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tod
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response 125 of 560:
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Oct 9 21:26 UTC 2003 |
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jiffer
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response 126 of 560:
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Oct 9 21:59 UTC 2003 |
I think there is one in the Royal Oak area... at least I went to one near
where the great eeyore now resides...
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response 127 of 560:
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Oct 10 02:00 UTC 2003 |
I checked out the food consumerism mecca generally known as "the new
Whole Foods" on Tuesday. They had a new excuse for being out of stock
of the one staple that i haven't found at a less huge/crowded/pricy
store. ("Not enough room" was their standard excuse at the smaller/
older Whole Foods.) I was on foot, so their packed/gridlocked lot
didn't matter.
Time to bother a few nice little local stores to carry it again.
No sign yet of preparing Whole Foods' old store to be a Trader Joe's.
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other
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response 128 of 560:
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Oct 10 02:07 UTC 2003 |
Try bothering the folks at Big Ten Market on Packard.
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aruba
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response 129 of 560:
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Oct 10 02:44 UTC 2003 |
What's the staple, Walter?
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glenda
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response 130 of 560:
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Oct 10 02:50 UTC 2003 |
One of the students in the Cisco class I help teach works at Whole Foods and
gave me disappointing news. We were talking about how good their sausages
are. The instructor loves the chicken and turkey one, I love the breakfast
links. He informed us that the chicken and turkey sausages (which people of
Mulism and Jewish faith really like, and people like the instructor who don't
eat red meat) is made with pork intestine casings. The breakfast links are
now being made with lamb intestine casings (they all used to be made with
synthetic casings). I am extremely allergic to lamb. There went my source
of no sodium nitrate sausage. I told him that he had better label them!
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anderyn
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response 131 of 560:
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Oct 10 12:28 UTC 2003 |
I am disappointed in their cheese selection since they're carrying pricier
more "organic" ones for some of my favorites, but oh well.
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edina
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response 132 of 560:
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Oct 10 14:26 UTC 2003 |
Whole Foods got me hooked on Perrano cheese. For that, they can do no wrong.
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lynne
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response 133 of 560:
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Oct 10 14:32 UTC 2003 |
re 131: Check out Trader Joes for reasonably priced cheeses--assuming that
one comes to the Ann Arbor area. Out here TJ has Parrano cheese for $6-7
per pound, while WF charges $10-11, and TJ smoked gouda was also priced
much lower than any other local source.
IHB I watched the Wings game last night. Game-winner, from Stevie Y,
at 1.7 seconds to go in the third--on a beautiful give-and-go with Whitney,
beat Potvin cleanly through the pads. Outstanding.
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slynne
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response 134 of 560:
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Oct 10 19:14 UTC 2003 |
I am very happy that Trader Joes is *finally* coming to Ann Arbor. I
have been driving all the way to the one in Farmington Hills (when I
have another reason to be in that area). Trader Joes is much nicer than
Whole Foods.
I am also happy to hear about the Merchant of Vino because I often
shopped there when on my way up to my parent's house. Now I can still
get nice yummies for the lake :)
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katie
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response 135 of 560:
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Oct 10 19:34 UTC 2003 |
What a friend we have in cheeses.
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scott
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response 136 of 560:
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Oct 10 20:22 UTC 2003 |
Had a good interview at Albion this afternoon, and I'mdefinitely interested
in the job.
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richard
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response 137 of 560:
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Oct 11 03:54 UTC 2003 |
IHB I put my phone number on the national "do not call" registry. It is
at www.donotcall.gov By placing your phone number on this list, those
pesky telemarketers will bae prohibited from callingyou. At least that is
how it is supposed to work. When I moved to nyc, I didn't know any better
and had them put my number in the phone book. Since then I have gotten a
regular number of telemarketing calls, some of which are pretty annoying.
Just the other day I was awakened by some lady telling me I won a free two
night stay at some resort, the only catch being I had to listen to the
pitch from the people selling the condos there. Yeah and if I went, I'd
never get out of there with my wallet still in one piece! I also get
calls from the new york times and the new york daily news, who keep
pushing subscriptions on me no matter how many times I tell them that
nobody has the papers delivered in my neighborhood because the papers get
stolen by homeless people who go sell them on the subway for food money.
And calls for magazine subscriptions and "free gifts" and this and that.
I can do without these pesky calls. So I like the idea of the Do Not Call
list (which is being challenged by the telemarketers in court)
www.donotcall.gov put your number on this list and just maybe you won't
have so many strangers calling you in the future.
