Pulling Teeth
Sort of a slow weekend, except for an emergency room visit and a family crisis. We tried to go to a Renaissance Faire in a small community south of us on Saturday, and it wasn't as good as it could have been. We were buzzing on memories of the St Louis Ren Faire, and were hyped to see another. There were vendors hawking their wares who looked more like something out of the Civil War than medieval/renaissance merchants. And it was fucking hot! It was something like 95+ degrees, plus 65% humidity, which made even breathing difficult for a man who's from a state where flowers start blooming in January because the weather is so mild. A few steps and we were drenched in sweat. The ladies didn't want to move from a spot in the shade, but I went and saw a quick bout using a variety of different fencing weapons. So at least I got to see some fighting, which is part of the fun of one of these kinds of fairs. If you haven't gone to see one, then by all means go, if costumes and accents and accoutrements from 500-1000 years ago entice you. Local page websites and papers should have listings.And Sunday we were going to have chicken and salad inside pita bread, as a low-heat alternative for dinner on a *really* hot day. It didn't happen, as putting up a gazebo and a portable pool outside tended to eat up all of our available time, again in 95 degree heat and monstrous humidity. Of course, we should have started before late afternoon...
So Jimmy John's was on the menu, and I found a menu online. Which is a plus, but their website...ugh! Cue rant here: having to suffer through a lot of Flash, with little substance was part of it. Flash takes awhile to load even on broadband, and if you're going to use it, at least make it usable. When I wanted to find our local one, I was taken to a screen to type things in, but where I supposed to type looked like an image -- there were no appropriate visual cues (like fields). Thankfully, I was able to simply click through a map and find a shop, but it was still like pulling teeth.
Speaking of which, my dinner's here -- and I'm hungry. Ciao!
posted by ERW @ 5:48 PM
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