ameander

I've been holding back on this because lately any writing ideas I've had seem to feed into a broader context and I want to work them into something that's a whole lot more than a blog post. Just one thought out of the big mess to entice you: Capitalism is not just, it is merely useful.

On more day-in-the-life matters, some degree of leg stiffness or soreness seems to have become a constant, as I bike more and more. I've not quite convinced myself to call one of the junkyards and sell my car (I've left my "for sale" signs in the windows, but I doubt anyone who sees/hears it in operation will be eager to buy.) Wednesday night I rode down to Best Buy on a whim after work, but determined their hard drives are too expensive (there is abundant evidence a buggy hard drive is behind my increasingly frequent windows and program problems.) So I splurged and got "The Simpsons Game" instead. Lots of fun.

"But I don't wanna go to chocolate bunny hell..."

recipenottopar

First point of the post is that it's best to put your contact lenses in before cooking with red pepper, not after.

So I made a chicken dish for lunch (and dinner, probably to last a couple days). Started out with a sort of chicken and pasta idea, shifted to more a cream-o-mushroom based thing. (I tend to improvise a lot when cooking.) Unfortunately the pasta is now extraneous (and didn't soak in the sauce properly, so it's crunchy.) Should go with some breading or potatoes or just ditch it entirely for next time. Also while I still think a spicy mushroom alfredo is a good idea, way too much red pepper poured out and I didn't have enough of the other sauce makings to thin it out. Still turned out not to bad. Just a bit of revision. Hope I remember it another time.

restaurantbitching

Restored from the brink, where lo these blogging fields have lain fallow for many weeks...

So nothing really new today, just some discourteous and probably unfair thoughts that recur to me sometimes at my job.

*Waiting at the restaurant is your just punishment for having so little diversity in your lifestyle that you actually get hungry at the same time as your neighbors.

*In a corollary, you'll find you're not the only ones who decided to wait for the end of the most popular television shows in the country to get dinner.

*If you hang up and call back twenty minutes later, that's not the same thing as being "on hold for twenty minutes," no matter how angrily you say it.

*If you've got your whole social circle together, and decide to call for take out, the one person in the group who actually suggested the restaurant and has been there before is probably the best person to make the call. The preteen child of the branch of the family who are visiting from out of state and who also is nervous talking to strangers on the phone is probably not the best person to make the call.

Really, the main point of this post is to communicate to the handful of people checking in that, yes, I'll be writing this thing again.