January 20, 2026 Breakfast - Leftover Trout Fritata with bacon Lunch - swordfish Poke Salad Dinner - Cheese and wine

January 20, 2026 Breakfast - Leftover Trout Fritata with bacon Lunch - swordfish Poke Salad Dinner - Cheese and wine 

Today I worked on my motion and Bill’s affidavit again. We are trying to clean out old food from the fridge.  I read my book club book from 6:30 until 7:45. Then I re-heated the leftover wedge of the trout fritata from Sunday and fried four slices of bacon. Suzette ate one and Willy and I ate 1 1/2 each. I with the fritata and Willy with a fried egg.

Willy was working from home today so at noon he wanted to take a walk around the block and I joined him.

Then at 2:30 I made a salad with the fresh gourmet greens, a diced tomato, a diced hard boiled egg, 1/3 of a cucumber, some slices of onion and the 8 cubes of Swordfish Poke left from last night’s dinner.  I refreshed the old tartare sauce dressing by adding olive oil and got rid of another bowl from the fridge.

Then I worked until 4:30 and took a walk around the other block that helped get me to 3773 steps.

When I returned, Suzette and I cleaned the old food from the fridge. It was embarrassing how much food we had cooked and not eaten, chicken curry, bean stew, crab souffle, chicken liver pate, and fish soup got thrown out.

We were probably embarrassed by the waste or pissed off, but in either event we did not wish to cook,

Dinner - we opened a bottle of Cotes du Bourg red that I bought at Costco last week. I fetched the fresh wheel of brie from the garage and open the wedge of Manchego and a piece of goat cheese and Suzette opened a Humboldt Fog goat cheese and I toasted three slices of baguette and we fetched all the crackers and ate cheese and bread and crackers with wine for dinner. The fresh brie was a special treat, firm and creamy, like you dream about the perfect brie.

After dinner I watched Finding your Roots and then made tropical fruit salad with a pineapple, a papaya, a green mango, and three oranges peeled and  sectioned.

Being busy all day helped my avoid fixating on one of the worst days in the market in months. The Dow was down over 870 points and the NASDAQ was down 561 points. My portfolio was not immune, dropping almost 3%. But in the chaos that Trump has we wrought with his latest geopolitical threats, gold and silver have soared to all time highs. Gold hit $4750 today and silver hit $95.00 per ounce.

If fact, Billy called and told me he sold the bags of silver coins our father purchased many years ago that have been lying in a cabinet in Billy’s house for many years for $100,000. Being $50,000 richer today has given me a new appreciation for my small coin collection and softened the blow from today’s losses in the market.

When I finished the fruit salad at 10:00. I went to bed. Suzette was hurting from her exercise class and went to bed lie down and to read at 8:30.

 

Bon Appetit