There was some discussion the other day on the correct spelling of a Mexican dish made with tortillas, eggs, sausage, cheese, onions, and jalapenos.(wusses can have the jalapenos left off, if need be) Curtis said it should be spelled QUESIDILLAS. I said QUESEDILLAS. Curtis won the argument and it was offered on the chalk board as QUESIDILLAS. Later, at home, I told Linda that I wasn't absolutely sure that it shouldn't have been spelled with an A, and not an E or an I. She looked it up, and as we should have expected, Curtis and I were both wrong. Henceforth, it will be spelled correctly, QUESADILLAS (with an a and 2 ll's)
You know the old saying: What can go wrong, will go wrong. Well, Murphy was doing his thing last weekend, when the cafe was full to overflowing with customers, and the credit card machine was planning to take the day off, until customer Michael F. decided that wasn't going to happen, so while Heather was busy with other things, Michael made the machine behave and start acting like it should, so the machine started taking money from customers for Carol to spend, and issuing those little paper slips that tells a customer how much money he spent on what, and when.
Jim E. started building a new house out of golf balls. When I first heard of this, I was thinking along the lines of of a 12inch by 12inch sparrow house, or goldfinch or something, but I got a glimpse of the plans the other day when he was showing them to Chester and Curtis. Chester was saying he thought there was going to be a problem plumbing a 3700 square foot house with 3/8 inch PVC. Jim countered by saying he was building the house out of golf balls so he could vacation at Machu-Pichu next year. He puts his boat in the lakes on various golf courses (at night, of course) and drags a minnow seine around catching lost golf balls. I knew another guy who did that, but he just cleaned up the balls and sold them back to the people who knocked them into the lake to begin with. Seems a few months ago Jim got a really good deal on some military surplus super glue. He got nine 55 gallon barrels full of super glue for $2.98, plus $718.98 for S&H. It was tax free, being surplus and all. He figures to build the whole shebang for under $1000.00, if he stays with 3/8inch PVC plumbing and puts Pat in charge of keeping the walls plumb as they go up. He plans to build it in sections, putting golf balls on a 4 ft.x 8 ft sheet on plywood, then standing it up. When I suggested he just use the plywood and leave off the golf balls, he said that would be cost prohibitive, as he's only going to use the one sheet of plywood. Pat will put the super glue on a ball, then stick another one to it. Put it on the wood and then stick another ball to it, and so on. When the sheet is full of golf balls, she then only has to stand it up. and make sure the glue is dry before letting the plywood drop, then start the next one. I can see where wind could be a factor.
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