Saturday: I am now mostly caught up on CW superhero shows

It did take pretty much the entire day, but I was able to work through almost all the backlog.  I need to watch Black Lightning still, but that's a smaller part of the crossover, I think.

Also the Shake Shack near me opened.  It was super busy, even at 4:30pm, so I may let it settle down and get "less new" before going back.

 Still super good, though.

And Ramona and I finally because Best Friends.

Which is a medal.

• Crisis on Infinite Earths starts tomorrow.
• News flash: Cops are officially dumber than you thought.
• Pirates.

Sunday: A nice day off

More games.

More Pokemon.

Shoe shopping.

Seafood.

Sandman.

Saturday: Bought some stuff

Mostly picture frames.

Then the usual stuff.

• We're getting a Shake Shack!
• But Firehouse closed.
• As did all the EL Mennas?

Friday: I miss three-day weekends.

I'm also not happy that this week they repaved the apartment parking lot, and at the same time forced everyone to get new parking passes.  It's been a big hassle.  I also finally made an eye doctor appointment, so I'll soon get new glasses, probably with better vision.

Only two years late.

And I got this one today in a research thing.

I wanted cheese fries, and remembered that this place I went to a year ago has them.  Also milkshakes, which I couldn't remember why I wanted one.

Thursday: A lot of "finally"s

Finally got that thing done for work, unblocking all the other things.

Finally unblocked twitter so I can see what kind of randos show up in my feed.

Finally had Shake Shack:

It was good, but I think I probably could have eaten like four of them.

No, you looked up restaurants on Yelp to see what looked good.

• Hoagies.  Lots of cheesesteaks, and some of specials look good.
• Empanadas?  Not on the menu hhere.  Still, the Beefy Mac looks good.
• Ramen.
• More ramen.
• Soup dumplings.
• Chicken wings, maybe?
• Dogs.
• Sandwiches and dogs, but maybe far away.
• When Zingerman's tweets out the best deli in each state, I have to try it.  Eppes Essen.
• Seafood in town. Blue Point Grill.
• AYCE KBBQ. YES.

Saturday: Museum day!

I woke up later than I wanted, but I still had three hours to explore the Princeton Art Museum when I got there.

That looks familiar.

I like animal shaped vessels.

I'm a bit torn on having mummies on display.

That.  Is not.  A dolphin.

Michael.

I probably could have spent more time there, which is a good thing.  After walking around the museum with a grumbly tumbly, I wanted something to eat.

Brisket, gravy, mac and cheese, cheese, grilled onions, with a side of dipping tomato soup.

The grilled cheese store is good.

I dumped Cloyster in a gym.

And finally caught a Buneary.

• The grilled cheese place.
• Fuck Mitch McConnell.

Saturday: Grocery shopping on Saturday is crazy.

People don't know how to use parking lots, they blocked half of the entrance with a charity booth, and people always think that blocking an aisle with a cart is totally fine.

Also, I suspect my car's battery is dying.  For the past day or so, every time I try to start it, it hesitates and eventually starts, but in a grumpy fashion.  I think I can just go to the place, and have them replace it, but it's kind of annoying.  Better now than in the middle of winter, though.

I thought Julie had gone to Masala Wok.  So I went to a casual Indian place.  It's by Target, and has excellent garlic naan.  I could have had a bit more spice in the tikka, but it was a good lunch.

• This is beyond stupid.  How are people this stupid?
• Bear repair.
• Millennials.
• I donated to this.  Not because I'm trying to bribe anyone, but because Susan Collins is a soulless monster devoid of morals, and her blight on government should be cleansed.

Sunday: Today's plan was "do nothing".

Oh crap, I forgot to put leftovers away.  And because of that, I can't make a lunch for tomorrow because I didn't start the dishwasher.  Ugh.

There's a Smashburger here.  It's by the close Target.

It's super greasy, and super delicious, and I hope they get more business because I want them to be open forever.  I was the only person in there.  One guy came in to get a to-go order, and another couple came in but didn't order.  I guess they wanted something more than burgers.  Whatever.

In any case, the mainland is apparently all of Alameda's burger places.

And then I came home and watched six episodes of Cardcaptor Sakura, because I've largely worked through my youtube backlog, and I needed something to watch.

If I read this correctly, there's going to be a new chocolate cookie variety to go along with Kinoko-no-yama and Takenoko-no-seto.

• Monkeys domesticating wolves.
• My other links were too depressing, so I'm sticking with the only not-depressing one.

Saturday: A Lazy Day

I did take out all my cardboard, finally.  And I got sushi, finally.

So excited!

