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[John G.]

TOD: Mostly we go to a small family-run Mexican place for fry bread tacos. The family is very nice, and we try to support them through this pandemic. We don't go out anywhere very often, though, so I don't suppose we're doing much good.

My neighbors make tamales and sometimes bring me some. You need a real abuela to make good tamales.

Sounds like a good startup: Rent an Abuela.

[John G.]

Two!

[Jane]

TOD:

I love Mexican food more and more as time passes. I have cooked it, but I prefer eating it out. Let somebody else do all the work. I don’t need to roast tomatoes and chiles just to make salsa. I don’t need to boil a chicken, shred it and then wrap it in a fried corn tortilla in order to make enchiladas and then make the rice, the beans, the guacamole, etc. It’s all too much for one.

I have made tamales (a family effort), corn tortillas (hours of practice), salsa, flan, chili sauces, breakfast dishes and a few others. I’ve done prep work assembling enchiladas. My favorites, though, are making main courses like shrimp or fish a la Veracruzana, using butter, capers, tomatoes and green olives in the sauce.

You have a wonderful selection of Mexican restaurants there.  I especially enjoyed the restaurant were we had dinner with you. 

I don't normally enjoy Mexican food for breakfast.  I have no idea which restaurant we found on the Riverfront we enjoyed, and it was the best Mexican breakfast I have had.

[Jane]

I recall my shock at finding out people think Taco Bell is Mexican food. 

[Jane]

TOD: Mostly we go to a small family-run Mexican place for fry bread tacos. The family is very nice, and we try to support them through this pandemic. We don't go out anywhere very often, though, so I don't suppose we're doing much good.

My neighbors make tamales and sometimes bring me some. You need a real abuela to make good tamales.

Sounds like a good startup: Rent an Abuela.

[George]

TOD: Many people don't know that Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's song, "The Music of the Night," was originally written about someone who ate Mexican beans for dinner.

[George]

[George]

DR George, yes, I have AC, but it costs money to run it.  There's no reason - beyond the fact that a truly neurotic woman has complained incessantly about being cold to City Housing Authority - for this building to be pumping out heat all day yesterday.  Last night, when the heat was off, temperatures went down to the low 40s and it was great for sleeping.

Thanks for the info, Larry.  I guess I'm just not used to the idea of the temperature being controlled for an entire building, and not each apartment having its own controls.

[George]

[George]

I recall my shock at finding out people think Taco Bell is Mexican food. 

As much as I like Taco Bell, I would NEVER call it Mexican food.  Mexican inspired, or Mexican adjacent...but not "Mexican."

[George]

Otherwise, I like tacos, enchiladas, tostadas, etc.

[George]

I've liked most of the burritos that I've gotten.  There are few places around here that are good enough for me.  In downtown Olympia, there's a place called Quality Burrito and they have ALL kinds of burritos, and I'm sure that none of them are any kind of traditional Mexican, but they're good.

[Laura]

I don't normally enjoy Mexican food for breakfast.  I have no idea which restaurant we found on the Riverfront we enjoyed, and it was the best Mexican breakfast I have had.

My Birding Buddy and I stopped at a little hole-in-the-wall place in Payson and had chilaquiles -- a typical Mexican breakfast food. The next month the place burned down.

Luckily, they found a new place to reopen, and the town seems to be very supportive of them. I always stop to get something when I go through town.

[John G.]

TOD:

I love Mexican food more and more as time passes. I have cooked it, but I prefer eating it out. Let somebody else do all the work. I don’t need to roast tomatoes and chiles just to make salsa. I don’t need to boil a chicken, shred it and then wrap it in a fried corn tortilla in order to make enchiladas and then make the rice, the beans, the guacamole, etc. It’s all too much for one.

I have made tamales (a family effort), corn tortillas (hours of practice), salsa, flan, chili sauces, breakfast dishes and a few others. I’ve done prep work assembling enchiladas. My favorites, though, are making main courses like shrimp or fish a la Veracruzana, using butter, capers, tomatoes and green olives in the sauce.

You have a wonderful selection of Mexican restaurants there.  I especially enjoyed the restaurant were we had dinner with you. 

