I've been plugging away at Duolingo French, and just passed another "castle" section-end test, which means I have access to more new lessons/topics. I'm trying not to let the way the gamification currently works keep me from making real progress: I can get 3-4 times as many points for practicing easy sections (the "legendary" level) as for new, more advanced material.
I am annoyed at (as well as puzzled by) the MBTA. Once again, it's given me the free transfer from an inbound 73 to an outbound 71, and then charged me two fares for the return trip. I'm also unhappy that when I tried adding money to my card yesterday, the bus driver made an error, so the box took my $10 bill but didn't put that money on my card. *sigh* That leaves me with a whopping 65 cents on my card, which means I will either try again to add value at the farebox, or get out the spare, take the bus to Harvard, and use the machines to add value to both cards.
The trip to Watertown was in order to shop for pine nuts, to use in the stuffing for our Thanksgiving turkey. I was looking there because we specifically want Mediterranean pine nuts, not the east Asian onces that are most of what's in stores. Neither Arax nor Sevan Bakery had pine nuts, and neither did the supermarket; I bought some raw sunflower seeds to use as a substitute. I did get sour cherry jam (for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adrian_turtle), blueberries, chocolate baklava (not bad, but less interesting than it sounded), apple cider, and cookies (the last two from the supermarket), so that's all right.
I am annoyed at (as well as puzzled by) the MBTA. Once again, it's given me the free transfer from an inbound 73 to an outbound 71, and then charged me two fares for the return trip. I'm also unhappy that when I tried adding money to my card yesterday, the bus driver made an error, so the box took my $10 bill but didn't put that money on my card. *sigh* That leaves me with a whopping 65 cents on my card, which means I will either try again to add value at the farebox, or get out the spare, take the bus to Harvard, and use the machines to add value to both cards.
The trip to Watertown was in order to shop for pine nuts, to use in the stuffing for our Thanksgiving turkey. I was looking there because we specifically want Mediterranean pine nuts, not the east Asian onces that are most of what's in stores. Neither Arax nor Sevan Bakery had pine nuts, and neither did the supermarket; I bought some raw sunflower seeds to use as a substitute. I did get sour cherry jam (for
adrian_turtle), blueberries, chocolate baklava (not bad, but less interesting than it sounded), apple cider, and cookies (the last two from the supermarket), so that's all right.
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That said the Asian groceries tend to stock the Asian ones.