Month: September 2012

Brown Warren Debate

I was disappointed in Elizabeth Warren but I’ve liked Scott Brown from the start, so am not unbiased.

The good news for us is that we were able to see the debate without television. It was streamed on CBSBoston. I hooked up the laptop, monitor and speakers in the living room so we could watch the debate together. It worked out fine.

Waffling

I’ve been wanting a stovetop waffle iron for a while and after reading some reviews, bought a vintage Nordic Ware model with temperature gauges from an eBay seller. They don’t make this model any longer. The new version is also heavy cast iron, but doesn’t have the gauges.

The waffle iron arrived yesterday and after a little cleanup, I tried it out this morning. With no spray-on shortening and no waffle mix on hand, this was a from-scratch trial. By the third waffle, though, I pretty much had it down to Ron’s satisfaction. The reviewers are right, the temperature gauge is an enormous help, and from what they wrote, this device should last a very long time: some have had theirs for 30 years.

Got Up and Went

I don’t feel tired physically, but pretty much on empty mentally. I could use a reboot, but short of a medically-induced coma, not sure how to achieve that.

We did the transfer station run and changed the bed sheets today. Picked up some meds and a griddle, ordered supplies for Robert’s senior project.

I’m staring at a lawn that could use mowing, a heavy raking and aeration. I hate the idea of schlepping big gas-driven machines from point A to here and back. There are parts of the yard that would benefit from a good watering, and I hate the idea of hauling around sprinklers and heavy hoses. I’m tired of looking at hot spots on the lawn.

Blah.

What’s Mitt Romney REALLY Running For?

As if his foot-in-mouth remarks in Britain, his selection of Paul Ryan and his ill-advised statement on the assassination of our Libyan embassy staff weren’t enough, Mitt Romney’s appointment of Robert Bork as the chair of his Judicial Advisory Committee pretty much guarantees that Barack Obama will be re-elected come November 6.

I can’t believe that this is the same person who was Governor of the Commonwealth and who ran against Ted Kennedy for Senate.

Is this the real Mitt Romney? Were we fooled back in 1994, or has Mitt suffered a medical condition that caused this radical metanoia?

I would suppose that the candidate’s recent reckless decisions are consistent with his Master of the Universe persona as a founding partner of Bain Capital. Perhaps I’m wrong, but it seems to me that his extreme right wing opinions are out of step with most US voters, and that he and his campaign must be aware of that.

Thus, the question: since he doesn’t seem to want to be President, what does Mitt REALLY want?

Dang

It’s finally starting to feel like Fall, and time to gear up for two nasty chores: the deck at Edgewater and thatching the lawn/lawns.

Today we went to the WWII air show. I got ready later than planned then made us even more off schedule by really messing up the location, but we spent as much time as Ron wanted. Then we went to Spaulding for the 2012 patient reunion.

We sat with a well-spoken lady from Falmouth and hope to talk with her husband about radon remediation.

The event was running quite late, though, and I’d planned to leave at 1 to go to New Bedford. So, we left before the lunch.

Turns out, the person I was planning to meet wasn’t coming in to the office. So, I managed to screw up our day. Ron was very understanding, much to his credit

I did some banking and paid some bills, rearranged the vine over the slider, watered and did a small amount of weeding in the front. Not bad, but pretty unsatisfactory, considering how I’d planned to spend the day.