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trof's JournalOy$ter$ in gumbo
Miz t. made a gumbo.
GOOD GUMBO!
(She's 100% Cajun.)
She doesn't like oysters in gumbo.
Or anywhere.
I do.
I said "While you're out, please get me a pint of oysters. I'll put a few in MY gumbo."
"OK"
Later on...
"How much were the oysters?"
"13 bucks"
HOLY SHIT!
I can do without oysters.
Quitting smoking: Tapering off
7 Years ago Alabama raised tobacco taxes...again.
That pissed me off.
I was already paying about $65/carton.
(And that was just stupid, I know.)
The tax increase (on something people were ADDICTED to) was just wrong.
So I said "Fuck it, I'm not paying."
First I decided not to let the tobacco company dictate my dose.
I realized that I didn't have to smoke a whole cig to get satisfaction.
A half a cig would do.
So I had just cut my consumption in half.
I continued to whittle it down.
I found that maybe half a dozen leisurely puffs was plenty with a cup of coffee or a drink of Scotch.
Eventually I got to the point where ONE (1) cig would last all day.
Take a puff or two, put it out.
Relight the next time I felt the need.
Finally I got down to a butt with a couple of puffs left, then put it out, and QUIT.
I'll be honest. I had a few (very few) pangs, but they were easily overcome.
It worked for me, maybe it will work for you.
PS: Not buying cigs gave me about a $280/mo. pay raise.
Poll: What do you like on your pancakes?
Or waffles?
Or biscuits?
I prefer cane syrup. Have a friend who makes it.
Bolognese fritatta
Had some leftover Bolognese sauce and I'm going to make a frittata for supper.
That and a salad ought to do it.
Four score and one
Moi.
81 years ago in St. Margaret's Hospital, in Montgomery, Alabama, I became a being on this planet.
And a citizen of the United States of America.
Which seemed to be a pretty good deal at the time, but...
This happened to me about 3 months before the infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor ("A day that will live in INFAMY!"
I don't really remember much about that, but I later learned that it did piss off a BUNCH of folks.
It's ironic that about 50 years later I came to fly for a Japanese cargo outfit.
Nippon Cargo Airlines.
The tales I could tell.
It's a funny old world.
What are you going to do with your pay raise?
We're either buying a Tesla or going on a round-the-world cruise.
The latest Trump grift? Burying Ivana at their golf club.
"In his forced (and, he hopes, temporary) retirement, defeated former president Donald Trump has come up with a new undertaking. He’s undertaking.
Technically, his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., is now acting as a “cemetery company.” And he has already landed his first occupant: He just buried his late ex-wife, Ivana Trump, right near the first tee.
He has seemingly turned his late ex-wife (and his oldest kids have turned their late mother) into a tax dodge. Dartmouth professor Brooke Harrington, a specialist in tax optimization, checked the New Jersey tax code and reported that operating a cemetery at the Trump National offers “a trifecta of tax avoidance. Property, income & sales tax, all eliminated.” She tweeted that it “looks like one corpse will suffice to make at least 3 forms of tax vanish.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/01/ivana-trump-buried-tax-break-grift/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3789ed1%2F62e94d35cfe8a2160115994a%2F5b81e495ade4e224904f6c2a%2F54%2F72%2F62e94d35cfe8a2160115994a&wp_cu=c29a83cc516629d88fdcc05ec7c4af1e%7C6BE32A6783877AB6E0530100007F6D39
Cooking videos
I watch a lot of cooking videos.
Almost all of them apparently are using brand new pots and pans straight out of the box.
Not a scratch or a mar.
Not one little brown spot.
I'd like to see them using something like what we have.
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