Non-stop day, strava will show that I rode in, went flat out and barely escaped to do a few errands and hid in the dungeon for a while before heading home with one stop.
One stop being the EP location of NBX. Call came earlier than ever. A good thing, but adds another layer.
Will crank out a handful tomorrow. the plan at least. Got thinking, assembling is kind of yoga to me, this process of finding a center, the repetition, the routine, the visible measure of progress.
Gonna need tunes, but plan in place. So yeah you can bug me while I'm building this year but you're gonna have to brave Warren Ave traffic. It is also the earliest call to build since i picked up the second gig. And yes, I know. I could be the manager, I could be the service guy, the guru, but you know what? I'm okay just putting shit together, the basement is mine, leave me alone, let me build, one my kids are earning their own salary I can start actually paying down my debt not just servicing it. When ever that is it will be what it is and I'll continue to try and work everything at once.
The art stuff.
One of the trips today was to discuss fire policies and options. And I think I have a great one now. Gonna need to check with it once but i think we'll be good and it will be a new novel way to print the stuff. How it looks? Hopefully not too bad.
Of course John R asks "How many are you gonna sell?"
Sell? What? I haven't made a profit on any of this stuff, i've sold prints and feel indebted to every single person who gave me money for one, literally, but also incredibly thankful to each single person. Because they are all, when it comes down to it some of the best people i've ever encounter.
Thank you.
I'm excited, scared, and more motivated than ever.
I definitely need to delve into the Fugazi radio therapy theory a bit more, but hey maybe it is fucking GCD and that stupid soap of his. I've been using the peppermint stuff non-stop since trying a sample or two in VA, got back here and bought a bottle of it. Can a soap and a morning regime of that oil change a person?
maybe,
but what i can say is i feel somethings shifting more positively and cementing in place. a weird feeling.
Yes some stuff is odd and may never settle, and i'm definitely likely to relapse, but we'll see how that goes.
Going to try and do our southern version of the pre-ride for our RRRR on sunday AM, the Rhody version of the RdR, homage totally and if we can make it happen my goal is to raise $ for Girls Rock RI, because they rock and have done some amazing shit for my kid and many other kids and women.
I'm less overwhelmed and not as freaked out tonight, but maybe because we had a lab cleanout 'party' and a few beers and pizza after, so that's skewing me a bit perhaps, or that i've plowed through a good number of the items on the list. Sort of.
be good, do good and ...
yeah more than ever:
heddwch
G
Friday, February 24, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
okay, when it piles up it really piles on
Hey lets talk about sugar again, and yogurt! Two topics that came up and i jumped in on in one of the brief moments today. And normally I resist, but I think the fact that I haven't even turned on pandora ONCE, haven't even listened to ANY music all day, and since i've even been listening to my Pandora Fugazi station while working non-stop for the last three weeks, i think my agitation isn't being tempered and dispelled by the music. That itself is a whole different web log post I think, one that I had meant to start on before I started writing this (this is a pre-amble to lead in to what I wrote tonight BTW, maybe some other writers do that, but since i'm not one I feel the need to be transparent). The thing about listening to all that 80s punk/hardcore loud intense politically charged, but with the respect and understanding of the culture and living through it, there's something new I've found listening. I also credit it for helping with my sanity lately on many levels. But like i say later, no energy for that level shit right now, just the boring, put people to sleep day to day life shit, back to what I was saying about today and no listening to music?
NO MUSIC TODAY SO I GO CRAZY.... except i didn't have time to go crazy and by the time I was home I was too tired to be anything but edgy, and completely stressed and freaked out about these next 10 days, why?
NO MUSIC TODAY SO I GO CRAZY.... except i didn't have time to go crazy and by the time I was home I was too tired to be anything but edgy, and completely stressed and freaked out about these next 10 days, why?
Friday, February 10, 2017
"What a Guy"
Sometimes you're just riding along and a new crew sees you... and they run that in the first 5 minutes, basically the top story on the local news. Link to transcript and new page here: http://wpri.com/2017/02/09/local-man-braves-the-snow-to-bike-eight-miles-home-from-work/
I may not have time to write more about the ride home last night, but it ranks up there as one of the more challenging for sure, fun? yeah.
