Low Fiber Carbs and Debates and the political telenovela of the summer

 The low-fiber carbs:

It's time once again for a COLONOSCOPY. Lucky RantWoman on the every 3-year plan, plus assorted other adventures as a result of things discovered in connection via a whole bunch of other tests with the colonoscopy last time. This time no pandemic restrictions. No quest for laundry quarters with a post pandemic asterisk about why. Just humbly stock up on some low-fiber carbs.

This time, no Lucky Charms. Whiter than white bread PLAIN bagels. Some cornmeal for breakfast one morning. Oh, and a good reason to buy basmati rice. Weird indulgence: mixing buttermilk into prepackaged pudding. No green Jello but boxed broths in spite of RantWoman's certainty that any darn fool can boil water and make stock. An assortment of fruit juices. Rock and roll and apologize in advance if the liquid diet day makes one crabbier than average.

The DEBATE???

RantMom opined: Isn't it awfully darn early in the campaign cycle to be starting to debate for 2024? The RantWoman concur: we are unlikely to watch but RantWoman at least is hoping that someone emerges as a voice of substantially greater sanity than the currently most frequent mentions. 

Small #COVID related pang  in SPRING of 2020, thankfully not earlier, RantMom watched a number of the 2020 presidential debates with a neighbor in her retirement community. Debate watching buddy was the first death in RantMom's community. The whole family is VERY glad to be past all that came with that--even though a few RantWoman pockets still hold various of the different masks of the period.

*Quarters and laundry: tanks partly to lack of building staffing and neighbors who had trouble saying "No" to druggie adult children, laundry facilities in RantWoman's building got vandalized several times. To make vandalism less inviting, all the machines were switched from coin to card and / or phone app. This works fine IF 

1. one has a smartphone and is willing to connect the appropriate app to one's bank account. or 

2. one has a bank account and a debit card and is willing to put up with short term bank holds of about 6X the cost of a a washer or dryer cycle.

Neither condition applies for a good percentage of RantWoman's neighbors. RantWoman now carries a few quarters so that if neighbors happen to have dollar bills or a debit card that for some reason doesn't work, RantWoman can use her phone and make change if handed cash. RantWoman hopes this is not a permanent state of affairs!

And the legal telenovela of the year:

It's, um better than supermarket tabloids! Let us just hope that everyone can find our way back to having our national feet on the ground.