Tuesday - April 13, 2010

Sick Day

Crap, I’ve still got the congestion nonsense going on. Felt like a wrung out dishcloth this morning. Underside of my nose is getting raw from the constant blowing. Bleh. And I’m in such a dark mood too.

Yeah, and I was Teh Suck at bowling last night. We continued our race to the bottom, winning only 1 game out of 3 for the ... 9th week in a row? Something God awful like that. Maybe I can blame my cold, but I couldn’t muster jack shit. Right into the pocket time after time after time after time, but leaving the 7 or the 10 or sometimes the 9. And then I’d miss the spare by a quarter millimeter or less, sometimes actually hitting the pin but only enough to make it wobble, spin, or slide aside. Time after time after time. Shit. I barely broke 400 for the night. 413 actually. Teh. Suck.

I was going to blow off my chiropractic appointment today, but when I called he told me he can do accupressure for sinus relief. So I tried some of that. It hurts. Did it do any good? I can’t tell yet. But he recommended that I continue with the steam treatment ... put a towel over your head and a big pot of boiling water and inhale the vapors until you’re soaked through, and with any luck breathing all that steam will open your nose. That’s the fallback treatment every allergic person knows about. It sorta works. And use eucalyptus cream. Vapo-rub! Ho boy! It’s like I’m 5 years old again. Now all I need is my ragged old teddy bear, a thick quilt, a grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup, and some seriously violent cartoons to watch.

No, sorry, can’t get those anymore. Instead, I’ll just make something to eat and crawl into bed with some bit of fluff to read. The fluff reading was easy; I picked up a copy of Clive Cussler’s latest, Corsair, a book right up my alley. It starts with a historic flashback to the early US Navy confronting the Bey of Tripoli, with Steven Decatur burning the captured Philadelphia and the first action of the US Marines and the USS Constitution. Fighting the jihadis in their own sandbox ...

… that it is founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it is written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it is their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and the every Musselman who should be slain in Battle are sure to go to Paradise.

- Thomas Jefferson’s testimony to the Continental Congress explaining the justification given to him by the Barbary ambassador to England, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, concerning their preying on Christian ships, 1786

We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever

- John Adams on the Barbary pirates, 1787

Cussler then shifts back to the present day, where his characters are manning a Q-ship off the coast of Somalia, trolling for the modern descendants of that same mindset. I’m sure merry hell will ensue, with plenty of things blowing up and acts of daring-do. Derring-do? WTH is a derring anyway? Probably a bit light on the cutlasses and broadsides, but you never know with Cussler. So it’s an absolutely perfect novel for me right now.

As for the something to eat ... I sometimes push things to the extreme when I’m under the weather. Not sure why, but maybe I just need really strongly flavored foods to cut through the bleh. So I hit the store, and got a nice big pork shoulder and a bunch of fruit and spices. I’m making up a pernil, so that chunk o’ pork is stabbed full of holes and soaking in a big jug of super mojo criollo, a marinade made from bitter oranges, orange juice, lemon juice, lime juice, vinegar, garlic, cumin, pepper flakes, onions, hot sauce, oregano, tumeric, sofrito, adobo, and recaito. It’s been in there since last night, so by tomorrow noon it will be ready to slow cook for about 8 hours. The marinade does such a great job of tenderizing that it might fall apart before it gets in the oven. But when it’s cooked - tasty tasty yum yum! Pulled pork sandwiches, super tender meat, crispy roasted pork skin. And if I make up a batch of dough, I can churn out a few dozen empenadas as well. Plus the whole condo will reek of roasting pork all day long. That’s even better than bacon. Even. Better. Than. Bacon!!

Other people turn to saltines and light ginger ale when they get sick, with maybe some watery chicken soup. Not me!



I’ll get back to bashing on Obama in another couple of days. I’m sure he’ll continue doing stupid things against the best interests of the nation, so there won’t be any lack of topics to castigate him about.

Latest rumor I’ve heard is that the Russians changed the ILS beam at their airport when that airplane full of the Polish government was coming in, so that it followed the glide path straight into the ground. Of course the air crew was refusing a waive off: their equipment showed them to have a perfect landing approach. That will never be provable, especially since Putin has the black boxes. If they ever get turned over to the West, they’ll show exactly what he wants them to show. No one will ever be able to show even a hint of evidence that this tragedy was anything more than a freak accident ... yeah right. Another freak accident, just like the former spy who was accidentally poisoned with that rare and highly radioactive substance a couple years ago. Don’t you ever believe it was an accident. The bear will always bite when he knows he can’t be bitten back, and Russia is really touchy about the Katyn massacre, even though they admitted to it after living a lie for 50 years. Worse than the Turks are about the Armenian genocide.

And now that Poland won’t be getting that nice missile shield ... thanks for nothing, Chairman Zero! ... they won’t say a word. But everyone will know, and remember. For someday.

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