It would be great if the bike path got plowed but sadly it isn't like to be any time soon.
had the luxury this morning of waiting a bit for it to warm up, it was 10F when I woke up and would normally leave. Now it is a balmy sunny 17F
Heddwch
G
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
brain has stuff rolling around to get out
This is important... gonna leave it here
and get back to the rest of the post stewing in my head.
bikes
what parents may have felt like in the early part of the 80s and Ronnie's rule
listening to non-stop hardcore/punk... aka Pandora's Fugazi station, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Brains, Agent Orange, Bad Brains, The Misfits, Black Flag, Sonic Youth...
Yeah so i'm a bit late to punk but talking with RayRayGrams at the show saturday night, thinking that it wasn't a matter of if i'd connect with it but when...
head's been clearer than it has been in a while... also, i hate to say it but even just doing the planks every couple days (when I remember) over the last week seems to be helping... aka self reminder that they actually fucking work... strange eh?
Back to scheduling emails and training sessions and work, maybe I can flesh it out more tonight while dinner's cooking, not sure what i'm making actually... other than I'm already really hungry... should have brought more food with me.
oh yeah... i'd love to be able to the subject of this study...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28035015 but that'll take a while and a lot of luck before I qualify
heddwch
G
CEO of King Center and Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King @BerniceKing posted this on her Facebook page tonight. pic.twitter.com/EFTozapaEc— Yashar (@yashar) February 8, 2017
and get back to the rest of the post stewing in my head.
bikes
what parents may have felt like in the early part of the 80s and Ronnie's rule
listening to non-stop hardcore/punk... aka Pandora's Fugazi station, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Brains, Agent Orange, Bad Brains, The Misfits, Black Flag, Sonic Youth...
Yeah so i'm a bit late to punk but talking with RayRayGrams at the show saturday night, thinking that it wasn't a matter of if i'd connect with it but when...
head's been clearer than it has been in a while... also, i hate to say it but even just doing the planks every couple days (when I remember) over the last week seems to be helping... aka self reminder that they actually fucking work... strange eh?
Back to scheduling emails and training sessions and work, maybe I can flesh it out more tonight while dinner's cooking, not sure what i'm making actually... other than I'm already really hungry... should have brought more food with me.
oh yeah... i'd love to be able to the subject of this study...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28035015 but that'll take a while and a lot of luck before I qualify
heddwch
G
Monday, February 06, 2017
Lettuce wraps, GeWilli style
Had a few options for dinner, some red sauce, meatballs and pasta, maybe a squash and lentil soup, and lettuce wraps/cups/whatever...
And well you know, Goldberg asked was in them...
Listed in order of prep:
85% Pineland Farm ground beef (about 1-1.5#s) mixed with
corn starch, ginger powder, shoyu sauce and hoisin sauce
let sit while chopping carrots
4 large carrots, peeled and diced pretty small into a pan with some olive oil, splash of toasted sesame oil and some saved beef rendering. After all warm a splash of shoyu or two, cook till caramelized over high heat.
While carrots are cooking
dice one medium onion,
dice one medium red pepper,
chop cabbage (roughly the same finished volume as the onion and pepper)
dice up one can of sliced water chestnuts
(mis-en-place)
de-skin (not peel) 2.5" of ginger and one turmeric root
super finely dice both of them (i have special technique developed over years and years of experimental practice - will share on another post perhaps)
dice one serrano pepper
put all that into a bowl with some olive oil, using a Zyliss garlic press add 4 large cloves to that mix, and mix it all up and set it aside for a while.
Once carrots look good in goes the beef (obvs you could substitute anything for whatever - and making this vegan would be easy), use the carrots as you're mixing to break up the meat and get it cooked, just as you get some maillard reaction on the bottom of the pan add the onions and reduce heat a bit until they are sweated and mostly see-through.
In goes the cabbage next, and once you get that incorporated in there (should release steam and help scrape flavor off bottom of pan, if not add a splash of water) make a spot in the middle of the pan and put the ginger garlic mix in there give that 30s or more until it becomes very aromatic but don't let it burn (it may stick and that's fine). Get that all mixed in. Then add the water chestnuts. Mix again (kind of stirring a lot yeah, but it ain't Risotto no need to constantly attend to it)
after that? well sauce it up!
deglaze with some white wine if you have some (mirin or rice wine or pinot g or whatever you have open) i used about a cup. Add more shoyu, some hoisin, some oyster sauce, get that all warm, add a bit of water to get the sauce to really get some volume. Adjust seasoning if needed... finally add the red pepper along with some nice purple daikon radish (the purple stuff in the snapshot) all diced into short sticks for texture.
mix, check seasoning, and serve.
as a variation to make it go a bit further increase the sauce volume and then add about 2 cups of cooked rice, I usually would use some brown basmati (because i like it - white rice ain't got no place in this house).
