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Down by four, up here at just a bit after 14:00. I was hoping to get a shower, set dishes to soak, and get the trash and recycling together and out. All I was able to do was get recycling and garbage together and out, then to the curb. I heard one of them earlier, before waking. Then, saw the refuse truck visit and pick that up just as I was getting things going.
It is 50 out there! For heavens sake, that is definitely spring. Very nice. Pleasant in very good ways.
The next goal, after waking, is to get a shower taken. Well, trim the whiskers first. Then shower. Then set the nearly last batches of dishes to soak. What is in the bathroom, waiting. And some steel cookie sheets and a few other assorted items, in the kitchen. Getting closer to being done.
A rest, before or during that. And, maybe, before the days ends, more stuff out to fill the odd places and openings yet remaining in the dumpster. Just... more... out. Nice.
If I can do that today, tomorrow I may just do some lawn efforts. Not mowing, or any such yet. But, picking up branches and else. Putting those over with the green waste waiting on city cleanup days. Will have quite a lot to go. And, if I do that and still have energy? Then down to clean the basement up a bit. Checking expiration dates, and getting rid of what must go. If the dumpster is still here, in that. If not, then into the garbage... in smaller batches.
The rest of the week will be attempts at going through things, sorting what needs to go. Setting up clothing racks so I can more easily wash, hang, and sort clothes. If keeping, but not using, then into boxes or airtight bags. Plus, making room in my other 'in use' storage. Clearing, cleaning. I have underwear that is twenty years old? I need to get rid of a lot of it. T-shirts and some other shirts can be used for rags, not so much underwear. I'm sure shorts would work, it's just the idea.
The goal, without help this coming month at least, is to get all clothes sorted, hung, folded and put up, boxed/bagged, or tossed. That is this goal for this month. Which will open a lot of space. Quite a bit of wardrobe is just in boxes, or on tables for folding or to be hung... it just never happened. So... I get to start over. Ugh.
That should open... a third of the space that is currently occupied. Though the racks will take up half of that opened space. Though, too, while doing that, I will be putting boxes of stuff to be tossed together for the next dumpster run. Work, work, work, work. But... there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I'll get to it.
As well, I am beginning back to carnivore as solidly as possible. Fatted coffee, two if needed, three if that's all I can do so as to avoid carbs. Burger, steak, I've quit pork save pickled pork hocks every few days, sardines? A few other things. I will do salads, occasionally. And cabbage with meat of some sort. Chicken, will be trying breast, as well as definitely cooking whole chickens a time or two a month. Should get back to soups, too.
Well, it's what it is. I'll try, doing what I can, when I can. I think there is some reasonable hope.
Oh, and to get this computer into the other room before summer hits. Closing this and the other front areas off. Using the ac in the new window, along with the fan going on the turned off furnace, to get good air flow. Yes... life will be better. Will try to... keep going on things. As things warm up, I'll begin being able to do more and more, off and on. Though, hitting bumps as I adjust to the heating process, and weather's natural irregularities, coupled with my fragility to fast changes.
Later.
Funny, couldn't finish the chicken breast with a half can of beans...I used to devour medium sized mammals in one sitting... What have I become!?!?
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"My empire of Dirt"
When I was, oh, say ten, eleven? I made a bet with my mother. She didn't believe I was, or even could still be, hungry... after what she thought was a big meal.
ReplyDeleteSo... one Saturday, she would cook as much chicken as I could eat. Deep fried. Now, being a mother, she had requirements. I had to have a serving of mashed potatoes, a serving of some veggie or other, and a glass of milk... with each... say... three pieces of chicken? Or so.
I ate between three and four chickens. Plus, all those sides, and milk. And was able to stuff in desert. Apple pie, I think, not the whole thing, but a big piece or two.
I was already 6'1"~2", but only weighed... 110? I... couldn't eat enough, or fast enough. She did feed me more, after that. But, there... are... real limits to how much food parents can provide. She did her best, once she understood just how seriously hungry I was.
I remember the KFC rotisserie chickens, Navy days settling in to drink beer with a buddy, I stopped into a KFC in NW Oakland... bullet resistant,"plastic 6-8": thick...you got your food through a bank teller drawer... I asked for a 16 piece of rotisserie chicken... Chaos behind the glass... Manager called... He asks me "you want two whole chickens?!?!?"
ReplyDeleteFelt like I was a Blues Brother!!! Yes! 2 whole chickens and a coke!
Crazy Honkey!
messed up a reply involving Mike Rowe, it's gone, but I'm watching him now, onutub.
ReplyDeleteYou must have been in the bad part of town. Back then, like the Triangle, in where was that? Charleston? And, was it the North Side, back then, in Chicago? Well, and the latino section. Some place in Atlanta. And... lots of places in NYC, if they had finally kept the bad to bad parts, when I was there? Or... so I heard, if keeping the head on a swivel was always still advised. They kept the bad actors there, in certain parts of big towns. Most other places were pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI knew, if I saw bullet proof windows at the drive-throughs, to not bother. Mostly. Sometimes I needed to... look for a little death, so would take a midnight stroll.
Mike, eh? I haven't had tv for.... twenty years, save when my mother visited? I used to like his show. And, he is one of the few tv types who isn't a complete leftist nut. Though... never can tell. How much of that is just dealing with his paying customer beliefs, lip service? Seriously, you won't even know unless they slip up, or just say it. Still, like his shows. If not the service that carried it.
Yeah, He's got a podcast called "the way I heard it" kind of his tribute to Paul Harvey's "rest of the story". I just found a bunch of his content on u-tub including the logical progression of "Dirty Jobs" into his new (er) "Somebody's gotta' do it". Still telling and showing interesting stories.
ReplyDeleteYou know? I may have to look him up. I could see, as he ages, him filling in for Paul Harvey. He's got the common sense of the better sort, and I'm guessing he chooses to acquire wisdom... a different thing entirely, just as precious and rare. Thanks for the hup.
ReplyDeleteI don't like, or trust, y.t. But it can be handy, does have uses, and can have it's message repurposed by a pro... if your willing to dig through the sh*t to bother. Knowing they will cull your usage when and however they can.
My only worry is that he, even if he isn't direct with it, will most likely succumb to dei and else, passively. I avoid... certain things and individuals.
At this point it isn't about equity, equality, or else. I want meritocracy or nothing. I'd rather go without than have their sh*ts shoved in my face, especially when it is plain and simple that they aren't really qualified... to even complete a sentence, or not hate everyone that isn't theirs, or act tribally, etc. Just... saying.
I'll look. But if he has surrendered to the common American media stupidity, I'll drop him like a rotten potato.
Oh. /rant :p
I haven't caught a whiff of him Not telling things as he sees them.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter how you see them, or what you say, only the truth. Many people believe much that simply isn't true. Still, I'll look. He can be entertaining. He has potential for more. Call it... secular... not the religion hating type... preaching. There are morals, ethics, and rightness that can be said, if God is understood, without saying God? If... everyone gets it. Which... means... some people have to go, one way or the other. Or the thing won't work.
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