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November 12, 2010
They're elongated fishes. Or "eelongated."
That's right.
Eels are fish, recognized as such, in 1777, by the Italian anatomist Carlo Mondini who found they had the sexual organs of a fish and were therefore fish.
Unfortunately, he couldn't do much for their fishy reputation, which put them slightly above snakes.
Maybe.
As Leonardo Da Vinci said:
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes, and pulling out an eel."
(Perhaps marriage wasn't his thing.)
Nature writer James Prosek is doing his best to reform their slippery image (someone has to do it) in his new book, with a fittingly long title:
"Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World's Most Mysterious Fish."
Prosek, in fact, is such an aficionado, he travels the globe to talk about them.
And why not.
Eels go back to prehistoric days and begin life as a flat and transparent larvae.
To make a long story even longer, the eel is the only fish in the world that spawns in the ocean but spends its adult lives in rivers, lakes and streams.
Although nobody knows exactly where in the ocean they go, and exactly how they get together, since nobody has ever seen them do it.
But do it they must, since in Japan, they consume more than 130,000 tons each year of the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 19 families, 110 genera and about 800 species.
Thought you'd want to know.
Most eels rarely bother other fish, feeding on stream insects, snails, crustaceans, growing as long as 12.3 ft, as in the giant Moray, and are streamlined, possessing no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins.
They basically mind their own business, hiding in the sand, mud, among rocks, or in the many cracks found in coral reefs and only come out of their hiding places at night.
They're shy, hardly exhibitionists like some showoffs I can name, and have had to put up with slimy negative feedback all these years.
If eels don't deserve some lengthy kudos, who does?
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The most facinating fish is the one on my plate.
They tell me that the eels in the waterways of Wales were spawned in the Sargasso Sea. Below my garden, there is an area of land drained by ditches & sluice gates to the sea. Every two or three years, they send an excavator machine to clear the ditches and it pulls out HUGE eels. Some of the local boyos set up a smoke-house and do nicely selling smoked eel to restaurants. The water supply to our workshop was a gravity feed alcathene pipe from a dam in a stream. The pipe would often block up, so I'd trudge up the field & remove the leaves or whatever was causing the problem. One time, I put my hand in there and a very slimy and dead eel was stuck head first in the water pipe. Gave me the heebie-jeebies! Eels are not my favourite creatures.
This Topic is guaranteed to produce some rousing Comments .......
"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes, and pulling out an eel"................ Thats what I'm talkin about....... Electrifying.... turn it up a notch or two.
Good morning
all, Hazel, Ivan, Spencer and anyone else out and about.
Spring Fragrance ~ I wasn't ignoring your question from yesterday.
I've been incommunicado. Sounds like the start of a good blues
tune...maybe Willie Trask can work it out.
I've been incommunicado baby
and if ya don't know what that means
I'm gonna incommunicado you
right out of those blue jeans
yeah I'm incommunicado
oh I'm incommunicado
yeah I'm incommunicado,
lord, I just hopes she's into me.
I'm as slippery as an eel
I'm as evil as a snake
And my incommunicado's
gonna make your jelly shake
yeah I'm incommunicado
oh I'm incommunicado
yeah I'm incommunicado,
lord, I just hopes she's into me.
Pardon the digression, Spring, it was something that flashed and I had to
get out of my system. From yesterday, the original I am the
Nation was a work attributed to Otto Whittaker in 1955, a Johnny
Cash recording was released after his death. I don't know who did this updated
2008 version because it had people and events more recent than either. It could
have been the young man reading who refreshed the words. The story is still the
same.
Kids, good morning! HAZEL.......what a grippingly creepy story...........my husband's grandmother who came over to the states from Italy later in her life would go out into the marsh ( my in laws live on the shore up east) & grab eels & cook those suckers up. He said it pretty much grossed him out. It gives me the shivers..................
PAOLOS..........missed you, great song........life should be so carefree...........
IVAN..............of course you loved Judy Garland, you wonderful man. I am more convinced that you & my father would have been fast friends............
RECNEPS......great quote!
