The Virtual Coffee Shop, Diner And Corner Pub

[BSBDrakeTyler]

Hello Drake, You obviously can't say where in Michigan you reside nor should you however I am an Alumni of MSU and proud of it so I return back to the campus at least several times a year especially during football and basketball seasons. I am in East Lansing now having attended the MSU vs Oregon last night where we beat those ducks. I am off to Grand Haven today and I also frequent Traverse City often. With that being said, I hope our paths cross some time and now that you have a pic of me (my avatar) don't be afraid to give me a shout!

I agree with your post regarding my location.. But that's awesome you attended that game! I bet you guys will make the playoff this year!

Yes, I do have pic of you now. I won't hesitate to say hi if our paths ever cross

 

[tampa24]

Well guys, I've had a tough day. I went out to a full service restaurant last night for friend chicken and sides. I got a salad with their Italian dressing. The dressing smelled smelled pretty strong and pungent. Like maybe it had been fermenting. I ate it anyway. I ended up with a case of food poisoning. Another friend had the same chicken meal that I did (without the salad) and had no problems today. Around 6:00 am I started in with a bad case of upset stomach, intestinal distress and then vomiting. What a day! Living all day uncomfortably in bed with just trips to the bathroom is no fun. I'm feeling somewhat well enough to get online now. I'm just glad to be feeling at least somewhat better. Though I haven't had anything to eat today. If you get something in a restaurant that smells or tastes off...don't continue eating it. It's not worth the risk.

 

[mikeyank]

Next time Tampa, instead of going to that full service restaurant, you're better off sticking to "The Virtual Coffee Shop, Diner And Corner Pub". I guarantee you'll never get food poisoning here.

Seriously, I'm glad you are feeling better now.

 

[tampa24]

Next time Tampa, instead of going to that full service restaurant, you're better off sticking to "The Virtual Coffee Shop, Diner And Corner Pub". I guarantee you'll never get food poisoning here.

Seriously, I'm glad you are feeling better now.

Thanks Mikey. Mwah!

 

[Buckeye1]

full service restaurant last night for friend chicken and sides

Is that a Freudian slip or do they have a new restaurant in town...wasn't there when I lived in Tampa...I LOVE chicken (friend or not). lol This needs to go to Ellen. lol

PS Sorry you got sick (seriously)

 

[tampa24]

Is that a Freudian slip or do they have a new restaurant in town...wasn't there when I lived in Tampa...I LOVE chicken (friend or not). lol This needs to go to Ellen. lol

PS Sorry you got sick (seriously)

Thanks Buckeye.

Yes. A Freudian slip because I was sick. lol Today has been much better.

 

[Buckeye1]

Thanks Buckeye.

Yes. A Freudian slip because I was sick. lol Today has been much better.

I wasn't trying to be mean or insensitive. I thought it was perhaps your spell checker acting up which is why I suggested sending it to Ellen. I'm glad you're feeling better...food poisoning is something I NEVER want again.

 

[tampa24]

I wasn't trying to be mean or insensitive. I thought it was perhaps your spell checker acting up which is why I suggested sending it to Ellen. I'm glad you're feeling better...food poisoning is something I NEVER want again.

Oh I didn't take offense Robb. I think it was just an auto-correct error. haha

 

[tampa24]

Have any of you been watching the lunar eclipse tonight?

 

[Buckeye1]

Have any of you been watching the lunar eclipse tonight?

It's rainy and cloudy here tonight...so no for me.

 

[peterh6308]

I wasn't trying to be mean or insensitive.

Oh not you!! lol

 

[another1]

in my world, I am having trouble understanding how zero emission buses are better for the environment when the best levels of electricity generation is twice that of diesel. zero at the end of the process requires a lot of emissions at the production phase.
where is the gain?

 

[tampa24]

Yeah. It's a complex mess when you look at the whole process from A-Z. Even the recycling process requires a whole lot of fossil fuel and electricity to accomplish. If however the production of zero emission buses were to take the same levels of energy and fuel to build as normal ones, then there would be the gain. Do you have access to reports indicating otherwise Another1?

