Well…I have been making homemade pizza for a long time now but I really haven’t been happy how it has been turning out…I know I haven’t made it since I moved in here so my memory of how the last one came out could be a little fuzzy…but I do remember that it didn’t have a lot of flavor and that I have been adjusting the crust recipe bit by bit over the years and I think I may have screwed it up doing that…I added an extra quarter cup of water to it since it felt a little dry and I started to use vegetable oil instead of olive oil in the crust….and I think those two changes were wrong since the crust came out really sticky and didn’t taste like much…so today, I went back to the original recipe and it came out so much better and the crust was even a little crunchy and not the gooey consistency it had gotten to…so, I have enough materials to make another one Wed…and the idiot I am, I think I may add some garlic powder to the crust or maybe some Italian seasoning to bump up the flavor even more…but just enough so you barely taste it but it’s there…but, that’s all I had to eat today…two pieces of pizza and I wonder if that’s enough? I think so….or I may have some cheese and crackers with the SB tonight….who knows?
Spring is slowly coming…
Well…I know we are in the part of winter that tries people’s coping skills here in Michigan and it is only about 15 out there right now and that is damn cold…but, when I went out to shovel the snow, by the time I got the front walks done the sun had already started to melt the remaining snow on my walks at the back of the house…and that means the sun is getting slowly stronger no matter what the temp is out there…and looking at the 10 day weather forecast, I can see that we have a short spell of moderating temps that give me a little hope that the worst is over for this winter…and it gives me a little bit of a smile that I’ve survived another winter here without much damage…but, I don’t want to speak too soon since I remember getting over a foot of snow in an April snowstorm when I was young and that can still happen….I will take any small hint that spring is coming…I’m an optimist, after all…kinda…
The apologists at fox news have a new talking point…
Well…damn, the idiot apologists at fox news have a brand new talking point that they are using to help justify Putin invading and annexing Ukraine…listen to this one: it is okay for Russia to invade since Ukraine used to be part of the old soviet union and all Putin is doing is re-capturing what used to be theirs anyway…now, yes, this is just as stupid as it sounds…so let’s think about this for a minute…under those terms, England has every right to invade and annex the US since it used to belong to them before the Revolutionary War….or go back farther…the Native Americans have every right to attack and annex the entire US since it belonged to them before white people came here and took if from them…or how about England attacking and annexing India since it used to be a colony of theirs and belonged to them…or France or Portugal could take back any part of Africa that used to be colonies of theirs…you get the idea…there are no great minds at fox news…and in my long lifetime, I can never remember a “news” organization in the US that rooted for or is rooting for the US to fail and for our enemies to defeat us….this is some sick crap and there should be a law against it…the first amendment be damned…okay, yeah…the only way the first amendment works is for all speech to be protected…not just what you agree with….geez…
February 13th
Well…damn, I feel so much better this morning after getting back on track with being good last night…and I slept okay…got up at 5:34 but that’s okay with hitting the sack early….and it’s Sunday! This is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week with not getting on the bike and just doing whatever I want all day….had a good day yesterday but the bike ride was really a hard one with not feeling so hot…and I didn’t do much which was a good start to my week off that isn’t going to be a week off…I know myself well enough to know that I won’t even get through today without doing some cleaning downstairs and that’s okay since it will get me closer to having it done…and I really like how clean the dust room area came out and I have a space to get everything organized now…I do need to get a new mop head or mop this week since I need one for upstairs, too…I can’t wait for this damn cold weather to moderate some…it’s only 11 degrees out there and the door going into the garage was frozen closed and I had to lean on it to get it to open…at least the lock worked this time and I didn’t have to get my torch to melt the ice…probably should wd it later today when I go out to do the snow…not much to do today…just the snow and watching some Olympics along with the super bowl later…and I’m making a home made pizza for lunch and it’s nice to have my dining room table cleared for prep finally….going to make a mess but that’s okay…have only done homemade pizza once since I’ve been out here and that is too long….more later…
fox news are Russian sympathizers…
Well…as Russia keeps threatening to invade the Ukraine, every damn person on fox news is parroting Putin’s talking points that the only reason he wants to go to war is to keep Ukraine out of NATO since that would “threaten Russia’s security”….and Tucker and the rest of them are all essentially saying that it is Biden’s fault since he won’t knuckle under to Putin’s threats…if Biden would just give in to the Russian thug, everything would be just hunky dory and Putin will stop his threats…and all of this from the party who thinks themselves to be the toughest on the world stage but that is just bullshit since their only go to is appeasement to the thug dictators who are threatening the world…and they just love themselves some dictators like Putin and Orban and are doing everything they can to make the job of the US harder trying to rein in these thugs and support them at every point…what the hell happened to the understanding that conflicts over foreign policy ends at the water’s edge? I think fox really wants this war to happen so it will tank the economy and hurt Biden while raising their ratings…and every damn one of them is a traitor….geez…
