update

[desh]

* I got a new car stereo yesterday! It cost about $190 installed. I also spent another $60 to get my speakers reinstalled, since my step-brother and I did it ourselves a few years ago after he bought me speakers for my birthday, and we apparently did a crappy job. My speakers had been sucking lately, you see, and I'd been told the problem was the stereo itself, even though it turns out it wasn't at all. So I only had to spend the $60, but I like the new stereo enough that I think I'm gonna keep it. It has HD! The AM radio I listen to all the time sounds like FM, FM sounds like CDs (or at least good MP3s), and I have twice the number of FM stations to listen to!

* I had an awesome time last weekend at the NHC retreat outside of Baltimore. Just like last year, the retreat fell at a perfect time when I was feeling kind of stuck in a rut and needing to get a break from my life for a weekend. And jox was there, which was awesome. The ride back home was less awesome. Flat tires usually are.

* I'm simultaneously looking forward to and dreading Passover. Just over 3 weeks away now!

* Baseball opening day on Monday! The weather forecast looks like it's winter-coat weather, and maybe umbrella weather, but I don't care!!! Woohoo, baseball! Catch the fever, now!

Comments

[atthe-algonquin.livejournal.com]

Re Passover: if it helps, Vodoun had the weirdest food rules I've yet seen. (Applicable only right after you come out of initiation, thankfully.) No citrus, no salt and no (and I quote) "bumpy foods". It suuuucked.

[desh]

Um, what's a bumpy food? Is peanut butter only okay if it's non-chunky, for example?

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

I know you hate the food on Passover. BUT.... I don't. I love it. And luckily for you, you'll be spending a lot of time with me this Passover. Or, at least, I'll be spending a good amount of time in a kitchen of a home you're living in this Passover. So be sure to get at least one pot or pan, one stirring implement, and one cutting implement that can be used for Passover, eh? And let me cook. ;)

[atthe-algonquin.livejournal.com]

Non-chunky popcorn would be fine -- bumpy food is...what it sounds like. Popcorn, rice, I guess cereal, anything with kind of a round, bumpy texture. (It doesn't matter what it used to look like, just the present form.)

(There's actually a kind of logic to it -- the traditional foods served to the dead are plain popcorn, rice pudding, and so forth. So it keeps you from eating the food of the dead, is the point.)

[desh]

Um. I don't think you realize quite how happy this makes me.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Yay! Just don't let the happiness get in the way of the fact that your kitchen needs to be at least minimally minimally kashered and stocked (utensils-wise), even though you're doing sedarim out of town.

And I take requests. ;-)

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

Pesach at my house! Who's jox?

[desh]

Yeah, I think we were planning on kashering, even though we haven't talked about it in any great detail.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[desh]

Johannah!