Oct 9th, '08, 00:11
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Oct 9th, '08, 00:23
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Oct 9th, '08, 00:24
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I had to go with white........I think white is a great winter time tea with all its complex warm subtle notes and it is also good cold as well......so no matter what type of island I was stuck on it would be a good choice!
*At the moment I am having a cup of some home made genmaicha.......and when I say home-made I mean I toasted the rice and I added it to a med/high grade sencha.....it is really nice if you make it yourself.....mine certainly has a more pronounced grassy note becuase I use substantially more tea than toasted rice.
-Nick (TaiPing)
*At the moment I am having a cup of some home made genmaicha.......and when I say home-made I mean I toasted the rice and I added it to a med/high grade sencha.....it is really nice if you make it yourself.....mine certainly has a more pronounced grassy note becuase I use substantially more tea than toasted rice.
-Nick (TaiPing)
Oct 9th, '08, 00:30
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Ha! I'll have you know that I took part in an advance poll yesterday, and....Victoria wrote:Are newbies allowed to vote?
How about Canadians?
I protest!!
Oh, you mean voting on this issue. I vote for the Green Party!
Of course my desert island is completely supplied with all the tea requisites I can imagine. At the moment, my green tea of choice is gyokuro, but matcha is a close second.
Come to think of it, if the matcha can be a super-high-grade matcha for koicha, then matcha definitely gets my vote, because there's nothing as yummy as koicha!
Either way, green green green.
murrius: je peux voter aussi en français, donc je démande un deuxième vote. Quelle bonne idée
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Oct 9th, '08, 03:17
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Pas de tondeuse! Méchante menteuse! Je utilise un combine harvester!Victoria wrote:Chamekke dit qu'oolong est suprême. Vert est les résultats de tondeuse. Elle parle dans les contraires.chamekke wrote:murrius: je peux voter aussi en français, donc je démande un deuxième vote. Quelle bonne idée
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Sacro-iliac!
HA! So she admits it!
To loosely quote the Wizard:
Pay no attention to that woman behind the noren.
I couldn't sleep so a steep of Heirloom Flowers
finished off my day. Now with Oolong in the
rightful lead, I shall drift off peacefully, no doubt.
Nytol.
To loosely quote the Wizard:
Pay no attention to that woman behind the noren.
I couldn't sleep so a steep of Heirloom Flowers
finished off my day. Now with Oolong in the
rightful lead, I shall drift off peacefully, no doubt.
Nytol.
- Victoria -
http://victoriasown.blogspot.com/
http://victoriasown.blogspot.com/
Oct 9th, '08, 08:41
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Oct 9th, '08, 10:34
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Victoria, wow. That does not sound like a fun set up.Victoria wrote:geeber1 wrote:Auggy, maybe you could expense background checks along with pepper spray. Your pastor should be ashamed of himself for putting you in that kind of position. Not a very good shepherd, I would say.auggy wrote:Does anyone know a free way to check people's records myself? The state of Texas has a search but it's costs like $3.00 per search (well, excluding the sex offenders database which is free).
I would definitely expense it out along with the background checks. I do not have paroles working here - HOWEVER - my office is right next door to State Parole. They are lined up outside in the morning and in addition to checking me out - they also know I am alone, since my car is the only one in the parking lot. But I was provided with pepper spray, and I have 911 programmed in on the phone and I have a silent alarm. I just hope they are on their good behavior if they are checking in with parole and would not do something stupid right next door. But you never know, I am always on guard.
The church does do background checks, but no one is informed of what they turn up. So maybe I need to see if I can get in the cabinet with the background checks. Though I did find that Dallas county has some records of past charges, which helped me find out that apparently the maintenance guy that likes heroin also has a history of check fraud. Sigh. I don't even have a lock on my desk.
Oct 9th, '08, 11:01
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auggy, I caught that discussion after posting my silly/French replies (I have a bad habit of starting at the end of a thread and working backwards!).auggy wrote:The church does do background checks, but no one is informed of what they turn up. So maybe I need to see if I can get in the cabinet with the background checks. Though I did find that Dallas county has some records of past charges, which helped me find out that apparently the maintenance guy that likes heroin also has a history of check fraud. Sigh. I don't even have a lock on my desk.
Personally? I would refuse to work/volunteer for any group, religious/charitable or otherwise, that risked my safety like that. Of course it's nice that your church pastor feels compassion and responsibility for these ex-cons. But where is his compassion and responsibility towards the rest of you?
Your pastor may need to have the hard experience of having some of his best people walking out before he takes this seriously. There are ways of bringing ex-cons back into the community, but it needs to be done with plenty of up-front common sense and with all eyes wide open. The situation he has placed you in is disgraceful.
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Oct 9th, '08, 13:01
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My favorite is oolong. Even though I also love green, I can't help voting for oolong 
However, I've heard so many people commenting that, compared with traditional oolong, modern oolong has been largely green-ized. So it's really hard to say which wins between green and oolong
However, I've heard so many people commenting that, compared with traditional oolong, modern oolong has been largely green-ized. So it's really hard to say which wins between green and oolong
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You make your one day worth two days.
Oct 9th, '08, 15:09
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I so agree! DH is also not a fan of the current way the senior pastor is doing things here. DH agreed when I said that if another incident happens like Friday where I was left alone with the guy, regardless of whether the pastor says he has a history of violence (he doesn't, but addicts do a lot of things that aren't in character), I should no longer work here.chamekke wrote:Personally? I would refuse to work/volunteer for any group, religious/charitable or otherwise, that risked my safety like that. Of course it's nice that your church pastor feels compassion and responsibility for these ex-cons. But where is his compassion and responsibility towards the rest of you?
The pastor things that because he trusts these guys, everyone else should, too and thus their past isn't even an issue. However, I maintain that 1 - he trusts too easily and 2 - people can and will act out of character when they are on drugs, drinking, etc.
BTW, I very much enjoyed the foreign language posts. They made me giggle - even if I had to get Google to translate them for me first.
