::hiding in a corner::

Okay, Steff, remember the discussion we had about the Centre maybe having a backup generator? Well, it doesn't have one.

For everyone else, today is just... whoa. Power just flicked out and came back on in the offices, but it did a full blow out on at least in the wing next to us. Toronto and the golden horseshoe are known to have sudden, violent pop-up thunderstorms in the summer. Now, maybe it's me, but I think they've seriously have gotten worse over the years. Bleh. I'm a touch worried, because the building has had some near-but-not-direct hits. o_O

And it figures that tonight I decided to stay late in town and hang out with Laura. It seems that EVERY time I meet up with her, it pours!

I think we're going to stay inside all evening unless we have to.

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( Hamilton Crap )

I'm going to be cutting through Niagara soon, anyway. The Extended Family roadtrip to Upstate New York is in less than two weeks. It's been a long wait, as Lisa was mentioning on Canada Day that she wanted to go sooner than later. Thus remarks on salt potatoes, protesters and road flares that were sorely missed.

HERE'S WHERE I NEED YOUR HELP! You know, beyond the mental help that doctors offer me. One of big events in our yearly trip is WEGMANS! Wegmans is the Christmas of food - All the products you saw on Saturday morning cartoon broadcasts from the US suddenly exist. It's so important to the extended family that most of us are card carrying members of Wegmans Shoppers Club and we don't even live in the same country!

So, what really kooky American food products came out in the past year? Are there any good prizes in cereal boxes? Anything else worth buying? I'm trying to write a hitlist of things to buy and look for.

Right now my list reads "Salt Potatoes. Many, many salt potatoes. Bagged. Cooked. It Lion's isn't at the hill, I'm going to cry and murder all the protesters because that will make it all better."

::coughs:: Yeah, salt potatoes are a small obsession. They're like the world's incorrect food. You make them with small white potatoes in a pot of water. You then add salt until you can't dissolve anymore salt in the water. After you cook them, you dunk them in melted butter. And then Mike, Lisa, Katie and I buy them all off of you and run off into the sunset.

So, fire your non-salt-potato suggestions. I'm a big fan of crap food, since I rarely get to eat it. Cereal is a MASSIVE deal for us. Suggestions on Pop Tart flavours would be loved very much too. Snack cakes as well. At the moment, I don't think I can do anything frozen, unless we eat it RIGHT then. Usually we pick up a ton of cheap American dairy and keep it in our cooler, since $4 for a gallon of milk at home blows. Even then... our breakfast is ice cream at Chill N' Grill, land of "That's a SMALL?!". We'll be ice creamed out. But any really questionable frozen items, like tv dinners of death, I could probably find room for.

So... yeah. Suggestions! Suggestions! Suggestions!