May 20, 2025 Breakfast - Ham and Eggs and Toast Lunch - Leftover Enchiladas and Beans. Dinner - Grilled Steak and Asparagus with Baked Sweet Potato

May 20, 2025 Breakfast - Ham and Eggs and Toast   Lunch - Leftover Enchiladas and Beans. Dinner - Grilled Steak and Asparagus with Baked Sweet Potato

I slept until 8:15 with little coughing during the night and woke up with feeling less congestion in my nose and left lung, so the new antibiotic appears to be working.

I am taking a 10 day cycle of a powerful antibiotic, so, besides deciding what to eat, I now must decide how to eat my breakfast and dinner in a manner that will allow me to sandwich the pill into the meal so I am not exposing my empty stomach to the pill. 

My strategy has been to eat a sizable meal and take the pill into the middle of it.

For breakfast I chose one of my favorites, ham and fried eggs over easy. Last week I bought two Cook’s ham steaks a 1/2 inch thick middle slice of ham in its individual cryovac plastic wrapper marked down from $5.00 to $1.75, one-fourth of a slice in more than adequate for a breakfast portion.

So this morning I sautéed 1/4 of a slice with a 1/2 inch thick slice of onion and then fried two eggs in the buttered skillet with the ham and onion and made a cup of Earl Grey tea.

When I had eaten 2/3 of the ham and eggs I sliced a piece of Le Quiche French baguette and toasted, buttered, and spread French fruit preserves on the two slices of baguette and swallowed the pill.

Then I finished breakfast and never felt any flutters in my stomach, as had before I tightly sandwiched the pill taking into a meal.

I worked on the Docketing Statement for my current appeal until 12:30 and then heated the leftover 1/2 of beef enchiladas with refried beans and flour tortilla from yesterday’s lunch with Aaron at Mary and Tito’s.

Then at 1:00 i ate lunch as I watched the PL match between Man City and Bournemouth. Man City, which sits 3rd in this years rankings easily beat Bournemouth, 3 or 4 to 1. There were two terrific long range goals, so it was a fun match to watch.

Then at 3:30 I resumed work and at 4:30 Suzette arrived and ate a bowl of asparagus Vichyssoises and retreated to the bedroom when my new client arrived.

He and his partner had been trying for a year to form a New Mexico LLC and even sought Bill’s help, but none of them were able to complete the new labyrinthine on-line form adopted by the NM Secretary of State. I took it as a challenge to see if I could form their LLC and in an hour I was able to complete the task. This was the second time I had completed the task, but the first time I was aided by a phone call to one of the staff at the Secretary of State’s Office. The benefit of the new on line system is that you are instantly issued a Certificate of Organization at the end of the process with the new system, rather than sending Articles to Santa Fe and waiting two weeks under the old system, but the new system is devilishly complicated and any error will cause the process to fail. One of the secrets is the step of the process will register an error even when you enter the current information and you must let the process ask you for the information, so we had to go back and reenter the information and wait for the process to ask us if we wanted to enter that information.

At 6:45 we finished and I said goodbye to the client and we turned our attention to dinner. I had thawed two rib steaks several days ago. 

I wanted to watch my favorite program, Finding Your Roots at 7:00, so after we decided on an easy dinner menu of grilled steak and asparagus with a baked sweet potato, Suzette took over and I sat down with a glass of Calstar 2014 Pinot Noir to watch the program and Suzette baked the three sweet potatoes and several russet potatoes and grilled the two steaks and a handful of asparagus as she listened to the program from the kitchen.

When dinner was ready at 8:00 Suzette added a dollop of butter to each 1/2 of sweet potatoes and I added a dollop of sour cream.

We drank the rest of the two open bottles of Pinot Noir (the middle and right) and watched an interesting program presenting a Socratic debate among a group of luminaries of the media and political world assigned roles, such as President, Attorney General, or Chief Justice, in the form of a case study largely based on the current political facts such as a President seeking retribution on enemies and whether to follow an order issued by the Supreme Court. I took out the trash and fetched two ice cream drumsticks from the freezer that we ate for dessert as we watched the program and then went to bed at 9:00.

I woke up around 2:00 a.m., as I often do after a large steak dinner and drank a cup of tea and wrote this blog entry.

Bon Appetit