We are having my wife's family here for burgers tomorrow afternoon, but the forecast says it is going to rain the entire day. We won't cancel since we don't really have many options - it just means that some sucker is going to be outside grilling the burger patties while it pours down.
I am obviously that sucker.
I don't mind, since I largely won't be talking with people anyway and am more for decoration than company. Not pretty decoration, more like souvenirs from a work trip of a father in the 1980s.
Cheap, chipped and out of style.
In the morning I will prepare the base for a pavlova also, which doesn't take too long to make but does take a while in the oven. It is about an hour and half or more of baking (as I make large ones), but then to stop it flattening too much, it requires cooling while the oven is cooling down, and that can take an hour or two. Since we don't need the oven for anything else, it doesn't matter. Normally at this time of year I would put both strawberries and blueberries on the top, Smallsteps just wants strawberries this time.
Fine by me!
The only thing that is a bit annoying about everyone coming for burgers, is that the time slot is the same time that the Hungarian F1 begins, which means that I will not get to watch it live. No, it isn't a big issue at all, but I do prefer to watch it live as there is something more exciting about it. I reckon while "live is life" in many respects, it is a pretty new phenomena that we can get hold of so much live content now from anywhere in the world and we have been spoiled by availability and on-demand streaming. It wasn't that long ago that information would pass by letters and it would be months before the "latest news" was heard.
Better times?
I think it might have been, because we wouldn't have been able to be so reactive. By the time news reached us, there was nothing immediate we could do except accept it as is. Now, we are bombarded with so much immediate information that we feel we both can't miss out, nor can we ignore it, no matter how useless it might be. Perhaps if we distanced ourselves from the immediacy of most of the information we receive, we'd be healthier mentally and emotionally.
I was saying to my wife just tonight how everyone is turning into selfish assholes because of the information they surround themselves with. All this scrolling in a bubble, all this polarised conversation that makes us feel for or against things that aren't actually in our locus of control, and of course, all the advertising telling us that "we deserve" something are just breeding more and more entitlement. When an advert says that "you deserve a break" or something similar - just remember that it is going to millions and millions of people - are all the "yous" deserving?
Fuck no.
So with the grass cut and about half the weeding done (I am just following orders) in preparation for my wife's family to arrive tomorrow for lunch - I think I deserve someone to do the grilling in the rain tomorrow. But I am not going to get it, so if I want a tasty burger, I am going to have to make it my damn self.
And that is okay by me.
Who knows - perhaps the sun will shine instead.
Taraz
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