Random Thread ~Usagi-Chan ☮ Tūsurī~

[DSQueenie]

In the U.K. they sell key rings the same size as £1 coins so you can get your trolly without having to actually spend money. Well other than the 50p you spent on the key ring!

I love Aldi and Lidl. They are one of the few shops that don’t overstock and end up waisting so much food. It can be annoying to go in and see they’ve run out of blackberry’s or something but I respect that.

[TotallyUncool]

I just checked Lidl - the ones in the US are all on the East Coast right now, so i guessx I'll have to wait until they make it out to Southern California!

[Moh]

Welcome back, DSQ!

My brother looooved Lidl when he went to Germany. He described it as "like Aldi, but not."

I was about to come in and say every Aldi I've ever been to has the deposit system for the carts.
That's part of why I like going there tbh. I appreciate a parking lot that's not littered with shopping carts.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

Why is this thread only 12 pages long now? :O
ETA-
Have some of the longer threads had some fat trimmed?

[Celedam]

Zunu slashed the database so that he could back up the site and then fix the PHP errors we were getting.

[esm]

Ate and drank so much in the past four days. I haven’t had a real weekend in forever, so this was much needed... although the holidays also messed up my paycheck and stuff. Need to adapt to normal life again.

It’s been raining a lot and it’s gonna start snowing soon.

[boinsie]

If you just look at the first and last pages of the thread, you'd think all we talk about in here is Aldi.

[TotallyUncool]

It's now the Random Thread ~The Duck Aldi Saga Pt. 17~

I'm about to finish a tech blog post that's due ASAP - and then prepare a spare 14 lb turkey that I picked up for myself a few days ago and put it in the oven before I go to sleep.

Tht's one of the advantages of working at home most of the time - I can more-or-less manage to follow a semi-random schedule.

[erilaz]

Ate and drank so much in the past four days. I haven’t had a real weekend in forever, so this was much needed... although the holidays also messed up my paycheck and stuff. Need to adapt to normal life again.

Yep, I have to go back to work and normal weekdays myself. Do not want.

I basically had two different weekends in the past four days: a weird one (Thursday and Friday out of town, seeing relatives and getting up at an ungodly hour) and a normal one (Saturday and Sunday at home, sleeping in late and going to movies and bookstores).

[Celedam]

My random thought(s) of the day…

I don't like regular coffee and most other "café drinks", but I do like hot chocolate so I've sort of sidestepped into hot mocha over the last couple years. And I've gotten into the habit of making my own hot mocha at home using Swiss Miss packets (the good stuff that must be made milk, not the cheap stuff that can be made with water) and Folgers crystals.

It's surprisingly good. Much better than McDonald's or Starbucks, and about the same as Panera Bread. Sorry, that's my basis for comparison because those are the only store-bought mochas I've had. Maybe I've never really had a good hot mocha, but it's good enough for me. And it's less than 50 cents per 12-ounce drink, including the cost of utilities to run the microwave and dishwasher.

Anyhow, I've discovered that it's important to microwave the drink for another 15 seconds after I've mixed everything together. It puts back the heat that is lost during mixing, and it also helps everything to dissolve properly and "brew" together. Almost no grit is left in the bottom of the glass when I'm done.

"Glass"? Yeah, I use mason jars as my drinking glasses / coffee mugs. I know it's often seen as a hipster thing to do, but country folks in the American Midwest and South have been doing it forever (where do you think hipsters got the idea?), and it actually makes sense for me for a few different reasons: they're cheap, they're microwave-safe and naturally insulated, they're nearly unbreakable, and they're great multipurpose kitchen tools.

Enough randomness for now.