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neadodsThis is a collection post of things that haven't quite been worthy of a post on their own but I either thought someone would find useful or I just wanted to talk about.
Cryogenic Sandwiches
Today's lunch was a very nice peanut butter & jelly sandwich, which was mostly notable for having successfully survived cryogenic packing.
For everyone blinking at that sentence and going "... did she seriously just say that she froze a pb&j? Why not just make the damned thing in the morning?" yes, I did seriously just say that I froze a sandwich. The point was less to save 2 minutes in the morning than to make sure that there isn't a morning when there is no other packed lunch, the jelly is gone, and the bread has gone moldy. As long as you remember to spread the peanut butter thinly on *both* slices of bread and then put the jelly in the middle (otherwise, it would soak into the bread as it thaws), it seems perfectly feasible.
I've also successfully frozen a deviled ham sandwich.
So for anyone who wants to use up that bread before it grows penicillin or wants to have a stash of lunches in advance of a hard week or just wants to save 2 minutes in the morning - pb&j freezes. (And so do those little packs of candy on sale the day after Halloween, I'm just sayin'.)
Unpaid Product Endorsement the first
If you want a comprehensive music player, I can't recommend the Insignia CD Shelf System enough. It's only available at Best Buy (Insignia is the house brand) and it is *not* cheap, but it's the only thing I've found that has a radio (with presettable stations), plays regular, recordable, and mp3 CDs, has an iPod dock and a line-in jack plus a usb slot. Plus, the forward/back/skip 5 seconds/stop buttons on the main console will control a docked iPod.
Unpaid Product Endorsement the second
The Rubbermaid 30-gallon clear plastic storage bin is excellent for storing fanzines. And because it's clear, you can see a front cover, letting you "label" the bin by fandom.
The Great Recession
People aren't talking about the recession as much anymore, but the damage lingers. There aren't as many street vendors around. Storefronts on valuable property in NYC and DC, storefronts that probably once had multi-year waiting lists, have stood empty for months.
And property values continue to plummet like a shot duck, and in this manner the Great Recession just got very personal. I got the tax assessment on the house last weekend. Now, it's in the state's interest to make this as high as possible because the higher it is, the more taxes they get, the more tax the township gets, etc.
It's worth half of the last assessment.
Fortunately, it's still worth more than I paid, much less more than I owe. But - DUDE! Half?!?
Cryogenic Sandwiches
Today's lunch was a very nice peanut butter & jelly sandwich, which was mostly notable for having successfully survived cryogenic packing.
For everyone blinking at that sentence and going "... did she seriously just say that she froze a pb&j? Why not just make the damned thing in the morning?" yes, I did seriously just say that I froze a sandwich. The point was less to save 2 minutes in the morning than to make sure that there isn't a morning when there is no other packed lunch, the jelly is gone, and the bread has gone moldy. As long as you remember to spread the peanut butter thinly on *both* slices of bread and then put the jelly in the middle (otherwise, it would soak into the bread as it thaws), it seems perfectly feasible.
I've also successfully frozen a deviled ham sandwich.
So for anyone who wants to use up that bread before it grows penicillin or wants to have a stash of lunches in advance of a hard week or just wants to save 2 minutes in the morning - pb&j freezes. (And so do those little packs of candy on sale the day after Halloween, I'm just sayin'.)
Unpaid Product Endorsement the first
If you want a comprehensive music player, I can't recommend the Insignia CD Shelf System enough. It's only available at Best Buy (Insignia is the house brand) and it is *not* cheap, but it's the only thing I've found that has a radio (with presettable stations), plays regular, recordable, and mp3 CDs, has an iPod dock and a line-in jack plus a usb slot. Plus, the forward/back/skip 5 seconds/stop buttons on the main console will control a docked iPod.
Unpaid Product Endorsement the second
The Rubbermaid 30-gallon clear plastic storage bin is excellent for storing fanzines. And because it's clear, you can see a front cover, letting you "label" the bin by fandom.
The Great Recession
People aren't talking about the recession as much anymore, but the damage lingers. There aren't as many street vendors around. Storefronts on valuable property in NYC and DC, storefronts that probably once had multi-year waiting lists, have stood empty for months.
And property values continue to plummet like a shot duck, and in this manner the Great Recession just got very personal. I got the tax assessment on the house last weekend. Now, it's in the state's interest to make this as high as possible because the higher it is, the more taxes they get, the more tax the township gets, etc.
It's worth half of the last assessment.
Fortunately, it's still worth more than I paid, much less more than I owe. But - DUDE! Half?!?
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Date: 2010-01-09 01:01 am (UTC)But yeah - half. I'm more than a little gobsmacked.
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Date: 2010-01-11 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-12 12:24 am (UTC)The house is in the middle two lots; I'm betting that if prices go up a lot, I'll be the last one to have one house on the space.