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My next ex thinks I'm a barbarian. It's in my genetics. Part of my DNA. Savage. Evolution skipped my ethnic lineage. I'm still cooking on cast iron. We still eat with two sticks. Our meat is rare. Our eggs are rare.
This is why I do not buy sandwiches. I make my own, to my liking. With my favorite meat. Tri-Tip. Which is on sale again beginning tomorrow. It's as if Safeway's marketing department is targeting me as their core customer. Any guess as to who is having tri-tip on Turkey Day.
Last year the VA gave me a turkey and all the fixin's. Not this year. Not worried about it. That is too big a bird to try and cook. Heck even a whole chicken takes over two hours. I don't get those anymore. My caregiver is the one who cooks it, not me. The grand kids won't be here this year, so I will just buy a Hungry Man dinner and watch football. Got a email and text from Walmart telling me my order (Nakamichi) was delayed. I wonder if it is coming up from Los Angeles, and has to bypass the I-10 freeway? We got rain today. It was raining when the caregiver arrived and rained off and on until about 8pm.
Timing is everything. My timing is all goofed up. One too many, hard blows to the head. I made the turkey stock. I was looking at it. Well, I might as well finish the job and make turkey gravy. Now I've got turkey gravy, and the turkey is still raw. Tonight, it's absorbing the salt & pepper. Then it will get a liquid marinade.
I tossed my instant ramen noodles in that turkey gravy. Incredible! I want to start my own noodle company, to sell turkey flavor noodles.
GlueGuy's 63 degree eggs have been on my mind. Spending $500 on a sous vide to cook eggs was out of the question. But with the internet, I read something which was probably not relevant.
So I decided to go for it. It can't be any worse than watching a YouTube video and then trying to repair your own plumbing. What's the worst that can happen?
With no way to set the temperature or regulate it, I still figured that I can cook an egg with a soft yolk. I've got tri tip. So even if the egg is no good, the beef will make it better.
Water boils at 100 celsius, and the goal is to cook the egg at 63 celsius. In my mind, once the egg goes into boiling water, the temperature drops. Then I just turn the gas to about 2/3. No science or logic. Just me, thinking that I can do it. I didn't even get close. I still ate it. The yolk was soft, but it was not a sous vide egg. The tri tip was good.
Yah. It's not just the temperature, but also the time. The 63° C egg at The Table has a softly hardened white, with a thick-liquid inside. The yolk is liquid, but has a relatively high viscosity; not hard by any means. I find it perfect when it's on top of their corned beef hash. I chop it up, and let it ooze down into the potatoes, corned beef, and veggies. It's my go-to when we eat there; maybe 3 times a year.
This is unreal... I just got a call from the repair shop, and they tell me the guy who sold me the donor truck lied to me. No kidding. The engine is a 5.4 2v, not 3v. So, they are asking me to come in to discuss the options. Looks like I will have to start up another GoFundMe account and pray it brings in enough money to pay for a timing chain/tensioner swap on the original engine. Which means the donor truck was a huge waste of money. Sure, I can get the hood, front bumper and wheels off of it, but I could have lived with what was on my truck...
Bummer Jim! What a rotten dude that guy was taking advantage of you like that. Years ago, I would have gathered up a bunch of my biker friends and went and had a talk with the guy.
Well, the mechanic says he has connections and might be able to get me a good used engine for $1,500... Now where have I heard that before? He does say it looks like the heads have been rebuilt on it, but not the block. I am trying to give the guy who sold it to me the benefit of the doubt in that he was not a mechanic and only went by what the seller told him when he bought it. Either way, it is water under the bridge. I have no proof he knew of the different engine, although, the mechanic says that could explain why the intake manifold was missing. What I don't understand, is that the 2V was not available in the 2004-2008 F150's as far as I know but was in the Excursions and Explorers. So maybe "someone" took the rebuilt engine out of it (if there ever was one) and replaced it with the 2V engine. I don't know. And it is a moot point now. I have no legal recourse. I did get a quote from Pick N Pull of $328 so that will give me something to put towards the $1,500 engine. It is either that, or I pay $1,400 for a timing chain/tensioner job on my engine with over 108k on it. I think the used low mileage engine is the better choice here. Problem is of course, paying for it.
It's halfway over. The meeting between POTUS & POTPRC took place. I'm sure that Xi saw it all on TV when Biden called him a dictator. Something tells me that no real progress occurred.
