"scary" three

three things "scary" --
(but not really)

1. Last night, poached an egg for the first time in my life. Consulting Professor Google, got some instructions for egg-poaching (put that way, it sounds illegal -- out "poaching eggs," hope game warden doesn't catch us...) --
but the first set of instructions went on and on
and on
and on
and
on
seemed like I could "scroll down" forever and not reach the end!
(I quickly become impatient and exasperated with food-prep. instructions that are too complicated. Sometimes experts, and hobbyists, enthusiasts make things complicated out of -- love, I think. They love doing it and describing it, and they make it too intimidating and scary for the likes of me.)

Tried a different web location, and found simpler instructions.
After work, poached one egg, enjoyed it with salad, delicious, success.

2. Have been listening, since last weekend, to a Rolling Stones CD (album) with the "scary" (off-putting) title "Stripped." It is a great record -- even though many of the songs are upbeat, the overall mood is laid-back, somehow: in a funky, bluesy groove. When you listen to it, it helps you feel confident.
Songs on it: "Street Fighting Man,"
"Like a Rolling Stone" (a Bob Dylan song)
"Not Fade Away" (a Buddy Holly song)
"Shine A Light"
"The Spider and the Fly" (blues)
"I'm Free"
"Wild Horses"
"Let It Bleed"
"Dead Flowers"
"Slipping Away"
"Angie"
"Love In Vain" (blues)
"Sweet Virginia" (country blues)
"Little Baby" (blues).

3. Someone commented about "news" that blasts at us in the modern world (21st-century-land), saying, "They always want us to be afraid of something. If not one thing, then another. They try to keep us afraid."
Scare us. Shock us. Make us mad. (Media wants to attain our attention.)
Newsman Al Neuharth, former Gannett exec. & founder of USA Today, writing in his 1991 autobiography Confessions of an S.O.B., called it "Holy shit journalism" -- ya read-it, and ya-go, "Holy shit!"

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