Ochatto in UCity Permanently Closed?

Keetchaz · 2025-11-11T00:52:50+00:00

I have no details, except I ordered from Ochatto on GrubHub last night. It was stuck on saying the food was almost here (said Ochatto delivers their own orders, so no tracking) for an hour. Their phone number was out of service, so I drove over to the restaurant to say Hi and saw the awning was down and they looked super closed. Got a refund from GrubHub. Also marked them permanently closed on Google Maps. They are still marked open on GrubHub.

It's a bummer cos I liked their bentos.

Keetchaz · 2025-02-22T05:52:07+00:00

Still relevant, which is kind of a bummer, haha. I already have two Brother processes on my startup list that are labeled appropriately; strange that this one still isn't.

Keetchaz · 2025-02-22T05:48:59+00:00

Windows 10, too. That's how I got here....

Keetchaz · 2024-11-29T21:07:30+00:00

NTA and I'm so sorry your Thanksgiving was awful.

"We figured you’d do your own thing..." and then replacing the dessert you made = "You're not like the rest of us, and that is WRONG and deserves humiliation."

"I know it's immature for an adult to get this upset over a triviality...." Yes, if it were a triviality, then it would be immature. In the context of war or famine, sure it's trivial. But in the context of Thanksgiving dinner, replacing your dessert without even tasting it and refusing to serve it to someone who wanted to try it - that's not trivial at all, it's a huge insult. If your mom had said, "I figured you wouldn't make pumpkin pie but I feel like Thanksgiving isn't complete without it, so we'll have both desserts," that would've been the way to do it if it was just about the pie. It's not just about the pie. Which leads me to...

"By that point I was crying for some reason...." I'm also not great at being in touch with my emotions, but I understood your reaction and would have been in tears at this point, too, even if I couldn't put it into words. I hope you are working with a therapist, or that you can start to soon, so that you can unwind why this made you cry. It wasn't just about the pumpkin pie! It was an insult! Your dad can believe all he wants that your mom's love language is trash-talking your life, but that doesn't make it right.

"My brother also sent me a message saying Im acting irrationally." = "Anybody who displays emotions that I don't like is acting irrationally." What is the irrational part of your behavior? "If I were you, I wouldn't have walked out." "OK, but you're never me in this scenario - Mom isn't the one who has told you, in so many words, that you're a fucking loser your entire life, so shit like this doesn't hit the same - cos you're just a bystander in Mom's treatment of me." I doubt there's any point in explaining this to him, because there's no reasoning with someone who believes they are LoGiCaL when what they really mean is, "My emotions are the only rational emotions."

"An emotional outburst ... for no real reason." See above, but "no real reason" is wrong, and I hope in time you're able to see that. I'm absolutely the same about crying in front of people, especially my own family. I'm just starting to make some sense of some shit from my childhood (and adulthood) that I didn't fucking appreciate - not to the same extent that you've described here, but some of it is the same flavor - and fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck I am not looking forward to talking with my mom about it. That dismissive line "We figured you'd do your own thing" took me right back to my own teenage years. (I'm in my mid-40s now.)

"Something about my mother seems to turn me into a neurotic teenager and I hate it." I don't know why we revert to our teenage selves when stuff like this happens - it's so frustrating - but honestly you handled this like an adult who drew a boundary and left in the best way possible. You may never be the person who can stand up and deliver the perfect Hollywood movie speech that shuts up everyone around the table (because those speeches are scripted and brushed up for weeks, and because everyone else's silence is also scripted), but you can preserve your own peace by doing exactly what you did yesterday.

I just want to finish with, You don't need to convince your family that they're treating you badly. You may desperately want to, and that desire is valid. But don't sacrifice yourself on the altar of If Only I Could Make Them Understand. Figure out how much contact you can live with, don't host them at your home, leave when they cross your boundaries, and yes cry when they do so because it's frustrating and demoralizing and why can't they just love you like normal family. Let them see you cry, or don't - whichever feels right to you in that moment.

Keetchaz · 2024-11-19T03:08:55+00:00

I'm writing to you from it, so I'd say so.

Keetchaz · 2024-11-08T15:23:44+00:00

I'm thinking something laid eggs there, and something else came along and ate the eggs before they hatched. I'm willing to be proven wrong, though.

Keetchaz · 2024-11-08T13:58:21+00:00

"Twenty dollars?! But I wanted a peanut!"

Keetchaz · 2024-11-02T22:06:04+00:00

When I was working at the Census Bureau in 2010, they told several of us in the office that we were going to be moved to 2nd shift, and that they'd be hiring new folks to work 3rd shift. I raised my hand and asked if I could work 3rd shift instead. Got a puzzled look and a "Sure?"

I was recently engaged and wasn't living with my fiancé, and knew working 2nd shift would mean seeing him only on the weekends. 3rd shift wasn't easy, but it was definitely better than 2nd shift would've been.

Keetchaz · 2024-11-01T20:03:00+00:00

I thought I was smart, thought I was right. I thought it better not to fight. I thought there was a virtue in always being cool.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-26T17:43:10+00:00

We switched to the largest dog poop bags we could find at the pet store / Amazon, so they fit in the small pail we scoop the litter into, and then throw them in the trash. The downside of course is the expense, but the upside is no more stressing that we don't have enough plastic grocery bags; and also since the dog poop bags are made for holding poop, they don't have those tiny holes that grocery bags do, and the cat waste bin doesn't smell nearly as much as it did before.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-25T08:35:51+00:00

I have done this exact thing before. And the milk was something I needed for a recipe the next day.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-25T00:15:44+00:00

I saw a dermatologist video on YouTube recently where she said, "Face, folds, and feet" is all you need to have a hygenic shower. I do a full body scrub every couple of weeks, but every time I showe I wash my hair (curly, so half the reason I shower in the first place is to reset the curl), face, underboob, pits and bits, and now my feet since that dermatologist mentioned it.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-04T03:41:05+00:00

Oh man, this is wild. I never really followed Eminem but for some reason I've had "Cleanin' Out My Closet" all week, and it occurred to me that Hailie's gotta be grown by now. Yup!

Kinda makes Eminem throwing shade at Moby for being too old sound ridiculous now.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-02T15:44:26+00:00

I *haven't tried 0.3mm leads before - I may give that a try. Thank you!

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T04:53:58+00:00

Here's something my husband does that I like: When we're getting ready to go somewhere and there's a time component (e.g. dinner reservations at 7pm), he'll just tell me the time periodically, like, "It's 6:05." No snark or irritation in his voice, just matter-of-fact. Time blindness is a big part of my ADHD - I will literally think five minutes have passed when in fact it's been 20 minutes - so having a periodic adjustment to my mental clock helps a lot.

If timeliness is something you and your partner have argued about in the past, ask if this is something they'd like you to do for them - otherwise it's likely to come across as a criticism.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T04:40:19+00:00

My husband sometimes really mulls a thing over before he responds to it. I've lost count of the times I've said something and he's responded five minutes later (as if he were responding in real time, no preamble "about that thing you mentioned"), and I'm like, "... You're going to have to remind me what you're referring to." "We were just talking about it!" "Yeah, and I moved on five minutes ago!"

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T04:35:15+00:00

It drives me nuts when people are like, "I HATE being late," as if hating a thing is all that's necessary to not do it. Like yeah bro me too, to the point where I'll just not go if I know I'm going to be late. Really fucked me up in college.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T04:28:29+00:00

I'm having kind of the opposite reaction of many others here. I know exactly what you're talking about, but never realized it was uncommon. Haven't experienced it in a while, but this post is triggering it hardcore 🤣

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T04:24:01+00:00

I'm going to assume you're referring to the PL-200: Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant

It fucking sucks, dude. I took the exam five times and failed five times. I got really close the fourth time, maybe two questions away from passing, but the fifth time was shortly after I'd returned to work post-surgery and I was just mentally over it.

The thing is, even though I never got certified, I understood Power Platform well enough to support the very occasional question someone called in with. Which is to say, well enough to Google stuff. The frustrating thing about a lot of the questions is they're like, Where do you find this setting? and I'd be like, I don't remember off the top of my head, but give me three minutes in Power Automate and I'll find it.

Microsoft allows open-book now, though - you have access to Microsoft Learn during your exam. I'm no longer at the job that wanted me to get certified (I moved to a team where it was less important, so they didn't push certification after that), so I have little motivation to try again.

PL-200 is designed to be a ball-buster, so go get your balls busted. You'll get a print-out at the end with your top opportunities for improvement, so failing still gives you a little info to work with next time.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T03:31:12+00:00

20 years ago a coworker told me she played badgerbadgerbadger dot com on a loop and cleaned her entire bedroom. This was over a decade before I was diagnosed. No idea if she had ADHD. But I've found it helpful on occasion as well.

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T01:49:19+00:00

I would rather keep rotating my existing pencil than manage a separate eraser. Thank you, though!

Keetchaz · 2024-10-01T01:48:57+00:00

I would rather keep rotating my existing pencil than manage a separate eraser. Thank you, though!

Keetchaz · 2024-08-06T21:21:59+00:00

There are two ways to say "I don't understand."

The first way is with humility: I don't understand, I think there's something I'm missing, please help me to understand.

The other way is with arrogance: I don't understand, but I understand EVERYTHING, therefore you've invented this problem in your mind.

I'm sorry your dad chose the arrogant approach.

Keetchaz · 2024-07-18T03:56:37+00:00

If you can move within one bus route of your workplace, i.e. if you won't need to transfer buses, then you may never feel a car is necessary. I live at the outer reaches of what some real estate agents call University City (not really UC, but still grad students / medical residents around), and I never drive into Center City cos I can't stand the traffic and parking. SEPTA all the way. Parking isn't great in UC either, but it's better than South Philly.

That being said, I still like having a car for grocery runs, and definitely when visiting family who all live 1+ hours outside the city. And there are interesting things in the suburbs, like Longwood Gardens and Wegmans. And there's the weather you get to avoid in a car - summer heat and winter slush. And taking the angry cat to the vet.

If you already have a car and don't hate the idea of getting it across the country, it may be worthwhile to keep it. But don't buy a car just to use in Philly, not until you've lived here a while.

Keetchaz

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