See How That Works?
30/07/19 16:07
Evan and I went food shopping at Hannaford's this past week. I arranged to meet up with him in the parking lot and we went into the store together. I'm more than happy to join him to get the ball rolling since I suspect that he's not always on top of his game when it comes to food shopping. I think he's just as happy to have a bit of fast food from time to time and that saves him from having to do things like go food shopping. It is not one of his favorite activities.
He's a smart shopper though. He steers clear of products that have maybe a bit too much sugar or maybe any sugar at all. He's a reader of labels as well and he should be with that whole peanut allergy and everything. Oh, and he's not a lover of carbs in any way shape or form and seems to avoid bread, cereals, etc toward that end. It's all about protein and he's clear in his mind as to what that means and he shops accordingly.
I think it works best when I wheel the cart and we go aisle by aisle with him picking things up and putting them in the cart as we walk along. Nancy was at work this last time he and I went shopping so that was fine. I went with him back to his place and helped him carry his groceries up to his apartment. He was very pleased with his purchases and I think he felt pretty good about having something in the house so he didn't have to run out to get something at all hours of the day and night.
He threw a hamburger slider in a pan and he put the pan on the back burner to cook while I helped him put away the groceries and clean up a bit. I forgot to remind him not to go shopping when he's hungry but that time had come and gone so I said nothing. He still needs a couple of things in his kitchen like a good spatula and a couple of other things so I'll keep an eye open for them in the coming weeks.
He bought ingredients to make American chop suey but I think he felt a little at loose ends when it came to putting all of the ingredients together in the right sequence in order to prepare the meal. I feel that way myself when any recipe includes more than five or six ingredients.
It's just overwhelming so I avoid the recipe altogether or follow the recipe and leave out half the ingredients. More often than not, I don't have half the ingredients on hand anyway and going to the store for something that I will only use once is not time or money well spent. Case in point is a three bean salad I made recently which called for the spice, rosemary. I went without it and enjoyed the salad regardless. I might have used an all spice instead and somewhat sparingly I might add.
We bought two pounds of hamburger so I hope in the end he figured out how to make the American chop suey. He picked up some starch here at our house a couple of days ago and he was concerned that bringing too much back to his place might cause a neighbor or two to take notice and he wanted none of that.
It's hard to keep your business private when coming and going means doing so in full view of everyone and anyone who wants to look out their window at any given moment. If I had to guess, I think there are people living in his building who do just that. With nothing else to do with their time, what would you do?
Buying that hand truck was a good idea. I wish it wasn't fire engine red but it is what it is. It's the only way to hustle large quantities of things up to his fourth floor apartment. I think it was more for me quite honestly but he has it stored in his apartment so when I bring things over for him I can just wheel them up on that hand truck and everything is good to go.
It handles probably four milk cartons high worth of goods at a time and as hand trucks go this one is a beauty. My days of lugging bottled water up to his fourth floor flat are over. There is an elevator and that helps but it's still a slog to get it all up there. I've seen other people coming and going in his building with similar carts but nothing like this dolly.
Usually, they're the rickety shopping carts that don't hold much and they look almost unusable were you to fill it with anything heavy. I don't know for sure just how self conscious Evan would be using this cart but it's there for him if he needs it so that is a good thing. If it only gets used when I show up with multiple gallons of spring water then that's fine too.
We invited Evan over for dinner tonight but who knows if he'll show. Sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't. I'm making whole wheat pasta (gag) with a shrimp puttanesca sauce. I don't think Evan would care much for the dish but he might enjoy having a few cocktail shrimp.
I didn't buy any cocktail sauce so he'll have to do without it if he wants to have some shrimp. I have a few burgers in the freezer that I can throw on the grill in a pinch so we'll have to see how things play out. Oh, and I bought a wedge of parmesan cheese which I will put through the shredder for a nice topping.
If Nancy wants dessert she can have a handful of the raspberry flavored malted milk balls I bought her the other day in Portsmouth. "Oh, and I want some of every flavor except the espresso ones", she reminded me as I walked out the door on my way to Portsmouth.
