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Chattie
must still be quite busy with her family's relocation, so NOLady is
assuming the duties of Editor-in-Chief until she returns, and we hope
it's soon. We all miss her sorely!!
It is always a joy to receive submissions from our channel owners and users. Thank you again for sending in articles for the very late October newsletter. Please mention the newsletter and the Sunday night #Townhall meetings to the folks in your channels and encourage them to subscribe to the newsletter and to send in news of upcoming events, channel chatter, and the birthdays and anniversaries of their users.
While I'm at it,
this is as good a time as any to remind everyone to COME TO THE
#TOWNHALL MEETINGS!! (Also, drag... I mean INVITE your
channel's guests to attend!) It's an informative time, with some
of the sharpest minds in cyberspace passing on tidbits to help keep us
and our computers safe in this world of online landmines such as
viruses and spam bots! It's also a great way to learn of
happenings around our network, to get acquainted with folks from other
channels, to share news, make comments, ask questions. Please
come! The meetings are every Sunday night at 9:30 Eastern time. October October 1 Aud of #Trivia_Dreams October 5 Clueless of #Trivia_Dreams October 9 PhD of #Trivia_Dreams October 10 Blue of #Trivia_Dreams October 15 Zooey of #Trivia_Dreams October 21 Applekid of #Trivia_Dreams October 21 Anegl2480 of #Trivia_Dreams October 27 Justgreen of #Trivia Dreams October 29 IRC Op Sinbad of #DasBoot November Birthdays & Anniversaries
November 5 Obiwan of #30+Kickin^Back November 6 Daph of #fibrochat November 7 Hilte of #fibrochat November 14 Shaw of #fibrochat November 16 IRC Op Alien November 18 Tricia of #Fibro_Friends November 21 Ah of #Trivia_Dreams November 22 IRC Op Wullie and MrsWullie (Anniversary) November 22 Lorellei` of #Trivia_Dreams November 23 Rhythm of #12Steps_Alanon November 24 Devroy of #30+Kickin^Back November 30 Shirley_c of #Trivia-Dreams
ISurely with this many folks hanging around, SOME of you want us to wish you well on your special day, right?!! We'll throw you a party, even! We'll bring presents and party hats and cakes and ... and ... Ixnay on the cake thing. Itsy always gobbles them up before we can tote them from #Townhall to your channel for the party. We'll celebrate with you just the same! Send us your special dates or badger -- I mean nicely ask your channel owner to submit them to the newsletter!
Join us in #Townhall every Sunday night at
9:30pm
EST. You can advertise your channel and ask questions regarding the
net, make suggestions, or just join and meet your neighbors!
Don't forget to invite all your friends to #Townhall at 6pm PST/9pm EST for a Halloween Scavenger Hunt and also a Halloween Color Show. TooShy and MikeChat will be putting on another of their GREAT color shows and you won't want to miss it!! Thanks to everyone for your patience during the times that the MountVernon server was offline due to power outages. There has been major flooding in Washington State and also in southern British Columbia so please keep all those affected by these storms in your thoughts and thanks to LarryC, admin of the mountvernon server, for keeping us up to date on all the problems in his area. And congratulations to the SL-IRC staff for making sure that network connections and backups for servers and services (like our dear CStar) were available and brought online to keep disruptions to a minimum. (Itsy) REMINDER: Clocks get turned back one hour
this weekend (25/26 Oct)
To all channel owners: If you have changed internet service providers please let cservice know if you have a new email address. We need the information to be able to contact you in case of problems with your channel or in case you have forgotten to authenticate in your channel and need a reminder to do so. Email addresses ARE kept confidential. Thanks to everyone for
making StarLink-IRC the wonderful cybertown that it is!!!!!!
Well, it's almost that time for our little
ghost and goblins to be out, and then it will be time for Turkey Day
and the big man in Red. Start sending in some of those favorite dishes
that you cook up for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners or maybe some
favorite snacks for the Family get together.
Thanks to NOLady of #40something (<---- see free advertising) for her Jambalaya recipe and to teedee of #30+Kickin`Back (<---- free advertising again) for her Nacho Beef Salad for family get togethers. Please remember to send all recipes to cookingonthewildside@yahoo.com and make sure you put your nick and channel name in the email so you can get free advertising. Just a note: If you have sent in a recipe, don't worry. I've been keeping them and they will be used in upcoming newsletters so make sure to please send them in. Thanks again and until next month let's keep Cookingonthewildside! wildchild
Nacho Beef Salad
1 1/2 - 2 pounds of ground beef (browned and well drained)2 packages of taco seasoning mix 1 green pepper, 2 red peppers, 1 yellow pepper; all chopped but not too fine or too large 6 tomatoes ( large) - chopped 1/2 Spanish onion chopped 1/2 bottle of Catalina dressing 1 Large bag of Nacho cheese chips ( broken ) Brown meat well and drain. While warm add taco seasoning mix. Put in Tupperware and cover until time to put salad together. Chop all vegetables and put in Tupperware until time to put salad together. Break nacho chips into small pieces (not crumbs) and keep in bag until time to put salad together. Just before serving mix beef, veggies, 1/2 bottle of dressing and nachos together. If beef is too dry then add more dressing. Don't put salad together until you are ready to eat!!!! Jambalaya
Make a good hearty chicken stock by bringing to a boil the following:Bag of chicken leg quartersOnce the chicken is cooked, remove it, debone it, chunk it. Then drain the stock and save 5 cups for the jambalaya (freeze the rest to make rice or mashed potatoes in the future... good stuff). Slice two pounds of smoked sausage, dice one onion, mince one toe garlic. Simmer these together until the seasoning is tender. Add two cans of diced tomatoes and a tablespoon of sugar. Simmer a few more minutes. Add the chunked chicken and then the stock, a touch more salt and a dash parsley and a dash cayenne, then bring it to a good roaring boil. Add two cups rice, cover tightly, lower heat, and let it simmer about 45 minutes. Once or twice during this time gently FOLD (don't stir!) the mixture to avoid little crunchies of rice being left uncooked. Serve it with hot french bread and a big salad... and enjoy!!! .
CONGRATULATIONS to GRANDPA Chiefy and his whole family!! His first grandchild was born to his son, Tommy, on August 20, 2003. Her name is Alexandra Paige and she's a little beauty! (I suspect if you ask, he'll whip out his cyber wallet and show off her photos!) Chattie and Palidin are safely in their new home
and will hopefully be back online for the next edition of the
newsletter. As soon as they return, be certain to visit their
channels, #30+Fun and #Trivia-Chat (which is trivia with an
interesting, fun twist). This co-editor will be VERY glad to have
our editor back!!
Once again there was a massive conspiracy on my birthday .. organized in advance by those evil canadians (that have been mentioned before.. ). Fortunately, folks showed remarkable restraint and self control. Mostly. A few. .. ok.. so the net is full of pack animals.. I was trying to be nice here. At any rate, its going to be hard to come up with good costumes for halloween.. unlees you want to put on a mask and go as the governator. Be sure only to visit houses in california since thats where its scariest. California is always scary. Never know if whatever is in the air there is going to escape and take over like maybe new york. Hmm. n/m. Time to consider migrating to Antarctica then ! Til turkey month, have a good weenie day ! Itsy
#TheCave - Lark New Channel Owners: Send information on your channel to the newsletter for publication in the next issue.
Thanks
to Alien for finding this one for us... TOO funny!
No tips this Month. (Itsy)
Tech Tips for Webbies! From last month- Thanks, Makk of
#Fibrochat PLEASE everyone keep your antivirus programs up to date!
HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT AND COLOR SHOW IN #TOWNHALL 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST In addition to the hunt, TooShy and MikeChat will be putting on another of their GREAT color shows and you won't want to miss it! #Townhall can be reserved for parties or meetings. Send an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org if you are interested in reserving the channel for an event. An email will be sent back, confirming the reservation. Put #townhall in the SUBJECT of the mail, and date, time and reason in the BODY.
Amazing reminds us that there may be other folks hurting, so take the time to think of them.
Wise Words
contributed by Amazing
A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One pot had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering Only one and a half pots full of water to his house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do. Odds 'n Ends
contributed by Scorp
Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery. submitted by scorp of #Scorp's-Place
Thanks for Pet Sitting
Dear Friend, Meow, meow, Wanna know what I wanna say? I sure had a great time with you Thanks for taking care of me !! submitted by R of
#Scorp's-Place
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