Clam Chowder in a sourdough bowl was started in San Francisco. It’s weird packaging and I can’t tell if it’s great (hey, bread in soup) or horrible (soggy, leaky, messy). What other product has weird packaging?
Yaz's grandson plays for the Giants (yah I know he has been for a while but I just crawled out of me man cave) and he's pretty good. I grew up watching his grandfather, Rice, Lynn, Tiant among others at Fenway. Which ballpark was your park as a kid? (I told you degenerates I'd be back).
Same...altho during my formative East Bay years, the open outfield Coliseum (Billy Ball!) was my hangout (easy for a high school kid to get to). At Cal, shifted back to Candlestick. Roomie and I would wake up on a Sat morn and decide to go to the game. Each would get a $3 ($4?) Togo's sammy on Bancroft, park on city streets beyond the outfield, get bleacher tix for like $2.50. Prob a drink somewhere. But with bridge toll, prob like $10 each?
But of course, plenty of Croix du Candlestick nights! (Apologies for the mangled French prepositions.)
For a change, something entirely new: Quite excellent '08 De Saint Gall to start; Moroccan Meatballs, grilled Halloumi slices, roasted eggplant pilaf, yogurt-cucumber salad, mild & spicy Harissa to accompany, 2016 K-Vintners "powerline Vyn" Syrah to was it down. Daughter made butterscotch budino for afters.
Also, does anyone have a linkedin profile? I'd love to connect on there, so all of you can know who I am and what I hope to be in the future. I luckily stumbled upon Avinash's profile while in the cesspool and realized I should be making a more concerted effort to reach out and move up the ladder in the life!
I have one. A friend of mine let me know about it way early on. Other than getting linked to people I know, I don't really use it. I have gotten some job inquiries from recruiters through it but for the most part I ignore them. I don't want to work for facebook, even if you keep asking me every week.
Yeah, I've put Write for Cal / CGB on my LinkedIn profile. Occasionally I'll get messages from B2B marketers trying to contact me re: my day job (i.e. sell software/services to the company I work for), but they'll use Cal football as an opening. It's...weird.
- Rallying to force overtime @UCLA, only to lose when the FG attempt hits the upright
- Giving up a safety (on a botched snap to the punter) to SoMiss to start the home opener, then scoring 34 unanswered points
- The lights going out in Eugene, after which the Bears lost the momentum and blew a 10-point lead to lose.
- Aaron Rodgers outdueling Marcus Vick and VaTech in the Insight Bowl, finally winning it 52-49 on a FG as time expired.
A very non-pedestrian 8-6 team, one that somehow never had a winning record until they beat Furd to secure a winning record and their first bowl bid in 7 years.
Like others, I have a profile that is infrequently updated and not used very often. I've been with the same company for 14 years now so haven't felt much need for LinkedIn.
I have one but I don't use it too often. I get a lot of "you're getting noticed" and contact requests that I ignore. I'm still on FB since I have friends from the decade of the 2000's that I like to keep up with.
I haven't seen this in the Bay Area, but that's how everything is in the UK because it's all shipped so far, it gets wrapped at its origin and packed that way.
Stuff that is wearhoused before going to stores often gets that treatment now. I read something a while back (years) that the average vegetable in the US travels over 1,000 miles from farm to store.
Soy sauce come in little packets everywhere else in the world except Japan. The Japanese invented a massive packaging improvement in the 1950s - a tiny plastic fish filled with tiny amount of soy sauce. Its flexible, so it's easy to apply the exact amount of soy sauce you want - unlike the packet. And the top seals it so you don't have excess sauce getting everywhere after you're done. If you get a bento box in Japan, you can bet it comes with one of these little guys in it. I can recall ever seeing them in the US.
There was a time when it was the standard after waxed heavy paper cartons and before plastic jugs. You had to get a plastic pitcher specific for it. Didn't last long because of the spillage/loss from punctured bags, compared with jugs.
I have a small tiff w/ my wife. She keeps the tamper-seal lids (that foil or thin plastic seal below the lid) partly connected. I argue that a second lid doesn't keep it any fresher when sealed and just gets in the way when trying to access it. Logic has no business in disagreements between spouses.
My wife does the same thing and I live in a private hell because of it. It bugs me to no end for exactly the reason you say. I've brought it up to her, yet she still does it. It doesn't bother her that I completely remove the lid when I find them, but she still does it.
My theory is that some people just don't like to throw things away. So if you remove that part, then you have to throw it away. Why, I don't know. Maybe handling trash is distasteful.
I tend to do what your wife does, but I don't feel strongly about it. My insane rage is reserved for people who insist on using dish towels for anything other than drying dishes 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I've primarily used them as impromptu pot holders. More specifically, to hold hot dinnerware out of the microwave or otherwise, when I want to make my way over to the couch in true lazy fashion.
I’m from Monterey and it reminds me of home. I remember on 9/11 seeing the news was really upsetting, so my friend and I went to Old Fisherman’s Grotto on the wharf and got bread bowls. I think that may be the only time I have ever gotten a bread bowl, which I usually think of as a manufactured tourist experience. But it was oddly comforting that day.
We will occasionally buy soup and a boule of sourdough and make the bread bowl at home. We toast the bread that we carve out and dip it in the soup as we eat. Yum! Depending on how big the bread is, sometimes we eat it all, sometimes not.
Legal Seafood (the gold standard of seafood in Boston) caters the White House inaugurations with their chowder, and their fish chowder recipe is available online:
coincidentally, I have a guest in town who I took to the Legal near me last night. Had been to a couple before, but my first time finally having their clam chowder, and I thought it was good but not particularly something to write home about. Some variables involved of course, with locations and timing. We went pretty late in the evening, and it coulda been that scrape-from-the-bottom blend.
My favorite ever clam chowder was from a place called Row 34 in the seaport area in Boston, which isn't completely classic style. Favorite classic New England style was always from Union Oyster House, which was always a go-to location for giving visitors the tourist experience.
Splash Cafe in Pismo Beach is the the standard I judge all other clam chowders on. Would always stop in for a bread bowl and then get some frozen packs for future yums
Need to hit more restaurants in the NW, near the coast. Good chowder and good bread is pretty common, and there are a number of outstanding places. Also, try slumgullion some time. Chowder with other seafood in addition to clams.
