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Complaint: A few days ago I ordered a box of Nabisco unsalted Saltines (crackers), amongst a few other things, from Amazon. The whole order came in one of those heavy brown paper bags instead of a sturdy cardboard box with packing material. Most of the things in the brown paper bag survived the trip, but the box of crackers had significantly changed shape.
I guess they'd be good for soup, or as a garnish, but using them as a base platform for sardines is out of the question. 
The thing is, there was nothing heavy in the bag, but there must have been some heavy things outside the bag.
It sounds like you ordered from a third party instead of Amazon.
Probably. The advertisement's product photo at the Amazon site was in English, but the box I received is in Spanish. I bought it because it was a 1 pound box for only $3.68 instead of $9.05 for any other offering at Amazon, and even cheaper than the $6.19 in my grocery, and it was listed as (only 1 left). And yes, I realized it was the unsalted variety but I thought it would be adventurous and healthy, and cheap. And I didn't have to pay extra for the shipping.
What could go wrong?
I see lots of soup in my future.
On the bright side, it is a little more convenient. I don't have to count whole crackers. I can just use a measuring cup to portion out the needed amount.
I think I actually have the album that song came from, and maybe even their other album. There was kind of a third album. Apparently the girls had separated from the record label by then. Maybe the producer didn't have a car that went boom, or something like that. But they had already done some recording so the record label just released the album anyway, with no additional participation or consent from the artists.
Non-complaint: Wheee... unusual road activity! A noise outside made me look outside to see what was going on. A New York State road maintenance truck was parked on the side of the road and they were changing the yellow curve road sign. Such excitement! It's made my day.
They've added a 35 MPH sign to the existing yellow "Curve-Ahead" sign. It's about time! As cars come through the town they have to slow down to 25, but as they get to the western edge of town they tend to resume speed to (at least) 55 right in front of my house. The problem with that is that there is a significant left-curve going uphill along the side of the hill on the edge of the swamp, and there's a steep dropoff on the left side of the road, down into the creek and swamp, and also a deep ditch along the right side of the road. I think every mufferless motorcycle and loud automobile thinks it's a challenge to go around that curve, uphill as fast as possible.
But just beyond the first left-curve is an additional "S" curve farther up the side of the hill . Locals know about it, but strangers don't. It's another whole mile before the speed limit actually goes back up to 55 MPH. Should'a been a speed limit sign before the first curve decades ago. During summer we get a lot of out-of-area motorcycles going through town, taking the scenic route, and they like showing off and testing their bike's acceleration and their cornering skills when approaching curves. (I know, because I used to do the same thing.
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I expect to see a police car sitting just out of sight at the beginning of that curve for a while.
Confession: There's a long steep stretchof highway with a significant curve at the top near Meadville, Pennsylvania going south on Interstate I-79 that is steep enough to make trucks slow down a gear or so and pull over to the outside lane, it's a great challenge to gun your bike and zoom past the trucks and see how many you can pass before you get to the top of the hill. Snickering all the way.
I'm doing better. Right now I'm going to my day center. I brought some equate brand DayQuil pills to take later.
I finally got my last 2 boxes of that Walmart order I did on the first. I think I went a tad overboard on the K-Cups but at least I got a box of Dunkin coffee K-Pods for a Mother's Day gift. I am also giving my mum a container of ground Folgers coffee and another canister of Walmart coffee.
The first box from Walmart needed a signature because it contained generic pills of DayQuil and night quil. But one of the boxes that came yesterday had a bottle of generic DayQuil. I am only wanting the cold medicine to get this darn cold out of me.
Surprise non-complaint: I knew I'd been invited to a symphony by my symphony buddy in June, but when I double checked the information he sent me, he mentioned he had two tickets for two symphonies, and one of them is this Sunday afternoon!
And when I checked the orchestra's schedule they'll be playing three of my favorite pieces (I hit the jackpot
): Again, this will be at Kleinhan's Music Hall in Buffalo. Program details.
1) Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYqItMmwwKE A quick exciting joyful piece often used as an introductory piece or an encore.
2) Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto #5 aka: "The Egyptian" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIGKl7eLzSU A beautifully flowing, and sometimes dynamic, piece. I love the 2nd movement where the European flavor of the 1st movement yields to bohemian, middle eastern or oriental ethnic themes that I envision as the composer having a relaxing early evening walk past the working people down along the river, before tiredly ascending a series of steps at the end of the movement, returning to the cosmopolitan European styles and the party-like grand finale of the 3rd movement. Love it.
The 2nd movement begins at 10:10, don't be afraid to turn up the volume during the tinkling quiet parts, especially around 18:30 they're beautifully done. Then as the sun goes down listen for the quiet ascending steps at 21:30, to leave the work-a-day people behind and enter the 3rd movement's spirited party at 22:00. Let the fullness and joy of the 3rd movement fill you and carry you away.
3) Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 aka: "The Italian" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HX_jF1_Tgc Rapid fire exhuberance from the boy genius, especially the 1st and 4th movements.
Symphony buddy takes care of the tickets & transportation and I take care of the intermission champagne and evening meal on the way back from Buffalo. Good deal.
Wheee..., I get to see a little more of the world outside of the boondocks around me.
This an odd hair style for my boy doll.
Not that odd if he is scared.
Ooh, Excitement!: This morning I toddled down to the end of the driveway to mail a letter, then looked up the street toward the middle of town and noticed that it looks like a sidewalk sale of some sort is going on up there. Wheee..., excitement.
And I need to pop up to the grocery to get some salad greens and a few other things, and the weather is beautiful. Yay, a reason for a micro-adventure and an opportunity to look over someone else's spring cleaning junk.
Non-complaint: A Few Minutes Later: Yay, grocery needs attended to, and at the yard sale I found a pair of nice, small chairs for my apartment. Good quality, small, fancily carved, wooden, upholstered, parlor chairs, probably from the 40's or '50s, in near perfect condition for $35 for the pair. And they even delivered them for me as well as giving me a ride with my groceries. Wheee... what a deal. Now I have a place for a visitor or two to sit, and not feel rushed to leave.
Complaint: the plants are doing their pollen thing, and even the non-drowsy allergy meds make me dragged out and stupid. Application of sufficient caffeine upgrades me to alert and stupid. But the other option is wanting to scratch my eyes out, so... alert and stupid it is
non-complaint: My crabapple tree might not have many blossoms this year, but it's alive and seems to be doing well. The leaf wilt got it so badly last year that there weren't any left to turn when autumn came, and I worried it wouldn't make it through the winter. I had a tree care place my parents have been using for years come out and spray it for wilt, and it seems to have done the job. Local, employee owned, great to work with. I feel good about my business going there.
non-complaint: I got to take my annual pictures of the kids under the blooming tree, and I got some good ones. With an autistic kiddo who doesn't vibe with "stand here so I can take your picture" it's always luck of the draw what I manage. Thankfully my eldest is pretty good at getting him engaged for just long enough for me to snap a few or I'd be sunk. Most of the shots are still him in the process of running off, but I only need one good one. And even the running off ones are a story. We'll never have posed, but we do have an abundance of authentic.
complaint: High is near 90 today (and will be 90+ for the next 4) so we had to do them first thing in the morning. Which meant the walk came first thing out of bed (can't do lawn play before the walk because routine) and little dude didn't have as much time as he would have liked to settle into the day. Plus his loose tooth is still bothering him. So the rest of the day has been meltdowns. Poor little dude + I am far too medicated to have the energy for this.
Non complaint: in the 20 years we've lived at our current house, the soil fertility has increased enormously. And the plants are growing like crazy.
Complaint: Because the soil fertility has increased enormously, and the plants are growing like crazy, I've had to spend all day cutting and shredding on about 30ft of hedge. The remaining 500ft need the same attention, but at least they aren't overhanging the road and pavement.
Regards,
Richard.
Whoof. Wishing you stamina and some refreshing beverages to help it along. That's a lot of hedge.
