Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 01, 2013

I refuse to comment on Garry and his self-attachment !

Gary, old man, move forward and face 2013.

HAPPY NEW YEAR all!

I’m cooking up a big batch of traditional Cajun good luck New Years Day food for ya’ll ! It’ll be ready about noon at the Tiki Bar.Gotta have Black Eyed Peas for Health, Pork for Luck and Cabbage and Collard Greens for Prosperity. Nouvelle année joyeuse !

Good Morning / Night All ! I’m headed home to cook up a bunch of New Years Day dishes, which I’ll be bringing by later.As the Irish would say:In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship and never in need.And…May the saddest day of your future be no worse than thehappiest day of your past.

Happy New Year, all!

Bev — it’s the exclamation points…..

In fact, Stel discovered the same thing accidentally, and x_tech figured it out….

He explains it in more detail in his formatting forum on a past Citizen Dog…but briefly….

Do you use the shortcut for posting pictures by putting the URL between two exclamation points?

Well, you probably, accidentally, typed Help! Help! without the space in between…..

Your browser thinks !help! was supposed to conatin a picture URL….but it doesn’t.

So it shows a symbol that means “I can’t post that picture.”

I feel like I’ve already seen the New Year arrive…. when in fact, here in Western Ballard County, it’s 11:26 pm Dec 31st.

I’m posting to you East Coasters from the year 2012…. when you’re already in 2013!

Does that make me a time traveler in your time? A visitor from the past?

On that note…. another glass of bubbly please!

Maybe if I get ahold of myself I can pull myself into 2013.

But I don’t have a shirt like Gary’s.For which I am grateful, actually…..

Wow…. the Tiki exists in two years right now too. I’m here at the bar in 2012…. you guys went out the other door in 2013…..

After a while, the door to 2012 will close….. but if anybody stops by from Hawaii they can still use it for a little while…..

Now I’m dizzy.Champagne and thinking don’t mix!

Oooh! The new year just got here!

Thanks Bev…. don’t mind if I do!Cheers!

And at you too, Red!

Now we’re in the same year!I picture myself solidifying on the other side….like the transporter just beamed me aboard….

Hullo Essex… are you here in 2013?

Happy New Year West Coast!

And back at you, Bev….

You’ve seen two hours of 2013…How does it look so far?

Happy New Year, X!

And Goodnight, Bev!

I followed New Year from Moscow to NYC. But then waiting for it to get here (West Coast) I watched reruns on NetFlix and didn’t even notice the New Year here.

Re: the comic strip;

“Unhand me you brute!”

Bev…. That Shockwave thingy is probably Shockwave Flash….That’s the program on your computer that plays the videos you find on YouTube.

Just a thought…. but if it had been telling you for weeks or years that it needs to update, and you never click OK,

eventually you’d be running an outdated version….It would be incompatible with recent browser and/or YouTube updates, so it would crash.

Maybe that’s not what’s happening…. but …. maybe you need to download a newer Shockwave.

Hi Bri — I’m glad you went out….even a hermit needs air now and then!

Hope you had a good time….

(says the woman sitting here all evening in her nightgown and robe. LOL)

x_Tech…. I kinda lost track of it too…. watching video in other places….

but I just coincidentally looked at the clock at 11:59, and thought ooops!

It’s true, X!

Luckily I still have some of the large ones you shipped me….

Hope I don’t always have to use these… they’re heavy to carry around:

I think I gotta go fetch some more…. I’ll be right back….

Another thing that strikes me funny: I went “stag” to a party at the Elks’ Lodge. (Except a male elk is a bull, not a stag or a buck.)

Bri — You didn’t dance with the woman who invited you on Facebook?

Everybody I knew in high school, as far as I know, is 2,000 miles from me.

Well… still, Brian…. you did it!

Yay!

I’m sure she didn’t mind….she must think you’re a nice guy or she wouldn’t have asked you.

Come with me he says to himself. No he replies as he resists. Now he is going to begin to fight with himself. He will have to break out his Taser to get himself under control. With that shirt on. I mean he needs to seriously turn on a light the next time he dresses himself.Happy New Year one and all. Late night. Couple of impaired drivers removed from the road. Made it home safe.

@ Veteranglad you made it safely home….there are 2 days a year that I say a prayer for police and patrol people…New Years Eve and the 4th of July…

Happy New Year y’all! I ain’t dead………………………nope. Almost back to my old self!

Oooh ! Good one Essex !Actually, I prefer to see myself as a Privateer, or if you will, a Private Ear and a Public Eye !

Thanks to Susan, Xtech and Stel (who all provided parts of formulas back at CD). I just posted most of them to a simple wordpad doc so I can email it back to my house (and will print it out also).(p)I’ll use all that code more when I’m home with full use of my camera (and editing using the simple Irfanview which makes all that easy). I’m glad to say I still have plenty of time for this visit ;-D(p)HAPPY NEW YEAR

I see that I need more practice ;-P

To all my neighbors on Ballard St.:

I had a little too much Champagne last night and missed wishing each and every one of you a very spectacularly happy new year! So….to Essex, x_Tech, margueritem, afficionado, beviek, Linguist, SusanSunshine, Redkaycei Repoc, briatollah, icky mudd, Sun, Veteran, Linda Dean, Storm, Number Six, Number Three, Bailey, Pacopuddy, Simpsonfan2, Chess18, jimmyh43105, LadyLavendar, Daffydowndilly, happyathome, Dry, nighthawks, LaflnLarry, DAZZ, and to anyone else I might have missed…….AND to Jerry Van Amerongen…..

