Well…I have obviously been a slacker lately. I went to make a phone call this morning and the phone was dead. I rarely call anyone, so I forget about keeping the phone charged. Then my Meals on Wheels lunch showed up. As soon as I turned the camera on, it turned itself off. The second time I tried to take a pic, I realized duh, the battery was dead.
When I first got my chromebook, the internal camera did not work. From reading chromebook forums, I discovered it was a frequent problem and a known software glitch. Fortunately someone must have figured out how to fix it. Weeks later, it worked. It’s a camera, but a pretty low quality one. I can use it in conjunction with Google+ to make youtube videos. I can also take pics of me. Today I used it to get an image of my lunch. It wasn’t easy. There were many shots, but none showed all the food. This is the best I could do while the good camera is charging.
Breaded baked fish with tartar sauce, baked beans, creamy coleslaw and rosy applesauce. They have definitely improved the quality. The fish was still strange, but everything else was good. I really liked the beans and slaw 🙂 Milk is always good.
While messing with the chromebook camera, I realized every picture I had ever taken was still there. I went through and erased most of them. Whenever there is a picture I want to use, I download it to my files. Gee….when I went to see my GP last week, I took a pic of me in the exam room. It was the first time in a long time that I wasn’t there with complications from myasthenia gravis. I was there mostly about the hernia. The doctor said he hadn’t seen me look so well in a long time. I forgot about that since the hernia and then the psoriasis on my face and scalp was the focus. When I saw the pic today, I was surprised to see me looking mostly OK. I usually only take pics of me to show my drooped eyes or melting face.
I am still droopy, but I do look better than my usual mess….well, maybe 
I usually do look better when smiling and joking around with the GP, so that helped when he came in the room.
This afternoon, I got a pharmacy delivery. That reinforced my strange relationship with the passage of time. It seems like I just got those meds a few days ago! A month flew by fast. And the rent is due today. I thought I would be gone by now. I will never give up dreaming.
For now I will spend my hours dreaming up ways to cook all my new foods. I cut up potatoes, turned a couple of heads of broccoli into florets, shook up and chopped a head of garlic and put olive oil, plus freshly ground salt and pepper over all. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. I added cheddar cheese and sour cream.
Wendy The Wanderer 
Hello, Wendy. I’m sorry MoW is often disappointing but am so glad that your church finally decided to help you out. Also very glad that your blog will go on! The very best of wishes, Jenn
The church would have helped me out all along. I just wasn’t willing to ask….and to pursue the casual offers. I was trying my darndest on my own. It’s freeing to be 60. I finally saw myself as someone who needs lots of help.
Nice… MOW looking better. AND that meal you made looks fantastic! Your cooking is so appetizing looking–so colorful.
I forgot to take a picture of breakfast. It was 2 eggs, Mexican squash, onion, tomato, Swiss-Gruyere cheese with Sriracha bbq sauce. I like colorful food most of the time 🙂 I hope the lunches keep getting better. It’s hard to unsee that chicken chow mein MoW sent here one day. Eeeeeewwwww! Cool that you like the looks of my cooking 🙂 This last weekend I was rereading Heather’s biking blog and got to the part where you took her to Big Bend. That was a long time ago!
The picture was fine. the beans looked good. Your meal looked great again. Yes, I love color too in my meals. I used to know a fellow from Benin, Africa (looked liked a small rectangle cut out of Nigeria). He brought his breakfast to work everyday and said that he wouldn’t eat unless it was pretty! He had cereal, milk and sprinkled peanuts on the top.
I felt encouraged to make the soup from reading your column. All of the few cookbooks that I am keeping are packed away. They happen to be under two boxes which are very heavy. Now, thinking about what else I should try. My favorite cookbook is one for International cooking. It is also falling apart. There is barely room to do anything in the kitchen so I am hoping that there will be more counter space in the next one. They did fix the roof so we are planning on staying one more year and then moving westward. I think we have learned a lot from moving, mostly about we need and don’t need.
I am so happy that you blog is continuing too! I look forward to reading it everyday and I learn a lot from you.
Your African friend reminds me…I used to love to go eat at the African buffet, Boma, at Disney World. There used to be several dishes with peanuts. I looked it up just now, but I can’t remember if what they are offering nowadays is the same. I cannot imagine paying $60 for dinner! https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/animal-kingdom-lodge/boma-flavors-of-africa/
I realized that although I had hundreds of cookbooks here, it was too hard to find what I might want to cook. As long as I have internet, it’s way easier to look up several recipes for similar dishes and then make my own version.
LOL All of mu cookbooks were bought before the Internet existed! The Internet also replaced the encyclopedia and news magazines. I ate once at a Tunisian restaruant at Disneyworld. The food was great and I really enjoyed the tea pouring from way up high but can’t pay for the tickets just to get into Disneyworld anymore.
I had something like 4000 cookbooks in the underground house in Vermont. Then each time I settled a new place, I managed to acquire more cookbooks. I just jettison them each time I move. I have a dozen or so now, but will give away most before I actually leave here. I love thrift stores 🙂 I can have a different life in each place for little money…then move and start over. At Disney World, it’s possible to spend weeks there having fun, without ever paying to get in. The resorts are free to visit and so are lots of other places around, but not in “the World”.