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Last night was my third evening in a row with nothing planned besides just hanging out at home, watching TV.
Shobhit and I had even more TV than usual to watch. The first two episodes of the Sterlin Harjo (of
Reservation Dogs fame) show,
The Lowdown, starring Ethan Hawke and many others, dropped on Hulu, and we watched both of those—they were pretty great, if not quite living up to the stunning score of 87 the show has on MetaCritic. It has another six episodes to live up to it, though.
Before moving on to other shows, I fired up YouTube to watch
Jimmy Kimmel's monologue from his return to the air on ABC (but not on KOMO here in Seattle, because they're
literally good with authoritarianism—he even gave Seattle a brief shoutout) the night before. Honestly, I'm inclined to be very conscientious about not watching anything on our local KOMO affiliate at all, and in instances like this YouTube will suffice.
Then we watched
Platonic on Apple TV, and then back to Hulu for
Only Murders in the Building. All combined, this amounted to a roughly four-hour bloc of TV watching.
Shobhit has complained multiple times in therapy that we don't do much together besides watch TV. I'll freely admit we watch a lot of TV, but it's not all we do. He's so obsessed with getting his Weight Watchers steps in, and I go walking with him quite often. We didn't do that last night, but we did the night before. It was a relatively short walk, to the Tuesday Farmers Market and back, but it was quite lovely. The sun was still out, the temperatures were in the high sixties, I had my hoodie on and it was very comfortable. I wasn't even that keen on going out once I got home from work, but in the end I was really glad I did. We won't get a lot more evenings like that for a while. Not that I won't happily walk in the rain, but there's something more cozy about being inside in the fall and winter weather.
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At least my week's getting a little shaken up today: Laney and I have a Happy Hour right after work, this being on a Thursday because it's the only day of the week that Pinoyshki Bakery does one. Laney and I saw the sign for it walking by some months ago and so we added it to our ever-expanding schedule of Happy Hours, which we both keep track of on personal calendars but I also track on a shared excel document, because I am nerdy like that. I'm looking forward to it.
Anyway, I just got back from my lunch break up on the terrace—long a favorite spot, a delight that I now work in a space almost directly beneath it. I took some sample tofu meat-substitute from the Merchandising refrigerator: "barbecue pork." It definitely tasted way more like tofu than pork, and the barbecue flavor was very subtle. All very suitable to me. I had hoped to have the "sesame beef," but I pulled that out and descovered it was already moldy. These particular samples have been in there since last week. I'll have the last half of the "barbecue pork" tomorrow.
I actually did make a sandwich this morning, but in the end I threw it away. I finished the large, Costco jar of mayonnaise yesterday. I figured I had another jar I could open in our pantry, and I did, sort of. It was very old. Like an idiot, I just scraped what looked like the worst part off the top after unscrewing the lid, and then used what looked normal beneath that. But then, when I was getting ready, I went back to the refrigerator to double check exactly how old it was. The thing had a sell-by date of November 2023. That' just shy of two years! I figured it was probably dangerous to eat that, so I thew away both the jar and the sandwhich. I'll have to find a more recently manufactured jar of mayonnaise.
Thankfully there are almost always samples to choose from here at the office.
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[posted 12:36pm]
