No visitors.

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Which is fine.  Either people show, or not.  I just did what I was doing.  I will now move on to another project.  I set the beef marinade out earlier, to get it to nearer room temp.  It is not there, though it would take a good while for it to warm up that much.  The chill has been taken off.  I set a small pot of water to boil, placing a pyrex bowl over it.  There are spouts for steam to escape, but narrowly.  That should warm up fairly well.  Actually, before it gets to a steam, I will put some of the beef mixture in.  Then just give it, say, ten minutes?  I am not sure how long to "cook" this.  Actually it isn't being cooked.  It is being gently warmed.  Goofing.  Sure.  Why this way?  Because it seems as if that is the way it should be done.  Half of it is now set to warming.  I must tell you, that marinade smells fantastic.  If it seeps into the beef, and tenderizes more than the somewhat long and low cooking it already had... it might be alright.

I get the notion that people want to know why I am so active now.  Was it the drivers license, the leg swelling, or... just a decision out of the blue to begin taking care?  The truth?  Simple.  Because, right now, I can.  That's it.  I usually, or often, in my history, wasn't able to do much.  I still stumble.  Daily, sometimes.  I have simply been able to get back up lately, quickly.  This is new.  I have gone through better phases off and on in the last five years.  I won't say it is getting any better, it is simply much better than it was for the previous twenty five years.  I am not doing anything I wouldn't have been doing if I were well... except that I am playing a lot of catch-up due to bad health.  Even so, people are a bit surprised that I don't look even worse?  Or maybe I do look that bad?  Dunno.  Still, it's just that I can do things, so I am.  Nothing I haven't considered doing before.  Just things I couldn't quite get done.

The visitors did show.  All good.  As with others, some things ended up taking longer than originally planned.  I know that, no guff.  Good visit.  I just hope, when I get animated, I don't... cause fear.  I am not at all upset, just... animated.

Ah... This post was being written when they arrived.  So it's sort of... off.  I am just now trying some of the beef.  The marinade, to my nose, was pleasant.  But it really didn't do much for the meat save to add just a bit of flavor.  I tried it plain, and then added some to a bowl of the beans.  I prefer the latter better.  Tasty enough, though nothing to write home about.  I'd like to try that with strips of something, but uncooked.  Perhaps with chicken hindquarters, then grill those?  I keep trying to find a way to enjoy chicken.

Later.