Saturday, September 30, 2017

Bread Machine White Bread Loaf

I found the recipe below for a bread machine white bread loaf  and since it was taunted as the best bread machine recipe, I decided to try it and the result was absolutely delicious.  

Ingredients

  • 1 1/3 cups warm water, about 110 degrees
  • 2 Tablespoons and 2 teaspoons white sugar
  • 3 teaspoons yeast
  • 1/3 cup Olive Oil (it's not nearly as good with vegetable oil)
  • 4 cups flour (or 1.5 cups whole wheat flour and 2.5 cups bread flour)
  • 2 teaspoons salt


Directions1. In a bread machine, place water, oil and salt. 

2. Add flour on top of liquids. Pour sugar into one corner of the bread machine basket. Then make a well in the center of the flour and pour in the yeast. Set your bread machine for "basic" loaf, and let it do the work for you!







Thursday, July 13, 2017

Best post I have read on Facebook.

Tim C Spell II
14 hrsBaton Rouge
To the little people throwing firecrackers and darts at the Commander-in-chief: You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.
There's the energizer bunny and then there's you, a busy little bad energy rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You're a fool, an ignoramus! And what meaning do you expect your delusional self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have to us who think and reason? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You don't know Russia from rhythm!You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a South Louisiana mosquito. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. A disease, a fiend and a coward, and your bad breath blazes a noxious odor of contrails OVER THE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY THAT IS CYBERSPACE slithering its way past the Celsius warning nets of physical laws such as distance and space, into my 18" intimate communication zone. Anybody that close to my face better be there to either kiss me or fight me. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, yet can't find it in my heart to unfriend you. I wish you would go away already. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half-baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective.
True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your posts. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
You're an idiot. A moron of the highest order. You're so stupid it's a wonder and a pity you can remember to breath. Intelligent ideas bounce off your head as if it were coated with teflon. Creative thoughts take alternate transportation in order to avoid even being in the same state as you. If you had an original thought it would die of loneliness before the hour was out. On an intelligence scale of 1 to 10 (10 corresponding to the highest attainable IQ) you're rating is so far into negative numbers that one would need to travel into another quantum reality in order to even catch a distant glimpse of it.
Your personality is that of a rabid Chihuahua intent on destroying its own tail. Your powers of observation are akin to those of the bird that keeps slamming into the picture window trying to get that other bird it keeps seeing. You are walking, talking proof that you don't have to be sentient to survive, and that Barnum was thinking of you when he uttered his immortal phrase regarding the birth of a sucker. You are, at varying times, tedious, boring, and even occasionally earth shatteringly hilarious in your idiocy, routinely childish, moronic, pathetic, wretched, disgusting and pitiful.
If your good standing family name isn't mud already then you are wholly without any redeeming social grace or value. If God ever decides to give the planet an enema you'd better run like the wind because anywhere you stand is a suitable place for The Insertion. There is no animal so disgusting, so vile that it deserves comparison to you, for even the lowest, dirtiest, most parasitic member of the animal kingdom fills an ecological niche. You fill no niche!!! To call you a parasite would be injurious and defamatory to the thousands of honest parasitic species. You are worse than vermin, for vermin do not pretend to be what it is not.
PAY ATTENTION!!! WAKE YOUR NARCOLEPTIC CARCASS UP & TAKE YOUR MEDICINE LIKE A MAN, YOU WILL BE A BETTER MAN FOR IT.
You are a fraudulent, lying, predatory charlatan. You are of less worth than a burnt-out light bulb. You will forever live in shame. You are the anti-Midas, for all that you touch becomes valueless and unusable. You are an aberration, a corruption, and a boil that needs to be lanced. You are a poison in need of being vomited. You are a tooth so rotten it infects the whole body.
This won't cost you anything, lagniappe if you will...but I don't like you. I don't like anybody who has as little respect for others (much less, leadership) as you do. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You're a mean jerk and a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
I might never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monstrous malformity. I wretch at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you! You are a weed, a fungus, and the dregs of this earth. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't follow you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. You are a waste of flesh for the time being. On a good day you're a halfwit. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper and a consistent source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go when you pop your peanut head out of your smartphone.
I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, study, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering.
You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, contemptible, criminal, bigoted, racist, sexist, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, fundamentally flawed, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystrophic, stifling, uncaring, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, aggressive, mind-numbing, abrasive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, and socially-retarded.
Shut up and go away lest you achieve the physical retribution your behaviour merits. If your professional drug of choice is political science, you'd better hire yourself a hotshot lawyer & keep a few half honest bail bondsmen on speed dial. If you're looking for sympathy you can find it in the dictionary between shingles and syphilis. Thank you for your kind attention to and expected cooperation in this matter.
My prayer is that somehow, someway, you will cease and desist with the old behavior, that you enter into your finest hour. That the darkness that has dogged the path gives way to brilliance like lightning...that when you pray, you will simply pray that the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God of all Grace will show Himself stronger and mightier than ever and lend wisdom to this man that we the people have elected to lead this great land, this last undefeated outpost and beacon of goodness and normalcy, a blessed hope of freedom and liberty and opportunity to the race of men.
Hail To The Chief of Twitter! He's no quitter! The President of these United States, Donald Trump.
Good morning.

