassy.....
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Wow. Thanks, RR; a fine list to be part of. And I think you're right: I've never heard Cliff or Lorcan call themselves futurists, and I sure as hell don't use the term. (At least three on that list, including me, have been LITA "trendspotters" but I don't think any of us/them much care for that term either. Still, better than futurist.)
- Walt Crawford
Trending spotting? well i don't know about you guys, but besides individuals, I look at some libraries... that almost always are ahead of the curve. But to be fair, if you "look under the hood", those institutions are innovative because they are lucky to have some awesome people...
- aarontay
I do this as well. CDL, Michigan, Penn State for the areas I'm primarily interested in.
- RepoRat
Michigan is awesome I think in almost all fronts,if you are feeling cocky about your achievements just compare with them :) In Australia I like UTS, QUT & Curtin. In UK, Huddersfield is innovating like crazy, library impact data project, lemontree, uses of Summon API, information literacy etc.
- aarontay
Aaron, Thanks for sharing thatlist! I'm adding Huddersfield to my list of places to keep abreast of!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Generally speaking, i avoid looking at the ARLs, and instead look at what smaller, user-focused libraries are doing....
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Um, so you're seriously saying that no ARL anywhere is user-focused? Might want to rephrase that.</walt>
- RepoRat
I always wondered what the academic libraries I was most impressed with had in common besides awesome people. The obvious thing is size. If there are only 20-staff you can check in with everyone and change stuff quickly.... That is not to say the Harvards of the world are not doing interesting things... I wonder if there is some crude way of quantifying "innovation" in libraries (number...
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- aarontay
I'm saying that as a class, i prefer to look at what smaller, user-focused libraries do, and don't turn to ARLs for what's hot, great, and sexy in libraryland. ARLs may be user focused, but as a class, they don't appeal to me. I think I'm on record as saying that--I'd rather they own that they are completely different creatures (by choice), and that the rest of academic librarianship stop looking up to them
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
RR, that was quite a logical leap, from "generally speaking, i avoid them" to you reading that as i think no ARLs are student focused....
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
to answer Andy's first question: i think that, if others have noticed that you are a great thinker and have been able to predict some pretty accurate and awesome things in libraryland, and because of those actions, others have bestowed the title "library futurist" or "technology trend spotter" upon you, then that is fine. because you earned it and are being recognized for your...
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- Christa
Aaron, i bet the first thing is that they all have an impetus to publish, widely. That's why we hear about most of them, they are loud about what they are researching. Folks without that impetus are quieter, but the really great things they do are pretty great,a nd often more sustained and supported in their institutional cultures.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Good to know Christa. I thought it was an accurate descriptor of the work i am doing, not a title awarded by others.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I am going to get in trouble if I say what I truly feel here -- especially in the context of *public* libraries and organizational trend-setting (along with individual trend-setters and trend-spotters). Word would get back to certain people that I said it.
- Julian
What is it about the phrase that sets everyone off, other than it has been used by some pretty unsavory folks? I prefer to dismiss the folks whose work I don't resepect, rather than throw away a descriptor (widely used in other fields) just on the basis that so and so uses it? I know some pretty grounded folks who use it, and it does describe a whole class of research. What would you use instead to describe that 'genre' of work, on what roles libraries can take on in the changing environment?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
(By comparison, it appears that public libraries -- as individual organizations -- are more likely than other types of libraries to more closely follow the major trend-spotters and trend-setters, and to make significant changes as a direct result of what certain other similar organizations do, and what certain "name" people say.)
- Julian
Rudi, that's why I didn't say count number of papers. But from the outside if they don't get known somehow outside their organization, it's like a tree falling in a forest that no-one is around to hear. They have to be known somehow whether it is presenting, blogging, tweeting or even just postng on friendfeed LSW.
- aarontay
it just sounds pretentious, Rudy, and I don't like it. The context in which it is most often used - in which the self-proclaimed futurist is rarely doing actual emerging trend research or implementing new paradigms for libraries - is doing it no favors, either. That's all there is to it, for me: It resonates of pretentious, empty bullshit.
- Jenica
If I ever speak again, my bio will say that I'm a trendspotter of library trendspotters. Also, a library back-to-the-futurist.
