Leftover Night

[thisnewday]

Yesterday, I took my first ride of the day wearing base layer shirt, tee shirt, and joggers and--although it was a bit breezy--was very comfortable.

This morning, it was base layer (top and bottom), lined joggers, tee shirt, mid-weight fleece jacket, windbreaker, and earmuffs. And again, it was breezy but this time with some bite. Much like my second ride yesterday.

However, I was VERY happy to have had those rides, out on the road, given the very changeable weather this time of year. When you've lived your whole life on the windward side of the Great Lakes, you learn to be grateful for whatever the day gives you. Except, maybe, when it's 3 feet of snow, lol.

Tonight is leftover coq au vin night and, I've gotta say, I'm much more flavorably impressed (see what I did there, lol?) than I was last night after I'd spent nearly 3 hours making it.

Of course, flavors typically blend and mellow overnight, in stews and casseroles, and I was totally exhausted from the grossly under-estimated 20-minute prep which had somehow morphed into almost 2 hours. So I was probably not prepared to appreciate much of anything except the 8 hours of sleep which I still didn't get.

Anyway, I'd told rosegardenfae I was gonna whine about it here and so I have--I hope sufficiently to fulfill that promise, lol.

I was gonna get into that a lot more but, hey, I got in my workout, my two bike rides, and got the rattle under the car fixed for, literally, $4.95. (They probably figured I was still, ahem, a bit tender following their much more remunerative encounter with me a week or so earlier.)

And now, all I have to do is put 2 medium plates and 1 soup bowl in the dishwasher, do my evening meds, and put my feet up for the night while reading some newly-acquired "chick lit" from Abbi Waxman--her most recent novel, I Was Told It Would Get Easier.

Hope it does get easier and that everyone has a good night...

LPK
Dreamwidth
10.16.2020

 

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

Next time you cook coq au vin, you must post photos. 😀

[thisnewday]

OK, confession time. Ya know w-a-a-a-y back when you kindly sent me step-by-step instructions on posting pictures? Wel-l-l, I'm such a slacker or techno grouch or something that I never did anything with it.

And it's been the same with ZOOM which my book club now uses for monthly meetings. The group leader, who's a very nice lady, has offered to walk anyone through it who needs the help. And I've just sort of, I dunno, walked away from it.

Then, last week, I came across the Samsung Galaxy Tab A that Helen had given me several years ago. And, in a conversation with my annoyingly tech-savvy grandson, discovered that he was using the small camera in the Chromebook I'd gotten him, to participate in Google Classroom. And the Galaxy has a similar camera.

And so, I decided to print out the online manual for the Galaxy to see if I could do anything with it. Then I ran out of ink. So I naturally took that as a sign that the Universe--not just the Galaxy, lol--is against my doing this.

Or, it could just be that I've persisted in printing out all manner of useless crap--which used to annoy the hell out out my wife and then accumulates on the table behind me. And on the file cabinet beside me. And on top of the printer so that I can't open it to install the ink cartridges I bought.

What's your take on this, lol?

[mallorys_camera]

I think if it was important to you, then you'd figure a way to open the printer. 😀

But the DW image stuff is really easy:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=248

[thisnewday]

"I think if it was important to you..."

Hahaha, as usual, you're absolutely right.

And thanks for the link, I WILL see what I can do with it...

[rosegardenfae]

Not too whiny lol But right on with second day being tastier. Glad you got a reward for all that work, says she who has been cooking since age 10. Lol At least when you are cooking for one, you get to eat first and last.

[thisnewday]

My cooking, at age 10, was trying not to burn the water I was heating. In fact, it's still pretty much that way. Except that now I have notes in my personal cookbook on how to prep hot water without burning down the house or ruining the cookware, lol.

The only problem, with the "first and last," is that I usually cook for at least 4 meals. One for today, one for tomorrow, and two for the freezer. And when the meal is a bust, as some recent ones have been, those future mealtimes are not something I look forward to...