I never said I played them well lol. Just that I played them.
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I didn't say that you played them well or poorly. I just mentioned that they are difficult to play well.
They were part of my weekly lesson and review, along with Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Mozart, and occasionally Beethoven. I was always surprised when my teacher thought that I played something well.
We had 3 BW3's (I still call them that
) where i used to live. Two were fine, one was horrible. The horrible one was owned by a different management company and it showed.Ate at the other two for lunch probably once a week.
Have been to the one in Prescott twice and Flag once. Mixed experiences from them. Service slow, food good or food cold, service good. Total crap shoot, but I love wings.
As for Hooter's, well the girls at the one we used to go to were not the reason to go. I love their burgers and buffalo chicken sandwich.
I lived in Florida when Hooter's was starting. Some dude tried to get a job as a server and they turned him down, telling him that he could work behind the scenes. There was another such restaurant, Wings something, and it was somewhat amusing to see them fighting over who did what and how big the "experiences" were.We had 3 BW3's (I still call them that
Ate at the other two for lunch probably once a week.
Have been to the one in Prescott twice and Flag once. Mixed experiences from them. Service slow, food good or food cold, service good. Total crap shoot, but I love wings.
As for Hooter's, well the girls at the one we used to go to were not the reason to go. I love their burgers and buffalo chicken sandwich.
Well, that hurt.
I have gout. Which annoys me because I don't believe I live the lifestyle that deserves gout (no rich puddings, no port, I eat my vegies (including pumpkin tips cooked in coconut milk - yummo!!!)).
As a result of it not being treated properly, I have a swollen toe. It is now being treated, and is improving, but is still red and swollen.
Thursday night is bin night. I put the three wheelie bins out, they magically empty themselves overnight, and in the morning, after the third (3rd) reminder from my beloved, I bring them in.
In the process, I manage to drop one of the three (the largest, of course) on my toe.
The red, swollen, sore toe.
It doesn't matter what treatment you are having, dropping a 20kg wheelie bin on it is always going to be painful.
Anyway, cleansing baths, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory dressings are helping.
I was wondering what the kama was going to be from replacing two garden taps without problems or leaks, and in only 5 minutes each. I guess this was it.
I have gout. Which annoys me because I don't believe I live the lifestyle that deserves gout (no rich puddings, no port, I eat my vegies (including pumpkin tips cooked in coconut milk - yummo!!!)).
As a result of it not being treated properly, I have a swollen toe. It is now being treated, and is improving, but is still red and swollen.
Thursday night is bin night. I put the three wheelie bins out, they magically empty themselves overnight, and in the morning, after the third (3rd) reminder from my beloved, I bring them in.
In the process, I manage to drop one of the three (the largest, of course) on my toe.
The red, swollen, sore toe.
It doesn't matter what treatment you are having, dropping a 20kg wheelie bin on it is always going to be painful.
Anyway, cleansing baths, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory dressings are helping.
I was wondering what the kama was going to be from replacing two garden taps without problems or leaks, and in only 5 minutes each. I guess this was it.
Too much red wine and red meat are what I associate gout with but that may not be accurate at all.
Hope it clears up quickly as I’ve heard it can be pretty painful.
Gout - I know a couple of people who have it - very nasty apparently - you have my sympathy. The media seem to heavily promote an idea that we've all come off a biological production line identically and that our 'reliability' and 'breakdown' issues are all to do with 'driving style and fuel use' etc. Most people I know try to lead reasonably healthy lives (as opposed to 40 day and a regular couple of pints at lunchtime back in the 70s and 80s) these days and yet reliability issues and breakdowns don't seem to be going away anytime soon... Anyone would think there was lots and lots of different blueprints for making us out there
Ouch.
I had assumed that the 'big toe' was the afflicted and suffering digit, which is why I asked, but, it also crossed my mind that this was not always, or inevitably, the case.
My sympathies.
Whichever toe that’s afflicted WILL be the one that you bang, scrap and stub more than all the others put together!
Good luck with it.
As I understand it, there’s a major genetic component associated with gout. So you can blame your parents as well. But you don’t need to blame yourself. Hope you get better soon.
