Shop and Awe
Dec. 1st, 2012 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
howeirdStayed in bed till 10, with Domino yowling at me early and often, but I was sleepy. She even jumped up on the bed and got in my face once. It didn't work.
When I finally did get up I saw she had barfed on the recliner seat. She's not suppose to do that. I keep it covered with a towel, so all I needed to do was throw the towel in the washer, but still...
Did my usual FB stuff, then remembered I had a groc list on Evernote. The targets were:
Safeway (whipped cream, French onion soup mix)
Trader Joe's (Fondue)
Bevmo (Kirsch, and if they had it Sabra liqueur, and, if they had it, Anthon Berg tiny booze-filled chocolate bottles)
Milk Pail (sheep and goat cheeses)
Any auto parts store (RainX washer fluid)
Thought about it, and realized that all those stores are within a block of each other in Mountain View, so hopped on the expressway (which was almost deserted) and headed there.
Bevmo - check, all three items, took forever to find because no help from staff and cleverly hidden on bottom shelves in not-quite-the-right-sections
Milk Pail - check, three small packages of my favorite sheep cheese (it's all![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
susandennis's fault!), a couple of goat cheeses, a round loaf of sliced asiago sourdough bread, a couple of their fondue mixes complete with ceramic bowl - on sale for $3.99 each)
TJ's - check, two fondues and two sourdough mini-rounds)
Safeway - check, two packets of Knorr French onion soup mix, and two cans of whipped cream. Had to buy the real stuff, they have stopped stocking light and replaced it with chocolate, caramel and peppermint flavored.
O'Reilly auto parts - check, two jugs of RainX washer fluid on sale.
Got email from a friend who lives in that neighborhood, asking if I wanted to come over or meet her somewhere for coffee. I had promised to hook up her Comcast adapter box, so I went over.
As of today, Comcast no longer sends analog signals on their cables, but they are required by law to provide signals for all the locally broadcast stations. So what they have done is replace the signal on channels 2-13 with a message saying you need an adapter box to see these channels.
What they don't say is most of those are on the cable in HD digital form, just not always on the same channel number.
My friend has a mental block against trying to understand anything new in technology, and threw a fit when she saw channels 2-13 give her this ugly page of text instead of video, and there was no understanding that she can skip those and simply up-channel to 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, etc. Well, not quite because 3 is actually 11-1 and I never did find 4 because she kept yelling at me. So I hooked up the converter, and now she gets the same old ugly analog signal further uglified by the conversion, on the channel numbers with which she thought she was familiar. But not quite, because she did not know that NBC moved to channel 11, which is cable channel 3, in 2001. She thought NBC was still channel 4, and was livid that it was not 4-1 on the TV tuner.
And then after I got her hooked up the way she wanted she insisted that I change the TV settings to stretch the 4:3 images to 16:9, because why did she buy a wide screen TV if the picture won't fill the screen? Arghhhhh.
Finally she had a hissy fit when the universal remote I'd set up for her several years ago (so long ago I forgot I'd done it) can't control the channels on the Comcast converter.
Sheesh. She rarely watches TV, she mostly plays DVDs on it, using the HDMI input. The Comcast box uses a coax cable connection. Stupid of them.
Home, just in time to watch 3/4 of the Wisconsin drubbing of Nebraska. Something is seriously wrong with a ranking system in which an unranked team can put up 70 points against #12. It was a fun game, though, the cornholers managed to score 30 by the end of the game, but by that time the Badgers had their 3rd string defense on the field.
Also caught the exciting last half of the Kansas State - Texas game. KS was ranked #17 TX #18, but the game wasn't that close, Texas looked like they were on Quaaludes half the time.
Watched the ends of the games and the wrap-up show while having TJ's fondue with sourdough chunks, apple chunks and banana slices. Mixed in about 1/4 cup of kirsch and it was yummy. The alcohol mostly evaporates off, leaving a hint of cherry.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with whipped cream for dessert. Whipped cream for Domino, against my better judgment.
Oh, and I bought a few ofdidjiman's breathtakingly beautiful calendars. You should too.http://www.richardmanphoto.com/calendar.html
I've received about four thank yous for my calendar from friends & relatives, the mailman seems to have gotten them around the left coast and upstate NY. One less international mailing because the one which went to Russia last year was handed to a person at work who was re-hired a few months ago.
Plans for tomorrow:
Photo shoot in a Union City studio at 10 am
Maybe find a Lion supermarket and see if they have Blue Dell tomato sauce.
