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Lobster -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/13/2021 4:26:27 PM)

Old people tend to shy away from that word. [:D]

Perhaps the smart people are getting fully vaccinated and are finally out doing stuff. Perhaps. [;)]

<--- Fully vaccinated.



Talon_XBMCX -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/13/2021 7:29:39 PM)

Hopefully it's just the spring thaw and folks are getting out to enjoy the sunshine.



Zovs -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/13/2021 9:58:19 PM)

We are all playing War in the East 2, all the cool kiddies are texting like mad... come and join the party.

WitE 2 the BEST Eastern Front game period. Nothing else even comes close.



Aurelian -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/13/2021 10:00:21 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Zovs

We are all playing War in the East 2, all the cool kiddies are texting like mad... come and join the party.

WitE 2 the BEST Eastern Front game period. Nothing else even comes close.

^^^^^



Bamilus -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/13/2021 10:46:07 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Zovs

We are all playing War in the East 2, all the cool kiddies are texting like mad... come and join the party.

WitE 2 the BEST Eastern Front game period. Nothing else even comes close.


FACT!



Perturabo -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 8:04:18 AM)

I was quite busy with stuff. Mostly hanging out on Tumblr or in youtube comments/chats or various other forums. Well, I'm usually busy with stuff.



RFalvo69 -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 9:59:38 AM)

I'm busy renovating part of the restaurant.

When it was clear that the pandemic would have been a long-term affair I talked to my wife and we agreed to do a jump in the dark: expand our capacity to do pizza. Now it is (barely) saving us, because the take-away business skyrocketed. We offer a variety of take-away dishes but, of course, pizzas cover about 80% of the requests.

It was a rush job. We now took a week to properly fix the new oven. Almost finished [:)]



RFalvo69 -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 11:28:03 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Grognerd_INC

Glad to see your back, I hope the restaurant does well! If I were younger, in better health I would love to eat there!

We do special dishes - we only ask for one-day warning.

If one day you want to eat "chez-nous" you only have to say what your specific needs are and we will be glad to put together something nice [:)]



OldSarge -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 2:56:16 PM)

After watching Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy series, visiting Italy is on the old bucket list. I'm glad to hear that your restaurant is making do, sadly a lot of mom and pop restaurants in my area couldn't adjust to take-away, hopefully this will all pass soon enough and you'll be back at 100%.



Platoonist -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 3:07:27 PM)

I have fond memories of the meals taken in Italy when I was there. As they say, the food alone is worth the trip. [;)]



springel -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 4:08:51 PM)

I was in Rome with my school in 1972. First lunch was a lasagna, an unknown dish in Groningen at the time. Also learned to appreciate an espresso standing at a stainless steel bar in the street.
Next year I travelled with an Eurorail card to Greece, but on the return trip I spent a week in Rome again. I wanted to show this place to my new found girlfriend from Munich.
In 1980 I made a trip through Northern Italy with my Corsican girlfriend. We came from France, Genua, Pisa, the Tuscan countryside to Florence. Very good food in tiny restaurants in small villages. While in the 70's banking in Rome was so bad that they didn't even have change in shops, in 1980 Northern Italy the banks were at the front in technology with flashy Olivetti computer systems that handled my Dutch bank account more efficiently than my home bank in Groningen.
Then it was 2008 when I stayed a week in Reggio Emilia with an internet friend from Cologne to visit the private Collezione Maramotti. From there we also went to Parma and Bologna, but somehow I preferred Reggio, because it was a friendly small university town, without lots of tourists, while still having that same Mediaeval architecture, everything just a little bit smaller. I was surprised that German was more useful to communicate with the locals than English, but then, their nearest neighbours are Austrians and Swiss.




OldSarge -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 5:09:31 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Grognerd_INC

As stupid as it sounds, I just went to Five Guys and had a hamburger! First time out eating in a year and a month. Yes I got my final shot so I'm living dangerously! Ha!


I just got my second shot, the first thing I'm going to line up after it sets is a real haircut in order to get rid of this COVID mop. Maybe after that hit a Fudruckers.



OldSarge -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 6:50:31 PM)

Just driving around town is risky behavior. Too many distracted drivers. I almost got hit by a redlight runner on my way to the first shot. Getting killed in a traffic accident while on one's way to get vaccinated would be the irony of ironies. The Universe isn't without a sense of humor. [8D]



berto -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 7:07:12 PM)

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ORIGINAL: OldSarge

Maybe after that hit a Fudruckers.

