There is a winter storm on the way, I wanted to get to the grocery store before it hit. I'd called earlier, and they had turkey roll, what they call boneless turkey - which puts me in mind of Gary Larson's Boneless Chicken Farm. A good size, and easier to cook, for four people. Yes, I'm doing Thanksgiving here. It's a small place, but comfortable enough for four. I'm planning cranberry sauce (from frozen berries) yams with pineapple, scones, green beans, and whatever else I think of before Thursday morning. Pistachios for nibbles.
D got a few episodes of Mastermind, which we'd never seen before. Heard of, certainly. It's kind of awesome. People sit in a chair, and answer incredibly difficult questions about their chosen subject, then they all come back again and answer general knowledge questions nearly as difficult. D and I do passably unembarrassingly on the general ones. No fuss, no flashing lights, no buzzers, just a powerful test of one's intellect and memory and exposure.
Continuing to enjoy Inspector Montalbano, to the point of getting some of the novels. Luca Zingaretti is a joy to watch. I feel like I'm picking up a bit of Italian, but it's probably actually Sicilian.
Arrivederla.
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I'm glad you're enjoying Mastermind. It's amazing to see some of the specialities.
In the old days of my youth when Magnus Magnusson, a very formidable Icelandic Scot, asked the questions Mastermind was even more austere with no chit-chat or frills. Last time I saw it with John Humphrys he insisted on asking people stuff about themselves and their subjects and they even had to give some kind of little filmed presentation. I didn't like it and just wanted them to get on with it, and stopped watching.
I'm a rather nerdy quiz show enthusiast, but I like them a bit tough.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving, the food sounds good.
I'm no mastermind player, lacking sorely in both memory and exposure.
I hadn't heard of turkey rolls before, I guess that makes cutting it easier.
As always, you do a profoundly thorough and comprehensive job to make life easier for your coworkers; this comes as no surprise to me, it is just a bother that more people aren't the same.
RR,
The woman whose speciality was Neil Gaiman's Sandman series looked exactly as a stereotypical fangirl would look, and did not do particularly well.
Lucy,
We saw John Humphrys, but we can only compare him to US gameshow hosts, and by that standard, he was wonderfully cool.
Phil,
It's also a lot less turkey, with a lot less debris, which suits for fewer people.
I only complain about my slower cow-orkers, only two, plus one aide who drive us all a bit mad. Honestly, it's a pretty good team as a whole. Attentive and helpful, and fast. Often prickly, and each of us has our own ways of doing things, but I'd be happy to have all but those two take care of me or those I love.
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