Well…I think I’m on this theme of new soups that I have been making lately and I made another one today…a chicken/tortilla Mexican style soup that came out pretty good…even had a bowl and a half for lunch since I didn’t want or have room for a second container…I think the next time I make it, I’ll add some tomato sauce to up the tomato flavor sine I really like it…this is a keeper but if I keep making soup., it will be all that I eat anymore…it is pretty funny that so far this year, I have only eaten from scratch food that I made…no frozen food or anything else…and it is cool to be able to control what I put in to keep the salt and fat levels down…today’s soup only had one tblsp of olive oil to saute the onion and garlic in…and it used boneless/skinless chicken…okay, my little weather widget just said heavy rain later and I wonder if we are on the warm side of the big storm front that is coming through…it was supposed to start snowing at 10 this morning but it really hasn’t snowed much and I hope it stays that way….
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MeTV+
Well…not sure if your system carries the MeTV+ channel but you have to stop watching it…I turned it on for the old tv shows the other day and every damn commercial is a maga one…lots of them from Hillsdale college pushing their free right wing “propaganda” classes where they are trying to groom the next generation of maga idiots…and lots of the ads are thinly disguised attacks on democrats and especially Joe Biden…they seem to think everything Joe does is unconstitutional and “destroying our freedoms”…and the main theme running through that is that we need to go back the the original meaning of the constitution where women can’t vote and men should be the only ones in charge…I’m not sure who owns that station but propaganda like that should be illegal….it could be that the one I get is from Florida which we all know is a sinkhole of maga bullshit…please don’t reward these assholes by giving eyes to these ads…geez…
January 12th
Well…man, what a weird couple of days with not sleeping at all for over 40 hours…but that ended last night when it felt like someone just pulled my batteries a little after 10 and I hit the sack and was out until 5:20 this morning then laid back down til 6:33…and that was welcome….not sure why my body behaved that way but I know I’m still feeling it this morning and will have to ease into the day at a reduced energy level….no snow yet but the wind is ramping up to the 50+ we’re supposed to get later…I’m going to hunker down in my nice warm house and enjoy the day of shoveling snow and maybe making another new recipe of chicken tortilla soup that looks really good…that will push the chicken masala back to Sunday but I really want to keep trying new recipes…and this one is for the instant pot and I like using that….didn’t get much done yesterday but the bike rides and I’ll get to that in a little while but I really need to take it easy and let the coffee work for a bit…not much to do today…it’s going to be a low energy day and I need to roll with that for now…only sleeping 7 hours in two days with 3 hours of sleep a day for the previous 3 days has worn me right out….I’m tired…more later…
Still haven’t slept…
Well…okay, this is really weird…still haven’t slept since I got out of bed early wed morning…tried to take a nap this afternoon but couldn’t even get close…I am curious what will happen tonight…what if I never sleep again? Have to have two more teeth removed since they are still infected and loose but they won’t make any difference with chewing since they don’t have any opposing teeth…but this ends the extractions until I die…so, I guess I’m going to clean my teeth right now and settle in for the night…it looks like were getting bombed with snow tomorrow starting in the morning and we could get 8-15 inches with high winds and drifting…but I am prepared for hibernation til next week….
Idiot boy’s first trial ended…
Well…just saw it come across the news that the idiot trump’s trial for business fraud ended this afternoon…and the judge who is deciding how much more than the original 250 million dollar fine he is going to have to pay said he will have a decision by the end of the month…the AG has asked for at least 370 million and a ban on any of the family ever owning or running a business in NY again…I for one don’t think the penalty fits the crime at all…they should all go to jail for an ongoing fraud that has been going on for 40 years at least…can’t wait for the criminal cases to get going and take up all of the asshole’s time an shut him the hell up…geez…
The polls are swinging…
Well…I can’t believe I haven’t slept since Wed morning and I still can’t take a nap….but I did want to talk a little bit about the polls that are starting to swing toward Joe Biden….just yesterday, one was released that showed Joe with a 7 point lead in NH, a repub state with a repub governor…and almost every poll for the past two weeks showed Joe with a growing lead…I think he should be up by 50 but that’s just because I read the news that is not fox…one surprising poll that came out earlier this week polled people over 65 and this is where I want to wait for another one before I believe it…that poll has Joe up by 64 to 36%….I think that older folks like me are getting tired of living in fear of the repubs destroying the SS we live on…and that’s the thing…the dems do everything they can to make Medicare and SS stronger while the repubs want to steal the money we paid in to give tax cuts to the rich…and we need to be shouting this from every rooftop and asking this question to every repub who crawls out from under their rock…we need to keep pushing them because it works…geez…
This is weird…
Well…this is weird…didn’t sleep at all last night and I don’t feel too bad right now…was on the bike for the first ride before 5am and finished up the second before 7…now I’m just finishing up the coffee before I have to clean my teeth to get ready for the dentist…I do need to stop at depot on the way back here to get some melting salt and I forgot some stuff at aldis so I need to stop there, too…but they are in the same parking lot so no big deal…with the really cold weather coming, I’m going to need to keep the walks salted…and shoveled since we’re supposed to get snow every day for the next ten days…oh, well…my car is not going anywhere til late next week…
January 11th
Well…that really sucked…went to bed late and it’s 3:30 am and I’m still waiting for sleep to come so it looks like I’ll shift into low power mode today since I have a dentist appointment at 8:30…at least I’ll be able to get the bike rides in before I have to go out…and then it’s hibernation mode with the big storm coming in Friday night with possible 8-10 inches of snow and high winds…ick…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get much done but the normal stuff but I need to cook today since I’m out of leftovers and it looks like I’m going to make a batch of lentil soup today and then chicken masala tomorrow…have the ingredients for 4 or 5 new recipes so I’ll be good until the end of next week….it did snow last night but not enough to be a problem getting out of here today and they even plowed the roads so that will help….and it’s only a few miles to my dentist’s office on the main roads so that should be easy….so I’m going to sit here for a littl while longer and make one more stab at get a couple of hours of sleep…more later…
A good day…
Well…it’s been a pretty good day today and I carved out some reading time and have almost finished up the second of the three books I got from the library…after doing the two rides this morning, I went out to shovel the snow and got everything done around noon…even got the weight work done early while I was watching soccer so I didn’t have to rush through it this evening…after ten days or so of doing that daily, I think I can notice small differences in my arms and shoulders so that is cool…tonight is going to be a boring one with no cocktails since I have a dentist appointment at 8:30am and I want to be clear for that…got a statement from the bank about my mortgage on this place and I only owe 44,000 bucks…down 8 grand in three years so now I have almost 100K in equity in this place and that feels pretty good…I’ve come a long way from being totally broke 5 years ago and borrowing money from my daughter to stay alive…time for tv…
Roger Stone should be arrested…
Well…this is probably a little too obscure do most people haven’t heard of it yet…just the other day it was reported that Roger Stone, one of the idiot trump’s henchmen who he pardoned just before we threw idiot boy out of office, was plotting to kidnap and murder Rep Eric Swalwell and Rep Jerry Nadler before the election in an attempt scare people into not voting for Biden…and he was conspiring with a police office who was working security for him…and they have the whole thing on tape…and as many other people have pointed out, a conspiracy does not have to be successful to be a crime…so I wonder if the justice department will do anything or is this just another time where the repubs can commit crimes and walk away from it? I am so tired of these repub assholes ruining this country with no consequences…geez…