Ongoing Letter - Allan's Place
Allan's journal to the world. (Sounds important, doesn't it?)
It is now 37°C outside. It should be extremely warm inside, but it’s a very pleasant 27°C.
I guess we should be eating more yoghurt.
… or less of it. (Yuck.)
Old pipe, new pipe.
The former was dug out of 20 St. S. here in town. The latter will be the final fitting to complete the plumbing at 1403 up.
More random thoughts as they come.
So I went shopping at Real Canadian Superstore here in town. On my list was Cheez Whiz because I can’t live in a house without it. Yes, I already have a just-opened jar in the fridge, but one must be prepared. So I went up and down the isles looking for it. I saw “CONDIMENTS” on the signs above the isles. Great! I went up and down that isle a couple of times. I found mayonnaise, so that’s good. But no Cheez Whiz. I saw a couple of isles down, “SPREADS”. “Well alright! I bet I’ll find it there,” I thought. No go. I found some almond spread, which was nice. But you’ll never guess where the Cheez Whiz was – with the cheese! In the refrigerators! Who the heck put it there, and why?
What’s more, why wasn’t the mayonnaise refrigerated?
Ernie passed away yesterday evening.
HFT and I went to seem him in the morning. He was unresponsive an sleeping. At 10:59pm, Susan texted me with the news.
I pulled a bag of “everything” bagels out of the freezer and put it in the fridge a few weeks ago. It had been in the freezer for months – months and months. “Gotta get rid of this,” I thought. I think HFT bought it, but I can’t be sure. But why was it there for so long?
I eat a bagel many mornings – most mornings. I have a weird habit of putting peanut butter and slices of tomato on it. (Not sure where I came up with this idea. Maybe it was to get rid of the tomatoes … not sure.) Sometimes I stack luncheon meats, cheese, lettuce, etc. to create a Dagwood. Sometimes I just put cream cheese on it.
But most of my bagels have substance. They are 60% Whole Wheat, 100% Whole Wheat, Ancient Grains, Cracked Wheat, 14-Grain, etc. Real food. But this “everything” bagel is not! It’s basically just a simple, plain, white-bread bagel with stuff sprinkled on top. White bread! That’s not everything! That’s white, lifeless, Wonder Bread goo in the form of a bagel. So these so-called Everything Bagels never got eaten.
And then, this morning, I saw this.
The writer of this article claims, “The everything bagel is the king of bagels. On this there should be no argument.”
So I’m here to argue today that the everything bagel is not everything it’s cracked up to be. Its contents are, in my view, nothing. Just like so many other foods out there, it isn’t good – it just looks good from the outside.
I just now came back from the future. Hard times. I finally made it! I came back to tell everyone we’ve got to change our ways. It’s bad – really bad.
We have to stop driving ICEs, give up GMOs, stop racing up and down the strips at night with loud bikes and four-bys, stop mining the oceans, get rid of all drug dealers, and dump Trump. Donald Trump damages the entire world so badly that we end up in lawlessness.
ICEs (Internal Combustion Engines) need to be abandoned immediately, in your time, to lean down the greenhouse effect. Tens of thousands will perish from floods, fires, storms, cyclones, but mostly heat. Cities burn like forest fires. All this is caused by carbon. We knew that back in the 1970s but only began to forcibly do something about it by the 2030s. By then, it was too late. So I came back to tell you.
More later when I get back another time.
I had to comment. I just had to. While reading a tutorial on changing line types for different wires (Optimizing Wiring Line Styles in Revit for Better Readability, just below the video), I wondered why this person had so much filler in their writing. It turns out that it was a transcript of the guy talking. Now all that is fine – how people speak is their own business – but why so much filler?
“And so now what we’re going to do is we’re going to go ahead and change the line type,” rather than, “We will change the line type.”
And so what we’re going to do now is we’re going to go ahead and
Can we not cut out all that superfluous crap?
Another fine meal at the end of a workday.
I just finished watching the 7th and final season of Hill Street Blues. As I said to HFT, I’m feeling a little melancholy – the end of an era.
Waking up on Canada Day, it seems odd that the first news I read online today was about American politics.
Even the Canadian news involves their President Chump.
It’s like watching old Soviet-era politics.
