Thursday June 29

Yesterday evening I came back to the apartment and distributed the new schedule for the outing.

I distributed it to all the apartments. I also booked for the movie this incoming Saturday.

For this week this task has been completed.

I came to my apartment and started cooking.

I made Trofie  pasta al pesto with pomodori pachino  Parmigiano Regiano and Olive Oil


Here is a view from the top of the pesto bowl

This  is the  trofie pasta after cooking it al dente. 

As always I am making sure it is cooked al dente because I like pasta  a tad firm.

The expression cooking  pasta al dente is very common in Italy.

It is very well understood.

I used this  large bowl was  to mix trofie with the sauce.

Here is a close up for the little pasta bowl I used for dinner.

As mentioned  above the magic combination is pomodoro pachino, Parmesan cheese, and basil

Next time I would like to make  the pesto with pachino and shrimp.

Together with the pasta I had a healthy salad.

I used heirloom tomatoes, celery, spinach, basil. I dressed it using  Olive Oil  Balsamic vinegar salt.
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After dinner I went to the gym.

I signed out and I was driven there by CNS.

I arrived on time for my class. I had static cycle with Cassie.

A lot of good cardio and resistance training on the static bike.

The class is getting as close as possible to  a real life biking experience without the concerns of the road.

After the class I had body pump with Sylvia.

This is a good  body building exercise.

I  quickly learnt I am not there to muscle up my body.

I am there to feel fit and to stay in shape. 

Beside I am over 50 years old. I have a certain age  and my body health to keep in mind.

I am not a any longer  a young person.

I am looking youngish but I have my limits.

So I have followed Sylvia in her directions.

I worked on bending my legs and on my extremities.

She knows me very well. I am following her suggestions in keeping light weights.

Also it was the class to get my core going. 

Engage the core to stay healthy.

Later at 7pm I left the gym and walked back to the apartment.

Walking is a good exercise for me anyway.

At 7:25pm I signed back  at the apartment.

I paid attention to the road. My experience is that the people in Bakersfield are not used to see anybody  walking  around.

Specifically a white Caucasian male like me.

Everybody is enclosed in its big pick up trucks. 

Same old story. Nothing new anyway for me.

Nothing new at all to report.

My usual evening routine followed.

Night showers, snack and meds.

I slept well and had a good night.

I wake up at 6am after a good 8 hours of sleep.

This is how much I am sleeping  right now.

This morning I completed money management

At the reception miss Mary was ready to help me.

There is no news paper today. It is a sign of the local distribution?

It is often spotty and insufficient.

Anyway the flowers are always great

I did my laps at the park. It is a pleasant day.

I have my blood flowing in my veins.

I had a good breakfast as thus far I only had a banana.

I love my High Fiber O's cereal in the morning.

I had  yogurt and a cold overnight Oatmeal.

This morning I decided that it was time for me to make a new batch of overnight Oat

Here is the list of ingredients that are going in it:

one  cps of  old fashioned oats

1/4 cup of coffee

1/4 cup of milk

1/3 tbs of salt

1/2 scoop of vanilla protein powder

1 tbs of chia seed (it expands)

a cup of yogurt

after combine it all chill overnight.

Here it is  healthy eating because I like eating good nutrients.

Today no newspapers. I went to the Swain Center or to the shack as I like to call it.

I ready my Economist magazine. I highly doubt that patients are interested on knowing what it is going on in the worlds around them.

Anyway the key here is because I am reading it and it this my own Economist magazine then it does interest me. I am reading for myself I highly doubt that anybody as a cognitive understanding let alone cognitive interest in understanding the world they are immerse upon.

Well you see I quickly realized that most American people do not really care at all about the world they are immerse. This is why the current political landscape is so depressing. It lacks depth of feeling. This sentiments in my opinion starts from the top at the White House  and percolates down to the bottom to the whole society.

Frankly it is a shame this was a fair nation. 

It was based on certain core principles that have been unfortunately  reduced by a bad inept  government.

Anyway they elect it, in a way they have chosen their direction.