Great day all
Today will be a nice morphing into weekend mode, I need to remember to check in routinely, if only to watch what some of the talented virtual friends at this venue do with THIS fishy subject.....
Fried eel chunks & a lovely boxed burgundy at BERT's later this evening...............
Dr. Peterman ~ Showoffs I can name...do you
remember back in your school days and the teacher made a general comment and you
weren't about to look up from your desk because you knew she was looking
straight at you? That was awesome.
Some kids live for that moment. Ain't that the truth, Miss Bebe?
BERT, I had every intention of grabbing some grub
at City View last night, but traffic on 71 out of Louisville did not cooperate.
Next trip...I swear.
I have to hit the road again, the good news...I am
going home.
A little traveling music and off I
go...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkJ4HBfHv8
bebe~ first thing I thought when I saw the top of page pic was ..... I can't wait for bebe to wake up.
Good morning everybody.
Elvers (juvenile eels) can leave a waterway on a rainy day & slither through wet grass like snakes to gain access to another waterway - how do they know where it is? I was dismayed when I Googled eels to see a post from Nature Conservancy, from just a couple of days ago, saying that there is a 70% reduction in eel numbers. Who counts them & how? That would be a great conversation starter at a party where somebody at a loss for conversation asks "What do you do?"
A variation on the "I wanted be be a ..... But....... "game was "My father/mother wanted me to be a ..... BUT....." as described on my last post yesterday.
My parents wanted me to be an eel counter but I managed to wriggle out of it.
Sorry, typo, an extra be snuk in.
Apart from separating the occasional lamprey from Great Lakes salmon or trout, I got nothing here.
But, I might have mentioned, when we were talking about tranquility, that I had spent a few pleasant hours reviewing musical versions of "The Lord's My Shepherd" after which friends of House Guest stopped by so I could play with their two tots and a box of puppies in the back of a van so large that sounds (mostly giggles) echoed.
The place begins to fill up today for Sunday's funeral service and a big dinner (sixty family members) at the family's favorite Italian restaurant after which, we will likely see a lot less of each other.
The unusually mild autumn weather is about to take a cold, wet turn for the worse straight on through the Monday morning burial.
Then, everyone will go home and, God willing, it will be very quiet around here and the Beauty and I could sit around and talk about going somewhere alone... or maybe not.
I'm in communicado, I haven't slept at all, I'm lying low, I'm saying so,I'm climbing up the wall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRxS7Q64xUQ ; either that or something from G&S...
I misspent some of my misspent yout in Philadelphia, not too far from a restaurant that was said to have jellied eels. Word was that nobody ordered the eels, but they were on the menu. It implied a certain jeune St Croix I suppose...
You're right, Willie, no matter the question, Ella has the answer AND every word she sings is understandable.
Did I mention that, when you lose a loved one, people bring delicious food around to your house?
Oh, yes.
I went back and reread yesterday's post and would like to thank all those who have served in the wars before....Ivan, Lynn, lotlot, Jax, rwh1....did I miss anyone? I sincerely thank you. I cannot imagine being so brave. Paolos! Thank you for remembering! I had wondered about the fresh words so thought it was new!
Well....seeing we are abit dry on the topic today maybe I can add something way out of your normal vision. By now, you all would know that we Chinese would eat anything for according to a famous Cantonese saying "Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible". I'm surprised that it took us that long to figure out that eels could be eaten though, as apparently, they were first used to make drums about 2000 years ago but didn't make it to the dinner table till the Tang Dynasty (618-907AD). Following all the oldies in the family, I know it as a detox treatment. Every time someone had an operation, someone would be sent to Chinatown to pick some up. After my childbirth, I had to eat that too as eels are known as "ginseng in the water" and helps to replenish lost nutrients. Mum says childbirth (ying activity) opens up your body (I wonder why) and induces wind and eels help to promote yang energy. In fact the first bath I took (don't ask how long I had to wait; our maternity convalesce period is one month) after childbirth was with a whole bottle of DOM brandy with my bath water, to "close up the pores" according to mum. I was practically guaranteed that if I followed her strict instructions I would not put on the size/weight which often comes after a woman has given birth......uhoh!! Now you all know the secret of why Asian women generally stay slim!
