In which progress progresses

[rolanni]

So, yesterday. . .

I had some bagels from the bakery down on Bay Street.  Let me just say. . .Worst. Bagel. EVER.  Steve asked me what was wrong with it.  I said, "Christian bagel."  Seriously, bagels shouldn't crumb like bread.  Also? Ideally, they should taste like. . .bagels.

Anyhow, I gave Steve a ten dollar bill and asked him to please stop at Bagel Mania on his way home from getting his car's oil changed and tires rotated to buy me some REAL bagels.

Ten bucks buys 15 bagels from Bagel Mania, most of which are now residing in the freezer, but of course I held some out for Immediate Consumption, and had one for breakfast this morning.  Mmmmm, bagel.

After the Great Bagel Influx, and lunch, we went down to the contractor's office, credit card in hand, and put half down on the generator.  It has to be ordered in, so the installation date at this point is the ever-popular "couple of weeks."  Part of today's excitement will be to call the propane company and get ourselves on their radar.

Then we went for a Plot Drive, up and aroundish, through Athens, Harmony, Canaan, and suchlike.  Back home, I discovered Yet Another communication from the ACA, instructing me to immediately do something that it was impossible to do, even though meticulous following of their directions did not produce the described result (Honest to ghu, the ACA has gotten me to the point that I doubt my own sanity.  I had Steve come into my office to read and follow the instructions, and -- they didn't work for him, either.  What a relief.)

After that, we threw in the towel and watched Big Hero 6.  The coon cats are big Baymax fans, while Scrabble's hero is GoGo.

Today started with a phone call to the ACA to be Perfectly Sure that the urgent email could be ignored.  Then, I called the local health insurance provider and had them go through my regular meds, and. . .today I will regretfully be moving my prescriptions to Hannaford, where the cost for all three will be $0, as opposed to $110.

I'm really ambivalent about this; I've been with CVS since we moved to Waterville -- twenty years and counting -- but money talks.

And I'm really ambivalent about that.

For those who may have an interest, the Seventh and Last Week of the Do It Like A Delm Challenge began yesterday!  We have three entrants so far, but we're waiting to see yours!

Here's a link to the rules.

Here's a link to this week's entries thus far.

Speaking of Doing It Like A Delm, Offworld Designs is (again) taking orders for Liaden Universe® t-shirts, polos, and long-sleeve denim.  In addition to looking positively delm-like on you, these shirts make fine presents.  I hear there's a Big, Present-Giving Holiday coming up in a few months -- and here's the thing you need to pay attention to:  OffWorld Designs makes embroiders and screenprint these to order.  That means that they wait until they have a Big Pile of orders before doing the printing and embroidery.  So you want to order early (and often) if you want to be sure to have gifts for Christmas.

Here's your link to Offworld Designs Liaden Universe® infopage.  NOTE:  you need to click the thumbnails for pricing and product details.

In Weather News, we here at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory are at about a week of rain, starting this afternoon, so if I want to go into town, I'd better get moving.

Here, have a picture of Trooper waiting for the rain.

Trooper's not worried about no stinkin' rain.

Comments

[charlie russel (from livejournal.com)]

As a former NYC resident, I share your horror at "Christian bagels". (Great description!) When we moved to Canada 11 years ago, I was sure I'd be stuck without any. And I would be, except that my DW periodically digs out the King Arthur cookbook and makes a batch. Every bit as good as the bagels we used to get in NYC, if perhaps not as perfectly shaped. The recipe's a bit of a pain, and you need an ingredient or two you probably don't have in stock (non-diastatic barley malt powder, for example), but the result is a batch of real bagels. Which go perfectly with some of the BC salmon I just smoked. :)

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Eww, lox. Yuck.

But bagels YAAAYYYY!!!!!

And why should Trooper worry about rain? He has Servants for that

[spacecowboy528.livejournal.com]

Trooper looks so laid back in that picture you'd think he was from California.

[pedanther]

In other news, I saw Rusty Hevelin's name in an unexpected place today.

The staff of Tumblr run a blog where they highlight interesting things to be seen on Tumblr, and today's highlight was the University of Iowa's James L. “Rusty” Hevelin Collection.

Waiting for Rain

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

Trooper doesn't worry about much....from what I know of him. As they other participant said...be has staff for that.

Bagles

[ireneha.livejournal.com]

My great aunt & I once had the argument about Bagels. She was from Detroit, and I was raised on NY-City style bagels. But neither of these were crumbly. The Detroit bagel, had the card outer, and a softer more roll like interior. I was never converted.

But I would love that recipe for making my own bagels. if it can be shared.
[That same great aunt would never give me the refrigerator pickle recipe, saying that it wasn't her's to give out.]

Re: Bagles

[charlie russel (from livejournal.com)]

The bagel recipe is in The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion, available from Amazon (and a very worthy book if you bake!), or you can view it online at the King Arthur Flour site. Search for Bagel in the Recipe section and it's the first one called simply "Bagels". (I'd post a link, but this site would automatically set this post to spam if I did.)

[thewol.livejournal.com]

I was going to say you must have really narrow windows, but then I remembered, you have economy size cats. That is one laid back cat you have there. BTW hope your plot drive went well. That makes you two and C.J. Cherry who plot while driving. Does one read aloud while the other drives, or do you get the whim whams when you read in a moving vehicle?