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what we can eat after the cyberattack
Monday, June 16 2025
setting: rural Hurley Township, Ulster County, New York
I took a low recreational 120 mg dose of pseudoephedrine thinking I'd be delving yet again into complex database issues. But I didn't have the information I needed to do what I wanted to do, so I ended up spending most of my time trying to merge some code I'd written a couple months ago into the very-much-changed codebase.
After work today, I took the dogs for their usual walk, starting on the Woodshed Path down to the Stick Trail to get Neville to join Charlotte and me, which he did. I then climbed the escarpment and turned homeward via the Chamomile Headwaters Trail to see if there were any early chanterelles in the spots where they grow due to all the rain. (There weren't any.)
Then I drove out to Woodstock to meet Gretchen, Lynn, and Gregg for dinner at the Garden Café. There was a friendly doe deer in the field adjacent to the Old Forge Road parking lot when I parked there.
The Garden was having trouble making a lot of their perennial dishes due to a cyberattack on United Natural Foods back on June 5th that had halted deliveries. (They would've been lacking these things earlier had the woman who runs the place not been something of a doomsday prepper.) Things they lacked this evening included tempeh, Beyond Burgers, and maybe whole avocados, and this kept Lynn and Gregg from ordering their usual entrees. The Garden did have the mushroom tacos, though, which was good for me. They also had lentil soup, which is one of their better soups.
After telling Lynn & Gregg about injuring my back two weeks ago (an injury that is now almost entirely healed), they told me that their son had also recently injured his back, though in his case the injury might be a herniated disc, and, unlike me, he'd found it nearly impossible to get into a posture that didn't produce agonizing pain. And then he'd sneeze or something and be racked by pain anyway.
Later the conversation lingered for a very long time on the Tony Awards, which is a subject in which I have zero interest. Fortunately, though, Lynn had some video meeting she needed to attend, and that put a horizon on the evening. Or so it seemed at first, but then she left on her own with the idea being that Gretchen would take Gregg home. Fortunately, the conversation had changed to some non-Tonies topic by then.
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