Saturday morning, iced

[rolanni]

Saturday. Cloudy and mizzling. It is said by the weatherbeans that the temps will rise unto the mid-40sF by this afternoon. Right now, they are warning of frozen surfaces.

I have a ticket to see Michael Carbonaro this evening, and I suspect I will need to work out a Strategy in re not breaking a leg. Right now, I'm leaning toward going downtown early, finding a parking space Right Near the Arts Center, rather than just parking in the Concourse, and, I dunno, read or find something to eat until showtime.

Meanwhile! At just barely half-eight, I have risen, showered, dressed, treated my printer with olive oil, compiled and printed out a section that needs to be reworked-and-expanded, taken a picture of the Writing Disaster Zone which it afterward occurred to me that I cannot share, because the thing I really wanted to showcase -- aka the 28 x 15 inches pieced together printout which is the Entire Time Map for this novel -- could actually be read by someone with Determination.

Regarding the time map -- Yes, I am breaking out every trick I've ever learned. This is what it is to write with only one brain on the case. I mean, I do tell the cats what's going on and solicit their input, but, yanno, they have their own dreaming to tend.

All that said -- I should go find something that looks like breakfast.

Oh, wait. I heard back from CookUnity, which is very apologetic and free with the discounts and whatnot. They have not, however, answered my Core Question regarding the probable state of my food when it arrives on Monday, having sat in a warehouse, or an off-the-road delivery truck, or whatever for three days.

OTOH, I also gather from CookUnity that am Not Alone in this situation. I'm interested to hear that, down in Civilization, CookUnity maintains its own delivery fleet. That is not so for we who are off-Grid.

I have heard tell of another sort of co-op meal service, which utilizes chefs who are local to the customer, but I haven't actually tracked that down, yet.

Now, I'm going to go find breakfast.

How's everybody doing today?

Comments

[djonn]

Regarding locally (to you) sourced meal delivery - and at the risk of offering advice unasked-for - it looks to me after ten minutes' worth of Googlemancy that you should indeed have options. I did not follow the trails of virtual breadcrumbs all the way out, but I'm confident that there are options.

The thing is, the search string I started with was "meals on wheels". As it turns out, I had made some incorrect assumptions about how that program works - and it's likely the rules vary from place to place.

I am not qualified to say whether MoW would be right for you. What I can say is that on my search, I saw a number of mentions of services available to folks for whom Meals on Wheels isn't right, and my instinct is that one way or another, you should be able to find an option that works for you.

[spiffikins]

Several years ago, I tried Hello Fresh, which sounds similar to CookUnity - and multiple times in my short time with HelloFresh, my delivery was significantly late. Each time I got a very earnest email from them, telling me that I would not be charged for that week's delivery and to PLEASE *not* use the food, as it was not delivered within the safe window of time.

Each of those times, I did discard the meats and anything that absolutely had to be kept cold, but things like potatoes and carrots and spices and such, I kept, because it felt silly to toss it.