Well, dear readers, attend the tale of BK’s Notes. They will be swift and have anecdotes. They’ll rant and rave but they’ll have some fun, and then they’ll be over before they’ve begun. He has some things he’d like to say, like hell toupee, they won’t be sung by Josh Groban. Well, that was very Sondheim-like, wasn’t it? The Ballad of BK’s Notes, that’s what that was. We just began with a flourish and a snappy tune, didn’t we? That was a toe-tapper and other than that I feel like I want to vomit on the ground. I have not been having the best time with food lately. For example, Saturday’s patty melt was very good and so were the sweet potato fries. But later, I got a tiny pizza from Papa John’s that was one of the worst things I’ve ever eaten. Therefore, I had a rough night, getting only three and a half hours of sleep. I’d ordered food in advance from Daughter’s Deli, the off shoot of Langer’s Deli owned by Langer’s daughter. I’ve had four or five meals from there and it’s always great. As usual, in the instructions I asked for extra 1000-Island dressing for my pastrami, coleslaw and 1000-Island dressing on rye sandwich. And as always, I asked for the pastrami to be as lean as possible, which they always do because Langer’s pastrami is always lean to begin with. So, I knew that would be good. But first we had the plumber, who arrived at ten-fifteen. I showed him what was wrong and then he went outside and scoped out the two places he could snake from. He did the one nearest the guest bathroom and kitchen first, and that was quite noisy and went on for about twenty minutes. Then he went around to the side of the house and did that for an hour, then came and told me it wasn’t really working because there was a big build-up of water that wasn’t budging. So, he got out the big boy jetter – I think that’s what he called it – and began using that. That was even louder and he ran that for forty minutes or so. Then he told me that had done the trick – for now. All told, he was here for three hours. Before leaving, he flushed both toilets and that worked and the water level was back to normal, and then he turned on the shower and it drained properly. The food arrived just as he was leaving and boy did I need to eat good food.
I unwrapped the sandwich and put it on a plate, opened the extra 1000-Island dressing, and brought over the side of cucumber salad I also got. I put some extra 1000-Island on the sandwich and took a big bite. And what was I greeted with? The fattiest pastrami I’ve ever had. I almost gagged on it. I cannot abide fat on meat sandwiches, I just can’t. I suffered through that half of the sandwich. Since the fat was within the meat there was no getting rid of it. I took one bite of the second half and that was it, I could eat not one more bite and into the trash it went. I will say that the cucumber salad was excellent. If I ever order from there again, I will call and make sure they understand about the LEAN part. So, that was very disappointing.
I was super tired so I just played on the computer. Since I’d only had what was basically a half a sandwich and cucumber salad, a few hours later I went to Gelson’s for some creamy tomato soup from the soup bar. As you know, I’ve mentioned several times in the notes over the past week how good it is. It’s the one soup at the soup bar that no one seems to ever get, as it’s always filled to the brim, whereas the chicken soup is always low in supply and so are several others. But once again, the power of haineshisway.com reared its head and suddenly, out of the damn blue, everyone wants the creamy tomato soup. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Anyway, it was practically empty, but I managed to get about two-thirds full for the small container. I came home and ate that and THAT was terrible because it had been sitting there and I mostly got metal taste since it was so close to the bottom of the steel vat thing. And since having that, my poor tummy has not been happy, oh, no, my poor tummy has not been happy and I don’t care who knows it. I still hadn’t eaten enough to get anywhere near 1000 calories, so I made two frozen waffles the two come in at 180 calories total, and I used very little syrup. They didn’t really help the cause – I was hoping they’d get the rancid taste out of my mouth, but nooooo, the did not do that. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish.
I didn’t watch a movie but I did pull out the Harold and Maude Blu and Ray and watched all the extras, which were kind of not so interesting. I also pulled out the Blu-ray of Seconds and watched those extras, then began watching the movie, which is a favorite of mine, but I fell asleep about five minutes into it and was out for forty-five minutes. And now, here I sit, attending the tale of BK’s Notes.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll eat something good, and then at three I have a conference call and that will be interesting to see how that goes. David Wechter and I will listen respectfully, then we’ll respond however we feel best. Once that’s done, I’ll check with the mail place and see what’s what, and then I’ll do whatever other stuff needs doing, then watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow night, I’m seeing a reading of a new play and prior to that, I’m helping an actor out who has to do a little singing in a show – just a little coaching session I’m doing as a favor to the director. The rest of the week is hopefully getting blurbs, beginning to make the high resolution files for all ten episodes, wrapping up the close captioning and proofing the final three episodes of those, I’m seeing a college production of La Boheme on Thursday night, and then I’ll have a work session for the Kritzerland show. So, a busy little week ahead.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, eat something good and take no chances on anything I haven’t tried and liked, I’ll have a conference call, and then I can watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: If a jernt you really like serves you a not so hot meal, do you give it another chance or do you shine it on? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping the tummy calms down and happy to have attended the tale of BK’s Notes.