- Andy
Cool. See if you can get "neo-Trithemian" into the discourse. Because that would crack me up.
- RepoRat
What about neo-Gorman?
- Andy
hm, doesn't quite work as an adjective. neo-Gormanesque, perhaps?
- RepoRat
Gladwell's "maven" and "connector" often describe the people running around describing themselves as futurists. I personally feel, few of them actually have much insight but they do keep themselves really uptodate with what everyone else is doing and share that, which is a worth-while thing to do. But that alone I feel doesn't mean you deserve the title futurist.
- aarontay
I am a trendstriper.
- Steele Lawman
I'm going to stay out of the rest of this thread, I think, except to approve the new tag RR used, including my recognition that I (sometimes) overuse the technique. Well played.
- Walt Crawford
Gormanaghast.
- barbara fister
I didn't comment here right away because the tone of the conversation was getting to me and I couldn't really figure out why exactly. I'm no Pollyanna, but it strikes me as petty to damn other librarians for attempting to start conversations about the future and tech trends. And sure, make a name for her/himself. If somebody is doing a bad job of it, fine-- don't hire or recommend them,...
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- kaijsa
Point taken.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
The new director wants to know what faculty to talk to about plans for a future library. I'm making my list and realizing that I might as well just say "talk to the person most recently hired."
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What, you don't have a library futurist on staff? Tsk tsk tsk...
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
who's your technology trend spotter?
- Christa
you need a back to the futurist
- barbara fister
Calvin Klein Collection Dew originally $995, now $546.99 - 6pm.com - http://www.6pm.com/calvin-...
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*blink*
- holly #ravingfangirl
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that's an expensive hospital gown.
- ~Courtney F
Huh.
- Anne Graham
I'll sell you my pillow case for half that
- SteVe C
Get her a sammich, STAT!
- Anne Graham
I'm confused...
- lris
Free shipping, though!
- Jason P
So.....CK makes designer hospital gowns????
- Mary Carmen
it appears so.
- holly #ravingfangirl
i'm going to file this under 'Designers screwing with us and laughing their asses off to the bank'.
- Christa
I like the shopping advice under "Customers who bought this product also bought..." http://ff.im/19OimF
- Steele Lawman
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mention awards or professional recognition (like Movers & Shakers)
- Andy
use the term "Library Rockstar"
- Andy
link to any image that is labeled "sexy librarian"
- Andy
link to op ed articles or online comments where people say things like "everything is online, why do we need libraries?"
- Andy
discuss the end of print.
- Jenica
link to photo gallery lists with titles like "worst master's degree"
- Andy
post articles that have the phrase "the future of libraries" in the title or byline
- Andy
Schedule a Thought Leader for a keynote
- Running Slow
link to newspaper articles that open with library terminology based wordplay like "In checking out the local library these days" or "Are budgets cuts going to close the book on Blah Blah Blah library?"
- Andy
link to any image of a elderly woman with glasses and a hair bun
- Andy
talk about how open access will destroy the peer review process
- DJF
talk about how cool librarians are now because they are hipsters and have tattoos.
- Christa
Suggest merging service desks/closing the reference desk
- Jen
say guybrarian.
- Christa
use the phrase Technology Trend Spotter while not spotting any new technology trends.
- Christa
"thought leader"
- maʀtha
Christa beat me to it. *shakes tiny fist*
- maʀtha
:) sorry.
- Christa
I don't have tattoos, but my ears are pierced. Does that count?
- DJF
Library 2.0
- maʀtha
Oh, and someone already said "thought leader". *sigh* I should read the thread.
- maʀtha
sock puppetry
- maʀtha
things you didn't learn in library school. budget cuts.
- aarontay
point out that everything's available on the internet.
- ellbeecee
link to any posts by the Annoyed Librarian (bonus points: speculate on their identity)
- Andy
one word: "management"
- RepoRat
Ask if you can really get a degree in that.
- Jason P
debate the merits of adults reading YA lit
- Andy
anything with the phrase "libraries are more than just books"
- Andy
"Can't you just find everything on Google?" Alternatively, "Don't use any online sources."
- maʀtha
Imply you might not spay/neuter your cats.