Friday, July 7, 2017

I am still here.

Life is full of ups and downs but if you determine in your heart that no matter what happens you are going to keep plugging away you will be surprised at how much you can endure.

Psychologists  may research what it means to be resilient but they will never really understand resilience until they are personally tested.

There are individuals who for one reason or another seem to be able to take anything life throws at them and continue to move forward. At times they may appear stuck in neutral when the reality of the situation is they are recharging their "batteries" or gathering their wits or strength for what lies ahead. I relate this to a GPS attempting to recalculate. Just because a course is changed does not mean the journey ends.

Resilience can only be learned through EXPERIENCE

Monday, May 2, 2016

Another amazing day

This the day that the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad. Psalm 118:24

If we can remember that everyday is a gift, that folks who have passed on would give anything to experience just one more time, we would be much more grateful and enjoy our lives to a fuller degree.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Keys to a Successful Life

To become the best version of myself, I must come to the stark realization that it is not all about me and what I want, need or desire but instead it is how can I help you fulfill your wants, needs and desires. If I achieve these goals for enough people then my life will not have been in vane.

Since childhood, reading books and writing have been a great and joyous past-time although I can not tell you the names of Authors or Book Titles like many folks but the materials have been synthesized to become part of my being.

My brain has a way of taking in materials, extracting the kernal and filing the rest. I do not have the ability to instantaneously recall minute details unless I take the time to drill down on a topic or subject then details start to emerge. I believe this is why I appear to some folks to be scatter brained when in fact it is my way of bringing facts from deep inside the recesses of my brain to the forefront so that they may be readily available for access.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Alone in a crowded room

Have you ever felt that no one really knew who you were and even if they did they did not care?
Have you ever been in a room full of people and felt utterly alone?
Have you ever wanted to climb into a hole and disappear or become a fly on the wall, present but not?
Have you ever been holding hands with a person you loved and suddenly realized that they were a stranger?
Have you ever been speaking to a group and started feeling like you were having an out of body experience, watching or hearing yourself but being disconnected from the person speaking?
Have you ever been driving down the road and realized that you have been been doing so unconsciously?

No, Well I have and it is not a feeling of being in control.

There were been times in the past that anxiety was so prevalent, in my life, that it ruled my every moment because I did not know when it might show-up and take control. It was always lying in wait just below the surface.




Ending: I was never treated as an anxious or depressed patient but have been on medication for symptoms at times for short periods.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Writing

I was watching a video of a guy explaining what it takes to become a good writer and his top three suggestions were:
1) Know what you are writing about (your topic)
2:) Spend as long as it takes to write a good sentence.
3) Refer to numbers 1 and 2.

While I agree that 1 is important, I am not so sure about number 2. I have read books and articles written with such precision and nuance as to be intellectually mind numbing or narcolepsy inducing.
The more "intelligent" among us seem to believe that in order to get their point across they must use words learned in college or dug up in some obscure text, when the reality of the situation is the only ones impressed are themselves and others of their same ilk.

I guess I should ask what is a good sentence?

My theory on good writing is:
Just write from the heart and it will strike a chord with the right folks.
If your grammar and spelling are not up to par get someone to help you but don't let them "erase" your voice, which is the way you speak.