It’s called “Rotten”. So far they’ve covered the adulteration of Chinese honey and the devious ways the Chinese are trying to get their adulterated honey into the U.S.

Then they covered Peanut and other allergies. That was interesting because two takeaways I got from this are a) It mostly affects kids and b) Some kids outgrow the food allergies. In my case as a kid I had stone fruit, nuts etc. But I was stubborn – knew that if I took an antihistamine prior I’d get no reaction and so I ate them and now have no problem with them. They mentioned that in the video too.

Now I’m watching the episode on Garlic or again the Chinese trying to corner the market. Now I will admit I use garlic a lot – in fact last night it was olive oil, chopped garlic and red pepper flakes and then chopped up Bok Choy.

It’s an interesting series none the less. Worth watching if you have a Netflix account.

So while were at the market someone picked up one of those hot chickens. They’re under $5 and they do look nice.

Got the oven up to 400F – that seems to be the magic temperature for re-heating things. For example pizza – 8 to 10 minutes at 400F give a nice crispy crust and the cheese melts. Well the chicken required 28 to 30 minutes. I checked at 25 and the chicken was up to temp. Too it out, let it rest for 3 minutes and then cut the chicken in half – it was a smaller chicken.

Also did some bok choy – chopped it up – and into a pan with avocado oil, garlic, ginger and red pepper flakes. Sauteed the bok choy in that mix and then added a soy sauce and water and let it steam. I love bok choy and so does someone else.

Had that with a bit of quinoa with butter and salt. Whole thing in less than 30 minutes.

So recently I’ve noticed more bikes out back and one was chained to the porch. So yesterday in violation of USPS rules – a non-postage letter was in my mail.

First of all whoever wrote this is just mildly illiterate. All upper case – that one grabbed me first.

However the one on the porch I noticed it but I never said anything to the landlord. So they must have seen it.

My bike is in the basement – behind the stairs. Need to replace a tire on it.

However I’m happy they’re going to put a bike rack/stand in. As it stands there are between 4 and 6 bikes parked back there all the time.

 

So someone wants to eliminate all carbohydrates due to the a TED talk they saw online. I want to eliminate tomatoes and beans.

And someone actually knows that fruit juices are essentially sugar water now.

So lets see – carbs – no more cake, biscuits, baked stuff in general. Oh well. That includes rice btw.

And no more pasta, no more tomato sauce, no more chilli as that includes both tomato and bean.

Which means all the joy in life will be gone. This will be interesting.

 

So last night we went to a friends home – it was one of our friends birthday. So I didn’t get to roast another batch of coffee. The horror this morning – what? Luckily yesterday someone picked up a package of these dark chocolate covered coffee beans. Just munch a handful of those for my caffeine blast.

So I tried accessing the Kitchen IP camera, the one that watches the kitchen and back door. It wouldn’t come up – I have it assigned at 192.168.1.106 – I thought maybe the DHCP lease changed but then didn’t see it on the firewall connections.

Think back the first rule or as I like to call it a commandment  in technical support is check thine power connections. Went to the Kitchen and noticed the plug in the electrical socket looked weird.

The plug was askew in the socket. Pulled it out and the port side blade was bent out at an angle. Someone must have snagged it when they went past to put laundry into the middle room. Bent the blade back, plugged it in and the camera is up again.

It’s funny – I recall the show the I.T. Crowd – brilliant comedy. But whenever someone would call they’d say “Have you turned it off then on again.” That’s another rule of I.T. And I believe I made the DHCP IP address reservation static on the firewall. That way they ALWAYS get the same IP.

It’s the series Lucifer. The premise of the series is that the Devil decides to take a vacation from Hell and lands in Los Angeles.

At the beginning of the series he’s rather dickish – which one would expect of a devil if one in fact existed. I think I’ve posted before the idea of Satan, hell and the like was lifted by Christianity directly from the Zoroastrians of Persia.

But the series is interesting. He pines for the female detective – and when she finally shows up drunk he doesn’t have sex with her. He’s the one who stops it. He’s becoming more human.

And the angel Amenadeil – he’s been put in charge to make sure nobody escapes from Hell whilst Lucifer is having a good time on Earth. But the angel goes a bit too far – he knows Lucifer is now becoming mortal and he tells Lucifer that some thug is going to kill him and it’s back to hell Lucifer goes.

Just because I’m an atheist doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the play of good vs. evil in this.