Weekend shopping

This weekend I spent quite a bit of time shopping; not for clothes but for guitar parts and sausages (amongst other things). I started off by heading over to the Honda dealer to look at the new Honda Fit (a possible replacement for Mr. Honda if he were to catch on fire or be riddled with bullets). This car, besides being very practical, has received good reviews and is supposed to be fun to drive (I probably wouldn’t think of getting a subcompact, but his one seems pretty decent). Anyway, I was tagged by a sales agent there who sat me down and started filling out some sort of form wile trying to sell me car. After it became clear to him that I wasn’t there to buy a car that day (I thought I made it pretty clear from the start), he folded up his paper, threw it away, and took me out to see one of these cars. Apparently they are in high demand; they won’t even take orders for them. Anyway, I’m the kind of guy who annoys car salesmen by doing my research and telling them I’d have no problem flying to another state to save $10, just to stick it to a car salesman.

Then it was off to the Alpine Sausage Kitchen to pick up some German-style sausage. A customer there corrected my German pronunciation when I was giving my order; this is embarrassing considering I took a total of 4 years of German and have visited that country three times.

I also hit a local bakery, The Golden Crown. Although this place is pretty famous (I’ve seen it featured on The Food Network), I’ve never been there, even though it’s five minutes from my apartment. Another embarrassment. Anyway, The Golden Crown is famous for Green Chile Bread; I bought a loaf but was very surprised to find out that it cost $8. It was tasty, but I’m not going to buy $8 bread every week. The place was cool, with an ancient bread oven (it had to be at least 50 years old), but the fact that they sell pizza (which I was not aware of until my visit) broke the charm a bit. Kind of like going to France and visiting a traditional cheesemaker but finding out they also sell frozen yogurt.

For guitar parts, I went over to Grandma’s Music and Sound. A decent place, but unfortunately over on the west side (for those of you not from the area, that’s the west side of the Rio Grande; it’s where most of the new development in Albuquerque is happening; ). I wanted to pick up some new pickups for my Telecaster. Apparently I went to the right place because there is a guy there who owns 27 Telecaster guitars and was able to steer me in the right direction.

I will be doing some customization of my Telecaster; in a few weeks I should have it done and will post a picture of it here. It'll be the only guitar in existence that combines country twang (as the Telecaster is famous for) with Bollywood glitter.