What's with all these mass shootings? There seems to be an epidemic of them all of a sudden. They seem to be disproportionally young white men wanting, it seems anyway, to rid the landscape of unwanted or undesirables of their choosing. On any given day that can mean blacks, Mexicans, or sometimes just the guy and gal next door who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Someone asked the question on Twitter today, "why is it that in every one of these instances, the killer or killers leave a manifesto of sorts giving what they believe to be a justification for their hideous actions." And then there is the mad dash in the aftermath of these events when democrats do their level best to scrub or alter any references on the internet that identifies the perpetrator as a democrat or a supporter of same.
In fact, any alterations likely to be made, typically true of entries on Wikipedia, usually switch the killer's political party from democrat to republican to further the white supremacist narrative so often employed by the main street media that all killers are white supremacists and all white supremacists are republican.
Oh, and Trump not only supports them all but he actually encourages them to do what they do if you haven't figured out the end game here. If it turns out that the killer's political affiliation is tied to the democrat party, don't expect to see that item in the news much longer. They protect their own.
It's worth noting that the most recent massacre took place in a gun-free zone. Who would have guessed Texas to have such a thing. That is probably not only a magnet for these freaks but it maximizes the number of people likely impacted by the killer's actions. More gun laws is not the answer.
It is not Trump's fault so blaming him is short of the target so to speak. There will be lessons learned but we have a long way to go before that comes to fruition or not. Sometimes the bottom line is that he is simply a nut intent on doing bad things and that is never a good thing guns or no guns.
But the piling on by the media in order to indict the President by association and remove him from office with their every last breath is a sight to behold. I don't know how they do it with a straight face. Yes, I do. They are deadly serious. They want him out and they started down that road long before he won the Presidency in 2016. Hilary Clinton was supposed to win the election which promised eight more years of progressive policies and a strident and lustful move to the left.
If they can't have him impeached, they will have Kamala Harris make the case for his indictment in the debates once she nails down the nomination. Oh, wait a minute. She's polling in the single digits after Tulsi took her to task in the last debate. Never mind. Hey, we have a mass shooting. And they're Trump supporters, right? See how that works?
Evan never showed up so Nancy and I enjoyed our pasta dish without the benefit of his company. Maybe another time. I should check in with him this week to see if we need to schedule another day to go shopping. I need to mow the lawn today and if I have any time to myself I'll try to squeeze in a bike ride and maybe a quick trip to the gym god willing. Why do I always feel like an Imam when I use that term "god willing"? Anyways, lots to do.
He's a smart shopper though. He steers clear of products that have maybe a bit too much sugar or maybe any sugar at all. He's a reader of labels as well and he should be with that whole peanut allergy and everything. Oh, and he's not a lover of carbs in any way shape or form and seems to avoid bread, cereals, etc toward that end. It's all about protein and he's clear in his mind as to what that means and he shops accordingly.
I think it works best when I wheel the cart and we go aisle by aisle with him picking things up and putting them in the cart as we walk along. Nancy was at work this last time he and I went shopping so that was fine. I went with him back to his place and helped him carry his groceries up to his apartment. He was very pleased with his purchases and I think he felt pretty good about having something in the house so he didn't have to run out to get something at all hours of the day and night.
He threw a hamburger slider in a pan and he put the pan on the back burner to cook while I helped him put away the groceries and clean up a bit. I forgot to remind him not to go shopping when he's hungry but that time had come and gone so I said nothing. He still needs a couple of things in his kitchen like a good spatula and a couple of other things so I'll keep an eye open for them in the coming weeks.
He bought ingredients to make American chop suey but I think he felt a little at loose ends when it came to putting all of the ingredients together in the right sequence in order to prepare the meal. I feel that way myself when any recipe includes more than five or six ingredients.
It's just overwhelming so I avoid the recipe altogether or follow the recipe and leave out half the ingredients. More often than not, I don't have half the ingredients on hand anyway and going to the store for something that I will only use once is not time or money well spent. Case in point is a three bean salad I made recently which called for the spice, rosemary. I went without it and enjoyed the salad regardless. I might have used an all spice instead and somewhat sparingly I might add.
We bought two pounds of hamburger so I hope in the end he figured out how to make the American chop suey. He picked up some starch here at our house a couple of days ago and he was concerned that bringing too much back to his place might cause a neighbor or two to take notice and he wanted none of that.
