Food, Food, Food, and Possibly More Food!
My thermostat says it’s 82 degrees in my living room right now.
It’s 10PM!!!
Quick-hitters:
- Time Warner, you’re so funny. One week after I discovered you guys started charging a “Digital Programming Fee,” I spotted one of your commercials still advertising free HD channels!
(Granted, the commercial says you need a set-top box to get the free channels, and I guess you can call it a “fee” to rent said box, but wouldn’t that be a “STB rental fee”?)
Nicely done, Time Warner.
EDIT: Krunk brought up a very good point, one that I completely whiffed on. Digital programming does not necessarily imply HD programming. Any regular STB can offer digital programming; however, an HD STB is what is required to get HD programming.
I’ll have to look over my bill again to see exactly what I’m getting charged for.
- Speaking about bad customer service, it’s almost time to call Sprint again to get my 10% credit. This is assuming, of course, that Sprint didn’t auto-credit me this month, which is a safe bet, no?
I should be careful, though, about calling in Sprint way too frequently. I do not recall where I read it from, but I recall reading somewhere that Sprint cancels contracts of users that call CS way too often. And now that the great deal that was Sprint SERO is effectively dead—it’s now $60 for the cheapest plan—I better do whatever it takes to keep my plan alive.
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,290. And yes, I did submit those nearly-expired rebates yesterday.
- Today’s blog will be dedicated to the food that I made this week (sorry, no pics!).
(In no particular order…)
1) I made a New York Strip steak with some roasted red potatoes (coated in melted butter, olive oil, seasonings, and kosher salt). The steak was pan-fried, cooked in butter, and coated (naturally) with black pepper and kosher salt. Delicious, but the piece of meat was far too fatty for my liking.
2) I made California rolls twice, once with brown rice. The latter was a terrible idea; the rice just didn’t stick well, and all the sweetened vinegar in the world couldn’t mask the fact that it tasted like…well…brown rice. Sadly, I also did not have any avocado.
3) My sister Nancy gave me a bottle of buffalo wing sauce from Anchor Bar, the (paraphrasing) Home of the Buffalo Wing, so I decided to make some Buffalo wings.
(She has a friend that lives up there).
I didn’t have any celery or carrot sticks, unfortunately, so I was forced to slice up some cucumbers to go along with the wings.
Note to self: never, ever, use wing pieces from 99 Ranch to make Buffalo wings. Some of those chicken wing pieces sure didn’t taste like chicken! I loved the sauce, though—we got the Suicidal recipe sauce—but I could have used something a tad hotter.
(Did I just say that?)
I have a hankering for some California rolls right now.
Oh yeah, tomorrow is the Woodland Hills Kiwanis Pig Roast. Oh no…