the id, the ego, & the single misfiring brain cell - Latest Comments on what to pack when i'm bound for italy https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Aunt Bann [Visitor] in response to: what to pack when i'm bound for italy Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:19:29 +0000 Aunt Bann [Visitor] c32792@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>I&#8217;ve been looking all over my kitchen for the corkscrew I KNOW I had a few years ago. Usually, I buy my wine with just screw-on lids, but the last one I bought (about two weeks ago) has the cork&#8212;&#8211;and I can&#8217;t find the corkscrew! Thanks to Hinermad, I now have an idea of how to get it open!</p> <p>Love you! Take care of yourself!</p> I’ve been looking all over my kitchen for the corkscrew I KNOW I had a few years ago. Usually, I buy my wine with just screw-on lids, but the last one I bought (about two weeks ago) has the cork—–and I can’t find the corkscrew! Thanks to Hinermad, I now have an idea of how to get it open!

Love you! Take care of yourself!

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2011/09/23/what-to-pack-when-i#c32792 Hinermad [Visitor] in response to: what to pack when i'm bound for italy Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:20:16 +0000 Hinermad [Visitor] c32791@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Diana,</p> <p>Another vote for the corkscrew. I used to scoff at people who&#8217;d buy a Swiss Army knife with one, until an engineer I met told me her most common use for her knife was a wine and cheese lunch with her husband. (Her company apparently had a different alcohol use policy than mine did. Drinking at lunch was verboten.) Now when I travel I carry a lever corkscrew in my shaving kit.</p> <p>For travel-friendly utensils, have you considered a titanium spork?</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Optimus-8016285-Titanium-Spork/dp/B001ANF76S/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1316790817&amp;sr=8-3" class="linebreak" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.amazon.com/Optimus-8016285-Titanium-Spork/dp/B001ANF76S/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1316790817&amp;sr=8-3</a></p> <p>If you ever do find a good fan for traveling that doesn&#8217;t sound like a turboprop airplane, please let me know. That&#8217;s become a lifelong quest for me. (I could really use a quiet fan at work.)</p> <p>Dave<br /></p> Diana,

Another vote for the corkscrew. I used to scoff at people who’d buy a Swiss Army knife with one, until an engineer I met told me her most common use for her knife was a wine and cheese lunch with her husband. (Her company apparently had a different alcohol use policy than mine did. Drinking at lunch was verboten.) Now when I travel I carry a lever corkscrew in my shaving kit.

For travel-friendly utensils, have you considered a titanium spork?

http://www.amazon.com/Optimus-8016285-Titanium-Spork/dp/B001ANF76S/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1316790817&sr=8-3

If you ever do find a good fan for traveling that doesn’t sound like a turboprop airplane, please let me know. That’s become a lifelong quest for me. (I could really use a quiet fan at work.)

Dave

]]> https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/index.php/2011/09/23/what-to-pack-when-i#c32791 Irene Cobb [Visitor] in response to: what to pack when i'm bound for italy Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:03:03 +0000 Irene Cobb [Visitor] c32790@https://pdblack.twistedpair.net/ <p>Ugh, mosquitos!!! You would not BELIEVE the ones we have here in FL! They are brutal, and they loooooooove me (and my younger son) too. My legs look AWFUL, like I have chicken pox or something. They don&#8217;t bother my husband at all. Bastards.</p> Ugh, mosquitos!!! You would not BELIEVE the ones we have here in FL! They are brutal, and they loooooooove me (and my younger son) too. My legs look AWFUL, like I have chicken pox or something. They don’t bother my husband at all. Bastards.

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