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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 660024" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Well, I found out that the furniture will be delivered on the 17th or 18th. They will phone me a couple of days before, give me a 4 hour window of delivery and I will camp out and wait for them. Then I get to do it all over again when the TV stand is ready as that is on back on order and has to be made as none are in stock. Apparently they don't sell enough 42" TV stands to keep ready-made ones in stock.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the last of my three e-cigs ran out of warranty and just like two before them did when out of warranty, died. I could spit nails. I have a list of "vape shops" within a few miles of where I am staying, and my GPS and I are going e-cig shopping for something both of higher quality and non proprietary.</p><p></p><p>I am less that amused.</p><p></p><p>I gave in to the begging and pleading here earlier this evening, and after a visit yesterday to a very upscale grocer where I discovered that a good, lean beef brisket is now a gourmet cut of meat, produced a Jewish style brisket with baby root vegetables in wine sauce for the first time since Stu died.</p><p></p><p>The production of said meal was approached with a great deal of trepidation as the only thing I remembered was that it took 3/4 of a cup of dry red wine and 2 cups of stock to braise a 3lb roast and veggies and the rest of it was a complete punt. Given that the roast cost 30 bucks and I was cooking an unfamiliar oven. Well...I sweated bullets for 3.5 hours.</p><p></p><p>All for naught. The roast was delicious. We ate like pigs and there are leftovers for brisket sandwiches for lunch tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, most of a bottle of dry red wine got poured down the drain as the cork self destructed, red wine gives me migraines, neither B nor J can drink at all for medical reasons and don't know how to cook with wine, and there was no way to save the wine to take it out to my mum, who does cook with wine.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday, J made a wonderful teriyaki beef with all sorts of veggies that we pigged out on, I stole her thunder tonight with the brisket, and tomorrow is B's turn to cook and she is throwing brats on the grill and making pasta salad and serving the brats with sauerkraut (and feeling like a bit of a piker)</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, my prescriptions that were supposed to be so easily transferred from Rhinelander to Milwaukee turned into a nightmare because the folks at the local Wal-mart here are morons and couldn't figure out how to pull the RXs down from the Rhinelander store's hold files.</p><p></p><p>I finally got fed up and called Chris, the head pharmacist in Rhinelander, who force transferred the RXs from his end. I called the local WM and verified that they were ready and got an earful of whining about "siccing that guy from Rhinelander on him". I get the feeling Chris was in rare form and gave the Local pharmacist a piece or three of his mind.</p><p></p><p>To add to my misery, I need to schedule delivery of my household goods from the warehouse in Rhinelander to my apt, in Greenfield, and the moving company isn't returning my calls, which is starting to make me more than a little bit nervous. I'm not at all worried about the very minimal furniture they are to ship other than my coffee table, but I am bloody worried about my clothing, shoes, spare laptop, TV, and kitchen stuff.</p><p></p><p>It still seems like every time I think I've got every thing under control, something else pops up.</p><p></p><p>I do find it very interesting that the very first meal I have cooked for others,and a fancy meal at that, being a resounding success, was a huge confidence builder. I honestly didn't know if I COULD still cook, it had been so long.</p><p></p><p>I feel a lot more confident about facing a family gathering (assuming I can figure out where to put them)now that I know that I can put together a fairly complex dish and pull it off after all these years even if I did need to have J set the oven temperature for me because the stove is something like 50 years old and the temperatures shown on the dial have nothing to do with the actual temperatures attained by the oven.</p><p></p><p>So...I guess the next thing to do is to hit a grocery store in a suburg with a jewish population and see if I can get the fixings for some Jewish style chopped chicken liver as I've had a request for that.</p><p></p><p>Much more of this and if I don't get into that apartment soon and never mind the weight gain,my gallbladder's liable to fall out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 660024, member: 1963"] Well, I found out that the furniture will be delivered on the 17th or 18th. They will phone me a couple of days before, give me a 4 hour window of delivery and I will camp out and wait for them. Then I get to do it all over again when the TV stand is ready as that is on back on order and has to be made as none are in stock. Apparently they don't sell enough 42" TV stands to keep ready-made ones in stock. Meanwhile, the last of my three e-cigs ran out of warranty and just like two before them did when out of warranty, died. I could spit nails. I have a list of "vape shops" within a few miles of where I am staying, and my GPS and I are going e-cig shopping for something both of higher quality and non proprietary. I am less that amused. I gave in to the begging and pleading here earlier this evening, and after a visit yesterday to a very upscale grocer where I discovered that a good, lean beef brisket is now a gourmet cut of meat, produced a Jewish style brisket with baby root vegetables in wine sauce for the first time since Stu died. The production of said meal was approached with a great deal of trepidation as the only thing I remembered was that it took 3/4 of a cup of dry red wine and 2 cups of stock to braise a 3lb roast and veggies and the rest of it was a complete punt. Given that the roast cost 30 bucks and I was cooking an unfamiliar oven. Well...I sweated bullets for 3.5 hours. All for naught. The roast was delicious. We ate like pigs and there are leftovers for brisket sandwiches for lunch tomorrow. Meanwhile, most of a bottle of dry red wine got poured down the drain as the cork self destructed, red wine gives me migraines, neither B nor J can drink at all for medical reasons and don't know how to cook with wine, and there was no way to save the wine to take it out to my mum, who does cook with wine. Yesterday, J made a wonderful teriyaki beef with all sorts of veggies that we pigged out on, I stole her thunder tonight with the brisket, and tomorrow is B's turn to cook and she is throwing brats on the grill and making pasta salad and serving the brats with sauerkraut (and feeling like a bit of a piker) Meanwhile, my prescriptions that were supposed to be so easily transferred from Rhinelander to Milwaukee turned into a nightmare because the folks at the local Wal-mart here are morons and couldn't figure out how to pull the RXs down from the Rhinelander store's hold files. I finally got fed up and called Chris, the head pharmacist in Rhinelander, who force transferred the RXs from his end. I called the local WM and verified that they were ready and got an earful of whining about "siccing that guy from Rhinelander on him". I get the feeling Chris was in rare form and gave the Local pharmacist a piece or three of his mind. To add to my misery, I need to schedule delivery of my household goods from the warehouse in Rhinelander to my apt, in Greenfield, and the moving company isn't returning my calls, which is starting to make me more than a little bit nervous. I'm not at all worried about the very minimal furniture they are to ship other than my coffee table, but I am bloody worried about my clothing, shoes, spare laptop, TV, and kitchen stuff. It still seems like every time I think I've got every thing under control, something else pops up. I do find it very interesting that the very first meal I have cooked for others,and a fancy meal at that, being a resounding success, was a huge confidence builder. I honestly didn't know if I COULD still cook, it had been so long. I feel a lot more confident about facing a family gathering (assuming I can figure out where to put them)now that I know that I can put together a fairly complex dish and pull it off after all these years even if I did need to have J set the oven temperature for me because the stove is something like 50 years old and the temperatures shown on the dial have nothing to do with the actual temperatures attained by the oven. So...I guess the next thing to do is to hit a grocery store in a suburg with a jewish population and see if I can get the fixings for some Jewish style chopped chicken liver as I've had a request for that. Much more of this and if I don't get into that apartment soon and never mind the weight gain,my gallbladder's liable to fall out. [/QUOTE]
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