At the lead there is a 71 years old person, that has hardly had any achievement aside from the might green money.

it is sort of a change  from having a young leader at the top of the government.

For instance Macron is 39 and he is leading  France with a new hope of chance. 

He  has been showing good actions with good  intent.

Today at the Homes of Hope I could not noticed the kitchen was really a mess.

A lot of food stuck in the sink, food left all over the kitchen sink.

Everywhere Flies  that  were hovering over the  food.

So unhealthy,.

I bet Social Service would revoke the licence for  a place like this.

It shows lack of understanding and a lack of meeting the basic health requirement.

Do you know guys how much I can get sick from all this messy environment, you  CNS,  Home of Hopes and the one alike?

Is this a decent environment to be?

Nobody did anything of course Richard was playing with the WEE much more fun than cleaning.

Enjoy the reading.

I mean cheap granted, free granted but dirty... c'mon CNS

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Wednesday June 28

The kids are enjoying their summer in Rome Italy at the beach.

Here they are eating Fried Calamari -Calamari fritti.

This is a great summer food for the summer time.
Our kids love it. They were dreaming of being back in Rome to get to it.

Chicco our eldest is really savoring his calamari fritti

It looks like Chicco is really enjoying it.

Here is Lapo our youngest working on his portion of Calamari. He is very focused on this task.

I believe both the kids are eager to eat all the good food they will find only in Rome.

It is part of their experiencing the life back in Italy.

It is part of the things they love to do when they are over there.

They both needed a hair cut.

They normally have one in Rome as a part of their routine.

Yesterday at the apartment I  wrote a letter for the boys. 

I am keeping the letter I am writing at the apartment for the time when they are coming back.

  By the time they are back I will have a large stack for them to read.

I had a fast dinner and then went to the gym.

I cooked salmon with Quinoa. I kept it half for today's lunch

Cassie the supervisor dropped me off over there.

I had  body pump with Ellie. A lot of range of motion, light weight and repetitions.

I am focusing on my lower extremities, on my abdominal and shoulders.

I like to work out in a conscious way, that is by listening to my body.

I feel I am not over doing it. 

Whenever I pump too hard it is bad for me because the next day I have a bad head ache.

Well the way I am going around with it is that I am taking a lot of  cold showers. 

This lowers my blood pressure. 

It will have some other consequence too but hey I like it anyway.

Beside whenever I am walking back on my own like yesterday I am really hot.

When I arrived at the apartment the CNS van stopped to ask me if I wanted a ride.

Because I was just a few feet away I  declined of course. 

I love the loneliness of the pedestrian walk of the area.

Everybody drives of course. 

The local choice is for big trucks with perfectly useless feature like flat bead, net on the pack   and an excessively large engine. They like gas guzzler.

Because I am capable of walking.

Whatever the situation might be I am walking.

It builds lungs capacity and muscle.

My mother is doing well in Verona Italy. I called her this morning.

After a strong heat wave over there today  it was thunder-storming and  raining hard.

Over the phone I could hear the rumbling of the storm.

She was enjoying the much needed break on the heat wave, the cooler weather and a more pleasant temperature.

The humidity in the air dropped significantly. 

This is a typical summer thunderstorm.

My wife in Rome had delayed to visit  her for a few days.  

My mother is in the process of  installing new air conditioning units at home.

It is good to have it on hands.

It allows her to have a break from the humid heat  and for my family to visit her with ease.

I had a good breakfast. I had a new type of cereal. I like it a lot. 

It is called organic high fiber Os. 

I am quoting:

Each serving contains nine grams of dietary fiber, seven grams of protein and only one gram of fat - and none of those nasty trans fats, either

I could not find the ones I am normally getting at the store.

They will be doing just fine for a bit

I roamed free at the park this morning. 

I thrown away some trash belonging to  the CNS. It was a big bag today. 

I found it at the reception were I had my money management done today.

This morning is the receipt day. Tomorrow is my actual pay day.

 I bet there is going to be a large trash bag as well. 

Before leaving I cleaned carefully the apartment

Picked up the trash and made sure to throw it in the big bin.