It was where my aunt took me for graduation dinner from Cal (she went to Cal in the 60s - and complained about the free speech movement impending her way to class) - it was the only "fancy" place she knew in Berkeley.
I've been making it every couple of weeks since about last Sept. Got a starter from my BIL and his recipe which is basically the Tartine recipe. Love it. I'd like to try forming baguettes but I'll need to look for a proofing thing that is baguette shaped. I assume they have them but I haven't looked yet.
No 3 and I went to the Molinari and Sons deli in North Beach to get sandwiches before going to the Chase Center to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I was surprised they didn't have sourdough. Unless their hard french bread was sourdough but I didn't think it was.
If true ("...this nonsense") and I don't know if it is, now would be the time to cut this out of WFC to save on expenses...even if those expenses are margins. Whatta you think?
I'm being flippant. To me the DBD seems like such a unique, bizarre thing to try and price, and I kinda don't want to examine that, but rather just let it be.
The current W4C cost structure (on the Substack platform, at least), is basically all overhead, and no marginal costs whatsoever. This might change on a different platform.
Yah, and perhaps I was being flippant. Cuz clearly DBD has a lot of value, arguably more so than the sports section based on TRAFFIC. I think it is great that DBD provides a haven for peeps to congregate and discuss whatever is on their mind in a fun vibrant community. Well hell that type of unique entertainment has value.
DBD has always had a lot of comments, dating back to the CGB days. DBD is very active during the off-season but the sports comments start to pickup once the season starts. If Cal ever gets really good again or at least 03-07 type of success you’ll see the sports portion really get active with a lot of comments.
Although, the DBD use to get even more comments in the good old days.
It definitely feels a lot more fresh and the representation of a new era of Cal athletics. My only critique is that I would've gone with a lighter shade of blue (I know darker blue is more Cal but we can spin in like Joe Roth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Neither is Yale Blue. UC Berkeley rebranded in 2007, dropping Yale Blue for Berkeley Blue. Athletics has been using a darker blue for much longer - but inconsistently. Go back and look at Joe Roth, Rich Campbell, and even the early years of Gale Gilbert & J Torchio and you'll see them wearing Yale Blue. If memory serves correct, the end of lighter blue was the 1981 season. In 1982, I think they switched to the very dark blue jersey with the famous "Bear Claw" on the helmet. Since then through 2007, Cal has been various shades of blue that are darker than Yale Blue, except on Joe Roth throwback days.
I mean, yes, but also my understanding is that the destruction this time was due to the sustained strength of the winds and rain, fueled by warmer waters in the shallow Caribbean Sea, rather that floodwaters per se, and that the levees actually held pretty well this time.
Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity; little whirls have lesser whirls & so on to viscosity. Somewhere in the mix you have tornadoes and such.
A conservative Florida radio host who spoke out against Covid-19 vaccines died after a weekslong fight with the virus, marking the third radio personality to die from coronavirus who publicly rejected vaccines.
The death of Marc Bernier, 65, who was a mainstay on talk radio in Daytona Beach, was announced Saturday night by WNDB, the radio station he was affiliated with for three decades.
Supply chains for the house remodel are in terrible shape. We're not able to get the floors, door, plumbing fixtures, lighting etc. that we want, and even when we compromise on what we get, we pay more for slower delivery.
I predict that 15 years from now, people will refer to houses built or remodelled during this time to be "Covid Period Houses", identifiable by things that don't quite match, or maybe even don't match by a lot.
TBB, I bought some of the duckbill masks, and realized I'd tried them before, back when I didn't know one mask from another. They're a little harder to put on than the ear only type, so I went away from them. But I now find that I get a much better seal, and I don't have the glasses fogging problem with these, so I'm now a duckbill fan!
The immune system uses a special mechanism to protect children from novel viruses—and it typically saves them from a severe course of COVID-19 in two different ways. In the mucous membranes of their airways, it is much more active than that of adults. In children, this system reacts much faster to viruses that it has never encountered, such as pandemic pathogens. At least, that is what a recent study by Irina Lehmann of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité and her colleagues suggests.
The researchers examined differences in the cell types of the mucous membranes of children and adolescents. As the team reports in Nature Biotechnology, children do not only have many more immune cells in their mucous membranes; they also more quickly produce type I interferons, which are crucial for fighting viruses. As a result, these key molecules may also provide protection from the dysregulation of the immune system that occurs in many severe cases of COVID-19.
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But why do only children have this highly effective protection? There are several reasons, Binder explains. “If the body had always activated this [process], it would of course create an incredible selection pressure on the pathogens,” he says. The viruses would have adapted long ago. In addition, the body cannot afford this system in the long term. “Of all signaling systems, the interferon response causes the greatest change in the cell’s genetic activity,” Binder says. If this response was left on permanently, it would have massive effects on cell activity and thus the body as a whole.
In a game full of All-Star sluggers on both sides, it was Tony Kemp who hit the go-ahead homer at the Coliseum on Sunday.
Kemp’s long ball in the 8th inning put the Oakland A’s on top in a 3-1 victory over the New York Yankees, salvaging a split for Oakland in the finale of their four-game series together.
Several times over the past couple weeks, we’ve seen the A’s serve up a two-run homer in the late innings of a close game, but today it was Oakland coming up with the clutch dinger.
TWO errors in the same at bat. 1) Gomes dropped a foul pop-up that should have ended the inning on Rizzo's at bat. Then, 2) Chapman lets grounder through his legs, allowing Rizzo to reach base safely and Sanchez to score, tying the game at 1 each.
You all convinced me that Canha was not worth much lately. So when there was two outs and he was coming up I took out some garbage and recycling. I come back in and A's are ahead.
Well, he's not worth much lately, but he got a pitch he could handle and just got it over Gallo's head in LF. He did strike out on 3 pitches with Gomes on 2nd in the 2nd, & grounded into a tailor made DP with bases loaded in the 4th...He was 4 for his last 39 previously.
If he can start doing anything, it will be a big boost. Huge win for the A's.
