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howeirdGot to work early, 8 am for the 9 am team meeting so I would have time to talk to the IRS. Their machine said they were closed for the holiday. We should have been, too, but I guess they make up for it with a 2-day turkey day.
Set up my personal laptop for VPN, which I thought I had done last summer. I guess not. Or maybe they changed the routine when Google bought us.
Lotsa work at work, again. Some automation clean-up, and some verifying fixed bugs, low-hanging fruit department.
Lunchtime the plan was to go to the new nails place next to the new Wing Stop, and get my nails done, but if they were booked, go have lunch at WS. Nail place said come back in 45 minutes so I had lunch (WS is hella slow, 15 minutes for 8 wings with no orders ahead of me). Back to the nails place and the nice lady got out a bowl of soapy water and a soft brush and got the WS sauce off my finger tips.
She did a good job, quicker than most places because she skipped a couple of unnecessary buffs and files. I will return. It's much closer to work than Satan Row, less expensive, and the waiting area is comfortable enough. And there are plenty of places to eat nearby. I'm not all that thrilled with WS, they do not offer wings with no sauce. FAIL.
Back to work, got a call from the sleep clinic I'd gone to last time, we made an appointment for 11/27 to do it again with a CPAP machine in the mix.
Home, turned MNF on right away, turned off the crock pot which had filled the apartment with chickeny soupy aromatic goodness, unloaded the dishwasher, checked email on my phone and there were two messages which needed answering so I fired up the PC.
At halftime I decanted the chicken gizzard soup into 4 1-quart containers. It was just barely cooled off enough to not melt the containers. One fit into the freezer, the others are in the fridge. It needs some rice or barley, I think. Simple recipe
2 quarts of [low-sodium fat free] chicken broth
1 yellow onion, quartered and sliced
1 parsnip, sliced
4 celery stalks, trimmed and sliced
2 large carrots, sliced
2 heads of garlic, peeled
2 lbs chicken gizzards
I did not spice it up, but you can add pepper, thyme, rosemary, etc.
You can also add 1/4 cup barley or rice, and sliced mushrooms.
And I forgot the can of green peas, a chicken soup tradition with me.
Combine it all in a crock pot and cook on low for two 10-hour sessions
The football game was torture, it was raining pretty hard, but that went away by the 2nd half. Very close game, Steelers won it with an interception/FG in overtime.
Dinner was turkey pot pie.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Home early for a shower and then off to the nostril appliance sleep study at Kaiser. (overnight)
Set up my personal laptop for VPN, which I thought I had done last summer. I guess not. Or maybe they changed the routine when Google bought us.
Lotsa work at work, again. Some automation clean-up, and some verifying fixed bugs, low-hanging fruit department.
Lunchtime the plan was to go to the new nails place next to the new Wing Stop, and get my nails done, but if they were booked, go have lunch at WS. Nail place said come back in 45 minutes so I had lunch (WS is hella slow, 15 minutes for 8 wings with no orders ahead of me). Back to the nails place and the nice lady got out a bowl of soapy water and a soft brush and got the WS sauce off my finger tips.
She did a good job, quicker than most places because she skipped a couple of unnecessary buffs and files. I will return. It's much closer to work than Satan Row, less expensive, and the waiting area is comfortable enough. And there are plenty of places to eat nearby. I'm not all that thrilled with WS, they do not offer wings with no sauce. FAIL.
Back to work, got a call from the sleep clinic I'd gone to last time, we made an appointment for 11/27 to do it again with a CPAP machine in the mix.
Home, turned MNF on right away, turned off the crock pot which had filled the apartment with chickeny soupy aromatic goodness, unloaded the dishwasher, checked email on my phone and there were two messages which needed answering so I fired up the PC.
At halftime I decanted the chicken gizzard soup into 4 1-quart containers. It was just barely cooled off enough to not melt the containers. One fit into the freezer, the others are in the fridge. It needs some rice or barley, I think. Simple recipe
2 quarts of [low-sodium fat free] chicken broth
1 yellow onion, quartered and sliced
1 parsnip, sliced
4 celery stalks, trimmed and sliced
2 large carrots, sliced
2 heads of garlic, peeled
2 lbs chicken gizzards
I did not spice it up, but you can add pepper, thyme, rosemary, etc.
You can also add 1/4 cup barley or rice, and sliced mushrooms.
And I forgot the can of green peas, a chicken soup tradition with me.
Combine it all in a crock pot and cook on low for two 10-hour sessions
The football game was torture, it was raining pretty hard, but that went away by the 2nd half. Very close game, Steelers won it with an interception/FG in overtime.
Dinner was turkey pot pie.
Plans for tomorrow:
Work
Home early for a shower and then off to the nostril appliance sleep study at Kaiser. (overnight)
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