I voted “Never tried it,” on the grounds that I’ve never tried it. But unless I have some hidden natural talent that I’m not aware of, “I cannot” would work too.
This brings up a question for me. Why is Sunday morning easy?
No work. (for many)
I’m fairly proficient with electrical/electronic soldering - the type that needs a soldering
iron.
I’ve never tried the plumbing type that needs a blowtorch. That’s a lot riskier - if i get
that wrong i risk flooding my house and having to drain the system before i get to try
again.
We like that also, more than Whole Foods, but I dunno if I would call that “high end”.
I didn’t realize Harris Teeter was considered “high end” either. It’s just a supermarket, AFAIC.
For me it was:
- Sunday Morning Comin’ Down (Johnny Cash version)
- Sunday’s Best
- Sunday Papers
Would have like to see Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning”.
mmm
I was decent at soldering 40 or 50 years ago, but don’t think I’ve done it since. Can i still solder? I actually have no idea. It’s not something that comes up very often.
There are no Wegman’s near me, but I’ve heard of it and assumed it was just an ordinary grocery store.
I hate the song Easy (Like Sunday Morning).
I voted “never tried” for soldering. I think I could do it with minimal instructions from what I’ve seen of it being done.
What about “Sunday Morning” and “Sunday Will Never Be the Same” by Spanky & Our Gang?
It’s there!
I was an intern at IBM in 2001, back when IBM still made hardware. I spent a good bit of time doing rework on printed circuit boards. I didn’t have any formal soldering training, but I learned it on the job and I got pretty good at it. At least good enough to work on boards that were merely prototypes; I doubt they would have let me touch any actual production hardware.
Although back then the smallest surface mount components were 0603 size. I don’t think I could hand solder those 0402 and smaller components they use now.
Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!
(Check out the tune if you are unfamiliar)
mmm
Our high-end grocery store is a small chain called “WinCo”. Their prices are lower than everyone else and they have shit you cannot find anywhere else. I wanted a bottle of Mrs Stewarts Bluing, looked at a number of places, but finally found it at WinCo. And if I wanted frozen goat, I could get it there (I do not eat goat, because they are too cute).
I had a low-end Macintosh computer many years ago. I was able to obtain a daughter card that clipped onto the CPU and gave me more power. But the clip was kind of iffy, so I got an attachment and soldered it on. If I can solder a thing onto a 68-pin DIP and make it work, I would say I can solder (though there was a bit of X-Acto cleanup needed).
It’s a better version of an ordinary grocery store. They have all of the normal grocery items. They have an excellent meat department, bakery, produce and cheese section. For normal grocery shopping I go to the supermarket that’s closer to me. If I need groceries plus some specialty items and better cuts of meat I will go a little further and go to Wegmans. If it was a little closer I would have no problem using it as my regular supermarket
A few years ago I found out something interesting about “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Interesting to me anyway. The song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin who were married at the time. The song was an indictment of the suburban life they were living at the time. They got the name from the road that was next to where they lived. The road was Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange, NJ. A road I was on many many times.
If that’s the same WinCo as ariund here, you and I have different ideas of what high end is.
We have different types of high end grocery stores around here. Sprouts and Whole Foods are basically health food stores.
We have Market Street, which is higher end than Albertson’s but you can get all your groceries there. That’s the high end store I go to most often.
Then we have Central Market. It has the health food like Sprouts, but it also has premium foods and a wonderful bakery/deli/pre-prepared food area. I don’t go there very often because it’s out of my usual orbit, and the only times I can get there it’s a madhouse. My pocketbook and my waistline is grateful.
I guess I’m not clear on what a “high end grocery store” is. I’ve been in Whole Foods and it seems like just a rather more pretentious store than Safeway, with a more limited selection, and advertising that hits a bunch of “health food” buzzwords. I don’t recognize most of the others on the list.
I think it means a store where you pay too much for stuff. Everything at WinCo is at least as good as what you would get at a tony place like New Seasons (a Portland OR chain) but for hugely less money. Of course, WinCo tends to be very multi-ethnic, so if you do not want that in a grocery experience, I guess you would go to the overpriced stores.
Well, yes, but also superior high end products, like fresh baked bread, and gourmet stuff other stores cant stock as there is no demand- caviar for example.