A Sunday morning breakfast and baseball game seemed like pretty much the perfect end of summer day (especially as San Francisco weather acquiesced and it was mid-70s and sunny in the city that usually believes itself to be allergic to sun), but perhaps the end of summer lethargy got to the team as well. The San Francisco Giants fell to the Atlanta Braves, 9-0. This was one of those games where you half-watched through your fingers, never quite expecting the Giants to make a real run for it after falling behind early. Or maybe the kind of game that you want to crumple up into a little paper ball and aim into a trashcan while shouting “Kobe,” except you’ve gotten air resistance all wrong and the ball lands about seven feet out from where it was supposed to go.
Anthony DeSclafani had an excellent run first time through the order, but left after giving up three runs in the fourth and failing to record an out. Worryingly, he walked off with the trainer, eyeing his right ankle gingerly. We’ll await news, but hopefully it’s nothing too serious. The starting pitching, which was 5th in all of baseball in WAR in the first half, has struggled after the break, falling to 12th overall. Much of that has been due to injuries, but it’s a point of concern for a team that wants to play deep into October.
This is the issue with Kris Bryant...availability. Guy is so soft that he sits with a hang nail...how can you reward that guy with $25-$30M per season when he continues to miss big games with nagging injuries that other guys play through. He basically missed the whole big series v ATL despite a clean MRI.
When the Dodger highlight is setting a new franchise record in a low-level pitching statistic, you know what kind of game was played at Dodger Stadium this Sunday afternoon.
Justin Turner made his first career appearance on the mound in the top of the ninth inning and he was able to get three outs to become the 26th player to get a game finished this season for the Dodgers. The 2018 Dodgers had 25 players with at least one game finished.
However, that was it for the Dodgers as the Colorado Rockies won 5-0 to take the weekend series and the Dodgers cannot take advantage of the Giants losing to the Braves earlier today. This was only the fifth time this season the Dodgers were shutout.
Antonio Senzatela pitched an efficient seven scoreless innings to keep the punchless Dodgers off the bases and scoreboard. He allowed just two hits and a walk on just 90 pitches.
I've thought about going but almost every afternoon/evening we've had thunderstorms and more are predicted today and clouds have started moving in. I definitely want to see a Gray game in person before the end of the season.
I know that No 1 said it was nasty all weekend in Philly. Super hot AND humid which is the worst of both worlds. He found a Hall of Fame section ticket for the Nats game for $30 on either stubhub or seatgeek. Said the weather was nasty sitting there watching the game.
I have rarely seen such bad time-filling commentary. The fact that it took the race control team 2 hours to basically come up with a plan to satisfy their own rule set was ridiculous. Perhaps the most F1 of possible F1 experiences.
If Nevada's wunderQB Carson Strong can't play due to his balky knee, then 6'9" 240 pound QB Nate Cox will start. He was a walk-on at LA Tech for two years before going to Garden City CC, where he completed 131-of-253 passes (51.8 percent) for 1,891 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions. In case you're wondering, he's taller than Dan McGuire.
one of my dad's new employees is the former drum major of their band. Sounded like their football attendance plummeted when they moved their home games off-campus and no one in Hartford cared enough to go
Nebraska fucking stinks. Good thing Martinez didn't end up coming here because good grief they are bad. UCLA looked very good but I don't understand how they get away with blitzing so much. That screen TD to Makai Polk in 2019 is a perfect recipe to beat their overloaded line and blitz packaging.
I like to think Martinez would be better if he went to Cal. I think his issues are from poor coaching and lack of playmakers on offense. Can you name any WR or RB from Nebraska over the last 4 years that was/is any good or got drafted? I bet you can’t.
I was wondering how much UCLA's dominance was because the Bruins are good this year or because Hawaii was awful. Probably a bit of both. The UCLA ground game looks formidable but DTR looked merely okay. Hawaii was inept: 14-yard loss on the first punt of the game, QB was under siege all game, and, my favorite moment, one of the Hawaii DBs managed to miss two tackles on a single play (which ended in a UCLA TD run).
looking at some highlights, if you can block at all on offense, then Ucla's defense doesn't seem that formidable. Whenever Hawaii blocked even modestly, they had positive offense.
DTR was awful in the first half, especially. I understand that he did not practice much in the week leading up to the game, so that might've contributed to his poor performance. Lucky the running game was so good and Hawaii was so bad. Still makes this week's game against LSU very interesting.
Anyone else notice how empty the Rose Bowl was? This week will likely be full, but I'm willing to bet that at least 1/3 of the stadium will be LSU fans.
Temp on the field was 100 at kickoff, was at 112 at halftime, and still climbing. Which had something to do with a blowout turning into an ordeal. This should have been an evening game, but tv setting kickoff times again. Day games in that hear are as bad as night games late in the season.
A lot of both. And Chip Kelly vs Todd Graham is a coaching mismatch waiting to be exploited. But UCLA did look solid as well as good. I did not expect it to be that easy.
agree... UCLA looked good defensively and running the ball but Hawaii was beyond horrible. The fact that DTR looked as crap as he did has to be a concern for them
"Woman wearing a “MAMA” tshirt at the Encinitas school board meeting says her “cubs” will refuse to wear masks this week. “We’re done asking you for permission. The pandemic is over. We are declaring our freedom.”Then she says she and her friends are running for school board."
TCU Ticket Venmo- The wife has an account @Michelle-Stephens-88 and the last 4 of her phone number is 8040. Tickets are $26.58 ea. Have received money from HAG +1 and Cugel +1 so far
TCU ticket update- As I mentioned on Friday, TCU officially sucks. They sent me tickets electronically but I can't split them up. So I will need to collect e-mail addresses so I can send out a bulk e-mail with which tickets they can download. It will be CRITICAL that people only download their ticket(s). So please send me your info so I can build a list. My email is zstep123 at hotmail dot com
Yaz's grandson plays for the Giants (yah I know he has been for a while but I just crawled out of me man cave) and he's pretty good. I grew up watching his grandfather, Rice, Lynn, Tiant among others at Fenway. Which ballpark was your park as a kid? (I told you degenerates I'd be back).
ICYMI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64L5uNH16bQ
Pretty awesome moment.
Candlestick Park, of course! It was a dump, but it was OUR dump. (And it did get better after Peter Magowan took over in '93.)