BTW…that shirt that Gary has on looks suspiciously like the one I bought for my (then future ) brother-in-law, along with a paisley tie, back in 1966. I think I was going for what was known as the “Carnaby Street” look. Hey! What did I know? I was only a kid at the time!! (I hope my sense of style has improved since then!)

It might not be obvious, so I’ll just tell you that I was hugely influenced by an upsidedown stack of cupcake paper liners:

I am only too happy to provide the colorful work attire that is the hallmark of X_Tech Industries.

Thanks Stel!I’ll use all that code more when I’m home with full use of my camera (and editing photos using Irfanview) I’m glad to say I still have 3 weeks for this visit ;-D*

HAPPY NEW YEARS

to all my new BS friends!

OK, I now see I did NOT need the * and I saved the text before submitting, but it is not giving me delete option ;-P

HAPPY NEW YEARS

to all my new BS friends!

My comment beginning “OK” could be deleted but neither of the others. I added a bdfore the first big in the last one (just a guess that it would give me center justification). I won’t play any more on it now as I cannot delete my mistakes.

I SOOO remember all the photographic print poly suits from late 70s, early 80s. At least my brother (far left) and maybe dad (next to him) wore these in 79.

In our family the traditional New Year’s Day dinner was Cornish game hens and Uncle Ben’s wild rice with mushrooms. That’s what I’m having.

Dazz, with some browsers (i.e. IE) if you leave out a closing HTML tag </tag> the Delete is disabled. So if you posted…

<big>HAPPY NEW YEARSto all my new BS friends!

without the </big> you won’t be able to delete the comment…Unless you switch browsers (just temporarily to use Delete)Firefox is much more forgiving in this respect.

Hi all!

And Happy New Year again….Wow…. gumbo and ham and black-eyed peas….and cornbread …and ….and

I’m gonna get the yak ribs out of the smoker….

Always good to start the New Year with plenty of food….bodes well for the year ahead, I think.

Oh Stel…. you gave Ess a shirt too?

Well, a man can never have too many dress shirts, I think….

Essex … I was soooo glad to see that you have such amazing taste….

It means you must have loved the shirt I made you!It was kinda special, since I worked on it way back when you were missing….I just knew that if you ever saw it, you’d come back to Ballard Street….

It’s not quite as bright as StelBel’s… I thought your taste might be a bit more quiet, as you can tell.

I hope ALL the guys like the shirts I made them….

Guess who this was for….

Oh X…. I haven’t seen you wearing the one I got you….

Is it not colorful enough?

Glad you like the T-shirt though….

For SteBel a knit shawl

Something off the rack for you Ess?

X! Somebody once made me a skirt that matched that shirt. Honestly.

The very best part was that instead of a waistband, she left big slits between the top squares and threaded a sash though them.Sorta gathered up in big poofs… like a weird lampshade.Just lovely.

Bev… reallly nice of you not to off the kid!

As for the exclamation points… I get them wholesale from x_Tech….

I do a lot of business with him (Brain bleach, glitter, etc) but I’m pretty sure his retail case prices are fair, too.

If a case is too many, though, I can probably sell you a few dozen.

Bev!

I used to collect pie birds.At some point I decided to sell most of them and now I wish I hadn’t…. but I still have a few.One is a pie elephant.

Back then, nobody knew what they were… I found out from a book.Now they make reproductions.

I found a picture of one almost just like mine!

x_Tech…. I’m kinda craving one myself….I like the chocolate ones.

This one is a moon phase B’ak’tun watch:

Hey it’s not running….

Do I need to shake it?

Bev.. I know we have a posting time warp…. but I still can’t see a shirt Essex posted with red dots….

Bev.. I know we have a posting time warp…. but I still can’t see a shirt Essex posted with red dots….He does have some snazzy yellow pants though.My my.

Wow… I deleted and re-posted that TWICE and it doubled the top paragraph all three times!

It is NOT there in my post!

X!! Do you have a clue?

No, not THAT clue!

About my doubled post.It happened the other night too…. and I know Bev saw it cos she quoted it.

Ohhhh…. that shirt….

it IS a very ni….. it is a shirt….yes it is.

Ess said Stel gave that one to x_Tech….

With all X’s technical skills, maybe he could clone it for you…..

I was kind of thinking the shirts I made for Red and Briatollah weren’t as colorful as I wanted them to be…But you can’t always find the material you want, you know.

Hope they liked them anyway.

I guess I shouldn’t post ALL the shirts…

I made so many…plus all the stuff for the ladies.

X…. I wasn’t referring to that at all…I just thought it was a funny typo…LOL…There are a few words I keep typing wrong to the point hat I no longer see the error…even if I know the way they SHOULD look, I’m too used to how they look the way I type them.

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Hey look!

The Tiki is world famous!

I just saw this in my online channel guide for tonight:

"Coastal Cooking With John ShieldsEpisode: Asian Melting Pot

Vietnamese fish rolls; chicken long rice; black and white tuna; Tiki Bar drinks.

Hey Red, have a wee bit of the wham’s dram on me. There’s still a bit of the Mojo Pork Gumbo. Collards and Blackeyed peas left for you. Sorry the " Old Ball Coach " beat Michigan today – he is not one of my favorite coaches but one I have to admit ( grudgingly ) is one of the best !

Happy New Year!

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Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan!