Vocabulary Lesson #2^43112609-1

Farnese Montepulciano D'Abruzzo
Sourdough Ficelle
Creminelli Salami Barolo
Redondo Iglesias Serrano
Creminelli Salami Cacciatore
Fleur de Maquis
Pilota
Divina Marinated Olives with Chiles
Santander Dark Chocolate 65%
Fresh Tomatoes with salt and pepper

Bonus: I went to Central Market for my birthday :)
Extra Bonus: Ignore the cheese. The olives were fabulous, salamis were salty and honest, the serrano tasted like raspberries, and the chocolate was amazing. Amazing.

Tea

This is not blog worthy.

In college I worked at the original Internet help desk for UT. Simple job, run by a really nice guy with good taste in Jazz. I worked with a nice older Iranian guy who said he loved coffee, but at one time in his life he developed a bad habit of pulling 5 shots of espresso into a thermal mug and having that for breakfast, so he had to stop. I asked him what he drinks instead. Darjeeling. Like the tea? Yes, the tea.

So, I drink Darjeeling just about every afternoon at work, with a little sugar, and wish I had a little milk to go with it. And a lot of my favorite music is avant-garde jazz.

I don't know which is cause and which is effect. Mass bends space, bent space moves mass.

Coffee Parity

I got a Harley Sportster 883 last night. I'm not a Harley guy but it's made in the USA which means more and more over time. It's not a lowrider just a good classic machine. And on the way home I stopped at fourbucks for a short cappucino with cinnamon powder to warm up. Take that carmax. Pics to come.

While drinking cold water at work

HOLY SONNETS.

XIV.

Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

John Donne

The worst coffee in the world is the bitter sludge they have at carmax that I have to drink while I wait for them to build an undervalued appraisal of the most fun car I've ever owned.  It's ironic because overvalued appraisals of homes by a dirty appraiser in cohoots with a dirty lender and a creative entrepreneur are what brought me here.  I need cash to settle the lawsuit that I never would have been involved with if I hadn't wanted to support the entrepreneur and was a little greedy and had signed my name as a vp of his enterprise.  Now I know what happens when you do that. I wish I were smarter.  I wish I didn't learn by trial and error.  I wish I had invested the money that the bankruptcy trustee is now asking for instead of acting like a fool.  Wishing in one hand and pooping in the other, right?  Anyone else ever heard that expression?  Nevermind.  At any rate if they're going to make me pay their taxes when they buy my car, the least they could do is make a decent cup of coffee.

While Mom's gone:

Cereal for breakfast.  I accidently ate "all" (the rest) of Luke's granola, then the next day did the same thing to Lily.

Turkey sandwiches for lunch.  Because Lily only wants peanut butter on her PB&J, and Luke only wants jelly, and as Luke says "I don't know why she says she doesn't like jelly because she does."  Luke's decided mayonnaise is ok on a Turkey sandwich, but don't put any cheese on it.

For dinner, we've been enjoying prepared meals.  Actually, only one so far.  An excellent breakfast casserole; so tasty that Luke didn't complain about the spinach and Lily didn't complain about the eggs.  Although I did threaten them with being "in trouble" if they said anything bad about it. ;)

The other dinners have been free barbeque at the park party where the dj offered to play line dancing music and actually got people to do the electric slide, and last night's "worst dinner ever" where I undercooked the rice, overcooked the beans, Luke poured too much Hoisin on his rice, and Lily didn't want the ice cream because it would give her cavities.

Yesterday morning we made Monkey Bread (use roll dough instead of biscuit dough), and had it for breakfast this morning again while we fished.  Luke and Lily each caught a big perch.

a beer in the hot tub is worth two in the house