I forgot when I started my break. I probably should go back to work soon. That is within the next 4 to 8 minutes?
Tomorrow is Mother's Day! After work, I need to go to bath and body works to pick up some stuff I ordered for Mother's Day. Most of the order is wallflower refills and their hand sanitizer packs. I could not justify getting any normal sized bath stuff even with buy 3 get 3 free. However I'm glad I could use the buy 3 and get 3 free on wallflower refills and hand sanitizer packs.
I probably need to get off my iPad and get back to work.
...minor complaint: why do some pizza companies believe cheddar is an approptiate cheese to use as a topping?
It is a lot of hedge, and I may have underestimated the amount. The back is 240ft, the left side 120ft and right side 140ft, with about 80ft at the front free from buidings. However, I think I need to leave the rest to winter. When we arrived the garden only had two strand barbed wire fence at the back and sides. We planted several thousand hedging plants, and now they're at least 15 ft high and beginning to thin at the base. I need to resurrect my hedge laying skills learnt as a conservation volunteer 45 years ago. Ho hum. Regards, Richard.
It is Mother's Day now. I woke up early but not too early. I don't want to go back to bed as I need to finish getting ready for church and time with my mum for Mother's Day.
Complaint: Last night I was driving a car and when I approached the bottom of the hill I pressed the brakes and nothing happend.
I pressed harder and harder but kept approaching the buildings at the bottom. I was certain to crash.
But just before I hit, I woke up with a cramp in my foot and had to jump out of bed to stretch it out to relieve it.
Not an unusual occurrence lately.
Non-complaint: Today is symphony day, yay!
Beautiful clear weather, mid-60sF, slight breeze. Good day for a 60 mile car ride north through the country along the scenic route to downtown Buffalo. I hope the dream was not prescient.
So I think our grass was 20 inches tall. And the yard is fairly big. About a week ago, our neighbor on the west side mowed a large part of the back. And a couple of days ago, our neighbor on the east side mowed the front and side. It turns out that was very helpful because 20 inch tall wet grass can be a bit of a situation for one person with a mower that one walks behind.
I like to think it’s something about my physical characteristics or my outfit that causes these guys to be so eager to help me with yard work. But I should just accept the reality that people with riding lawn mowers like to mow lawn. And when they run out of their own lawn to mow, they have to find more lawn.
Maybe you’re a right fit woman. Or maybe you’re just more lawn.
Sorry, I use cheddar when making "pizza" I also use scone for the base, not bread, so definitely a barbarian condemned to outer darkness.
I just had a pizza for tea ... "Woodfired Ham, Mushroom & Mascarpone"
Also, "Liquid Death" is back in stock, so I picked up another four for just one quid!
Hey, more lawn is still a good thing to be. (Says my avoids-suitors-at-all-costs self.)
I'm lucky that I have a lawn/snow service (townhome association) but in my parents' neighborhood, it's kind of a contest to see who can get there first to snow blow out the driveways of those who only have a shovel to work with.
complaint: Molly of Denali (PBS Kids show) wasn't renewed for a 5th season. It's one of the few kids' shows I never get tired of when youngest kiddo is in one of his loops where he replays the same video (or clip of video) for hours on end. It's funny and authentic and educational (in a variety of ways), none of the kids are either overly bratty or overly goodie-goodie, and the voice acting is amazing. Oh, but Pinkalicious -- with absolutely nothing redeeming about it and a twittery lead character that makes me want to put my ears out with a spork on a good day -- was renewed for a 7th season. Because we clearly needed more of that. Pinka-vomit.
...wood fired pizza is a good thing, a very good thing. .Just a perfectionist when it comes to cheese and pizza. No doubt in part due to the Wisconsin upbringing as well as many trips to the East Coast, along with time spent in Europe (including Italy).. .It was a bit if a culture shock moving out to the Northwest and seeing some of the things they put on pizza out here.