Same...altho during my formative East Bay years, the open outfield Coliseum (Billy Ball!) was my hangout (easy for a high school kid to get to). At Cal, shifted back to Candlestick. Roomie and I would wake up on a Sat morn and decide to go to the game. Each would get a $3 ($4?) Togo's sammy on Bancroft, park on city streets beyond the outfield, get bleacher tix for like $2.50. Prob a drink somewhere. But with bridge toll, prob like $10 each?
But of course, plenty of Croix du Candlestick nights! (Apologies for the mangled French prepositions.)
The Coliseum was pretty nice before Mount Davis went in.
Yeah, in my high school days bleacher seats at the Stick were like $5 a pop. We saw the famous Brian Johnson Game from those seats in '97.
My above-noted bleacher games were a decade prior! ;-)
Back when the bleachers were WAY back from the outfield fence, and the fence was chain-link.
yup...the no-person's land!
As a premium member, I will be checking in here at DBD more often. Please wear your mask and get vaccinated. Oh, and Go Bears!
AND EAT TACOS
Tacos and cake?
YESSSS and ice cream
of course...
Sell PCS (put credit spreads) on ZOOM (ZM), they report after the bell
How did they trade work?
*the
I'll let u know on Friday.
2 pm earnings call (pacific time)
DBD test Kitchen
Current cravings:
-popcorn (I have Garrett's and microwave on hand)
-croissants (will not be making my own, but will hit up La Fournée and/or La Farine sometime this week)
-salmon Wellington/saumon en croute (might try to make this)
For a change, something entirely new: Quite excellent '08 De Saint Gall to start; Moroccan Meatballs, grilled Halloumi slices, roasted eggplant pilaf, yogurt-cucumber salad, mild & spicy Harissa to accompany, 2016 K-Vintners "powerline Vyn" Syrah to was it down. Daughter made butterscotch budino for afters.
I loves me some halloumi!
god that sounds amazing.
DH and I went to an Egyptian Festival yesterday at the nearby Coptic church and had dinner there. Just a truly phenomenal combination of foods
The blue background was a mild shock to my system this morning. Did not see it coming, yet I read WFC almost every day.
After an hour or so, I'm still not used to it. Hard to read, even though I like blue and gold as much as anyone.
You could have just taken off your bifocals.
That does help, thanks. But I don't need WFC to remind me that I'm getting older!
Hmm could be worth looking into how to make the site more accessible
I like it! Go Bears!!!!
Not bad at all. It's growing on me since I fired up the site this morning.
At first I didn't notice the blue since I use dark mode. However, I did notice the google tab icon was different.
I noticed the Google tab icon was different last night and then this morning the blue background arrived.
Also, does anyone have a linkedin profile? I'd love to connect on there, so all of you can know who I am and what I hope to be in the future. I luckily stumbled upon Avinash's profile while in the cesspool and realized I should be making a more concerted effort to reach out and move up the ladder in the life!
Will connecting provide me a fabulous opportunity to purchase knives?? I kid!
You never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have one. A friend of mine let me know about it way early on. Other than getting linked to people I know, I don't really use it. I have gotten some job inquiries from recruiters through it but for the most part I ignore them. I don't want to work for facebook, even if you keep asking me every week.
If you are motivated, you can find Write for California on LinkedIn. We are getting our LinkedIn company profile started.
You can find my profile from that page.
Yeah, I've put Write for Cal / CGB on my LinkedIn profile. Occasionally I'll get messages from B2B marketers trying to contact me re: my day job (i.e. sell software/services to the company I work for), but they'll use Cal football as an opening. It's...weird.
"Rapport-building"
Recent outreach:
"Hey Erik,
It's only right I started this email with two questions that came to mind when doing some research.
1) As the Co-Founder of the California Golden Blogs, what was your favorite football season year?
2) Are you considering a more comprehensive tool to track app stability?
Growing up, I only watched Bear football my favorite season was in 2006."
I feel like 2006 is the Yankees of Cal sports years
give me your craziest of seasons! 2014 or bust
For craziest season, I'm taking 2003.
Besides the 3OT win over USC, we also have
- Rallying to force overtime @UCLA, only to lose when the FG attempt hits the upright
- Giving up a safety (on a botched snap to the punter) to SoMiss to start the home opener, then scoring 34 unanswered points
- The lights going out in Eugene, after which the Bears lost the momentum and blew a 10-point lead to lose.
- Aaron Rodgers outdueling Marcus Vick and VaTech in the Insight Bowl, finally winning it 52-49 on a FG as time expired.
A very non-pedestrian 8-6 team, one that somehow never had a winning record until they beat Furd to secure a winning record and their first bowl bid in 7 years.
Also: Does anyone have an office (pre-COVID-19 pandemic) or "knowledge-based" or computer-focused job and not have a LinkedIn profile?
I am always curious to hear from the people who are fortunate enough not to be on LinkedIn.
Like others, I have a profile that is infrequently updated and not used very often. I've been with the same company for 14 years now so haven't felt much need for LinkedIn.
I have one but I don't use it too often. I get a lot of "you're getting noticed" and contact requests that I ignore. I'm still on FB since I have friends from the decade of the 2000's that I like to keep up with.
I don't have my reading glasses on and read your last sentence as having friends you like to sleep with. 👀
Go Bears Go
I have a profile, but I haven't looked at or used it in years probably.
I don't have a LinkedIn page. I'm in science/research and it seems like maybe half of my coworkers have LinkedIn pages.
I deleted mine during my job hunt so I could contain my online persona to within my various .edu presences
I have one (don't know how I came by it), but never use it. Several people I know do to, and they never use it either.
I think the platform is entirely professional recruiters and people whose idea of "fun social interaction" is "professional networking"
Well, that is kind of the intent, isn't it?
I guess. It makes the entire community seem exceptionally transactional, however, which is quite off-putting (to me, at least).
Packagin
When did grocers decide to individually wrap vegetables in plastic? It seems like this is a recent phenomenon, at least in the U.S.
I haven't seen this in the Bay Area, but that's how everything is in the UK because it's all shipped so far, it gets wrapped at its origin and packed that way.
TJ's does this for everything it seems; I see it less elsewhere
Except for green peppers
Stuff that is wearhoused before going to stores often gets that treatment now. I read something a while back (years) that the average vegetable in the US travels over 1,000 miles from farm to store.
