Why Am I Still Up?

Not insomnia. Just a late start and a late evening. Wasn’t out of bed till 11, spent a lot of time converting apples, oranges and challah into something resembling bread pudding. I made two Big Mistakes. One was using “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” instead of margarine/butter. And the other was using eggbeaters instead of real eggs.

I made a small mistake of not mashing the challah pieces into the wet mixture enough. What I got was two glass loaf pans of really delicious stuff, but things are not blended together the way I prefer. Also, the recipe I used for the after-baking sauce was all wrong. Tasted good once I added rum.

The oranges I have turned out to be awful for trying to cut into small bits – too much of that white stuff. Gave up after 2 oranges.

That done, went to gas up the car.

Next project was to wipe the drive in the Toshiba laptop, getting ready to sell it. Long story short, I have a recovery USB drive on order to get it back to factory settings. When I installed the 1TB SSD, I did not copy the recovery partition.

Went to Woodside to see the community theater production of Chicago. There were two people in it I knew. But I also like the show, and was hoping it would be better than the obscenity Palo Alto foisted upon me.

It was. Very entertaining.

All the leads were strong, legitimate theater voices. The orchestra sucked – it was never together, some parts were not covered, and some asshole miked them, so they regularly overpowered the singers, who were also miked. The theater is acoustically gorgeous, there was no need for a mike system at all. Costumes were appropriate – no garter belts, and the male dancers were not shirtless like Palo Alto. Roxie had some amazing flapper gowns.

The director guessed wrong that having the two MCs appear in random places might be a good idea. And that entry from the orchestra platform, which was about 30 feet above the stage at the top of a Ziegfeld style staircase. Too much creative choreography to go into detail about, but mostly good.

A huge female ensemble, most of them very attractive and many are trained ballerinas.

Tech was uneven. Some scene changes were smooth, some made loud noises. Lighting mostly sucked, especially the follow spot. There were some lighting specials on the stairs and on flys, but mostly not used to best advantage.

I was way early, I left at 6 expecting to get there at 7. But traffic to the Stanford football game was only blocking the exit lane, and I was not caught in that. And the homecoming dance was on the other side of Woodside campus, so parking near the theater was plentiful.

After the show I found my favorite murderess and told her how much I enjoyed her Lipschitz. I tried to find “Chiffon” from LSOH, but she was wigged and made up and I did not recognize her. And she did not recognize me, which is sad.

Home, made a pot pie for dinner and watched Shark Tank. And FFed through the Stanford-UW game.

Also tried one more time to restore the Toshiba, from its original SSD. But no joy.

Plans for tomorrow:

TBD

Trying the online editor for a change

Windows Live Writer is great for generic Wordpress formatting, but it doesn't support any of the LJ tags or user info.

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But it does support inserting a line with a sincle click, which this thing does not.
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Today was ridiculously useless. In bed till noon, Hgl of 100, which is amazingly good for no insulin for 12 hours. I guess the bread pudding wasn't as cholesterol heavy as it looks.

Put away the Toshiba laptop, it will be a week before I get the USB bootable recovery drive.
OKay, stopping here. No spellchecker. Boo. Hiss

Sunday Redux

Showered at noon. Spook had circumnavigated the bed twice before I even thought of getting up. She’s pretty vocal about wanting her treats.

The only thing on my agenda was a short shopping trip for perishables. I forgot about the Raiders game, but Tivo reminded me as it started recording.  But that was later.

Did my usual stuff online, shut off the big PC and immediately remembered that for the last 3 days I was going to look up the local veterinarian, because Spook was due for her shots & annual exam today. Being Sunday, I knew it would have to wait till next week. I am about as eager to try putting her in a carrier as I am to have open heart surgery without an anesthetic – because it will probably involve the same amount of pain & bleeding.

Anyhow, I broke out the Win10 laptop, since it comes up quickly, and found the place I was looking for. I’d discovered it a few weeks ago, what I liked besides it being really close by, is all the vets are women, and two of them were trained at SLO. I’ve had bad luck with Davis grads.

Lunch was pita cut into little triangles, with garlic hummus and lox on the side, which eventually became lox & hummus sandwichettes.

Watched the end of whatever football game they fed us, one of the boring ones. I really wanted a Jets or Patriots game. Not available in my area. Sadness. The huge WTF is ESPN was showing the World Series of Poker. How is that a sport? How is that even TV-able?

Shopping. My favorite Safeway, and apparently everyone else’s. They had only three cashiers working, no baggers, and the lines were halfway up the aisles. It took 20 minutes to get to the head of the line.

But they had everything I was looking for, except a 1-hole punch, which I didn’t really expect to find.

They even had this:

Which is a joke – all the idiot marketer monkeys are pumpkin spice everything this season. My contribution:

Also found this, which my friend Heidi said was proof she was creamy:

I have no first-hand knowledge of that.

Home, it was already dark. Almost a full moon. Put the grocs away, watched the Raiders walk all over the Chargers, until the 4th quarter when they did their level best to give the game back. Then watched peripherally the Jaguars-Eagles fiasco. Ho hum. While playing on the laptop.

Dinner was a pair of sliced sausages boiled with macaroni, but my Hgl was down to 68 somehow, so I cooked up a bowl of sweet corn to tide me over.

Dessert was my last Magnum ice cream bar. Was planning on buying more, but they raised the price $1.50 for 3, so I bought Klondike thin mints instead.

Plans for tomorrow:

• Work
• Make an appointment for Spook
• MNF