Cookies, Cub Scouts, and Candidates – my Tuesday evening

Last updated on: November 7, 2016 at 9:32 am by Jane the Actuary

Cookies, Cub Scouts, and Candidates – my Tuesday evening 2016-11-07T09:32:41-06:00 Jane the Actuary

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Listening to Trump speaking right now – how depressing! Winning 5 states, by substantial margins. Trump moaning that he’s unfairly not being considered the presumptive nominee. Asserting that he’s going to do great in Indiana because (a) Bobby Knight has endorsed him, and (b) Indiana is the location from which Carrier is moving jobs to Mexico. And he repeats his same lines: “we’ll build the wall, we’ll win against Hillary, we’ll bring jobs back to the U.S.”

He’s got a fair point on the case of the “alliance” between Cruz and Kasich, though — it is a failure, when, immediately after its annoucement, Kasich announces, “no, I’m still going to ask for votes of Indianan voters.” Just another sign that Kasich is fundamentally up to no good, and pursuing an approach of “if I don’t get it, then I don’t care what the outcome is.”

But I still can’t entirely comprehend this state of affairs. It seems to me that, given the reports of substantial crossover voters, and the fact that he wins in states where Republicans are in the minority to begin with, that it’s just a cruel twist of fate that the populist candidate destroying the party in 2016, happened to be running as a Republican. Couldn’t Trump just as easily caused havoc in the Democratic party?

But it seems to me that I’ve been following the polls and the pundits a lot less recently, and have been more interested in policy issues than with the political games per se.

And in the meantime, there are other things going on in the world.

I’m gradually taking over the reins with Cub Scouts. Our next event: a service project at the local nursing home. Confirmed attendance: 7 boys. We’ve got a long way to go to boost participation.

I’ve been trying to coordinate the “Spring Party” for CFM, our church’s couples’ group. I’ve been chasing down RSVPs, which is frustrating, because they’re so slow in coming, and I’m supposed to actually get the activities for the evening organized, which is slow going, when the event is on Friday. Oh, and the kids are off school on Friday, so I really ought to be working on a report I’m in the middle of, to get ahead before then.

But here’s something fun: my youngest son has gotten into baking. He made banana bread last Wednesday, then again Friday morning, just in time to have a slice for breakfast before school. He made a double-batch banana bread last night. And now, having run out of bananas, he got out the kids’ cookbook, and made a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Of course, this means that my two weeks of determined dieting are going to go through the tubes, but it is nice to see him taking the initiative, making recipes with very little help (I put the banana bread batter into the pans, and he also gets help putting things into and taking them out of the oven), and putting the ingredients away afterwards. The nice thing about baking, too, is that there isn’t any cutting with a sharp knife, nor is there any dealing with a hot pan on the stove. But I think the next step’ll be to get him to make something less sugary.

And now the press conference is over and it is truly time to open up that stubborn excel file.

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATwo_slices_of_banana_bread_on_a_plate%2C_May_2009.jpg; By Ross Berteig (originally posted to Flickr as Banana Bread) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons. No, this isn’t the recipe we use; ours doesn’t have nuts, and is fairly simple, from a kids’ cookbook.

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