- Rachel Walden
LOLcats in your prezis.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
eBook friction
- Andy
mention a hatred for roller derby
- Rochelle's favorite Royce
mention buns or sensible shoes.
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
talk about having sex in the library
- ellbeecee
actually have sex in the library
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
Tell them you're going to get just the left paw of each of your cats declawed.
- Blake
tell them you don't like animals
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
say "roving librarians"
- Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
This thread.
- Andy
If they are in association governance, suggest that membership is in a bubble... and tailing off
- awd
Call your expensive locked-in ejournals the "Freedom Collection."
- Steele Lawman
Replace librarians with IT staff.
- Steele Lawman
Tell them nobody actually reads any more anyway.
- RepoRat
That's true. I just googled it.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
MLIS is useless
- aarontay
Cataloging is Dead
- awd
Cancel your ACS package.
- Catherine Pellegrino
"package"
- awd
Yes? I should get my kittens spayed? What happens if I don't? Cuz DAMN this is going to cost way more than I was hoping for.
They breed. Like cats. And then you are either feeding a BUNCH of cats or you are that annoying person who asks everybody you see if they want a kitten. Check with your local shelter to see if they do low-cost spaying/neutering.
- WebGoddess
Dude, yeah. You gotta do it. Sorry. :)
- Jason P
Yes. Always. Seconding the low-cost thing.
- Rachel Walden
What they said. Plus Bob Barker tells you to.
- ellbeecee
Yes
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Plus you do NOT want a cat in heat or a Tom cat
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Yep, totally. What they all said, plus cats in heat WILL find a way to get out and get the deed done.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Un-neutered male cats will mark their territory. Female cats in heat HOWL.
- Jason P
Yes. You should. In the long run, way more expensive/exhausting not to.
- Marianne
Absolutely. Do not get them declawed, however, or I will hunt you down.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Yes. If you don't, you'll have to deal with me. Also, what Rochelle said. Declawing is not necessary. For cats, no sex=good, no claws=bad.
- Christa
"declawing" is a euphemism for "cutting their fingers off at the first knuckle." Don't do that.
- DJF
Yes. Absolutely. And what Rochelle sez.
- Walt Crawford
sorry, man, there's a reason they say it's "free as in kittens" versus "free as in beer".
- Jenica
Definitely spay and definitely call around. I had one place tell me it would be $200-$300 to spay Pye, the Anticruelty Shelter charged $50 I think? There's a "find a lost cost spay" widget here: http://www.anticruelty.org/program...
- Hedgehog
I've had vets give discounts for spaying rescue kittens, too, if that is the situation.
- Rachel Walden
Alas un-fixed cats are raging hormone balls with claws. You don't want that. :(
- SteVe C
Vet says they can give me a deal if I get 2 cats spayed they'll do one declawing for free, so I'm going to spay them both, and have the left paw done on each cat. I'll have the right paw done when they're a little older.
- Blake
Oh come now. How about every other claw?
- laura x
Don't make me....
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
oh, you mean like declaw the front on one, the back on the other? hmm, or pick my favorite and just declaw the other one, that way my favorite will be in charge and win all the fights. decisions...decisions...
- Blake
Yes, female cats will also spray their territory as well.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Spay as soon as is safe. Cat spay + cat abortion is 100% not cheaper, let me tell you.
- Meg V. Meg
Lots of declawed cats have litter box issues since the litter irritates their paws.
- Mary Carmen
So I'll take all this advice as a "maybe"
- Blake
The claws of our declawed cat just kept growing and growing and curling under, in these crazy spirals, and it had to have even more surgery.
- Meg V. Meg
All cat experts I have seen/heard have said that declawing is a bad idea...the litter issue is one of the biggest problems.
- Chris Topher
Start trimming claws now! They'll hate it for about 2-3 months (if Pye is typical) and then they get used to it. It takes me about 3 minutes per cat, standard nail clippers. I do it while sitting on side of the bathtub so i can just cat wrangle and not worry about sweeping up lots of claw clippings.
- Hedgehog
If claws are an issue, look into claw caps. They are little covers that are slid into the claws. If the vet recommended declawing...I would find a new vet.
