Replying to a comment by JP of Porterization a couple nights ago… JP and the GG tie for the title of King of Cryptic Text Messages. I mean, just today, the GG texted me from Sparrow Meats to ask if I wanted him to pick anything up. Yes. Lamb stew meat and do they have duck breasts? I was hoping for a yes-or-no answer. I got, “She does not have duck breasts (human I think).” Yes that is crude! It also doesn’t answer the question. The answer turned out to be no and while I was disappointed, it was okay. They have the best duck breast form factor in town and I had originally planned on duck breasts (from Sparrow) on my birthday but I got distracted and it turned out to be a no-go. But filet mignon worked out fine.

So JP of porterization commented “When we go out, we get our car started before we get back. (ibid)” The back story behind this is that it was uber cold on Friday night so we decided instead of making everyone walk a distance from parking to Dexter’s Pub, the GG and I would drive our friends of porterization out there and drop them and me off. They parked on the street in front of our house and transferred directly into Cygnus and we taxied them out and back. As it turned out there was a close parking space at Dexter’s (and we didn’t even have a Parking Guru in the car).

We took a river ride back and at some point somebody became sentient enough to realize that we could probably start the vee-hickle of porterization remotely from Huron River Drive. Some fumbling occurred but yer fav-o-rite retaared user experience designer figgered it out and when we turned onto our street, there was their car, headlights on and running.

I do not know what “ibid” means. I even looked it up but the definition was a bit obtuse. Plain English, please? I could have been an English major and at one point early in college I was actually (very casually) invited to be an English major. But I was gonna play my flute and I didn’t study English. But I am not stupid about English either (don’t ask me about the subjunctive or things like “ibid” 🙂 ) That said, one time an uber-smart colleague in India got all excited about the Oxford Comma. Yes yes yes! It’s a bit controversial. Such a fun conversation.

It snowed ALL DAY today. I’m not sure if it’s done yet. We are not in any kind of snowmageddon. This is typical southeast Michigan snow. I think we might get six inches by the time it finally ends. Our stores do NOT EVER run out of milk and bread and other staples because of a snowstorm. Covid maybe. Back in the 2014 Polar Vortex Winter, the Plum Market butcher at the time walked through deep snow down the middle of North Maple to get to work on one particularly challenging day. (He lived somewhere in the neighborhood.) I had walked too and was there to greet him at the meat counter, LOL!

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