I am CuTRis

I said I would make banana bread, but I had to turn off the AC and open the windows--because I won't run air conditioning and the oven simultaneously. Everyone agreed. By the time the banana/blueberry bread was done, and I turned the AC back on, I also had made a pasta salad and fried salmon.

After a much needed rain, we took a walk in a nature preserve. I was hoping the overcast sky would improve the chances of seeing something in the woods. I was not disappointed! It was stunning blue in color, and did not seem afraid of us...

CuTRis Visits Taiwan, But China Doesn't Care UnAssociated Press August 3, 2022 It is reported that shortly after Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan , CuTRis arrived in Taipei . But apparently, China didn't really care--citing that CuTRis is nobody special . CuTRis responded by saying that China is "stupid." This prompted China to fly some war planes near CuTRis , and yell some bad words in Chinese at him. Then CuTRis stuck his tongue out, and finally decided to go home.

I saved this bread that was going to be thrown away, and reincarnated it into French Toast.

For 4 days and 2 nights we've been attending, working at, and mourning at my mother-in-law's funeral. We are all exhausted. The process exposed the best and the worst simultaneously. Have a good journey, Chao Xiong Lee. A shout to my Milwaukee cousins. I love you guys.

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I am posting this for my liberal friends, who like to tell me how delicious Hmong food is. For traditional, ceremonial purposes, I have had to prepare two Hmong boiled chickens for the second time this month. It is likely that most of these people have never tasted authentic Hmong food. It is typically bland, boiled and accompanied by amazingly hot pepper sauce. I'm not a fan, even after 15 years. Although... don't the heads look particularly appetizing? I don't recall seeing anyone ever eat the heads; though I've heard people crunching up the feet.

"Bye Wally... why'd you have to and go die like that?" "Gee Beav, I didn't try to do it. I just got sick and well... it sort of just happened." "Oh... so what happens now?" "Gee Beav, I guess you keep living and I'll just go hangout in heaven." "You're in Heaven?" "Well yeah Beav! I wasn't that big of a creep!" "Yeah, I guess so Wally... Heaven's a pretty great place huh? "Well yeah, Beav, why do you think mom and dad made us spend all of those boring Sundays at church?" "Gee Wally, I never really thought of it like that." "Sure Beav, it's going to be okay." "Okay Wally, I guess I better get going." "See you later Beav." "Yeah Wally, I'll see you later."

Eat the top ones and plant the bottom...

Over the weekend having heard the bragging of a hospital financial administrator, it reinforced my belief that it takes more than an MBA to make a good supervisor. Her comments about firing people who didn’t do what she wanted, were nothing short of shocking. If a company, did things right, they probably spent lots of time and money seeking out the best talent to work for them. Terminating an employee may be how a medieval monarch would handle the situation, but firing someone should always be considered a last resort. It is not good to have a manager with such little regard for people and assets. Perhaps she was just bragging about her “power,” but I know from having a long and varied work history, that nothing will send me into a full-on job search, like an immature or mean-spirited supervisor.

My son was bored, so he started bothering me. So finally, I found a voice synthesizer on my phone and wrote a poem about how his butt stinks and my phone was using a female British voice to recite the poem! He got pretty mad until he found out how to do it and how much fun it was to make fun of dad's butt farting and such. These father/son activities are priceless!

During our whirlwind trip to Duluth, While at the Maritime Museum , I met a couple of the Minions ! Sorry, I'm not sure if it was Kevin or Stuart... I'm not good with Minions...