irrelevant poetry thingy

gacked from angevin2

I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled; Not prone to overstated gushing praise Nor yet to seething rants and anger, filled With overstretched opinions to rephrase; But on the other hand, not fond of fools, And thus, not fond of people, on the whole; And holding to the sound and useful rules, Not those that seek unjustified control. I'm balanced, measured, sensible (at least, I think I am, and usually I'm right); And when more ostentatious types have ceased, I'm still around, and doing, still, alright. In short, I'm calm and rational and stable - Or, well, I am, as much as I am able. What Poetry Form Are You?

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Last weekend, I bought a pot to cook pasta in. We have a perfectly good 6-quart saucepan, with a lid that has a section with strainer holes in it, but who knows where it is? The only pots and pans we had been able to find so far were our 3-cup saucepan, our 6-cup saucepan, and our frying pan. None of which is useful when one needs to boil 4 to 6 quarts of water. Well, we wound up getting a 12-quart pot, because it was on sale for $40. That was as cheap as, maybe cheaper than, most 8-quart pots, which would have been more practical, I guess. But here this was, only $40 and included a steamer insert. We didn't get it from Amazon, but here's a picture of the exact thing, from Amazon (click the link, I'm not going to use up bandwidth bringing the pic in here): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006U6530/102-8025638-9057763?v=glance

So, this thing is monstrous huge. Even though it was a bargain, and even though an 8-quart would have cost a little more, perhaps I shouldn't have. Yes, it's certainly easy to put 6 quarts of water in it, and boil up some pasta. But... it's hard to wash! I can fill it by pouring water in from a pitcher, but one can't wash it out that same way. Of course, part of the fault is the apartment kitchen - sink is not the largest thing around, and does not have a pull-out hose thing, which would help. So perhaps this will be less of a nuisance once we find a house. Of course, at that point I will have found my 6-quart saucepan...

I shall have to invite people over to supper once we find a house, so that there is a good reason to use this. If it's too late in the year to steam corn, and too far beyond our budget to steam lobsters, I will find SOMETHING to cook that requires a larger pot to justify this thing!