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Home again and...
Have you ever walked into a store and just stood frozen for a few minutes, your brain not quite comprehending what you're seeing, partially because there's just no way to figure out where to start. That happened to me today.
I got home last night (and yay! No other trips planned in the near future!) and absolutely crashed -- it was a looong two weeks. This afternoon we drove down to The Australian Pie Company because, while I went to great lengths to bring four meat pies home with me from Aussie Eats in Idaho Falls, I completely forgot to buy any tomato sauce. Yes, we drove 30 minutes or so to the other end of Seattle to buy, essentially, a bottle of ketchup (catsup? How *is* that supposed to be spelled?).
I'm not going to do my current song and dance routine praising Australian tomato sauce... just going to say that I have never in my life liked ketchup (which is why I never tried it when I was actually in Australia) and I discovered this last week that I love the Australian version. Going to check at the British Pantry to see if they have anything similar, because that store is a whole lot closer.
And in case you're wondering, the reason I brought pies home from Idaho Falls rather than just buying some at the restaurant in Burien is simple enough... the Aussie Eats pies are yummier.
Anyway, back to my first comment... for the first time we actually had a chance to check out a store half a block down from the Australian Pie Company: Wonderworld. I've been in SF&F stores before, but it's been awhile, and I didn't realize there was anything like this in the area. It's just... wow. The store has obviously been around for a long time, and stuff is piled high, everywhere... not a free space left. In fact, they even had some action figures (still mint on card) hanging from the ceiling... they had it all: books, comics, action figures, gaming supplies, miniatures & supplies... you name it!
Seriously, I had a moment when we first stepped in where my brain just couldn't quite process it all... in a "where do you even start?" kind of way. Even better, the prices were pretty good for a specialty shop.
Well, I figured out why there was Infernal Itching yesterday... turns out I'm allergic to the adhesive used on the bandages I bought (which were 3M NexCare, not Curad like I thought). Today I picked up some gauze pads and some of that non-adhesive medical tape (the sort that sticks to itself) and I've been able to keep it covered. The difference in the past few days has been incredible, though it's still healing. I also bought a box of that Scar Solution stuff, which I'm hoping to start using next week (it can't be used until the burn is healed).
I suppose if I was going to accidentally brand myself on a hot wood stove, at least it's kind of a cool looking burn... about four inches long and a little over an inch wide, with an unburned half-inch circle at one end. I never did figure what part of the stove door I burned it on... And it's funny because when it happened, I didn't think it was all that bad. I immediately got some ice for it, took a look and thought it was only a tiny thin line of a burn. When I woke up the next morning, though, I saw what I described above and spent the next two weeks constantly smearing it with Neosporin.
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rackham just baked cookies.
I got home last night (and yay! No other trips planned in the near future!) and absolutely crashed -- it was a looong two weeks. This afternoon we drove down to The Australian Pie Company because, while I went to great lengths to bring four meat pies home with me from Aussie Eats in Idaho Falls, I completely forgot to buy any tomato sauce. Yes, we drove 30 minutes or so to the other end of Seattle to buy, essentially, a bottle of ketchup (catsup? How *is* that supposed to be spelled?).
I'm not going to do my current song and dance routine praising Australian tomato sauce... just going to say that I have never in my life liked ketchup (which is why I never tried it when I was actually in Australia) and I discovered this last week that I love the Australian version. Going to check at the British Pantry to see if they have anything similar, because that store is a whole lot closer.
And in case you're wondering, the reason I brought pies home from Idaho Falls rather than just buying some at the restaurant in Burien is simple enough... the Aussie Eats pies are yummier.
Anyway, back to my first comment... for the first time we actually had a chance to check out a store half a block down from the Australian Pie Company: Wonderworld. I've been in SF&F stores before, but it's been awhile, and I didn't realize there was anything like this in the area. It's just... wow. The store has obviously been around for a long time, and stuff is piled high, everywhere... not a free space left. In fact, they even had some action figures (still mint on card) hanging from the ceiling... they had it all: books, comics, action figures, gaming supplies, miniatures & supplies... you name it!
Seriously, I had a moment when we first stepped in where my brain just couldn't quite process it all... in a "where do you even start?" kind of way. Even better, the prices were pretty good for a specialty shop.
Well, I figured out why there was Infernal Itching yesterday... turns out I'm allergic to the adhesive used on the bandages I bought (which were 3M NexCare, not Curad like I thought). Today I picked up some gauze pads and some of that non-adhesive medical tape (the sort that sticks to itself) and I've been able to keep it covered. The difference in the past few days has been incredible, though it's still healing. I also bought a box of that Scar Solution stuff, which I'm hoping to start using next week (it can't be used until the burn is healed).
I suppose if I was going to accidentally brand myself on a hot wood stove, at least it's kind of a cool looking burn... about four inches long and a little over an inch wide, with an unburned half-inch circle at one end. I never did figure what part of the stove door I burned it on... And it's funny because when it happened, I didn't think it was all that bad. I immediately got some ice for it, took a look and thought it was only a tiny thin line of a burn. When I woke up the next morning, though, I saw what I described above and spent the next two weeks constantly smearing it with Neosporin.
Mmmmm...
rackham just baked cookies.
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As for the tomato-y sauce, IIRC, the original word was ketsiap, from which ketchup and catsup descended. They're both correct. Ergo, use the one you like. Which of course you would anyway, but you did fire the neurons in my brain, so you're stuck with the resultant feedback.
;-)
Here's hoping your arm heals fully.
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Well I come from the state where people drive 4 hours for a football game. (Although Riley had that wrong. He should have said, "girls' high school basketball" but perhaps the rest of the world would have thought that was over the top.)
"Ketchup" was a Chinese invention, so either transliteration works. I read an article on it once.
And I hope your arm heals well!
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God, I miss Aussie meat pies. I could not get enough of them when I was over there.
Wonderworld
Re: Wonderworld
You know, I hadn't realized you lived up in the area! For some reason, I thought you were down in Arizona and knew
Re: Wonderworld
I have been active up here for a while. I've attended every NorWesCon since AlternaCon (the one between 9 and 10). Was on NorWesCon staff two different years (not consecutively). There have been many other local cons I've been to over the years (the old DreamCon, Rusticon, SakuraCon, every Conifur since it's founding, an Orycon or two).
And I'm the Editor of the Tai-Pan, which is a fanzine that we founded back in 1988 at a NorWesCon and is still publishing (I wasn't editor-in-chief at the beginning, I took the job in '95).
So we may very well have seen each other somewhere.