Ah yes Liquid Death love the stuff. Looks like a brand of one of those energy drinks but isn't Had a big can of "Dr. Death" during the D&D game yesterday
Non-complaint: Made it to the symphony in Buffalo yesterday afternoon. Beautiful weather, the 60 mile drive was uneventful, and performance was good, but not exceptional. Pianist for the Saint-Saëns 5th piano concerto was a bit sloppy, several times, not as crisp & clean as it can be, and sometimes a bit out of sync with the orchestra. My symphony buddy also pointed out that the conductor herself was out of sync with the orchestra, so I'm not sure whose fault that was, pianist, orchestra, or conductor.
But to the pianist's credit she nailed the 2nd movement and got all those strange ethnic fiddly bits just right.
It was the fast stuff in the 1st & 3rd movements that were careless. The Mendelssohn "Italian" symphony was better. Or perhaps it was the champagne during intermission that made them seem better.
We stopped for dinner on the way home. It was Mother's Day and the restaurants were full with mothers & families, but we got to our usual restaurant at just the right time and were seated immediately and served quickly. Wonderful dinner. Came home with a doggie bag of filet & baked potato.
That's one advantage of getting old, you can't eat much at one sitting and your restaurant dollars live for another day of eating.
Great day overall.
And we do it again in June. And by then Chautauqua will also be in season so we might get an evening at the Amphitheater with a pre-concert dinner at one of the fine restaurants on campus in July. Chautauqua Institution is only about 15 miles from Jamestown (22 miles from me) so it makes it possible for us old farts to attend evening shows there and still get home before we turn into pumpkins.
<Shaking head>
We live in a desperately crowded part of England. 60 miles would take us to the other side of London, far enough away to be considered a major expedition to those who put up with the daily [blood boiling, enraging] frustration of SE England commuter traffic. The 60 mile journey would take only as little as 2 hours if we left at stupid o'clock in the morning. I have taken 5 hours to get to Heathrow, which is only 60 miles from here. OK, going by train is frequently quicker, but I don't need or want a second mortgage and if a second person were to come with me, it would feel like we'd be buying the train.
You are very lucky, and I'm glad it was so pleasant. Got a little case of 'mitfreud' here. Mitfreud is like schadenfreud, but instead of taking pleasure from someone elses'd misfortune, it's taking pleasure from their good fortune. There is a native English word for this - heard it on a radio program recently - but its fallen from usage & as my brain is like a seive, I have no idea what it is now.
Regards,
Richard
I went to my doctor. I coughed while I was there. That was good as it showed my health issues so she can help it. My blood was drawn. She also prescribed an antibiotic pack. Hopefully my pharmacy can deliver it without me having to be home.
There was one I used to buy at Sainsbury's, one of their sourdough-based "Taste The Difference" range and my god that was delicious! They don't sell it anymore, and I'm convinced it's purely because it was so damn nice that it stopped similar pizzas from selling (you always had to be quick to get one). But after around a month of no longer seeing it, I had to look it up on the web just to remember what the cheese was called. Waste of time that turned ou to be, cause now that I want it (so that I can buy the cheese separately), I cannot find the name I wrote down, nor can I find a trace of that damn pizza on the internet!
It was very white, soft, almost like a cream, and although there are a few types of cheese that look like that, this one was especially delicious!
I think the only way I will ever find out is to look into cheeses based on consistency and go though every one of them until I see a name that rings a bell. I'd know it right away if I heard the name again, but I can't remember off-hand what it is.
Yeah, despite my kvetching about living in the boondocks, this is a better boondocks than many. If you have a car then Buffalo is an easy half day adventure. But we're also in range of Cleveland, Ohio (144 miles), Toronto, Canada (153 miles), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (167 miles), Washington DC (215 miles), and New York City (306 miles), although an adventure to any of those would require nearly a whole day of travel & meals. And the last two especially would require an overnight stay. The US is a big place. One of my bucket list entries is to catch a concert at either the Lincoln Center or Carnege Hall in NYC. Gotta keep saving my pennies and staying friends with my symphony buddy.
A little bit farther way, at the edge of a day of driving, is Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts(415 miles), or Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Illinois(450 miles).