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I've changed my mind: I recently talked about a new cheese that I'd tried (Ube Gouda) and declared it "interesting with a subtle taste of almond". I'm now struggling to finish consuming this small wedge.
The "interesting" taste quickly dulls in uniqueness, and the texture of the surface of the cheese seems to oxidize rapidly once the plastic wrapper is removed and leaves the mouth feeling dry & blah. It's still OK to munch on, but like some people, only amusing briefly. Small pieces for a change of pace, but big pieces get hard to swallow. Oh well. It still looks pretty.
Probably won't buy it again. I'm going back to "Pepper Jack" for an evening cheese snack.
Back when Time Warner Cable was our only option, we had just gotten to the time of year when they add a hundred dollars to the monthly bill and hope you don’t notice before it automatically debits or something. I tend to notice such things. So I called them and they offered a deal in which we add a phone line to our cable TV/Internet and then the price gets lower. I never actually plugged a phone into the phone outlet on the back of the cable box.
One day the cable box stopped working. The cable guy asked me, “do you actually use the phone line?”
I told him no, and he brought us a cable box that had no telephone outlet but was better than the old one in every other way. So we had phone service we didn’t use, and at this point, had no way to use; all to maintain the promotional price. And their plan was to wait a year or so and have our bill increase by maybe two hundred dollars and hope we don’t notice before it automatically debits or something.
It’s the circle of life.
Yeah. I hate this whole "well call in and the reps will give you a better deal!" nonsense. Like, I shouldn't have to call and waste time threatening to leave on a regular basis just to get them to not jack up the price. I've been getting cable through this place for 20+ years at this point. How about a longevity bonus?
And misspoke earlier... I had the cable because it made the internet cheaper, not the other way around. I don't think, in the entire time I've lived here, I've actually watched anything through cable. And yet they keep trying to sell me on their amazing upgrade packages! Guys. It's not because I don't have the right premium channel. It's because I don't watch TV. Shocking, I know. Wait till you hear about the whole "don't use a cell phone" thing.
...th9ugh I'll admit, with the cellular data plan on this new tablet, I am likely to take it with me if I need to go to an appointment or some such in an unfamiliar place. I could get lost in a paper bag, and it would be nice to have the navigational help when it happens.
...though I am pretty good at old skool maps. One of my friends, when I was about twenty, figured out I was directionally impaired. He invited me out on an adventure one day (which was shorthand in our group for "I'm bored, let's go find nonspecific entertainment") drove us to the middle of the city, parked the car, handed me his map book, and informed me that he didn't care if it took the rest of the day, I was going to learn to navigate us out of wherever he put us. He'd give me hints on learning the map book if I asked, but otherwise it was all me.
It did take us the rest of the day, but I learned, and he never once got impatient with me.
Life skillz. I've always been grateful to him for that. It's come in handy more times than I could count.
But if I have google maps at my fingertips, I would not be sad.
Hi all!
A big belated Happy Birthday! @LeatherGryphon!
Complaint: Old, grumpy and it ain't getting better.
Non-complaint: ...
Complaint: I forgot to get eggnog yesterday at the grocery.
And the weather here has turned nasty, making it difficult to decide to toddle to the local store (knees have been complaining for the last couple days.)
(*Sigh*), no eggnog tomorrow on Thanksgiving day.
Non-complaint: But I do have pumpkin pie, turkey & gravy, scalloped potatoes, broccoli in cheese sauce, lima beans, various nuts, an assortment of cheeses, Honeycrisp apples, salad w/blue cheese dressing, and a couple ounces left of a three year old bottle of Disaronno (an Amaretto, i.e. a sweet, almond flavor liqueur) to help with that after-meal nap. Mmmm... turkey day.
A couple hours later:
Non-complaint: Rain stopped, and I got up enough fortitude to toddle to the local grocery for the eggnog and some raspberries & whipped cream and an extra treat, ice cream & chocolate sauce to make a sundae.
