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[titusnowl]

So, related to the earlier quiz, it turns out that the training program requires not only a printer, but also several arcane bits of FedEx paperwork that I have never even SEEN, much less had lying around the house to refer to on the mandatory quizzes. ::sigh:: Luckily you can retake the quizzes forever at no penalty so I've just been going down the multiple choices one by one until I got it right by guess and chance.

Justin bought me a printer, as mentioned earlier, because he figured that not only would it help be tonight, but we're going to need one for ourselves eventually anyway. So there you have it.

We went to Books-A-Million because it was right next door to the Office Depot that sold us the printer. They had a book called something like Eats, Shoots and Leaves about proper use of punctuation. It is the perfect size for carrying in a trenchcoat pocket or large handbag, and is hardcover for better WHANG!!!ing upside the heads of those who abuse commas and apostrophes. I didn't get it yet, though.

One thing I desperately want is an Associated Press Stylebook (preferably the one with the Libel Manual, which should, if the world has any justice, be a how-to guide). I'd also like the newer Chicago manual. I want a full selection of style guides to WHANG!!! people with - and for consulting, of course, so that I am prepared no matter which regulations I am expected to follow. I even have my mother's 1970s stenographer's manual, just in case I need to use a typewriter properly. ... but mostly for WHANG!!!ing.

Another thing I really very much desire is a nice 8" chef's knife. I have no good meat-slicing knives in the kitchen; whenever we make chicken-fried steak fingers, Justin uses his Swiss Army knife to cut the eye of rounds into neat strips. One should not be reduced to using a pocketknife for meat-cuttery.

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[juniper200.livejournal.com]

Don't buy your AP book at the store. Get the spiral-bound one here (http://www.apbookstore.com/20apst2.html); it's infinitely easier to handle as an everyday tool.

If you want it, you can have my sprial-bound 2000. They buy a new one for me every year at work, so I don't need the one from college anymore. There are some updates in the style section (teenager sted. teen-ager; al-Qaida; 9-11; TV on all references, etc.), but it's still a good foundation tool.

You can WHANG! people but good with "Eats, Shoots and Leaves," and I'm thrilled at the popular press it's getting. Anything by Karen Elizabeth Gordon is also excellent for WHANG!!age, as is "Sin and Syntax" by someone I can't remember because the book is on my desk at work and I have too many windows open.

Yes, please.

[3weasel.livejournal.com]

If you want it, you can have my sprial-bound 2000.
Jeffie's still doing her FedEx training, but I jump all over this offer on her behalf.

[brianjedi.livejournal.com]

Chicken-fried steak fingers?

You have my attention. Recipe, please, with pics if you have them.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

Eye of round steaks, thin cut (package says "Para Milanesa" down here, but might not there). Each mini steak yeilds about 3 fingers so purchase steaks according to how much you'll eat. Cut them into strips and season them as you like.

In bowl, combine one egg with, oh, about half or 3/4 cup milk. We never measure, we just pour until it looks right. In a separate bowl with a lid, about 1 cup flour.

Meanwhile, heat the oil in your deep fryer to 375.

Dip each steak strip into flour lightly, then into milkegg, then place in flour bowl, put lid on and shake to coat. Remove from bowl and place on a cookie tray (I'm drawing a blank on the real word here, they are made of wire woven into a kind of very loose mesh, you cool cookies on them). After they've rested a little put 'em in the deep fryer and cook til they are done, then let them rest back on the rack to cool off and drip-dry (oh yeah, you'll want the rack to be over a cookie sheet with some paper toweling on it. The rack is there so they're not sitting directly on the paper toweling soaking in their own grease; this way they get crispy).

If you want to, when you're done you can mix together the flour and milkegg and make fried dough balls.

[brianjedi.livejournal.com]

Ooh, sounds good. I'll have to try that one of these days.