The Whine thread.

[Entilzha]

PSU=Power Supply Unit

[Alelou]

Yes, I know. I meant, if the dvd doesn't open, does that suggest it's the PSU causing the problem? Couldn't it still be a faulty overall power switch?

[Cogito]

Yes, I know. I meant, if the dvd doesn't open, does that suggest it's the PSU causing the problem? Couldn't it still be a faulty overall power switch?

It means the problem is probably 'just' the PSU, or an internal fuse, or your suggestion of a switch failure (I've never seen that problem, but I suppose it's possible).

If the CD/DVD drive was working, proving that the PSU was delivering power, then you would have had a much nastier problem - most likely a corrupted BIOS, which could be a right old pita to fix.

[Alelou]

Okay, thanks.

[Distracted]

Whiiine....

My food tastes like crud without salt. My blood pressure goes through the roof with it. I'm not even 50 yet and I have to take medicine every day. And I can't even lose weight to decrease it without being accused of being anorexic. Damn.

[Alelou]

Bleah! How did that happen?

Although we have family friends who seem to have a family trait for really high blood pressure -- the kind that gets you slammed in the hospital because they expect you to stroke out any minute. And both of them (mother and son) are skinny and fit and eat very healthy. She's still winning tennis tournaments in her sixties.

Does the potassium chloride substitute work at all for you?

[Distracted]

It's better than nothing, but if I use too much of it the food tastes bitter. Guess I'll just have to get used to it. My kids are already complaining about the difference in my cooking. I just show them the salt shaker. Luckily, hubby likes it. He grew up with a dad on a low sodium diet. He was always griping about how salty everything was.

Well, he ought to be happy now.

[Silverbullet]

Dis, don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I too am denied the salt shaker. I used to put salt on my food when I was a boy so much the food was white with it.. I love Salt.

I also love tomato and that needs Salt. guess what, my wife won't let put salt on sliced Tomatos or in my Tomato juice. It tastes bland and actually tasteless.

When I was in the Rehab in Califorinia the Chef for some reason laid in to the Salt on my food. so much so that my meals were inedible. I almost starved because there was so much Salt on my food. I like it but in moderation.

I keep telling my wife that all Animals NEED Salt. That the Romans pay was half in Salt. She is heartless. MY food is bland and the Salt shakers have all been locked away from me.

I take medicine to control my blood pressure, it works even when I use Salt. My pressure is low. But I am still denied Salt.

SB

[Alelou]

SB, I think you need to lay down the law! If a man your age wants a little salt on his tomato and it's not going to kill him, he should be able to have it.

(That's assuming you're willing to go in the kitchen and get your own tomato, of course.)

Adding some chopped basil or mint and balsamic vinegar and olive oil and fresh-ground black pepper can make that tomato taste pretty good without any salt, though.

Jaime tend to over-salt most things, which is part of the reason I try to do most of the cooking. I figure if he's cooking, there's not much I can say about it.

[Distracted]

Well, unless I want to eat grilled meat of some sort for every meal, I've got no choice but to do the cooking. Hubby is a manly man with manly cooking skills. He can grill meat, over-cook frozen vegetables in the microwave, and tear up heads of lettuce into chunks for salad. That's pretty much the extent of it.

[Kotik]

Distracted's hubby for president That's about the cooking prowess of the majority of the male population. Although you seem to have partially domesticated your better half - I mean, really, Lettuce ?? Man didn't make it to the top of the food chain to eat weeds

If you downloaded the feeding subroutines from an average male brain, they'd look something like that.

Code: Select all

begin
  fetch(weapon)
  seek(animal)
  stalk(animal)
  kill(animal)
  drag(animal, cave)
  peel(animal)
  make(fire)
  put(animal,fire)
  grill(animal)
  if (married) then
    drink(beer)
    ignore(nagging,wife)
  else
    drink(beer)
    belch()
  end
  eat(animal)
end


[Alelou]

Jaime is a very good cook, if he just takes it a LITTLE easy on the Adobo and various other short cuts to good Spanish cooking. He does tend to disregard the vegetable side of things, though. If it were not for Jaime, I'd probably still be making boring, soggy white-woman rice.

He's the man for all flans and tostones in this house. Also the fried chicken wings. If he wants fried anything other than Korean pancake, he has to cook it. (Fried foods give me heartburn so I avoid them.) I got him a "Cool Daddy" fryer for Father's Day a couple of years ago in the hope I wouldn't have to spend an hour cleaning everything in the kitchen afterwards.

[Distracted]

Sounds about right, Kotik, except for the beer. He drinks diet Dr. Pepper by the bucket instead.

And he uses antlers in all of his decorating. I've got dead animal heads on plaques sitting in a storage room because we've run out of wall space for more. We've got kudu and red deer in the living room, wildebeest, impala, geese, and a turkey in the exercise room, white tail deer in the game room and in the hall, and his trophies from last year's cape buffalo hunt just cleared customs and will be here before we know it... I did, however, manage to convince him not to put the warthog mount in our bedroom. A real mood-spoiler, that one.

[Kotik]

[Silverbullet]

I was a househusband for 13 years. I am a pretty good cook. I can do roasts, Casserols, fried foods, stews, Pasta. common food though.

I did all of the shopping and got pretty good at it.

Those days are past. wife does all of the coking and shopping. she is a marvelous cook and a sharp shopper. Can smell a bargain from 20 paces.

BTW , I came about my love for Tomato honestly. Inherited it from my Grandfather (who i don't r3emember) he Loved Tomato to. Ate them right out of the Can. Unfortunately, in his day the cans were sealed with lead on the side which tended to break. One night he got up, opened a Can of Tomatos and ate them they were rotten with Tomaine Poison because the lead Seal had broken. He was dead the next morning. But like him I Love tomato.

SB

SB