Enjoyed this, Katherine. You have a magical way of making the smallest things interesting. I love that I will go to bed wondering what happened to your melon. And I agree completely with, "which may actually be the saving grace for the coming election so that’s a plus in my book."!!
Your kind words are very welcome, Cherie. My bedtime is around 8 these days, but then I wake up after a few hours and eat my cereal. My heart seemed to be a bit erratic so took a reading on my phone just to keep a record (unclassified) and then couldn’t resist looking here. I’m glad you’re enjoying my mundane posts and I have to inform you that the melon is still missing.
Okay, here’s another mistaken identity food story. I once had to stay overnight on a remote island military base for a work assignment on a DOD contract. Nice lodging for the civilians, but we all ate at the same mess hall and the base was so small, enlisted and officers shared the same mess hall. Cafeteria style. I selected some good looking chicken nuggets and received a more than generous scoop on the plate (this was a special forces base, everyone got huge portions). Picked up some BBQ sauce for dipping at the condiment counter on the way to the table. Dipped the nugget into the sauce and popped it in the mouth. Breaded deep fried cauliflower.
Thank you, Michael. I have grown to like cauliflower over the years, but I bet you weren’t thrilled when it wasn’t what you were expecting. Sort of like a ferry trip I took once when the steward offered me what I thought was a cup of tea but it turned out to be bouillon. Yuk.
That or it was very salty bad tea. My wife has a really good cauliflower recipe using cauliflower instead of potatoes for mashed garlic potatoes. Oven Roast cut up cauliflower and garlic, mash it all together in a food processor with a few other ingredients. I try not to watch or listen, as we both hate the new food processor. I do clean up and tell her to stay calm and carry on.
I can't imagine mistaking oatmeal for rice. But of course I tend to use steel cut oats to make oatmeal and since Heather likes Jasmine Rice, it's always obviously rice grains when the leftover is put away.
Putting that aside, I think oatmeal would make as good a base for the various stir fried things I make as rice does.
Actually I too use the steel cut oats, and I agree they don’t really look like rice. Just another step in my visual field defect drama with a second lengthy test in the morning. It’s always something.🤣
Hey, Richard. Just finished reading an article about gaslighting in The New Yorker, so your comment had me questioning myself. But sure enough I was able to find the brief article I had read in my daily paper this morning. The headline says “Study: Women’s Share of Executive Jobs Falls” and the story says roughly 60 C-suite positions were lost in 2023. This reprint of a Washington Post article caught my eye at the bottom of the front page. It noted that it is the first decline since S&P began tracking the data in 2006. To say nothing of the fact that our bodily autonomy has taken a beating.
Thanks Katharine. I can't figure out what gaslighting is, and googling makes me even dumber. What I meant in my comment was just what I said. I don't know about executive positions being lost. Anyone can pluck something from somewhere. But the change is dramatic and ongoing. Our parents would be dumbfounded at the representation of women in today's corporate and business environments.
The New Yorker article should enlighten you some, although there is discussion about what it really means. And I know the old chestnut about lying with statistics. Finally, I’m old enough to have been astonished to hear female announcers on the BBC news. I know it’s said that we’ve come a long way, baby, and while that may be true it is clear that forces are still upset about it and trying to reverse course. Equality for all is an ideal I feel is worth striving towards.
Enjoyed this, Katherine. You have a magical way of making the smallest things interesting. I love that I will go to bed wondering what happened to your melon. And I agree completely with, "which may actually be the saving grace for the coming election so that’s a plus in my book."!!
Your kind words are very welcome, Cherie. My bedtime is around 8 these days, but then I wake up after a few hours and eat my cereal. My heart seemed to be a bit erratic so took a reading on my phone just to keep a record (unclassified) and then couldn’t resist looking here. I’m glad you’re enjoying my mundane posts and I have to inform you that the melon is still missing.
Okay, here’s another mistaken identity food story. I once had to stay overnight on a remote island military base for a work assignment on a DOD contract. Nice lodging for the civilians, but we all ate at the same mess hall and the base was so small, enlisted and officers shared the same mess hall. Cafeteria style. I selected some good looking chicken nuggets and received a more than generous scoop on the plate (this was a special forces base, everyone got huge portions). Picked up some BBQ sauce for dipping at the condiment counter on the way to the table. Dipped the nugget into the sauce and popped it in the mouth. Breaded deep fried cauliflower.
Thank you, Michael. I have grown to like cauliflower over the years, but I bet you weren’t thrilled when it wasn’t what you were expecting. Sort of like a ferry trip I took once when the steward offered me what I thought was a cup of tea but it turned out to be bouillon. Yuk.
That or it was very salty bad tea. My wife has a really good cauliflower recipe using cauliflower instead of potatoes for mashed garlic potatoes. Oven Roast cut up cauliflower and garlic, mash it all together in a food processor with a few other ingredients. I try not to watch or listen, as we both hate the new food processor. I do clean up and tell her to stay calm and carry on.
I can't imagine mistaking oatmeal for rice. But of course I tend to use steel cut oats to make oatmeal and since Heather likes Jasmine Rice, it's always obviously rice grains when the leftover is put away.
Putting that aside, I think oatmeal would make as good a base for the various stir fried things I make as rice does.
Actually I too use the steel cut oats, and I agree they don’t really look like rice. Just another step in my visual field defect drama with a second lengthy test in the morning. It’s always something.🤣
"women are losing ground" Not so sure about that, but certainly the progress can be accelerated
Hey, Richard. Just finished reading an article about gaslighting in The New Yorker, so your comment had me questioning myself. But sure enough I was able to find the brief article I had read in my daily paper this morning. The headline says “Study: Women’s Share of Executive Jobs Falls” and the story says roughly 60 C-suite positions were lost in 2023. This reprint of a Washington Post article caught my eye at the bottom of the front page. It noted that it is the first decline since S&P began tracking the data in 2006. To say nothing of the fact that our bodily autonomy has taken a beating.
Thanks Katharine. I can't figure out what gaslighting is, and googling makes me even dumber. What I meant in my comment was just what I said. I don't know about executive positions being lost. Anyone can pluck something from somewhere. But the change is dramatic and ongoing. Our parents would be dumbfounded at the representation of women in today's corporate and business environments.
The New Yorker article should enlighten you some, although there is discussion about what it really means. And I know the old chestnut about lying with statistics. Finally, I’m old enough to have been astonished to hear female announcers on the BBC news. I know it’s said that we’ve come a long way, baby, and while that may be true it is clear that forces are still upset about it and trying to reverse course. Equality for all is an ideal I feel is worth striving towards.