- Chris Topher
I get about one claw per week on my cat trimmed, because she fights it so. I have been converted to the declawing is evil camp, but damn, trimming is a pain. I just get scratched a lot.
- laura x
YES on spaying, NO on declawing. I trim my cats' claws every several weeks, and I start 'em young. They don't mind too much, and they get to keep their first toe joints. Standard nail clippers work fine, and you can get cat claw clippers too, which are easier to use (and not too pricey) Mine are smaller than the red ones here, but you get the idea: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product...
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
*amused that everyone's lecturing Blake about something he didn't ask about*
- Jenica
welcome to the internet.
- DJF
first - you do all realize that Blake is just pulling your legs about the declawing and not actually trying to gather info about it, right? second - Blake, if you did happen to be serious about the comment from your vet offering to give you a free declawing - get a new vet ASAP. third - because i want to share my 2 cents, :) , i've had cats my entire life (starting with the cat my mom...
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- Christa
Christa, to dull the blades, mainly. a couple of mine will get theirs razor sharp. :)
- holly #ravingfangirl
I also have to trim my senior kitty's nails because she isn't as vigilant anymore and has a couple that curve down a lot. old kitty issues.
- holly #ravingfangirl
What Janson said. Spay those furballs.
- Laura H.
ah yes, i do understand old kitty issues.
- Christa
Spay. Also vaccinate. Also regular worming and flea treatments because if they get sick it *will* be on a public holiday when you'll be charged a fortune. I don't bother even with trimming claws, I just put a towel over my lap when I'm sitting down so she can destroy that instead of tenderising my thigh.
- Deborah Fitchett
I clip so i dont end up bleeding. My two climb a lot
- Hedgehog
Besides, if you declaw, you lose out on all those precious moments of watching them hang upside down from something (cat tree, drapes, screens) looking like, "Wow, that was fun! ... Now how do I get down?"
- Rebecca Hedreen
I do trimming every few weeks as well, four cats, front and back, with immediate catnip reward after everybody is done. Maybe I'll make an instructional video. :)
- Rachel Walden
I'll make a corresponding video of myself following the directions from your instructional video and being attacked by banshees (I have very bad cats though).
- Meg V. Meg
Delicious, Creamy Mashed Potatoes | The Pioneer Woman Cooks | Ree Drummond - http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking...
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I make a similar recipe, but what I bookmarked this for was her technique (mashing in a warm pan, what the steam does, etc). Make ahead is a good idea, one of the reasons I don't make mashed potatoes for company dinner is I already got hella much to do.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
i made them for our staff Thanksgiving potluck last week. i forgot to get cream cheese, but they were a hit anyway - i added more butter to compensate. :) . 5 pounds of potatoes - gone! i will definitely be doing it this way from now on.
- Christa
Him: We could get fries.
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Me: Only if they're cheese fries.
- laura x
Him: What the hell are cheese fries?
- laura x
Me: You are SO not from the Midwest.
- laura x
(or from a place with a Sonic)
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
.... FAIL. we had chilli cheese fries for dinner just last Monday. :)
- Christa
Haven't been there in 10 years, but the best cheese fries were at Red Hot Lovers, in Ann Arbor. Waffle-cut fries. Big hunk of cheddar melted in the microwave to order. Best thing ever.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
i think i'll have schwarma for lunch today to celebrate with them. RT @pvponline: Cut to Obama and Biden silently eating schwarma.
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The really good schwarma place in town is opening a new location right beside my office. any day now. I CANNOT wait.
- DJF
i love this place a block from my work, the Sultan's Kite. i had a rice bowl - 1/2 schwarma 1/2 tikka korma. there's always so much, that i only eat half and get to have the rest for dinner tonight.
- Christa
What are some of your favorite comfort books; you know, like comfort foods?
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The Little House books - particularly Farmer Boy and The Long Winter. Tamora Pierce - almost anything of hers other than the Trickster books - those I like, just not as much. The Ordinary Princess by MM Kaye (http://www.amazon.com/The-Ord... - if you don't know this one, read it :) )
- ellbeecee
Lord of the Rings, of course. When I was young, yes, also Little House.
- maʀtha
Just about anything Bill Bryson. Also Bad Movies We Love and Not Since Carrie.
