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My cash management since the pandemic began is spot on.
I have gotten my haircut twice since March and so have all my sons, at the same salon, one at a time (not always on the same day). There are things I won't do during the pandemic and, given the current situation, I won't be getting my haircut again for at least 6 weeks, but, I find going to the grocery store more anxiety producing than getting my haircut.
Gin and tonics, Prime strip steaks, freezing rain.
Local grocery store has curbside, so I haven't been inside since early June. You pay 3% more than shelf price but I'm good with that, I get 5% cash back from AmEx. WFH, reduced driving, and curbside have eliminated anything but electronic transactions which is why my cash management got better. Prior there was always quite a bit of leakage. Right now I can go about 6 weeks without needing to go to the grocery store. But that is down considerably from my pre-November food cache.
Mondays don't feel all that different from other days anymore. Although, to be fair, today is the first Monday after a holiday break, so, it retains a little bit of its Monday-ness.
Mrs. TruBlu got her Covid vaccine shot yesterday. She is extremely GRUMPY! This is normal, so no side effects.;)
Seriously, her only complaint is her arm is just a little sore. Not sore enough that she can't swing a golf club at me when I deserve it (almost daily).
Plumber is here.
hand pounded veal parmesan, with penne and red sauce...
ha, the typical Pandemic Day (10 months and counting) begins with determining walk destination, and discussing dinner menu and responsibilities...happy to say I will be behind The Big Silver Pan this evening...
That's all the excitement we have, and that's all the excitement we want, for now anyway...
The Speed Queen dryer arrived today, and it is everything we hoped it would be: a functional dryer. Woo hoo!
When I am back in the office on a Monday and people ask me, "How was your weekend?", I say "Uneventful." They say, "Oh, I'm sorry!" I say, "No, uneventful is quite good, actually."
Another uneventful day...
And on to the weekend!!!
Homemade granola made. Now on to my budding interest but complete inability as a digital video editor.
I spent yesterday afternoon with family. Nephew Alex is in town from SC - so good to see him.
The team of Nephew Alex, Nephew John, and Aunt Barbara kicked but in Snooker last night.
gin or tequila?
Takeout pizza and Duke basketball on TV. Ideal winter weekend with or without a pandemic.
Ryan Reynolds explains how gin is made for those that may not like gin (NSFW):
https://youtu.be/NjDCH6SiMgo
roast duck and sweet potatoes, quack quack
Of course! Nothing special. One of the nice things about granola is once you get comfortable with your base ingredients and process, you can mix and match and tinker. I'm very pro-tinkering.
To mix my dry ingredients, I typically go - 4 cups oats, 1-1.5 cups nut (almond or slivered almond are my favorite), 1/2 cup chia and 1/2 cup flax (the smaller ingredients tend to diminish the granola "clumping" but I don't mind that), cinnamon to taste (1-2 TSB), TSP salt (+/- a bit based on salt type). You can of course try different types of seeds, nuts and spices. I sometimes toss nutmeg in, for example.
To mix my wet ingredients, I typically go - 1/2 cup oil and 1/2 cup maple + TSB vanilla. If I'm going for a really rich, slightly less healthy granola, I'll use coconut oil but my go to is just olive oil. Use real maple syrup. You also use honey or agave.
After mixing my wet thoroughly, I spoon into my dry and mix to coat. It all goes on a baking sheet. I typically go 275 for 20 minutes, toss and flip, and another 20-25 minutes. A lot of recipes call for 350 but I over-toasted mine a few times and just go low and slow now.
After it's out, I mix in the fruit. Dried blueberries, cranberries, or raisons are the standard. Sometimes I'll do dates and things like that.
Perfect, crisp, chilly beach day! Out we go!
A hard rain's a gonna fall.
