Thursday, July 07, 2011

News of the Poor and Obscure

As opposed to the rich and famous, of course.  We're in from running the day's errands which consisted mostly of re-stocking our food supply.  Let me say this about that:


I LURVE these bagged meals.  I like the nukable steam bags even better, but Wally-World doesn't carry them.  If I had driven the extra 22 miles out to the Cannon Airplane Patch commissary I could have picked up some steamers, but we opted for convenience over selection.  And besides that, we're not in need of more scotch at the moment.  I'll drive those extra miles to save ten Yankee Dollars on a bottle o' scotch but I won't drive 'em for a wider selection in food.  Priorities, yanno?

That said... isn't it weird how a lot of food comes in bags these days?  I buy that bagged salad, too.  These Modern Times surely are a boon to bachelors... I remember the days of my first encounter with the single life all TOO damned well, the days when I subsisted mainly on Campbell's soup, PBJs, and Kraft macaroni & cheese.  Well that and the USAF dining hall, which option isn't available to me any longer and more's the pity.  Anyhoo... now it's reasonably easy to eat well (sorta) while not spending hours in the kitchen.  Shorter: cooking for one sucks.

Speakin' o' scotch... and we did, above...I succumbed.  That Johnnie Walker Gold now occupies a niche in my freezer door, as opposed to me freezing four fingers of the stuff at a time, which means my refills are just as chilled as the original pour.  I highly recommend this practice if you haven't tried the frozen booze trick.  I'm not sure if it works on run o' the mill booze but it sure makes this Gold stuff taste wonderful.  

The eagle-eyed among you will notice an object floating in the bottle and that's the remnants of a piss-poor cork.  The whiskey is excellent, the cork not so much.  It's a good thing I still had that bottle of Glenmorangie hangin' around when I broke the Gold's cork, coz that Glenmorangie cork fit the Gold bottle perfectly.  Sometimes ya live right... or get lucky.

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Random notes... I finally got off the dime and paid the bills today.  The holiday kinda-sorta screwed me up as the USPS wasn't on the job Monday.  I'm almost never this late in getting the checks in the mail, but I'm not late-late.  Nothing's due until the 15th.

Speaking of mail... various and sundry organizations keep sending me return address labels (I'm pretty sure I have a lifetime supply now) which I cheerfully use, albeit with a twinge of guilt. That's because these people always ask for a small donation and I always decline but I continue to use their labels.  What a miserable freeloader I am, eh?

I coulda swore I had sumthin' else, but it escapes me now.  You're welcome.

12 comments:

  1. I coulda swore I had sumthin' else, but it escapes me now. You're welcome. Yer old age is showing. Just kidding. Bill Cosby does a great act on getting old and remembering what it was that you were after as soon as your a$$ made contact with the chair that you had just gotten out of.

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  2. I get the free address stickers occasionally too. Except I never use them, since I never mail a thing. Gotta love online bill pay.

    Bummer on the cork.

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  3. Yeah, Pam has about 144,000 address labels in the top desk drawer. Most of them are from the Disabled Veterans, and the Republican Party (She's a Republican).

    She actually uses about 3 stickers per month, so at this rate, I'll have to buy a new storage cabinet for them in about 5 years.

    So, I'm wondering here...and not really afraid to ask...what's up with the corn lately? I thought you was more of a barley/hops guy. Don't get me wrong, I'm all "ears," but I see a shift here at EIP. Maybe it's just my imagination running away with me...

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  4. Natural Born Eater08 July, 2011 05:03

    I always laugh when they put "100% Natural" on a food product.

    What the hell does THAT mean? Would you buy a competing product that tasted better but wasn't 100% natural.

    Maybe 90% natural, with 10% unnatural. If unnatural was bacon grease maybe...

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  5. I'm with BR - online banking is THE way to go. A book of stamps will now last me for months rather than a few weeks.

    I've never tried those bag meals; may have to investigate. We are on the go so much that we quite literally don't have time to eat a healthy meal more than once or twice a week! A meal-in-a-bag might help us with that.

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  6. Apparently we're all return address label hoarders. I have finally convinced myself that it's ok to pitch the ones with a slightly "off" address, or that use the prefix "Mr."

    Re: the bagged meals. They taste pretty good, but they usually have way too much pasta in them. Your early AF days sound like my freshman year in the dorm. I lived on Spaghetti Os and Beenie Weenies warmed in the popcorn popper. I doubt whether a vegetable passed my lips that year.

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  7. Yer old age is showing. Just kidding.

    No need to kid, Deb... my old age was showing.

    BR: On-line bill paying doesn't cover birthday cards, thank-you notes, and the odd handwritten stuff. Yah: old fashioned.

    So, I'm wondering here...and not really afraid to ask...what's up with the corn lately? I thought you was more of a barley/hops guy.

    Spoken like a true bourbon guy, Andy... there ain't no corn in single malts. There's no real change in progress, other than the novelty of buying my first blended scotch in 30 years. I will admit to drinking more whiskey during the summer than in winter, though. It's a more relaxing drink for sitting outside while watching the sunset.

    I always laugh when they put "100% Natural" on a food product.

    Heh. Me too.

    I've never tried those bag meals; may have to investigate.

    Buy two if ya do, Kris. The bags say "a complete meal for two" but I find one bag makes JUST enough for ME.

    Your early AF days sound like my freshman year in the dorm.

    Heh. Not so early, those days... I was a mid-grade NCO, recently single. But I hear ya, Moogie. The dining hall saved my bacon (literally) many more times than I'd like to count.

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  8. Okay, so I'm iz ignurnt! True bourbon guy, indeed. I knows not much of much else...

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  9. Enlightening the masses is my mission in life now, Andy. Now about hockey... ;-)

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  10. We do bag meals from time to time, because we are Baggetts - ha! I usually add some extra veggies or meat - like buying extra shrimp is good. The Schwan's man has some good meal bags, but a bit more expensive.

    If someone sends me something in the mail that I did not ask for, I will use it. I do use my address stickers even though I don't donate.

    VW: oardal - when you have problems sailing and have to use the oars.

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  11. Don't you just luv some scotch over ice?!

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  12. ...like buying extra shrimp is good.

    Heh. Great minds. I have a bag o' BIG-ass prawns in the freezer just for that purpose, coz the shrimp "they" put in those bags are both small and few.

    Mushy: I like mine neat, which is why I think freezing the stuff is a great ideer.

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