Subj : Condolences, etc. To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Dec 10 2021 09:55:00 Hi Daryl! BM> The ignoring the health risks may just be part of his "I'm invincible" BM> thinking, or "just a little won't hurt me". The affording is almost a BM> bigger problem as that has a finite financial number attached. DS> He hates the cold weather, as it makes the arthritis hurt more, DS> but he doesn't like it excessively warm, either. Well, there's no DS> place on Earth that has a perfect climate year round...although DS> it probably was that in The Garden Of Eden before Adam and Eve DS> ate the forbidden fruit, as it were. Where he is now just gives him some more to complain about! "Too hot! Too cold!" (Cue the bears in Goldilocks!) Personally I'd be bored with constant comfortable temperatures. DS> I saw one meme of two owls coming out of Hooters...and they DS> said "That was NOT what I was expecting". BM> They'll be wiser the next time! DS> And older. Just still might get carded! BM> As for the 'visiting relatives', possibly a reaction to a seasoning BM> and/or flavour enhancer like MSG, but seems odd if you go to differennt BM> restaurants you'd get the same reaction. Maybe the excitement and BM> instead of 'gushing with joy' it comes out the opposite way. DS> I have no plans at all for Christmas...no decorations, visits, DS> caroling, holiday cantatas, light shows...nothing. I morph into DS> Ebenezer Scrooge from mid-November to mid-January. I think of the DS> meme that said "Don't tailgate me, or I'll flick a booger on your DS> windshield". Probably more of an withdrawl than an actual Scrooge morphing. BM> I've had the Pot Roast and Pulled Pork. Probably a chicken bowl but BM> the one with mac & cheese I can have a 49› box (sale!) and my own BM> chicken. Lasagna is usually the Stouffer's one. DS> These were all Marie Callendar meals. My grocery bill would've DS> been smaller if I hadn't had that...but I'm going to cut myself DS> back to just 1 meal a day...against the advice of my doctors...to DS> save food and money. I'd probably be looking into a Meals on Wheels type of programme. My Mother says the one she's on is tasty and more than enough -- she will save portions for later. The only thing she doesn't like is she has to be at home to personally accept the meal and they don't come at the same time so she's stuck there for the morning. ...She was a little jealous of the version is Vienna where my Aunt lived: they delivered the week's meals once a week, most items frozen. Tons of food: she would skip a delivery every four/five seeks or so so she could eat the extra. BM> Seems like those would have given you the same reaction as eating out. BM> As for sauteed onion, yeah!!!! DS> There's not much to them...but it makes for a quick snack, and DS> especially if you need a little something to take medication DS> with. May as well make it tasty! Some pills, etc., have a aftertaste. BM> A device which spot-cooks! Do have a built-in turntable in the one BM> here, just the unit is getting old and so the magentron (tube which BM> creates the microwaves) isn't as effective. Plus maybe the splatter BM> fan isn't working properly. (Is inside the parts portion and deflects BM> the microwave beam so scatters inside the cooking cavity.) DS> Yes, it has the turntable. But, I've learned you can't leave DS> the oven unattended while cooking. Misbehaves does it?! Generally not a good idea to leave things alone too long when cooking: the pan will boil over onto the stove, the toaster will burn the bread, microwave will explode. That happened to me at the store: heating up my usual "Rice-and" dinner ([leftover] meat, vegetable, rice -- cheap, easy to make-ahead, tasty), turned around to go back to my table to get water or something - muffled boom! Turned around -- thought the lid of my bowl had somehow resealed and blew off. Microwave was dark. Other guy in the Break Room said there was a bright flash at the 'boom!. BM> Thin-cut meat is supposed to be tastier: if using multiple splices in a BM> sandwich roll and set side-by-side instead of stacking, Layering might BM> do the same (meat-cheese-meat). Quie frankly I haven't had a sandwich BM> in years: got burnt out on them for lunch at the store. Any type of BM> sandwich I make here is open-face: on a single slice of bread (usually BM> toasted). Cuts the calorie intake some, plus I can taste the filling BM> portion better. DS> I put either ketchup or mustard on the sandwiches, so they're DS> not so dry. Plus adds a bit of flavour, so could have a ham/balogna/whatever sandwich and adding a different condiment would alter slightly -- maybe