Travels with Kris

  2020-11-15    Corona Cases      10,732,177  Corona Deaths   232,464 2020-11-21   Corona Cases 11,729,370   Corona Deaths 241,557   Interesting things we did this week   Watched the SpaceX rocket launch from Gils House, not as cool as Titusville but still pretty cool Trump is still telling everyone he won the election, even though he hasn’t.  Fake news and the election was fixed.  Because he can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t vote for him.  Narcissist.   I started reading books at work again, I can access my Kindle Account, so I can read in the morning before it gets busy.  I joined the Kindle Unlimited for the trial, we’ll see how much use I get out of it.  I can’t read any of the book I actually want to read, but  I’ve found books similar to the books I would have wanted to read, so perhaps I may get use out of it. Last weekend, my long walks on the weeken...

Nov 8, 2020 Coronavirus US Cases    9,731,932 Coronavirus US Deaths  224,752   Nov 14, 2020 Coronavirus US Cases.  10,593,946 Coronavirus US Deaths.  231,803   Interesting things that happened this week Sunday Gil finally did his 5k and earned his Wizard medal and wand.  I was just happy to get it over with.  When I first ordered those I was still just barely completing the 5k distance and was working towards a 10k distance.  Now, I’m doing a 5k (or close to it) every morning before work and doing half marathon distances on the weekend.  It annoyed me to have the package sitting there with our shirts, wands and medals in it.  Now its opened and distributed and I don’t have to worry about it anymore.  After Gils 5k, we went for a beer tasting at a local brewery called 81 Bay Brewing Co.  We got a sample of 4 beers so we each choose 2.  They had no low carb beers so I ended up getting 2 f...

Nov 1, 2020  Coronavirus US Cases    8,987,032  Coronavirus US Deaths  218,319     Nov 7, 2020  Coronavirus US Cases  9,627,627   Coronavirus US Deaths   224,281    Interesting things that happened this week  - Gil and I went to the zoo on Sunday for our Koala photograph.  We were supposed to meet Phil and Gina at the zoo after but they canceled that morning.  We got to the zoo and waited around for the koalas to wake up and be cooperative.  They are encouraged to participate with treats, but they aren’t forced.  We talked to the zoo employees running the interaction and I bombarded them with a million questions.  We also talked about hurricane preparation at the zoo, which I found fascinating.  I suggested they should have a hurricane tour, where they talk about how they prepare the animals and facilities for a hurricane.  Turns out they leave the elephants and man...

Oct 25, 2020 Coronavirus US Cases    8,439,681 Coronavirus US Deaths  212,703   Oct 31, 2020 Coronavirus US Cases  8,914,804 Coronavirus US Deaths  217,905   Interesting things that happened this week Last weekend I was able to do 10 miles on both Saturday and on Sunday.  I have been doing only one ten mile day and then on the second day doing 10k.  My Saturday 10miles was done in 3.5 hours.  Not great, but not bad for me.  On Sunday my 10 miles was done in 4.5 hours.  My energy levels were obviously lower and I think I need to pay a little more attention to what I’m eating Saturday after my walk.   Took Gil to the botanical garden in Bradenton Sunday.  I'd forgotten I'd been there before but it started coming back to me as I was driving there, its about a quarter mile away from Robinson Preserve and I used to pass it all the time.  Checked it out with the parents at some point in the ...

Oct 18, 2020 Coronavirus US Cases  7,978,013 Coronavirus US Deaths 207,190   Oct 24, 2020 Coronavirus US Cases  8,377,396 Coronavirus US Deaths  212,337     Other interesting things that happened this week:   Sunday, I made baked tilapia with coconut flour.  It turned out well, but I put the flour on too thick.  Next time it will be thinner.  And possibly fried rather than baked. Now that I’m not worried about plasma donation, I’m eating more of what I want.  I bought celery and cukes and 3 more kinds of dip.  I love my veg and dip. On Monday morning, after the toilet, I weighed in at 186.6.  Hooray!  I didn’t loose weight last week and I thought it was because of all the extra protein I was eating.  I had also not had a lot of fiber…so there may have been some extra weight because of that.  But I’m back to loosing again. We have reservations for the zoo to do a Indian Rhino fee...

10-11-2020 Corona Virus US Cases 7,604,207 Corona Virus US Deaths 202,411  10-17-2020 Corona Virus US Cases  7,931,791 Corona Virus US Deaths  206,800 Interesting things that happened this week Hit IKEA and bought pretty bottles and hit ABC and bought grain alcohol.  Got some flavorings at Publix.  Vanilla is expensive, we may not do that.  I wanted to get the infusing started this week, but we decided to soak the bottles really good in a cleaning solution.  We’ll mix up the ingredients next week. Made keto friendly cornbread and veg soup on Sunday.  It was really good.  I got 4 thumbs up from the boys. Trying to keep my protein levels up is getting expensive, if my current plan doesn’t work, I may just stop donating blood…or donating so often.  I’m going through $25 worth of protein powder per week, that adds up.  I went in on Wednesday and my protein was up to 6.6, which I think is the highest its been.  All last...

Oct 4   US CASES 7,271,064 DEATHS 197,569 Oct 10 US CASES  7,558,714 DEATHS  201,947   Trump has Covid.  Karma. I’m down to 187 lbs. Sunday I woke up to rain at 6am and rolled over and went back to sleep.  Finally woke up at 7am and decided to do some computer work before everyone else woke up.  It remained drizzly but not a lot of hard rain.  I organized some photos to use on a photo slide show, a project that I’ve decided to do to help me learn the video editor program.  I finally got up enough energy to go to the mall to do some laps and headed over to Countryside, I figure it was two stories, so it would be more interesting.  It wasn’t, it was torturous.  They have an ice cream store or a cookie store or a pizza store on every corner.  I finally headed over to BJ’s because I needed keto food before I lost my self-control.  They had a 20 minute wait, so I headed to the Dollar Tree and bought some b...