Then you consider how much electricity we pay for and is being wasted on an hourly basis by all the appliances we have plugged into the wall while not in use. We like to think they use no electricity at all until we flip the light switch on or turn on the machine. Any "live" electrical cord is drawing electricity. It may seem minute to a single homeowner. But when you multiply it by a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country...the amount of electricity being wasted and the cost of that waste is staggering.

Do you remember when "clean" nuclear energy, done in a professional manner with all modern safeguards was supposed to be the salvation to the energy crisis of the seventies? Then there was 3 Mile Island, educating the public on what the "China Syndrome" theory was, Chernobyl...and then the Fukishima disaster in Japan after the tsunami hit. As we sit here after the turn of the century it doesn't look nearly as attractive of an option as it once did.

 

[another1]

because I am mindful of the nuclear issue, I approach every advance with a healthy dose of skepticism.

 

[Ambivalent]

Yeah. It's a complex mess when you look at the whole process from A-Z. Even the recycling process requires a whole lot of fossil fuel and electricity to accomplish. If however the production of zero emission buses were to take the same levels of energy and fuel to build as normal ones, then there would be the gain. Do you have access to reports indicating otherwise Another1?

Then you consider how much electricity we pay for and is being wasted on an hourly basis by all the appliances we have plugged into the wall while not in use. We like to think they use no electricity at all until we flip the light switch on or turn on the machine. Any "live" electrical cord is drawing electricity. It may seem minute to a single homeowner. But when you multiply it by a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country...the amount of electricity being wasted and the cost of that waste is staggering.

Do you remember when "clean" nuclear energy, done in a professional manner with all modern safeguards was supposed to be the salvation to the energy crisis of the seventies? Then there was 3 Mile Island, educating the public on what the "China Syndrome" theory was, Chernobyl...and then the Fukishima disaster in Japan after the tsunami hit. As we sit here after the turn of the century it doesn't look nearly as attractive of an option as it once did.

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Well, Tampa - I have no worries! Because President Obama - and presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, have saved the earth from Canadian "dirty oil". . . by nixing the Keystone Pipeline. (And by sending all that oil by rail, instead ;-) And by authorizing "fracking" ;-)

The world is just as it should be - LOL!

"A" ;-)

 

[tampa24]

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Well, Tampa - I have no worries! Because President Obama - and presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, have saved the earth from Canadian "dirty oil". . . by nixing the Keystone Pipeline. (And by sending all that oil by rail, instead ;-) And by authorizing "fracking" ;-)

The world is just as it should be - LOL!

"A" ;-)

I'm sure you're so relieved and pleased Ambi.

 

[Ambivalent]

I'm sure you're so relieved and pleased Ambi.

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Thanks, Tampa -

I AM relieved - and l'll be JUST FINE. indeed, if I finally get some time off work, and get to follow our English friend on a holiday to Ireland. . . hiring a huge Lincoln Continental limousine to haul me to and from the airport (small cars annoy me - their tiny passenger bays cut off the circulation, in my legs ); burning up mega-gallons of jet-fuel on the way over; and find myself sitting in a Dublin pub, drinking quarts of Guinness, and casually throwing chips out the window, onto the pavement. . . while Damian McGinty sings in my left ear, and Emmet Cahill sings in my right ;-)

Après moi, le deluge,
"A" XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

 

[Beth]

Just stopped by to "drop off" some Justin Bieber:
http://worldofwonder.net/justin-bieber-went-for-a-naked-swim-omg/

 

[mikeyank]

Just stopped by to "drop off" some Justin Bieber:
http://worldofwonder.net/justin-bieber-went-for-a-naked-swim-omg/

Thanks Beth. Little Bieber is a big boy now. Very impressive!

 

[tampa24]

I found some of the uncensored pics for Mikey. LOL