Saturday Spo-bits

I know it is Saturday as ‘Grumpy old geeks’ put out their weekly podcast episode. Otherwise these past seven days have been bit of a blur. I am feeling better this morning but I am still weak; my respiratory system continues to create crud with cough. I weighed myself the other day: patience above! I am down by 7 kilos! Flu has managed to make by New Year’s Resolution where willpower has failed. Monday morning I am scheduled to have a fasting blood work done. I am curious to see how that goes; I’ve been more or less fasting for a week.

We canceled Thanksgiving dinner, hoping it is just postponed until we feel better. At first we thought Sunday would be good but if I am supposed to be NPO after 7PM our best bet is to make it today. Alas, Babylon! We are both none too interested in food. It’s a shame to have all that food go to waste, so we may make it and try to freeze it for later, minus a few bites to call it dinner. The biggest bother is the turkey. We better cook that sucker before salmonella sets in adding food poisoning to our woes.

All this downtime means I am more privy to Someone’s binge watching. I hear it but I don’t see it. It is like hearing someone in public talking on their phone and hearing only their side of a sordid conversation. He is listening to some show with awful people (they sound British) being quite mean to each other, using the most frightful language, and sounding not at all proper Brits. Do business-types really talk like that? Do people who stab each other in the back become chums next week given the need? They seem to be victims of their own making. It is confusing, and as in Othello, the nonsense would be cleared up if someone with a moderate sense of morals would step up and explain a few things, point out the facts, and most of the shenanigans would cease. But then I don’t suppose there would be drama if the protagonists had any sense. Oh the pain.

After I post this I will get Someone to turn on the oven and get the bird going. I hear him hacking away in the kitchen so perhaps he’s already doing this. On the other hand I hear British-sounding people shouting and swearing so I suppose said drama continues. Count me out. I get enough of that from the news to last me a life time.