- Chris Z.
Mary Renault's Ancient Greece books. First two Chalion books (Bujold). Tehanu. The Decameron.
- RepoRat
The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley; Walden (well, until I became a parent); Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones; the Narnia books; The Elements of Style (Strunk & White); Hard Laughter and All New People by Anne Lamott.
- laura x
The Discworld books...which is why the eight I own and haven't read yet are still sitting there. Dunno if there will be any more new ones.
- Walt Crawford
Once and Future King, Among Others, Horse and His Boy, Mary Poppins. Bread and Jam for Frances. Ursula LeGuin. AS Byatt. Robertson Davies. Lots more.
- Marianne
Ooh, yes to Bill Bryson (particularly, for me, A Walk in the Woods)
- ellbeecee
Watership Down, Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, Interview with the Vampire.
- Christa
Little House, Donna Parker series, Anything by Ann Bannon.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Tam Lin (the Pamela Dean retelling)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Space opera. Weber's Honor Harrington series, Moon's Heris Serrano books, Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan. It used to be romance novels, but I find that space opera has the same reassuring pattern and style with far more engaging story.
- Jenica
The Bone People by Keri Hulme. i read it every few years when i need to calm the fsck down. speaking of which - i do believe i will pull it off the shelf this weekend.
- jambina
Oh yeah, also Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Sandry's Book or First Test (Tamora Pierce), Paul Bunyan tales, Brilliant (Marne Davis Kellogg), How To Be A Canadian (Will and Ian Ferguson), The Emperor of Scent (Chandler Burr), Beth Hilton: Model (Lee Wyndham), Raise the Titanic! (Clive Cussler).
- MontglaneChess
I'm interpreting this as books I reread, so: Jane Eyre, The Curse of Chalion (Bujold), Heralds of Valdemar trilogy (Lackey), Echos of Honor (Weber), the Harper Hall trilogy (McCaffrey). Used to reread Pride and Prejudice regularly, but not so often lately. In the realm of books I will never get rid of: my Grandpoppy's Pogo collection and the poetry anthology that contains the poem my dad wrote for me.
- Kirsten
Oh, yes, the Dean Tam Lin, too, and Franny and Zooey and early Douglas Coupland. Amy, I loved The Bone People, but haven't read it in years.
- laura x
regency romances... like junk food.. the ones with the spunky heroines.
- Christina Pikas
Oh, I forgot! The "Love Means..." series of gay romance by Andrew Gray. I stumbled on them by idly searching "gay amish porn." ;-p They are actually very sweet. And the Amish thread only lasts through the first few books. Also, now available on Overdrive!
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi and Jane Eyre
- ~Courtney F
The Hero and the Crown! I am dancing with joy that laura x mentioned that. Also the Adventures of Alyx and We Who Are About To... Joanna Russ makes me feel energized.
- Amandadon't
Anything from the Stephanie Plum series, Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones' Diary, Tricky Business, Big Trouble, the Harry Potter series, and Talking to Dragons
- Soup in a TARDIS
Plus the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, I reread those periodically.
- Amandadon't
Pratchett and Nesbit if I'm reading to myself.
- Heather
Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fire and Hemlock, Howl's Moving Castle, an assortment of Agatha Christie novels, some Lovecraft, and I'm sure there are others that are just escaping my mind right now.
- Katy S
for when I get too serious about work in academe: Richard Russo's Straight Man. For pure comfort - A Swiftly Tilting Planet and the Harry Potter books.
- Jen
Weirdly, Octavia Butler is comfort fiction for me (weird because, um, bleak much?).
- Marianne
I feel like I'd be comfortable storm trapped in most of your homes--there would definitely be something good to read! Most of the YA fantasy already listed is in my reread pile, plus Bujold's Chalion, Patricia Briggs, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy Sayers.
- Rebecca Hedreen
Oh, Russo--Bridge of Sighs broke my heart and kept a piece of it. His memoir is next on my list. Comfort books to me are mysteries, but not particular titles to read and re-read. I can devour a popular mystery in a couple of hours when I need a little time to de-stress and occupy my overactive brains.