It's hard to keep your business private when coming and going means doing so in full view of everyone and anyone who wants to look out their window at any given moment. If I had to guess, I think there are people living in his building who do just that. With nothing else to do with their time, what would you do?
Buying that hand truck was a good idea. I wish it wasn't fire engine red but it is what it is. It's the only way to hustle large quantities of things up to his fourth floor apartment. I think it was more for me quite honestly but he has it stored in his apartment so when I bring things over for him I can just wheel them up on that hand truck and everything is good to go.
It handles probably four milk cartons high worth of goods at a time and as hand trucks go this one is a beauty. My days of lugging bottled water up to his fourth floor flat are over. There is an elevator and that helps but it's still a slog to get it all up there. I've seen other people coming and going in his building with similar carts but nothing like this dolly.
Usually, they're the rickety shopping carts that don't hold much and they look almost unusable were you to fill it with anything heavy. I don't know for sure just how self conscious Evan would be using this cart but it's there for him if he needs it so that is a good thing. If it only gets used when I show up with multiple gallons of spring water then that's fine too.
We invited Evan over for dinner tonight but who knows if he'll show. Sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't. I'm making whole wheat pasta (gag) with a shrimp puttanesca sauce. I don't think Evan would care much for the dish but he might enjoy having a few cocktail shrimp.
I didn't buy any cocktail sauce so he'll have to do without it if he wants to have some shrimp. I have a few burgers in the freezer that I can throw on the grill in a pinch so we'll have to see how things play out. Oh, and I bought a wedge of parmesan cheese which I will put through the shredder for a nice topping.
If Nancy wants dessert she can have a handful of the raspberry flavored malted milk balls I bought her the other day in Portsmouth. "Oh, and I want some of every flavor except the espresso ones", she reminded me as I walked out the door on my way to Portsmouth.
What's with all these mass shootings? There seems to be an epidemic of them all of a sudden. They seem to be disproportionally young white men wanting, it seems anyway, to rid the landscape of unwanted or undesirables of their choosing. On any given day that can mean blacks, Mexicans, or sometimes just the guy and gal next door who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Someone asked the question on Twitter today, "why is it that in every one of these instances, the killer or killers leave a manifesto of sorts giving what they believe to be a justification for their hideous actions." And then there is the mad dash in the aftermath of these events when democrats do their level best to scrub or alter any references on the internet that identifies the perpetrator as a democrat or a supporter of same.
In fact, any alterations likely to be made, typically true of entries on Wikipedia, usually switch the killer's political party from democrat to republican to further the white supremacist narrative so often employed by the main street media that all killers are white supremacists and all white supremacists are republican.
Oh, and Trump not only supports them all but he actually encourages them to do what they do if you haven't figured out the end game here. If it turns out that the killer's political affiliation is tied to the democrat party, don't expect to see that item in the news much longer. They protect their own.
It's worth noting that the most recent massacre took place in a gun-free zone. Who would have guessed Texas to have such a thing. That is probably not only a magnet for these freaks but it maximizes the number of people likely impacted by the killer's actions. More gun laws is not the answer.
It is not Trump's fault so blaming him is short of the target so to speak. There will be lessons learned but we have a long way to go before that comes to fruition or not. Sometimes the bottom line is that he is simply a nut intent on doing bad things and that is never a good thing guns or no guns.
But the piling on by the media in order to indict the President by association and remove him from office with their every last breath is a sight to behold. I don't know how they do it with a straight face. Yes, I do. They are deadly serious. They want him out and they started down that road long before he won the Presidency in 2016. Hilary Clinton was supposed to win the election which promised eight more years of progressive policies and a strident and lustful move to the left.
If they can't have him impeached, they will have Kamala Harris make the case for his indictment in the debates once she nails down the nomination. Oh, wait a minute. She's polling in the single digits after Tulsi took her to task in the last debate. Never mind. Hey, we have a mass shooting. And they're Trump supporters, right? See how that works?
Evan never showed up so Nancy and I enjoyed our pasta dish without the benefit of his company. Maybe another time. I should check in with him this week to see if we need to schedule another day to go shopping. I need to mow the lawn today and if I have any time to myself I'll try to squeeze in a bike ride and maybe a quick trip to the gym god willing. Why do I always feel like an Imam when I use that term "god willing"? Anyways, lots to do.