That old favourite emblem I had on my denim jacket back in the 1970's 'live now pay later'.
Feels like at 63 years old I should take out a large loan, take several cruises, buy a new car and run up the credit card bills.
I don't think I would have to pay them off for long!!
Feels like at 63 years old I should take out a large loan, take several cruises, buy a new car and run up the credit card bills.
I don't think I would have to pay them off for long!!
Its a strange one. Gout is uric acid arthritis. Crystals forming between the joints mainly in the hands and feet like shards of broken glass. Associated with kidney function not being able to flush out the uric acid from the body.
I am becoming very familiar with this. My poor wife, after the cesarian section birth of our third daughter in 2021, has uric acid arthritis and she is in her mid thirties.
We are still searching for anything that could help her it is heart breaking for me.
I am thinking about my favourite burger now. Not today but in the past. Uk perspective and we may not have had the range of the USA.
Number 1 Wimpey loved the taste of the burger. Sadly bought out by Burger King and not many of them around now still branded Wimpey.
Number 2 Burger King.
Number 3 McDonalds
Now we have Gordon Ramsay's burger places, Five Guys and whole bunch of others but I have not tried them to be honest. In my twilight years I do not yearn for burgers anymore.
Number 1 Wimpey loved the taste of the burger. Sadly bought out by Burger King and not many of them around now still branded Wimpey.
Number 2 Burger King.
Number 3 McDonalds
Now we have Gordon Ramsay's burger places, Five Guys and whole bunch of others but I have not tried them to be honest. In my twilight years I do not yearn for burgers anymore.
We have 5 guys here in SE Michigan, I’d much rather go there than a large chain place, ie micky D’s, BK, etc.
Plus their shakes
I really like five guys too But they sort of expensive for fast food burger.We have 5 guys here in SE Michigan, I’d much rather go there than a large chain place, ie micky D’s, BK, etc.
Plus their shakes
I think I’m the only one on here that doesn’t eat at any of these places.
I just eat at home.
I just eat at home.
We have given up on the local fried chicken franchise (aka The Colonel). In the last year their prices have risen by about 60%. In Aus., now, it is cheaper, much cheaper, to eat healthily than to have deep fried salted junk food.
Pre-packaged salad for two - $3
Two (small) fillet steaks - $12
Total $15.
KFC 6 pieces - $16
Chips - $5
Total $ $21
And with the air fryer, it is quicker to sprinkle seasonings on a batch of chicken wings and cook them than to drive down to the take-away, contribute to the franchise-owner's BMW payments, and return with soggy, rapidly cooling doses of heart disease.
I don't go to fast food (say, McDonalds) or fast casual (for example, Chili's) chain restaurants (or, as they're called in the industry, stores, ugh) either, unless I am away from home and there aren't any alternatives. But if I have no choice, say, at a roadside rest stop or at a train station or at an odd hour, I'll go in for something defrosted and deep fried made by a minimally trained worker to match a photo on a laminated poster.
Long live Little Chef and Tim Horton's and Denny's!
;-)
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I am taking a preventative (Allopurinol), but you have to work up to the full dose in stages. In the meantime I have to accompany it with Colchicine (a plant hormone that make your pot* plants bud).
When the pain gets bad I will take ibuprofen + paracetamol. The two work better together than two of either.
* emphasis on the word pot
I can vouch for that though be careful with ibuprofen as it can cause stomach issues taken long term. Short term it helped with my herniated disk.
Yes, however the reason for taking one of each (or two of each in extreme circumstances) is that over the long term I take less of each than if I rely on only one or the other.
I am very conscious of that since I found out I have an inherited sensitivity to aspirin (and probably NSAIDS in general). I was given a prescription for Aspirin Forte by an idiot dentist, and ended up projectile vomiting a mix of blood and watermelon. Very dramatic... I have been careful with anti-inflammatories ever since.
I miss Tim Horton's multi-grain bread. There are so few locations in the U.S.A., though. I haven't gone to Denny's since they still had Sambo's, and made me sick.
I wish there were Checkers quick serve restaurants everywhere. I need my double-cooked fries.