10-02-2023, 06:46 AM
And thanks, it's good to be back.
My breakfast this morning was rye bread (the kind that's just rye seeds and rye
flower, no caraway, which I make with a bit of ribbon cane syrup). It's a hefty bread,
really soft but as dense as a brick even though my sourdough starter tries really
hard to leven it. It would be lighter, but I've run out of demon gluten without
which it refuses to rise. I sprinkle a little salt on, drizzle olive oil over it, and heat it for
about 30 seconds in the microwave. And way-too-strong coffee - that's really not
that good - made from beans a local coffee shop had over-toasted and was going
to throw out but I got them to give them to me instead. I ended up with over
80 lb. (36 kg) of the damn things. I put them in the freezer and have been using
them since last spring and there are way-too-many of them left. It's the curse of
free coffee. But it does have lots of caffeine left in it so I guess I shouldn't
complain too much.
I live, as noted elsewhere, with eight cats which is too many even though I love
them. But since my life is controlled by unseen gods over which I have no control,
I guess I'm lucky I don't have more.
The internet will still be here, PigPen will still be stored in an archive somewhere,
but the silicon-based humans of the future probably won't be that interested in
rummaging through the clutter of what they'll probably call the "dark times".
But what do they know? (Except for about 100,000 times more than we do.)
My breakfast this morning was rye bread (the kind that's just rye seeds and rye
flower, no caraway, which I make with a bit of ribbon cane syrup). It's a hefty bread,
really soft but as dense as a brick even though my sourdough starter tries really
hard to leven it. It would be lighter, but I've run out of demon gluten without
which it refuses to rise. I sprinkle a little salt on, drizzle olive oil over it, and heat it for
about 30 seconds in the microwave. And way-too-strong coffee - that's really not
that good - made from beans a local coffee shop had over-toasted and was going
to throw out but I got them to give them to me instead. I ended up with over
80 lb. (36 kg) of the damn things. I put them in the freezer and have been using
them since last spring and there are way-too-many of them left. It's the curse of
free coffee. But it does have lots of caffeine left in it so I guess I shouldn't
complain too much.
I live, as noted elsewhere, with eight cats which is too many even though I love
them. But since my life is controlled by unseen gods over which I have no control,
I guess I'm lucky I don't have more.
The internet will still be here, PigPen will still be stored in an archive somewhere,
but the silicon-based humans of the future probably won't be that interested in
rummaging through the clutter of what they'll probably call the "dark times".
But what do they know? (Except for about 100,000 times more than we do.)
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions