Bzzzzzzzz!
16/01/17 07:27
No one said it was going to be easy. Getting Evan to do much of anything has always been something of a challenge but getting him to write thank you notes to those good folks who gave him something nice for Christmas is and can be an uphill battle. Not because he doesn't want to write the notes but rather it has more to do with getting him to just do it. God only knows that his mother has worked on this with him since he learned to write trying everything from pleading to coercion in flavors one can just imagine. I think it's a boy thing. Not that Nancy hasn't tried to whip that fanciful notion clear out of his noggin but genes will be genes and you can't fool mother nature when it comes to this sort of thing. When he does do it he does it without hesitation, without excessive clutter, and when push comes to shove, he writes a pretty good note. They are short, sweet, and to the point. Nothing excessive, sappy, silly, or seductive. They are, in a word, sincere. It's really the least he can do since as of late anyway he has been otherwise occupied during the holidays depriving even the closest of family a gracing of his presence. Yes, showing up can be a challenge too. We're working on that and so is he. We keep telling ourselves that next Christmas will be different but I'm not so sure. It's one more thing to work on. Always one more thing.
I don't know why all of a sudden I'm beginning to use my cappuccino machine. The damn thing has been sitting around for a decade or two collecting dust. It's been so long since I used it that I can hardly remember what prompted me to buy the darn thing way back when. I have to imagine that I was wanting to make such a beverage or I wouldn't have bought it. Maybe it was a gift. No matter, I'm using it now and the results are just spectacular. It gives me the caffeine boost that my body so dearly loves and it just makes the entire process so much more efficient. I'm now out of the melior pot business which means I don't have to worry about cleaning up the muddy grinds anymore. There are still grinds to be sure but they can now be swept from the metallic cap into the trash without fuss or muss. I'm using just the right amount of coffee with every brew so there is no longer any eyeballing the scoop of grinds when making my coffee and the coffee I do buy will last longer. Boiling water for both my cup and the melior pot has over time resulted in using more water than was necessary so we're done with that. And the frothed milk, oh the frothed milk! I meant to purchase some regular milk for steaming since skim milk falls a little flat. It still froths but the density of the froth is, well, a little limp truth be told. I'm still in search of the perfect cup but the machinery involved has taken me in a different direction. It's a good thing. Bzzzzz!
I am so looking forward watching the presidential inaugural for Donald Trump this coming Friday in our nations capitol. On election night back in November 2016, I watched with some trepidation as the returns came in throughout the night. All of the polls suggested a win for Hillary Clinton but that just didn't square in my mind with the crowds attending his rallies in the days and months leading up to election day. I stayed on twitter for the longest time that evening not wanting to watch the breathless media types fawning endlessly over their candidate. It was a clear and malicious violation of the public trust it was. The media just never reported anything negative about their candidate no matter how nasty or how pervasive the injustice. She was continually under investigation by the FBI for christ sakes! When I finally did start to tune in to the media types it became clear that the numbers were just not there for her.
The Obama coalition apparently took a pass on Hillary Clinton and the votes never materialized in the numbers required for her to win. Trump not only threaded the proverbial needle but he tore down the blue wall of states that have historically gone democratic in presidential elections. Our country is ready for a female president just not this female. It should be noted that Trump will be the first president elected to have never held public office. That, in large part, is why he won. He had a winning message and she had none other than "it's my turn." Trump's detractors and Hillary's leftist followers, one in the same I might add, will do their best to foil the biggest and most important day in Donald J Trump's life. The 5,000 bikers converging on the nations capitol to celebrate his win will see to it that their shenanigans will be kept to a minimum. If only the media will do their job now and report on the pomp and circumstance rather than the belligerence and naysaying of the leftists attending the ceremony. We are one country and we are one people and we have one president at a time. As simple a concept that is, I'm not convinced the media will do their job. They have an agenda after all and that comes before god and country. God help us all.
I don't know why all of a sudden I'm beginning to use my cappuccino machine. The damn thing has been sitting around for a decade or two collecting dust. It's been so long since I used it that I can hardly remember what prompted me to buy the darn thing way back when. I have to imagine that I was wanting to make such a beverage or I wouldn't have bought it. Maybe it was a gift. No matter, I'm using it now and the results are just spectacular. It gives me the caffeine boost that my body so dearly loves and it just makes the entire process so much more efficient. I'm now out of the melior pot business which means I don't have to worry about cleaning up the muddy grinds anymore. There are still grinds to be sure but they can now be swept from the metallic cap into the trash without fuss or muss. I'm using just the right amount of coffee with every brew so there is no longer any eyeballing the scoop of grinds when making my coffee and the coffee I do buy will last longer. Boiling water for both my cup and the melior pot has over time resulted in using more water than was necessary so we're done with that. And the frothed milk, oh the frothed milk! I meant to purchase some regular milk for steaming since skim milk falls a little flat. It still froths but the density of the froth is, well, a little limp truth be told. I'm still in search of the perfect cup but the machinery involved has taken me in a different direction. It's a good thing. Bzzzzz!
I am so looking forward watching the presidential inaugural for Donald Trump this coming Friday in our nations capitol. On election night back in November 2016, I watched with some trepidation as the returns came in throughout the night. All of the polls suggested a win for Hillary Clinton but that just didn't square in my mind with the crowds attending his rallies in the days and months leading up to election day. I stayed on twitter for the longest time that evening not wanting to watch the breathless media types fawning endlessly over their candidate. It was a clear and malicious violation of the public trust it was. The media just never reported anything negative about their candidate no matter how nasty or how pervasive the injustice. She was continually under investigation by the FBI for christ sakes! When I finally did start to tune in to the media types it became clear that the numbers were just not there for her.
The Obama coalition apparently took a pass on Hillary Clinton and the votes never materialized in the numbers required for her to win. Trump not only threaded the proverbial needle but he tore down the blue wall of states that have historically gone democratic in presidential elections. Our country is ready for a female president just not this female. It should be noted that Trump will be the first president elected to have never held public office. That, in large part, is why he won. He had a winning message and she had none other than "it's my turn." Trump's detractors and Hillary's leftist followers, one in the same I might add, will do their best to foil the biggest and most important day in Donald J Trump's life. The 5,000 bikers converging on the nations capitol to celebrate his win will see to it that their shenanigans will be kept to a minimum. If only the media will do their job now and report on the pomp and circumstance rather than the belligerence and naysaying of the leftists attending the ceremony. We are one country and we are one people and we have one president at a time. As simple a concept that is, I'm not convinced the media will do their job. They have an agenda after all and that comes before god and country. God help us all.