Me, On The Bus, Goes Round And Round... (Friday)

Friday I had the following tasks:

Breakfast at a chain restaurant which has Tempting Commercials  8)     (Q35 bus to B47)

Nearby branch of my bank for a printout   (walked)

Agency office for paycheck, paperwork drop-off and update meeting with new case manager (fourth case manager in six months  8P            (B47 to B100)

Try to get back home   (B100, then walk, then personal detour, then wait wait wait wait for Q35)

Cash check at agency's bank, walk to other branch of my bank,  light lunch (walk)

Travel to branch office of Evil Conglomerate (Q53).    Try to convince Evil Conglomerate that they made a mistake  (see my next post).

Board first bus with available seats to shopping detour  (Q38).  Succumb to tempting produce prices  8)

Try to get back home  (Q38 to transfer stop, then Q11 to major transfer stop, then (eventually) Q53, whose driver insisted she was gonna teach everybody a lesson by refusing to move until the passengers moved further back in the already packed bus  8P

Exchange old reproachful produce out of fridge and replace with shiny new produce which has no idea what's coming   8)

Sleep -- no supper, felt sort of bus-sick...

TWCNYC WTF???!!!!!!!!

( Ranty McRantsypants )

My "Splurge" of the Month

Since I've had occasion to visit the Costco store as someone else's guest,  having to pay more elsewhere for what is so affordable there....just hurts.

Yesterday  I paid for a Costco membership.      Because I may also need to buy a few bigger-ticket items over the next year, I expect the membership to pay for itself over the next few months.

Since I have no carrying capacity for giant packages of TP or laundry soap, this might at first appear rather an odd fit.    However, the warehouse stores also offer certain food items (in surprisingly sane-sized packages) at a much more reasonable price:

a roasted chicken for  $4.99
a pound of smoked (baked) salmon for under $10
a pound of fresh mozzarella for under $4
vacuum-sealed roasted beef for around $5 / pound

(between the Costco run and the greengrocer, I'm set with convenient low-carb choices for a fortnight...)

Among the options which are beyond my fridge and freezer's capacity are the containers of berries, the blocks of cheddar cheese or tenderloins of pork and beef.     I would be interested in getting (or sharing) the chunk of beef someday to try out the portioning techniques from Alton Brown's Good Eats episode, "Tender Is The Loin"--apparently, this chunk includes cuts like filets mignons and chateaubriand.     

I'm willing to take local people shopping if it seems, at some point, to be useful...

BTW, does anyone who lives near me need a cup of pesto sauce?     8)