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[magid]

This morning's cooking mishap: managing to cut two of the fingers on my left hand with some aluminum foil (rather like a paper cut). Garlic, aluminum foil... I wish I weren't this talented.

On the plus side, the schach is up, the light is up (though the timer's gone AWOL), and more food has been cooked (still not done: cranberry relish, mushroom-barley soup, napa cabbage (giving up on the kiwis for now)). It would also be nice to get things straightened up before people come over tonight (there's no way I'll make it to services tonight...).
(Note to self: if buying a new timer, get some gloves for dishwashing; the hands have taken enough of a beating.)

I don't understand, if the foil turkey roaster with wire handles is $1.99 and the foil turkey roaster without handles is $.99, why a deep 9 x 13 foil pan would be $3.29.

I wish the book sale at work weren't on Simchat Torah this year. *phooey*

Via Gnomi, the rules of the sukkah posted in Kmelion's journal.

There are packets of cucumber seeds (Marketmore 76) here at work. Anyone want a packet?

PSA: currently going on is BU's Fall Fringe Festival, which includes perfomances of Brecht on Brecht, The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken, and Mahagonny Songspiel with Youkali (the first is a play, the others are operas). Tickets are free to people with BU IDs, $5 otherwise.

Sukkot starts tonight, so I'll be offline from this evening until Wednesday night. Chag sameach to all those celebrating. (And huzzah for more appropriate weather for the holiday, too.)

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[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

This morning's cooking mishap: managing to cut two of the fingers on my left hand with some aluminum foil

Careful there!

Have a good and dry Sukkot.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wonder if these statistically-improbable accidents mean I should cook less.

Nah.


I hope it stays dry, partly because it would be such a nice change of pace from last week. If it doesn't, though, well, people can eat inside, and that's easier in some ways...

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

I tell you, some times I wonder that about flying.... I've been on something like 50-100 different planes since I left Boston. I have decided that I should worry more about the extra neutron radiation, if I am going to worry about anything.

I was wondering what you would do if it started raining again. I'm glad to hear that you can pass sukkot inside, instead of enduring the rain outside.

[magid.livejournal.com]

If it rains (or snows), definitely inside. Less clear for whether one eats inside is extreme cold, or bugs, or other unpleasantnesses. I think it's a matter of degree.

If it were a warmer climate, I might sleep out in the sukkah. Well, I might anyway, but it would be easier if I had an air mattress or some other pad. Unlikely to happen, really, but every year I think I might.

[(Anonymous)]

Sigh. Enjoy!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

But why the sigh?

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

I don't understand, if the foil turkey roaster with wire handles is $1.99 and the foil turkey roaster without handles is $.99, why a deep 9 x 13 foil pan would be $3.29.

The only hypothesis that I have is that perhaps there's a supply/demand issue here? Maybe they sell fewer of the 9x13s?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Maybe... but that's the year-round, non-event non-turkey meal sort of standard, in my book, anyway. I think it might be the turkey roasters are cheap to go with cheap turkeys while they get you on the fixins.