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[miko2]

I made stew last week and had it every day for lunch. It was pretty good, but on Friday my boss wanted to order hot sub sandwiches from Domino's (it's a new thing of theirs) and that was cool because my bowl of stew was pretty small anyway. He placed the order, and we waited TWO FRIGGIN HOURS. Given that we work less than 5 minutes from Quizno's, Subway, and Arby's, to say nothing of Athens Pizza which makes some of the best hot grinder sandwiches in Western Washington, waiting 2 hours for sub-standard subs did not seem like a good deal.

Sunday I started another stew. I had cubed buffalo meat in the freezer that has been there for months. It looked it too, but it's been frozen since I bought it so I assumed it would still be good. I added an onion and canned veggies and slow cooked it overnight. By this morning it really didn't smell that good -- I'm not sure if the meat was bad, or just because buffalo doesn't smell like beef, or if I just was very haphazard in what I added. I haven't tasted it yet, I'm not sure I want to.

I also made some sort of brown rice/tomato sauce/Italian spices "hamburger helper" style goulash on Sunday, with no hamburger. I had some veggie chicken patties in the freezer that were also old, and I grilled them then sliced them up and put them in. I added a LOT of spice -- it was very hot. I ate that for dinner and had some left over for one of my meals this week, but I can't say it was the greatest meal I've ever had. I need to stop cooking with what's lying around the house and actually plan a meal before I go shopping.

I had a bowl of my stew from last week left over too. I brought that to work today... and then I decided to ignore it and buy a burrito from Taco Del Mar. This was a good decision. ^_^

Gas has gone down 6 cents since this morning. I know it's just that they updated the price from the weekend, but still, that strikes me as funny.

I called miertam on Saturday afternoon and ordered a couple of things. One was a monitor cable for my bedroom computer. The other were two memory chips for my computer at work. I asked for 256mb chips but he got me 512mb ones. I put them in this morning, and they work great!

Normally I wouldn't suggest updating the hardware on your company PC, but I pretty much know that our IT department (one person) has no plans to so much as touch my PC until it dies and needs to be replaced. And when that day comes, he will do what he did for my coworker last week -- he got a new PC, set it up, then brought it over to the terminal and left it in the box in my boss's office. Plug in? Set up? Transfer files from the old computer? That's someone else's problem; he's too busy for that.

So whatever I choose to do to my work PC, our IT guy will never know about. My boss knows about it -- he thought it might be a good idea to do that for his own work PC.

I found a web site that does wallpapers designed to display across two monitors. That became my secondary project of the morning, figuring out how to set one of those up. It looks pretty good. ^_^