Thanksgiving 2009
So it’s 4 AM the turkey is thawing in a tub of ice water. A nice shank ham is waiting in the fridge for a special rub. Ten pounds of potatoes to be peeled boiled and mashed. Four dozen brown and serve rolls chilling out waiting their turn. Corn, carrots and a bunch of other stuff all to be ready at 6 PM, Thanksgiving for an even dozen. This years secret ingredients are Guatemalan dark roast coffee beans and bacon (everything’s better with bacon). The secret ingredients are secret since I am the only one around here that knows what they will be used in or with.
Most of the day it will be 90 plus degrees in my kitchen. I have a real screen door and back porch now so things should cool a bit this year. As much as I enjoy coffee it is just too hot in the kitchen to be drinking hot stuff. The cold brew tea with lots of ice should help. Black tea, green tea, and some regular Lipton tea have all been sitting in filtered water for several hours by now in the fridge. It should be almost ready.
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On a serious note: This may all seem like abundant excess to some. I am very well aware that we live in a difficult time. Everyone close to me is struggling just to get by. Our thanksgiving this year is a collaboration of four families. We come together on this day to share what we have with each other and give thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
So, What’s New?
Meditation has become an important part of my life. A dear friend and mentor has put me in touch with an expert so I might take the heightened sense of awareness to the next level. This could be great or it could go horrendously wrong. My friend says this woman can provide me with additional “tools” for more consistent meditations. Things will be just fine as long as no one has confused the term “tools” with the word rules. Tools are OK with me, rules are another story. I never met a rule I didn’t bend, break or twist and that always gets me in trouble with someone. Yes, I know, good luck with that!
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I’ve also become quite the candle collector, the one in the photo is black cherry scented, very relaxing.
Back To Normal
Well, about as close to normal as it ever gets around here. Last evening I was out shopping for candle holders, I’ve come to enjoy the peaceful flicker and soft fragrances of scented candles during meditation. As luck would have it my local Target store was stocked with a wealth of goodies far exceeding my limited budget. I returned home with a Lilac scented pillar, a red unscented pillar and some long white candle sticks. (Sorry no pictures yet.)
I was no sooner in the front door and to the top of the stairs then my roommate began complaining about network drop outs. I sat down with a fresh cup of coffee to see what was going on. Without anyone touching anything one monitor flashes network cable unplugged and resets itself before I can even begin to look for a loose cable. A few seconds later the other monitor does the exact same thing. Hmmm, just what I need gremlins. My days of running down gremlins are long since passed. I’ve got coffee and I’ve got time, I can wait. It only took about half an hour, the router crashed. Two hot resets, three power downs and back up, gremlins captured, router dead.
I’ve been thinking about adding wireless anyway, no time like the present. Back out, this time to walmart and back home with a brand new netgear wireless router. Out with the old in with the new. The install wizard ran out of magic half way through the setup process leaving me on my own with a manual config screen. The rest of the setup was fairly easy, defiantly not rocket science. I left out one letter in the 26 character wireless log on, once I figured that out I could access everything just fine with the netbook. I really do like that little thing it works anywhere and it works extremely well.