not a 'new' flavour but at least different. BM> I'll have to check on those baby Bundt Cakes -- I don't recall seeing BM> them. OTOH too high a "price per unit" and my mind ignores. (20 baby BM> donuts for $2.00 is fine -- off-sale at $2.19: nope.) DS> Or the sign where cakes were 66 cents each, but upside down DS> cakes were 99 cents each. Or Gouda cheese and Badda cheese! BM> Some people have that reaction to caffeine and to a lesser extent BM> chocolate. (As I take another slurp of my morning coffee!) Here the BM> driveway is just off the kitchen entry, so no trapsing through the BM> house. DS> The city of Little Rock has an ordinance where you can't park DS> on the lawn. Before my Mom got sick, we had to pay $1000 to get a DS> second driveway put down outside the yard fence. Now, we could DS> park on the grass inside the yard fence, but not outside of it. I DS> think they're just looking for the elderly folks to pick on, when DS> they barely have the funds as it is. I'm thinking more of a looks/appearance thing: generally a car or two parked on the front yard looks a little tacky. There's a similar ordinance here, maybe a little stricter as not allowed to park a trailer/camper in the driveway or street for more than a few days. (Not certain of the specifics as don't have one.) A few of the neighbours in the extended neighbourhood do -- will see their campers parked in their driveway or curbside mysteriously appear for a few days and then disappear for a while. Same with boats. BM> "Splurge" on the Campbells, save elsewhere. DS> Years ago, Betty Crocker had a Mug-O-Lunch deal. I loved those DS> things, but like with so many other products, they vanish after a DS> few months, never to be seen again. I sort of remember those. Grab-and-go type meals could be very handy for busy times at the office, etc. ...Not sure applicable during a pandemic lockdown -- trudge-trudge-trudge all the way to the kitchen! BM> As long as you don't dry your hands in the dish drainer you're OK! DS> () DS> That's what paper towels or toilet paper is for. I'd probably use a paper napkin over toilet paper, though if at a public rest room and out of towels then toilet paper is great! BM> $250 sounds like one heck of a shopping trip but I'm thinking weekly BM> and you go only once a month or so -- about the same. DS> That is for the entire month. Now, if I had left out the Marie DS> Callendar dinners, the White Castle burgers, the Depends, the DS> Underpads, the baby bundt deals, the cinammon rolls, and the DS> lemon cupcakes...the bill would've likely been considerably less. Well duh! DS> But, eating the same thing day after day, results in burnout, and DS> loss of appetite. And, with the medications I have to take daily, DS> and requiring food, I can't just stop grazing entirely. Right. Some people can have the same thing day after day; I got burnt out on sandwiches for lunch at the store even though I mixed it up: balogna one day, leftover chicken chunks another, etc. BM> There's a car dealer commercial playing recently and it BM> proclaims no payments until 2022 -- uh, that's next month guys. DS> You'd be surprised how many folks fall for that. "Wow! Nothing to pay for a year!!" Last couple/fews cars I've had to buy had a no-payments-for-3-months sort of deal. I started paying almost immediately: had the money available, plus cuts the overall interest on the total loan. (I also paid twice a month - half with each paycheck. Not as big a glup, plus nibbled away at the interest and paid of early because of '4-4-5': every third month had an 'extra' pay period.) BM> Possibly! I'm of the opinion couples should have 'alone time', time to BM> be away from each other and do their own thing like a hobby or one BM> staring at the computer screen and the other at the TV screen. Share BM> the two events when appropriate: don't bore me with Matilda's escapades BM> on _The Bachelorette_ and I won't bore you with how this icon on the BM> screen turns on the X10 stuff (home automation). ...Now if there's a BM> two-minute segment where Matilda is thrown off the castle balcony into BM> the river by the bachelors she piddled off that I'd watch! DS> Well, living alone, I have no one else to worry about, per se. DS> Being home alone is where you can poop with the door open ...but some days, it does get awfully lonely. But, at this stage of my ife, DS> I've ruled out getting DS> into another relationship. Heck, I can do that here! No, not 'exhibitionist' nor 'kinky' -- we're on two different levels of the two-story house! ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... 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