I probably lost some of you along the way, but its part of the philosophy of ying and yang or balance between two opposing forces. Food is also known to have ying and yang or "cooling" and "heaty" qualities. Eels therefore (and snakes by the way) are known to be very yang or masculine energy so really should be eaten during the cooler months or when recovering from an illness.
My favourite way to eat eel though is the Japanese smoked Unagi, served with a sweet sauce....here's some photos...
http://www.petermanseye.com/photos/285111
On a foray to Aruba, I was snorkeling in some remarkably clear water and looked into a crevice when out of the blue suddenly came a Moray Eel with its mouth opened wide and scared the bejesus out of me. The misfortune of looking like a snake is unfortunate along with the tarnish of being slippery as a metaphor for being sneakily "eel"usive. Regardless, my local sushi haunt serves up some good eel in various ways that do not slip past the taste buds.
more on the honor rollOnce again we go to the experts, Spring Fragrance and Hazel: SF, what state do you find eels in when you buy them? Hazel, just how big IS a big eel? Does anyone know the book Waterland or the movie with Jeremy Irons? It's got an eel in it. As I am busy otherwise, I will offer here my big moneymaking idea for this holiday season to whosoever will take it and run. Stuffed eeel toys made from that watered silk taffeta fabric- you know- MOIRE.
I figure that the guy(or gal*) that must have eaten the first eel was fresh out of oysters, clams, snails, beetles, roaches, boiled okra, and numeous other invertabrates before he resigned himself to swallowing an eel.
I'm guessing he built a fire, quickly invented hot sauce, cooked himself an eel, and went to town. He was then hung as a heretic for eating an eel as I'm sure there must have been a local pastor or some other clergy type that was convinced the eel was an instrument of the devil himself.
*I have included the definition to GAL, an endearing southern term for a girl or a woman, as not to offend anyone here:
gallon: United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)
*alliterative term for girl (or woman)
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The gal, sometimes called galileo, (symbol Gal) is a unit of acceleration used extensively in the science of gravimetry.BIPM SI brochure, 8th ed. 2006, . The gal is defined as 1 centimeter per second squared (1 cm/s²).
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GAL (Borger 2003 nr. 553; U+120F2 ) is the Sumerian cuneiform for "great".
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Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL, Antiterrorist Liberation Groups) were death squads established illegally by officials of the Spanish government to fight ETA, a Basque separatist group. They were active from 1983 until 1987, under PSOE's cabinets. ...
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* An adolescent girl or young woman; en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gal.
Guardian Ad Litem, an individual (often a lawyer) appointed to represent the best interests of a child or incapacitated person for the purpose of a legal procedure
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Alternative form of Gal.; The symbol for the cgs unit of acceleration, gal or galileo
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A unit of acceleration used in gravity measurements. One gal = 1 cm/sec 2 = 10 -2 m/sec 2 . The earth's normal gravity is 980 gal. See milligal and gravity unit.
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A guardian ad litem provides independent social care advice and investigation to the course in care and related proceedings. The guardian's role is to represent the child's interests and to make a recommendation on what outcome is in the best interests of the child.
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gallon(s) gal/hr gallons per hour GEMSS ground-emplaced mine scattering system GHz gigahertz GIRS grid index reference system GPS global positioning system; gunner's primary sight GS general support
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It's a joke before any hackles get lifted...
An eel,
Has the slimy feel,
Of something you congeal,
So, for me, no deal,
Don’t want it in my meal.
Paolos, good to hear that you remembered City View Tavern in Cincinnati. Debra's the CEO {of Keeneland trip fame, I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you...lol}, Silas is the gentle giant of a man, also a shareholder, and since his biceps are about the size of my waist he's also the bouncer...lol See if you can get in some afternoon when the weather's still great, and head for the deck.....