- kaijsa
(Marianne, you're not weird. Rosemary's Baby is comfort film for me: strangely soothing.) (second aside: this thread illustrates the fringe benefit of being friends with librarians and devoted readers. Constant Readers Advisory!)
- kaijsa
I'm not a Russo fan, but that's probably mostly because he was The Big Deal at my undergrad when I was there b/c that was when Nobody's Fool was turned into a movie. I should probably give his stuff a fair try sometime.
- ellbeecee
LOTR; Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber series; LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea
- Marge LW
I will often hold a first attempt bead until I know I can make another like it. I'm happy to say that the winter trees are a go!
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So pretty!
- LB: #TeamMonique
Love it! This would make a beautiful pendant.
- Christa
If you had a nice, tidy budget, which speaker would you invite to campus to talk about digital humanities? Asking for a friend (literally).
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Dan Cohen or Sharon Leon, CHNM, GMU.
- RepoRat
Bethany Nowviskie, UVa.
- RepoRat
Julia Flanders, Brown.
- RepoRat
Trevor Muñoz, Maryland.
- RepoRat
Joan Smith, Emory.
- RepoRat
Karin Dalziel, Univ of Nebraska - Lincoln. http://nlc.nebraska.gov/scripts...
- Christa
I'd get Lisa Goddard to come talk about linked data wrt dig humanities projects: http://mun.academia.edu/LisaGod...
- Marianne
you are all among the awesome.
- barbara fister
... and making me feel silly because just last night I was rereading a wonderful blog post by Behany Nowviskie, so she should have been on the tip of my tongue.
- barbara fister
What do you want to read a book about? I need some searching exercises but my brain is too tired to come up with anything.
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Grantwriting.
- RepoRat
I need a crockpot cookbook. (trick question: "crock pot" is actually a trademark; "slow cooker" is the generic term.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Great! Keep 'em coming.
- laura x
no-sew Halloween costumes.
- Christa
Lower back treatments that actually work. Or real life history mysteries
- SteVe C
"that diet plan where you eat a bunch of meat"
- Catherine Pellegrino
classroom management
- Rochelle's favorite Royce
potty training
- Catherine Pellegrino
How to find and land your dream job
- Kristin
How to patent my unique invention (that is neither unique nor patentable, but never mind about that.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
gluten free slow cooker recipes
- Corinne L
Diet for those recovering from oral surgery (gets tricky b/c nothing hot and nothing that requires chewing and no seeds) - I've been looking up stuff on this topic for my mom today.
- Katy S
I don't know. But it's definitely fiction, maybe scifi/fantasy. And not violent. With a smart female protagonist. But not a Terry Pratchett, because I've read all of those. And not the Honor Harrington books because I've read all of those, and am not so into military scifi right now.
- Kirsten
The one with the green cover. Sorry :) How about how to minimize your lifestyle and travel the world?
- Katie
travel to Scotland
- ellbeecee
(Please note that I do not actually want to read books about any of the things I've mentioned here. Except maybe the crockpot thing.) Hipster crafting -- except that I'm not a hipster. No, really, I'm not. I'm just...looking for crafting projects that haven't sold out yet. And that you probably haven't heard of.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Parenting step-kids. Gluten free baking (alternative flours, etc.). Streamlining/organizing a busy household.
- Rochelle
Early African-American literature, slave narratives and work from the Harlem Renaissance, please.
- Derrick
Competing against the societal pressures to do it all, be it all, and look perfect while doing it but still fitting into the model of 1950s housewife.
- Hedgehog
cute stuffed animals that i can make myself
- ~Courtney F
Isn't that taxidermy Courtney?
- SteVe C
er...well not really what i had in mind, but yes :) I meant fabric ones for kids :)
- ~Courtney F
There's the standard one about bats: flying beastie or sport? Someone asked for routers once, and I was thinking computers and he was thinking woodworking.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
but the computer ones are root-ers and the woodworking ones are rout-ers. ;-)
- DJF
We'll root root-root for the home team...!
