What Food would I say is my specialty?
I don’t cook all the much. My head is elsewhere almost all the time, so cooking is something that takes me away from those things. I’m trying to change that, though! Truly. I’ve only dipped my toes into it here and there, but I did—for example—try to make a steak and vegetable dinner a couple times a few months ago. And I want to get better at baking; I’ve tried a couple times to get a recipe right. In both cases my results were edible, but far from great. I might benefit from taking some classes. I’d love to take some, get some real-time feedback. Right now, I don’t even fully know what to do with a recipe, you know? I don’t know how stuff is supposed to even look when it’s ready or not ready.
So, I guess my answer to this question is that I don’t feel like I have a specialty when it comes to making food. I do make food. I mean, I make myself breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Lunch is usually not from scratch, but dinner usually is, and the same with breakfast. So, I know how to make an egg and toast, for example. Or how to cook pasta, or air fry chicken thighs and make rice. All of that stuff is very, very basic, however, and that’s what I want to improve. It’s on my to-do list, sigh. In the meantime, food is very much just fuel for me, unless we’re going out or Liz is making something delicious, which she does. SHE has some specialties. I do not. Yet.
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I feel better today. That’s a relief. I woke up still a bit iffy, but by around midday I felt normal. Whatever the bug was, it was pretty mild. Whew!
Got my Netflix work done in short order. I did a tiny bit of grocery shopping. Got my car washed, checked the P.O. Box. And otherwise…the day kinda disappeared on me. I didn’t get up “on time” for work, I knew that wasn’t going to fly with being sick, nor did I need to push it. But, yeah. I otherwise didn’t do anything. I don’t know where the hours went. One of those days.
Until the evening came, which is when the Warriors game came on. I was waiting for that. Season opener today. I was really interested to see how the team would play compared to how they’d played during the preseason, and honestly…it looked exactly the same. Probably because they played the Blazers, who are nnnooootttt expected to be good this year. We crushed them. I think we won by 40 points. Which is what we need to do with the bottom teams. But, a true test it was not. Our flaws are obvious this year, even if they weren’t on display: our offense is one-dimensional and too easy to disrupt (passing a lot and shooting open threes), and on defense we actually should be pretty good, be we’re not elite fast, nor are we elite big, so any team with those attributes on offense should be able to pick us apart. That’s all to say: it’d be a huge surprise if we found our way into contention because on paper there are ways for the top teams to systematically beat us. But you NEVER KNOW. Nobody thought the 2021/22 team was going to be a contender either.
It’s exciting to have the Warriors back. I hardly paid attention to them last year, but I can already feel that I might pay much closer attention this year. We’re a different team in some exciting ways. Last years’ team was too much the same as the year before. I knew we weren’t going anywhere. This year? We might. I hope, at least, we play well enough to justify adding a big piece. We. Shall. See.
Night night.