An update....
mood: 
thoughtful
thoughtfulmusic: Smallville
*sigh*
So the parental units are back at home and they'll be around for work stuff to some extent. It's a bit of a relief to know that I don't have to handle everything right now, but the last couple of days made it clear that I have to organize things so that I (or anyone else for that matter) can better run things in the future (although I will hope that the next time I have the business all to myself will be because my folks are on vacation, not inches from death).
UPS was lame and didn't deliver Moya's vital bits. I feel a complaint letter coming on. It's amazing how much you can accomplish if you put down complaints in writing (without sounding like a raving lunatic). We'll see, maybe I'll get the parts tomorrow. I went ahead and started putting the new Moya together though, nothing too exciting yet, but maybe I'll post some pics of her if I get around to modding the case a bit.
Oh, I did find a wicked cool set of cast iron cooking stuff at Sam's this afternoon. It came with a couple of skillets, a dutch oven, and a griddle... all for $34.00... of course the deciding factor was that all these goodies came in a really nifty wooden box which will probably end up being used for something other than storing heavy metal pans and such. I've turned into such a cooking geek.
And that's that... well sort of....
Ugh...
Unfortunately I can't really take care of him because... well, he's a grown-up and he's horribly stubborn about some things. We've had this same arguement with him before (about taking care of himself and making the effort to stay healthy etc...) and he refuses to budge on it...
I just had to deal with a bit of that with him right now and I'm not feeling terribly optimistic about how he'll manage his stuff. I don't know if he just doesn't believe the doctors, or if he's that certain that he knows what's best... I don't understand what logic he's using to make his decisions and that's starting to bother me...
Re: Ugh...
We used to bug my dad about it a lot, but I've given up bitching at him because it's just not worth it. To a point if he feels that he's being attacked he will never back down on general principle. He had told me, a while ago, that if he felt that it was an emergency then he would go to the doctor and he did do that (so I'll give him credit for that), but I don't know how patient I'm willing to be if he continues to refuse to follow the doctor's orders.
Stuff like this makes it very tempting to just pack my bags and head out to some other place again. If my folks won't at least try to take care of themselves consistently then I kind of don't want to see them suffering through their own stupidity (for lack of a better term). I feel like such an evil son for saying that, but I mean it's tough to see people you love suffering and knowing that they could do stuff to make things easier on themselves if they just weren't so stubborn.
(Anonymous)
cooking geek?
We'll have to compare knives sometime.
Re: cooking geek?
(Anonymous)
Re: cooking geek?
Re: cooking geek?
I'm still aquiring kitchen stuff, but I'm at the point where I can reliably grab a ranom recipe and know that I'll probably have most of the hardware needed for making stuff (or better yet knowing that I have kitchen gadget X which will make the work easier :). The one area that my kitchen is really lacking in though is food supplies since I've yet to figure out quite how to shopw and cook for one. Still though, I'm watching lots of cooking shows and learning stuff about how to deal with various food stuff and I've had some really good cooking experiments in the last few months :).
I'll be giving you serious cooking competition one of these days :-p.