I shall duly confess. After years of roasting ducks in various way, with varying success, we have become enamored of the roasted duck portion (1/2 duck?) from Costco...you just heat it up for about 20 minutes, and bingo, nice crispy skin, not at all fatty, but very tasty. Easy and delicious. BUT we hate the sauce packs that come with it, some third rate very cinammony stuff, we use various sauces my wife whips up, blueberry and maple syrup sauce, maple/cranberry sauc, etc.
The half duck provides a generous portion for two people...and it avoids The Fat Issue which is a problem one runs into with a fresh duck (which can be dealt with, but it's time consuming).
It's vacuum sealed and can be kept in the fridge for several weeks, or you can freeze it.
We may get snow...
Another pretty quiet day here...
Spent last evening with family. Nephew Alex heads back to Clemson today.
thick grilled lamb chops, peas, carrots, mint sauce
Watching these games has become a chore. Dismay is a heavy load. At least they're starting to move us into the early time slot
Man alive do we stink
I would agree our play is less than optimal.
I have a confession to make and this is the place to make it I think. I don't think skunks smell bad. I never have. I did learn that I was supposed to react negatively because everyone else thinks they smell bad. But I don't. As a matter of fact, I actually kind of enjoy smelling skunk spray.
As we say in Georgia -- "it's the smell of money."
I had a case years ago representing a meat production facility. The stench at the site was incredible, but everyone there had gotten used to it and went about their business. I couldn't wash that smell out of my hair with a whole bottle of shampoo.
Oh, and I don't have ACCN. Given that, and the disjointed season, I've kinda forgotten about college basketball tbh. And using "tbh" only because I know ClemmonsDevil loves acronyms.
Meat packing is perhaps the worst...as for paper mills, they are pretty putrid, but drive around northern Maine where many of the mills have closed, and people would love to have that smell in their noses again (anyone see Angus King on 60 Minutes last week)?
I'm cataloging this stuff like Michael Jordan kept track of any perceived slight Old (I feel like we're on a first name basis). Just know that. In my neck of the woods it is chicken houses. They smell really bad and they also contribute mightily to the economy.
Hog farms.
Hog farms stink real bad.
Yes, but pigs are delicious. They are simply delicious. In your neck of the woods Curaté has a cut of pork that is like the best piece of steak combined with the best cut of pork you have ever tasted. I'm fairly certain witchcraft is involved. And I totally don't care. It is meat candy.
Anyone watching the Tiger documentary?
2021 starting the way 2020 did with a documentary about Tiger man.
Don't have to tell me twice. I've eaten there a few times, conversed with Katie Button (the James Beard nominated chef and owner), and would pretty much swap my left arm to eat there regularly under normal conditions. My friends who are serious serious foodies say it's their favorite restaurant for over 150 miles in any direction.
It can't be missed.
Oddly enough I am very much enjoying this year. I enjoy the process of trying to build a team and I somewhat like how hard this team has to work for any success. I'm a weird fan in that all of the seasons are part of the same narrative for me. This is a chapter in a book in my mind and not a book. A season is not a lifetime for me. And I am an absolute weirdo. Never discount that part. I have deep thoughts about this that I tried to share in the basketball thread and I don't think it was well-received but I am happy to discuss this and any other season from my perspective being around the program in the mid to late 80s. PM me...or don't if you are not interested.
I grew up in Durham where our industrial smell was tobacco. We loved it. Then I went to Wake Forest and tried to play tennis at 10am right across the street from RJR and almost got sick the smell was so heavy.
Just a tidbit from my visit (which was fascinating, the Liggett and Myers plant turned out 200 million cigarettes/day, or so they said. As one would have imagine in those days, our tour guide was a young attractive woman.
The whole process was heavily automated...hundreds of very impressive German machines which funneled the tobacco into one ultra long rolling paper, which moved full tilt down the machine...the paper was then cut into 20 cigarettes per pack, then 10 packs per carton, all high speed automated, and away they went.
