Nice Hot Toddy Day - as modified from a drink introduced to me from life's best friend
I just came in from getting a couple of loads of Red Oak in my small - hauls a little over a 1/3 of a cord of wood - cart which I had cut yesterday late afternoon and semi-split into halves and then stacked and covered against the rain predicted for today. Although this morning was overcast there was no rain but knowing it was coming I twiddled away until about 10:30 then thought get the wood to the house and under cover while the ground is still dry and firm for the tractor. By the time I got to the second load the day was drear and spotting rain fairly consistently, and though the work was keeping me comfortable enough, I was getting that 'into-my-bones' feel of working in cold and damp. Splitting halves into quarters, and stacking in the wood rick soon were finished and I came in to my wood fire burning and the feel of wanting something stronger than hot tea to comfort my solitude but not wanting a single malt at this time of day when really I wanted a hot drink, I remembered my sorely missed friend George introducing me to a nice hot toddy of strong black tea, a teaspoon of butter and a shot of good rum, so I checked in the back closets of the entrance way and found most of a bottle of the blueberry liqueur pictured above (15% Alc by volume) squirreled away from some long ago get together and thought I'd give it a try as the toddy enhancer - and it was GREAT.
Give it a try some wet-chill day when you want a good pick-me-up!
Give it a try some wet-chill day when you want a good pick-me-up!
110 Thousand - coming up in the next 54 hits (updated)
ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND - hits tonight probably
8:49 twenty seven to go
and as an aside update extension of this value of 110,000 let me pontificate for a moment about one of my pet peeves - that of people mis-saying numerical values when they speak, to wit:
ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND - in numerical form is 110,000
ONE HUNDRED and TEN THOUSAND - in numerical form is 100 + 10,000, not the same value at all
AND this is one of my biggest complaints about the way most people, even those that think they are well educated and well articulated , screw up when saying a numerical value in words by adding a superficial 'and' at some arbitrary point when in fact in saying numerical values the word 'and' is reserved for two different meanings which should not conflict if done properly. The word 'and' can be used to indicate addition, e.q. "six and seven equal thirteen". It can also be used to indicate a numerical value less than one. e.q. "four and three tenths" when reading the numerical expression '4.3'. Other wise we can end up with the farcical comment of a lot of people when saying in words the numerical value 110,000 as in the second sentence above.
I agree that saying "four hundred and twenty eight" for the numerical value 438 is arithmetically correct - BUT - it leads you onward into the farcical example as above. So why not be concise and simply say the numerical value straight forward every time,i.e. "four hundred thirty eight" which is also unerringly correct and concise and not 'affected' in the second definition of that word.
8:49 twenty seven to go
and as an aside update extension of this value of 110,000 let me pontificate for a moment about one of my pet peeves - that of people mis-saying numerical values when they speak, to wit:
ONE HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND - in numerical form is 110,000
ONE HUNDRED and TEN THOUSAND - in numerical form is 100 + 10,000, not the same value at all
AND this is one of my biggest complaints about the way most people, even those that think they are well educated and well articulated , screw up when saying a numerical value in words by adding a superficial 'and' at some arbitrary point when in fact in saying numerical values the word 'and' is reserved for two different meanings which should not conflict if done properly. The word 'and' can be used to indicate addition, e.q. "six and seven equal thirteen". It can also be used to indicate a numerical value less than one. e.q. "four and three tenths" when reading the numerical expression '4.3'. Other wise we can end up with the farcical comment of a lot of people when saying in words the numerical value 110,000 as in the second sentence above.
I agree that saying "four hundred and twenty eight" for the numerical value 438 is arithmetically correct - BUT - it leads you onward into the farcical example as above. So why not be concise and simply say the numerical value straight forward every time,i.e. "four hundred thirty eight" which is also unerringly correct and concise and not 'affected' in the second definition of that word.
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