Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Timelies all!
Happy New Year! Happy Birthday Susan!
My NYE dinner was at Roy's Place a legendary sandwich place(Over 200 sandwiches on the menu, with names like the Raunchy Raymond and the Bodaceous Beth Burger. Most are named after local folks.)Mmm, fried mushrooms...
Damn, that was stylin', Barb!
Hippo Birdies, Susan!
I find I am FUll OF New Year's resolution-feeling today, more so than I can remember any other year. Strange!
Happy New Year, everyone! And Happy Birthday, Susan!
So, my cunning plan was to go to Trader Joe's today, but it occurs to me that they will not have re-stocked from yesterday, and therefore will probably not have the mushroom turnovers I love. Not that that is all I'm planning to buy. Hmmmm.
TJ's let me down and didn't have any Snapea Crisps when I went there last week. Usually I stock up on a couple bags, because they usually price them at $1.49 (1.99 at Whole Paycheck!).
It's hard to describe Snapea Crisps -- sort of like if you made Cheez Doodles out of peas, but left out the Cheeze? Anyway, they're yummy, crisp, and chock full of goodness, and I bless the impulse that made me buy a random bag for a party on the basis that if I didn't like them, somebody else would.
Are they even open today?
2008 got one last kick in when the power cable on my laptop crapped out last night. Feh.
Are they even open today?
Ooh, interesting question. It never occurs to me that things will be closed ever. And after checking, they are indeed closed. Tomorrow, then! Thanks for mentioning it, because that would have been annoying.
Oh, and if anyone was wondering, I do apparently still have the disputed cable channels on my Time Warner cable.
Jesse, I saw an item that said that the dispute had been resolved, so disaster averted.
Back when we had TW here instead of Comcast, we actually had really great service, but then Somerville is a rare 2-cable-system town, which did indeed mean they tried harder.
I love the snap pea crisps. I wish TJs was closer.
It never occurs to me that things will be closed ever.
There was a near riot at the post office yesterday, because it had closed at 2 p.m. without any particular notice AND the stamp/package machine was broken. The website and the printed notice on the building said it would be open, but there was a handwritten "will close at 2" sign and it was 2:30. About 20 of us were milling about and begging answers from the one unfortunate postal employee who came out into the lobby. I wanted to get a proof of mailing certificate for a payment I wanted counted on '08 taxes. Most of the other people were also slackers who had something that needed to postmarked by the end of the year. A very nice woman who couldn't mail her package gave me a stamp (I tried to pay for it, but she said, "Merry Christmas.") and the poor postal employee swore it would be postmarked yesterday.