1) Car
2) Soup
3) Changes
4) Football
5) cycling (obligatory by need)
Sooo whadda they have in common????
car - ashamed to admit it but GD is my car a freaking blast to drive. Its been parked for 6 weeks, driving the old/new swedish brick (850 sedan) and since the changes (allusions there of to #3) require that i begin burning BioDiesel once more the fam... getting the #2 car in action meant a 5 minute glow plug swap out in the downpour that was saturday in rode i land... followed by a mellow shake down drive to the barn where the 'winter' tires are. The winter tires are great Nokian NRWs but are a bit worn and the rears are cupped (but tolerable on the rear) AND they are one hell of a lot better in snow than the 65k miles of wear in the Turanza LS-H tires... (warrantied to 60k). The drive back, no holding back... bigger injectors and the chip - even with biod have me grinning like a freaking joyriding teenager. instant acceleration at any RPM, rock solid handling, tire squealing power, e-brake power slides... fun as hell... sue me for loving that car but its a blast - no where near stock but at 246,000+ miles and still kickin ass and taking numbers burning the bean as clean as can be is something to be happy about... so i only get 40-43 mpg driving with a lead foot in the city... its burning biodiesel and that is renewable... unlike the gasoline some put in hybrid cars (sorry kerry ;) couldn't resist - HAD to be said :-D )
(blood pressure and pulse resuming mellow state again)
soup - really really good stuff, made a batch, one of the best batches of soup in a long time. Yeah i'm the cook in the house, i like it - cooking is like science and biology and art wrapped up in one, if you want it to be. Or it can be a drudging way to get calories in oneself to get fat (see supermarket frozen food section with prepared meals). Anyway this soup rocked. A simple variation on my mother's classic.
-sweet onion (1/4 of a large one) and celery(3 large stalks) clarified in extra virgin olive oil in stock pot
-carrots (2 big ones) added (all ingredients chopped evenly)
-1 small parsnip
-2 small red top turnips
-1 small yukon gold potato
-1 large garnet yam
-1 medium butternut squash
-2 large leafs Kale (rough chopped)
-1 medium zucchini
-1 cup red lentils (rinsed and rinsed and rinsed till no bubbles formed)
-4 teaspoons of better than whatever condensed stock base (i used chicken but veggie would have worked to make it vegan)
-5 cloves of garlic (its a hella big soup this aint' really that much)
water to make it the right consistency...
sea salt (to taste)
dash of balsalmic (to taste)
shake or two of hot sauce (ditto for the rest of these)
sprinklin of ground coriander
dried basil
tumeric
woostersauce (replace with soysace for veganish)
cook and cook and cook (30 min or until all veggies are soft)
drop in the stick blender - blend till smooth, add two bay leaves once all blended and let sit simmering for a few minutes - and then serve over white rice with hot sauce on the side... damn freaking goooooooooood stuff. nummy nummy nummy
Yeah i made this for dinner last night... but i had a made-from-scratch green curry for lunch - definitely not one of my home runs - tasty but not like this soup...
changes... what nots exactly that. Changes. schedule, life, for whole family. Hopefully for the good, very hopeful... very hopeful... will i still get to ride? i think so... maybe the girls will adjust sooner than we had hoped.
FOOTBALL
Go Steelers... gotta say it - even if they are my brother's team how do you NOT like bill cower, or Troy Pullamalooooo(sic) or the rest of the gang... the Bus is the best... i dunno about denver though.. should be a good game - hopefully no where near the heart attacks that the Redskins or Steelers gave me in the first two rounds.... This weekend the steelers nearly killed me... what emotion but
for those eagle fans...
9. Next week will be the first time in five years that the conference championship round will be Eagles- and Patriots-free. Which is a shame, really. I never felt that we got to hear enough about those two teams. They kind of flew under the radar a bit on us, didn't they? But as disastrous as Philadelphia's season was this year, it must be nice for the Eagles to experience the month of January without being weighed down with an overwhelming sense of impending doom.maybe its a redskins fan thing but i am just fine not hearing about the Eagles..... the Redskins coulda won the game, but well not having an intact O-line will do it... it cost the Raiders a superbowl (as did the stupid rule about forward motion) with that guy who went all bi-polar to Mexico... so i drank beer and watched football... and worked on my car.... what a freaking damn patriotic american I am... oh if they only knew...
back on the bike this morning - two trips up and down college... gonna stick with the gearing rule - since it was just once last week i'm gonna go this week in the 23 up... which should be good cause i'm up and down every damn day the rest of the week, could be twice on a few days.
I hate the tourists around the college... driving while pointing - stopping when they aren't supposed to JUST after accelerating to get around me - then to have me roll around the front of the car as they are gawking... I usually am able to restrain from yelling out "WOW you got here SOOOOOOO much faster by zooming past me.. wow, I think it saved you a whole 2 freaking seconds!!!!!" Fucking retards...
maybe shouldn't end today with those two words... might be a bad precedent to set for the week. So this stuff is Faulkner-esque eh? According to someone who's reading it is...
M wrote:
...I've been reading some of your blog, having a hard time with some of it. Are you doin' some sort of William Faulkner kinda thing? ...(yes those ellipses are used properly in the quote for a change) that comment actually got me to go back and READ my old stuff - old stuff as in much of it from the last month or so. And to be perfectly honest... i was able to read it - and it was kinda cool going back and reading it... much more readable for me than many blogs out there (blogs and webpages on my links sidebar are the few exceptions - they all very readable).
damn starting a paragraph with a () and ending it with one too... sick ass bad writing i'm guessing... but not out of character for me...
and not out of character to just be like... woot - this post is history (until i get back on just after everything is wrapped up to add a few more thoughts - ya never know if a gewilli post is gonna stay the same till the next two posts are up)...
Peace out yall... ride the devil outa ya bikes or they'll haunt ya forever!
-Preacher G- OUT
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