Had the car today so we went to Costco to pick up a few things. As you know, everything is bigger at a wholesale store, including the audacity. In a regular supermarket, super shoppers frustrate the packers by picking around in the back of the freezer case to find the milk and eggs with the latest expiration date. At the Costco, the freezer case is actually a meat locker with rows of glass doors on opposite walls. I saw people opening the refrigerator case doors, actually stepping over the older product in the front to get to the row of carts in the center that are being held in reserve. They would come out of the lockers with armfulls of milk and eggs looking like they had just looted the store. Now that’s chutzpah!
Month: January 2006
Sunday
A belated note: the passing of Lou Rawls. I was amused by the NY Times’ obituary noting that Lou Rawls did the songs on the “Garfield” cartoons (probably my main introduction to Lou Rawls, besides his work on the United Negro College Fund tv specials). Ironically, Channel 4 (WNBC) aired the syndicated “An Evening of Stars” this afternoon (a taped program), with the caption on the bottom that it was taped before the passing of Rawls. A salute to Rawls.
Today, the NY Giants lost to the Carolina Panthers. Oh well, the end to quite a season.
In the NY Times: an interesting story on the snow in Japan’s “snow country.”
NY Times has an article on cooking eggs: Daniel Patterson writes that his environmental lawyer fiancee wouldn’t let him used Teflon pans, so he resorted to other ways to cook eggs. The recipes look interesting. (not that I cook, but I liked his writing anyway).
The upcoming hearings for Judge Alito. A primer from the NY Times. We live in interesting times.
Saturday!
Slept in late (for me anyway).
Updates to my little website. New art, one new piece of short fiction. Although, the website’s still a work in progress, so pardon any interruptions…
Fascinating story on cat evolution from the NY Times.