baked mini penne pasta with red sauce… nope — tacos

Nov 19, 2024

It’s been one of those days. I fixed the meat and boiled the pasta. Had the garlic bread ready to go, too. About to put it into a dish to bake for dinner, I realized I had no red sauce. No spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce… nada. Dinner turned into tacos instead. Oh well…

tacos, not pasta

While I’m complaining, I have 3 things that are currently about to make me lose my mind.

  1. I pay monthly for Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop. They’re running a Black Friday deal — probably until Christmas — that’s an offer to upgrade for a reduced amount. Thing is… they’re using an annoying pop-up window to sell me what I don’t want! Every single time I open the program that I’m PAYING for, they’re serving up their ad to me.
  2. YouTube TV — that I also pay for — has commercial breaks. When they don’t have an ad to serve up, they display an image that pans from left to right over and over again or video clip on loop with the notation, “Enjoy the Zen.” There’s only so many times you can watch a left to right pan of a football with crowd noise in the background, or a pie baking in fast motion. Gimme LESS zen in my life.
  3. A little brown hound that barks at EVERYTHING.

Hugo and Merida outside

The good news is… he no longer looks like he’s starving. ❤️


Now you know: Tommy Cooper was a Welsh magician/comedian whose shtick was “a clumsy magician messes up his tricks.” He had a massive heart attack, collapsed and died on stage during a live broadcast, in front of 12 million viewers, with the studio audience laughing at what they thought was just one of his acts.