Gardenburgers, PG&E

I stopped at Whole Wallet on my way home from work today as I needed cat food. Unable to resist walking through the store, I noticed there were Gardenburgers for sale. When I first went to CostCo here, I bought a giant sized package of 15 or 20 of them (less packaging!). I used those up and looked for more in CostCo, but no joy. Boca burgers? Bleah! I started seeking them elsewhere. Trader Joes. Whole Foods in Redwood City, especially - it's the nice, decent sized one near here. Palo Alto's is much smaller. Anyway, last time I was at the WF in RWC, there was a sign on the freezer case: "Gardenburgers: out of stock at manufacturers." Disaster!

I flexed my Google searching skills to find out what was up ... but was unable to link up with appropriate information. So sad. No Gardenburgers. Boo hoo. I did see something about the Gardenburger company going public and always losing money. I wondered if my Gardenburger days were over. Some of the non-meat burgers out there are pretty awful -- how would I find something satisfying?

So you can understand my joy at seeing them in the freezer case. I was on my bike, and I had to buy cat food, so you can imagine how motivated I was to buy 3 freezer boxes and bike them home in a paper grocery bag dangling from my handlebars.

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It's been 5 months since I moved out here. I think there have been 4 power failures since I've arrived. Today I came home from work to one. None have been terribly long (at most a few hours), but I am used to a higher standard of service. Ithaca mostly had lightening strikes, windstorms blowing branches on the lines, heavy snow or ice on the lines, squirrels in the transformers. Understandable outages. Here, the weather is perfect and the frequent outages are a mystery. Are there more dumb squirrels here, or what?