April 13, 2026 Breakfast - Granola with blueberries Lunch - Vietnam 2000, No. 87 Flour Sheets with grilled Pork and Fried Egg Rolls. Dinner - Hamburger Steak with Steamed Broccoli and Bistro Mashed Potatoes
Today was a great day of food. I ate an orange at 2:30 a.m.
Then i awakened again at 7:35 and at 8:30 after I placed a sell order for some Nvidia’s shares I drove to Tricore to have my blood drawn.
When I returned home I still had enough energy left to make breakfast without taking a sugar pill, which indicated to me that I am gaining stamina. I ate a handful of granola in a bowl with milk, yogurt, and blueberries.
Then I worked at my desk until 11:15 when I toasted two slices of bagel, smeared them with cream cheese, and garnished them with slices of red onion and Gravad lax and put a handful of red seedless grapes in a sandwich bag and drove to dialysis at 12:30.
The nurse took a blood sample for testing but I was not put on a dialysis machine and was told to return Wednesday at 1:00 to meet with Dr. Adi.
I left Dialysis around 12:50 and called in a take out order to Vietnam 2000 for a No. 87, which is flour sheets laid on a bed of sautéed cucumber sticks, mung bean sprouts, and lettuce and garnished with fried egg rolls and grilled marinated slices of pork. The dish is usually served with a sweetened fish sauce that has a lot of salt, but because I kept saying, “No salt.” The styrofoam take out container had no container of fish sauce, which made the dish drier than normally when one would dip the flour sheets into the fish sauce to moisten them. There was enough liquid in the sautéed vegetables to moisten the flour sheets, so I was happy with the dish even though it lacked sauce and salt.
I went home and enjoyed watching Leeds beat Man Union 2 to 1 in a thrilling PL matchup while I ate and drank my coffee.
I received the Tricore test results in the afternoon and my creatine is slowly going down, although still above normal. So, I may be near the end of dialysis.
When I after the PL match around 3:15 I checked the market and I had sold the Nvidia shares and had a slight gain in the market.
I then read the monthly report for the Lower Rio Grande Adjudication and realized that the due date for my Reply was today so I drafted and filed a Motion to Extend the Deadline for filing the Reply to May 7, 2026, and sent it for concurrence to all attorneys of record and the Court for filing barely before 5:00.
I then watched the news, which was dominated by more crazy antics by Trump such as publishing an AI generated image of him within an ethereal light that reminded one of Jesus healing a sick person. He also made a social media attack on the Pope that is probably losing him some Catholic votes and raises the obvious question, “Who is God’s chosen messenger to humanity to whom we owe our allegiance?”
Dinner - At 6:15 we decided to grill hamburger steaks, steam broccoli, and sauce them with a Mornay sauce made with French Racellete cheese and make creamy French bistro style Mashed potatoes with lots milk and butter. Since we could not put salt into the potatoes we decided to garnish them with fried to crisp shallot, garlic, and fresh sage. Willy joined us for dinner at 7:00.
We served homemade bread and butter pickles canned by Suzette last year to further enliven the meal.
The thing that made the dinner great was the addition of a Mornay sauce on the meat and broccoli, sweet and sour pickles, and fried shallots on the potatoes, which diminished the lack of salt slightly and made the dinner much more French in its style.
Willy left around 7:45 after dinner and we watched the Antique Roadshow until 9:00 and then paid our Chase credit card bill and went to bed, Suzette to sleep and I to blog this entry and read Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen for a few minutes
Bon Appetit
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