On 1/11/12 11:25 AM, Happy John wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:20:52 -0500, X ` wrote:

On 1/11/12 8:12 AM, Happy John wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:00:32 -0500, X ` wrote:

On 1/10/12 8:52 PM, Happy John wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:17:43 -0500, wrote:

X ` Man wrote:
On 1/9/12 3:48 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:30:57 -0500, X ` Man
wrote:

...I was beginning to wonder a little when the first snow would be. Not
sticking and not thick, but it is snow.

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Good place for it.


Snow is how we compensate for not having lots of Burmese pythons,
alligators, Palmetto bugs, snowbirds, and crackers. :)
You have snowbirds eight months out of the year. What's a cracker?

Something you eat with chili. Speaking of chili, we ate at Hard Times Cafe tonight. Their Texas
Chile (wet) is pretty good eating. Bought a box of the mix, which they say is as good as the stuff
they sell in house. We'll see.


We ate at Saigon City Restaurant, near Springfield Mall.

...and....?


Oh, it's very nice. It's a pretty plain family style restaurant. The
food is good, especially the pho, which I really like, and it is
relatively inexpensive. My wife gets a pork dish, which is delicious,
but I don't recall the name of it. You might want to go there for lunch
sometimes.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/saigon-city-...nt-springfield




If you go another block, on the other side of the street, is a Mexican place called El Paso. Great
food.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-paso-mexi...nt-springfield

I'll have to try the Vietnamese place once. I've never been in a US version of a Saigon restaurant.
Been to a bunch of Saigon versions though!


I've been to El Paso more than once, and your assessment is correct. The
Vietnamese restaurant is pretty good. We usually stop there after
visiting our dentist in Annandale. The Chinese restaurant closer to you,
the Magic Wok on Franconia, is pretty good, too.