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Cake Pan With a Call Number - Poster from Midwest Medical Library Association conference by Marilyn Pitzen
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"Cake Pan with a Call Number Author: Marilyn Pitzen, Learning Resource Center, Mayo Clinic Libraries For as long as I can remember I have decorated cakes. I was a self taught; learn from your mistakes decorator. Somewhere along the road it was decided that I should try to make money doing this so I started charging for cake orders which could be anything from a simple birthday cake to the fancier wedding cakes. Throw in hundreds of sheet cakes and after 10 years it became too much. I still liked decorating but I wanted to go back to the days when it was just a fun hobby. Being a frequent library user and actually using the library as a place for people to pick up their cakes, I told the librarian that I was not going to take orders anymore and that I would just bring all the pans into the library and let the people bake their own. She thought I was joking. She couldn’t believe I would donate 50 some pans but I packed them up and she hung them on the library walls. It was a win-win...
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- maʀtha
She gave out teeny cupcakes.
- maʀtha
:) The library just to the north of us has a cake pan lending collection: http://www.northlibertylibrary.org/service...
- laura x
cake pan collections at libraries are pretty common. it's cool to hear the story of how one got started. :)
- Christa
I had no idea!
- maʀtha
i wish one of my local libraries had one of these collections!
- ~Courtney F
oh. maybe i should have said 'common in rural Nebraska'. :) it seems to be more in rural areas than bigger cities.
- Christa
"A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CHANGE EXPECTED LATE IN THE WEEK... A CHANGE TO WET WEATHER IS EXPECTED BEGINNING FRIDAY AS A SERIES OF PACIFIC FRONTS WILL IMPACT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THE FIRST COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE FRIDAY FOLLOWED BY PROGRESSIVELY STRONGER STORMS EVERY 24 HOURS OR SO. THERE IS A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE TIMING AND AMOUNT OF RAIN...
..."EXPECTED...BUT THERE IS FAIR CONFIDENCE THAT THESE STORMS WILL END THE CURRENT DRY SPELL."
- holly #ravingfangirl
Oh yay, right when I get home. :(
- Rochelle
i'm sorry, but do we not live in the damn Pacific Northwest? JFC. do we really need a special weather statement for this?!?!
- holly #ravingfangirl
Considering we're coming out of a 75+ day dry spell, I guess it's big news for the meteorologists.
- Akiva
then what it really should say is "YAY RAIN!!!!"
- Christa
it's just silly.
- holly #ravingfangirl
My cousin Anna, recently relocated to Vancouver, is complaining about the lack of rain because "then the mushrooms don't grow." (She's a botanist.)
- Jenica
You've all just been made members of an online community of practice as part of my application for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy ;)
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Sweet!! What exactly are we practicing, though?
- WebGoddess
Cartwheels
- Pete #TeamMonique
The spirit is willing, Pete, but the flesh is old and gets vertigo if upside down. Anything else?
- WebGoddess
Silly buggers
- Pete #TeamMonique
*updates CV*
- Jason P
We... practice silly buggers? How... odd.
- awd
Well, you play silly buggers, but I assume you can practice first ;)
- Pete #TeamMonique
So, business as normal?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Absolutely :)
- Pete #TeamMonique
I don't recall the vote on that. The bylaws clearly state that... wait... where'd those bylaws go?
- lris
They're filed with the by-the-bye laws and the let byegones be byegones regulations
- Pete #TeamMonique
WHEN DO I GET MY FIRST CHECK?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I think we all need new titles now, too. Can we all be Thought Leaders?
- John Dupuis
Fuck no. Rule #1 is we do not use the term Thought Leader ;)
- Pete #TeamMonique
I call Technology Trend Spotter!
- Christa
Quick---go take a picture of yourself in a public restroom!
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
How about Social Media Rockstars?
- John Dupuis
I can give you Viceroy of Online Communications
- Pete #TeamMonique
I think I'd have to renounce my Canadian citizenship to become a Viceroy.
- John Dupuis
Rule #2 is anyone who doesn't use profanity is a fucking loser.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Catherine is the reason that all blogs and other listservs are uncivil.
- lris
I fucking LOVE rule #2!!!
- WebGoddess
Thought Fucker.
- John Dupuis
Fuckin' A, Catherine!
- RepoRat
None of you potty-mouth assholes are going to get fat-paid jobs as PR directors for "nonprofit" association publishers, not with language like that. (Those people have servants to do their swearing for them, presumably.)