Just think of all the leftovers.
Complaint: Temperature had fallen from 51F to 41F since before the rain. Didn't bundle up enough.
Wind in my face was cold, and knees & hips were complaining. So, coming back was more of slog instead of toddle. But I'm home, dry and warm and the recliner is waiting. Zzzzzzzz...
Non-complaint: The refrigerator was a mess, so I started reorganizing it to get everything to fit and I noticed the bottle of cocktail sauce which reminded me of the shrimp in the freezer, so after rearranging the freezer I found the shrimp way in the back, so now I have a half-dozen shrimp thawing in the refrigerator for shrimp cocktail tomorrow too. Wheee...
Sigh, I'm gonna gain so much weight over the next week.
But I'm thankful for the opportunity.
There was a time… We were all piled into a car. And it wasn’t a car full of naked women this time. It was full of church ladies on the way to some small town like, Mayview, Missouri. It’s always either Mayview or Malta Bend.
I was the teen kiddo in this situation. I was sitting in the back of the car. And I did mention that there was this new thing the modern computers were doing where they actually help you get to where you’re going. But one of the church ladies wasn’t having that. She had been going to this town ever since she was a child, and she knew the way without the help of any overblown machines with all their mumbo jumbo.
And [Nylie, there’s a reason you’re sitting in the back seat. It’s so we can’t see you or hear you. And you shouldn’t use your “I have something important to say” voice until such time that you have something important to say, which is never]
She continued to lead us on the path she had taken since her childhood, right up until we reached the road that was closed due to construction. And then we were basically waiting for something to come along and eat us.
It wasn’t long before we were in a field of something. Let’s just say it was soybeans, since we were soon to be Soylent Green anyway. There was a man driving the biggest tractor I had ever seen, pulling some kind of contraption behind it that I guess harvests the soybeans or whatever. And suddenly a Toyota Camry full of four fully clothed Black women, and one smaller person, appears beside him, probably trampling a fair amount of soybeans.
“Yoo hoo….”
“Well you folks aren’t lost at all…”
He gave us directions and we eventually reached a paved surface. We even managed to reach the church in Mayview, which would have its soprano section after all.
I forgot to check to see if food lion had egg nog. Oh well, it can wait until Monday.
Tomorrow is thanksgiving.
Ich bin müde. Ich schlafe jetzt.
I love the use of "this time."
Great story, and your telling made me giggle multiple times.
...I haven't had a television since about 2003 when my old set (bought at a hotel auction) blew up (the wooden penguin on top survived). I had already ditched cable because here I was paying a bill to watch adverts which used to be where television stations and networks got their money from. I was offered a new set but what was on the regular airwaves at the time was mostly "reality programmes" (a total misnomer) and most of the sports watched had migrated to cable.
Where I live we have "Bombast" (Comcast) and when i still had cable t;ecosopm. they kept changing what channels I had that I liked (without warning) such as BBC America, the Learning Channel, and Discovery (the latter two which since have tuned into to UFO and Ripley's like programming these days) to a higher priced package tier. I called them on that as t ffelt lke the old "bait and switch" routine and they Told mr I could always "upgrade"(for more money) to get them back, so I unplugged all the gear took it back,and politely told them why I was canclling the rest of the plan I had (I was actually surpised they gave me a refund for the the balance)
I haven't missed television at all and when I am somewhere where one is on (like at a pub) I find it to be an annoying distraction (and to think I was part of the "television generation" of the 50s & 60s when the worst punishment was not being able to watch for a week).
Speaking Comcast (now called Xfinity) I still have them for my Net connection as they are "fastest" service available as my building only has copper wire (phone) from the street and WiFi in the city centre is flaky.
I hate having to call them as they have this automated "reception bot" that is totally useless and almost impossible to get around to talk to a "real" person (it feels stupid talking to an algorithm and fortunately I still remember the number codes for "yes and no" as well as different services). It even has a fake keyboarding sound effect when it says it will look into an issue (their chatbot is also pretty lame as it can't deal with anything more complex than hooking the system up to your computer or television).