Toss some of that sofa king sriracha on there that Liz/Hannah shared if you want extra heat and more flavor.
We've been serving it in romaine heads, but you can put it in any lettuce, bib is more traditionally popular in the restaurants. I've used Iceberg in the past for its texture and extra crunchiness (but can be a pain to extract intact cup leaves).
Pretty simple, just a good bit of chopping, which if you aren't proficient at, just practice (this is good dish for that), but first get a good knife. For veggies that Santoku can't be beat, perfect for making transparent flakes of turmeric and ginger as well as dicing onions tear free.
anyway, food, from scratch, make it yourself.... choose better ingredients and your food will taste better. I'm pretty particular about my Shoyu sauce, only using the organic San-J stuff. And my hoisin, while a traditionalist departure it is the 365 branded organic stuff (who knows who makes it you can probably get it under a different label but - organic, and cheap and pretty fucking awesome hoisin flavors IMHO), Oyster sauce? I use the Lee Kum Kee Green Label Oyster Sauce. Olive oil? always and only (best price i can find for EVOO) The 365 stuff, it works for salad dressing as well as cooking and seasoning and flavoring and all the rest you might want to do with it.
That should cover it, if not ask questions
heddwch
G
And well you know, Goldberg asked was in them...
Listed in order of prep:
85% Pineland Farm ground beef (about 1-1.5#s) mixed with
corn starch, ginger powder, shoyu sauce and hoisin sauce
let sit while chopping carrots
4 large carrots, peeled and diced pretty small into a pan with some olive oil, splash of toasted sesame oil and some saved beef rendering. After all warm a splash of shoyu or two, cook till caramelized over high heat.
While carrots are cooking
dice one medium onion,
dice one medium red pepper,
chop cabbage (roughly the same finished volume as the onion and pepper)
dice up one can of sliced water chestnuts
(mis-en-place)
de-skin (not peel) 2.5" of ginger and one turmeric root
super finely dice both of them (i have special technique developed over years and years of experimental practice - will share on another post perhaps)
dice one serrano pepper
put all that into a bowl with some olive oil, using a Zyliss garlic press add 4 large cloves to that mix, and mix it all up and set it aside for a while.
Once carrots look good in goes the beef (obvs you could substitute anything for whatever - and making this vegan would be easy), use the carrots as you're mixing to break up the meat and get it cooked, just as you get some maillard reaction on the bottom of the pan add the onions and reduce heat a bit until they are sweated and mostly see-through.
In goes the cabbage next, and once you get that incorporated in there (should release steam and help scrape flavor off bottom of pan, if not add a splash of water) make a spot in the middle of the pan and put the ginger garlic mix in there give that 30s or more until it becomes very aromatic but don't let it burn (it may stick and that's fine). Get that all mixed in. Then add the water chestnuts. Mix again (kind of stirring a lot yeah, but it ain't Risotto no need to constantly attend to it)
after that? well sauce it up!
deglaze with some white wine if you have some (mirin or rice wine or pinot g or whatever you have open) i used about a cup. Add more shoyu, some hoisin, some oyster sauce, get that all warm, add a bit of water to get the sauce to really get some volume. Adjust seasoning if needed... finally add the red pepper along with some nice purple daikon radish (the purple stuff in the snapshot) all diced into short sticks for texture.
mix, check seasoning, and serve.
as a variation to make it go a bit further increase the sauce volume and then add about 2 cups of cooked rice, I usually would use some brown basmati (because i like it - white rice ain't got no place in this house).
Toss some of that sofa king sriracha on there that Liz/Hannah shared if you want extra heat and more flavor.
We've been serving it in romaine heads, but you can put it in any lettuce, bib is more traditionally popular in the restaurants. I've used Iceberg in the past for its texture and extra crunchiness (but can be a pain to extract intact cup leaves).