As usual, my team was assigned to work with agents who were not from the area. I'm beginning to think that when JC Penney closed it's catalog division, the federal government acquired their entire inventory of men's wear. It seems like most of the feds these days are issued polyester navy blazers, grey slacks, and the cheapest looking plain, black, Skechers shoes. This guy actually had a 1950's haircut from a barbershop poster.
And so the story goes, when this guy got his federal job, he thought that he won the lottery. Fed pay is apparently good money where he is from. That literally translates to exactly half of what we need to live in The Bay Area. They can still buy a home over there, for exactly 1/4 the price of what we pay here. Especially when a crack house in SF is over $1Million. A somewhat acceptable living for a guy with a wife from a 3rd world country (whom het met from a catalog).
When he found out that he was being assigned here for 10 days, he thought that he hit the lottery again. His sole qualification? He took night classes for a few years to learn the language of his mail order bride. There was a delegation from her country. He kind of spoke the language. Which mattered not. Since they all spoke English.
His bosses decided that he should take his assigned car, as it would be logistically impossible to find a loaner car from another agency. He had to drive across several states. So what did he do? He brought his mail order bride with him. Why not? The bosses were paying for his hotel room. It would be like a free vacation.
Supposedly, his place of worship is the actual matchmaker. They operate "missions" in 3rd world countries. They get people in 3rd world countries to join their religion, then post their photos and profiles. People from this country then browse the bride catalog, and ask for introductions. Mission accomplished.
It was announced that the dignitaries that our team has been working with placed an order for turkeys. They were giving each of us a turkey as a token of thanks. They had no idea what the holiday was about, but knew that a big turkey was the main course. Actually, the "dignitaries" that we are assigned to are nobody important. For every important person, like The President of The People's Republic of China, there's about 50 lackeys that follow them around. Like interns at The White House who knew where to order pizza at any hour of the day (Lewinsky). Or the Executive Assistant who made sure that Ronald Reagan's Jelly Belly stash never ran out. The G-Man and I were making sure that nobody assassinated the 3rd string translator. In case anything happened to the main translator, or the back-up translator..... she had to be ready to step up. Sort of like last season for Brock Purdy. If anything happened to Jimmy Garoppolo or Trey Lance, he had to step up.
The 3rd string translator, and her "executive assistant" literally have zero responsibilities, other than to be ready to step in. They didn't even have to attend any of the conferences, or even be in the same building. As a matter of fact, they have been sightseeing, shopping, and eating in the best restaurants - on their expense accounts. Which works out well for me. I eat where they eat. They pay. Or rather, their "Kingdom" pays. People living in poverty, in a 3rd world country, are paying for my fine dining.
Since I already had a bird marinating, I invited the translator, her secretary, The G-Man, and his wife. His wife got to speak her native tongue with the dignitaries. The turkey was marinated with shaoxing, soy sauce, and sugar. Which is basically the flavor base for Panda Express food.
For stuffing, I used sticky rice. Some of us know it as "mochi". Why? Because it's local. Grown right here in California. Sacramento Valley. I'm weird that way. I feel good about supporting local.
It's halfway over. The meeting between POTUS & POTPRC took place. I'm sure that Xi saw it all on TV when Biden called him a dictator. Something tells me that no real progress occurred.
Everything I've read says "could return" or "may return". I'll believe the pandas when I see them. I think Xi is just dangling those pandas to lure us. I don't trust anyone who wears a sweater vest.
As my next ex says, "what the eff is wrong with you?"
She can't believe that I have a special purpose tool for making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Well, you can do more with it. It's just that I only use it for PB&J.
I got scammed today. It must be a scam. There is no way that I bought about $100 worth of groceries, but got 2/3 off. How can Albertson's make money, and pay their special dividends?
Wouldn't make a difference one way or the other to me.
Well, I have changed my mind on the F150. I just bought a Melling HV oil pump from Rockauto.com and it should be here Wednesday. I also bought a Forscan Pro OBDII scanner from eBay for $30. When the shop re-installs my engine, I can check for myself what codes it is throwing. Should have bought the scanner before I bought the donor truck, but hindsight is 20/20.
Um... you're complaining about a reduced grocery bill?
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We got rain today. It was raining when the caregiver arrived and rained off and on until about 8pm.
