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May I Have Two

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Daily writing prompt
What’s your favorite recipe?
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  1. Spaghetti: I’m not like most who like the meat sauce poured over the freshly heated spaghetti. First the spaghetti should be heated as usual. Then the meat sauce should be added. Then it should be simmered for at least 4 hours. It is even better if it then goes the fridge overnight and heated for an hour or two the next day. The meat sauce should contain tomato sauce, ground beef, onions, bell peppers… green and red, and just a little salt. Of course most like pepper too but I’m not keen on hot things. The idea of letting the spaghetti simmer in the sauce is that it permits the taste of the sauce to penetrate the spaghetti. I have never tried it, but the use of a slow cooker might be very good for this. Maybe 12 or 15 hours. I suspect that most find the thought of spaghetti made this way revolting. Well, if you like undone spaghetti with meat sauce poured over it, you will likely be able to get that most anywhere. If you want the taste of the meat sauce penetrating the spaghetti, you will likely have to make it yourself. I don’t know of many restaurants that make it the way I like it.
  2. I don’t know what to call this. You get two boneless chicken breast and bake for a while. Break the breast into pieces about ¾ inches long and put them into a pan. Add one small can of chunk pineapple, a quarter cup brown sugar. Add cinnamon and nutmeg to taste. If you like you can add 1 sliced bell pepper. Simmer until hot. I imagine you could use fresh pineapple but if you do, you will need a little water or fruit juice, maybe lemon. Of course, the longer it simmers, the more the taste of the pineapples and brown sugar will penetrate the chicken. I think you will find that your kids will love it.
    Some will prefer the oven for a while instead of simmering. I’ve had it both ways but I don’t like to heat up the whole kitchen if I don’t have to.

By the way, I could hardly be called a good cook. I am not going to guarantee either recipe. However I do like both recipes and have eaten them many times. Well, unfortunately, the wife does not like onions so, either I do without or add them after cooking.

I don’t get to eat the spaghetti very much these days. It makes my sugar spike like crazy, even more than sugar. Have no idea why. One of greater problems of diabetes. Got to be very careful with food with noodles.

Memphis Drivers and Politics

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If anyone moving into the Desoto County area were to ask me for advice, I’d tell them to watch out for Memphis drivers. You can tell them for the blue auto plates. They are apt to change lanes without warning. If they decide to, they will bypass you in the right lane and jump in front of you, even if there is no room. I am beginning to think it is a sport with them.
Another one of there tricks is to turn in front of you from a parking lot and then decide to do 10-15 miles under the speed limit. Then, of course, when you try to go around them, they go up to 5 to 10 miles over the limit.
The thing that brought this to mind tonight is that one of them just almost customized my almost new car. I was crossing the I-55 bridge going west. One of them came off the offramp and crossed three lanes. Oh he was signalling. It appeared he considered it gave him the right-of-way. I had to really hit the brakes in a hurry to keep from hitting him. Then, of all things, he decided to take his time.
That I-55 and 302 interchange has become somewhat dangerous. I would guess, most likely that guy was headed south to Tunica to give away some money. Makes me ever more happy that we shot down the gambling back a few decades. Invariably, it would have drawn a few more of the likes of this guy.
I mean, I don’t mind those from Memphis coming down here and spending there money. I just wish they would leave their driving habits north of the state line. We don’t need drivng like that anywhere, certainly not here!
There is but one more thing I need to say regarding this. Unfourtunately, many of those Memphis drivers are moving down here south of the state line. I guess, even they don’t like it so much up thre. I mean, it is good in a way. It does drive the value of my little house up. The problem is that they bring their driving habits with them and their politics. They are ruining things for those of us who have moved here to get away from the likes of them.
I mean, we don’t need the democrats ruining things down here the way they ruined things up there. We really don’t need the idea of boys going into girls restrooms or competing in girl’s sports. If they want to live in that kind of environment, they need to turn right back around and go back where they came from, where they will fit right in, where they can play bumper cars like the rest of them.

I’m adding this as an afterthought. I sure wished that before a Memphis driver could get a Mississippi license, they would be required to take a course on safe driving and pass a test to prove they learned it. Maybe it would decrease the movement south, but it would definitely make the roads safer.

Also, I’m beginning to think we need a requirement for forward view cameras on all cars. One of the reasons people change lanes unsafely is because they know if they are rear-ended, the other driver will be assumed to be the one at fault. Cameras would change that. Also, the retrofit cameras are not that expensive. It would save a lot of money in the courts. I mean, who is going to try to convince a jury that they didn’t run the red light when it is on video.

I Am a Tad Bit Smarter Today

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I noticed I had a reader from the country of Benin. I did not know there was a country of Benin. I do now. I spent about an hour looking at the country on the internet. Thank you so much for your visit. I am glad I now know a little about your country.

For those like me who did not know about Benin, it is right next to Nigeria.

Air Conditioning

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If there is one thing I know about air conditioning is that it will break down the first time the mercury hits 100 degrees. This is especially true for central HVAC units.

Needless to say, it’s going to take 2 days to get someone to get out and look at it.

Then again, those who have lived here long will ask, “So what else is new?”