Soy sauce come in little packets everywhere else in the world except Japan. The Japanese invented a massive packaging improvement in the 1950s - a tiny plastic fish filled with tiny amount of soy sauce. Its flexible, so it's easy to apply the exact amount of soy sauce you want - unlike the packet. And the top seals it so you don't have excess sauce getting everywhere after you're done. If you get a bento box in Japan, you can bet it comes with one of these little guys in it. I can recall ever seeing them in the US.
https://mk0heliografbfwk2924.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Soy-Fish-Lighter-300x144.png
I think I've gotten them, but only from J-Town places.
I've seen those, but not for a long time.
That's still all they use in Japan
That is as charming as it is functional
I the sourdough bowl thing was a rif on the best packaging: Ice cream cone. I doubt that works as (note: I've never tried)
You've never tried an ice cream cone???
Ha! You KNOW different!
In any case, I think we need a DBD ice cream party
Combination AV and ice cream topic: The Ben and Jerry's show!
https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/shows/ben-and-jerry-s-clash-of-the-cones
Fun ice cream version of cooking competition shows.
Bagged Milk.
Vietnam had bagged milk last time I was here.
Thailand has bagged Coke and bagged Thai Iced tea
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014761601/of-memestocks-and-milk-bags
I did not know it was mostly an Eastern Canada thing.
There was a time when it was the standard after waxed heavy paper cartons and before plastic jugs. You had to get a plastic pitcher specific for it. Didn't last long because of the spillage/loss from punctured bags, compared with jugs.
I have a small tiff w/ my wife. She keeps the tamper-seal lids (that foil or thin plastic seal below the lid) partly connected. I argue that a second lid doesn't keep it any fresher when sealed and just gets in the way when trying to access it. Logic has no business in disagreements between spouses.
I would imagine the second lid just makes things a bit messier...
My wife does the same thing and I live in a private hell because of it. It bugs me to no end for exactly the reason you say. I've brought it up to her, yet she still does it. It doesn't bother her that I completely remove the lid when I find them, but she still does it.
My theory is that some people just don't like to throw things away. So if you remove that part, then you have to throw it away. Why, I don't know. Maybe handling trash is distasteful.
Wait, we have the same wife?!?!?!
Indeed not.
I tend to do what your wife does, but I don't feel strongly about it. My insane rage is reserved for people who insist on using dish towels for anything other than drying dishes 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
e.g, as a hand towel or for blowing one's nose, etc.
You mean like using them to cheer for your sports team? I agree with that one, that's a usage whose time has come and gone.
Other than drying drying hands, what else would they be used for? I guess I've used them for proofing sourdough loaves.
I've primarily used them as impromptu pot holders. More specifically, to hold hot dinnerware out of the microwave or otherwise, when I want to make my way over to the couch in true lazy fashion.
Oddly enough the knives I promote and sell come in like a school textbook small cardboard box something I never thought was enough for them.
Clam Chowdah
I’m from Monterey and it reminds me of home. I remember on 9/11 seeing the news was really upsetting, so my friend and I went to Old Fisherman’s Grotto on the wharf and got bread bowls. I think that may be the only time I have ever gotten a bread bowl, which I usually think of as a manufactured tourist experience. But it was oddly comforting that day.
<3
Like it in that sourdough bowl. The question is: do you eat the bowl? If so, how much?
Every bit of it. Some of the soup soaks in...so good.
I generally eat the lid and am satiated at that point.
We will occasionally buy soup and a boule of sourdough and make the bread bowl at home. We toast the bread that we carve out and dip it in the soup as we eat. Yum! Depending on how big the bread is, sometimes we eat it all, sometimes not.
I'll eat parts of the bowl along with the soup. At least, until I get too full from all that bread.
This is the correct approach
This!
why get it in the bowl if you don't eat the bowl? do you just tear off dry parts and dip it?
Legal Seafood (the gold standard of seafood in Boston) caters the White House inaugurations with their chowder, and their fish chowder recipe is available online:
https://www.food.com/recipe/legals-inaugural-fish-chowder-107632
coincidentally, I have a guest in town who I took to the Legal near me last night. Had been to a couple before, but my first time finally having their clam chowder, and I thought it was good but not particularly something to write home about. Some variables involved of course, with locations and timing. We went pretty late in the evening, and it coulda been that scrape-from-the-bottom blend.
My favorite ever clam chowder was from a place called Row 34 in the seaport area in Boston, which isn't completely classic style. Favorite classic New England style was always from Union Oyster House, which was always a go-to location for giving visitors the tourist experience.
in my experience the one in Kendall is the best, followed by Harvard Square
Splash Cafe in Pismo Beach is the the standard I judge all other clam chowders on. Would always stop in for a bread bowl and then get some frozen packs for future yums
*stop in on trips up and down the 101
Is it still "the" 101 in Pismo?
I don't see the appeal, then again not a big fan of shelfish. Corn chowder OTOH is amazing.
I went to Yosemite with my mom and my sister and her family. They brought Trader Joe's Corn Poblano Chowder. Holy Crap it was good.
Always keep a couple boxes on hand for impromptu dinners, so yummy
most of the time, what you are served is bad, but when it's good, it's very good indeed.
Need to hit more restaurants in the NW, near the coast. Good chowder and good bread is pretty common, and there are a number of outstanding places. Also, try slumgullion some time. Chowder with other seafood in addition to clams.
Manhattan
Spenger's used to offer "red" or "white". Neither was especially good or bad. But I do miss Spenger's for their other offerings.
My parents rarely went out, but when they did Spenger's was often where they went.
It was where my aunt took me for graduation dinner from Cal (she went to Cal in the 60s - and complained about the free speech movement impending her way to class) - it was the only "fancy" place she knew in Berkeley.
Scallop sandwiches.
Horrible stuff.
nasty-ass fake nonsense
pqtm
It's my favorite soup, but I'll be honest: Clam chowder is just an excuse to drink heavy cream.
It's like bagels and red velvet cake are just socially acceptable reasons to eat a ton of cream cheese.
sounds like you haven't had a proper bagel
Guilty
Sourdough Bread
I've been making it every couple of weeks since about last Sept. Got a starter from my BIL and his recipe which is basically the Tartine recipe. Love it. I'd like to try forming baguettes but I'll need to look for a proofing thing that is baguette shaped. I assume they have them but I haven't looked yet.
