I forgot to post! It’s because I’ve been so busy lately. Not that busy, really. But for me. There’s a big leak I’m keeping tabs on right now. Plumbing, not security. I wish there was a huge leak and it just told me the damn truth. I’m not sure if there is a clear truth. I want to become friends with an AI agent. Maybe not. I just have a lot of questions right now. I don’t even think it matters if I know the answers. Gas prices are looking to be headed vertical. Not good. Lots of shit isn’t good! I needd to start taking advantage of things while k still can. I hope these weren’t the good old days. For all I know, life will never be the same for billions of people. We must endure regardless.
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Anyone else missing Jimmy Carter today? Just me? No, not just me for once? Cool.
As a joke and seriously. I miss Jimmy Carter.Okay so I was really feening to make little carrots a few days ago. I was so disappointed for a while bc I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted and I don’t currently trust myself to trim the carrots exactly that way myself. But then the day I finally decide to grab the next best thing (a medley of different colored baby carrots) I look across the produce section, a spot I don’t really check, and I see them. We lock eyes from across the room.
I wasn’t sure of exactly how I wanted to go about it, so I just did something. Here’s what I did. I steamed them for a while. Once they were done, I drained the water bc I put too much. After that, I added butter, the tiniest drizzle of olive oil, three basically dried up springs of thyme, the smallest little piece of rosemary I had left that had like 8 leaves on it total, and some minced garlic. More like chopped, if we’re being honest. I let that to chill for a second before adding maple syrup, some honey, and a dash of brown sugar. I used red pepper flakes and paprika, I could’ve used cayenne, but I was a little nervous. At some point after all of that, I squeezed in lemon juice and then I let it simmer and reduce. I honestly messed with the heat a bit for this lol. Once it was close enough to my desired stickiness level, I topped them with maldon salt and some fresh chopped parsley.
Viola!
I forgot to take pics for a hot sec. As you can see. But 2 remained. Just call it Noah’s Car-Ark
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Got switch 2!
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I have to tell someone a really long story, so I can’t say much. I need to type it. The story is insane, so I can’t necessarily tell it here, plus, it isn’t my story to tell.
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to be continued…
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One thing I love about not being in school and not having kids is I can spend like 2 hours straight asking the internet different questions. During times I’ve been in school, I had found it so hard to allow myself to deeply explore any topics unrelated to a class I was taking or to even just read a book for fun. It’s kind of incredible how I wouldn’t do that despite procrastinating so much and I may as well have just done what I wanted for a little while. I guess I did do something I wanted. I scrolled on my phone! I did at least learn how to get myself to actually read a decent amount of the assigned material… I stopped taking notes and I didn’t feel guilty about it. I did highlight a lot, didn’t go back to it much! But yeah, I accepted that talking notes and reading was just a lot for me and I felt like a lot of stuff was important. I wouldn’t be able to just not down a few key points. So when you’re rewriting the paper, like yeah you’re gonna procrastinate. And you’re gonna get burned out and not finish. And then feel like you can’t do the next reading without finishing the last one, but it feels pointless. So then you’re just stuck and frozen. I decided it’s actually really pretty beneficial even if I just read it. Did I kinda forget some stuff because I’d zone out? I’m sure, but I really found that change in mindset beneficial.
Bro, can you believe these strikes? I mean, I’m sure you can, me too. I need a nap. There’s just a lot of puzzle pieces on the ground right now and my mind is looking at them and subconsciously putting some together. There’s really no benefit to seeing the full picture in the puzzle. Sad thought, but feels really true. Maybe I’ll make chicken wings and things will turn around! I’m just like, idk, ugh. And btw, when I say puzzle pieces are on the ground, I failed to clarify that there’s also random pieces from different puzzles mixed in there. So like good luck me and everyone else! This stuff is all just so much. I feel as though I have no agency. I get hippies… What language should I learn??? Life is such a precarious journey. It’s hard to know what to do and when. Timing is just so important. Some may say timing is … everything. Sorry the title is really pretty misleading. Waste of a good title! Oh well!