I'm laughing out loud about the "feeling guilty, therefore culprit detected since the perpetrator is the one staring at his shoes." You need not be of any stereotypical nationality or religious persuasion to have a family & selected support system work the "guilt thing" into you. But for ME, it was Catholic elementary schools in suburban Chicago in the 1950's..... However I managed to turn out better than most of my clients, who were often born with a dad who was only there for the conception, and a mom with a needle in her arm.....
What about, GAL atea ??? GALATEA, whose name in Greek means, Girl With Milky White Skin ... Now theres a Gal for ya .......
BEBE: I consider it a great loss that I never had the opportunity to meet your Dad ... I always enjoy meeting a Fellow Fan of the most famous of the three Gumm Sisters .......
I don't know, IJ, a gal who thinks you are remaking her is often a recipe for trouble- as is the idea that you can remake her in the first place. Eventually, she is going to let loose at some racehorse and you'll be in trouble. Or I will...
Eels think we look funny
RY: Good point, life is all about perspective. Eels may very well be imagining how WE would look cooked up in THEIR favorite style. My personal cartoon baloon to insert over a "Far Side" style sketch {chatting eels observing shoreline fishermen} would be "I'll bet they're crunchy; tenderize slowly, then add lots of catsup."
Bert, good image...now think of adding: eels trying to get that pesky hair out of their teeth
WT: At least Milky White Skin sounds like something one could make a helluva DreamCicle out of ....... at least have a marvelous time trying !!!
Shutting doen early cuz I am gonna spend the weekend in Houston .......
I Wish You All a Great Weekend !!! Be Safe, Be Well, Be Pleasantly Exhausted !!! May Your Weekend Bring You Nothing But Blessings !!!!!!!
To The Tribe; GOOD SHABBOS !!!
May Your Sabbath Be All You Want It To Be .......
I Wish You Peace ... I Wisah You Joy ... I Wish You a Good Rest .......
IVAN
Thank you, Ivan. Blessings back at you, dear friend.
Eels make good bait but in my opinion not good eating.
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Shalom in your home
Peace between your ears.
Blessings, many many blessings.
I was thinking that Paella, the rice dish from Spain I enjoyed so much when I visited there often uses eel. I love leftovers and the concept of throwing it all in a pot with rice and adding Saffron for a golden colormakes it tasty and a visual treat. Throw in a bottle of Spanish Wine and a trip to Ronda and memories. While we all have our favorites, I have attempted to teach my children to try everything and even if it is not your favorite, it is better than the same old same old. It is amazing how much our tastes are affected by our mental images and how our view of the world is limited to our willingness to try new things.
Ivan, some time lets talk about the Duntov conversion I traded for a few years back seeing you are a flat head* guy.
*Flat Head is not an insult, it a certain nomenclature used in the car dude world to describe a valve in block engine, before the years of over head cammed combustion engines became popular and used primarily in Ford automobiles. This design was also used in differing formats by GM, Chrysler, and American Motors to great success and is still coveted by many car builders and restorers today.
I've never personally met Ivan but I am certain he has a nice curved skull for hats and such to rest gently upon when needed and necessary. Plus, the previously described curve helps his (and your) brian to sit nicely in the top of your head preventing headaches to occur to include migranes.
I have never had paella, but I really want to, and I will. And Tommy, if eel is in it, I'll grin and bear it and spit it into my napkin. If I recognize it, that is. My husband is the cook in the family, he's willing to try anything, I've put in orders for paella, and then some sort of provencal chicken dish, the name of which escapes me right now, we all know it...sausage, chicken...he's willing and quite able. And he looks so good in that apron I bought him...;)
Ummgawa, It is funny you should write this, as I was very recently unscrewing the pie pan from a resonator guitar. I lost the screwdriver bit and my drinking companion helped me evaluate the other screwdrivers in reach- all of them flatheads. Almost every people refers to itself /themselves as "us" or "the people" in its own language. The Salish peoples of the Rocky Mountains were apparently called FLATHEAD by others because they did NOT practice any kind of head binding. I will just go on to say that I didn't find my screwdriver bit and the guitar, like so many other things in my life, is now halfway disassembled... In the Git world, we have flat tops and archtops...