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slynne
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response 138 of 560:
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Oct 11 04:48 UTC 2003 |
dude, I put my number on that list months ago
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jlamb
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response 139 of 560:
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Oct 11 05:06 UTC 2003 |
My friend won tickets to the MSU Vs. UIUC Football Game on Saturday.
Looks like I'll be there!!!
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response 140 of 560:
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Oct 11 13:21 UTC 2003 |
Re: #129
Fine-ground wheat bran. All the other places carry far courser wheat
bran, which is much worse for baking but much better at getting stuck
in your teeth. (I had similar experience with non-premium tofu at
Whole Foods, but gave up after a bit because other places carry it.)
Re: #128
You mean Big Ten down by Dog-o-Mat, or whatever the place just south
of State became? I didn't think that the former really did bulk food.
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gelinas
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response 141 of 560:
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Oct 11 14:04 UTC 2003 |
IAHB Michigan got it together well enough to win at Minnesota last night.
I really didn't think they were going to after the first three quarters.
I had noticed the increase in telemarking calls in September, but somehow I
had overlooked the sudden decrease last week, until someone mentioned it,
here or on the news, a few days ago. Yeah, the "do not call" registry seems
to be working. :)
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lynne
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response 142 of 560:
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Oct 11 17:16 UTC 2003 |
IHB after a chat with my boss last night I feel much more reassured about
being able to find a job/postdoc. It's nice to have an advisor whose name
carries a lot of weight and who's willing to put forth a little effort on
one's behalf.
IAHB we didn't give up on Michigan even after three quarters of awful play,
and were rewarded with a 31-point fourth quarter. Actually, most of the
reason we didn't give up on them was because there was nothing else on TV.
Thank goodness for crappy Friday night programming! :)
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bru
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response 143 of 560:
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Oct 12 03:17 UTC 2003 |
I am happy because the location that was Merchant of Vino will soon reopen
as a new store under the original owner and called Bella Vino.
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russ
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response 144 of 560:
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Oct 12 03:38 UTC 2003 |
The strained whateveritis in my back has suddenly loosened
up, so I celebrated the event and the wonderful day with a
bike ride.
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scg
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response 145 of 560:
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Oct 12 03:39 UTC 2003 |
I don't think I've gotten a call from a telemarketer in 11 days. It's nice.
This is, however, balanced out by Meals on Wheels having sent out my office
phone number instead of their own (for the second time in three years), so
my telemarketers have been replaced by a lot of confused Meals on Wheels
cusotmers.
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scg
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response 146 of 560:
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Oct 12 03:40 UTC 2003 |
My car got found. Now I just have to go through the bureaucracy of picking
it up (which apparrently requires getting release forms, in person, from from
the police departmnet in the city where it was found, and from the police
department in the city where it was stolen, and then going to the towing
company, and then I have to deal with insurance on getting whatever has been
broken fixed.
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krj
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response 147 of 560:
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Oct 12 03:51 UTC 2003 |
U.Mich School of Music had a great production of the musical "Guys and
Dolls." Leslie and I only managed to get in by (1) getting the
last ticket available at the window, and (2) Leslie found a
friend of a friend who had a spare ticket to sell.
It was a smash, with two showstopping dance numbers in the second act.
My only complaint is that the writers of the original "book" back in
1950 left out the scene I was waiting for, the craps game between
Sarah Brown and Sky Masterson for each other's souls. Now I gotta dig
out all my old Damon Runyon books.
The last show is the Sunday matinee, which is sold out, but if you feel
like gambling (*coff*) you might see if there are any tickets
turned back in.
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lynne
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response 148 of 560:
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Oct 12 14:16 UTC 2003 |
re 146: Yay! Glad you get your car back.
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glenda
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response 149 of 560:
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Oct 12 15:06 UTC 2003 |
IHB STeve and I had a lovely day yesterday, and I've got a new toy. We
borrowed my Dad's monster pick-up truck and drove down to Orrville, OH (just
SW of Adron) to pick up a beautiful antique loom (built in 1897). It is now
sitting on my front porch waiting for Damon to get home from work to help
figure out how to get it in the house where it will sit in state. It needs
some restoration to get it into full working condition, but nowhere near as
much as I feared it would. It still has a partially finished rug on it.
We also discovered Kidron, OH. Kidron is an Amish farming community with some
wonderful little shops. Unfortunately most of them were closed when we got
there, except for the grocery store. It was almost surreal to drive up to
park and see half the parking lot set up for horse and buggy. We will go back
and spend some time there when the shops are open.
We had dinner at Das Dutch Kitchen, an Amish Mennonite homestyle cooking
restaurant. It was wonderful! They are every bit as good, even better, as
Frankenmuth. The salad bar, alone, was almost worth the drive (about 4
hours).
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