Big laughs Sudhi – that is so good!

I remember a Lavrov interview talking about this just soon after it was delivered .. he spoke to Blinken .. and Lavrov said that Blinken actually understands this, but he lifts he shoulders and walks away.

Sorry all … I am scarce in these woods for a little bit.  Just a week of picking up medical pieces while the world is exploding.  It’s been funny – not my medical pieces but one that is dearly beloved.  Who came home after the first small surgery yesterday, quite in shock.  He was traumatized.  But hells bells, I told him.  But hells bells, he did not believe me – who wants to believe your wife?  Who really did not want to talk the scare into someone else ya-know.

We got past this point .. he said he was traumatized because all of a sudden he realized that this is real .. he is in the hands of the medicos, and they will tell him which room to go to next, how many steps and when to weewee and what to wear.  He did not expect full surgery with all the bells and whistles.

OK, today is checkup and tomorrow is another surgery.  The next day is checkup and then he has a few days free lol.

The only thing that I am allowing him to read, and he is wearing a set of spectacular dark specs, really Hollywood, (I’m falling in love again!) is the new Michael Hudson .. We should be out of this by end of week.

Enjoy the cool!

The quality of the discourse:

🇦🇺 An Australian woman Monica Smit, walking through a cemetery in Paris, believes the French who died in WWII were fighting Communism. 😁

“Germany tried to warn Poland and Hungary.” 😂

Who liberated them concentration camps, Monica?

A clip from Cossack Aussie ..

https://t.me/inessas1992/4134

There is a LARP going on, and it is broad.  Most of the Russian quotes from Russian soldiers are part of it.  You will not really hear one word from the Russian soldiers unless it is authorized.

Apropos of absolutely nothing.  I explained once before that my personal and best informational style is auditory, kinesthetic – and music does this to me.  It makes me jump to something else and Shirley Bassey made me jump to this.  Oh, how well I know every note and every chording and the meaning – because 20 years after the phenomenon, we only, back in Africa, got it.  We were 20 years behind.

Something in the way she moves …

And then to Mean Mary

Have a wonderful son’s birthday Sudhi!

AHH, when I go on internet culinary adventures it is amazing how many dishes overlap.  Many of the Russian dishes, no, not dishes, but methods, were methods that I learned at mother’s knee, specifically the methods to can or bottle things.  It is the simplest thing if you know how.  Got to the US and they had all kinds of equipment and rules to bottle things.  I was stunned – did people not know boiling water, real long spoons and glass bottles and good seals and the ability to do it without killing people with botulism?

Blancmange?   We grew up on it – cheap cheap desert – actually a sweet silky smooth firmed up custard.  But, we thought it was quintessentially British.  Now I learn the Russians have it too and Pushkin like it … how interesting the world is.

Your Umm Ali, Egyptian flatbread looks just like some Indian flatbread or South Asian flat breads.  There are so many hundreds of ways to do them.  Good flour, water and a bit of salt .. butter, good oil or ghee, and one can change the world!

So many threads overlapping.

My paternal family (two boys, two daughers in law) were food snobs and the daughers in law developed a truly unhealthy food competition.  The one played off the other to be better at ….. something.  They tried to get me into this but I would not bend.  Shortly after I was married, I made some apple pie .. lovely thick juicy apples with crispy pie dough, even put the proverbial 3 dough leaves like a flower around the hole stuck in the middle to let the heat out and not burn it or burst it – classical.  These were quality apple pies, no cream or ice cream was needed.  You know what my mom said – Uhm, lovely – did the neighbor bake them for you?  Oh boy … I left the competition.  But it did not leave me and kept haunting me for years.  We had a small uhm disturbance in the field some years later.  I made Christmas meal for all the family and my mom could not help it – she was so indoctrinated.  Sugar sweet she says … Your food always looks SO nice – clear subtext – but it disappoints in the taste department.  My youngest sister, who refused to cook an egg because of this unhealthy competition burst forward to my defense.  She made a speech – to my mom – Do you know Amarynth’s fridge? she said.  I come into her house, and I can put a meal together that looks nice and tastes wonderful and is healthy and fills me up, just by opening her fridge and then if I come into her house, she quickly does it for me!.

But besides that competition, the elders truly were instructive.  With that competition, even though I had culinary classes in many many disciplines, they wriggled their noses.  Till my mom passed, she still held that I could not cook!  Ahaaaa … so, RIP mom, we loved you nevertheless.  And Blancmange is universal!  Just like pancake.

Schrodinger’s husband .. lawdy lawdy!

Woman marries AI chatbot
A mother of two, Rosanna Ramos says her virtual partner doesn’t “come with baggage”

https://www.rt.com/news/577525-woman-marries-ai-chatbot/

From the days that I lived in the South.  I quite enjoyed this stuff!  It drives the madness away somehow.

Yes, that was the idea but two things … our area is poor and someone else grabs the used one before I can get there – there is not such a ready-used market as in the richer countries.  People use their stuff until it literally falls apart.  Secondly, tropics – our stuff rusts out after a while and that is just the way things go.  The old one just rusted out to the extent that repair was not the right way to go any longer.

But you are right … this is utter crap!

We have a guy that comes around every few days for donations of broken household stuff.  They take it away, repair what they can and use parts or so on.  But he is regular, a friendly fellow and he took the old machine away – he said they could still make use of parts of it.