Park4-In Spain, it is a catchall type of dish so eel is not in everyone's recipe, so go with whatever you have on hand and enjoy. I am a huge gumbo fan and I have had so many variations but one thing I know- When the cook puts love in the dish, it is good when it is bad. In a world of phony baloney, sincerity is worth its weight in seasoning. I had an aunt who couldn't cook at all but she loved to have me over and she was so sweet that you forgot about everything but how fun she was. There are all kinds of nourishment I reckon.
TT- I remember the first time I tasted the influence of Saffron. I was in Lake Tahoe for the summer while in my College years, working as a chef's assistant. We were preparing a feast for the Supreme Court members for the state of California. It was interesting that the Saffron was locked in 400 lb. safe to which the head Chef ONLY had the combination. I've never forgotten the taste, I guess the cloak and dagger treatment of the spice added to the experience.
WT: The eels are alive at the vendors and you can have them killed and deboned before bringing home. You have to cook them soonest after; think some proteins in them turn toxic after death which apparently can cause dizziness, headaches and even low blood pressure. I have also tried the European smoked eel but it had not been deboned unlike the ones we get in Asia. It was expensive too but no one would eat it and I had to finish it over time by myself. I'm not sure if that is how it is traditionally handled in Europe? That the eel is smoked without deboning?
We often use Turmeric to substitute saffron since its cheaper but has many similar qualities including being anti carcinogenic. You know it takes about 75,000 flowers, cultivated typically over a football field's area to extract one pound (454gms) of saffron. Prices range, wholesale to retail, from US$500 to US$5000 per pound, so Ummgawa, little wonder that was locked in a safe. Coincidentally, I just came across an article, hot off the press that there is a programme to convert the poppy fields of Afghanistan to saffron fields - http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6221037,00.html
There's also a cool website that lists some of the world's most rarest and thus, expensive things in the world. It gets updated daily.
http://www.curiousnotions.com/home/worlds-rarest-things-1.asp
I dunno, ignore the page for a few hours & you loose the plot. Somewhere along the line flat-head and domed head screws got muddled up with flat head car engines. Real ones with rods & pistons & valves & a cylider head that had to be bolted down corner to corner - not too tight, then the centre bolts & then tighten them up with a torque wrench to just the right tight. There you go Ummagawa, and fond memories of my ancient Morris Minor. Did you have Hain's Manuals - wonderful teaching tool. Even wimmin can understand them.
Paella is no big deal, no fixed recipe, it's rice with whatever came out of the sea today, garlic, tomatos & herbs. May contain eels. Or even yukkier things.
Past duvet time here. Nos da.
HAZEL......wimmin......that's such a blast from the past..........my youthful feminist days......now it sounds & looks so dorkalacious.............I love you using it!
IVAN & ANDY..............many blessings your way..............
TT.........if that had been me diving w/ you I guarentee you'd be pulling my sorry, passed out self back to dry land for a stiff cocktail.................When my father was living, he & my stepmother would go to Mexico for scuba diving holidays & they had a few eel stories.......................creepy to the 100th power!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you ever have the odd time when the food you have at home thrills you not one bit............there's nothing I want to eat.........I did have a soft pretzel w/ mustard.............I knew I should have taken the pork chops out of the freezer before I left for school.........poor, poor, pitiful me.............
Hazel, you must write a book, I hear a best seller when I read your entries.
Hazel-I have been fascinated with everything automobile since my Dad took me to my first car show when I was seven years old. He had a 31 A model, 2 door, it was painted in the neatest color, the most popular of the three colors offered in 19 and 31*,black. If Ivan weren't so busy with his sabbath (I fully support his faith) he'd tell you the other two colors. FYI- the other two colors are black also- it's a car guy ( and let's not forget hazel) joke from way back.