No 3 and I went to the Molinari and Sons deli in North Beach to get sandwiches before going to the Chase Center to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I was surprised they didn't have sourdough. Unless their hard french bread was sourdough but I didn't think it was.
Best bread. Nuff said.
Yes but only if done well. If you get it at a restaurant or bakery outside of NorCal, especially outside of CA altogether, it is most often terrible.
San Francisco sourdough has the secret. Apparently it's about a local kind of bacteria that's literally in the air.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/seeking-secret-of-sf-sourdough/
I can house a whole loaf in a day, toasted with salted butter.
Fresh sourdough from the oven is so good with butter.
Yes. While it is still warm.
Site Redesign
Funniest comment of the day: the person who suggested monetizing the DBD
That would be me. Why not ask the question? This is where a majority of the users and traffic is, perfectly reasonable.
It would be amusing to find out precisely what monetary value we could put on this nonsense.
If true ("...this nonsense") and I don't know if it is, now would be the time to cut this out of WFC to save on expenses...even if those expenses are margins. Whatta you think?
I'm being flippant. To me the DBD seems like such a unique, bizarre thing to try and price, and I kinda don't want to examine that, but rather just let it be.
The current W4C cost structure (on the Substack platform, at least), is basically all overhead, and no marginal costs whatsoever. This might change on a different platform.
Yah, and perhaps I was being flippant. Cuz clearly DBD has a lot of value, arguably more so than the sports section based on TRAFFIC. I think it is great that DBD provides a haven for peeps to congregate and discuss whatever is on their mind in a fun vibrant community. Well hell that type of unique entertainment has value.
I say charge all these DBD users $10/ year.
DBD has always had a lot of comments, dating back to the CGB days. DBD is very active during the off-season but the sports comments start to pickup once the season starts. If Cal ever gets really good again or at least 03-07 type of success you’ll see the sports portion really get active with a lot of comments.
Although, the DBD use to get even more comments in the good old days.
But what if I don't want my $$ supporting the sports blog portion?
Charge?!?!? WE should get paid!
And wanted to contribute but not if it supports the DBD??
Oh yeah, that one was funny, too, but more understandable.
I like it. Looks great.
Digging it. Sad we still couldn't get the hearts changed to gold from red though.
It definitely feels a lot more fresh and the representation of a new era of Cal athletics. My only critique is that I would've gone with a lighter shade of blue (I know darker blue is more Cal but we can spin in like Joe Roth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Don't wanna get too close to Joe Bruin, tho
Oh I didn't realize it was dark blue. I didn't have my laptop brightness up real high so I just thought it was black, like dark mode.
UC Berkeley and Cal Athletics use two different blues and golds.
Cal Athletics uses 100|90|13|68 "Blue". UC Berkeley uses 100|71|10|47 "Berkeley Blue".
Cal Athletics uses 0|19|89|0 "Gold". UC Berkeley uses 0|32|100|0 "Gold".
https://calbears.com/documents/2017/6/1/17_Cal_BrandGuidelines.pdf
https://brand.berkeley.edu/colors/
Neither is Yale Blue. UC Berkeley rebranded in 2007, dropping Yale Blue for Berkeley Blue. Athletics has been using a darker blue for much longer - but inconsistently. Go back and look at Joe Roth, Rich Campbell, and even the early years of Gale Gilbert & J Torchio and you'll see them wearing Yale Blue. If memory serves correct, the end of lighter blue was the 1981 season. In 1982, I think they switched to the very dark blue jersey with the famous "Bear Claw" on the helmet. Since then through 2007, Cal has been various shades of blue that are darker than Yale Blue, except on Joe Roth throwback days.
https://yaleidentity.yale.edu/colors
Google search term: Yale branding
so Yale is the Cal of the east?
Our Crumbling World
South Lake Tahoe might not survive the week
https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/traffic-highway-50-lake-tahoe-evacuation-roads-16423258.php
The last plane has left. America's longest war is over.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/30/politics/us-military-withdraws-afghanistan/index.html
Over 123,000 folks evacuated in the largest air lift in history.
Beef prices went up 30% at my butcher's ...
literally speaking: single point of failure for electricity into NOLA. It failed. https://twitter.com/brianemfinger/status/1432316271861841924?s=20
that's not quite true; NYTimes reports there are eight transmission lines that bring power into NOLA, and all eight went down.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/30/us/hurricane-ida-updates
this here is a hell of a picture:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/08/30/us/30hurricane-briefing-morning-lede-laplace/30vid-ida-hp-superJumbo.jpg
that's quite a bit of flooding....how long does it take for the water to recede in this kind of situation?
I mean, yes, but also my understanding is that the destruction this time was due to the sustained strength of the winds and rain, fueled by warmer waters in the shallow Caribbean Sea, rather that floodwaters per se, and that the levees actually held pretty well this time.
It's definitely an issue, just not the only one NOLA is battling vs. climate change.
Oh my. That is going to take some time to even get a temporary fix going.
https://twitter.com/NWSNewOrleans/status/1432081580579868674
This one shows 4 vortices rotating around the eye. Looks brutal.
Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity; little whirls have lesser whirls & so on to viscosity. Somewhere in the mix you have tornadoes and such.
Today in Covid 19
A conservative Florida radio host who spoke out against Covid-19 vaccines died after a weekslong fight with the virus, marking the third radio personality to die from coronavirus who publicly rejected vaccines.
The death of Marc Bernier, 65, who was a mainstay on talk radio in Daytona Beach, was announced Saturday night by WNDB, the radio station he was affiliated with for three decades.
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/08/29/3rd-conservative-radio-host-who-condemned-vaccines-dies-of-covid-1390555
@I feel so bad for him@
It feels like the last two weeks, the most dangerous profession in the US is an anti-vax right wing radio host.
r/hermancainaward is a dark place.
Covid Architecture
Supply chains for the house remodel are in terrible shape. We're not able to get the floors, door, plumbing fixtures, lighting etc. that we want, and even when we compromise on what we get, we pay more for slower delivery.
I predict that 15 years from now, people will refer to houses built or remodelled during this time to be "Covid Period Houses", identifiable by things that don't quite match, or maybe even don't match by a lot.