Fuddruckers! Yum! <drooooool...>



RFalvo69 -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 7:48:16 PM)


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ORIGINAL: OldSarge

After watching Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy series, visiting Italy is on the old bucket list. I'm glad to hear that your restaurant is making do, sadly a lot of mom and pop restaurants in my area couldn't adjust to take-away.


Strange, because for restaurants, pizzerias and similar services it is the way to survive the pandemic. I won't lie: you take an heavy cut but at least you keep your nose above water (barely).

Having said that, Easter with the restaurant dark and closed and only take-aways (from a strict menu, made by us, of "Easter dishes", like many varieties of lamb) was a sad experience. Last Christmas was not much better. My father-in-law was a kid during World War Two and actually was among all those people - and soldiers! - who helped the Allies disembark after Operation Baytown. He still loves to speak about his role in the "allied effort" [:D] After Easter he told me: "Life under Mussolini was not bad. When the Allies arrived it was even better. Yes, we suffered from food and other amenities shortages during the war but I never saw anything like this..."



RFalvo69 -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 8:03:21 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Grognerd_INC

Yep, Saturday is my 69th birthday and I think we will go to Makoto's Japanese restaurant or maybe Red Ginger Chinese food or last but not least Texas Roadhouse for a bone-in rib-eye. Still not the 2 weeks after the final shot so a little risk but life is a risk isn't it?

Believe it or not, but I swore that the first thing I'll eat after all of this ends will be a double cheeseburger with bacon and anything else they can fit it. There is a Tex-Mex restaurant nearby, now closed. When they open again (for real, not the sad openings between lockdowns) I'll be their first client.



OldSarge -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 10:42:22 PM)

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ORIGINAL: RFalvo69


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ORIGINAL: OldSarge

After watching Stanley Tucci's Searching for Italy series, visiting Italy is on the old bucket list. I'm glad to hear that your restaurant is making do, sadly a lot of mom and pop restaurants in my area couldn't adjust to take-away.


Strange, because for restaurants, pizzerias and similar services it is the way to survive the pandemic. I won't lie: you take an heavy cut but at least you keep your nose above water (barely).



I think what really hurt them is that their model relied upon the work crowd coming in for breakfast and/or lunch. When everyone was sent to work from home, they lost most of their business to restaurants with drive-up windows. I do hope they come back as we begin to slowly ease up on the restrictions.



Artaud -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/14/2021 11:14:44 PM)

I got takeout from my favorite Chinese restaurant recently to show support. But I've mostly been sheltering in place for the last year-plus.

Got my first shot last week.

My mother died from COVID in February.

My wife has been stuck in the Philippines since January 2020. Through January 2021 the pandemic was out of control here, and so trying to come home was unsafe for her because of her medical history. Now, things are improving here but there is an upsurge in the Philippines, so she is sheltering in place. I don't know when she can come home.

These are bleak times. I'll be 64 in June.



Artaud -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/15/2021 10:51:38 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Grognerd_INC

Wow, I'm sorry to hear that, really! I hope and think that it will work out for you. Looks like it has been pretty darn tough for you and your wife.

Condolences on your Mom too, there really is nothing I can say that mends a loss like that.


Thank you. These are really, really bleak times.



RangerJoe -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/24/2021 3:24:49 AM)

I went out yesterday (Thursday) to a place that I had not been to before. A delicious mushroom and swiss burger with onions also potatoes that were frenched and then fried served with mayonaise. We had a very friendly and nice waitress. [:D] Apparently, she escaped fro the land of flowers. [;)]

Some restaurants are still closed, unfortunately some permanently. No buffets are open yet. Variety is the spice of life but some people, like Tiger Woods forgot something very important. While variety is the spice of life, married people should not be caught sampling - especially when the wife has access to the golf clubs!



RangerJoe -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/24/2021 3:26:59 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Talon_XBMCX

Hopefully it's just the spring thaw and folks are getting out to enjoy the sunshine.


Spring thaw? Some people are still expecting snow . . . [X(]



Lobster -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/24/2021 3:51:37 AM)

Snows every spring. No big deal. Have had snow in May. [:)]

I don't live far enough north for it to snow later than that.



RangerJoe -> RE: So what happened to this forum? (4/24/2021 4:01:03 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Lobster

Snows every spring. No big deal. Have had snow in May. [:)]

I don't live far enough north for it to snow later than that.


I have seen snow in June and in September and not in the mountains. Some people have told me about snow here during the first part of July, a day when a lot of people celebrate something.

But you probably would not guess the US state which it snows the most days of the year on average, three guesses.



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