I don't normally enjoy Mexican food for breakfast.  I have no idea which restaurant we found on the Riverfront we enjoyed, and it was the best Mexican breakfast I have had.

The restaurant we ate at, La Fonda on Main, is a favorite. There are three La Fondas in town, each independent of the others.

[John G.]

I love a really good Mexican breakfast, but that makes me hard to please. I don’t want to be carb’d to death with potatoes and flour tortillas and Texas toast and a pancake. My favorite is a breakfast relleno in which the poblano pepper is stuffed with scrambled eggs before being battered and baked.

[John G.]

And I’ll take a pork chop taco any time of day.

[John G.]

Don’t have to ask me twice.

[Jane]

I don't normally enjoy Mexican food for breakfast.  I have no idea which restaurant we found on the Riverfront we enjoyed, and it was the best Mexican breakfast I have had.

My Birding Buddy and I stopped at a little hole-in-the-wall place in Payson and had chilaquiles -- a typical Mexican breakfast food. The next month the place burned down.

Luckily, they found a new place to reopen, and the town seems to be very supportive of them. I always stop to get something when I go through town.

That is a nice story about the town.

[Matthew]

Good Afternoon - I'm a little off today.  Don't know why.  But every darn thing is getting on my nerves.  I'm looking forward to going home soon.  Maybe a bike ride, maybe a nap - I don't know yet.  Although, it's nice to have more kids on campus today. 

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - seven-and-a-half hours of sleep - up at eleven and right to the bank, who, much to my chagrin JUST changed its policy about the way I cash personal checks and deposit into the business account.  Now, there's a day wait, which I'm not having.  I was on the verge of getting belligerent but it wasn't the teller's fault and she felt bad about it and said it's affecting everyone, including employees.  So, I drove to the bank on which the check was drawn in Studio City to find "branch closed" - I know they reopened three months ago, so I then had to drive back to Sherman Oaks and go to THAT branch, cash the check (no one in line, thankfully), go back to my bank and deposit.  They told me Studio City closed for some repairs to their lighting system.  So, what should have taken ten minutes took an hour and fifteen minutes.

[Jane]

Calming vibes for DR Matthew, and for all of us.

[singdaw]

Studio City closed for some repairs to their lighting system. 

Because everyone in Studio City deserves to look their best.

[singdaw]

And, as we all know, indirect lighting is the hallmark of a civilized society.

[bk]

Couldn't bear the thought of making food here again, so tried a new place next to the mail place.  It's only been there for about six years and I've never gone in because I hate when any pizza place is called "wood fire".  But it got good notices on Yelp so...  Had one slice of pepperoni pizza and a sub of ham, salami, pepperoni, tomato, lettuce, and Eyetalian dressing.  The slice was very good and the sandwich, which was the size of a "regular" Subway, was great. 

[Jeanne]

Hello, everyone.

[Jeanne]

I suspect something is amiss in the heavens today.

[John G.]

I suspect something is amiss in the heavens today.

I would second that. A friend asked I were still in pain. I said I was too stressed to be in pain.

[Jeanne]

Last summer I received an email from Cedars-Sinai asking if I want to do an at-home FIT test. Yes. I'm a fan of at-home tests and the FIT test can catch colon cancer in its early stages. I requested a test kit, but never received it. I emailed to submit a second request, but received no reply and no test kit. This is so typical of Cedars (and others). Last week I received an email from United Healthcare, telling me to be sure to send in the FIT test. This FIT test would have come directly from them, but I've received nothing from them, nor did I know they were sending them out. I called to request one. Usually the UHC people are very competent and helpful, but this person was difficult to understand and hadn't a clue what a FIT test was. I had been told to stay on the line to take a survey, but no survey came on, so I couldn't even complain about her.

The moral of this story (take your pick):
It's very difficult to obtain health care during Covid.
The gods are angry.
Most large medical groups are incompetent when it comes to admin.
Some things are not meant to be.   

[John G.]

Started watching Simon Callow’s Being Shakespeare on The Shows Must Go On/YouTube. It’s on for two days.

[Jeanne]

I suspect something is amiss in the heavens today.

I would second that. A friend asked I were still in pain. I said I was too stressed to be in pain.

You can't be both?