When I do finally get a person it is usually someone in India sitting in a noisy call centre making it even harder to understand what they are saying. They also keep trying to upsell me on adding a television package even though I tell them I do not have a television (or want one).
...as to navigating, I use landmarks One time a friend and I were heading up to is parent's beach house in Long Beach WA and he forgot his Thomas Guide for Washington State, This was the second trip there and I guided him there just by the landmarks I remembered from the first trip . He was shocked as we did not miss one turn to get there.(this was in the days before Gamrin and other navigational aids that we have today).
[edited for a fes typos and better clarity as I was cooking dinner at the time I was composing this]
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Hard agree. Although I did have one really awesome experience. During the whole divorce process, I had taken kids + cats and we were living with my parents for safety reasons, so he was the only one living in my house. (Yes, mine. I bought it before we got married, even though he tried to claim during the mediation that it was his. Guess he figured I couldn't prove otherwise? He was wrong.) As part of the divorce settlement, he was allowed to continue to live there for three months before I could have sole residency... which I thought was nuts because you don't get that long as an eviction notice from an apartment, but he'd previously been claiming he needed at least SIX months before he could possibly consider leaving, so I guess three was an improvement. Anyway, he was required to give me money for the utilities and mortgage and stuff by a certain date every month, as everything was in my name, and I'd shut down the joint bank account before he could screw me over with fees and such. He decided he'd send the money whenever he darn well pleased and there was nothing I could do about it.
So I called Comcast and cancelled the internet, as I didn't see why I should have to pay for services for him. The customer service rep was awesome, and almost as gleeful over the whole experience as I was.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Miraculously, it turned out he could indeed find somewhere else to live within a month.
I am lucky in one thing with Xfinity, they have a store within a mile of my apartment, near a Jersey Mike's and I make a trip there once a month to pay my bill and get subs for our lunches (mine is divided over two days to spread out carbs/cals). But one day the Comcast went out and even the internet was messed up. My iPhone could not get a connection to their help line nor find out what the heck was going on, so I drove to the store. I walked in steaming mad. And found 20-odd confused, stressed out employees, with black screens of death staring at them. They had no clue what had happened, everything had gone dead across all systems. No word from up the food chain. I commensurated with them and thanked them.
I went to get some Jersey Mike's subs and thankfully my iPad had downloaded books to read. My flatmate had downloaded Google Docs he could work on. Four hours later, the internet/Comcast was back.
My issue is I am a news junkie and DIYer. I want a combo pack that includes MS NOW, my local news stations, CNN, PBS, HGTV, DIY. When the news gets too much, I binge on the few HGTV shows I can tolerate, there are some I loath as they are fake. I rarely watch movies or TV shows. Broadcast TV programming drives me nuts.
Happy Thanksgiving Day
Non-complaint: Snow here this morning. I was up at 4:00AM and it still hadn't started snowing, I went back to bed and by 7:30 there was an inch, and now (11:30) there's two inches at least. Streets have been plowed, few cars on the road. Nobody's been walking across lawns so the view out my kitchen window is a winter wonderland complete with major snow coming down. I've swept my porch already today and will probably have to do it several more times before the lake effect snow is over tomorrow night. Seven inches expected.
I started celebrating early and had raspberries & peaches for breakfast. In preparation for the main meal at noon, I rummaged around in the cabinets and found a jar of green olives, there was one more dill pickle spear left in a jar in the refrigerator, I've prepared a cheese & pickle tray, I have a salad with blue cheese dressing, I opened a jar of artichoke hearts for the pickle tray, I found a small but thick slice of ham to add to my chicken & gravy. My plate also includes scalloped potatoes, broccoli with cheese sauce, lima beans, and I opened my last can of asperagus to complete the main plate, and I've got a slice of pumpkin pie for dessert. I've debated opening a can of baked beans but my refrigerator is getting crowded. I have eggnog, and my after meal Disaronno has been poured and is aroma-izing in a brandy snifter. I have a shrimp cocktail for afternoon munching, I've watched a few minutes of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the house is warm, I have nowhere to go, I'm not sick, there are no major bills on my desk, my Medicare has been arranged for next year before the deadline, I have much to be thankful for.
