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The Octave of Romano’s Market: Tuesday Orders

Posted: February 11, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Tuesday at Romano’s was always the day you came in to buy the fresh stuff you couldn’t get the day before or two days before if you couldn’t make it in before noon on Sunday.

It was also the day they started making their prepared foods.

When you walked in you could smell the meatballs cooking or the Roast for the Roast beef (unlike all the other cold cuts Roast Beef at Romano was a freshly seasoned Roast just out of the oven.) or the stuffing of the peppers.

The onions and peppers that had not managed to sell would be diced and sliced into all the various prepared foods and all the various salads that were ready to eat would be ready to go. Meanwhile the various suppliers would come in and Mike would make his order.

It was a very labor intensive day and today will be no different, because customers have been informed that if they want meat bundles they can order them for the last time this week so as much as previous Tuesdays have been busy, this Tuesday will likely put most others to shame.

One Point that Ed AND Stacy Missed in this Piece on Racism in the Climate Change Movement

Posted: February 10, 2020 by datechguy in culture
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A few days Ago Stacy McCain noted that the real news in this piece linked by Ed Driscoll was the Communist insurgency and death squads in the Philippines where things were so bad the people voted for someone who would wipe them out using extralegal methods.

Now all of this is important but I want to note one other point that is being missed here:

As Sherwood-O’Regan said, “As we grow and climate change becomes a harsher reality, privileged activists need to learn to de-centre themselves and meaningfully support Indigenous, disabled, queer, global south, POC, and other marginalized people who are on the frontlines 

That these activists are a bunch of privileged bigots is not a big surprise because you’re basically dealing with a movement that came from the Green parties (high funded by the Soviets during the cold war) who were supported by a lot of bureaucrats hoping to cash but let me ask one question that seems to be missing here.

If this person actually believes that “Climate Change” is a danger to the planet and that millions will die from it, why would you be more worried about the ethnic makeup of the leadership since if they fail, it won’t matter since everybody would die anyway?

Now if you think these European voices are ineffective that’s fine, if you think they are not making headway that’s fine too, but if, as you say, we have to act NOW then the top concern has to be effectiveness not diversity.

Either you out to save the world or you’re not.

Now as I see this for the grift that it is, I don’t particularly care one way or the other about the feelings involved here, but I think it’s interesting to see where the priorities of all these folks are.

Octave of Romano’s Day 3 Unchanging Mondays

Posted: February 10, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

If there is one day that will not be different with Romano’s Market closed it will be Mondays.

Except During the week of Christmas, Thanksgiving or the 4th of July Romano’s Market was closed every Monday.

If we were planning on cooking on a Monday we’d by extra on Sunday so we’ve have it in stock but since I worked every Monday night and my wife works alternative Mondays that was never much of a priority..

However it wasn’t a day off for Mike.

Every Monday Mike was at the Market doing the books.

Now for the average Millennial or a Gen Xer the idea of working 80 hours a week to make a business work might be beyond comprehension but for Mike Romano and a lot of men like him it was a way of life.

Octave of Romano’s Day 2 Sunday Mornings

Posted: February 9, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Since the Death of Mike Romano Sundays have not been the same because Romano’s Market closed on Sundays once mike was gone.

One of the biggest advantages of Sunday’s at Romano’s was after mass. One could go to a Sunday morning Mass and pick up a steak or have a couple of pounds of hamburg ground up to cook for lunch. Or if you went to mass on Saturday and was planning on breakfast, there was always fresh Kielbasa made at the store or fresh sausage patties for breakfast that could be grabbed to cook for breakfast.

That has been the norm in the house for 28 years. With Romano’s Market soon to be gone, it’s not the norm anymore.

I suspect we will be buying a lot more bacon at the supermarket for the weekend.

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