26 October 2020
Only one more “room” to go – my bedroom closet. This afternoon I tackled the master bedroom. It took a while to maneuver the furniture around so I could get to the walls but I finally finished about 3:30 this afternoon. I’ll plan on getting to the closet tomorrow. Still no word on the pull out spice drawer. December is looking more like a sure thing.
Today is the first day we haven’t had rain in about a week. We were still under coastal flood warning until 10 am this morning and when I first got out of bed, it looked to be more of the same today. By the time I took my walk, the sun came out (at least that’s what I think that big shiny thing in the sky was) and we had a nice breeze blowing. There were a lot of people out on their morning walk – making up for lost time I assume.
This pandemic is getting worse. Florida and Broward County continue to yoyo in total number of cases, percentage of the population, and deaths. It looks like the midwest is getting the worst of it but Florida has pretty much removed all restrictions other than individual businesses continuing to insist on masks – like Publix and I expect another serious peak very soon.
I really don’t think this pandemic will be over by the end of 2021. There will be no vaccine approval optimistically until early 2021. Approval doesn’t mean it’s ready for distribution. First, you have to manufacture 328 million doses (assuming you don’t need two or three vaccinations for efficacy) and then you have to vaccinate 328 million people. I wonder how many will refuse?
Then, the Covid virus is mutating. I’ve previously mentioned it may be like an annual flu vaccination.
As a consequence of all this, when people stop by the house to drop off something, I think ahead. My friends Tom and Kurt came by to pick up two gift certificates I had for the Pillars Hotel. They are more likely to use them than I am. When they drove up, I ended up giving them their Christmas gifts two months ahead.
Usually a group of former Broward College and union colleagues met at Maureen’s house to decorate her tree, eat, laugh, and drink. We usually exchange gifts then. I doubt she’ll have her annual Christmas party. That’s usually when Tom and Kurt and I exchange gifts, so I went ahead and gave them theirs along with the gift certificates. It’s gonna be a long winter, spring, summer, fall and winter again.
I also spent the day waiting for Dinnen Electric to come check on the utility room light. They were going to call me today but haven’t as yet (4pm). I don’t really mind. They do a lot of industrial jobs and I’m small potatoes to them. They always get around to me in the end and I can live without the light for a while. However, it also means I can’t go anywhere – like I could anyway.
Two days ago I made a quiche Lorraine without the bacon and mushrooms. I’m off bacon with my vegetarian diet but I was also out of mushrooms. It called for white cheddar but I was out of that but I had plenty of other cheeses to substitute. I suspect I’ll warm a piece of that for tonight’s supper.
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When I was a kid growing up in the south, dinner was the largest meal of the day. It was a full sit-down affair with meat, potatoes, vegetable, sweet tea, and some type of bread. All supper was was leftovers, often unheated (no microwaves back then and you certainly didn’t want to turn on the oven in the summer).
In essence, you had a light breakfast, heavy dinner, and light supper. At one time, data came from the south that suggested the average southern male had less incidence of heart disease than the U.S. population as a whole. Think about that with the very fatty diet of southerns – even back then. I think a lot of that data had to do with the very light supper well before bedtime. There wasn’t a lot of snacking between meals. Also, fast food was not nearly as prevalent as today.
I’ve had to restrict my food intake late at night because of gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GIRD). If I eat too late at night, I regurgitate the food into my esophagus. Every time I visit my cardiologist, he looks at me, listens to my heart and sends me on my way after 10 minutes. I must be pretty heart healthy and I wonder how much of that is due to not eating too late in the evening.
My song recommendation is really an album recommendation. It’s Jerry Jeff Walker’s and the Lost Gonzo Band’s Viva Terlingua. I’m not sure why that’s the name of the album but there is a Terlingua, Texas, an old mining town. Terlingua is from the Spanish “three tongues” (languages: English, Spanish, Native American). The web site also says it could refer to three rivers coming together.
One of my favorite songs on the album is the politically incorrect “Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother.” However my absolute favorite on the album is “London Homesick Blues.” I encourage you to listen and specifically Google the lyrics so you can follow along.
Hell, just about anything by Jerry Jeff is pretty good listening.
Stay tuned and stay safe!
