What a weird weekend. Yesterday I was awakened by Tom freaking out about weevils and throwing all our dry goods away. Today I was awakened by a huge crack of thunder/lightning and our tv fried. Sigh. Hopefully we can get it repaired. We did get a second tv in the meantime though, since it was something we'd planned to do anyway.

On the bright side, our kitchen cabinets are totally cleaned out and we did some rearranging of our front room.

I have a dentist appointment - the office is right above my GP so I know how to get there. It's not unitl October 9, that wasn't there first available but it was the first that worked with my schedule.

Initially I called a chain because it's pracitcally across from work and they take my insurance, but the first visit is x rays and consultation only. Then you have a cleaning Then you have a "treatment plan" follow up visit. And then I looked up online reviews for the chain as a whole, seems they push expensive treatments and offer lines of credit pay for it.

So I went iwth the local guy. Will take longer and it's one dentist in an office but hopefully I'll get my teeth cleaned and there's nothing really wrong.

Oh dear, Nora, but you're right about looking on the bright side.

I swear, the weevils wouldn't have been so bad but Tom gets traumatized any time anything bad happens with food. Poor guy.

That reminds me, that years-old bin of flour needs to go away.

You can tell Tom he's not alone, at least; I'm discovering that I have a horror/disgust/fear of food going bad. I throw it away if there's the slightest chance it's bad. Part of my reluctance to eat fruits and vegetables is a fear that I'll bite into it and it'll be rotten. I can't remember that ever actually happening to me, but considering we grew most of our food on the farm, it's possible.

Also, the problem with my vow to eat more fresh fruit this year? Fruit flies. Disgusting. Why are they here? The fruit isn't even rotting! I hope.

Oh I am very on the "if there's a question toss it out" side. Possibly because so much of y food DOES go bad, if I'm gone a lot.

askye, if you're around - does Best Buy do any sort of price matching? In a Fry's ad, I found a laptop that appears to be the same as the one I bought last night, for abt $50 less. I haven't opened the box yet, but I'd rather not have to mess with a return, or have to go to Fry's which is further from home & work and just a generally unpleasant place. Plus, I liked the sales guy I had last night, who both answered my questions and geeked out about Joss with me, so I'd hate for there to be any negative repercussions on his quotas or whatever. But 50 bucks is 50 bucks.

Best buy does price match. I'm pretty sure Frys is one match to They are some weird stores we don't. But retroactive price matching is usually up to the store and the store manager. You can also call and see if they will.

Best buy can be weird in that there are some rules or procedures that can't be bent and other things that are up to the store general manager.

Spoiled food really grosses me out. I throw stuff out if there's even a chance it's not good.

Just got an email from a student saying that he has mono, but that he'll try to come to class anyway. I'm assuming the health center told him that he's not contagious anymore.