From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 09 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Adam wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> Message from my sister about 6:30 EST - snowing well, and   
   >> they're talking about 20-24 inches overnight.   
      
   >It came to 12-13" here.  Everyone's used to it and knows what to do.   
      
   Estimated as 27" there, but hard to tell with the drifting.  Saturday   
   morning, they couldn't get out of the house, because the snow was   
   piled up against the (outward opening) storm doors.  Her youngest son   
   had stayed overnight, and finally removed the glass panel from the   
   back storm door and crawled through. He spent twenty minutes just   
   shoveling enough space so that the front and back doors were usable.   
   The daughter was working the normal "evening shift" (clerk at a nearby   
   hospital, tried to leave at 11 PM - got 3 miles away before realizing   
   travel was near impossible on CT 8. Tried returning to the hospital,   
   but that took until after 3 AM.  She overnighted there, then worked   
   from 10 AM to 4 PM as an extra shift.  She got home around 5:30 PM   
   and isn't planning on leaving the house until Monday afternoon.  They   
   didn't loose power or phones.  Relatives over near Putnam, CT (NE   
   corner of state) said 35" plus and power (but not phone) out.   
      
   >>> I expect to spend the next week and a half feeling medium-sick.   
      
   >> Bummer - and chicken soup isn't going to cure it either.   
      
   >Nope, just lots of the OTC meds that I'm allowed.  Chicken or   
   >split-pea soup sounds good, though -- I may make some.  (And I don't   
   >mean by opening a can!)   
      
   Nothing difficult - soak the peas for a couple hours, drain, add 2 1/2   
   quarts water and a half onion per cup of dried pea, simmer for four   
   hours, puree, and add a pint of milk, 3 tbs butter, 2 tbs flour, and   
   salt/pepper to taste.   I've seen it made with diced turkey ham as   
   well as real ham (in which case, don't add salt).  That's based on   
   the 1890s "Boston Cooking School" recipe (a.k.a "Fannie Farmer").   
      
   >I'm also taking advantage of the reduced appetite to lose a few   
   >pounds.   
      
   Opps - substitute margarine for the butter   ;-)   
      
   >I still have to do laundry, which means walking outdoors (below   
   >freezing) to another building.   
      
   We did get a freeze here in January, and I lost all the pepper and   
   tomato plants that were producing until then.  Last night, it also   
   got very cold, and I had to cover the replacement plants.   
      
   [spell-chuckers]   
      
   >The one for Seamonkey (mail/news) seems pathetic from looking at what   
   >I've had to add: cancelled, else's, humidity, okay, women's.   
      
   I'm currently using the old 'ispell' (stand-alone), which is using   
   two dictionaries in /usr/share/dict/  - the _smaller_ one is a FreeBSD   
   version of Webster's Second International ("all 234,936 words"), and   
   the larger one (MOBY project) has 480k entries although I'm unsure if   
   I'd agree with some of them (2,4,5-t, 2,4-d, 3D, 3M, 4GL).   
      
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