This time it was my own trash.

I waited for the shack to be open.

This is really a small construction in front of the apartment with nothing of noticeable in it.

Outside I was ambushed by three people.

My Case Manager, My Innovation Program Coordinator and a person that works for CNS by the name of Mitch.

They had to "talk" to me.

Mitch had a claim on me. Without any evidence to support it, only his claim in my opinion it is not a  valid claim.  It is not an admissible claim in a court of law it will not be admissible.

Simona called me today at lunch. She was concerned because she could not reach  me on the phone.

She walked me through the setting and in fact it was set in do not disturb  mode.

Setting-do not disturb- manual on

In  fact I had been loosing any call on my phone.

She managed to made me set it in the correct way.

She alert me about it by sending me an email and by asking me to call her.

This morning she took the kids  for a hair cut and a good rich gelato (Italian ice cream)
 Here is Lapo getting is hair taken care of.

Here are the boys eating a rich gelato.

You will notice that there  is panna on the top of the gelato

Chicco has his hair trimmed 

Lapo is showing his great treat

They both appear to be in great health

It is a farily common practice to eat gelato in Italy.

Particularly when the boys are there they have to recharge the batteries with all the good treats over there.

Tuesday June 27

Yesterday evening I came back at the apartment.

I wrote the following letter to my boys.

Because I run out of writing  papers and envelopes I later went at the reception to get a new supply.

The family is doing fine.

Last year they were visiting my family in Italy

They had time to play with the cats at my brother's house in Verona

The cats were little ones. The boys were also  younger than they are  today.

Here is Chicco playing with Farang

Here is Lapo playing with Morgana

They enjoyed so much the cats that they asked Simona to bring them back to California to play at home.

Simona was successful in fending off their requests. So they stayed back in Verona.

The cats have grown since then and so the boys.

Here is the black cat today. It has become a small panther.

Yesterday evening I cooked myself a good dinner and then went to the gym.

For dinner I made a good salmon fillet with a side of Quinoa

It is wild  Atlantic Salmon. 

This is far healthier than the farmed raised one.

It cooks very quickly in a large pan. 

I am  using Coconut Oil to protect the pan.

I sliced small cherries tomatoes, seasoned the salmon and added Lemon Juice.

It does not take much to cook the Salmon. 

A few minutes per side is enough.

Turning the salmon with a large spatula is a good example of  cooking skills.

As a side  I also cooked Quinoa.

First I washed it  under the water to remove the bitter coating that it is covered with.

I used a fine meshed colander to wash it under running water and a spoon to  turn it.

I washed it very carefully.

It  is recommended to cook it using some kind of broth.

Hence I added to the water a piece of a bouillon cube that Simona has sent me using Amazon.

It gently boiled for 20 minutes while the water got absorbed.

The Quinoa opened up and revealed its crunchy texture.

Quinoa is an ancient grain. It is a very healthy grain with a lot of protein from vegetable source.

It pairs very well with any food.  You can make Salad with Quinoa or alternatively use  it as is by itself.

After my dinner I cleaned the apartment by running the dish washer, washing the sink and  taking care of the kitchen floor.

I like to stay in a clean environment. 

I am very conscious about the status of the cleanness of my environment.

I went at the reception and a sup Cassie dropped me at the gym.

I had my yoga time and then afterward I had my cycle class with Misty.

I did yoga with Lilli to start.

At yoga we all do light stretches and then some other poses that I found too challenging for me. So I gladly passed on it. 

I use it to realign my back and to stretch my body. It is working as it alleviates the pain I am sometime   sensing in my back. It is my piriformis muscle  that at time annoys me.

As mentioned afterward I had cycle with Misty.

It is a fun class were the instructor makes us modulating the resistance of the static bike  to emulate a real life experience.

I  know that Misty has two dogs. So before leaving I asked her about her puppies.

She mentioned they are doing well, and that they are no longer  puppies.

Anyway she appeared pleased by me asking  her about her dogs.

At 7pm I am supposed to be leaving the gym. So I  stretched my body and start leaving. Normally I should not be left waiting at the reception. I was not in the mood of waiting.

