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« Reply #630 on: March 03, 2021, 06:12:55 AM »
*sleeps*
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« Reply #631 on: March 03, 2021, 05:03:22 PM »
Good MAEN Dina... :)
Had a hard week at work, but today I slept for 10 hours, then took a siesta for 2 hours :D
هل أخذت الغاب مثلي منزلاً دون القصور
فتتبعت السواقي وتسلقت الصخور
هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
وشربت الفجر خمراً من كؤوس من أثير

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« Reply #632 on: March 03, 2021, 07:31:05 PM »
Good maen!
Ah, sometimes we are so tired, our body needs to shut off itself. I am glad you could sleep that much. Sorry about the hard week though.
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Re: Weird? Pretty much.
« Reply #633 on: March 03, 2021, 08:47:49 PM »
Maen.
Everywhere talk about sleep. Makes me tired.
We had dry ice today at work. LOL. Funny how everybody went by and put water on it to create a witch cauldron feeling. And you can shoot little ice cubes across the tables. Not that anybody did that. Nooooo.  ;)

And by the way. Good news. I am vaccinated against COVID-19 now. Got my second shot on Friday.

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« Reply #634 on: March 04, 2021, 09:31:12 PM »
Maen everyone!

Great about the vaccine!

Dry ice is so fun! When we played tabletop RPG with friends at home, sometimes we ordered ice cream. And some of the providers included small pieces of dry ice to keep the ice cream cold while delivered, so of course we added them to glasses of water and we have our potions! Very fitting for D&D settings.

Also at the university we sometimes received reagents in boxes with dry ice and we loved to drop them on the sink add some water and look at the effect.

Still, the coolest use of dry ice is making a cloud chamber  :)
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« Reply #635 on: March 05, 2021, 06:53:33 PM »
Never seen dry ice in real life. The witch's cauldron sounds awesome :D

But several practical jokes using dry ice just popped in my head *lightbulb*
هل أخذت الغاب مثلي منزلاً دون القصور
فتتبعت السواقي وتسلقت الصخور
هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
وشربت الفجر خمراً من كؤوس من أثير

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« Reply #636 on: March 05, 2021, 07:56:54 PM »
In most places that sell ice cream they have lots of dry ice, perhaps you can ask for a couple of small pieces for free (or even buy it, I don't think is too expensive)
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« Reply #637 on: March 05, 2021, 08:40:31 PM »
I live about 3 hours away from civilization. Lol. And ice cream places haven't been that popular when I was growing up in Alexandria. Most of them sold stuff that was quite inferior to what you'd find in a supermarket. From what I heard that changed and there are a few popular ones in Alexandria now. But somehow I don't imagine them having dry ice.
هل أخذت الغاب مثلي منزلاً دون القصور
فتتبعت السواقي وتسلقت الصخور
هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
وشربت الفجر خمراً من كؤوس من أثير

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« Reply #638 on: March 05, 2021, 09:23:19 PM »
And if they are too fancy, they probably won't like anyone asking for it anyways. Sorry  :(
But if you ever have the chance to have fun with dry ice, don't let it pass.
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« Reply #639 on: March 07, 2021, 02:54:30 PM »
Well, tonight we're having taro stew with fresh beef. (I just googled the name in English, and I laughed for 5 minutes).
This is a traditional Egyptian recipe. Egyptians are divided about Taro. Some love it and some hate it. No middle ground. Lol
هل أخذت الغاب مثلي منزلاً دون القصور
فتتبعت السواقي وتسلقت الصخور
هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
وشربت الفجر خمراً من كؤوس من أثير

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« Reply #640 on: March 07, 2021, 06:50:51 PM »
I just googled it. I never heard of Taro before.
That said, a stew with fresh beef sounds good. Let us know how it resulted.
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« Reply #641 on: March 07, 2021, 06:54:46 PM »
The Chinese shop sells taro ice cream, maybe I should try it.
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« Reply #642 on: March 07, 2021, 07:47:10 PM »
Chinese had very interesting flavors of ice cream but there are not taro here.
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« Reply #643 on: March 07, 2021, 08:11:26 PM »
The Chinese shop sells taro ice cream, maybe I should try it.
Um... That sounds like a really bad idea. Kinda like carrot or clover juice (yes, some people drink that, including my father).
هل أخذت الغاب مثلي منزلاً دون القصور
فتتبعت السواقي وتسلقت الصخور
هل تحممت بعطره وتنشفت بنور
وشربت الفجر خمراً من كؤوس من أثير

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« Reply #644 on: March 07, 2021, 08:15:01 PM »
Clover juice?

I had not problem with carrot juice
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