The Person Below Me...

[Hydromet]

Nah, good cooking requires a man's touch, and a man's appetite to eat it.

TPBM believes that whoever does the cooking gets to choose the menu.

[Slasher]

In SE Asia it's she who does the cookin' and he gets to choose the menu - unless she's imposed a forced diet on him!

TPBM prefers only a main course for dinna, and dessert maybe now and then.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

True, almost never eat dessert.

TPBM likes fresh fish and homemade chips for lunch.

[Hydromet]

True, like fresh fish for any meal, and crisp homemade chips can't be beaten.

TPBM prefers home-cooked food every time, even if he cooks it himself.

[larsssnowpharter]

True. With the exception of football training nights, I do all the cooking in our house. And because I'm such a tightwad who finds eating out for the most part, a waste of money, mostly we eat at home often entertaining friends.

TPBM quite likes dandelions (after all, they are easy to grow, look nice and the leaves are good in a salad) and fails to understand the English fetish for perfectly groomed lawns.

[Slasher]

Tiddlywinks, lawn bowls, cricket and polo would all cease if perfectly groomed manicured and spit-polished lawns ceased to exist in England. Can't have that old chap what!

TPBM is having a real blah day - feeling blah and doing blah.

[Hydromet]

No, I'm having a beer with D1 before she returns to the USA tomorrow, armed with a student visa to do her instrument rating. Day is anything but blah.

TPBM is very proud of their children.

[Slasher]

Sure am. 10 years old, accomplished Super Cub pilot, straight A student, extremely polite and well behaved. Fortunately he inherited his mum's intelligence and not mine.

TPBM slept in and didn't bother going to church this morning.

[Hydromet]

True. Sleeping in is unusual; not going to church isn't.

TPBM Even got a bit of work done today.

[Slasher]

Yep. Last night in fact.

TPBM believes doing absolutely nothing useful is sheer hard work to accomplish successfully.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

True it's less tiring to keep busy.

TPBM likes watching aircraft crash investigation programmes

[larsssnowpharter]

Indeed I do but not from a voyeuristic point of view.

I sent part of the last few years of my working life investigating 'events'.

The most investigated events are aircraft accidents. The methodology used is superb especially in reference to human factors.

Over a period of time, I used some of these techniques combined them with Why Tree, Six Sigma and drill down to make things a bit safer.

TPBM sometimes wonders what information a dog gleans from a 5 min sniff at the base of a tree.

[Hydromet]

They are just checking their post or p-mail.

TPBM has just cleaned out a load of old papers and now regrets throwing stuff out.

[Slasher]

I don't throw stuff out. It's the wife that does!

Once needed a length of thickish rope of about 15 inches. I then remembered having something like that in the garage. Searched everywhere but couldn't find it. Wife said she threw it out years ago with all the other greasy dirty stuff (work rags cut up from my old flannel shirts and cotton undies, half a plier, hammer handle, etc).

TPBM finds uses for old stuff that years before was once considered junk.

[4mastacker]

I've got loads of old ice cream containers in me garage filled with bits n bobs that might just come in handy. Wifey calls it clutter but I call it contingency planning - you never know when that little emergency might raise its ugly head and you've got just the bit to sort it.

TPBM is still contemplating what to have for breakfast.

[Hydromet]

Not quite breakfast yet here. Will I cook m'self an omelette or heat up a pie. Decisions, decisions.

TPBM believes that red wine is a good accompaniment for any food.

[Slasher]

True. Also, Gulf moonshine makes a nice after dinna drink.

TPBM is presently on no medication whatsoever.

[Fliegenmong]

On no medication at all however was was on Endone (Red neck Heroin) amonth ago, post hand operation...good stuff...especially if you push it a little and down it with a few wines...

Of course careful enough not to suspend my breathing to the point of death!

TPBM also thinks some medication guidlines are 'serving suggestions'

[Slasher]

Sometimes.

TPBM reckons food recipes can only be really truly understood by women.

[Hydromet]

Nah, cooking is just chemistry.

TPBM reckons that if they don't have to cook it themselves, it tastes pretty good.