Best New Year's ever!

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As monshu remarked yesterday in the midst of cooking up a monsoon of Indian food, "This is the first time in years I haven't cooked for Chinese New Year." We just couldn't make the timing work out on our annual banquet, but of course he couldn't actually let the occasion pass uncommemorated by festive food, so this morning we fought the crowds down in South Chinatown in order to bring home jiaozi, longevity noodles, Ferrero Rocher, and other must-haves for an auspicious Niu Year.

We were between wishing a friend well on her date with a surgeon and meeting up with zompist and his lovely wife for capital cuisine at Lao Beijing. We found ourselves a quiet corner table, but nothing could dampened the thunderous carousing in the party room above us. After a while, I suggested relocating to the comfort of our parlour, and we whiled a leisurely afternoon away with tea and biscuits and rambling conversation.

Truth be told, we needed a breather after another overstuffed weekend. Everything was going smoothly Saturday until the installers left and I popped Devdas into our ginormous new t.v. only to find my self transported back to the silent era. We managed to get the guys to return only to hear them say that monshu's $1000 amplifier--which had been working fine the week before--was the problem. Hmmm. (My confidence was not buoyed by the fact that our man kept referring to it as a "receiver" or that he went through the online audio setup no less than six times in my presence.)

After repeated requests, we got him to bypass the amp. So much for the much-vaunted skill set of the Abt workforce--not that I'm sorry about the deal we got on the set when we went there last weekend (much less the cookies!). Oh, and Comcast are lying whores, but everyone knew that already, right? Specifically, the cable guy swore up and down that he was giving monshu the HD cable box when in fact he installed no such thing. So it will be a bit longer before out beautiful new plasma screen really lives up to its potential.

Oh, well, it's not like we're big video queens anyways. The only reason we went so big is that the best arrangement for the media room puts the couch at least ten feet from the set, and the old picture tube just wasn't cutting it any more. The other addition was a fancy-pants wine cooler that still stands two-thirds empty even when holding all our modest collection. Sams trip next weekend!

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Oh, and Comcast are lying whores, but everyone knew that already, right? Specifically, the cable guy swore up and down that he was giving [info]monshu the HD cable box when in fact he installed no such thing.

Comcast delenda est.