Yeah I definitely have a chest cold or infection of some sort.
I first realized something was up when the trip from the car up the elevator and down the hall to the Community Care Center for my Wound Care left me feeling really tired and dizzy and just plain off.
And worst of all, little dangerous twinges of that “heartburn” feeling, but just a little sharper and more distinct than usual.
It was worse after the appointment, on the trip back down. Now my head was throbbing with pain as well and I felt faint and I was wobbling up and down as I walked in a way suggesting I was losing strength in my legs so my “shock absorbers” weren’t getting the job done any more.
So I lay down the moment I got back. Slept a little. Got up and played Fallout 76 for 45 minutes or so but I was still too tired to really concentrate so I was playing poorly. My head was still throbbing painfully too, and that didn’t help.
So I went back to sleep around 2 pm, despite that being when I should have been eating lunch. Yet another time sleeping when I am suppose to eat.
This shit’s got to stop. I’m losing what little control over my life I have.
When I woke up again around 3:30 pm, it was very clear I had some kind of infection. My nose was running and my head hurt and my lungs felt heavy and scratchy and gross and I have that overall feeling of malaise that always means I have an infection.
Just fucking lovely.
So I guess I won’t be going out to Denny’s tonight. I really want to, but I can’t afford to take risks with this kind of situation.
I REALLY don’t want to end up with pneumonia again. Might not recover from it this time because I am so damned weak.
That means I have to order my groceries online, which is a pain.
And I just did it. The “previous orders” function on the Sav-On website is very handy. Most people get mostly the same things every week, so it saves a lot of time.
Got the usual 3 pm to 5 pm delivery slot. Delivery is $10. Reasonable for what I am getting. Having a human being lug my order out to their car and then up to my apartment should not be cheap.
There’s an option for only $5, but then the delivery window is basically “daytime” and fuck that shit.
Really gonna miss my Denny’s time. It’s always the highlight of my week. There is nothing like the basic human ritual of eating a meal you didn’t cook with friends.
It essentially translates to “feasting” in our primate brains and you only feast when things are going well so it makes you feel good.
That came out colder than I intended.
I swear, I don’t mean to be all robotic about stuff sometimes. It’s just how I think.
That’s a conversation for another time, though.
More after the break.
I thought this was great :
Heartwarming, funny, and adorable. What more could you ask for? Brilliant concept, too. A+ all the way,
Uncle’s Snack Box!
Couldn’t think of what I wanted to order for tonight’s dinner. Nothing I could think of appealed to me. Guess I was in the mood to explore.
So I clicked around some on DoorDash and decided to check out the “One Dollar Sign” menu featuring places with meals under ten dollars.
More like fifteen, to be honest, but whatever. Places willing to self-identify as cheap, which is rare these days when even McDonald’s pretends to be upscale.
Oh right, me and my hip, ambitious, stylish friends often share gossip and witty banter around a bottle of Chablis and a McRib.
Anyhow. that’s how I ended up on the menu for Uncle’s Snackshop. It’s basically a fried chicken place with a somewhat Asian flair to it.
It’s possible that it’s exactly like fried chicken places in China, or Hong Kong.
I ordered the “One Flavour Boneless Box!”. Gotta love that enthusiasm.
It’s so perky!
I was originally going to get the “Two Flavour Boneless Box!” but they only had one flavour I felt self ordering, “Original with Honey Mustard”.
The others were things like “Uncle’s Hot Sauce” and “Sichuan Chili Salt” and those sounded very dangerous to my palate and digestion.
I hate the wimpification of my palate.
Weirdness : the order arrived in less than ten minutes. What the heck? To be honest, I was not psychologically ready for it yet.
So my order arrives, and there’s my can of Diet Coke. Check. Tater tots, check. Little generic Western salad, check. A shocking large amount of deep fried chicken….um… lumps? Chunks? Irregular solids undefinable by human calculus?
Pieces. We’ll call them chicken pieces. But not pieces of a chicken.
At least, not as we define chickens on Earth.
And then there is an assortment of deep fried…..something.
Totally unidentifiable. I tried a few and still had no idea what I had eaten. I had to go back to the website to find out WTF it was.
And by process of elimination, I deduced it must be the “Vietnamese pickles ” mentioned in the description.
Everything else was accounted for. So pickles it was.
They have a very odd idea of what a pickle is in Vietnam, apparently, I suppose there might be some pickle somewhere in the deep fried batter but if so, I cannot detect it.
Anyhow, it’s a jeezly huge amount of food for $15. It’s going to easily be two meals for me and I’m a giant tubbolard fat dude.
One little quibble : salad is pretty flavourless. I mean yeah, it’s iceberg lettuce, but that usually has at least a little flavour.
So bring your own dressing if you want to eat the salad.
The chicken…. things are quite good, though. Nicely crunchy, with enough spice in the batter to make it interesting (unlike Fighter Chicken, which makes me shudder just thinking about it) and a nice “golden brown” base to the flavour.
The tater tots are tater tots, and therefore awesome. The “pickles” are basically just fried chunks of the batter from the chicken, and are okay I guess but whatever.
So I would give this place three out of five stars. Pretty decent but not amazing.
One final note : there are a lot of Asian-ish snack shops around here with Uncle in their name. Uncle’s Snacks, Uncle’s Treats, and so on.
This implies something about Asian uncles, but I am not sure what.
That they bring kids cheap, terrible, delicious food?
Works for me!
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow,.