I have put a number of dead cars back on the road over the years, currently working on putting a sweet (that's a term used to describe cars, candy a few females and just to be fair- a few guys too!) 1970 GTO Convertible. Its quite a neat vehicle and its got a four speed transmission meaning it's got a clutch, not the small pocketbook kind (I fully support people that carry pocketbooks) women carry to fancy parties, but back to cars now.
I hope to be driving it by spring, not to say I favor spring over any other season, but it's just a goal, maybe I'll wait till summer, spring seems like such a clichet' (oops, bad spelling!). It seems like a country bumpkin (it's just a term, I love mountain people) thing, but shouldn't it be spelled klee-shay? LOL!
Tomorrow, myself and eleven other formerly mean old boys, will honor Jesus (I believe like Ivan with a side of Son of God), and we'll spend the whole day in fellowship, fixing cars for single mothers, widows and the elderly. Now, for those that don't know the difference, changing oil isn't hard to do. But, we'll change oil in forty plus cars, do full brake jobs, (that's the other pedal, left of the gas pedal...oops, hazel, its to the right of the gas pedal for you!), diagnostics for fancy cars with computers and repair, CV joints, tune ups, new tires if needed...and all for free!
We'll also accept donations for the work, just to keep it fair, but not required.
It's really fun!
*When you get really old, say 50 years old, (my age-hehehe!) I've noticed people (it's mostly old men as I don't hang out with a lot of older women so I can't really know for sure if they say it too - I fully support the efforts of older females and am happily married to a beautiful member of the persuasion-she directed me to say that, oops, that creepy word again{sorry!}) say "AND" between the century and the year. For example:
"Way back in nineteen AND forty-four we threw a real ass-whippin on the germans"
OR,
"That car is a 19 AND 31 FORD A-MODEL"
It's 11:58pm, and that concludes the car lesson for the day, us bobble heads have a big day tomorrow!
I like that term!
UMMGAWA: ALWAYS ... Glad to talk Cars ... And I know a little bit about Zora Arkus Duntov, if thats your meat ....... Duntov was not only the Daddy of the Corvette, but was Superb at Engneering Cams (High Lift Mostly, for better Mid-Range Torque in the smaller displacement VEE-Block Engines ... and he was the Designer of the FI System that was built by Rochester, and used on the '57 thru '62 Corvettes, Chevies, and Pontiacs ....... They worked flawlessly, and still do, because they were simple, NON-Electronic, NON-Computerized, Mechanical Systems ... and of course, Duntov Designed Dual Lobe Cams to optimize the efficiency if the Rochester System ... The OHV Conversions were a Feat of Genius, and they worked pretty well, but I have never done one because I LOVE my Flatheads, and still have my original one and the '53 Ford Coupe she came in ... Except when she overheats, that Engine has never failed to Fire ...
We need to get together with a Number 10 WashTub fulla Coldbeer ... and we could talk about this stuff for a while .......
MISS P4: In my Avatar is an overhead Shot of "The Mighty Mo", firing a Broadside ... Not only did the Ol' Girl rock like a cradle, she slipped backwards eight feet in the water ...
U.S.S. MISSOURI ... A most Powerful Battleship ... We still have the U.S.S. TEXAS in my old Back Yard ... Have visited TEXAS a hundred times ... took all my kids to meet her ... was only aboard Mo twice ... Once when they RE-Commissioned her, and once again when they RE-Fit her Teakwood Decks ....... There isn't a Patriot anywhere whose chest doesn't swell as he first plants a Boot on the Planks of a Battleship ...
Anyhow, thats what I was talking about day before yesterday .......
UMMGAWA....................I love the word gals......used it in my final Veteran's Day post...........must have been so frustrating to raise no hackles or cackles....................thems the breaks & has happened to me..............
Park, its all good! I'm is a happy man! We have more cars to fix than we can literally "say grace over", and even if you use the wrong tool or drip a little oil on their fenders, they are not offended, they are so thankful and kind.
It's a refreshing dose of unabashed gratitude for something we 'to help out' because we feel like we should and are able. When those two conditions meet, good things happen.
Ooops, I meant bebe, sorry P4.
No frustrating issues here bebe, you must be disapointed also. Temper temper.