I forgot to mix the romesco sauce with the lentils for this first run, (didn’t notice it in the list of ingredients used in that step in the recipe) so I just dumped a bit of romesco on top before eating
Blue Apron: Lentil & Farro Stuffed Peppers with Fontina & Romesco Sauce
I started feeling a chest pain in the middle of a Zoom meeting, so after consulting with Kaiser’s emergency line, I went to a walk-in Emergency Room for the first time in my life. (I had been taken to ER on an ambulance after a bike accident before, but waiting in line for ER was a first)
I was very cold and very bored waiting for an hour while they went through my covid rapid test results before they could let me inside the building so we had some fun on group chat. After medical staff told me that all the readings in my heart was coming back normal, I was discharged but they told me to wait to give me paperwork. And then there was yet another 15+ minute delay, so I just escaped the waiting area by calmly walking past the cordoned cones.
Blue Apron: Creamy Mushroom & Spinach Flatbread with Fontina & Garlic
Blue Apron: One-Pan Chickpea & Curry Shakshuka with Tomatoes & Spinach
At the coffeeshop where I like to sit for sunlight has chairs that are too deep, so I brought a cushion from home
Tacos el Venado has a pop-up stand by Wilshire and 6th St. They stick a pineapple at the top of the rotating gyro grill and chop off a piece on top of each taco
After going to a musical last week I got a CA Covid Tracker app alert two days later saying that I might have been exposed. Got a rapid test, and tried to get a PCR test, but all the free PCR test tents from ktown disappeared!
Then three days after, on Monday, I started feeling fever, so took another rapid test, got some soups, and went to get a PCR test at the Angeles Community Health Center at MacArthur Park, which according to the LA county website has appointment-less walk-in tests. Once at MacArthur Park I noticed that there were free test tents everywhere. Interesting. Is this a funding thing?
All tests came out negative. All taken through nasal swabs. I looked up on Google how to take a throat swab as that was recommended by folks, but came across a Forbes article that said “Rapid antigen tests are calibrated around a nasal tests’ detection range, so if you do it via throat, which is not what the test was designed for, you are purposefully taking it off its higher precision conditions”.
I was originally scheduled to go to a day-long work group retreat, but given all the mixed signals we decided that I would join via Zoom out of caution. There was already a pretty high-tech Zoom setup being prepared for people with contingency situations like mine, complete with the weirdest looking webcam/mic combo.
The fever slowly subsided over the next three days.
Also finally went to check out what was the deal with this strange “dessert” place snuck between other restaurants near home.
USPS sells a mailing option called “saturation mailing”, which is what companies use to send their weekly supermarket sales ads to every single person in an area. That’s how you get those annoying sales ads, and which I use as facial hair trimming aid.
Apparently today our mailman was like “fuck this, I don’t get paid enough for this shit” and left the entire box of ads on the side, without inserting each piece into our mailboxes.
Blessed be his heart. This is the hero we need, but didn’t deserve.
I may or may not have committed a federal felony, U.S. code 18 section 1708 and punishable by up to $250,000 in fines, by interfering with interstate commerce and tampering with corporate free speech 😔
Please, think of the kittens 😿
