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Amtrak (http://www.amtrak.com/) has some ridiculous deal going on — 70% off of tickets on most of the east-of-the-mississippi trains. $30 from Rochester to New York Penn Station. $40 from Chicago to Washington DC. There is a train that goes down the East Coast -- Boston down into the South, through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Mississipii, Alabama, finally to New Orleans. That sounds pretty fun.
Mar. 20th, 2005
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Mar. 20th, 2005 07:17 pmI almost bought a house today. I mean, not really, but I felt like announcing, "I'll take it!" $55k, four bedrooms upstairs, two big rooms and a kitchen downstairs, a finished/insulated attic, new furnace, clean basement, 10 minutes walk from the UR foot bridge. Backyard that could easily accomodate a hot tub. Not as big as I'd like for a co-op, but not outside of the realm of possibility. I mean, the idea of being able to buy a house—completely novel. Open houses are rad. There's nothing like walking through a big empty house that you could buy right now to provoke the imagination. The realtors are all on their best behavior. It's quite amusing.
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One of my favorite memories from Oscar Wilde House is the dinners that Allegra and Sarah cooked on Friday evenings. I think they cooked something especially good for Shabbat, usually a tasty chicken dish, maybe beets. But the best thing is that they would bake up several loaves of Challah bread. I would usually arrive home late on Fridays, I think, and enjoy a dinner of Challah bread, olive oil, and red wine our cozy living room, while Sarah, Allegra, et al, sang their shabbat songs. It was very nice. When Ryan, Brette, and I visited Nickel City co-op earlier this month, we went around the table and everyone gave the one piece of advice they thought would benefit a new co-op. One of them was, "Bake bread at least once a week." Sounds like a plan.
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Ryan is on some kind of a salt-free week. It was Brette's idea. It was frustrating at first because we had absolutely no food in the house save for a few precious salt-free creations. Fortunately starvation has been averted by a much-needed trip to Wegmans.
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Travel plans:
next weekend: Cornell, Corning (with Dana to the museum of glass)
weekend after: Philadelphia for NASCO EastCO
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One of my favorite memories from Oscar Wilde House is the dinners that Allegra and Sarah cooked on Friday evenings. I think they cooked something especially good for Shabbat, usually a tasty chicken dish, maybe beets. But the best thing is that they would bake up several loaves of Challah bread. I would usually arrive home late on Fridays, I think, and enjoy a dinner of Challah bread, olive oil, and red wine our cozy living room, while Sarah, Allegra, et al, sang their shabbat songs. It was very nice. When Ryan, Brette, and I visited Nickel City co-op earlier this month, we went around the table and everyone gave the one piece of advice they thought would benefit a new co-op. One of them was, "Bake bread at least once a week." Sounds like a plan.
* * *
Ryan is on some kind of a salt-free week. It was Brette's idea. It was frustrating at first because we had absolutely no food in the house save for a few precious salt-free creations. Fortunately starvation has been averted by a much-needed trip to Wegmans.
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Travel plans:
next weekend: Cornell, Corning (with Dana to the museum of glass)
weekend after: Philadelphia for NASCO EastCO
