Ha, one post and I fall off the wagon!

Today (Mon) I got up early to do rounds and found the J&S guys already cleaning up the complex. Which was good for me.

I borrowed five off of Elam and dropped it into electricity. I have enough to get halfway through tomorrow now (even with SRP taking 40% off the top.) I went to go sell plasma, but my protein count was too low, so I have to try again tomorrow. Elam gave me what was left of my old whey protein shake powder. I’ve been drinking that to raise my protein count for tomorrow.

Tomorrow’s a busy day. In addition to rounds, I have to sell plasma (a five hour process), and then check Boulder’s to see if there’s a trivia team happening or if they have the beer dinner fliers made up yet.

Cooking wise I ran through my cupboards and found dried Morel mushrooms, evaporated milk, a vedila onion, and chicken drumsticks. I baked four drumsticks for myself, and gave four raw ones to Coop. Then I broiled two of the baked drumsticks (sans aluminum foil, to crisp the skin), while sauteing a batch of Morels and the Vedila onion in olive oil and salt and pepper. (I think I overdid it on the salt.) Once I finished sauteing them, I poured the can of Morel water (almost 2 liters), the 12oz. can of evaporated milk, and the mushrooms and onion into the pot with whatever chicken grease I had (and olive oil and butter, from the drippings of the saute and baking respectively) and took one drumstick and plucked off all the meat, skin and put it in the pot along with the mostly bare bone, along with the bone of the pieces I ate. It’s on the burner now at heat 6/10, covered. I hope to have a tasty mushroom soup when I’m finished, even though it will be thin (I can add stuff to it later I guess.)

Reading

I have friends that “aren’t into” reading. One very severe example comes immediately to mind. I will never be able to hold a conversation with him that presents a new idea.

Reading is Important. (Notice that capitol letter? Yeah. It’s that important.) Reading and writing are probably the most important inventions of mankind. Sure, everyone thinks fire, but without fire we would have simply stayed a limited portion of the world. Had we not found fire, and instead developed W&R, then fire would have been invented in short order. Language allows us to pass on our knowledge, our thoughts. A strong oral tradition is a great beginning, and is remarkably accurate (virtually no loss or mutation happens in a strictly oral culture) but written word allows us to talk back to the past, and the future too in a limited way. Oral culture cannot compete with that. These extended conversations spark new ways of thinking in us, which create ideas that get passed on to the next reader, who has new ideas, and so on. Thus, growth.

So I was reading the blog The Art of Manliness today, and it was an article about keeping a journal. I think the article was dead on, and I’m going to start keeping one. A daily journal (offline) and a memory journal (also offline) for the things I remember now, and probably won’t in the future.

June 7th, 2009

Had some awesome chicken via my neighbor Steve! Also, I finally got to borrow his collection of recipes, so I’m scanning them in now (to transfer them into Big Oven later.)

While reading the Goblins webcomic, I thought that if Thaco dies, the goblin party would again be four (a common theme in video game RPG’s). Which led to the idea for a webcomic called Party of Five based around RPG characters.

Hello world!

So I’m going to switch this up a bit. Typically I suppose people just delete this or ignore it or use it for an introduction. I figure my little blog is pretty self explanitory, so screw an introduction.

From way back in the mists of before-I-was-born, the phrase Hello World! has been used as a first program. I understand they were the first words ever to be displayed (maybe printed out) on a computer. I remember learning Pascel and this was the first program I (and many of my classmates) ever wrote. It was somewhat less cool to us then our teacher, who had been around since before programming was common. Needless to say, this program has been the first written in all the languages I have sought to learn. Pascel, C++, C, HTML, Javascript, Perl, and a couple lesser known ones that have no modern use.

(Pardon, I just had to throw the dog off the clean clothes pile, he likes to sleep on them the minute I stop paying attention to him.)

So that’s the vague, 30 second history of this post. It’s not the best post, or even a good one, but goddamnit it’s different.