THE WORLD or and I have not decided which -- but I am more or less prepared for another YEAR in purgatory (due to Covid) -- and Japan, bless their booties, are going ahead with the 2020 Olympics now renamed the 2021 Olympics, and are depending on the vaccine(s) to keep "everyone" safe ... or "safe" from Covid, anyway - they have a past, present, and future monetary investment in carrying on ... I read somewhere that no Olympics held in any country has been a financial win-win for any host nation at which point the article's author dragged out into the open etc ... I think the biggest problems I've heard of, other than mis-behavior of the competitors, is being over-budget and under-organized ..
On the Home Front: Weather this AM is FOGGY, good ole Tule Fog - we DO get an occasional respite from this AM fog and when we DO have a foggy morning it tends to be burned off by noon-ish
Electric utility bill seems to have doubled so we are discussing what we will shut off during what hours ...
Some of the Meals delivered have been Adventuous, like fish sticks and some other surprising meals ... I have figured it out, if I eat the veggies FIRST, that ensures I WILL eat the veggies.
Not my "thing", I assure you, I've never in the whole of my life LIKED veggies unless they were in a soup, salad or a casserole ... and with the Meals, this ... well, the "soups" tend to be a veggie ... spinach puree is the favored offering, gah .. but if I smother any other veggie(s) in the sauce that the "meat" has been served in, .. I'll eat at least 80% to 90% and sometimes 100% ... We gave up using the veggies offered as part of a second meal soup .. not a "turn-on" for either of us
There is the discipline of "eating what is set before you" and "eating what is healthy for you" and these are not Horrible Things, and yes, we are better nourished ...
But there are days, when after peeling off the cellophane covering, that my heart sinks into my stomach and then my stomach wildly searches for the nearest exit because, ye gods, it's that d*mned spinach puree again !!!!
"Remember the Alamo" does not sound right -- think it is more "Onward, mes enfants, onward" -- don't recall what book or film that was in but the leader and his band were in dire straits ... might have been a scene from a battle ... BUT it certainly does describe my feelings at "mealtime"
GENEALOGICALLY SPEAKING ... went to Contributions and set to view 500 per page, this included 15th Jan (current day not yet complete) back to 10th January ... 41 profiles Created, and 68 Added ... and I hooked some up to other PMs' works so I think that hooking up is included in the Adding ...
Ah, Took a LONG horrified look at my Suggestions ... Computer hath gone berserk ... I am many things but I do not have the god-like powers it would require for me to CORRECT the ERRORS pertaining to Slow response of some website, the Timed Out of some website ... and other such .. not sure what word to use that will not get me into deep or so deep into whatever I can't get back out ...
okay, well, anyway, I don't have those god-like powers and so I have taken to marking them False Suggestion ... I mean, Seriously??
AND there were the usual blunders with the inline ref ... my goodness, if I could only produce that sort of chaos deliberately, on demand, some industries would pay me to do so ..
I will say that for the lack of a < or a > or too many of them, the results can be quite impressive
"For want of a horse the rider was lost. ... For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail."
"For Want of a Nail" is a proverb, having numerous variations over several centuries, reminding [us] that seemingly unimportant acts or omissions can have grave and unforeseen consequences.