Do y'all have that in Tajikistan?
Kristi Gnome governor of south Dakota:
https://youtu.be/iJKUUVKq-20
What's up buddy bears? Cue more music:
https://youtu.be/4IEB95gLa8c
I was doing ok this morning then my wife thought it'd be good to start nagging/harassing me so I got a little cranky to shut her down. Prior to that I was in a fairly good mood. Practiced my intergalactic beastie boys robot dance, had a little sweet chocolate and a sweet coffee I made last night, from a jar formerly used for pickles or whatever. Everyone was in a fairly good mood however the kids are on school holidays second week and extremely bored.
I concur with Gnome's [sic] reference to instant gratification. This is just getting worse with the electronics internet revolution.
It's always a challenge to get them off their screens and they have no concept of the common good or teamwork, helping. Australia is definitely a selfish, individualistic society. If you don't have a helpful extended supportive family, it can get tough. It seems no matter what you do for your kids, they will just take you for granted.
As I'm working on painting interiors at home, this is really just another act of service the kids can't seem to appreciate as it doesn't compete with the entertainment on tv.
I did some puttying and taping prep work on the deck while listening to Noem's interview with Mr Schmidt. Basically I've already done 98% of the exterior patio deck (repainting it grey) and should put on finishing touches on what might be referred to as a trellis (?) .... basically the staircase on down to the backyard, there's quite a beautiful and largish plant there that will make painting the stairwell tricky and promotes mold growth which I'm just going to paint over. This paint is not water based either so I'm going to coger (Spanish for get but don't say it in many, but not all, south American countries it means 'screw') my brush from its plastic cup turpentine soak.
I did in fact screw two loose bannisters deeply along with my puttying. Interestingly in 2018 after the property settled to us for a million fifty thousand AUD in late 2017, we had rented the house to a German agriculture expert who would fly to Africa to teach Africans agricultural techniques for government or an NGO. I remember him complaining about some loose bannister railings which I also screwed on that occasion, while my family was, in fact, staying at mom's in western Sydney near the drag car speedway. This German chap was annoyed about a number of things but I kept him at a distance, telling him I was friend's with the owner's sister (kind of true actually as I guess I was my sister's friend in those days). I wouldn't tell him outright I was the landlord because then he'd think he could start demanding all kinds of crap. Also I knew he'd be out by year's end (and we'd be in) and his Mrs (another south American with funny ideas about the verb 'coger' perhaps) was also looking annoyed and demanding dopey repairs. Screw that. As someone with some Jewish DNA and no Jewish religion or culture, I absolutely do not feel I owe Germans a single lousy crumb, however I respect them and am not hostile to them. I never forget the Holocaust. Germany is a powerful nation and a strong race including it's Muslim newcomers. The Israelis wouldn't exist as a modern nation if it wasn't for the Holocaust however it's easy to become friends with your enemy after a fight. Many modern Israelis cherish and love to spend time in Germany. As a Spaniard this is ludicrous to me. If I'm in Europe, I'm not at home unless I'm in Spain, that's a fact.
I need to get my brush out of a turpentine jar like my coffee jar and paint touch ups. Need to bring the kids by the supermarket first and get milk. I love coffee.
Certainly in the united states of America the standard verb for get is 'agarrar', I think saying coger will lead to wry smiles with the Columbians also. Driving a vehicle is manejar, not conducir like in Spain. You can see the Roman latin connection linguistically of conducive and conducir.
Manejar, agarrar. So when the people in Spain say what do you paint in Australia? (meaning what do you do there?) you can say 'the deck'.
More muzak....
https://youtu.be/PrZbHklIroo
https://youtu.be/0edji28K8mk
Almost five pm, the days fly by when you don't need to drive a bus, being on holiday. For the first time I've asked my kids to peel boiled potatoes. When I was a little boy, under age eight, I could see my mother prepare a typical Spanish tortilla (potato frittata) and my sisters, being around 12 & 14, respectively, would help her with that. That means peeling boiled potatoes. This is something all Spaniards do regardless of if they're hostile to each other eg Catalan vs madrileño), because it's a national pastime. It's even true of my kids now, since they're two of them already registered as Spanish nationals. Although these potatoes are for their mother and tortilla de patatas are peeled potatoes not boiled. My sisters actually helped our mother make Russian salad which is a popular dish in Spain and Russia and other European countries. This is a potato salad with carrots, asparagus spears, boiled eggs, carrots. The mayonnaise is made by hand, separating the egg yolk from the egg white and only the white is used to make the mayonnaise and there's a special technique I never learned which involves stirring the egg white correctly so it doesn't 'break'. My sisters and our mother were capable and my mother prepared very high quality Russian salad, even creme caramels (another popular dessert in Spain made by Spanish women all over Spain as part of their cultural heritage). Russian salad in Russia, I understand, is also prepared in the same way, I believe.
Continuing with egg whites. Painters in pre industrial times such as during the Renaissance, frequently made varnishes with egg whites. my wife is mighty sore with me as I used my brother's machine sander (not relevant that it was once his) to sand some of our varnished floor near the fireplace (I did this because I had burned some of the varnish many months ago by accident). She wasn't even aware of the burn discoloration but immediately became upset and agitated by my sanding of that small area. Then I tried varnishing it but got the wrong color. I sealed it with egg white varnish a la Renaissance and I'm going to pivot to hair curls now, da Vinci ones, because I don't want to focus on getting those floorboards color matching the rest at the present moment.
It's pretty obvious looking at some of da Vinci's depictions of curled hair on women, that he was a fan of beautiful curls. I'll post up some of his sketches that i like of 'pelo rizado', curly locks. Along with the newly repainted deck, this evening.
easy to dance youtube learn to dance, my daughters love it, also the boy apparently...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eughyYPoExk
that's perfect da vinci hair curls, that's as good as it gets, perfect:
that's little alex as a baby, to think his sister was a fully conceived frozen embryo at the time, and his biological twin........ that's modern technology for you, just like this chinese made supervirus that mutated in india: modern technology and the modern condition
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