Chef Theo

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Chef TheoIt’s been over 2 months since I last had time to sit down and write about what makes me geek out.  I’ve just been seriously busy.  I work 10-13 hour shifts.  Something I must change in the near future.  If I ever want to put time into my many projects and make them succeed.  One such project is I am now fully into cooking and baking.  My new lifestyle has always kept me feeling super healthy and keeping my weight down at 175 pounds.

It all started by omitting and cutting down on certain foods from my life.  Buying things that were a healthier alternative to what I used to eat when I was 360 pounds.  That worked and I lost the weight.  Once I got my own home and my own kitchen, I started playing around at making healthier versions of the foods I’ve always loved.  It turns out I find it to be easy and fun 🙂

In so much that I wish I had more normal hours to be able to cook every day!  Currently I get up and rush off to work, just to come home and crash and do it again 5 days a week or more.  When I do get a day off it’s running errands and doing laundry.  I get to cook once and make my weekly cookies.  (more on that soon).  Then I have to indulge others by going out to eat and shopping.

I had to recently explain I’m tired of going out to eat and running all over.  My job is long.  I drive a lot already (I average 30,000 miles a year) and I really enjoy cooking and baking.  So I would prefer to make meals at home.  Also that I really don’t wish to shop all the time for things I don’t even need.  My house has more than enough projects to keep me busy for years.  On top of the fact I’m a neat freak and keep a clean, clutter-free home.  I’m more of a minimalist and don’t like a ton of stuff all over my house.

What makes it even more exciting that I like to cook and bake, is that now I have a girlfriend.  She recently had to change her lifestyle to gluten free and dairy free.  At first I thought it was going to be difficult to do all three health changes.  Turns out I’m very clever and have made all my dishes gluten free and dairy free while keeping the carbs to a minimum and in most cases, zero!!

This has led me to start thinking about adding to my future.  I have grown bored with what I do for a living.  I could seriously take my love of homemade healthy foods and fill the void I see in so many places for people like girlfriend and myself.  To those who don’t have time or the disposition to make these dishes for themselves.  If I could secure the capitol, I would gladly open a bakery/deli shop.

Soon I will share the recipes I’ve found and examples of the food I make.  What I’ve done to make them even better and yummy!

Here’s a teaser of my recreation of one of my favorite cookies.  Pecan Sandies!

Pecan Sandies

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Late Blooming Punk

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Late Blooming PunkI’ve been all over the music spectrum since my youth.  I started out in the 80’s with Hard Rock and Heavy Metal.  Moving to Hair Bands.  Some New Wave.

In the 90’s it was Butt Rock (lol).  But I always got bored of the music so quickly.

Repetitive lyrics and worn out, over played nonsense.  Don’t get me started on stupidly long guitar solos.  I started bouncing from station to station on the radio to try to find something that really caught my attention.  It got to the point of I’d rather listen to nothing at all because of the regurgitated short playlists and commercials.

While I’ve always liked some diversity in my music.  Some Jazz, Big Band and the like.  I still like some Harry Connick Jr. on occasion.  I felt lost otherwise not finding my place.

Then in the late 2010’s, the internet saved me.  I could find music that wasn’t commercially pushed on me by the lack luster selection of radio stations.  Pop-Punk.  Sure you might hear the occasional Blink-182 or Sum 41 in the mix from a radio station.  Mostly though the majority of bands weren’t played on any stations I had available in the Hampton Roads area of where I lived when I found them.  Certainly not in the norther lower Michigan area I live in now.  So Spotify became my best friend.

So many bands I stated finding.  New Found Glory, Story Untold, First and Forever just to name a few of the hundreds I had discovered.

Then I wanted to know where it all started.  Punk.  I had a punk friend, but he and I didn’t always see eye to eye.  He’d treat me like I’d never understand punk music.  Also turned out he was rather racist.  I cut ties with him and sought out movies to find out more.  CBGB and Dinner in America are the two I started with.  While I’m sure they aren’t historically accurate, it was a close dive.  YouTube too.

Can’t say I’ll add more sub-genres to my repertoire, but I’d like to find more songs that aren’t all super hyper punk.  Similar to Watermelon from Dinner in America.  I seem to be more inspired by Garage Punk, Art Punk and perhaps the White Stripes.

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Notta Lotta

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Isn’t much exciting going on in life lately.  No new games to play yet, but I have a few favorites I may try once winter drops in.  Living in Michigan is way too cold for me.  I’m here because of family.  Otherwise I’d travel the country to find a warmer home.  Plus find people more like myself.  Up here, I’m in a class by myself it seems.

Things I’ve been working on is a new kick drum head.  This is my rough draft:

Drum Head

Other than that, I’ve been doing things to my house to cut down on the insane electric bills I get in the winter from having such a dorky setup.  The soon to be studio has not one but three sliding glass doors on it.  Major heat escape.  I’ve covered all the doors in insulation and the exterior doors have T1-11 composite siding on them.  I’m not much of a handyman, but I think it turned out decent until I can have them removed and turned into true walls and the interior one replaced with a real door.  Providing I can find a contractor that actually wants to freaking work!  I find so many that tell me they’ll come out and I have the money to pay.  But they never show up!

And cleaning up the major amount of leaves.  Working as much as I do, this all doesn’t leave much time for gaming, music or movies.

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Why Are Friendships So Fickle?

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Why Are Friendships So Fickle?It’s something I’ve noticed since in the past 20 years.  It’s super hard to make friends.  Providing you find people closer to my age with any common interests.  In my case it seems especially hard to find common interests.  I guess I’m much younger at heart than I am physically.  But when I do think I’ve found a friend, it ends shortly after I’ve been useful to that person.

It’s like people no longer like to hang out and just converse with one another or share an interest.  It’s always they see you like someone they can use to get things done. Once they’ve gotten what they want from you, it’s basically over without any warning.  Should you want to just hang out with them, they no longer have time for you.  Usually by ignoring your calls, texts or verbal requests.

Why is that?  What happened to spending hours just sharing time with a person?  Now it’s do them a favor or don’t bother at all.  Person after person has come and gone in my life over the years and I generally come out feeling used.  I’ve made one new friend in the past 20 years that doesn’t expect anything but good company from me.  It’s great!  But outside of that, time has taken it’s toll on me and I no longer seek friends.  Or anyone to go out with.  Dating is the same way.  It’s use or be used.  Never share and grow.  Hence MGTOW.

It’s a good thing I like solitude 🙂

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Thanks Rockstar..

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Thanks RockstarWell we’ve all seen the videos of Rockstar Games adding BattlEye to GTA Online.  One of the biggest games in the past 10 years.

Videos saying:

  • It works to curb modders
  • It hurts players by slowing down the game
  • Has removed thousands of players who use Steam Deck/Linux
  • Lies about BattlEye not working on Linux when it has for years

The list goes on.  Even DDoS attacks on Rockstar Games servers.  Blah, blah, blah…

I’m one of the affected by this changes as I Game on Linux!  However, I’m saying thank you.  You made it so thousands of players can’t waste any more money on your games.  No more buying Shark Cards.  No need to spend money on the upcoming GTA 6.  Just saves us money all around.  Because your new stance won’t change the majority of Linux users minds about how we choose to live our lives.  There are plenty of other games who’ll let us play their games.  Take our money and even see the reason to support platforms other than consoles and Windows.

You can fix this easily by phoning BattlEye to allow it to work on Steam.  But if you refuse, then me and my bank account thank you!

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