Sit on the patio and watch the rain, and read from the Kindle.
When I finally did get up I saw she had barfed on the recliner seat. She's not suppose to do that. I keep it covered with a towel, so all I needed to do was throw the towel in the washer, but still...
Did my usual FB stuff, then remembered I had a groc list on Evernote. The targets were:
Safeway (whipped cream, French onion soup mix)
Trader Joe's (Fondue)
Bevmo (Kirsch, and if they had it Sabra liqueur, and, if they had it, Anthon Berg tiny booze-filled chocolate bottles)
Milk Pail (sheep and goat cheeses)
Any auto parts store (RainX washer fluid)
Thought about it, and realized that all those stores are within a block of each other in Mountain View, so hopped on the expressway (which was almost deserted) and headed there.
Bevmo - check, all three items, took forever to find because no help from staff and cleverly hidden on bottom shelves in not-quite-the-right-sections
Milk Pail - check, three small packages of my favorite sheep cheese (it's all
susandennis's fault!), a couple of goat cheeses, a round loaf of sliced asiago sourdough bread, a couple of their fondue mixes complete with ceramic bowl - on sale for $3.99 each)TJ's - check, two fondues and two sourdough mini-rounds)
Safeway - check, two packets of Knorr French onion soup mix, and two cans of whipped cream. Had to buy the real stuff, they have stopped stocking light and replaced it with chocolate, caramel and peppermint flavored.
O'Reilly auto parts - check, two jugs of RainX washer fluid on sale.
Got email from a friend who lives in that neighborhood, asking if I wanted to come over or meet her somewhere for coffee. I had promised to hook up her Comcast adapter box, so I went over.
As of today, Comcast no longer sends analog signals on their cables, but they are required by law to provide signals for all the locally broadcast stations. So what they have done is replace the signal on channels 2-13 with a message saying you need an adapter box to see these channels.
What they don't say is most of those are on the cable in HD digital form, just not always on the same channel number.
My friend has a mental block against trying to understand anything new in technology, and threw a fit when she saw channels 2-13 give her this ugly page of text instead of video, and there was no understanding that she can skip those and simply up-channel to 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, etc. Well, not quite because 3 is actually 11-1 and I never did find 4 because she kept yelling at me. So I hooked up the converter, and now she gets the same old ugly analog signal further uglified by the conversion, on the channel numbers with which she thought she was familiar. But not quite, because she did not know that NBC moved to channel 11, which is cable channel 3, in 2001. She thought NBC was still channel 4, and was livid that it was not 4-1 on the TV tuner.
And then after I got her hooked up the way she wanted she insisted that I change the TV settings to stretch the 4:3 images to 16:9, because why did she buy a wide screen TV if the picture won't fill the screen? Arghhhhh.
Finally she had a hissy fit when the universal remote I'd set up for her several years ago (so long ago I forgot I'd done it) can't control the channels on the Comcast converter.
Sheesh. She rarely watches TV, she mostly plays DVDs on it, using the HDMI input. The Comcast box uses a coax cable connection. Stupid of them.
Home, just in time to watch 3/4 of the Wisconsin drubbing of Nebraska. Something is seriously wrong with a ranking system in which an unranked team can put up 70 points against #12. It was a fun game, though, the cornholers managed to score 30 by the end of the game, but by that time the Badgers had their 3rd string defense on the field.
Also caught the exciting last half of the Kansas State - Texas game. KS was ranked #17 TX #18, but the game wasn't that close, Texas looked like they were on Quaaludes half the time.
Watched the ends of the games and the wrap-up show while having TJ's fondue with sourdough chunks, apple chunks and banana slices. Mixed in about 1/4 cup of kirsch and it was yummy. The alcohol mostly evaporates off, leaving a hint of cherry.
Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream with whipped cream for dessert. Whipped cream for Domino, against my better judgment.
Oh, and I bought a few of
didjiman's breathtakingly beautiful calendars. You should too.http://www.richardmanphoto.com/calendar.htmlI've received about four thank yous for my calendar from friends & relatives, the mailman seems to have gotten them around the left coast and upstate NY. One less international mailing because the one which went to Russia last year was handed to a person at work who was re-hired a few months ago.
Plans for tomorrow:
Photo shoot in a Union City studio at 10 am
Maybe find a Lion supermarket and see if they have Blue Dell tomato sauce.
Sit on the patio and watch the rain, and read from the Kindle.
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