Meh
Homemade macaroni and uncheese (i.e., basically a vegan bechamel flavored with nutritional yeast, which is so much better than it sounds) tonight, which makes a pleasant change from the open-a-package-and-heat-it-up meals I’ve had the rest of this week. I really must do some baking this weekend. I’ve got some seitan, and should make kebobs or something. I’ve learned that Sevananda is actually far preferable to Whole Foods when it comes to getting vegetables: the selection is somewhat more modest, but everything they have is organic, and significantly cheaper — and they don’t kill the flavors by overchilling things. Every single avocado I’ve bought this entire year from Whole Foods has had chilling injury (bitter gray streaks and uneven ripening, with some bits molding away while other bits are nearly crunchy), and all their heirloom tomatoes have been flavorless and nonsmelly (and sometimes still straight-from-the-fridge cold when you pick them up); I was thinking it was just a bad year until I bought veg at Sevananda, paid considerably less money, and discovered I was now the proud owner of a perfectly ripe, perfectly green, absolutely gorgeous avocado with no streaks or mold or grotty bits at all. I nearly cried, it was so beautiful. Plus, did I mention cheaper?
Firefox Plugin: Pluck, as a browser plugin, just doesn’t do it for me — to say nothing of the fact that it seems to have Issues with RSS 2.0 feeds, and ignores them completely. I’m uninstalling the plugin, and will investigate their Web-based version instead. I should run Pluck (Web) and Bloglines simultaneously for a while, and see which one picks up posts more quickly, and has fewer duplicates. (For it to be a fair test, though, I’ll have to check to make sure they’re both using exactly the same RSS feeds; some of the more popular blogs, such as Lifehacker, have a preposterous number of feeds.) That’s yet another project for this weekend, along with my usual ambitions of cleaning, organizing, painting, cooking, entertaining the dog, and spending at least some time not faffing around on the computer or napping.
TV update: As expected, “Kitchen Confidential” seemed lackluster to me. Not truly gawdawful, but just sort of . . . meh. Pilot episodes traditionally suck, but I kept thinking that, if I had to watch a sitcom about a kitchen, I’d much rather watch Lenny Henry in “Chef.” Tonight, “Lost.” Let’s hope it lives up to expectations, which I’ve tried to keep as low and open as possible. Too much anticipation or speculation, and I invariably wind up disappointed or irritated.
