June, 2017 ~ What's for dinner?

bethk wrote:gotta have mashed potatoes with salisbury steak, Jimmy ~ butter AND gravy, huh?

Yep! Butter Ooze!
I had double butter on my Wendy's potato.
It was light; because it was whipped butter.

Bugster2 wrote:It sounds like (and this comes from a techie moron) that you might have to have all of your software removed and reloaded. You lose a lot but you might lose the bugs too.

Beth wrote:I want pizza....wish a certain Mr. Amazing would agree.

But I want mine made MY way.....deep dish with fresh dough, cheese layer, topped with sliced green olives & chopped Vidalia onion, then 'splotches' of sauce (just a bit) and finally a sprinkling of Romano, freshly grated.

I'm not a fan of a lot of sauce on my pizza and I only want mozzarella ~ no cheddar, no colby....just mozzarella ~ oh, and the freshly grated Romano, for the saltiness.

NormM wrote:I have not been doing much cooking because Charlie has not had much of an appetite and I am trying to lose some weight.

NormM wrote:I have a mac computer and even though the (wireless) mouse does not have any buttons on it, I can right click and scroll just by moving my finger across it like you can with a touchpad.

Bugster2 wrote:If it is indeed the keyboard/touchpad that is the problem, then buy another laptop. There is no need to spend $500 on one. Many of the office supply stores or BestBuy will have them on sale. I think I paid $300 for mine which has a 17" screen and Win10. I have been told that laptops usually go out after about 3 years. In my case, that seems to be true. Roomie's laptop died after 2 years. Our Ipod battery died after 2 years and Apple wanted $179.00 to install a new one. The average Joe can't do it because it requires soldering. Companies deliberately build things to break so you have to buy a new one. The $h--s. Joe just bought a $17.00 charger/external battery for the Ipod so he can still use it at the beach.

Crybaby wrote:

Bugster2 wrote:If it is indeed the keyboard/touchpad that is the problem, then buy another laptop. There is no need to spend $500 on one. Many of the office supply stores or BestBuy will have them on sale. I think I paid $300 for mine which has a 17" screen and Win10. I have been told that laptops usually go out after about 3 years. In my case, that seems to be true. Roomie's laptop died after 2 years. Our Ipod battery died after 2 years and Apple wanted $179.00 to install a new one. The average Joe can't do it because it requires soldering. Companies deliberately build things to break so you have to buy a new one. The $h--s. Joe just bought a $17.00 charger/external battery for the Ipod so he can still use it at the beach.

I will definitely buy another one rather than spend even a third of its value to get it fixed, Deb.  But if I can remedy the problem and use it for a while with a mouse, I will definitely do that, at least until I get finished paying for the stuff we're getting done to the house.  I know it's not a tremendous amount of money but I know me -- I'll probably be upgrading stuff as the house work gets going if need be to make it look nice, so I would rather stretch out the life of this laptop so I can use the bucks toward the house if I need to (or want to   ).  

Bugster2 wrote:Out here the only place you can get New England hot dog buns is either at a restaurant that makes lobster rolls, or you have to make them yourself. When I was in the grocery store today I walked past a large loaf of French bread. I thought I would give that a try for the rolls. I cut off the butt end, then sliced about 1/2 inch in, not quite to the bottom, then made another slice, half an inch away, but all the way through. A faux NE hot dog bun. I threw it in the toaster to brown and filled it with mustard, relish and a dog. Not bad.

Bugster2 wrote:Out here the only place you can get New England hot dog buns is either at a restaurant that makes lobster rolls, or you have to make them yourself. When I was in the grocery store today I walked past a large loaf of French bread. I thought I would give that a try for the rolls. I cut off the butt end, then sliced about 1/2 inch in, not quite to the bottom, then made another slice, half an inch away, but all the way through. A faux NE hot dog bun. I threw it in the toaster to brown and filled it with mustard, relish and a dog. Not bad.

NormM wrote:Here was dinner tonight.

Crybaby wrote:
I will definitely buy another one rather than spend even a third of its value to get it fixed, Deb.  But if I can remedy the problem and use it for a while with a mouse, I will definitely do that, at least until I get finished paying for the stuff we're getting done to the house.  I know it's not a tremendous amount of money but I know me -- I'll probably be upgrading stuff as the house work gets going if need be to make it look nice, so I would rather stretch out the life of this laptop so I can use the bucks toward the house if I need to (or want to   ).  

I have the Mac mouse connected right now and it still occasionally repeats the problem but not as often, and the Mac mouse is not exactly working as a mouse should.  I ordered a wireless Mouse today from Amazon which should come tomorrow so I'll see how that does -- it was only $13.00 for a Microsoft mouse, which I can return if it doesn't solve the problem.  So far, it is giving me a lot more time online, though I've had to use my finger rather than the Mac mouse a lot as the mouse just isn't responding properly on Windows...

I'll definitely be looking at sales on laptops, though...