Pretty simple, just a good bit of chopping, which if you aren't proficient at, just practice (this is good dish for that), but first get a good knife. For veggies that Santoku can't be beat, perfect for making transparent flakes of turmeric and ginger as well as dicing onions tear free.
anyway, food, from scratch, make it yourself.... choose better ingredients and your food will taste better. I'm pretty particular about my Shoyu sauce, only using the organic San-J stuff. And my hoisin, while a traditionalist departure it is the 365 branded organic stuff (who knows who makes it you can probably get it under a different label but - organic, and cheap and pretty fucking awesome hoisin flavors IMHO), Oyster sauce? I use the Lee Kum Kee Green Label Oyster Sauce. Olive oil? always and only (best price i can find for EVOO) The 365 stuff, it works for salad dressing as well as cooking and seasoning and flavoring and all the rest you might want to do with it.
That should cover it, if not ask questions
heddwch
G
Thursday, February 02, 2017
Is it ever too late in life
The punk scene missed me, my brother was hardcore, straightedge (after many hospital trips with OD friends) then vegan, still vegan... almost 30 years ago now or so...
Lately? Fugazi, and the rest of the punk stuff that my blues/rock/classical/reggae brain couldn't take in High School now is eminently listenable and resonating.
This stuff? http://theeopencity.com/ f'n love it.
seriously.
Certain CX'r is in that band, and they're coming to PVD Saturday... playing at the http://www.auroraprovidence.com/ with a few other bands but music is music no? hanging with my kid listening to stuff? doesn't sound so bad. I may need to ask Andy Huff for hair pointers... might as well go full punk.. at least with the hair.
I'm going to to go to a concert? SRSLY? first one since Deltron 3030 The Return with David B.
pretty stoked actually because my oldest is almost more stoked than I am about it. And father kid stuff is good right?
Right? no it is amazing. Gonna be a busy saturday...
but hey, take a listen, buy some music, support some artists... or at least click and listen if you can manage a bit of punk.
Feels like a friday, but is only Friday Eve.
I've been trying to focus on posting photos with carefully selected words on Instagram, and it has been not so bad for me, so check it out if you want... some of the snapshots don't suck.
Haven't yet managed to crank up the ancient SEM and work on Nanoscape stuff... and that's bugging me, but, kind of unusually stoked to be able to go to Rachel's show on Saturday.
super random i guess.
'Stas's b-day is tomorrow.... she's amazing and if you're in the MD/DC area and need someone brilliant compassionate and helpful send her some bizness https://www.facebook.com/joyfulsteps/ as in you should be a client. And if you're not local and need someone, she does do the whole phone/skype thing too....
Time to eat some more food, and start reading some fucked up soviet sci-fi shit. This novel gets crazier and crazier. But so good.
heddwch
G
Lately? Fugazi, and the rest of the punk stuff that my blues/rock/classical/reggae brain couldn't take in High School now is eminently listenable and resonating.
This stuff? http://theeopencity.com/ f'n love it.
seriously.
Certain CX'r is in that band, and they're coming to PVD Saturday... playing at the http://www.auroraprovidence.com/ with a few other bands but music is music no? hanging with my kid listening to stuff? doesn't sound so bad. I may need to ask Andy Huff for hair pointers... might as well go full punk.. at least with the hair.
I'm going to to go to a concert? SRSLY? first one since Deltron 3030 The Return with David B.
pretty stoked actually because my oldest is almost more stoked than I am about it. And father kid stuff is good right?
Right? no it is amazing. Gonna be a busy saturday...
but hey, take a listen, buy some music, support some artists... or at least click and listen if you can manage a bit of punk.
Feels like a friday, but is only Friday Eve.
I've been trying to focus on posting photos with carefully selected words on Instagram, and it has been not so bad for me, so check it out if you want... some of the snapshots don't suck.
Haven't yet managed to crank up the ancient SEM and work on Nanoscape stuff... and that's bugging me, but, kind of unusually stoked to be able to go to Rachel's show on Saturday.
super random i guess.
'Stas's b-day is tomorrow.... she's amazing and if you're in the MD/DC area and need someone brilliant compassionate and helpful send her some bizness https://www.facebook.com/joyfulsteps/ as in you should be a client. And if you're not local and need someone, she does do the whole phone/skype thing too....
Time to eat some more food, and start reading some fucked up soviet sci-fi shit. This novel gets crazier and crazier. But so good.
heddwch
G
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