Police...a necessary evil in societies everywhere. Latest crap off CNN...a DC police office has said he would shoot our First Lady...Michelle Obama, said while in the company of other police officers, then pulled up a picture on his smartphone of the gun he was going to use. Brilliant cop, no? So one of those that overheard the whole conversation told a Police Lieutenant and the gentleman is now patrolling a desk sans gun. Nutty. Do we not vet our police anymore? Test their sanity, their political views, (religious one too!) before giving them weapons and the means to shoot them accurately? Or is it simply a slip of his tongue? Or is it a violation of his precious Freedom of Speech...or is it simply a violation of the OATH he took when given his badge? I'm aghast..again!
Are any of us safe with Police shooting "suspects" in the BACK as has occurred now in Vallejo and Oakland, California? "But officer, he was just taking out his wallet as you asked him too." Wow.
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Bread baking going on as I write...big fluffy loaf of Oat Bread for Liz whom we are going to visit this afternoon. One for us as well though not as oaty as hers will still be light and fluffy thanks to the beautiful French wheat and flour. I have, at least for now, stopped the use of BUTTER in my day-to-day bread making exercise. Why? Largely as I have reservations about the amount of FAT that Kelly and I ingest and less would be better for us I suppose. So I use CANOLA (Colza...Rapeseed) oil instead. Not a bad substitution as I detect that the bread is a bit lighter in overall consistency that it was too, not that I don't like heavy breads, far from it...but overall the lighter ones make a more digestible sandwich and toasts which we have a great liking for. So there! Liz's loaf is out of the ancient oven and cooling for the ride to her house in a couple of hours. Ours will be baked off in another half hour or so after it finishes it's second rise. It too is using Canola oil and oats.
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I spent at least 3 days this week troubleshooting this damned 2 machine "network" that just wasn't working right at all. We use a damned (and I MEAN that!) SFR Dongle 3G device for our so-called High Speed Inet connection. HA! No movies through this slow as molasses thing...and a 3GB "illimit" means after 3G they throttle you back to 256Kbps...yes...little "b" for BITS/sec...Grrrrrr. We pay 40 Euros a month (that is 50 USD!) for this "servicing". Anyway, it was a shared connection with my machine and would drop the connection regularly at 3 - 5 minutes...ker-plunk! Then you'd have to go to the Vodophone gadget (kludge!) and reconnect time and time again. Awful! Amateurish programming, hardware and "service"! Grrrrrr. So 3 damned days I spent struggling with this thing and even went so far as to upgrade my Vista 64 OS for Win 7 64...just in case that would help the dire situation, which it didn't. Every time we'd reconnect I would struggle to get my machine to engage the damned shared network from her laptop. Eventually I wised up and spent a whole day working only on her machine to sort out the dropped Vodophone problem. I found I was sharing the wired connection too from her machine...no, no, no I told myself and removed the sharing from that one. Then I reinstalled the Vodophone software in it's entirety from scratch. Then the connection stayed UP for over 5 minutes for the first time in a month...if ever! Then I removed the damned Realtek WiFi USB gadget and deinstalled the software too. Then I reconnected the wired connection from the laptop and l'viola! I was online again through her damned SFR slow speed dongle! Whoop-de-Doo! What a way to spend a day or three. Merde'...that's SHIT in French!
Are any of us safe with Police shooting "suspects" in the BACK as has occurred now in Vallejo and Oakland, California? "But officer, he was just taking out his wallet as you asked him too." Wow.
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Bread baking going on as I write...big fluffy loaf of Oat Bread for Liz whom we are going to visit this afternoon. One for us as well though not as oaty as hers will still be light and fluffy thanks to the beautiful French wheat and flour. I have, at least for now, stopped the use of BUTTER in my day-to-day bread making exercise. Why? Largely as I have reservations about the amount of FAT that Kelly and I ingest and less would be better for us I suppose. So I use CANOLA (Colza...Rapeseed) oil instead. Not a bad substitution as I detect that the bread is a bit lighter in overall consistency that it was too, not that I don't like heavy breads, far from it...but overall the lighter ones make a more digestible sandwich and toasts which we have a great liking for. So there! Liz's loaf is out of the ancient oven and cooling for the ride to her house in a couple of hours. Ours will be baked off in another half hour or so after it finishes it's second rise. It too is using Canola oil and oats.
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I spent at least 3 days this week troubleshooting this damned 2 machine "network" that just wasn't working right at all. We use a damned (and I MEAN that!) SFR Dongle 3G device for our so-called High Speed Inet connection. HA! No movies through this slow as molasses thing...and a 3GB "illimit" means after 3G they throttle you back to 256Kbps...yes...little "b" for BITS/sec...Grrrrrr. We pay 40 Euros a month (that is 50 USD!) for this "servicing". Anyway, it was a shared connection with my machine and would drop the connection regularly at 3 - 5 minutes...ker-plunk! Then you'd have to go to the Vodophone gadget (kludge!) and reconnect time and time again. Awful! Amateurish programming, hardware and "service"! Grrrrrr. So 3 damned days I spent struggling with this thing and even went so far as to upgrade my Vista 64 OS for Win 7 64...just in case that would help the dire situation, which it didn't. Every time we'd reconnect I would struggle to get my machine to engage the damned shared network from her laptop. Eventually I wised up and spent a whole day working only on her machine to sort out the dropped Vodophone problem. I found I was sharing the wired connection too from her machine...no, no, no I told myself and removed the sharing from that one. Then I reinstalled the Vodophone software in it's entirety from scratch. Then the connection stayed UP for over 5 minutes for the first time in a month...if ever! Then I removed the damned Realtek WiFi USB gadget and deinstalled the software too. Then I reconnected the wired connection from the laptop and l'viola! I was online again through her damned SFR slow speed dongle! Whoop-de-Doo! What a way to spend a day or three. Merde'...that's SHIT in French!
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