Sudokuaholics Anonymous 2

Ready, set, go...

you got me, tiger

Wow, that was close. I thought I was last on the previous page. Oh well, maybe next time Topper!

good going. One thing I've noticed, though, may help in the future. Naturally, I'm not going to tell you. And maybe I haven't noticed anything and I'm just teasing.

Did you have a successful day on the market?

or at the market?

yes, I waited until I thought you had posted the last on the previous page, but your sense of timing was better than mine.

''air,'' right...I didn't understand the rules of the game. I thought the point was to create one new word.

There's a secret!?! You should reveal it, it's only fair!

Nothing particularly good or bad, just watching at the moment, hoping to make a significant move at the right time...famous last words, aren't they?

Stella, consider the possibility that I only said that to get a rise. When does racing season start at Saratoga? I've only been there in August.

Yeah, the market is tricky! Many years ago we were going to either buy a house or invest in Microsoft. Needless to say we bought the house. We would be rich if we had gone the other way but it wasn't meant to be.

The racing season starts July 25th and goes through the first weekend of September. It's a very short season.

We only go on Sundays for the giveaways. The kids like to look at the horses and pick a couple. We usually leave by the 3rd race or so.

Some of the brightest people on earth have gone broke in the stock market. It's as much a profound understanding of human nature as a skill at analysis. All those Wharton whiz kids at Long Term Capital Management had it all figured out...until there was a coup in Thailand which dragged down the Russian ruble and they lost $60 Billion. Your tax dollars had to bail them out. There's a new book out called ''Useless Arithmetic: why environmentalists can't predict the future,'' based on the same truth...that mathematics is a dangerous but seductive art.

We did invest in MCI at one point because my sister worked for them and the company was really moving...until Worldcom destroyed it. Good thing we didn't have alot invested, but enough that it hurt.

Yes, what was that guy's name, Bernie.....?

Ebbers. The rich seem to get so greedy that they never know when to stop.

Yoo Hoo, anyone home??

yes, and it's no longer ''money'' at that point, at least in the way that you and I think of it---something which allows us to purchase something, or have security. It's just a game, a type of competition within a very small group.

We had a greedy CEO here in our area. they could not get him for what he did to the company, Health South, but they got him on Medicare fraude and conspiracy and a few other charges. he just went away to Federal Prison.

Hi MizT! Did you have dinner?

yes, MizT, but I have to break off for a bit. Don't take it personally, please.

but that does nothelp all the people who lost money investing in his company.

Yep, topper, I think you are right, it is about power and Points in the power game after a certain point, and I am not sure just where that point lies.

Their little game ruined alot of people! They were probably not ruined in the process, or at least should have protected themselves considering the salary they were paying themselves.

yes, scrushy, that's been on the financial news channels quite a bit.

Stella, dinner is cooking
K cooled down a lot, and I did the chops in a dutch oven with cabbage and apples and onions

Bye Topper, nice talking to you. Thanks!

Scrushy got hurt financially, thankfully. They did take his money in the dirst case, and his cars and other properties.

I just read, his grown son was arrested on drug charges in the home they had not confinscated, NOW family could loose that house too.Seems he made some people angry, and they are looking at EVERYTHING he and his family is doing.

Oh, that sounds interesting! I've never had chops with apples and cabbage. You should post the recipe MizT.

I firmly believe that those people should be charged with some type of manslaughter. When you see and hear and read about retirees who lose everything and suffer heart attacks, take a job as WalMart greeters and start drinking and crash their cars, shoot their wives because the strain has gotten to them and they might as well be flat-out nuts... the people who did that to them killed them.

Bye Topper. Come chat another time.

bye for a bit...MizT, have you posted that on recipes?

Stella, what recipe? I just do it hehehe. I have waterless cookware, so heat the pan really hot, put in the chops, brown on one side, turn, reduce heat and add however much apples, cabbage and onion you want. when the chops are done so are the veggies.

Just put it here. I will try writing a propper recipe for it and put on recipes. It is one of hubbies favorites. Sometimes I add potatoes, but not tonight.

Can you make it without a dutch oven?

I am sure you could bake it Stella, if you first brown the chops in a hot pan and a tiny bit of oil sprayed on the chops.

but I do not bake much espically in the summer.

Hi MizT, my first husband liked Pork chops with apple and onion. I have never tried it with cabbage.
Unfortunately Husband and son don't like apple onion and pork so doubt we will ever try it with cabbage

I shall try putting that method inot the recipe directions when I post it,

NOW?