Ordinary

[magid]

Nuisance of the morning: deciding to use the self-serve lane at the supermarket, since there were so few others open, and finding that all the self-serve lanes were closed. Why put them in, then?

Recent food plays:
putting the last of the chickpea salad on a baked potato with feta
making and bread and herb frittata
more spicy eggplant mush
experimental non-sun dried tomatoes (halved tomatoes, seeds lightly squeezed out, on a tray with olive oil, some garlic cloves, cooked at 225 overnight) that seem to have worked :-)

Managing to get dishes and laundry somewhat under control has a disproportionate influence on my sense of things being under control. I wish I were a more naturally neat person...

So much yet to do: put the s'chach (roof, sort of) on my sukkah; buy a lulav and etrog; cook cook cook; do the rest of the apartment-straightening things; perhaps even manage to get some new clothes (I think that last will slide to another week.).

Prosaic.
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Comments

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My theory about the checkout lanes: Maybe there's some sort of agreement with the union to only have the self-service lanes open when they are busy, so that checkers don't lose work when it's slow. Or something.

"s'chach" definitely sounds Klingon. Does your friend who is studying Jewish influences on Star Trek have anything to say about Klingon and Hebrew?

Hebrew-Klingon links

[magid.livejournal.com]

I shall have to ask him about that.

Hm. I wonder if it sounds that way too, or just looks it when written? (I mean, it looks/sounds normal to me, and all the letters are regular Hebrew ones.)

Oh, and the self-serve lanes were all turned on as someone was ringing up my stuff. It was a bit after 8 am. Doesn't fit with your current theory, unless you want to revise it?
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Re: Hebrew-Klingon links

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It can still fit the theory. They may have predefined "busy" times when they turn on the self-service lanes, and it's very possible that a lot of people decide to go shopping just after dropping the kids off at school in the morning.

Checking out single-handedly, sort of (Was: Hebrew-Klingon links)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Possible.

However, the other times I have been in between 8 and 9, there has never been a crowd (heck, the fish isn't even out in the case yet, and this morning the whole tofu display was empty. Woe to the early tofu buyer, who does not get the worm, as it were!). Usually they had only one check-out open, while this time they had a couple.

Also, I think of most kids above day care age getting to school by bus or walking/biking, not getting a ride with their parent(s).

OK, and I tend to think that parents have less time for last-minute shopping trips, since they already have such time-eating schedules...

Which is not to say that your theory is wrong, just improbable to me...
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