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[geekchick]

Aaugh! I hit Ticketb*stard at 10:03 and found no Death Cab for Cutie tickets. I figured I'd missed out on the pre-sale after trying for five or six minutes and getting no option to buy tickets. I reloaded the page for some reason five minutes later and got the "look for tickets" option finally. Okay. *type* 2 tickets, best available, deal with password and stupid captcha..."no tickets found that match your request". Pre-sale seems to have sold out (at least of anything other than single tickets) in under five minutes. Or else as someone else reports, the Ticketb*astard site was having some "issues" that made it look that way. Either way, no pre-sale tickets for me. Oh well.

<Otto>DISAPPOINTED!</Otto>

Not surprised, mind you, but disappointed.

In much less disappointing news, I got my request in early enough this year to get a vegetable share in the Bull Run Mountain CSA farm. If you're not familiar with the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) concept, the basic idea is that you pay a membership fee in advance that helps cover farm production costs, and in return you receive a share of the harvest in the form of a weekly box of produce for some set number of weeks. Usually you receive your share by going to a designated drop-off point and collecting it there, or by going to the farm. You support local farmers and get fresh vegetables, hard to go wrong with that.

Mmm, boxes of fresh veggies (and occasionally flowers) every week for 19 weeks. Plus early greens in May if I want to go out to the farm, which isn't all that far from work. We decided to go with a single share rather than a two-person share, mostly because this is an experiment. Having a box of vegetables show up, some of which I may not have ever considered cooking with before, and having to figure out what to do with them rather than figuring out what I want to make and then buying ingredients should be an interesting challenge. It looks from last year's list like I'll be learning to like a lot of greens. If you're local and interested in buying a CSA share, there's a list of local farms accepting customers currently and their scheduled drop-off points on the Post's web site. The USDA link in the previous paragraph has links to databases to look up local CSA farms in other areas.

Comments

[wolfy.livejournal.com]

No DCfC for me either. Pre-sale was on the 8th...:)

[geekchick]

Well, there's always the general on-sale on Saturday, although I doubt I'd have much better luck there.

If you want to laugh at people who have absolutely no sense of perspective, go peek at comments on DCist where people have aneurysms because of DCist posting presale passwords, when on this occasion they didn't even post it. Sheesh!

[free-of-whip.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip on Bull Run Mountain CSA farm. I reserved a share for us, too. They have a pick-up point on Dupont Circle, which is right near my office. I figure it may cost somewhat more than equivalent vegetables would at the Giant. However, if having fresh vegetables constantly available results in a higher proportion of our diet being vegetables rather than meat, it will save money.

Also, you can change your pick-up point with one day's notice, and you can assign your share for the week to someone else. So if you or we ever can't make it on pick-up day, the one who can't make it could assign that week's veggies to the one who can, to avoid wasting them.

[geekchick]

However, if having fresh vegetables constantly available results in a higher proportion of our diet being vegetables rather than meat, it will save money.

My hope is that having fresh vegetable show up and having already paid for them will inspire me to both eat more vegetables and do more cooking at home.