The state of Texas is out of its fucking mind. Our maniacal pro-Trump governor, grifter-in-chief Greg Abbott, decided all by himself — against warnings and directives by the CDC and the Board of Health — to “reopen” the state so that everybody can go back to their favorite hair and nail salons, bars, restaurants and shopping malls even though Texas has the worst COVID-19 infection rate in the United States with more new cases daily than ANYWHERE … including
Mars. After Abbott’s proclamation, the entire under-30 age group did exactly what he wanted them to do, and barely two weeks later they all wound up infected with Coronavirus. Totally predictable and expected, and now all those poor twits are sick, miserable, unemployed and hospitalized with
no insurance coverage! To make things even worse, now their
parents are sick, their
children are sick, their
grandparents are sick, their
friends are sick and their
neighbors are sick.
Thank you, Governor Abbott, for ruining the lives of tens of thousands of young Texans … and for putting all the rest of us at risk, too!
You goddamn jackass.
Hello, everybody. It’s 2:45 a.m., and we’re having a muggy, overcast morning in the Dallas metropolitan area with thunderstorms expected around 10 a.m.
I don’t care! All I need for a full and happy life are: (1) Sam; (2) my iMac computer, (3) my gigantic TV; (4) an oxygen concentrator with a soft cannula; and (5) my favorite foods
* in the fridge, freezer and pantry.
Seriously.
This would include fresh milk (so Sam can make Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup); Nathan’s Frozen Onion Rings; Sweet Baby Ray’s Sweet & Spicy Barbecue Sauce, cole slaw, lemonade; Great Value Cashew Butter; spicy shrimp ramen noodles; Annie Chun’s White Sticky Rice, KaMe Hokkien Noodles, one or two bags of Royal Asia’s Boom Boom Shrimp (with Boom Boom Shrimp Sauce); frozen brussels sprouts; and frozen blueberries. A coot such as yours truly can live quite comfortably with a well-stocked kitchen! And don’t forget microwave popcorn … in case you decide to watch a spectacular classic movie like
The Wizard of Oz (1939) starring Judy Garland or
Captain Blood (1935) starring Errol Flynn.
Even though
Wal-Mart’s new grocery pick-up service offers 50,000 products you’d never find on their regular website — among them fresh produce, frozen food, fresh meat and seafood — lately I’ve been able to expand my food options
even more via
Amazon Fresh.
I LOVE AMAZON FRESH … and I just placed a small order for delivery later this morning at 5 a.m.
Woo-hoo! This week’s order includes the aforementioned Boom Boom Shrimp (one bag), Nathan’s frozen Onion Rings, Annie Chun’s White Sticky Rice, frozen blueberries, cole slaw, Bob Evans Macaroni & Cheese, and Skinny Cow no-sugar-added caramel ice cream cones. This is all amazing stuff. (Please note that a Food Review for Senior Citizens featuring Nathan’s Onion Rings will appear later on in this post.)
For your possible interest, a 5 a.m. Amazon Fresh delivery is
not ridiculously early for us. That’s just when Sam usually gets home from his morning walk in the woods!
There are some truly outstanding free fonts here today. Four are
layered fonts, but
my favorites are “Kalkal,” “Amfibia,” “Dr. Slab,” “Tendencies” and “Mythical Garden.” Especially “Amfibia” and “Dr. Slab.”
“Dr. Slab” is an exciting layered font with two different shadow styles … you can use one or both at the same time. And “Amfibia” is absolutely
fascinating with 100 styles. Down below, after all the download links, I’ve lots more to tell you about “Amfibia.” I know you can’t wait.
So here’s “Amfibia.” You get five widths ranging from wide to narrow, with ten weights and coordinating italics for each width.
ONE HUNDRED STYLES! There’s nothing you can’t do with them … posters, magazine articles, fashion layouts, business cards, billboards, you name it. Many characters have alternate letterforms and beautiful swashes, and there are also lots of fractions. Plus, the large “x height” (the height of the lowercase letters) makes the font legible even at small sizes, like magazine articles.
Woo-hoo!
Sam and I
love onion rings. He never discovered the joy of Hackney’s onion brick (a Chicago passion for more than 80 years) but probably wouldn’t have liked it. He prefers
large slabs of whole onion to Hackney’s “onion string” style that’s fried in a big loaf pan. There’s a popular Greek-owned burger chain here in Dallas called Scotty P’s that makes the most gigantic and amazing slab-style onion rings EVER, and
NATHAN’S ORIGINAL THICK-SLICED BATTERED ONION RINGS (see below) are just as good … and a lot less expensive for a lot more food. I want Sam to try these. He’s given up eating at
— or carrying out food from — restaurants, probably for the rest of his life, to prevent catching the Coronavirus. With Nathan’s Original Thick-Sliced Battered Onion Rings at least he can enjoy his favorite side dish again.
I’m delighted to award Nathan’s Thick-Sliced Battered Onion Rings with the Howdygram’s five-chopper rating. It’s our highest honor and makes me want a plate of onion rings
right now.
I’m ready to get back to my design projects now … bath mats and shower curtains to match all the bath ceramic sets I uploaded a few days ago. I’m learning that it’s hard to do what I’m doing … making the bath mat and curtain designs
proportional so they won’t look stupid alongside the countertop ceramics. I need to work out a simple system so I won’t drive myself crazy. I’m also studying a tutorial on how to make seamless patterns in Adobe Illustrator. (Keep your fingers crossed. I really want to learn how to do this.)
Thanks for dropping by, everybody. If you want to remember the Alamo, go right ahead. I won’t stop you.
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