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Occassionally, I like a good bowl of oatmeal in the morning. Never, though, do I like a bowl of peaches 'n' cream oatmeal in the morning. I don't think I'm alone in this dislike of this one flavor versus all of the others out there. This would be just fine if I didn't also prefer to buy the variety packs so that I can have a really good bowl of strawberry banana cream oatmeal. The problem is that every variety pack of oatmeal that I've bought has more peach packets than any of the other flavors. What gives? Is my peach-hating a minority opinion? I used to think that I was just unlucky in my choice of variety packs and that it was a random selection. While I'm on the subject of variety packs, I have the same questions for Mr. Goodbar in the Hershey mini chocolate bags. Does anyone really like Mr. Goodbar? I think that giving that candy bar the same representation in a bag with the standard yummy Hershey's bar, Hershey's dark chocolate, and Krackel is overstating its importance. You just know that there's always going to be an unwanted stack of those yellow bites at the bottom of a bag after all of the other goodies are long gone. I guess if you're a Mr. Goodbar fan you end up pretty happy about this.
Current soundtrack to my chocolate snack: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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I'm spending my weekend in NYC with some friends. It's my first time being in the city with real locals for tour guides, rather than just taking the subway from Times Square to the southern part of Manhattan and wondering, "Am I in the Village or not?" I've learned that "Little Italy" is really Chinatown, except for the one street with all of the tourists and Italian restaurants.
While we were exploring some street fairs I got to make my pilgrimage to Other Music. I miss having their store in Harvard Square for finding the stuff that's just too out there for Newbury Comics to carry. I picked up the Engineers' self-titled album and Richard Hawley's Lowedges. Unfortunately, I just missed Richard's show at Joe's Pub here in New York a few days ago, but I've heard that he'll be bringing a full band back to the USA in the fall. I'll be there if he comes anywhere near Boston.
Listening to on the drive down: Bill Frisell & Petra Haden
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I thought that I was being diligent when I tested Drive Blind in Safari, Firefox, and IE on my Mac, and I know that I've glanced at it on my work PC (Firefox). However, I was informed last week that it didn't look so hot in IE on a PC. Oh, yeah, that browser. By not looking so hot, I mean that it showed a black screen with one or two words of obscured text when you scroll two screens down and one to the right. I wrongly assumed that looking at it in IE on a Mac would be fine and dandy. It's nice to meet me, Mr. Naive Browser Guy. Anyhow, it should look okay now in most modern browsers. And that's enough nerd-talk for tonight. I have to go watch my new couch potato obsession, ABC's summer reruns of Lost
Now seducing me: R.E.M. - Up in beautiful 5.1 surround DVD-Audio
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Reasons why you should see the Eels With Strings tour:
Guiding me into the weekend: Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
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