On 2019 Jul 11 02:01:04, you wrote to Shawn Highfield:

 SH>> I'm hoping it goes away on it's own.  I'm still cooking meat for my
 SH>> wife and I sneak a taste every so often but every time makes me feel
 SH>> bad.

 DS> As Dave Drum said, that is a bummer.

no doubt... i can't imagine having to deal with that... but i have recently
been living on a lot more of a vegetarian type diet... mostly pintos and
similar beans (navy, northern, black, red, etc)...

a pot (starts as 1 pound or 2 cups dried) lasts me for a week or more...
sometimes i even have some meat and bones (pork neckbones, may be smoked) i can
 toss in it... depending on how i cook them, i can have a pot of formerly dried
 beans ready to eat in four hours... two to three days if i take the slow route
 and crockpot them... the four hour run is generally with the soak time being
30 to 45 minutes in a pressure cooker... then i drain (or not) the water and
cook them for a few more hours without the pressure...

if i throw in some meat and bones, then i move the beans (and maybe the water)
to another pot temporarily so i can pressure cook the meat and bones... they go
 in straight from the freezer and pressure cook for 35 to 45 minutes... then i
put the beans back in and add seasonings so everything can cook over medium-low
 heat and come together... there may be another 30 minutes persure cooking
after the beans, meat and bones have been mixed together...

 DS> It is interesting that the message that Dave responded to never
 DS> reached me nor Doc's Place.

AFAICT, it never reached here, either... and since dave's quote header doesn't
contain the date and time of the original message, i/we don't even have a
target date to look back to... it could be a really old message that dave
decided to respond to, though...

 DS> I also note that your uplink (Nick) sent this message to Belgium
 DS> (Ward), and from there to Finland, Australia, Australia and finally to
 DS> the USA (Janis) before coming to me.

the one you replied to came here via the following path... i have a direct
connection with nick boel's system so it branched off to my system before going
 completely all around the world like it did in getting to you... it did,
however, cross the atlantic twice...

  @PATH: 229/452 426 292/854 221/1 6 154/10 3634/12

229/452 : tiny's (shawn highfield)
229/426 : darkrealms (nick andre)
292/854 : many-glacier (ward dossche)
221/1   : RBB (tommi koivula)
221/6   : COW (tommi koivula)
154/10  : pharcyde hub (nicholas boel)
3634/12 : southeast star hub (my system)

 DS> Do you know if the message Dave responded to ever left your BBS?  I
 DS> think that he is known to visit there, as well as many other places.

i may see about setting up a direct connection with nick andre at some point...
 i've a few other irons in the fire to deal with at the moment 

)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... Sometimes I wish I could get a mirror with a better view...
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