Turkey juice

Thanksgiving plan: Cantay buys turkey and other goods. Danielle did most of the prep and cooking.

Upon Cantay's return from the store, Danielle puts away the groceries because she's really good at that. The turkey is suited on the second rack. Cantay says nothing because Danielle doesn't like to be questioned and the turkey had secondary wrapping.

Danielle later detects a leak after one day and puts the turkey on a plate but leaves it on the second rack.

The next day, Cantay discovers turkey juice spilling over the plate, with pools scattered all over the front of the fridge. Hours of cleanup ensue. Some food items do not survive.

Upon investigation, a hole not present at time of purchase is discovered in the primary wrapping, which allowed juice to escape.

Due to the effort expended in cleanup, which was much more extensive than would be the case if best food practices had been followed, Cantay requests that Danielle be the one to obtain a refund from the store.

Cantay's request is refused, leading to much sadness and anger by all.

A brief note on poker

A couple of posts ago I remarked on my good fortune to play poker with a group of people that I felt comfortable with, even if done if them were assholes, etc.

Well, I got to play at the same table with King Asshole today, and it just sucked the fun out of everything. I had to lock down my game and just try to avoid provoking him in any way (with limited success). In end I was able to outlast him, but I didn't make it to money. I think I would have preferred to get knocked out early than have to spend the majority of my evening getting progressively more annoyed while my chip stack was whittled down by his crazy run of good fortune.

I hope to god that he doesn't show up the next time I'm there, or at least that we're at different tables.

Japan 30 : 3 Quebec

I had an interesting series of dreams last night. One small dream that I just remembered while reading Hark! A Vagrant involved me catching part of a World Cup match on TV, where Japan was crushing Quebec 30 to 3. This elicited several questions/comments, some of which arose during the dream and some afterwards:

• Quebec, what?
• Am I sure this is Quebec? That logo doesn't look like their flag.
• What? I don't even know what their damn flag looks like.
• Since when did Quebec haves their own football team? This isn't Wales.
• "One nation within a united Canada" or something, right?
• Then again, that does kind of sound like the United Kingdom. Poor Quebec.
• Still, Quebec.
• Actually, come to think of it, that looks like Scotland's flag.
• Wait, 30 to 3?
• Forget the 30 part, what's the deal with the 3? How did Japan score 30 goals AND allow their net to be filled with Canadian balls thrice?
• And how did Quebec even get into the World Cup if they're this bad?
• Are they hosting or something? At least that's better than Qatar, I suppose.
• Maybe Japan is just really good. Maybe they have Godzilla as a new striker, which could explain the score.
• Of course, I don't see him on the TV, so he's probably not on the team.
• Also, just realized this, but I don't think Quebec uses the abbreviation "KUK" for anything.
• But this is somehow definitely Japan vs Quebec, because.... shit, I'm not sure.

And that's pretty much the end of it. I'd highlight which ones were in-dream thoughts, but I can't easily do that on my phone, so we'll just have to figure that out later.