Food

Today I took a trek to Sprawl (Wal)Mart. For this trip we had Jay, Gretchen, & Danny. We all stocked up so much stuff that we had no more room in the truck and danny and I had to hold stuff in the back seat. This was on top of what I couldn’t get with my Freshdirect delivery on Thursday. I went from having no food last week to having a stocked fridge.

Besides a hair cut today I did not much else besides the trip upstate to the walmart. I still haven’t been sleeping so I was up before 9-am today. I met up with jay and gretchen for breakfast before our trip.

I am in the process of trying to clean my place now, but I doubt I will finish up.

PS if you don’t know what I mean by Sprawl Mart, you are not watching enough Simpsons!

Hello Mr. non english speaking delivery guy. I have a few words to say to you. Since you don’t understand english I will write my frustration on this blog. See I can bitch you out all I want here since you don’t speak english, and probably don’t know what a “blog” is.

You see if I order food, and you deliver it I give you money. Since I am not a magician I give you more than it costs and I TELL YOU how much to give me back in change. Now depending on how good a mood I am in, and how quick you bring the food you get a tip out of that change. Now I almost always give a tip, and try to keep it on or around the traditional 15%. But you don’t really get a say in how much I give you. So if I give you a twenty dollar bill and ask for lets say $13 back, you don’t act like you are just off the boat and give me a ten back. And then when I repeat my self and say $13, you don’t give me 1 more dollar back. See the thing is you may not be the brightest bulb in the lamp, but unless you just got the job that day (and that is after all possible) you know how to count to 20 in english. And since the US government has been nice enough to put the actual number on each bill you can see that also. So by giving me a 10 back and go “ok”, is not ok. See I know you are playing me, so when I tell you 3 times how much change I want, I think you should give me the money. The $7 I paid has your tip in it. It was in fact a good tip, but if you proceed to be an ass, I may decide to ask for 15 back and say f—k your tip.

I am beginning to believe Jayson’s thoughts on the state of food service in this city. I have done food service before myself. Trust me I know it sucks, but unless you were a total ass to me, I treated you right. So why do people working now a days thing everyone else is stupid and play games with us? Of course I am the sucker because I will still order from whatever place I have a problem with if the food is good enough.

I don’t mean to put everyone down that is a delivery person. I won’t say the majority of you are good, but I would say about half. Living in NYC you rely on delivery more than most places. I mean the Domino’s delivery guy who came to my door during a blizzard (really have no idea how he biked over) got like a 40% for his outstanding work.

I leave you with this final question, if I goto mexico and order take out, will the delivery people speak French? English? Anything but the native language? Just wondering!

I had lingering feelings of sickness this week. I left work early Thursday because I felt like crap. I ended up working from home most of the day on Friday. And unlike many of the people I know “working from home” actually means doing some work for me. I ended up going into the office anyway in the late afternoon. I had 2 meetings I needed to keep.

Friday night I took Gretchen & Jayson out for dinner at the Outback. I felt like thanking them for making sure I was not dead last week when I was sick. It is nice to have good friends, who aren’t afraid of being contaminated by you! The Onion is still good, but man it seems like the Outback has raised the prices at their restaurants like 2 times since I moved last year.

I am feeling allot better now. I will take it easy today so I can be all good for Morgan’s birthday party tomorrow.

I hung out at home most of the day. I did some work remotely. Watched some TV. Generally wasted the day. I love Sunday’s (or Saturday’s for that matter).

Since Joe is in NY he and Karen came into the city. I met up with them and Jayson and Gretchen. We went down to little italy for some dinner. We stuffed our faces for $20 each. Not bad for Manhattan. Afterwards we swung by Jay & G’s place to hang out. I ate too much haggen das. The simpsons were very funny.

I felt bad that I made a stupid ass comment that normally would have been totally cool, but given Karen’s situation it was not so PC. I felt so bad. She at least appears to be handling everything ok. Either way I felt like a dumb ass. It is one of those things that really was nothing and will be forgotten on the walk back to the subway, but when I say something stupid in a bad situation I feel bad:(

I am now hanging out at home. I can stay up as late as I want since I am taking tomorrow off. I have no real plans. It will either be nice, or nice and boring.

I traveled long and far (15-20 minutes) to Time Square last night to meet Joe & Karen for dinner. Jayson & Gretchen also joined in. Joe is in NY to help Karen move, so we all decided to get together. We ventured out in the freezing cold to get some food. We ended up at the Olive Garden on Broadway near 49th Street. It was a nice low key dinner.

We were able to catch up. Joe was in a few weeks ago, and we hung out but we don’t get together that much so it was nice to have a long relaxing dinner with everyone.

Joe tried to give me a lesson on wines. He was attempting to culture me a bit, but I still do not like the taste of wine. Even though what they were drinking was not as bad as other wine I tasted, I still was not ready to begin drinking it.

We also had an interesting run in with someone while walking to the restaurant. We were on the street and we passed by Ice Cube as he was going to his limo. A bunch of people were standing around as he was walking by. We were smarter than that and continued on our way since it was SO cold out. Of course it is my luck I get to see Ice Cube but Sunday Jayson & Gretchen stood in line with John Stewart while at the Apple store. John is like my new comedic idol, and he was in one of my favorite stores. That is what I get for sleeping in on Sundays.

Joe was prodding me to come visit him sometime down south. I want to go, but I know if I go during the work week I will not relax but end up working with him at his company for a few days. I have been known to do that before. I don’t mind it, but I need a real vacation! Karen did tempt me with being able to play Halo all I want. She pointed out that I suck as bad as her in the game so I could possibly kick her ass in it. Hmm tempting!

Today I felt horrible. I ran out of my allergy medication Zirtec. I ended up going out and buying over the counter Clariton D, but it will take a while to get in my system. I feel like I have a cold, but it is all due to allergy’s and the dry heat in my apartment. Yesterday was no better. I had a head ache right when I woke up. That is never a good thing. I ended up taking 2 doses of Butabitol to get me through the day and night. At least I was feeling better enough to go out and meet some friends.

Joe was in from Baton Rouge for the a few days visiting his girl friend. Jay, Joe, John, myself and Joe & John’s girlfriends all got together last night for dinner. We hit City Crab. It is right by my office so I didn’t complain. I wasn’t feeling so great so I didn’t splurge on the King Crab legs. They looked good, but I stuck with the cheaper (still very expensive) Crab Cakes. They were great. Most everyone else got the surf n turf. Jay had a salad! We had a good time catching up. Joe went to the Christmas show at radio city tonight. he was then going over to John’s for some Halo. Jay and like 6 other people also went over there. I still wasn’t feeling so great, and I was tired from the craziness all week so I bowed out. I had no good excuse, but I was just tired. Everyone will have to get by fragging others.