June 27, 2024 Lunch - Garcia’s Dinner - Stir Fried Steak and Couscous

 June 27, 2024 Lunch - Garcia’s  Dinner - Stir Fried Steak and Couscous

I ate a pain au chocolate and a cup of coffee for breakfast around 8:30 and made final revisions on a lease.

Then at 11:30 I drove to Garcia’s on Central to organize the book club seating.  The restaurant staff put two four top tables together.  A total of 9 showed up so we dragged another table together. Everyone ordered different dishes. I ordered menudo with hominy.

After lunch we went to my house and discussed Kindred by Octavia Butler.

She is probably the most famous US Black woman Sci FI writer, but the brutal descriptions of slavery did not go well with our members.

The discussion was interesting mostly but it was not a subject people seemed willing to discuss seriously.

After the meeting Willy came over and we watched U.S. v. Panama. Weah was thrown out in the 18th minute and the U.S. playing with ten men lost 2 to 1.

At 6:00 we cooked a simple dinner. I minced 1/2 of a shallot and diced the PPI grilled steak and Suzette went to the garden and picked some chard and kale and de-stemmed it and stir fried those ingredients in the wok with a container of PPI couscous with tomatoes.  The dish was very delicious. The couscous was rather wet and missed perfectly with steak and greens.

We drank glasses of open wine with dinner. I drank Chianti and Suzette drank Malbec.

Later we watched the Presidential debate which became painful as Trump lied and Biden seemed sick and none cognitively engaged. I went to bed and read the Egyptian.

My portfolio was down slightly today, about .02% and I only walked about 1800 steps.

The debate looked like the end of the Biden bid for the Presidency to me,Whether Biden runs or not, it looks like Trump’s snake oil salesman approach will carry the day.

During the discussion at book club I mentioned a histology theory that US politics follows a pattern of swinging from liberalism to conservatism every  seventy to ninety years and the last liberal period began with the reforms of the early 1900’s through the 30’s New Deal era and the Counter culture period of the 60’s and then began swinging back in 1980 with Reagan and we seem to be in the extreme phase of a Conservative era that could last another 20 to 30 years if the pattern repeats itself.

It seems like Donald Trump is riding that conservative wave.

Bon Appetit