Today was a rather good day! Work was hectic, right from the get-go, and we had a hard time getting everything done that needed to be done to be fully functional and in a full state of openness it was so busy! 7:50, someone was there when I got in, Becca told me she had said, "We're not open yet," a couple of times to him, but he kept on coming to the counter and proceeded to order coffee... People are really, really strange creatures with a variety of odd behaviours. Working in the service sector is a great way to observe this. I think that working as a barista, providing one of the major addictions in our society to the masses on their way to work, is an even better opportunity for this observation.

After work I went to the Indian restaurant in town, having found it and never having tried any Indian food (there is this "ham curry" recipe that mom makes, involving curry powder, but you can hardly call this dish Indian, I rather doubt you can actually call it curry. Anyway, it's a buffet place for lunch, regular order your food at night. So I was there for lunch. The food was tasty, though probably not as spicy as actual Indian foods, which is probably good for their business here. It was all really good, nothing I didn't like. I don't have a clue what any of it was, except for some chicken curry that I know was a curry because it tasted like what I know things in curry taste like. There was this REALLY good fresh baked flatbread, I could have eaten that all day, man. The only thing I wish for was a) for the waiter guy to be better at filling my glass. I understand when a place becomes busy, falling behind on this duty, but when I am one of three people in the restaurant, I expect it to be paid a little better attention. Nothing that I'd actually complain about, though. Maybe he was just having an off day, you never know. Secondly, I wish they would take the rout many Chinese buffets take, and label the dishes, especially since it's not a very familiar style of cooking around here. But other than that, man it was good. I'll have to go back sometime. Some night I'll have to go and order things that I know what they are called!

Got home, cleaned up the lair. It needed it. Especially to be sucked clean by the beast on wheels, for I had replaced the insoles of my shoes the other day and black fuzz exploded around the room. It looks rather nice in here now.

We (my sister and I) had planned on going to the lake with our friends the Allens today, but the head of that clan decided that weather was not suitable for such a trip, it being on the verge of thunderstorms. (I disagreed, as for the past three weeks or so it has been on the verge of thunderstorms, and never have we had more than one or two storms a day, those lasting at most 30-45 minutes and that's exactly the sort of weather we had today.) So, instead we went to the house of Clan Allen and hung out with our good friends all the rest of the day playing Apples to Apples, a really cheesy Star Trek game which uses a video, played more for the cheese factor of it than anything else, and went to B&N for coffee.

While at B&N a funny thing happened. While playing Apples to Apples, a game of word associations, we had the combination of Influential and Giant Squid come up. I heartily encouraged the current dealer to choose this one, even though it was not my own, simply because giant squid are quite possibly the most awesome thing ever. He did. Much hilarity ensued. Jump back to the current part of my tale, at the bookstore. As we are in line for coffee Katherine looked at a table of books on sale right there, and what should she find but a book on the biology and myth of the giant squid. It was promptly purchased by one of our group.

My only purchases at the store were a cup of Sumatran (properly a dark roast, while we have only a LIGHT roast sumatran at our shop, oddly) and a book. Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, second Revised Edition by Arthur H. Benade. It looks to be an interesting, quite indepth, and probably very long read. 575 pages, not including the index. There was a book on the development of temperament that I really had to force myself not to buy and quite a number of other books that I had to restrain myself on as well. One was not too hard to forego, as it was a $67 music history text. I'd love to have it, though. I know where I will go to formulate a birthday and Christmas list. B&N seems to have a much better selection here than boarders. The coffee was good, too.

- posted by Nick @ 6/27/2004 02:05:00 AM | 0 comments