I was in northern VA all day, and I am tired. However, my computer is much, much better now due to Chris’ genius in discovering something that I didn’t: That Replay AV never uninstalled on my system, and had been running for two days, causing my CPU to nearly up and die. No wonder the fan was going nonstop. Also, I have more nifty-keen work-related software loaded, so I can blog less and work more! Hooray!
My freezer is full of yummy kosher meats, and my closet has several bags of kosher-for-Passover food ready for Mom and me when the need hits, which is, uh, about two weeks away.
I went to the kosher Chinese restaurant near the kosher supermarket. Turned out I had the place all to myself. I felt so special. The manager sat down and chatted with me for a while during dinner. Just as I was finishing up, a party of five walked in and ruined my ability to pretend that I’d rented out the entire restaurant for myself. My waiter was very sweet, and very attentive. It pays to be the only customer. I tipped him extra. I thought he might not have much of a crowd after me. Plus, when I asked him for a leak-proof container for the chicken and broccoli, he put it in a soup container, which is just perfect for storage.
The kosher store had Goodman’s soup nuts. My brothers and I munch on those things during Passover as one of the few edible snacks. (Soup nuts are the equivalent of oyster crackers.) I love Goodman’s. Theirs are the best kosher products on the market, and for some reason, they’ve lost nearly all of their market share. You can’t find Goodman’s egg matzo anywhere around here. We were going to ask my mother’s sister to bring some home from NJ, but she’s a rather grumpy woman, and we decided we didn’t want to live with her “you owe me” attitude over two lousy boxes of matzo.
Oh. Soup nuts. It turns out that Gracie loves them. This is a shocker at about 9.0 on the Richter scale. Gracie likes three things: Dry cat food, tuna-flavored wet cat food, and canned tuna (in water, not oil). If I change brands of tuna, she won’t eat it. If the tuna is in oil, she won’t eat it. If the wet food is too old (as in several hours out of the can), she won’t eat it. If it’s cold (I refrigerate it to keep it fresher), she won’t eat it. (I nuke it for five seconds and she’ll eat it.) This cat eats NOTHING else. Not ice cream, not milk, not cheese, not any other kind of meat. It’s possible she likes other kinds of fish, but as I am allergic, she gets no chance to try them. (I only buy canned tuna because the cats like it. I can’t eat the stuff, alas.) So she eats three things. Three.
And she ate soup nuts. Not only ate them, but demanded them, wolfed them down, then tried to sneak into the box while I wasn’t looking. Who knew Graice was a Yiddishke cat? She likes mandlen!
In any case. It’s been a long, tiring day, and there will be no more blogging tonight. I’m going to bed. I got lost several times due to not quite understanding the concept of the Beltway yet (I think I finally got it down by day’s end) and thinking I was heading for Richmond when I was actually doing no such thing. However, I can usually figure out when things don’t look like they’re supposed to. But I wasted at least half an hour getting lost today, and probably more.
Yep. Tired. Blogging will resume tomorrow.
And our Dax just fell in love with cracked pepper and olive oil triscuits! Practically tore through the box.
Up in my neighborhood? From the description, sounds like you ate at the Royal Dragon in Rockville. It’s not as good as the kosher Chinese available in NJ, but it’s not bad.
Katz’s Kosher Mart is a good place for shopping. A huge selection of just about everything. I usually go there about once a month, in order to get those items the local groceries in VA don’t stock.
Goodman’s, Schmoodman’s.
What you need to do is get yerself a couple boxes of Rakusen’s English Matzo. Best matzo in the world, crisp and tasty.
Of course, it’ll block you up just as well as alla them other brands…