Cooking with Me, episode whatever

Once more, with feeling

Spaghetti like you never had it
- spaghetti
- whisky cocktail sauce
- "Valess"

I like cooking with feeling. Not with amounts of stuff. Just feel when it's ready, taste it to see if it's good. For this recipe, just cook the spaghetti, and stir-fry the Valess. But what is Valess? It's a meat replacer. For now, it's only available in the Netherlands, but I hope my international friends will get it soon. You'll need the roerbakblokjes (yes, that's Dutch) for this meal. Just throw everything together and pour over the sauce. It's good.


Now, for my non-culinary friends. I recently saw Episode III. A pirated copy, because I didn't want to pay to see another bad film. Of course, I will buy the DVD when it comes out. Anyway, I quite liked this one, as opposed to the first II Star Wars films. This one actually has quite a story going. Or rather, quite a lot of action. Not an awful lot of story. The dialogue was better than I had expected, the acting wasn't as bad as in the first two clickies... er... movies. It's a nice transition from the recent trilogy to the old trilogy. And there's a good moment in the movie. One of those moments where the fate of the universe hangs in the balance, where one character has only to do this or that, even seems to do what is good, but then turns bad after all. It's inevitable, but you hope they will do the right thing anyway. It's in human nature to think like this. Anyway, I'm talking about the end of the Mace Windu/Palpatine duel.

Go see it.

De Medici*

*Of Medics

Right, so, ob li da ob la da and all that, life goes on yadda yadda. Because of this inevitable fact, that time keeps ticking away my money, I have another education application under construction, so to say. Assistant pharmacist. Or whatever Anglosaxons call it. Do stuff at an apothecary. Yes, that's a typical girl job. Yes, I'll be surrounded by girls. Yes, I don't know if that's a good thing yet.

But what I really wanted to talk to you guys about, is hospitals. Hospitals today don't seem to generate the hospitality their name would imply. While hospitals had been generally for the good of the people, not so anymore. It's big business now ($€$). In the recent past, one would come to such an institution and be called a patient, yea, and be treated as one. Now however, it seems they're moving toward a more business-like approach. Patient = customer, hospital = company, doctors = employees. This is a very bad development, in my opinion, which the government - sadly - encourages by emphasising the importance of money in health care. Doctors and patients alike are vicitimised by these developments: doctors hobble from ski vacation to ski vacation, while becoming apathetic of the patient. The patient does not get the treatment they deserve. Not just because they are in fact a paying customer, but more importantly, because it is a doctor's moral duty to help a patient however he can. Money is of no importance in this. But Hippocrates' oath doesn't apply anymore, I suppose... and I quote:

Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.

Doctors aren't like this anymore. Leastways, most of them are in it for their own wallet. Yes. I'm sorry I have to say this, but it's true. The days that health care was based on care for your neighbour... are long gone. One of the many things that have changed over time, for the worse.

IN OTHER NEWS, to end this blog post positively, I won last Saturday's LOTROTCG Highlander tournament. Oh sure, only six people showed up, but it's still cool. For those who (think they) understand, read on. It got me a Mouth of Sauron avatar (very cool), physical Boromir HoO promo, and I got a foil Blood Runs Chill in one of my online boosters.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

Uh, yes, thank you, Bill... uh... Sky?

DOOR.

Ah, yes. By the way, it isn't my time yet, is it?

NOT YET.

Ah. Thank you. Er, bye then.

BYE. FOR NOW.

No real update

But I just wanted to say that I am in fact still alive, despite what people may or may not tell you. Don't listen to them.

I hope something will happen that warrants an update soon (something positive, that is).

Take care and cya later!

Ho hum

We took mother to the hospital, and now I'm waiting at home. They'll call when the operation is done. I'm still a bit nervous, naturally. When I'm nervous, I do weird things. Like writing silly poems.

BSE
Violets are blue
Roses are red
Cows that say moo
Are not all mad

Hmmm

I've got an idea for a site that I think hasn't been done before. What it is will be revealed in due course.

And I'm going to write mystery novels and hope to make lots of money.

Thanks for reading this.

Back to Square Eins*

*One/Uno/Een/Un/Ichi

Well, well, well. Isn't life just a piece of you-know-what sometimes. So I didn't get into art academy, meh. But that's not the worst thing. My mother will have eye surgery in order to prevent blindness. Tuesday. If everything goes well. And everything hasn't been well, with hypertension, heart rythm problems, fluid behind a lung... and aggressive medication to counter all this. So I've been feeling kinda meh lately. Very meh.

And of course now I'll have to find a job again. Double Meh! First thing I'll do to make money is put stick some Google ads onto this page. Should work. I hope. Anyway, I won't complain too much, but I will leave you with a poem to ponder.

I give
I cry
But not
just that

I live
I die
But not
just yet