Not Enough Cooks In The Kitchen
30/09/17 11:02
And today, temperatures are barely out of the forties. It's raining too! What's a boy to do? One more thing I'll say about that Airbnb (I'm blogging from home today) is that it is easy to clean. You know I like tidying up so with most everything in one big room I can go on auto pilot and breeze through the place before anyone even wakes up. If I haven't said it before I'll say it now. I like to surprise Nancy with a clean kitchen now and then knowing what I know about her liking to wake up to a clean kitchen. She may find it more satisfying to go to bed with a clean kitchen but that would make it difficult for me to surprise her now wouldn't it? I also don't want her knowing what I'm doing in the kitchen first thing in the morning otherwise that would take all the fun out of it so I'm sure to do it early before she gets out of bed.
Washing the dishes quietly has its own challenges and keeping the clanging to a minimum is a high priority. I don't do breakfast in bed so I have to find other ways to ingratiate myself to my better half and sometimes doing it for the sake of doing is its own reward. She might even tell you that it is a shared responsibility but I won't ask since I know the answer already. There is one inescapable truism in this arrangement of ours and that is I will never ask her to do something for me that I can't do for myself. The other inescapable truism is that she wouldn't have it any other way. And yes, this includes washing dishes, washing clothes, ironing, making finger sandwiches, etc. Before I forget, the Airbnb has town water and when I wash the dishes by hand there is a discernible wafting of chlorine that emanates up from the sink as I stand over it and that is altogether unpleasant. I don't drink chlorinated water, I don't cook in it if possible, and I find it altogether egregious as chemicals go so certainly want nothing to do with it one way or the other. Ugh!
Nancy wants to make lentil soup tonight for dinner and I asked that she not use the tap water to do so and she agreed. I've lost interest in cooking as of late so appreciate Nancy picking up the slack. Yes, I can do it (make soup / dinner) for myself and Evan but would probably end up just making a sandwich or having a bowl of cereal given my disinterest in such things. Maybe the responsibility for preparing meals for someone other than myself is becoming too much. My culinary skills are passable at best but have served us reasonably well over the years and now they are becoming for better or worse increasingly suspect and notably absent. This may seem unfair to those wanting the continuation of my services but they are hard pressed to complain without bringing to light their own shortcomings in the kitchen. Nancy loves to have a good meal from time to time and certainly deserves one given her hectic schedule. Sitting down to a meal prepared by someone else is one of life's true pleasures. It is a pleasure that I understand as a provider of same but one that is now beyond my reach to now provide. How long it lasts I don't know. Lentil soup sounds good. Thank you, darling.
I wrote in my blog a bit ago about the football players in the NFL taking a knee during the singing out our National Anthem. I found it ugly then and I find it ugly now. They want to be social warriors they can do it on their own time. Get the hell off the stage and out of the national limelight if you want to pull that shit. President Trump called them out recently and referred to them as SOB's and called for the team owners to fire them. The owners, being the leftists that they are for the most part, and wanting to side with the head of the NFL, locked arms with their players against the better wishes of the fans and our president. The fans were and are having none of it. Attendance is falling off, revenues are taking a hit, sponsors are losing their shirts and are now threatening the NFL to get the players to stand during the singing of the anthem. Trump is nothing if not patriotic and has no tolerance for any American disrespecting our flag, our servicemen, our police, and our traditions. The owners underestimated the blowback of the American public and got on the wrong side of this issue. We'll see how much kneeling occurs this coming weekend with the commencement of the weekend games. If the owners and the players want to double down, they had better be prepared for fans to walk away and never come back. That is simply not a sustainable business model.
Washing the dishes quietly has its own challenges and keeping the clanging to a minimum is a high priority. I don't do breakfast in bed so I have to find other ways to ingratiate myself to my better half and sometimes doing it for the sake of doing is its own reward. She might even tell you that it is a shared responsibility but I won't ask since I know the answer already. There is one inescapable truism in this arrangement of ours and that is I will never ask her to do something for me that I can't do for myself. The other inescapable truism is that she wouldn't have it any other way. And yes, this includes washing dishes, washing clothes, ironing, making finger sandwiches, etc. Before I forget, the Airbnb has town water and when I wash the dishes by hand there is a discernible wafting of chlorine that emanates up from the sink as I stand over it and that is altogether unpleasant. I don't drink chlorinated water, I don't cook in it if possible, and I find it altogether egregious as chemicals go so certainly want nothing to do with it one way or the other. Ugh!
Nancy wants to make lentil soup tonight for dinner and I asked that she not use the tap water to do so and she agreed. I've lost interest in cooking as of late so appreciate Nancy picking up the slack. Yes, I can do it (make soup / dinner) for myself and Evan but would probably end up just making a sandwich or having a bowl of cereal given my disinterest in such things. Maybe the responsibility for preparing meals for someone other than myself is becoming too much. My culinary skills are passable at best but have served us reasonably well over the years and now they are becoming for better or worse increasingly suspect and notably absent. This may seem unfair to those wanting the continuation of my services but they are hard pressed to complain without bringing to light their own shortcomings in the kitchen. Nancy loves to have a good meal from time to time and certainly deserves one given her hectic schedule. Sitting down to a meal prepared by someone else is one of life's true pleasures. It is a pleasure that I understand as a provider of same but one that is now beyond my reach to now provide. How long it lasts I don't know. Lentil soup sounds good. Thank you, darling.
I wrote in my blog a bit ago about the football players in the NFL taking a knee during the singing out our National Anthem. I found it ugly then and I find it ugly now. They want to be social warriors they can do it on their own time. Get the hell off the stage and out of the national limelight if you want to pull that shit. President Trump called them out recently and referred to them as SOB's and called for the team owners to fire them. The owners, being the leftists that they are for the most part, and wanting to side with the head of the NFL, locked arms with their players against the better wishes of the fans and our president. The fans were and are having none of it. Attendance is falling off, revenues are taking a hit, sponsors are losing their shirts and are now threatening the NFL to get the players to stand during the singing of the anthem. Trump is nothing if not patriotic and has no tolerance for any American disrespecting our flag, our servicemen, our police, and our traditions. The owners underestimated the blowback of the American public and got on the wrong side of this issue. We'll see how much kneeling occurs this coming weekend with the commencement of the weekend games. If the owners and the players want to double down, they had better be prepared for fans to walk away and never come back. That is simply not a sustainable business model.