TBB, I bought some of the duckbill masks, and realized I'd tried them before, back when I didn't know one mask from another. They're a little harder to put on than the ear only type, so I went away from them. But I now find that I get a much better seal, and I don't have the glasses fogging problem with these, so I'm now a duckbill fan!
Yay!!
Also, they're useful for smokey air conditions.
:/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unraveling-the-mystery-of-why-children-are-better-protected-from-covid-than-adults/
The immune system uses a special mechanism to protect children from novel viruses—and it typically saves them from a severe course of COVID-19 in two different ways. In the mucous membranes of their airways, it is much more active than that of adults. In children, this system reacts much faster to viruses that it has never encountered, such as pandemic pathogens. At least, that is what a recent study by Irina Lehmann of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité and her colleagues suggests.
The researchers examined differences in the cell types of the mucous membranes of children and adolescents. As the team reports in Nature Biotechnology, children do not only have many more immune cells in their mucous membranes; they also more quickly produce type I interferons, which are crucial for fighting viruses. As a result, these key molecules may also provide protection from the dysregulation of the immune system that occurs in many severe cases of COVID-19.
...
But why do only children have this highly effective protection? There are several reasons, Binder explains. “If the body had always activated this [process], it would of course create an incredible selection pressure on the pathogens,” he says. The viruses would have adapted long ago. In addition, the body cannot afford this system in the long term. “Of all signaling systems, the interferon response causes the greatest change in the cell’s genetic activity,” Binder says. If this response was left on permanently, it would have massive effects on cell activity and thus the body as a whole.
Interesting
SF announced 80% of eligible residents are fully vaccinated
Pro
Game #131: Tony Kemp powers A’s past Yankees
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/8/29/22647857/oakland-as-game-131-new-york-yankees-score-result
In a game full of All-Star sluggers on both sides, it was Tony Kemp who hit the go-ahead homer at the Coliseum on Sunday.
Kemp’s long ball in the 8th inning put the Oakland A’s on top in a 3-1 victory over the New York Yankees, salvaging a split for Oakland in the finale of their four-game series together.
Several times over the past couple weeks, we’ve seen the A’s serve up a two-run homer in the late innings of a close game, but today it was Oakland coming up with the clutch dinger.
Lots of errors in this game, I feared they would doom the A's
TWO errors in the same at bat. 1) Gomes dropped a foul pop-up that should have ended the inning on Rizzo's at bat. Then, 2) Chapman lets grounder through his legs, allowing Rizzo to reach base safely and Sanchez to score, tying the game at 1 each.
Thank Gawd for Tony Kemp.
After his big 3-run HR in the Bronx earlier this summer, Tony Kemp is a certified Yankee Killer!
You all convinced me that Canha was not worth much lately. So when there was two outs and he was coming up I took out some garbage and recycling. I come back in and A's are ahead.
Well, he's not worth much lately, but he got a pitch he could handle and just got it over Gallo's head in LF. He did strike out on 3 pitches with Gomes on 2nd in the 2nd, & grounded into a tailor made DP with bases loaded in the 4th...He was 4 for his last 39 previously.
If he can start doing anything, it will be a big boost. Huge win for the A's.
DeSclafani exits early, Slater pitches; Giants fall to the Braves, 9-0
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/8/29/22647256/san-francisco-giants-atlanta-braves-recap-final-score-austin-slater-anthony-desclafani
A Sunday morning breakfast and baseball game seemed like pretty much the perfect end of summer day (especially as San Francisco weather acquiesced and it was mid-70s and sunny in the city that usually believes itself to be allergic to sun), but perhaps the end of summer lethargy got to the team as well. The San Francisco Giants fell to the Atlanta Braves, 9-0. This was one of those games where you half-watched through your fingers, never quite expecting the Giants to make a real run for it after falling behind early. Or maybe the kind of game that you want to crumple up into a little paper ball and aim into a trashcan while shouting “Kobe,” except you’ve gotten air resistance all wrong and the ball lands about seven feet out from where it was supposed to go.
Anthony DeSclafani had an excellent run first time through the order, but left after giving up three runs in the fourth and failing to record an out. Worryingly, he walked off with the trainer, eyeing his right ankle gingerly. We’ll await news, but hopefully it’s nothing too serious. The starting pitching, which was 5th in all of baseball in WAR in the first half, has struggled after the break, falling to 12th overall. Much of that has been due to injuries, but it’s a point of concern for a team that wants to play deep into October.
This is the issue with Kris Bryant...availability. Guy is so soft that he sits with a hang nail...how can you reward that guy with $25-$30M per season when he continues to miss big games with nagging injuries that other guys play through. He basically missed the whole big series v ATL despite a clean MRI.
Pretty weak stuff.
Rockies spoil weekend with 5-0 win over the Dodgers
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/8/29/22647368/rockies-recap-win-series-antonio-senzatela-cj-cron-dodgers-justin-turner
When the Dodger highlight is setting a new franchise record in a low-level pitching statistic, you know what kind of game was played at Dodger Stadium this Sunday afternoon.
Justin Turner made his first career appearance on the mound in the top of the ninth inning and he was able to get three outs to become the 26th player to get a game finished this season for the Dodgers. The 2018 Dodgers had 25 players with at least one game finished.
However, that was it for the Dodgers as the Colorado Rockies won 5-0 to take the weekend series and the Dodgers cannot take advantage of the Giants losing to the Braves earlier today. This was only the fifth time this season the Dodgers were shutout.
Antonio Senzatela pitched an efficient seven scoreless innings to keep the punchless Dodgers off the bases and scoreboard. He allowed just two hits and a walk on just 90 pitches.
Nats call up Ruiz. He's catching tonight so the battery is the once future Dodger combo of Gray and Ruiz.
I may watch some of that. I think Ruiz will be good but he was being blocked in LA. I think Gray is going to be special.
I've thought about going but almost every afternoon/evening we've had thunderstorms and more are predicted today and clouds have started moving in. I definitely want to see a Gray game in person before the end of the season.
I know that No 1 said it was nasty all weekend in Philly. Super hot AND humid which is the worst of both worlds. He found a Hall of Fame section ticket for the Nats game for $30 on either stubhub or seatgeek. Said the weather was nasty sitting there watching the game.