And there's chocolate ice cream in the freezer and chocolate sauce, and nuts to make a chocolate sundae if I can find a time to squeeze it in.
Good news! I don't need to spend Thanksgiving alone. I'm spending time with my beau.
Complaint: There is a constant feeling that creepy crawlies are crawling all over my shingles area. Makes you want to scratch. The Catch-22 of it is that if you scratch, the searing pain will take over as if the creepy crawlies are eating you alive.
This is my favorite kind of day.
I'm finally watching Jeopardy after cutting off Spectrum tv. I tried using a tv tuner on my computer to watch air tv. It was not finding abc for some unknown reason to me.
I missed the first Jepordy round tonight partly because I had to get the tv to scan for channels. Also I just got home from visiting my boyfriend at his uncle's. Ooh I probably need to put my ham in the oven next ad. Or it will never cook,
Umm looking at your ham picture it says "Fully cooked " so all you need to do is warm it up .Makes it easier .
Non-complaint: Good food, loved ones around the table. Little Dude's handling the off-routine day fantastically -- especially considering there's food everywhere, and he finds that utterly revolting. Teen Kiddo somehow managed to ninja in and claim dish duty before anyone else got there AND has defended their territory, chasing off everyone else. I am so proud. That takes skill and tenacity in this crew.
Well, it's about half an hour until the day after Thanksgiving, so everyone now has my permission to put up your Christmas decorations.
LOL my Yule tree is still up from the 2021 holidays.
Yes! Being fully cooked helps. I was going to have some greens with dinner but they looked pathetic when I checked on them last night. They went into the trash.
I stayed up late last night to make sure I got everything ready for tonight. I didn't want to rush this morning.
Black Friday & Weather Report: This morning I shoveled (not swept) six more inches off my porch (total currently 8 inches). Not snowing right now (9:45AM) but heavy snow forecast until early Saturday morning. Still no footprints in the lawns & fields. Winter postcard views from my window. Roads are kept plowed, but with little traffic quickly turn white again with continuing snow.
It's Black Friday and there is a $3/mo for 12 months subscription to HBO Max available from Amazon Prime Video. Sounds affordable even if not entertainingly satisfying.
Complaint: I ate too much yesterday. Had trouble sleeping last night. Expecting a big poop today. (Old people notice these things)
Sympathy: @AgitatedRiot Ouch, creepy crawlies on Shingles! (*Shudder*)
Black Friday started at 2:30 am for us as my flatmate had to be at work in time to fill registers with cash before doors opened at his Target. And then hold down his self-checkout area of 8 registers and pray that all scheduled cashiers bother to show up today. Some mornings he is the only one until 9 or 10am.
So our breakfast was early, I just ate lunch, and have my doctor's appointment in less than an hour. I had hoped to report a really good weight loss, but someone decided to make beans and rice along with chicken stuffed enchiladas last Sunday. I put weight on, not off. And it messed up what I was going to make for Thanksgiving, New Meixcan stacked enchiladas. So I shifted to microwave T-bird dinner stuff. Not bad, not great. I ate about a tablespoon worth of it. Flatmate went back for seconds.
But I did make my pumpkin pie, with homemade crust and whipped cream. It was inhaled. But we have half the pie to go still. Both of us are a bit under the weather.
Tonight we might finally see snow in Denver.