- Walt Crawford
Nnnnnnnnnnnope. I'm surprisingly okay with that.
- RepoRat
WHEN DO I GET MY CHECK?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Is there something amiss with the space-time continuum or something? This is the LONGEST Friday work day ever!
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what?! the day ended earlier than expected today. i scooted home after the faculty affairs meeting.
- Rochelle's favorite Royce
Yes! the same thing is happening here. bite me, Uncle!
- Christa
It's not even 3:00 here....waaaaaaah
- Mary Carmen
omg yes.
- holly #ravingfangirl
F yeah, the 3 of us in the office today were just saying how it's like Inspector Gadget... just keeps stretching on... and on... and on...
- Nikki D.
GAH.
- holly #ravingfangirl
omg, 50 more minutes.....move faster
- Mary Carmen
Looking forward to being on the "Present Of Libraries Conference" planning committee.
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It will be a gift to us all.
- Christa
What's the hashtag for those of us who will be livetweeting our evening of not watching the debate?
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The same one everyone else uses, but you just troll them with your disinterest.
- Sarah G.
So, my first foray into Pandaria included a person running past me with the name "FreakinPandas". I was amused. That being said, I like the #NixonVsJFK hashtag myself...
- WebGoddess
True story;thread hijack: I saw that movie. In Denver.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
What helps make a job satisfying for you? E.g., work hours, manager's style, relationships, colleagues, salary, etc.? What helps balance out the not-so-great parts inherent to any job?
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Freedom to act.
- aarontay
What Aaron said. Give me room to do what I need to do. I hate being hovered over and smothered. Trust in me that I can do the work and best believe I'll deliver.
- Derrick
Freedom. Hard problems/ interesting work with resources and support
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
What they all said. Freedom and trust. Then just get out of my way.
- LB: #TeamMonique
The chance to learn and do new and useful things. The occasional "yes" to a crazy idea (the more often the "yes," the better). The autonomy to let go of what isn't working in order to work toward something better. Trust from on high. Resources when I ask for them (with the understanding that I don't ask much, never have). Patience with my eccentricities.
- RepoRat
A sense of actually doing something useful. Colleagues I don't want to murder with a stick.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Soup +1. Also, agreed that freedom is essential, but it's also nice to have constructive support and guidance, especially as a new librarian. Pressure to perform without any direction = burnout (in my humble experience)
- Megan loves summer
Communication. Trust. Willingness to believe that I can contribute before I've been in the profession multiple decades.
- Hedgehog
What others have said - trust, freedom, communication. but then after all of that, acknowledgement and appreciation of the work I've done. micromanaging is a huge no-no. but the opposite, ignoring me, is just as bad.
- Christa
For satisfaction I need #1: managers supporting me with my crazy ideas; #2: managers supporting my colleagues with their crazy ideas. For tolerability, moral support from colleagues works wonders.
- Deborah Fitchett
I agree with pretty much everything above. I think Christa's post resonates the most for me personally. Also, support for my big ideas. Also, patience with my idiosyncracies.
- maʀtha
Oh, and a sense of fun at work. People who can tolerate my puns.
- maʀtha
That's well-said, Laura. I feel the same way.
- Steele Lawman
Working with dedicated student assistants is usually fantastic and provides a great balance of atmosphere to adult colleagues. Also having a variety of different projects and responsibilities is important for me to stay content and keep adapting to change.
- Lily
Current topic of conversation at Chez Botts: pondering the possibilities of the batter-dipped deep-fried grilled cheese sandwich.
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I think they have that at some state fairs? At least, I recall reading something similar about state fair food someplace in the south...
- Rochelle
We figured somebody had made one and sold it at a fair. :) I didn't look it up to see, though.
- LB: #TeamMonique
maybe it's here, my Flickr slideshow portable food at teh State Fair "On a Stick http://www.flickr.com/...
- WarLord
Texas. Of course. http://www.foodspotting.com/places...
- Rochelle
Ha! :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
that's a Cheese Frenchee! They had them at a chain in the midwest called King's. the last one in Lincoln closed about 10 years ago, but other restaurants serve them, too. http://www.food.com/recipe...
- Christa
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