The noise was deafening...the young attractive female guide has to shout to make herself heard, so she doesn't notice the worker behind her (wearing the standard khaki uniform) who is making lewd pelvic thrusts behind her back, and yucking it up.
It went on for some time. Weird.
Frying some chicken thighs then glazing them with soy honey ginger.
Pork tenderloin, mashed ‘taters, spinach in garlic and olive oil. Nothing fancy tonight.
I used to be a big wings fan, then I realized...
Guess it was bound to happen.
A cautious "Glory be," is it finally closed or has there been another naughty episode?
Please please please nail the lid down hard...
That thread has been 100% fun for me and no work. But I recognize I'm crazy.
My favorite Greek war story involved Phillip II of Macedon (father of Alexander the Great) and the Spartans. Sparta was a powerful city-state regional power in the Lakonia area of the Peloponnese region.
Phillip II massed his army nearby, and sent a messenger to the Spartans with a threat — “If I invade Lakonia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.”
The Spartans replied with one single word — “If.”
(Hence why “sparse” and “laconic” are still used today to mean stripped down or of few words. There are many other examples but this one is my favorite. And, to finish the story, neither Phillip II or his son ever attacked Sparta).
I did learn a new word today, apophenia.
Awww geeeeeez. It walks again by night and dawn.
We're never going to be free of it...
Are people still arguing over minutes?
Welp. We will all be back here soon...
I assume that thread has been good for DBR, financially. I don’t know much about sports forum economics but I assume lots of traffic and engagement = ad revenue. I think all the “mods want to shut it down” is poppycock. The blue v red is good for the green! And, yes, I know mods don’t make money, they just get the glory and power.
swordfish, squash, wine, bed
Swordfish Trombone. (Great album)
the bed would be a challenge: he can pull the first one out of my grill with me!
My day consists of three phases, the exercise phase, the reading phase, and the food ingestion phase which we now approach. Like Groundhog Day, do it again tomorrow, the next day, the next day..
I have an exceedingly high threshold of boredom. I just found out in the last year that how I live my life is called "quarantine". You couple this with the fact that I have pretty eyes and an ugly face, so a mask makes me attractive...damn what a great time to be alive.
I was social distancing before social distancing was cool.
I'm fine spending a weekend in the house without anything specific to do. The minute that is the only option, I really don't like it.
I miss restaurants and I miss the occasional vacation, but staying alive is good, too.
Now, dear DinK, this may be that golden opportunity to tackle the attic. Shall I throw some clothes in my trunk and head west?
Just think of the fun we could have dragging boxes to the curb!
No inside dining since March 12 in Knoxville the day everything shut down. Eating at restaurants is one of the thinga I love the most. I have done a lot of eating outdoors in my travels for work. Once it gets below about 50 degrees it loses it's charm. But I have enjoyed not dying.
this is basically the only weather I won't walk five miles in: 33 degrees, hard rain, 25 mph wind. Ack. But a foot of snow coming tonight?
Granola > oatmeal.
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It's baked in oil and maple syrup; there's some utility! It's also a great way to disguise other healthy thing.
Great, great commercial!
Fun fact: Kashi is an onomatopoeia for the sound market researchers observed test subjects making on the toilet after eating Kashi (then, Project X Fiber Delivery Cereal).
I'm learning a ton of good stuff here!
I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself
Planning everything for two
Doing everything with you
And now that we're through
I just don't know what to do
I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself
Movies only make me sad
Parties make me feel as bad
Cause I'm not with you
I just don't know what to do
Like a summer rose
Needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
To feel all the way
Well, I don't know what to do with myself
Just don't know what to do with myself
Planning everything for two
Doing everything with you
And now that we're through
I just don't know what to do
Like a summer rose
Needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
To feel all the way
I just don't know what to do with myself
Just don't know what to do with myself
Just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself
Basketball will return one day...
I'm reading a book about a pandemic during a pandemic. kinda stupid of me.
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“option one”
^ address?
Do you have a drive through window?