Have to wait on the dentist…
Well…it looks like I’ll have to wait on the dentist until Monday since I need to find one who will take my Medicare insurance…just remembered today that I have some dental insurance on my advantage plan that will cover two cleanings and one set of x-rays every year and that should save me almost 300 bucks before they start on the rest of the work I need done…but I can’t find out til Monday who out here will take Medicare so everything’s on hold for a couple of days…the pain is not nearly as bad today so I can live with it for a few more days….and I’ll just sit here and hope it doesn’t get worse until then…darn…
This is harder than I thought it would be…
Well…I can make a fist with both hands! That is something I didn’t think I would be able to do for weeks after all of the abuse I did to them working on the kitchen cabinets…but, they are still cracked everywhere and that hurts as much as the muscle pain…but, that’s not what this is about…as you know, I have planned to take a week off working to heal everything that hurts after the kitchen work…but, it’s 9:20 on the first day of my week off and I’ve already run out of things that I wanted to do…I’ve always had problems taking it easy…it’s just not me but I have to figure out how to do it as I get older and the work wears on my body more…I know, hard problem to have, huh? I suppose I could just go back to work on the downstairs since there is still dust to clean up but I still have rashes from the dust and I need those to clear before I head back into it again…okay, done whining…for now…more later….
February 12th
Well…that was a huge, huge mistake…had just one cocktail last night and my stomach feels like I was drinking acid all night…and I didn’t sleep well at all so that is the last time I’ll ever think about doing that…I guess you have to go back to feeling bad to understand how good you feel taking care of yourself…so I am going to suffer all day today and take it easy until I feel better…I really can’t imagine having 3 cocktails in a night anymore…don’t know what I was thinking going all that time abusing my body….I did get a few things done yesterday and it does feel good to have my coffee table fixed and to have a clean living room but I’m not doing much today with how I feel…I am glad I got the snow cleared yesterday when it was warm since it is only 18 out there right now and all of the slush has turned into a block of ice….and it looks like we have one final storm coming in on Thursday of next week that is going to dump about 8 inches of snow on us out here so I’ll have to plan for that one…it hasn’t been a bad winter out here and the temps appear to be moderating for most of the week and will be up around 40 for most of the week…okay, nope that has changed and it looks like a normal Feb week with highs in the 20’s until late in the week…darn…not much to do today…just the bike ride and then taking it easy for the day…I am still going to try to take the week off and shut off the guilts for a while…more later…
Breaking the dry time tonight…
Well…crap…have had a tooth screaming at me all day and can’t get in to the dentist until Tuesday so it looks like I may be breaking the dry month tonight to deal with the pain if the orajel and ibuprofen doesn’t do it…crap, and crap again….I had planned to get on the dental work this week since I’m taking the week off and I know I’ve needed it for a long time but I really wanted to do it on my schedule …but maybe it’s a good thing I’m being forced to get started on it…it is going to cost multiple thousands to get everything done but I may as well get started on it so I can finally eat something cold or hot without pain…and they need to remove the molar that has been loose for years and start figuring out if I need to put an implant in to replace it…and that will be thousands more so maybe I won’t be able to afford another Miata this year…crap again…oh, well…
Got the living room done…
Well…yeah, okay…I am cheating a little to get the post count up and try to keep pace with the record number I did last month…but, with three days less this month, I won’t make it but I’ll keep trying so who knows? The living room has been bugging the heck out of me for the past few weeks with all of the dust and neglect that lead to the black tv and tv stand turning grey with all of the dust…and the couch cushions were all wonky with being out of shape with me not rotating them for over a month…and it too was covered in dust and I vacuumed the whole thing and now it looks new again…and I washed the floors on my hands and knees since my mop self destructed doing the basement floor the other day and I had to do them by hand…but it is cool that it is only a little after 11 and I am done for the day other than putting the laundry away that I am doing right now….as I said yesterday, it is really nice to have some semblance of organization in here again but I still have some more to do that will have to wait a while…I need to finish the coffee and make some lunch in a bit but I am going to enjoy my work a bit first and watch some Olympics….and maybe do another one of these later…after all, I’ve got all day…