After a 3-hour rain delay, Max Verstappen wins the shortest Formula 1 race in history (two laps, both behind the safety car)
https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1432023038237753354
I have rarely seen such bad time-filling commentary. The fact that it took the race control team 2 hours to basically come up with a plan to satisfy their own rule set was ridiculous. Perhaps the most F1 of possible F1 experiences.
F1 seems more interested in drama than racing.
I learned far more than I ever cared to know about so many topics within the FIA rulebook.
At least the medical team provided some entertainment by hooning that AMG C63 wagon around the track for a while.
Other College
If Nevada's wunderQB Carson Strong can't play due to his balky knee, then 6'9" 240 pound QB Nate Cox will start. He was a walk-on at LA Tech for two years before going to Garden City CC, where he completed 131-of-253 passes (51.8 percent) for 1,891 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions. In case you're wondering, he's taller than Dan McGuire.
Dan McGwire*
I played high school basketball against him.
Does not sound very mobile.
No, but he sounds like a hell of a challenge to bring down in the backfield.
Cal OL coach Angus McClure has a son Hamish, who is a walk-on QB for Nevada.
https://nevadawolfpack.com/sports/football/roster/hamish-mcclure/6967
Nevada's presumptive starting WR Melquan Stovall is the younger brother of ex-Cal Bear Melquise.
Oregon State is starting CU transfer Sam Noyer after Gebbia is ruled out with a hamstring injury.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2021/08/oregon-state-announces-sam-noyer-as-its-starting-quarterback-for-purdue.html
Poor UConn was a 27.5 point underdog to Fresno State. They ended up getting shut out 45-0. They had 107 offensive yards before penalties.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/matchup?gameId=401286187
one of my dad's new employees is the former drum major of their band. Sounded like their football attendance plummeted when they moved their home games off-campus and no one in Hartford cared enough to go
They play their home games in Hartford now? Isn't that like an hour away from campus?
Nebraska fucking stinks. Good thing Martinez didn't end up coming here because good grief they are bad. UCLA looked very good but I don't understand how they get away with blitzing so much. That screen TD to Makai Polk in 2019 is a perfect recipe to beat their overloaded line and blitz packaging.
I like to think Martinez would be better if he went to Cal. I think his issues are from poor coaching and lack of playmakers on offense. Can you name any WR or RB from Nebraska over the last 4 years that was/is any good or got drafted? I bet you can’t.
I was wondering how much UCLA's dominance was because the Bruins are good this year or because Hawaii was awful. Probably a bit of both. The UCLA ground game looks formidable but DTR looked merely okay. Hawaii was inept: 14-yard loss on the first punt of the game, QB was under siege all game, and, my favorite moment, one of the Hawaii DBs managed to miss two tackles on a single play (which ended in a UCLA TD run).
looking at some highlights, if you can block at all on offense, then Ucla's defense doesn't seem that formidable. Whenever Hawaii blocked even modestly, they had positive offense.
DTR was awful in the first half, especially. I understand that he did not practice much in the week leading up to the game, so that might've contributed to his poor performance. Lucky the running game was so good and Hawaii was so bad. Still makes this week's game against LSU very interesting.
Anyone else notice how empty the Rose Bowl was? This week will likely be full, but I'm willing to bet that at least 1/3 of the stadium will be LSU fans.
If DTR can complete a pass, UCLA could be pretty tough. Next week v. LSU will be telling.
My fears of a further improved DTR quickly disappeared when his first pass of the day sailed well over the head of a TD-bound WR.
He's better than his run-backwards-20-yards-then-fumble days, but he still seems very streaky.
I believe it was ~93+ on Saturday in Pasadena, I wouldn’t have wanted to be baking in that frying pan of a stadium.
Temp on the field was 100 at kickoff, was at 112 at halftime, and still climbing. Which had something to do with a blowout turning into an ordeal. This should have been an evening game, but tv setting kickoff times again. Day games in that hear are as bad as night games late in the season.
Saturday's game against LSU looks to be about the same. High of 90 and a 3:30pm PDT kickoff.
A lot of both. And Chip Kelly vs Todd Graham is a coaching mismatch waiting to be exploited. But UCLA did look solid as well as good. I did not expect it to be that easy.
Is Todd Graham the HC of Hawaii?
ya
agree... UCLA looked good defensively and running the ball but Hawaii was beyond horrible. The fact that DTR looked as crap as he did has to be a concern for them
Well then they can start Ethan Garbers. Agree that DTR was awful.
Cal
Kyle Boller's wife is problematic. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1432332310582603778
"Woman wearing a “MAMA” tshirt at the Encinitas school board meeting says her “cubs” will refuse to wear masks this week. “We’re done asking you for permission. The pandemic is over. We are declaring our freedom.”Then she says she and her friends are running for school board."
Kyle Boller too, if we're being honest.
she's been nuts for years.
"rules are for other people."
TCU Ticket Venmo- The wife has an account @Michelle-Stephens-88 and the last 4 of her phone number is 8040. Tickets are $26.58 ea. Have received money from HAG +1 and Cugel +1 so far
Newellbany is handling the Cal tix so I'll have him VenMo your wife for our 8. Thank you FS!!! So pumped!!!
Paid. Thanks for organizing!
TCU ticket update- As I mentioned on Friday, TCU officially sucks. They sent me tickets electronically but I can't split them up. So I will need to collect e-mail addresses so I can send out a bulk e-mail with which tickets they can download. It will be CRITICAL that people only download their ticket(s). So please send me your info so I can build a list. My email is zstep123 at hotmail dot com
Can you use Print to PDF to create separate ticket batches?
no, a link is included and takes you to a download page where you can then do so. No bar codes or anything...it kind of sucks
Newellbany slammed at work so I VenMo'd the amount and will email you now.
Respect the Hotmail.
still the only personal e-mail account I've ever had
Yup, I still use it. It's kind of like having a vintage car at this point.
I used to have an earthlink account back in the age of the dinosaurs.
compuserve
I used to have netscape.net account. my oldest one in use is a Yahoo, from late 90s.
slip.net
Exactly...I will email you from my AOL account!
Mine's Yahoo -- I am not throwing ANY shade.
I think Hotmail locked me out of my account due to prolonged lack of use. ;-)
Gotcha.
Go Bears!!!