Paleobird's Next Big Adventure page 24

[Paleobird]

Thanks Jac. I just had some yogurt for breakfast. We'll see what happens when I have some "real" food tonight.

[Paleobird]

I have a friend visiting me, someone I know from all the time I spent in baja. Her husband just recently passed away and now she is having to deal with all the paperwork hassles of insurance companies etc. The problem is her husband always did everything for her in terms of running the household finances, online bill paying, banking, etc. She doesn't even know how to send an email. She doesn't know how much money she does or doesn't have in the bank because she doesn't know the passwords.

Families need to communicate about these things. You never know who is going to be the first one to go. Everyone assumed it would be her when she was diagnosed with cancer and told to "get her affairs in order" about 7 years ago. But she beat it and outlived her husband.

I'm doing what I can to get her up to speed with the basics of computer terminology and methods. I'm not a tech head but I can do the basic functional things.

[Paleobird]

On the digestive front, so far so good. I had a real food dinner, salad, asparagus, and rack of lamb and am feeling fine several hours later.

The Wolf Cub in nomming down on the bones on the carpet. Why he feels the need to bring them from the tile floor to the small area rug, I don't know. But that is one very happy Wolf Cub. He doesn't like it when I'm sick. No leftovers.

[zoebird]

That's tough stuff on your friend. I've got Ryan sorted on how to manage the business entirely on his own, and my friend said that she'd do child care should anything happen to Ryan, and everything else is sorted out with both of us able to manage.

But good lordy, it's a lot to take in, and next month ryan is going to do half of the invoices and I'll do the other half, that way, eh has practice. Showing and doing are two different things.

I'm sorry for your friend's loss, too. It's tough to loose the person you rely on (emotionally and otherwise).

Glad you're feeling better. Feeling yucky is seriously not fun.

[Paleobird]

Thanks Zoe.

Hurrah for a good night's sleep and actually having an appetite for breakfast! I feel human!

[Paleobird]

Today was appliance repair day. My Dad's dryer and my washer both went out at the same time. Benefit to living next door is that they both could be fixed in one service call. Now I can finally get some clean clothes. I was starting to offend myself.

We had a lovely dinner of leftover lamb and some veggies made into a crockpot stew with a side Greek salad. My Dad and my friend from baja get along really well. She is about ten years younger than he is but I could tell he was having fun talking with someone of (more or less) his same generation. I know she is grieving for her husband and far be it from me to do any matchmaking but.....could there possibly be more than just friends here? Time will tell. She's heading back to Mexico tomorrow which is her home. There area lot of gringo ex-patriots down there who find that a social security check goes a lot further south of the border.

[zoebird]

my uncle lives there, though his official address is his daughter's in SD. he has a nice little place, right on the water. It's not fancy, but, a dollar goes a long way.

[Paleobird]

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Haven't done any food porn for you guys in a while. This is a ribeye steak on a bed of diced tomatoes and seaweed salad. I got the salad from a local asian market and the only oil in it is sesame. Mineral water by the side with a wedge of rangpur lime (homegrown) in it and voila, dinner.

Grizz should be happy to know that I am getting my iodine from the sea veggies. That guy!

[canio6]

Dang, you said the G word. One does not mention he who should not be named.

Sexy looking steak. My stomach salutes you!

[Paleobird]

He who should not be named I think honestly means well but his kind of idiocy, chasing after the latest guru with the newest brand of kool aid every month or so, drives me nuts. It's stuff like that iodine forum that make Primal look like a bunch of wingnuts. Then when he told that person whose mom has cancer to fire her oncologist and start taking iodine instead, I just lost it. I get a bit sensitive when it comes to the C subject. Snake oil salesmen taking advantage of desperate and sick people is wrong. Many of those snake oil peddlers work with the unsuspecting help of gullible people like he who should not be named. They whip up the forums and steer business to their gurus. Grrrr. And it's not just benign stupidity. There are people mega dosing with iodine who don't need it and doing serious damage to themselves. I really think maybe it's time to write to Mark about this. This is dangerous.

Yes, the steak was sexy and juicy. I'm a helluva good cook.