Opposition

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Isn’t it nice to live in a country where the party in power kills those in the opposing party? I understand there is at least some suspicion that Putin had the plane shot down with what he felt was his opposition. I don’t know for sure, but I certainly would not put it past him. Putin is a controller who has the desire to control. Anyone that threatens that control is in danger of losing his life, or maybe more.

Of course, we don’t do that sort of thing here, do we. Now given another couple of decades, who knows. Of course we are well on the way to incarcerating the opposition and everyone associated with him. That is not that far away from Putin, is it.

Does Anything?

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What motivates you?
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I guess, when I was young, my father did. The fear of failing grades in school did.

Certainly when I had a wife and two kids to support, that motivated.

Nowadays, it is a little difficult to get me out of the house. If it weren’t for my wife, I’d likely stay at home for weeks. I try to take her out at least once a day. Sometimes we go out two or even three times. We really should go out more often.

I have looked for a place for old folks to get together but it seems there aren’t many around here. Most of our friends have either moved away or passed on. Most of the neighborhood aren’t interested in hanging around with an couple like us.

My wife loves to talk, even when she has nothing to say. We go out to eat and she will strike up conversations with anyone. Sometimes, the strangers don’t understand her, but most remain friendly.

The way I figure it right now, my job #1 is making spoiling her for as long as I can. If I can do anything else, that will be good too.

Contradiction

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While they meet in Nashville, TN to write new gun laws, the special prosecutor supposedly prosecuting Hunter Biden is bending over backward to keep from prosecuting a gun law we have.

This might seem odd but he explanation is simple. Old Joe knows if his son goes to prison, he might be as well. Though no one told me, I am sure that Hunter has told his Pop as much. Very likely it was worded something like this, If I go to jail, then so will you. Then again, it’s just a guess. You noticed no quotation marks because I can’t quote verbatim.

However, if you don’t believe it, maybe you can explain why Weiss is willing to risk his law license to save Hunter.

Key-less

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This afternoon, the wife and I got in the almost new (about a month old now) Nissan Ariya. It’s just really hard to break old habits. I got my keys out and actually started to insert them in the ignition. That would not work and I knew it. Still it took a while for me to realize error.

You see, the car has no place for an ignition key. In fact, normally it doesn’t use a key at all. Because I had a fob in my pocket, I was able to simply touch the door handle with my finger to unlock the door. Then once inside, the normal procedure is to put my foot on the break and press the power button, (about the size of a quarter just to the right of the steering wheel). Then I put the car in reverse to back out of the driveway. Without the fob, none of this would occur.

I don’t totally understand all the workings, but it would appear to me as if it is as close as possible to being the highest security possible for a car. It operates on a proximity basis. When the fob gets close enough, I can control the car. If I don’t have the fob and the door is locked, I cannot unlock it. If I push the power button, it will have no effect.

The beauty of the system is that I am very unlikely to ever lock the fob in the car. I just put it in my pocket and keep it there. When I leave the car, it is unlikely I’d leave the fob behind. I don’t have children, but if I did, it would be almost impossible to lock them in the car with the keys.

In fact the system is so good, I would love to have it in my home. If fact, I have no idea why they haven’t had something like that already, not only for homes but also for businesses. Well, it that case, I would assume the fob would need an on/off switch to keep the door from being unlocked while you are inside.

I asked about that at the Nissan dealer. He told me that the system knows when I am inside. Once I am in and the door is locked, I am safe, that is unless someone broke the window.

The system they have is one of the biggest reasons for me to chose a Nissan. Never did enjoy carrying around all those keys. Never did like the idea of locking myself out of my car because I left the keys in the ignition. Maybe it isn’t the perfect system, but it has to be close to it. It gives me the security of locks while still allowing me the convenience of no locks. If I am in a hurry to get in my car at night, with my hands full, there is no fumbling for keys.

There is of course, no steering column lock as on most modern cars. However, I tried to turn the wheel while the power is off and it is just almost impossible. I don’t know if it is intentional, but it may as well be.

Now, having said all this, I must back up and say there are two exceptions. First, the car can be unlocked by Nissan in an emergency. Secondly, for those who get the app to download on their phone, not only can the doors be locked or unlocked remotely, but it is also possible to control climate control remotely. I don’t have any idea why you would want to, but you can do it from anywhere you can get an internet connection for your phone. I’m not sure about needing the internet connection by the car. It might use satellite.

Now, if I can just get used to leaving my keys in my pocket when I want to go somewhere.

Missing the Point

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There is a lot of hoopla about the way that hunter’s plea deal was thrown out. The point is that Hunter Biden was standing ready to admit to committing three major crimes. The fact that it was thrown out had not one thing to do with those three things but rather other things that he has not yet gone to court for.

This tells me two things. One, he is guilty of other things. That is why that was part of the deal. Two, that he is guilty of the three things to which he admitted, though he was not going to get anywhere near the punishment he deserved. One of those laws is a gun control law, for which the dems have been seeking. The law serves no purpose if it is not enforced, for poor and rich; for the small and highly influential. Why is it the Hunter get a break. We keep hearing no body is above the law. I guess I must assume then that Hunter is the no body they reference.

Bottom line, in essence, he is an admitted criminal, with friends in the Justice Department and a Dad in The White House.