Did any of you notice that Blogger was down for like 12 hours yesterday? What's that? You did? Oh, me too.
At first I was going to get all complainy that I couldn't post anything and that all my faithful readers wouldn't be able to read my nuggets of wisdom dipped in delicious northern style honey mustard sauce. Then I realized that I don't pay any money to Blogger for this service and that it would be disingenuous for me to complain about something that is free. What's the old saying? Don't kick a gift horse in the face, or something like that? So, you won't be hearing any whining from me about how those idiots over at blogger couldn't get the site back up for like twelve hours I mean that is what they are paid to do why can't they just do it.
The Best Restaurants in Moses Lake, Washington
- The Golden Corral: Also affectionately known as "Spoonful of Meat."
- The Porterhouse: ML's only combination steakhouse, card room, and hooker pick-up spot!
- Tacos Mexicanos: This one is actually good.
- Inca's: Like Tacos Mexicanos but covered in cheese, overpriced and clean.
- Papa's Grill: ML's only combination bar, bad restaurant, casino, and bowling alley.
- Arctic Circle: They make a mean white sauce.
- KFC/A&W: Chicken+chili dogs+and draft root beer = crazy delicious (has this joke been overused yet? Yes? Oh, then never mind.)
- The Sexist Dairy Queen: They make a mean Blizzard and only hire teenage girls. [Insert your own dirty joke about the owner here.]
- Denny's: Culinary genius taken out back, beat with a ladle and wrapped in bacon and covered in syrup. Still, $3.99 for a full breakfast means an extra hour away from work. If you go back at lunch, it means two hours away from work. And accelerated cardiovascular disease.
- Da Vinci's: It's where to go if you want to experience what backwater hicks think of as a fancy restaurant. I would recommend the steak, with a side of lasagna. What they lack in quality, make up in quantity. It may cost more, but at least it will taste better coming back up than Golden Corral food would after you have done a hal-dozen keg stands and pounded down 15 Stones at a backyard barbecue later that evening. Note to readers not acquainted with Moses Lake: This kind of activity is typical for a weekday evening in the Big Hole. On weekends, things would be kicked up a notch to Killian's instead of Keystones.
9 comments:
Okay ... look here. I know you say Moses Lake is a small town. But ... hey ... it's got actual restaurants. It's even got a whole list of restaurants. The only thing my hometown has that even comes close to being a restaurant is that on Friday nights you can order whole wheat crust pizzas at the general store for takeout. But, here's the catch, you have to order them a day ahead of time. That's a small town!!
I know, I know. You ate cows raw because Calais was so small no one even knew how to make a fire. Whenever somebody died, the town would send an expeditionary party out to look through the wilderness for an itinerant coroner. A big party meant any time more than two people stood in a room together. And you had to drive all of 11 miles to THE STATE CAPITAL! Now that I know that, I'm not going to think that Calais is a small town. It is a small community near the state capital.
In my mind, there is a big difference between a tiny town near significant towns, and a moderately sized town (15,000) near absolutely nothing except two Wal-Marts. Stories of dirt roads do not impress me.
Wait, I apologize. The state capital of Vermont has only 8,300 people or so. If that isn't the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Go ahead, tell all the stories you want about how small Calais is because I'll now believe anything that sounds to stupid to be true about Vermont.
State Capital. Whatever.
Yep ... there's only one place in Vermont that qualifies as a "metropolitan area" and that's Burlington. But even then you have to count the surrounding area, because if you just count the population within the city limits ... there aren't enough people.
The current population of Calais is about 1,200 ... when I left (1979) it was about 800.
It's all ridiculous ... I keep trying to tell you that. Some day you have to come see for yourself. There's a reason it was once it's own country and couldn't make it. Too many rocks ...
Umm... the down time yesterday was planned and published. I'm not sure if the full 12 hours was planned (that sounds like a long time for maintenace.) But whatever.
Umm, no way. There was a brief planned outage at 4 PM yesterday, but the first outage that lasted from at least 7 AM to about 1:30 PM was not planned, nor was it published until after the fact. Probably because they (meaning Blogger) use Blogspot to run their service status blog, so when all publishing goes down, so does their one method to let everyone know.
Wait, I'm not complaining, am I?
They are only close the junipers? Is this Washington state-speak that I have forgotten?
Sonja, the point is not that Moses Hole is small. It is NOT small. Not even Ephrata is small. Soap Lake? Wilson Crick? Now we're getting somewhere. A grad class of two is when you start to wonder why the town still exists.
M.H. is dreadful simply because it is. I'm trying to remember a great restaurant that Schuyler left off of the list, but ... I think Inca's was the place to be for our fam. The Dairy Queen also roxx. Heck, it was -- er, is -- a booming metropolis. Just a butt-ugly one. I went there to get my braces put on and checked, because my hometown didn't do no stinkin' braces. Good times. And, of course, for movies. Best sticky floor in the Columbia Basin. But Schuyler and Maggie probably missed that one, and enjoyed the fancy schmanciness of the new version. Then again, they had an infant, so maybe not.
Which is all to say: I picture Vermont as being very beautiful. Am I wrong?
Yes ... but the ONLY sort of town in Vermont is small. The only reason I graduated in a class of 110 is because my highschool was a "union" highschool. That is 5 towns fed into it. If you separated out the graduates from Calais, I think there were about 8 of us ... and 4 of us had been in school together since 1st grade!!! I'd have to back through my yearbook to get the actual stats. But that's the usual state of affairs in Vermont. Of course, we don't have junipers, we have pines and maples. And did I mention rocks? We have a lot of rocks.
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