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Well, I have to congratulate you - I was invested enough in Harrison to want to keep following and eventually see him resolve his grief ( or not). That's got to be hard to do in such a short piece.

Well, he did meet the criteria.

It was good, but I wanted more.

What kind of potato salad? I make it a few different ways.

Respect the language, dammit. Zeni's schtick is creepy and, as he ages, becomes creepier. However, he meets neither the legal nor the diagnostic criteria for a pedophile. He, or at least the character he inflicts on us, is an ephebophile.

He's not a pedophile, he's an ephebophile.

I sit corrected.

Sonic Rican, dude.

I can dream.

Good. Now if they'd just stop making their stupid quarters...

I can't think of any bills you could do that to in American currency. But if I was still living up near the border, it'd be tempting to have a couple of those in my wallet.

Have you seen this yet? https://www.radio.com/articles/star-trek-fans-canada-told-stop-drawing-spock-5-bills

Thank you...I'm going to have to pull out Dad's biscuit recipe now. 😊

It makes for a very tasty cheese sauce. What exactly is tomato gravy? The only time I ever heard about making it was from a friend who used to dump a can of tomatoes into the pan she tried ham in and cooking it down.

No, no, don't cut him any slack. Knowing his history, he should be held to a higher standard.

I usually make it with butter for mac and cheese, and it's always sticky, but this was for a roasted cauliflower and bacon casserole - it called for using the bacon grease, and damn...the last time I made anything that was so persistent was when I forgot to grease the pan when I made brownies. I was just curious as to whether anybody else had run into this.

And she was singing the song of her people as she walked across the keyboard...

Contentment is enough. Happiness is the whipped cream on the pudding.

There have been a lot of female singers and female groups in the last 50 years. Exactly what are you looking for? You mean like church choirs or school singing groups or pop groups? And how young? Remember, I'm old, and a pop group where the members are in their late teens/early 20's are kids to me.

For little girls of European heritage, it's never really been a thing - most singing groups started with the Church, and females weren't allowed, hence castrati. By the time that the Church decided that little boys shouldn't have to sacrifice their balls for the sake of beautiful music, and that adult women, although evil and probably brides of Satan, could sing, little girls had been pretty much left in the dust, musically speaking.

What? It's bacon grease, from bacon, Nature's perfect food (except when it comes to clean-up).

Is it just me, or does roux made with bacon grease (and the sauce that's made with it) tend to stick more than roux made with butter? I ask this after pretty much having to sandblast the dishes after making a casserole which required a cheese sauce made with a bacon grease based roux. Standard mac and cheese has never seemed this challenging to clean up.

How many kids? And are you treating everybody, or just Mom? My kids took me to a Melting Pot for fondue one year - it was really nice. Just the three of us, no grandkids, no sons in law... sometimes, it's a treat to just spend time with the kids minus the attachments.