Costco, Costco, Costco!

Thursday

Woke up for Keifer and the last episode of The Unit online. Spent the morning using the washing machine in the apartment basement. Now we have clean clothes for the upcoming week.

Costco run was a success. We made it all 1.5 miles with our old lady grocery cart, found what we needed, and even found a short check out line. (That never happens!). I will say that I love Costco and Target because they are convenient. My friend Scott says I shouldn’t shop at places like these and that I should support the local mom and pop stores that line my street. I try and often do support them for some items… I bought cooking oil at the Korean store around the corner, ice cream from another store, and the occasional donut. But when I went in search of cat litter, I found that the mom and pops charge $16.00 for eight pounds, where as Whole Paycheck charges $6.00 for fourteen pounds. Costco offers thirty pounds for $6.75. Yeah, I’ll take the small package for a lot of money… Sorry Scott.

Went back to Westfield Mall to return Elli’s new shoes. Woo Hoo! Had the AT&T booth transfer her phone book from her old phone to her new one, and then to Borders to look at magazines while Elli broke her new phone in by chit chatting her friends from Missouri.

Melrose Place

Left the mall 30 minutes later to eat dinner and watch Melrose Place online. Our library won’t interlibrary loan DVD’s (unlike the Johnson County Kansas library), so we are reduced to the episodes she finds online. I miss the 80s. Big shoulder pads, hair bangs, poofy hair, catty drama..

There was of course a Tetris battle, some reading and getting ready for work tomorrow. I have to go to Mass tomorrow (I work at a Catholic School and it’s part of my job). Not sure what to expect.

Read, sleep, good night…

 

Carob balls

Tuesday

Woke up at 6:30am, got to the BART at 7:00am and made it to work by 7:30am. Passed by a store called “The Jelly Donut”. The line was out the door. Must go there someday. Spent work cleaning up the lab (it is filthy), and sorting through all the junk in the closet. Unearthed a beautiful treasure; a Macintosh SE computer!

Beautiful machine...

It’s 1987 to 1990 all over again. I never had a computer like this, but I remember playing Prince of Persia on one at a friends house (in 1989). I just need to locate the other parts, but I really hope this computer still boots.

Spent part of the day comparing PC’s for the secretary’s replacement computer. They all look alike after staring at the screen for 2 hours and clicking all the boxes on the Dell website.

Took a break for lunch; peanut butter and honey. Yummy stuff. Also, a peanut butter cup.

After work, Elli and I went out for coffee and then to Whole Paycheck to get popcorn and ingredients for carob balls.

1 cup unsweetened coconut

1 cup peanut butter (all natural you health nuts!)

1 cup powered carob

1 cup honey

1 cup roasted sunflower seeds

Mix together. Roll into small balls. Freeze and enjoy. Or eat the batter,

because that is good too. Sugar free healthy snacks full of protein.

Talked to my friend Scott on the phone about starting a new gaming group for role playing games. No matter how much I try to get him to play miniature based games like Star Wars Miniatures or Heroclix, he won’t do it. Shame on him.

Dinner was tofu cacciatore (I threw a spicy sausage in mine) while watching Flashpoint. A small bowl of popcorn followed, then it was Tetris time and reading time and then sleeping time. We have our first journey to Costco tomorrow and we are going to the Farmer’s Market and the San Francisco Public Library.