Fauxtweets / Updates
Apr. 28th, 2016 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckro- We went out to Hershey this past weekend to visit Ecmyers and Fairest. The trip went remarkably well. ARR was very good with their son (who, in turn, was fascinated with him), and very patient during the car trips. On Saturday, we went to the open house at their local fire station (ARR got to “drive” a 1922 fire engine they had on display, which he loved), then played in the park after naptime. On Sunday we went to the zoo and then to Roadside America (a gigantic model train city display). The only big hiccups were ARR’s unwillingness to go to sleep in the hotel room (he had to keep giving mommy kisses), and his “doing a runner” at the zoo and needing a time-out when we caught him.
- I’ve found that ARR’s allergies tend to be the most problematic at upscale American restaurants, where they tend to use butter and peanut oil more heavily and put cheese on everything on the kids’ menu. Downscale places fry in vegetable oil; ethnic restaurants often don’t use dairy at all. The Vietnamese place we went to for dinner provided ARR the most variety of the weekend.
- Similarly, cheaper candy tends to be safer. (Unless it’s kosher candy. I buy a decent amount of parve chocolate these days.) We discovered candy dots on this trip, which he was wildly excited for.
- We took ARR to Miso Ramen, which recently opened in our neighborhood. It was…okay? Perfectly fine, but I think the ramen at both Komegashi and Union Republic is better. I probably won’t bother going back.
- As it’s Passover, I’ve been taking my usual approach: This is the time of year when I do eat matzah, rather than when I don’t eat other grains. Also, the box of Streit’s matzah I bought is officially “not for Passover use”, because it has malt and salt in it and actually tastes like something.
- When I was buying said matzah (in the holiday aisle at Shop-Rite), two men came up to me and asked if I knew where the gefilte fish was. I directed them to the Kosher aisle, which apparently none of the employees had thought to do. Call that my mizvah for the holiday.
- I didn’t get to have lunch with any of my friends this week! Mithrigil is traveling for a book thing, Fyrna is traveling for work, V is bogged down with home-buying/parenting/sick friends, and Jethrien had to get a cavity filled. It was disappointing.
- My Eagle Scout penknife, which I’ve had for 18 years, has gotten pretty dull, so I’m trying an experiment: I bought a $10 full-sized pocketknife that has (in addition to the knife, file and snips that I’m used to) regular and Phillips screwdrivers, a corkscrew, a can opener and a bottle opener. It seems like those things will be useful to have in my pocket, but I’m not sure if I’m going to like having the larger object on my keyring. If I do, then I’ll probably buy a nicer full-sized pocketknife with better/more tools. If I don’t, then I’ll get the same model of penknife I’ve always had (even though they seem to have discontinued the Eagle motif).
- I’m irritatingly close to having reviews for half a dozen things, but a few pieces short on each one—there’s a book, two PC game bundles, and two Android games. So much media! So little time!
- Mithrigil has been trying to sell me on the Shin Megami Tensai series for most of the time I’ve known her, so I finally broke down and started SMT: Digital Devil Saga (her recommendation) and SMT: Persona 3 Portable (Puel’s recommendation). They are radically different games that both have interesting concepts and both want my characters to die horribly.
- I’ve found that ARR’s allergies tend to be the most problematic at upscale American restaurants, where they tend to use butter and peanut oil more heavily and put cheese on everything on the kids’ menu. Downscale places fry in vegetable oil; ethnic restaurants often don’t use dairy at all. The Vietnamese place we went to for dinner provided ARR the most variety of the weekend.
- Similarly, cheaper candy tends to be safer. (Unless it’s kosher candy. I buy a decent amount of parve chocolate these days.) We discovered candy dots on this trip, which he was wildly excited for.
- We took ARR to Miso Ramen, which recently opened in our neighborhood. It was…okay? Perfectly fine, but I think the ramen at both Komegashi and Union Republic is better. I probably won’t bother going back.
- As it’s Passover, I’ve been taking my usual approach: This is the time of year when I do eat matzah, rather than when I don’t eat other grains. Also, the box of Streit’s matzah I bought is officially “not for Passover use”, because it has malt and salt in it and actually tastes like something.
- When I was buying said matzah (in the holiday aisle at Shop-Rite), two men came up to me and asked if I knew where the gefilte fish was. I directed them to the Kosher aisle, which apparently none of the employees had thought to do. Call that my mizvah for the holiday.
- I didn’t get to have lunch with any of my friends this week! Mithrigil is traveling for a book thing, Fyrna is traveling for work, V is bogged down with home-buying/parenting/sick friends, and Jethrien had to get a cavity filled. It was disappointing.
- My Eagle Scout penknife, which I’ve had for 18 years, has gotten pretty dull, so I’m trying an experiment: I bought a $10 full-sized pocketknife that has (in addition to the knife, file and snips that I’m used to) regular and Phillips screwdrivers, a corkscrew, a can opener and a bottle opener. It seems like those things will be useful to have in my pocket, but I’m not sure if I’m going to like having the larger object on my keyring. If I do, then I’ll probably buy a nicer full-sized pocketknife with better/more tools. If I don’t, then I’ll get the same model of penknife I’ve always had (even though they seem to have discontinued the Eagle motif).
- I’m irritatingly close to having reviews for half a dozen things, but a few pieces short on each one—there’s a book, two PC game bundles, and two Android games. So much media! So little time!
- Mithrigil has been trying to sell me on the Shin Megami Tensai series for most of the time I’ve known her, so I finally broke down and started SMT: Digital Devil Saga (her recommendation) and SMT: Persona 3 Portable (Puel’s recommendation). They are radically different games that both have interesting concepts and both want my characters to die horribly.
