Dr John with Louie Armstrongs piano

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Easy Peel Hard Boiled Eggs

Easy to Peel Hard Boiled Eggs

Deviled eggs start with easy peel hard
boiled eggs

 

 

 

As I get older, it grows more difficult to keep wieght off. As a result, I can’t make hard boiled eggs very often. When I do, easy peel hard boiled eggs are the only way to go. I love deviled eggs, and I make them with some bite, unlike those that are so bland… well, you know the ones. Living in Northwest Ohio, the diet tends to bland anyway, but I digress.

I don’t make develed eggs often so I don’t remember from time to time, exactly what to do about peeling the eggs. Every time I do this, I have trouble with the first few pulling the shell off and not destroying the egg. This is exactly what did it for me. It’s not hard. Now when I do hard boiled eggs I can refer to this page.

easy peel hard boiled eggs

  1. Put the eggs in a pot of cold water to 1 inch over the eggs. Cover the pot and turn the burner on full.
  2. When the pot comes to a full boil, turn off the heat, keep the pot covered and leave for 15 minutes.
  3. Empty the water from the pot and refill. Empty again, refill along with a tray or two of ice.
  4. Leave it for a few minutes.
  5. With the cover on the pot, empty out enough water so you can handle it and shake it, gently at first then more robustly to crack the eggs and break the shell into small pieces.
  6. Remove the eggs and roll them gently across the counter to pulverize the shell. Put them back in the water.
  7. Peel the eggs under running water from the faucet. Start at the fat end.

I see on the net that older eggs are better. I haven’t examined this myself but as I understand it, it doesn’t matter with store eggs anyway because they take some time to go through the inventory process. Still, the sooner the expiration date the better.

 

 

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Allen Toussaint Funeral Procession

What a wonderful sendoff. They Know how to do it in New Orleans.

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Rock the Vote

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Mr Frumble’s Pickle Car covers Pere Ubu’s- Final Solution

Featuring Chris Spradlin on lead guitar and vocals, Andrew Barth on bass, Rusty Campbell on drums and vocals.

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How to Stay Safe During Brazil World Cup 2014

This pretty much blew me away re the preparation to go to
Brazil to checkout the world Cup

How to Stay Safe During Brazil World Cup 2014

Courtesy of: Sitata
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Google strikes again

I went on adwords this morning to check out some keywords. I saw this message:

New and improved Policy Center
Around September, we’re making our AdWords policies more user friendly, accessible and engaging. Take a look at our preview.
I thought OK… good ideo. Maybe I can finally get an idea of what some of their
myriad policies are.
When I clicked on the link I got…

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The guys I’ve met who work there are some of the most intelligent people I’ve
ever met. Makes you wonder how the hell they screw up like this CONSTANTLY!

Remember when those geniuses decided to photograph all of our military bases?

 

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Search Engine Optimization in a Nutshell

Search Engine Optimization in a Nutshell

How to Get Backlinks
How to Get Backlinks

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Empire Earth Freezes Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Empire EarthEmpire Earth Freezes Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

I’ve been running a dual boot of windows 7 and windows 8 for a year or so. I wanted to keep up on windows 8 but windows 7 was so much better for the desktop computer that I couldn’t see changing totally until last week. When I finally did the deed, I got most of my applications running OK, but the one thing that caused me problems was my major time waster, Empire Earth III.

Empire Earth kept freezing up during the game. I scoured the web, but all the forums either were too vague, you know those forums where a hotshot spreads his bull because he doesn’t know the answer, or the solutions didn’t work.

Finally I found the answer, at least for me. I did a few things that may have helped, so I’ll list them in order, but the last one did the trick. I don’t know if the first solutions affected my result, but they may have.

  1. I ran Empire Earth in administrator mode. This did seem to improve things a bit.
  2. I went to the folder Empire Earth was in and set all of the permissions to full control.
  3. In Empire Earth, I lowered the video quality to the second best quality. That did the trick for me.

In windows 10 it seemed to be primarily a graphic card problem and has to do with how it’s handling the display.

I still can’t minimize the game. I play it full screen on one monitor, and I can’t get out without shutting it down, but that’s minor. My guess is that it’s something to do with Windows 8 metro.

If the second setting for video doesn’t work, you might try to lower it further. I’ve got a pretty good video card on a two monitor system. It’s an ATI Firepro V4800 (FireGL) graphics adapter. I had 2 choices to set the graphics in settings in the game. 1. Direct 3d and 2. direct 3d harware Tnl.

I was still dealing with the freezing until I chose the 2nd graphics option.

To run in administrator mode, right-click the icon and click “run as administrator”.

To set the permissions, click the file folder on the task bar to pull up an explorer window. Go to the folder that Empire Earth resides in. On my machine that’s: “C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Empire Earth III”. back up to the folder that holds the Empire Earth III folder and right click on the Empire Earth folder. Click propertys, and the security tab. Press the edit button. Then select each user name one at a time and check the full control box. Press apply and OK on each dialog box as you close them.

If anybody finds a different fix, or has some other ideas about this, be sure and leave a comment.

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Ericson Holt

EricHoltThis blues band makes me want to move to Key West and get into the music scene. I may bring my drums down next time. Eric Holt is a killer piano player and the guitar player is world class as well.

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