Where Is It?

[MitchW]

Or just pay.  How long will that salt last you and how many different times will you use it as a seasoning? What’s the cost per serving?

[small h]

See, that's the kind of real world solutions I've been looking for.

[small h]

A pound of the salt lasts me about 18 months.

[MitchW]

So, for less than $3 a month….you make yourself less miserable.

[small h]

But my friends, you're all cruising around the web looking at what I'm looking at. The salt is out of stock pretty much everywhere except for one outfit selling it at usurious rates (which makes me think they'll be baiting and switching). The reason I'm so attached to this salt is that I bought my first pound on my first trip to Hawaii (Kaui) about 35 years ago. Possibly I am the only nostalgic person on this board, although I very much doubt it, but I like to keep this excellent salt in the house at all times.

[small h]

1 minute ago, MitchW said:

So, for less than $3 a month….you make yourself less miserable.

You think I should pay the $40.

[small h]

It's not like I don't have it. Ernesto's threw me a bunch of fancy jello shots yesterday, so I'm kind of ahead.

[MitchW]

12 minutes ago, small h said:

You think I should pay the $40.

Of course.  18 months!  My guess is your saffron supply must be getting low as well.

[small h]

It is pretty bleak, now that you mention it. But the Essex Market olive guy has decent saffron.

[MitchW]

10 hours ago, small h said:

But the Essex Market olive guy has decent saffron.

I like these people:

https://zaransaffron.com/

 

[bloviatrix]

Walked into the parking garage post hockey practice and the car was gone. Needless to say, I panicked - especially because I didn't pay for parking and I was afraid I was towed. Then it occurred to me to check the find my car app (I keep an apple tag in the car) and realized I was parked in a different aisle. I feel like a numbskull.

[Sneakeater]

But a numbskull with a car!

[maison rustique]

Where did October go? I think I slept through it.

[MitchW]

1 hour ago, maison rustique said:

Where did October go? I think I slept through it.

The rain slept through it here; October was either the driest or second driest NYC since weather records were first kept. I believe that dryness extends to other eastern or mid-Atlantic states, many under a red-flag fire warning.

[small h]

On 10/24/2024 at 11:14 PM, MitchW said:

On 10/24/2024 at 11:01 PM, small h said:

You think I should pay the $40.

Of course.

Well, Formaggio Essex had little sealed shot glasses of (the correct) salt. They're buying in bulk and repackaging, the upshot being I just bought somewhere between two and three ounces for $4.

THANKS KAMALA.

[Wilfrid]

Formaggio has bottles of Vichy Catalan I just need to go with a big backpack (or I can order vast amounts on Amazon).

[Wilfrid]

On 10/24/2024 at 11:00 PM, small h said:

But my friends, you're all cruising around the web looking at what I'm looking at. The salt is out of stock pretty much everywhere except for one outfit selling it at usurious rates (which makes me think they'll be baiting and switching). The reason I'm so attached to this salt is that I bought my first pound on my first trip to Hawaii (Kaui) about 35 years ago. Possibly I am the only nostalgic person on this board, although I very much doubt it, but I like to keep this excellent salt in the house at all times.

Wegmans this week. Any good?

[small h]

I so appreciate all these suggestions. But that is Himalayan pink salt, not Hawaiian orange salt. It does not have the correct lava flavor. But I'm sure it is very nice.

Edited November 26, 2024 by small h

[Wilfrid]

Oh I forgot it’s a specific brand.

[small h]

I bought some at Formaggio Essex, which should last me at least 6 months.

[Wilfrid]

Truly bizarre. I thought my birth certificate was long lost. I was completing some forms this week that asked for a copy. Nope, I was going to send a copy of my passport instead.

Separately, I was looking for a folder or something to hold some documents. I had a mess of them jammed together on a shelf. What the hell is in this one, pulling it out at random?

Oh, my original birth certificate and a certified copy.

I do need to de-clutter.

[Wilfrid]

On a roll finding lost books. Simple trick once you know it.

Last month, re-reading A Farewell to Arms, I looked over my Hemingway collection and was stunned to be missing The Essential Hemingway, a hardback with a battered dj which included the full text of his first novel. It was probably the first Hemingway I bought as a kid. I looked pretty hard for it; nope.

Easy to replace online? Turns out it was never published the States. Can order a used copy from the UK for $40 plus shipping. 

A few weeks later, I am looking at fiction a little further along in author AZ order. What's that? There it is. It got pushed behind other books but also it was no longer behind Hemingway, avoiding me more effectively.

Next, I am looking for my copy of The Nine Men of Soho, Julian McClaren-Ross's first volume of short stories. Slim volume, I could visualize it vividly. I eventually decided I hadn't owned it but had loved a library copy.

Yesterday, I thought, double-check. Sure, it had been squeezed behind his larger volumes.

Today, I was getting ready to re-read some Huysmans. Let's take a look at Huneker's old essay about him. Not remembering which collection it was in, I pulled them off the shelf one by one and scanned the contents. No sign.

Retreated to Google and confirmed it appeared in Egoists (or Supermen). Damn, I must have that. Wait.

Purposeful stride to bookcase. There it is, hiding out behind the volumes I didn't want.

Guys, I am onto you now. Maybe I should look again for Frankenstein...

(Since this post obviously lacks detail, I should say this is happening because I line my books up at the front edge of the shelf, mostly eliminating the tchochke temptation Lippy alerted me to years ago and allowing dust -- and missing volumes -- to accumulate in the space behind.)
 

 

[Steve R.]

Every time someone posts on "Where Is It?" I'm reminded that they're one step ahead of me in that I usually can't remember what I'm looking for if I'm distracted for even a couple of minutes.

[bloviatrix]

The frequency with which my kid tells me he needs my help to find something missing because "he looked REALLY, REALLY hard! All over the place" and then I find it within seconds is out of control. And in the process I often find things that no one has noticed missing - yet. My personal favorite is when I ask if he looked in a specific place, he says yes but it's not there but somehow it miraculously appears as soon as I walk over.

[Wilfrid]

Is that a boy thing? I feel I have seen that more with boys.