The place near me is all-you-can-eat.  Which seems odd, but I guess that's popular here.  I probably should have tried more stuff.

Fried stuff.

 The gyoza are gyoza.  Not the absolute best, but good.  Tempura sweet potato was very good, and I should have had more.  The chicken was a surprise.  Like a fancy panko crusted chicken finger.

Sushi time.

Well.  I think they focus on rolls, because they have a bunch of their own.  The spicy fried roll was good, but cooked ahi isn't my favorite.  The California roll was a bit odd, with larger kani chunks.  Tamago is tamago.  The unagi was fine, if a bit small.  The ahi was also small, and not very flavorful.  Probably not super surprising given the AYCE style, since it wouldn't be too hard to break the bank.

Dessert gyoza.  And shumai.  They never brought my ice cream.

I'll probably be back.  They have not AYCE stuff, and their unagi don and bentos sound good.  No katsu don, though.  It looks like there are places in Princeton Junction that do.

• I'm probably going to be disappointed, but a local place that does by-the-pound BBQ?
• Ugh, white people.
• So the new Wolverine comic is still pretty good.

Sunday: More apartment viewings

It's not terribly fun, and always seems to take longer than it should.  I want a better tour, and I don't think my questions are that crazy that you couldn't have anticipated them.

At least the good news is that I'm hopefully signing a lease tomorrow, so a lot of the stuff I did this weekend was just activities to keep myself busy so I didn't spend the whole weekend camping out in bed, watching TV and reading tumblr.

Not that that would have been so bad.

The morning started with me wanting to go check out a breakfast place.

They literally own "pancakes.com".  How cool is that?  Plus they have everyone's favorite:

Chicken and waffles.

The chicken was excellent.  Probably some of the best I've ever had.  I would have liked some butter, though, and they kind of burned the waffle a bit.  It was good, though, and I'll probably be back.

Afterwards, I drove through Princeton and looked around.  Then I saw a sign telling me about the farm that made the cider I had earlier in the week.

With predictable consequences.

 I probably shouldn't have eaten three doughnuts, and drunk half that carton.  Probably.

Then some more futzing around, and a final apartment tour, and I think I've decided to just go with the one that's available, since it has everything I want, isn't so much more expensive, and is available.

And then I succumbed to the siren call of the burrito.

Now I'm either hungry or not, and I can't decide.  I bought a Korean pear, and I kind of feel like I should have something that isn't candy.

• So what you're telling me is that by missing the Squirtle event, I didn't really miss anything?

Saturday: Looking at apartments.

Means waking up early.  I hate waking up early.

I mean, look at how early I was checking my friend gifts?  Who's up this early?

Me, I guess.  Looking at my first apartment.  It's good.  I sent in a bunch of stuff this afternoon, and I need to schedule a lease thing for next week.  That's a good sign.

Then I didn't take pictures at Dunkin, I guess?  And then had more time to kill, so I went to look at malls.  There's a B&N.

Ok then.

 It's been awhile since I went to a bookstore in person.

Why?

So I kind of assumed it was ok to buy something.  Then the thought of cooking made me think about what kind of kitchen stuff I might need.

Like cookie sheets.

The cleartouch one has silicone added to the surface to make it automatically non-stick.  However, the few reviews I found said it warps in the oven.  Another review suggested that the "goldtouch" top-of-the-line one is actually made by Chicago Metallic, and purchasable for less from them.  Which isn't much of a surprise.

Then another mall, another nice apartment (with similar lease-potential this week), followed by wanting something for lunch.

I was lazy, it was there, I enjoyed it.

Then home to mail out "why I'm good for your apartment" paperwork proving I have moneys to pay for stuffs.  Like this stuffs:

I went to B&N looking for the next Binti book.  Then the horror anthology got me by charging less than 8 cents per story.  I found the scrubber at Sur La Table at the second mall.  It's dishwasher-able, and looked cool, and was only like $8.  The cast iron pans are kind of expensive there, though.

 Then apartment three, followed by Ant-Man and the Wasp.  It was good, and as much as I was worried they'd try to make Janet Van Dyne a bad guy, they didn't, so that's good.

And I guess Panera worked out for dinner?

 It's completely different than it was before.

Even the soup recipe seems to have changed.  It's not bad, though, so despite Julie's warnings, I'll probably be back.

Alolan Raticate looks like a fat old man.

• Well, that's fucking wonderful.  Even the zombie corpse of Gawker has been good to read.  What even is a double-undead?  "Half-consumed ghoul"? "Double zombie"?
• Sad news to hear.
• I like this idea.  I have junk books I don't really want/need, and this might make a good project to hide tech.