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If I can't sleep there really isn't a way to make it happen. I did decide to make an omelet again. I did a bit more digging, to no good, about how to do an omelet without spatula nor anything else. It seems even the Hollywood pros don't do it the old way, or can't. Then again, as I suggested, she may have practiced herself half crazy. I did get closer. I think it is possible. I also think, unless you make them, and probably several of them each time, several days a week, you will lose the skill quickly. Though I could be wrong.
Part of my problem, obviously to me now, was that I used too much cheese. I wondered, so cut the amount by half. As well, I only used cheddar... a drier cheese. She used Swiss, a middling cheese, but certainly drier than pepper jack. I believe I had too much cheese this time. Next time, a tablespoon size of the frozen cheddar. It comes to room temp very quickly, and without moisture, so that isn't a part of the problem (probably). I may put the cheese out a good hour ahead next time, and only that one tablespoon. Hey, I'd like to test this out. Besides, it's fun. I did end up with something edible. And actually fairly attractive. However, for me, it was underdone. No, it was done, according to the snooty foodie type. On some things, fish... eggs... pork... and a few other things, I really want it done. I won't negotiate. So I had to put it back in and do my best. I just don't get it, I can't really get it to brown. I may try a different pan and some techniques I have worked up. Bleh.
I haven't placed a single call. I was deciding whether to sleep or not earlier, then cooking when sleep didn't pan out. See what I did there? Then it was into the noon hour. You know they don't work the noon hour. No, and I wouldn't expect that. I like giving them until 13:30, maybe even 14:00. The world has changed. Only banks used to get away with that. Which is the second most reason they get robbed. The first being that is where the robbers believe the money is. Now all you need is a computer, a connection, and some skill. That is where the real money is at. Yeah... in a bit... stock bones, marrow bones, and a call to the doc's office.
It seems as if it's another cool day. Truth is, at least as I have it from the history reports, August, here, is about overcast half the days. Not much... or any really... precip. Just more cloudy days. It doesn't seem cooler, but then that might be because summer has pretty much worn everyone out, so we duck into cool and shaded as often as possible without thinking about it too much. Now, Iowa was hot balls to the walls until sometime in September, sometimes October. But storms would go through all the time. While that cooled the world for a bit, the heat came back so fast that it just added to troubles by pushing humidity up. There is Hawaii. But it looks like they are going to disarm all the upright citizens, and let the poor take their dues. Of course, I think everything there is going down in hell and fire, regardless of sin. I just would not live there. Of course, at some point, someone will probably be selling beach front property out there on the cheap. Would it still be considered a state if it was barbecued? *grins*
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The only reason I've ever had for wanting to visit Hawaii would be to see the observatories on Mauna Kea. Otherwise you can keep it.
ReplyDeleteOh, I am sure Hawaii is beautiful. For whatever that is truly worth at times. Actually, other than where the world has been stripped and processed, most of the world could be called beautiful. Most of it simply isn't sold as that. Heck, even some of the stripped and processed areas, seen through a certain lens, could be considered a wonder of some sort or other. From miles of corn or wheat fields, to even the massive strip-mining pits of the world... some of which are so deep they have created their own local weather patterns... Incredible sights, up close or seen from a great distance.
ReplyDeleteIf I had the money I would travel. But not to, or just to, see this or that. Mostly to stay off the radar. Not really possible unless you speak the language, know the customs, and don't appear out of sync with the natives. Meaning... not Africa. :p Of course, everyone who could has left that continent for a reason. But even in Russia, or Switzerland, or... So many people think, even when they speak well (enough) that they pass. Just showering daily will often give them away, or wearing 'bright-shiny'. In a country where the average income is $300 a month and elites are never without a dozen armed men and are pretty much known. The thing would be to even attempt to obtain (if necessary false) residency papers... but good enough ones ($$$) that would pan out on a pretty solid inspection... but for several nations. Further? Always be a local foreigner. When governments go bad, they usually leave nominally otherwise friendly foreigners alone. Though won't necessarily force a return to a nation that has gone bad either.
Oh, right. Off track there. Still, I would travel. But I would learn a region in one area, then, when it was down, actually make my rotating home in another area... far enough away that there wouldn't be much mix. Though, with my size, blending in isn't quite truly possible. There are times I wish I could be average size. Though since I can't travel, I think size is much more of a boon. Hmm? Oh, right.
I wouldn't mind seeing new places. I just don't like the effort involved in getting there. The "allure" of flying has long since been strangled within me.
ReplyDeleteI can't handle airports. Packing for the trip, setting up wherever, packing to go home, that all, too, is killer. I don't over-complicate with complicated overages. I hate to even hold a room, but that just... I can drive. I have driven for 24 hours, and as a tag-team for nearly 48 hours, and within the last several years. It's all the rest.
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you what though... the improvements I was seeing on fasting... if I can figure that all out? I might be able to do more. I'll never be a globe trotter again. But I might be able to just... go over there... for a bit. A small trip. A cabin on a lake or river... up further into the mountains... just a few days, maybe a week, a few times a year. Not to get away so much as to be cooler for a while... to break up the summer... and maybe to try to fish, right there, without having to drive daily. Or I might just camp, if I can get all my gear arranged... fishing then too?
If you ever want to get away, and maybe are a wee short, let me know. I could probably spot you three or four tanks of petrol or some such. Until I am ready, it would be nice to see someone go. You two probably have people to visit.
That's a kind invitation from you. My wife and I have people in Texas, but most of my traveling jones (whenever I dwell on the subject) involves solitude. Someday I hope to see Crater Lake on a clear winter night (with, preferably, a full Moon). I'd also enjoy wandering through the Black Hills, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and along the Maine coast.
ReplyDeleteOutside of the country I'd like to see (among other things) the Tholos of Delphi, Portmeirion in Wales, Stonehenge, Jodrell Bank, the moss gardens at Ryoan-ji and the monument at Wold Newton depicting the meteor strike of 1795.
But I'm patient (a habit some of us old folks tend to abuse). I've already traveled quite a bit in my time . . . more than I've expected, actually.
You can drive for 24 hours? You're obviously made of sterner stuff than I am. I dislike car travel almost as much as air travel (and for the life of me I can't see how Weatherly and his wife manage to cover all the distances they do and remain sane).
Yep, 24 and change, without a sweat actually. I won't swear I could do it on every trip, in any condition(s), or such. Only that I have, and more than just one fluke shot. Sterner stuff? Maybe just thicker skull. :p Not... a complete boast, that. If it can be handy by needs.
ReplyDeleteIf I could go, I would go where few go, and usually alone. If I fail, I fall. And do so alone. Not trying to push survival, just not interested in tourists, spectators, antagonists, or law/chaos... save what I am and provide... which... is plenty. I guess I want to see the world as it is, not as man has attempted to make it. His feats will be gone, soon or late. Beside seeing the world as it is, was, and maybe will be again, I want to figure out how to carve a little bit of it to my tastes, so that I may live... humbly perhaps, but reasonably. That is my idea of travel, which is why I haven't done much to point. I am sure hoping my new food tricks can be made to work, and that I can get out again.
Although, just because of the notions you present, and a few others this summer, I am thinking of finding a way to do a few days off and away, if more closely and civilly, in the next year or so as I decide if Alaska is the place to be, and what else all is going to have to happen. Ugh.