My brain and energy levels are so fried. Little Dude was up and hyper until 10 AM (although at least he was in a good mood). FedEx showed up at 12:30 with the comcast ipad, which I had to sign for, so I had to bolt out of bed for that or wind up driving down to the fedex station to get it. Then Comcast's activation team called twice to get me set up (I let it go to the answering machine). Dude, I don't even have it out of the box yet. Chill. (And it's the biggest holiday shopping day of the year, something tells me a lot of people would not be prioritizing that call.) And also I had to get up to pee at one point.
Really needed some solid sleep after yesterday, especially since I went into it already exhausted. Nope.
Maybe tonight will go better. There's some online activation thing you can go through, so in theory if I do that before start of business day tomorrow they'll stop calling. But I'm irked because it's not like I really gave a fig about this thing in the first place, and now I'm having to rearrange everything that's actually important around dealing with it. (And I have to do it stealth when Little Dude isn't looking or he's going to want to play with it, and it doesn't have a case yet. So yeah, good luck to me on that one.)
On the bright side, there's cheesecake in the fridge, so maybe I need to go have a hobbit moment, and that will help.
Yesterday evening both my flatmate and I were sniffling and dragging our tails, headaches blooming and just wanted to eat and sleep but we tried to keep going to get back on our normal schedule. The cats on the other hand... had their own plans. This morning at 01:15am first one, then the other, toys, then food, then their trays, and then ZOOMIE WARS started. Right over me who was trying to get back to sleep. I gave up, made coffee, put more food out, and as you can see, I am at the computer, wrapped in a warm throw with coffee at hand.
Simon is on my pillows, Charlie just jumped off the bed to check out the food again.
It's going to be a long day. On a Saturday.
No snow yet.
Oh yeah, when the flatmate arrived at work at 05:00am yesterday a line was formed up already, cops there too. He didn't see it, but apparently before the doors opened some hopeful customers got into a fight before the doors opened. Possibly line jumpers, or someone staking out the top of the line for a group of late arrivals. Others not going for it. American Christmas shopping at its best.
It's evolution in reverse. Devolution.
A Change In The Weather: Stopped snowing here yesterday afternoon, the heavy predicted snow for today has rescheduled itself for tommorow.
Non-Complaint: I found a good Black Friday deal at Amazon. I've had a new 24", 1080p monitor with adjustable height and tilt, on my wishlist for a couple years but it was always around $180, the sale advertised it at $110 and with the extra 10% "PRIME Card" rebate it's about $99. I snapped it up. It replaces my 15 year old 720p monitor. that has only a VGA & DVI connection. Now I can have a dual screen setup without jumping through hoops to accomodate the resolution changes. Additionally, I got tired of holes in my socks so I also ordered a new pair of heavy boot socks. Christmas shopping all done.
Complaint: My printer has died. Finally given out, can't get a decent print out of it despite all "fix-it" options in the menu, and manual cleaning procedures that can be done. Time to retire the 15 year old friend.
Non-complaint: In preparation for the event, I'd thought ahead and purchased a new printer about a year ago.
It's still unopened, in the box, at the back of a closet, and I even have a correct size dust cover for it. Now, the question is, does the included ink sample still work.
Complaint: New printer, means I need to buy new ink($$).
That is great. I just found some long sleeve tee shirts and a 25 and Me kit. The other company only classified my two great grandparents as a miniscule 'Peru' when they were from different Native American tribes. I am hoping for more since my father's grandfather was removed from his family by the BIA (1800s) as a baby and we have no idea what his heritage was. My mother's grandmother was Cherokee.
It is now snowing, but not expected to last past 8am. More later this evening.
Snow just started here... big fat flakes and already accumulating. We're supposed to get 5-7" today, but we were supposed to get that Tuesday as well and it only came out to about 2". We shall see. Definitely between 0-99", probably. Maybe. Unless it's not.
Maybe the people who write the Daz sales and code the website were all previously meteorologists?
At least it didn't rain first this time, so the roads shouldn't be a 7-layer bar of evil for those driving, and the plows are pretty good at keeping things clear.
Out of curiosity, do other states have contests for naming their snowplows, or is that yet another bizarre Minnesotan thing?