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I just had a realization. I’m getting pretty close to 6 months of daily (basically) posts. I believe this will be 163. Have to get to 180 at least, I’m not exactly sure the exact day I started, but perhaps I will look into it and make sure it is exactly 6 months. We’ll see! I feel like I still have a lot to learn… I feel like life is teaching me other things though. I’m learning, just not exactly what I want to learn. Maybe it’s what I need to learn. I’m not sure what will come next. Maybe I’ll just keep it going. Maybe I’ll try to but not be perfectly consistent. Maybe I need to meditate more. Maybe I need a nice little nap. I just don’t know. All I do know is stuff is bananas right now. Each day just keeps revealing new horrors. I’m still not convinced of anything. I hate not having the truth. I guess that’s literally what history is all about. And I like history. But am I a historian? I could be. I feel like life is so weird man. I’m so blah! The world is totally ruled by an evil group… not a big group. Most of us are just schmucks.
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I’m so sorry guys, I forgot to make a post! The day just went right past me. It didn’t fly by though. Annoying! I had to catch up on a lot of stuff today and part of what I had to do involved using a system that is unnecessarily “clicky” and was going so slow with every “next”, “ok”, “submit”, “select”, etc. Stuff took me triple the amount of time it should’ve, at least! I have work that must be done still! I’m happy that I get to help this person who needs extra help and never should’ve gotten this far but they did and I want to shield them from the other mean people. I know they try so very hard. And I really appreciate it and feel they deserve extra effort back. Some people are just such scoundrels. So shameless. I cave to these people that don’t deserve it a lot. I can’t stand persistence, it wears me down quickly. I accidentally left my soup out. I tried so hard to remember to put it away and yet somehow I still didn’t. I’m wondering if it’s actually a conspiracy against me. I think some network is releasing a new Chernobyl documentary soon. I don’t know how much can be said that hasn’t been already, but I’m kinda still interested. lol. Nuclear accidents are so fascinating to me. Like, it’s so rare, but people get so alarmed, and perhaps in some cases, they should be! But it’s interesting, like, comparing Chernobyl with Fukushima. One was just waiting to happen, not necessarily as bad, but something, and one was the result of a lot of shit going down at the same time. It’s unsurprising that the cleanups reflect the lack of preparedness and having some stuff in place. However, Japan wasn’t perfect as the locals had issues evacuating. It’s so crazy how no one thinks of that until a tragedy happens. It’s such an afterthought and not just that, the human mind cannot conceive of every possible scenario and the timing of different events. I will say, something like this is a good use case for AI. anyway, I feel like it’s so hard to think about what to do in an emergency when plans A, B, C..are just not viable. Sometimes there are literally no options. When I say this, I mean disabled people if they’re alone and done know who to call/if power is out. Vulnerable people in general, they really need to be a central focus point of an evacuation plan because otherwise they’re probably getting left behind. In Japan, a bunch of old people died during the evacuation. Like with 9/11, you don’t realize how hard it is for parties to communicate with each other. But yeah, in Japan during the Fukushima disaster… the government didn’t know what was going on and as a result, neither did anyone else, at least not definitively. That’s life. What the heck is going on. I just don’t know. I feel like I’m in the midst of an event.
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I found them. I found the perfectly trimmed carrots. Today, I added egg noodles to that soup I made. I shouldn’t complain about anything for a while after this week. Feeling lucky and blessed. I wish I could just cook all the time. I rolled a snowball down the stairs outside. It was huge.
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Okay I am fr tired af tn. I just be cookin’! Need to go to sleep! Wowza! Today, I made pretzel buns. I also made 2 pretzels. Very good. Milk-based. Hmmm. Mmm. I caramelized onions and made Brussels sprouts with bacon and maple syrup. I made potato chips, which was basically insane. I had 1 russet potato and a bit of schmaltz. So I decided to slice the potato into thin slices with a mandolin. I fried them in schmaltz, but used like the tiniest little thing bc I wanted the smallest amount of surface area for the melted fat to spread. I was only able to fry like 4 chips at a time it was insane. Trying to keep the temperature steady on a gas stove. Impossible. But it was pretty good! I made a burger with burger sauce, cheese, caramelized onion, and pickles. I didn’t really have anything fresh. There is a little bit of chopped onion and garlic in my sauce though, technically. I shoveled a lot of heavy snow/ice today bc I don’t want to be the asshole on the block. I will be sore soon. RIP
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