>  ML> >  ML> > Crazy computer! (G) I worked at the Salvation Army camp
>  ML> outside of >  ML> Penn
>  ML> >  ML> Now it thinks I'm in New York City.
>  ML> Now it doesn't know if I'm in NYC or Rochester!
>  ML> I have not looked anything Rochestery up since
>  ML> the Penn Yan phenomenon.
> Something got into its little pea brain that made it think you wanted to
> be in Rochester.

One problem is that its little pea brain is no doubt
connected to someone else's larger brain. Do a simple
experiment, Google "weather here" without quotation
marks. It would be interesting to see where your cookies
and things imply you are (I have cookies and trackers
supposedly turned off, but that's not working so well).
Edited to say: It says I am now in Cambridge, Mass., 
which is correct.

>  ML> > OTOH, my screen fades out, then back in from time to time. Nothing
>  ML> lost > but it's annoying, especially when reading or replying. Seems
>  ML> to do it > only with Fido, but I'm not on the internet that much so
>  ML> haven't noticed > it there.
>  ML> That sounds to be a weak connection about to go. Perhaps
>  ML> something needs soldering.
> Steve would have to check that out; it's nothing I'd know where to to
> look for.

It sounds annoying enough so somebody has to look.

>  ML> >  ML> Keuka Lake is kind of nice if cold.
>  ML> > Like about all of the Finger Lakes. The camp had a pool so we didn't
>  ML> > have to deal with cold water for swimming.
>  ML> I'm not so sure that with my heart I should be jumping
>  ML> into a lake, though people may want me to.
> I did enough times as a kid that I can pass on it now.

It turns out what my friends consider swimming most
often consists of wading in gradually, acclimating to
the cold water, possibly getting all the way in and
possibly not. It turns out too that zebra mussels have
invaded the lakes to the degree that you have to wear
shoes to go out into the water at all!

>  ML> >  ML> German-style Riesling. And needs exercise.
>  ML> > I'd pass on both the wine and the hike. A shorter walk, maybe, but
>  ML> not a > 6 hour one.
>  ML> My record was 24 trail miles with a sizable mountain
>  ML> in one dawn to dusk go, but I used to be in shape.
> I've not done that much of a hike in one day. The right knee has been
> less than great since my freshman year in college (major traumatic
> injury) and my folks were never into serious hiking when I was a kid.

That and everything associated with it are over anyway. 
That particular hike involved peak-bagging Owl's Head,
a massive slog that involved 6 miles (3 in and 3 out) of 
essentially road walk to a public campground, 12 to 15 miles 
of not too difficult trail, much on old logging roads, and 
the rest a steep but easy bushwhack through mostly fairly
open woods and past a natural phenomenon known by the
puerile name Peeing Rock. Also several generally easy
stream crossings, only one was swollen from recent rains
and which I fell in, landing on my back. If I'd landed
on my front, things might have been fairly difficult for
a while.

>  ML> >  ML> We trust your tastes and local knowledge.
>  ML> > OK, we're going to check out some seafood places.
>  ML> That sounds good, but one thing crossed my mind; if
>  ML> people really want prime rib, we can do it ourselves
>  ML> given enough oven space.
> We have a standard range but if people want to try grilling beef, we've
> several options there.

I suppose one could grill a rib roast to good effect.

>  ML> >  ML> > A grain or two of salt helps also. (G)
>  ML> >  ML> I'd prefer low-sodium insurance.
>  ML> > That's why I said only a grain or two, not a shaker full. (G)
>  ML> I wonder how that idiom came about.
> Haven't the foggiest notion!

Well, it's an ancient Latin locution, but that
begs the question.

>  ML> > We also had The Highway (C&W, from Nashville) on for a bit. Heard
>  ML> Scotty > McCreery, the young man from Garner that won American Idol
>  ML> back in 2010 > do several numbers. Some good music, but a lot of
>  ML> repetiton on that station.
>  ML> That's how hits are made.
> Some numbers were pretty good, others, pretty forgettable.

De gustibus and all that.

>  ML> >  ML> Crispy Chicken Cheesy Gringa
>  ML> > Looks good but would leave off the cilantro or just have it
>  ML> available > for those who wanted it.
>  ML> It's easy to omit and easy to add for those who miss
>  ML> it. I've discovered in my old age that though I don't
>  ML> really like the stuff, I tolerate it much better than
>  ML> before. What's odd is that I am beginning to dislike
>  ML> regular parsley almost as much.
> Probably had it as one garnish too many.

Sprigs are easy. It's the chopped and strewn all
over the place that gets irritating.

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      Title: Kathy Pitts' Breakfast Tacos
 Categories: Mexican, Breakfast
      Yield: 4 servings
 
      1 md Potato, boiled and cut
           -into chunks or grated
      4 sl Bacon
      4    Eggs, lightly beaten
      4    Flour tortilla
 
  Place bacon in a cold pan, and cook until almost crisp.  All the fat
  should be rendered.  Remove bacon from pan, and drain.
  
  Place potato chunks in the pan, and cook, turning occasionally, until
  well browned and crisp.  Cut bacon into 1 inch pieces, and add to
  potatoes. Immediately pour eggs over the potato/bacon mixture, and
  cook, stirring frequently, until soft-scrambled.
  
  Spoon mixture into heated flour tortillas, and roll or fold.
  
  Serve with pico de gallo, hot sauce, chopped cilantro, jalapeno
  peppers to be added as desired.
  
  In actuality, the filling can be darn near anything you have handy
  (eggs optional).  Leftover fajitas are great, as is Mexican-style
  chorizo (which makes the greasiest breakfast tacos known to man, if
  you don't drain the cooked chorizo mixture VERY well before adding
  the eggs). Cheese may be added to the mixture, or sprinkled on the
  cooked ingredients before rolling.
  
  Kathy in Bryan, TX
 
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