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QOTD: WHY IS THE FORUM DEAD AS HELL?

What happened? Seriously? Is this normal? Everyone disappears at the end of the year?

Local people aren't answering their phones either. This is weird. I do not like feeling isolated. I guess it's a chance to get last-minute work done, but that doesn't mean I'm going to enjoy myself.

I guess one still needs to eat. I'll be off to Publix soon.

More reasonable QOTD: Where do you like to buy your groceries?

answer 1: some of us have real lives too.

answer 2: trader joes mostly, safeway when i have to. farmers market when i can.

Well, I understand the real lives. I even have one sometimes. I was just wondering why people come and go in waves. That's how everything works, I suppose, but I've never understood why.

To rephrase a bit, this place was lit-up and now it's a ghost town. What gives?

The board is dead on the weekends. You could probably compare these paired holiday days as extended weekends as well.

QOTD:

Costco
QFC
Hilltop Red Apple
McPhersons Fruits and Vegetables
Pike Place Market

in that order, from bulk to specialty items

QOTD 1: Ill go with Spuds answer. Sounds about right

QOTD 2:
Costco - for bulk
Vons Pavilion - daily basics and Panda Express and my bank
Trader Joe's - For certain items where quality is important.

I like to buy stuff at Town & Country in Seattle. Unfortunately, I'm in San Francisco now and my closest grocery stores are Whole Foods and Safeway. I go to Whole Foods since it's much closer and the local Safeway is nearly as expensive (though occasionally there'll be something I can't find at WF so I walk to Safeway).

We have five full-size grocery stores within about three miles of our house - Fry's, Fry's Marketplace, Safeway, Albertson's and Basha's (an Arizona chain, founder Eddie Basha ran for governor a couple years ago). Trader Joe's is in the same center as Safeway, and then over across the freeway there's an "AJ's Fine Foods" which is the upscale place. Oh, and Costco and Sam's Club are both within a few miles, too. So we're pretty spoiled here...

That said, most of our grocery shopping is at Costco or Basha's - Basha's is on the way to my mom's house, they tend to have the best fresh produce and veggies, and the cutest checker. There's enough competition that prices are pretty even across the board. The Fry's store is very close and does tend to have good sales on canned stuff, so that's our third choice.

DRC: pretty excited to be within 30 hours of having survived 2007... in comparison with some folks' lives, I suppose it wasn't awful, but it just seems like I was stressed and unhappy and pressured and overwhelmed most of the year, and as Pauly Walnuts on The Sopranos said: "they can give 2007 back to the Indians." Hopes for a better 2008....

Charles (KA)

fluffy wrote:I like to buy stuff at Town & Country in Seattle. Unfortunately, I'm in San Francisco now and my closest grocery stores are Whole Foods and Safeway. I go to Whole Foods since it's much closer and the local Safeway is nearly as expensive (though occasionally there'll be something I can't find at WF so I walk to Safeway).

hey fluffy, there's a trader joe's downtown south of market. it's right across from the 80 on-ramp (on harrison maybe? or folsom?)

you should also check out the rainbow grocery on 11th i think.

Yeah, those aren't really walking distance though, especially not while hauling a bunch of groceries. (Also I don't like Trader Joe's for a variety of reasons not worth getting into.) I generally prefer to buy smaller quantities of fresh things, anyway, and Whole Foods is pretty okay for that.

We do Fairway in Red Hook. For middle eastern stuff it's Sahadi's on Atlantic Ave. For coffee it's Gorilla in Park Slope. That covers the important stuff.

Trade Joe's is coming to the hood so that may pick up some traffic from us in the future.

Roll Call/Qotd: I just now got in from a few days on the road. I played at Cranmore Mountain, then up to the Balsams for a double, then back to Cranmore. Tomorrow is a work day at the day job, and then a New Year's Eve solo show at Shooters in Belmont. Then I'm gonna pass out for a while, maybe.

Lord of Oats wrote:QOTD: WHY IS THE FORUM DEAD AS HELL?

Because it's the holidays and lots of people have time off from work.

erik wrote:

Lord of Oats wrote:QOTD: WHY IS THE FORUM DEAD AS HELL?

Because it's the holidays and lots of people have time off from work.

Yeah, see, my first thought would be...time off from work...more free time...more time to cruise forums. But then I forget that a ton of us do most of our songfighty business at work. What is this shit, man? Where do I get a job where I get paid to browse the internet?

Let me guess. It's in the city, where they have all these cool grocery stores that I don't have access to. Damn it.

Lord of Oats wrote:Yeah, see, my first thought would be...time off from work...more free time...more time to cruise forums.

Or more time to do anything else.

Yeah, I get it. I was just saying, it's a little weird that more free time would lead to less participation in activities that normally use your free time. But I suppose if you have so much free time that you're actually leaving your house, it makes perfect sense.

I think it points to the fact that most people visit the board on company time.

Spud wrote:I think it points to the fact that most people visit the board on company time.

I wonder how much, in a dollar figure, Songfight has cost corporations in wasted employee time? (I hope it's a whole lot)

Most people visit the board from work, yes. But I know a ton of people who are spending the entirety of Xmas thru New Years' travelling or at a family members' place where they are both kept busy and perhaps not as able as usual to access the Internet.

I, for example, am staying at a friend's house in Chicago until the 1st, then I'll be flying to New Orleans till the 14th. Both of these places make it difficult for me to be online in more than a couple of minute-long bursts per day.

Anyhoo. DRC: Hung around Chicago, dude. The friend I'm staying with has only lived here for four months or so, so she couldn't actually guide us adequately to the Sears Tower... we found it eventually, but it was embarrassing how long it took. Then we had a deep-dish pizza and played board games until... well, until now.

QotD: We usually shop at a place in Cleveland called Zagara's, though if we find ourselves in the right area of town, we usually make a point of stopping at Trader Joe's. Whole Foods is great, too, for organic sodas and cheese.

Calm down, Oats. The board will repopulate in the first couple of weeks of January. Everyone's just really busy right now.

"Calm down, Oats" is probably a phrase which needs to be used in every thread these days.

Funny, I was just going to comment on how unnecessary I thought it to be.

"Calm down, Oats" is the healthy alternative to Valium.

QOTD: It's a busy season.