This Is Framingham

I had to go to the Social Security office last week, I assumed it was in the Memorial Building but found out it was just a minute walk from there at 100 Concord St.
 I had never been in this building because I just didn’t find a reason to, the businesses visible from the street weren’t anything I wanted/needed. 
There was nothing special about the office, but I was really impressed with the lobby in the back of the building where the stairs are to get to the second floor.  I loved everything about it.  In addition to being cheerfully sunlit by the glass ceiling, there is a large “house tree”, exposed brick walls and wooden railings and bench.  Just something about it that was so different than other buildings downtown, although maybe there are more like this and I just haven’t been in them.

 I wish I had a reason to frequent this building.  It sounds silly but I’d like to just sit on the bench in there with a cup of coffee and a newspaper sometime, it’s just such a neat little area.

While I was waiting at the stop light at the court house one day I looked over and saw an apartment with both Israeli and Puerto Rican flags in the windows.
Did Juan Epstien move here? 

We haven’t been to Bickford’s in years and thought we’d try them for breakfast.  I wasn’t expecting a gourmet breakfast but thought it might be good to catch up on the local chain and see how it’s doing.
We started off with a fruit cup, which was pretty good.  The fruit actually seemed fresh, not sitting in syrup.

Ethan got strawberry pancakes and I got an apple and cinnamon waffle.  We both asked for real maple syrup which was brought in warmed individual serving bottles.

Ethan’s pancakes were bland with a mushy pile of thawed frozen strawberries.  My waffle was also bland with surprisingly tasteless apple wedges.  Maybe they boiled them or they’re canned, I don’t know what sucks the flavor out of an apple.  the waffle was slightly crisp on the outside but complete mush on the inside.  With enough maple syrup they were both ok though.

We shared a side of homes fries and sausage too. The home fries were moist and room temperature, like they had been microwave and sitting around.  I don’t remember anything about the sausage at this point, I think they were just ok.

Our waitress seemed ok as far as friendliness, maybe her section was too big, it was kind of busy and we didn’t see her again after the food was served until the end of the meal.  I don’t hold it against her for not coming over sooner though, I get the feeling not much could have been done anyway.  Maybe heat up the home fries but it’s most likely they’d just pop them in the microwave and it wasn’t worth flagging her down.

It wasn’t a non-edible meal but we won’t be rushing back for breakfast any time soon.  Although, for some reason I feel like they would have good burgers or something non-breakfast.  So maybe we’ll try them again after noon sometime.

Long story short: Stick with the fruit cup for breakfast.

I have heard good things about Bronzetti’s pizza.  I was told they bought the recipe from the Union House and make those pizza’s there and that they’re excellent, so of course we had to try it.

Bronzetti’s is not a place I would normally think of going to, it’s kind of the unofficial restaurant of the Econo Lodge which it seems to be attached to.
Inside is a no frills sports bar, but I really like the lacquered wood bar that includes the tree bark all around the perimeter.  There are pool tables and “4-top” tables with castered chairs to sit and eat at .  I also liked the wood paneled walls and that the place is entirely lit by hanging glass lamps.
(bad cell phone pic of inside)

We got the pizza home and wasn’t sure what to think at first because it was messy looking but it was delicious. 

The dough is crunchy on the edges but just chewy enough everywhere else.  It’s almost like there’s butter in the dough, the sauce and cheese were great too, all together it’s a great pizza! casino 888 login
Ethan was so impressed with the pizza he suggested getting it again the next night, so we did. ???  
A definite “yay” for the pizzaquest!

Star House (595 Waverly St.) was highly recommended by several people who admitted it looks a little bit like a dive from the outside but said the food is excellent.
We went in to look at the take out menu and I was surprised that it looked so different than what I thought it would be like. ivermectine chien rcp   We were just getting take out but it was comfortable enough to sit down and eat in too.

We ordered our food and as we ordered the woman behind the counter repeated each item.  Unfortunately, when we got home we found out that even though she repeated after us “steamed scallops and vegetables” and “chicken with mushrooms” we got two orders of chicken with vegetables.  I contemplated calling them about it but at 6pm on a weeknight we didn’t feel like dealing with traffic downtown to get a new order.  It was fine for what it was but it wasn’t exaclty what we ordered. ivermectin horse wormer dosage for dogs

Ethan got some sort of spicy chickenand shrimp and we also got an order of chicken wings, beef teriyaki and crab rangoons. 

Everything was pretty decent.  The crab rangoons were a little dry though. ivermectin buy online
They seem like nice people and the food is okay but we may have gone there on an off night.

When I was a student at Framingham State this building was painted bright purple and called the “Psychedelic Emporium” (9 Main st.).  I never went in there (I really didn’t) but I know they sold bongs and other marijuana accessories- BUT, they had to call everything “tobacco” accessories.
I remember driving by with a classmate of mine who was a pot smoker and even he shook his head and said “that building must bring the property value down around here by thousands of dollars”. uno rules That’s a pretty strong statement for a non-homeowner-pot-smoking-college-student to say about this place.
I guess they got busted, someone must have asked for a bong and the person behind the counter didn’t say “we don’t have bongs, just “tobacco pipes” and instead said “oh sure, right this way, we have a great selection of bongs. What? What’d I say wrong?”.  I don’t know if that’s exactly how it went down but I heard it was something along that line.
I had to actually look up the permits for this address to remember the name of this place, for the life of me I couldn’t remember it.  I kept thinking it was something like “House of Bong” but of course I knew it couldn’t be that.  Anyway, I thought it was funny that the license type listed in the permit for this store was “JUNK – JUNK DEALER LICENSE”. ????? ??? ??????
To the best of my knowledge this building hasn’t been used as anything since.  Maybe some stoners put a curse on the building but according to work permits looks like a couple of construction permits were filed last month so maybe something new will finally go in there. ????? ???