Category: Food

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Best Buy Encounter

Wednesday I stopped by Best Buy on the way home from my optometry appointment.  As I made my way to the registers, browsing the movies on the way, a guy wearing an Xfinity lanyard stopped me…

Xfinity Guy: Hi, do you have Xfinity at home?
Me (smirking): No, I don’t.
XG: Who do you use for internet?
Me: Sonic.
XG: Hmmm… how much do you pay per month?  Over $50?
Me: Sorry, I just cancelled Xfinity at my house a couple of weeks ago, so I’m really not interested.
XG (now with a downtrodden look on his face): Oh.

And then he walked away.

Sorry, dude.

Oh, and I went home with a ream of printer paper and Sega Classics for the PS4.  And a bottle of lemonade.

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Crock Pot Experiments

  • 2 lbs chicken breast
  • bag of diced sweet potatoes
  • 1 cup Memphis-style BBQ sauce

Cut chicken into smaller pieces (1 inch?).  Place 1/2 in bottom of 2-qt crock pot.  Place 1/2 of bag of sweet potatoes in crock pot.  Pour sauce over contents.  Add rest of sweet potatoes and rest of chicken.  Set for high cooking (5 hours).  Every 1.5-2 hours or so, stir contents.  Serve over steamed rice.

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Baseball Opening Day 2018

I started my day off by running to the grocery store to pick up hot dogs and buns, the only food you need for Opening Day.

I also picked up chips and soda.

At home I steamed the dogs and ate a couple as the first game of the day started (Cubs @ Marlins).

A half hour later I switched over to the Cards @ Mets game, and began playing my table top baseball games.  One game turned out bad, the other good.

And the Mets beat the Cards.

Now waiting for the Giants @ Dodgers game in a couple of hours.

Welcome back, baseball.  I missed you.

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Wasted Day

I woke up this morning to some very familiar feelings of nausea.

Food poisoning.

I immediately went back to bed.

I woke up about 4 hours later to email work that I’d be out before I went straight back to bed.

Another 3 hours later, I got up and  took a shower since I was sweating a lot while I was sleeping.  I made some tea, but only drank half of it and went back to bed.

I woke up again about 4 hours later and made some toast and finished my tea.  Back to bed.

Got up again 2 hours later and seem to have shaken off most of the effects, though I do have a bit of a headache.

I tossed the foods that I ate the night before, though I suspect it was the milk, which expires tomorrow, but it had a faint odd smell, but tasted okay with cereal.  Never again.

Currently eating dry toast and tea.

As a result of this, I got a ticket on my car for street cleaning violation, and 3 packages (game stuff, camera accessory, Kickstarter reward) that I was expecting at work have been delivered, but I’ll wait until Monday to get them.

Wasted day.  Though in my semi-sleepy state I had the TV on to the Giants game, though I missed Bumgarner breaking his hand, and there’s a James Bond marathon on MGMHD channel.

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Space Tea

ThinkGeek is having a Pi Day sale, so I decided to get a couple of items, including a new tea infuser.

I’ll probably leave this one at work, since I also ordered some loose leaf tea online.

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Morning

Since I forgot to move my car to the non-street cleaning side of the street yesterday, I decided to go out early and do stuff.

First stop was Dunkin Donuts. Now at Target. Need to kill time until Toys R Us opens, and then maybe stop at Gator Games.

Brought along “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck” to read, so far, so good. Any book that quotes Buckaroo Banzai has to be good.

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Holiday

I went to go see Black Panther for the second time.

It’s definitely in my top 5 Marvel films, and top 10 superhero films, of all time.

As with second viewings, I managed to hear dialogue I missed the first time around.

My favorite character in the movie is M’Baku.

I said elsewhere that I want to put him in my Marvel buddy film, staring Luis, Korg, Groot, and Ned.  And maybe Darcy.

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So begins my birthday week staycation.

Woohoo.

After last year’s 50th birthday shindig, I’m not really feeling like doing anything for my 51st, to be honest.

Though if anyone wants to feed me pizza this Friday, I’m all for it.

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I tried the Hostess SnoBall ice cream bar today.  Tasted like plastic.  I think that was the vanilla part, which I thought was marshmallow.

Dad didn’t seem impressed with it either.

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Holiday, continued

Cookies: made
Cookies: broken up over vanilla bean ice cream
Cookies: eaten with ice cream

Pizza: made
Pizza: eaten

As the day goes on…

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Holiday

Haircut: done
Breakfast: done
Errands: done

And it’s not even noon yet.  So what to do now?