 I do not like this arrangement so I was taking off a few minutes later. 

My contract with CNS states that at 7pm I am to leave the gym.

Anyway I called Anna at the reception to let her know about my whereabouts.

And sure enough CNS remembered suddenly I was picked up along the way by a  guy working for CNS.

His name is Isaac. He was late.  

So I started walking by myself ... I am annoyed by them neglecting about me.

They humiliate me  and made me wait at the gym facing all other normal people that are living when they like to leave.

Yes part of the daily humiliation is to depends on the poor record CNS service.

Me I am not normal because CNS is  charge. My experience is that CNS is very lax with its own terms and conditions. Nobody looses its job. Whatever happens.

Like that time when an NRS locked me in the van without AC. Maria  Ramirez is still working at CNS. No consequence what so ever dear Maria. 

Name and surname are spelled out clearly.

No adverse consequence of her doing. 

As a matter of fact had there been a dog with us we could have hold her accountable in firmer terms dear Jolanta Baranoski and CNS..

As such I leave when my Program says I am leaving. 

The fault is on the NRSs not complying with the terms and conditions of the coverage contract.

Anyway   had I received a dollar for any of the CNS shortcoming... you know the rest.

 I signed back in at 7:30pm

I had time to take a shower a light snack and my meds. At 9pm Nursing  came with the Ambient sleeping med to  help for me.

This morning I had a light and filling breakfast

I got outside hydrated myself very well.

flowers 

I I did my morning walk in the park

As always I get the newspaper of the day and then waited diligently outside the shack - this is the term I am referring to call   the Swain Center. 

Me waiting for the shack to be open. 

It is actually a precise terms. Because all it is is shack,  nothing of nothing in it. 

Just a bunch of tables and chairs. There are some game -yes game for the ones that are staying there.

This is the high tech rehabilitation process for which CNS prides itself.

I frankly can not stand the shack, this respect it is a very simple and small building. 

Very therapeutic presence.

Nothing of nothing. 

I know it, the  reader knows it,  CNS knows it.

An  interrogation room of a prison would have the same amenities.

So why not call it Interrogation room or Inter room for short?

I waited to leave and then I was taken to  the so called "  Work Program"

I had a very fast lunch at the Homes of Hope.

There is a very small window of opportunity for me to eat peacefully.

You see in this side of the great America there is not much value put on eating.

Everything should be treated as Fast food. They do not have the knowledge of the pleasure of eating peacefully.

I can see it by the way I am treated here at the Homes of Hope. There is only a small window for me to eat then it gets overwhelmed by poor manner screaming kids.

In fact it is believed you eat junk food very fast without  enjoying it.

On the contrary the civilized world I am from has a different approach with the food.

So my kids here, so may unpolite kids. 

I would love to stay  away from this  annoying kiddos that are free to roam in this place.

Kiddos with little manner, kiddos that are far from be polite, kiddos that annoys me a lot with their poor manner and way of living.

This place is overfilled with kids.

Do you know the story of the magic flute player that drove of the annoying infestation rats away from the town they had occupied? 

See the picture to the story I am referring to?

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I feel bugged by these little guys screaming and wimping over and over.

They are not my kids, nor they behave like normal kids.

Hence I am assuming my right to dissociate myself from them.

Most definitely I am annoyed by all this kids around.

I wish only they all could go somewhere else.

I have not asked for this prison.

Have you perhaps?

Please call Pied Piper as soon as possible

I can not handle it anylonger.

I have done anything in my life to deserve this environment dear CNS?

Well next Thursday my mother in Italy will have some house improvement at her home.

She is going to have installed the first unit of the new AC system. In rapid succession the plan is to install the remaining part of the AC system. In this way she is going to be better coping with the heat in Italy.

By the time my wife will be able to go to Verona my mother should be set with the new AC system
Enjoy

Dear CNS you are in a clad iron, you know it you can do nothing wrong because you are always right.
Unfortunately there is nothing to be proud off.

It it were up to me I would let go several of your NRS personnel  dear CNS