gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

I am not a salmon lover...that being said i have used alot of recipes at the restaurant..i like this one...and its easy at home...in a bowl...1 egg...1/4 cup of heavy cream...tablespoon of chopped chives...cup or so of stale bread cubes...1/4 cup of goat cheese.. s and p to taste...your choice...mix...take your salmon...place of a oven proof baking sheet...make a crown on the top with the egg/cheese mix...baked in a 425 oven...8 to12 minutes depending on your salmon temp...thats it" Salmon Parisian "

Listening to the president and then the responses from all the "pundits" made me think...is it really that hard to set aside our hatred and see to the truth of the matter...like the supreme court ruling...is it really okay for big business to have a a larger voice than any individual, because they have more to gain or lose...you don't have to like or even agree with our president to see that both sides of the aisle have been reduced to the interests they represent not the constituency that elected them...that the republicans need to have some sort of plan...any sort of plan ...if they hope to regain the white house and control of either house...the health care debate might reveal some sort of answers if the matter was discussed rather than cursed...I believe our president is a good man who is trying to help all Americans...not just the richest few of us... ideologically the republicans stand for big business, small government, large military and deregulation...I thought

So my restaurant gives me 3 weeks off in July...and ever since "the Beautiful Girl" and I have used the time to do some exploring...mexico, new orleans and the keys have been our favs...so this year...with the house improvements...it looked like a back yard vacation...but nah....we are headed back to the east coast of mexico...isla mujeres to be exact...a tiny island, thirty ferry minutes off the coast...sand roads...white beaches...our hotel is a little dive that you can stumble out the door to a hammock on the beach...whale watching...snorkling...mas cerveca...the fat man returns...

well i'm gritty.. and the other guy is sandy...we had an internet radio show together for a short time,,,sandy was around for years before i was invited to join the fun...basically we bitch about "everything that irritated us. The show was called " the sandy and gritty taint show" You can find the archive on the bandana blues link...funny stuff...ohh we are on hiatus...sorta like jimmy fallon....oops!!!and no ...I wasn't farting,,,cause if I was... it definitely was a shart... definitely...

I am not the most traveled guy out there. But due to my location I do spend a good deal of my off time in the Caribbean...and I realize that I am the "white guy" when I travel...you know the guy with enough money to stay where he should.... and would only occasionally really meet the people, who lived and worked there ...well that was the case until I started traveling with the beautiful girl...she shuns the safe little enclaves of white tourists and tends to place us smack dab in the middle of the people that live in the country we are visiting...more than a little disconcerting to this middle aged fat man...at her provocation Mexico has taken on a whole new meaning to me...I was very happy sitting in my all inclusive resort in cancun...or taking a cruise and stopping by an island for a couple of hours....but thats not enough for her...she wants to eat the food and talk to people...she wants to walk down their streets ...not the clean manicured streets meant for tourist eye

My boss, a great guy, is an eternal optimist...now if you met him or had business dealings with him...that fact might elude you...but he is, at least politically... He believes in the inherent goodness and intelligence of the American people...His premise is that there is a "silent majority" of level headed people out there...these people understand why the healthcare reform has to be accomplished...and in the end will surprise us all by keeping the democratic control of both houses and in so doing keep the country going in a way that doesn't just benefit the rich...wow and Santa Klaus and the tooth fairy are gonna help... Now me...I see no goodness...I see only a nation, whether conservative or liberal, democrat or idiot...opps i mean republican...that cares about anyone but themselves...If I hear one more politician say we can't afford to insure every american while taking tax payer funded healthcare ...I will scream...I hear people I know use the justificatio

Its here already... which means football season is almost over again...shit...it has been a agonizing year in tampa...new coach...new quarterback...many losses...so by way of sanity I spent less time screaming at the flatscreen...then the birds lose in the first round...so the remainder of the season is a sort of who gives a fffffffffffffff...so here I am listening to "moon boot Lover" and watching "the beautiful girl's niece...the lovely Sian...11 months of toddlin fun...

Damn its cold down here...seriously its going to sleet tonight...you haven't lived till you see snow and palm trees at the same time...I thought I left this all behind when I left Pa. almost fifteen years ago...I am sitting here today and realized how that little trip to see my grandmother has altered the path...I was married then and living in a little cottage with my dog and my friends around me...I was thirty eight...i had traveled a bit and was seemingly content...and then it hit me...that desire to change my future...so of course blindly, rashly, i did...I have never been one for planning or forethought...I just did it ...sold everything and popped up in florida...my wife followed, she was a good egg...and i lost my mind and her along the way...some called it a mid life crisis, which of course it had all the earmarks of being...but to me it was... regrettably...inevitable...don't get me wrong I have plenty of regrets...behaviors and weaknesses have cost me dearly... i h

I read the paper everyday. I know this is a very one sided an incomplete method of information. But you see the world doesn't offer us balance these days. We are asked to drink the cool aid by both sides of every issue. I am by nature a liberal. Morally, ethically liberal. Fiscally, I have never had enough money to be anything other than... well struggling. My choices, no blame...well okay a little blame but mostly my own. So I rarely understand the tax and money conservatism that is espoused by those who frankly have enough to worry about. I have simple beliefs, maybe too simple. Like I believe everyone should pay taxes...not on paper taxes but actual, " I give the government money" taxes. I believe that big business should pay tax, not "incentives to maybe employ someone, somewhere on this planet" taxes. I have become cynical...I quess that comes with age but I have trust issues. I have hate issues...Let me give you an example...Being a democrat