My day - a snippet of life.

[cdcox]

It was 2:09 when I got home and we had planned to go see The Wolf of Wallstreet at a 4:00 matinee. My daughter's stomach was bothering her, so we decided not to go.

Time for a late lunch. I was going to splurge and eat a Totinos three meat pizza all by myself. Normally I'd get a sausage and pepperoni combo, but they they were sold out at the grocery store. My wife asked me if I wanted to split it and decided I could get by with half. I made a cup of coffee while I waited for the oven to heat. The box said to bake it for 13 to 14 minutes at 450 F, but since we have a convection oven I decided 10 minutes was about right. While it was baking I carried out two large boxes from the space heaters we had bought when our heat was off to the recycle bin. They had been laying around our house because the bin was full, but the trash company emptied it yesterday so there was room for them. I also made my wife a cherry coke, cracked open a few filberts, and reviewed my retirement plan earnings from 4th Q 2013. It was a good year.

The pizza was pretty tasty. I ate it in my chase lounge chair while watching a documentary about the USS Indiana during WWII. Tragic story. I dozed through probably half of it but caught the gist of it. Near the very end of the war they were sent toward Japanese waters without a destroyer escort and without being warned of Japanese sub activity in the area. The torpedoed ship wen under within 12 minutes. Even when they didn't arrive at their destination the next day no one came looking for them. It was like 4 days later when a plane on routine scout mission spotted them. Like three quarters of the crew perished. Apparently after they were rescued, the Navy made the captain the scapegoat.

I wasn't completely filled up by the pizza so I decided to have a couple of pieces of whole wheat toast and reheated the half cup of coffee left over from lunch. As I started buttering it, I wondered why the butter was so soft? ACK it was stick margin! And I had used it for the chicken with mushrooms and sherried cream sauce last night! I quickly scraped it off the toast and got the butter out. The toast was enjoyable.

The rest of the afternoon/evening was a mixture of Chiefsplanet, TV, and napping. I really wanted to do something worthwhile like working on Sandbox or work, but I'm usually sleep deprived by the time the weekend arrives and napping wins the day. Since I have a 3 day weekend I decided to give the day to laziness. At some point I reheated the potato soup I had made on Wednesday night. The soup my daughter and wife ate had Crackerbarrel Sharp Cheddar Cheese melted in it, but I preferred my soup without cheese. While I reheated theirs in the microwave, I tried an experiment with mine where I reheated it in a teflon skillet over very high heat. The idea was to caramelize the milk and potato starch. The soup developed a nice golden color that I was trying to achieve but it was a little too thick and not that interesting. Oh well.

[ShortRoundChief]

Originally Posted by cdcox

It was 2:09 when I got home and we had planned to go see The Wolf of Wallstreet at a 4:00 matinee. My daughter's stomach was bothering her, so we decided not to go.

Time for a late lunch. I was going to splurge and eat a Totinos three meat pizza all by myself. Normally I'd get a sausage and pepperoni combo, but they they were sold out at the grocery store. My wife asked me if I wanted to split it and decided I could get by with half. I made a cup of coffee while I waited for the oven to heat. The box said to bake it for 13 to 14 minutes at 450 F, but since we have a convection oven I decided 10 minutes was about right. While it was baking I carried out two large boxes from the space heaters we had bought when our heat was off to the recycle bin. They had been laying around our house because the bin was full, but the trash company emptied it yesterday so there was room for them. I also made my wife a cherry coke, cracked open a few filberts, and reviewed my retirement plan earnings from 4th Q 2013. It was a good year.

The pizza was pretty tasty. I ate it in my chase lounge chair while watching a documentary about the USS Indiana during WWII. Tragic story. I dozed through probably half of it but caught the gist of it. Near the very end of the war they were sent toward Japanese waters without a destroyer escort and without being warned of Japanese sub activity in the area. The torpedoed ship wen under within 12 minutes. Even when they didn't arrive at their destination the next day no one came looking for them. It was like 4 days later when a plane on routine scout mission spotted them. Like three quarters of the crew perished. Apparently after they were rescued, the Navy made the captain the scapegoat.

I wasn't completely filled up by the pizza so I decided to have a couple of pieces of whole wheat toast and reheated the half cup of coffee left over from lunch. As I started buttering it, I wondered why the butter was so soft? ACK it was stick margin! And I had used it for the chicken with mushrooms and sherried cream sauce last night! I quickly scraped it off the toast and got the butter out. The toast was enjoyable.

The rest of the afternoon/evening was a mixture of Chiefsplanet, TV, and napping. I really wanted to do something worthwhile like working on Sandbox or work, but I'm usually sleep deprived by the time the weekend arrives and napping wins the day. Since I have a 3 day weekend I decided to give the day to laziness. At some point I reheated the potato soup I had made on Wednesday night. The soup my daughter and wife ate had Crackerbarrel Sharp Cheddar Cheese melted in it, but I preferred my soup without cheese. While I reheated theirs in the microwave, I tried an experiment with mine where I reheated it in a teflon skillet over very high heat. The idea was to caramelize the milk and potato starch. The soup developed a nice golden color that I was trying to achieve but it was a little too thick and not that interesting. Oh well.

Thank you. Up until reading this post I felt old. Seems that my life has a whole bunch of spice in it.

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by J Diddy

Thank you. Up until reading this post I felt old. Seems that my life has a whole bunch of spice in it.

Ir's good to know I provide a useful service. But, had my daughter been feeling well we would have gone to a movie and had dinner out. So you should take that into account.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Ir's good to know I provide a useful service. But, had my daughter been feeling well we would have gone to a movie and had dinner out. So you should take that into account.

Would you have thrown popcorn at anybody?


As a late update, I bought the new Springsteen album and listened to it while researching races. I wasn't overly impressed by anything other than Dream Baby Dream, which is a great song.

I signed up for the OC Half-Marathon in Orange County, and am about to pull the trigger on a half-marathon in Grand Junction, Colorado. I like running in that part of the state because I can take the train and don't have to drive over the Continental Divide, which makes me uncomfortable from a "don't want to die in a car wreck" way.

[ShortRoundChief]

Originally Posted by cdcox

Ir's good to know I provide a useful service. But, had my daughter been feeling well we would have gone to a movie and had dinner out. So you should take that into account.

Noted. That takes care of the time you devoted to napping, now what about the time you spent warming up Wednesday's soup?

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by J Diddy

Noted. That takes care of the time you devoted to napping, now what about the time you spent warming up Wednesday's soup?

It's a damn good scratch-made potato soup. Took all of 15 minutes to make dinner since I only had to reheat it; thereby freeing time for... uh... more napping.