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azurelunatic) wrote2020-03-25 11:51 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2020-03-25 11:51 pm
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Another day in the life, with calzones.
He's "a nasty moths fucker": https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2020/03/24/missouri-walmart-coronavirus-licker-charged-with-terrorist-threat
https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavirus-a-comprehensive-guide.html
Our friend with the Same Lurgy that (at least most of) the household had got the test back. Not Covid-19. So we're still on full alert for not catching it here.
We popped out to the restaurant supply store (very good about keeping distance) and the hardware store (felt like about the same number of people as the previous, but in much more space). Staff has 6 foot customer service reminder badges. I've already felt my personal bubble expand; one friendly staff member stepped closer and I stepped backward. No toilet paper in sight. We still have about 5 weeks' worth at the rate I think we're going through it, and I'm concerned about our ability to get more of the good stuff. I was eyeing something on the Big River Online shop, and between me seeing it and me asking the Holder of the Finances for approval, it went *poof*. I did order some bamboo-based stuff that is supposed to arrive in early May. Hopefully by then we'll get some more of the stuff we're used to.
I finished up reading Seanan's Parasitology trilogy during the Big Power Outage, and at one point squawked in recognition of Fishy's mundane name. "Wait, that's Tony!!!"
Today, the same man on Twitter mentioned going full videogame and retrieving masks...
Life is not supposed to imitate that kind of art so closely.
Apropos of the calzones further down, I think I have a certain understanding of why people in the first week started to go straight for the dried beans, etc.
1 - if we're facing a month of beans and beans aren't usually on the menu, the current stock of non-bean foods are possibly now in the character of a treat, and sometimes it's nice to parcel those out.
2 - The psychological state of This Is Really An Emergency is interesting, and having food that symbolizes that is one way to make it sink in.
3 - There's a bunch of old stuff in the cupboards that needs using up that you have been saying needs using up for a while, and the emergency is now sufficient motivation to go ahead and do the thing.
Today is supposed to be calzone day. The pizza dough is in the bread machine. We have meat sauce and ricotta that need using up. Nom!
Apparently when Notepad++ updates, it doesn't always retain the plugins. So I had to re-download the newly(?) renamed TextFX Characters. Happily the binding to F5 was still in place, so all I had to do was download the thing.
I may have some slightly more forcibly out of the gender closet with some of my women relatives. Peacock Aunt sent a "ladies, wtf do I do with 6 pounds of grits" email. My response was "(Not a lady but)" and a few suggestions. Followed by a discreet link to https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Agender which hopefully my mother will take to heart.
Apropos of the coming Roomba, I have re-read https://tomatonation.com/stories-true-and-otherwise/viva-la-roombalucion/
It's a pair, a Roomba and a Braava. We have not yet decided on names. We have shipping information now, even though we don't yet know the intended delivery date.
The calzones are being assembled. It's a three-person process, I think. I got all greased up and divided the dough, and started stretching it.
alexseanchai added toppings. Belovedest forked the edges together. Apropos of Belovedest and me quoting lines from "The Terrible Secret of Space", I have submitted a provisional application to name the cleaning robots Pak and Chooie. (This might possibly be expanded to Pac-Man and Chewbacca, who knows.)
Calzones were delicious! Next time the salami goes on the bottom layer, to better contain and salt the cheese. Still delicious.
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Please remember to spay and neuter your Roombas. Roomba overpopulation can have a serious effect on the ecosystem outside.
I got rid of a lot of my extra stuff when I had roaches, so that's one more thing to blame them for. I don't have flour, and neither do the supermarkets.
Edit, after following the link: "[...] The manager of a grocery store in Wisconsin called police after a woman licked the door handle to a freezer, reportedly to protest the virus, while a manager was disinfecting the store, Newsweek reported."
Reportedly to protest the virus. I don't get... did she expect the virus to be somehow deterred? Like, it would go "eww" and not infect that freezer because she called dibs?
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1 - if we're facing a month of beans and beans aren't usually on the menu, the current stock of non-bean foods are possibly now in the character of a treat, and sometimes it's nice to parcel those out.
2 - The psychological state of This Is Really An Emergency is interesting, and having food that symbolizes that is one way to make it sink in.
3 - There's a bunch of old stuff in the cupboards that needs using up that you have been saying needs using up for a while, and the emergency is now sufficient motivation to go ahead and do the thing.
I definitely think there's a thing where, if I can improvise a meal out of the random shit that's been at the back of cupboards for years, and not even have to break into more recently purchased supplies, I feel that I am safer and more competent and more equipped to deal with whatever's going to happen next.
This does not make rational sense, but none of our brains are anywhere near normal levels of rationality right now, and if using up that ancient packet of dried miso soup makes me feel a bit safer, I'll take it.
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"See, I can make food out of That Wouldn't Be Food Under Normal Circumstances, I am mighty and we will survive this famine!"
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