This is news to me. Ok, it isn’t, but it might be, considering.

I’m updating because Case is in NYC visiting family and I have, for company, a deaf cat (who is also cranky) and some coffee and beer and I think there’s some bacon and possibly yogurt around here somewhere. I figure Case might stumble on this and read it and see what I’ve been up to. Ordinarily, I would think “no one could possibly ever be interested in this stuff,” but Casey actually might be.

In addition to sending suggestive text messages to my recently published friend (grats, Carrie), gate camping with Stephan (it’ll make sense to him, the rest of you don’t need to know), and watching bits and pieces of odd TV (Generation Kill, good, The Craft, omg it’s only been 12 years?), I went to the special nerve doctor (I still have nerves), got the car washed, bought groceries (two pounds of bacon, two pounds of sausage, two pounds of oatmeal, and one pound of coffee—seriously), and … man, it seems like I did more than that. Uh. I guess I didn’t.

Here’s a shopping tip: tienda hispana. That’s Google’s language gizmo’s version of “shop hispanic,” only it’s probably wrong (and offensive to my Hispanic friends, one of whom has told me “Hispanic” is like “Negro,” e.g. deprecated as a term anyone you’re trying to describe with it wants to hear. Help me out here, mis amigos). One 16oz jar of instant coffee (get off it, it’s a lot better than it used to be and it’s a hell of a lot faster) costs how much? Well, if you speak and shop exclusively English, it’s $8.95, something like that (might be $8.97, magical bullshit supermarket nonsense). However, if you know that Clasico probably means the same thing as Classic, and Nescafe means the same thing as Nescafe, you’ll get the same 16oz jar of instant coffee for … $4.50. Or $4.97 or supermarket bullshit. Cheaper by almost half. Appears to be the same product (I sure as hell can’t tell the difference).

Think I’ll go have some right now.