Sunday

Today is Sunday and as forecasted raining all day. What can a family in times like this do? Stay home and relax. Since I am not working seemingly forever I am so relaxed out that I can go out of my mind.

The "beauty" of having a dog is that no matter what the weather is he has to pee. The difference is that in good weather he pees slowly while in lousy weather he pees fast. Finish it and quickly back to the apartment.

As I mentioned it yesterday, this is a very small, barely nine pounds of a dog. But he is convinced that he is a giant. Barks at everything and if things don't go his way he nips or even bites. I am his favorite target, I have more bites on my hands than I can count. But when he curls up in my lap or snuggles up to me all is forgiven.

My wife takes him down mostly and naturally she is the one he warmed up to. Even though Abigail insists that this is her dog it is in name only. She "delegates" all the dog related chores. We have him now for almost year and it is hard to imagine our life without him.

Week before last we went to the Metropolitan Opera and saw Madama Butterfly. It was a very nice performance, we had good seats and enjoyed it immensely. A little culture never hurts.

Speaking of culture. My poor wife and a friend were forced to go to the movies with Abigail to see a new movie called The Joker. Total disaster! I excused myself and stayed home and read the libretto of Madama Butterfly.

I have a little trouble walking and my wife is taking care of me. The result of it is that I am putting on the pounds. She cooks whatever I desire. Might that be American or Hungarian. For example tonight's dinner consisted of salad and poppyseed noodles. I love this and had two helpings. Might be up all night because of the poppyseed.

A couple of days ago she made the famous Hungarian "langos" for dinner. Only complaint I had that was not enough for me.  I feel sorry for people who don't appreciate this kind of food. The way I see it food wise, there is us and then there is the rest of the world.

Just one more thing. There is this Jewish food called "solet" or cholent. This is slow cooke or baked beans with hardboiled eggs and meat in it. I love it. I could eat enormous portions. There is a kosher restaurant in Budapest that serves about seven different types of this food. Been there a lot!
Anyway, the beauty of this meal is (besides that it gives you gas) that as the days go by it tastes better and better, like stuffed cabbage. On the third day it was just the best.

Here is a little politics.

Recently there were about 22 democratic candidates for the presidency. Each equally unqualified as the next but they kept pushing on. Eventually, at least by now about half dropped out. I guess they realized that their chances were between zero and nil. The remaining ones still keep dreaming and keep spending their donors' money.

This is a very modern country. Unfortunately its thinking is still backward. Until three years ago we had a black president. I don't think there will be one for awhile. We never had a woman president and I don't think we will have one in the near future. We never had a gay president and I don't think we will have on now. We never had a socialist president and I don't think we will elect one.

It is nice to have everything for free as Bernie and Elizabeth promise but as far as I know as long as schools and doctors cost money these things will have to be paid for. From what? These people promise the moon and if elected they will just keep postponing their promises like all other politicians do.

Bottom line is that the opposition can not produce a good, electable candidate, one who can take up the fight against Trump.

Bottom line is that he will likely have a second term.

Fake news.  It didn't rain all day. The sun came out in the afternoon.