2025-11-27

Timestamps generally in Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) unless otherwise noted. Welcome to my Oatmeal Daily which is generally posted & syndicated to different websites daily by me, Oatmeal Joey Arnold, feel free to mirror, edit, clip, reupload my content. For more information, see some of the links on this page or you can try to Google search or look me up using keywords like Oatmeal Joey Arnold @ joeyarnoldvn and other keywords. Try using different combinations of words in search engines for better results. Was up for like two hours around 02:00 AM to like 04:00 AM playing on my handheld gaming device a few random games to test out different emulators for consoles like the NES, SNES, SEGA Genesis, Nintendo 64, etc. Back to sleep. Up to shower around like 09:00 AM. Breakfast after that, I ate 2 scrambled eggs, pineapple, fruit, coffee, banana. Read a story from a book Phil enjoys, a chapter about finding a snake in the garage in a hole, he startled. After that, his wife came in and got even more startled. The snake became a pet following him onto shelves he built in the garage and later onto the garage ramp and out wherever he went outside. The snake was oddly following him. He thought about making a bike for a snake, it would be easy to build as it would only need one handle bar and pedal. Others came into crawl space and discovered the snake as they were cleaning out the cobwebs. They panicked a bit. Writing this around 10:00 AM. It's raining, I see birds outside. Karen made applesauce and apple pie yesterday from their apple trees. That was good. Mom enjoyed the applesauce. Mom ate 2 scrambled eggs this morning. I filmed the birds outside. I sat next to Phil in the recliner watching the Thanksgiving football game resting with my eyes closed and Karen's new beanie with the beeper device still in over my head. She bought it but it looks like she didn't. I heard Nathan say he didn't want to wake me. Later, he gave me a hug which is his tradition which Alan doesn't always do. I usually don't go out of my way to demand hugs unlike Blake Webb who people loved his bear hugs. His group was there. We were off eating the feast around noon. I ate turkey, mash potatoes, and I forget what else. Later on, had apple pie and pecan pie. I was too full for the pumpkin bread which is often no longer my favorite. I do like pecan possible more than apple. Bree was playing games with siblings. My mom was trying to jump into the conversations as she usually does. Bree started playing with her. But then it appeared as if my mom was not aware that she had like a sarcastic tone and what not. It is possible my mom didn't know or that she didn't care. I mean, it could be that my mom was trying to bypass the game. But I feel like she was not aware as my mom is really autistic more so than me it seems. They had like political debates or what not around stuff like Hitler. I even jumped in saying yeah a lot died and a lot were sent out of Germany, mostly like Jewish people. Because they were debating if 6 million people died in the Holocaust. My mom said there is a debate which is true. The problem is the education system does not tell people this. So, they don't know. It was mostly a conversation between my mom and Bree for like 30 minutes but it felt like forever. The girls laughed as they thought my mom was insane. Later on, my mom was talking to Karen who also laughed too as she sometimes does. They have had these type of conversations in the past going back who knows how many years. One of the debates was around vaccines. Mom failed to mentioned Del Bigtree and even RFK who can say a lot about that. Another topic was Trump in general which mom said he is an idiot which is partly true. Karen said it was great that mom was no longer MAGA. Mom says she isn't Republicans because of the Rinos. She even told the girls that. I stayed out of the conversation because the truth is out there. Karen can find the truth if she wants it. The challenge is mom struggles to find the right words and stuff. Her thoughts are fragmented. I know what my mom is trying to say. I probably could try to translate but it might take additional hours to unpack because mom tries throwing new things at people which can work but is often too much for many people. I listened while playing games on my handheld and doing AI stuff on my Samsung stuff. Dinner around like 07:00 PM. The others left probably before 05:00 PM. It felt like forever ago. For dinner, ate turkey, potatoes, green beans, pecan pie. Brushed my teeth which I often skip when I am out and about. Now it is 07:53 PM. Food log: Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, pineapple, fruit, coffee, banana, 09:00 AM. Lunch: turkey, mash potatoes, etc, 12:00 PM. Later on, pecan pie, apple pie. Dinner: turkey, potatoes, green beans, pecan pie, 07:00 PM. I did not really spell check this or say everything. I typed this on like a Google Chrome laptop. It was tough.