went to bed ~midnight, woke ~9 216.3 seltzer caf vitamins pizza eggs * * * When Gravity Fails pt 2 Although the books are written in fully idiomatic English, Effinger's protagonist, Marid Audran, is supposed to know only a few words and phrases of English. Having been born and raised in Algiers, his fluent languages are Arabic and French. (Algeria was invaded and occupied under French colonialism from 1830-1962.) So we have a book title that references American songwriter Bob Dylan's... (...more)

I originally adapted this marinade recipe when I was regularly sourcing cheap "boneless rib" meat back at Cascade Rd. On 2020-01-27 I posted an update with some ingredient proportion tweaks. In the interim, we standardized on Costco's pork tenderloin instead of "boneless ribs" and I tweaked some more for simplicity and flavor. Here's the updated proportions, and ingredients rearranged in a more logical sequence: 1-gallon plastic zip-seal bag 4 oz (1/2 cup) apple cider vinegar 1.5 oz (3 tbsp) soy s... (...more)

seltzer caf vitamins steak-it chimi+rito combo marinate pork loin I snagged Effinger's When Gravity Fails on discount in a digital format about a month back, and started rereading it when I got bored with Emperor Aurelius's "Meditations", which itself was a diversion from "Straight White Male". Effinger's "Budayeen" trilogy is a fusion of the "hardboiled" detective genre (of Sam Spade / Philip Marlowe / Mike Hammer fame), with cyberpunk elements. Much of the Budayeen trilogy's charm is its exotic... (...more)

weigh-in 216.5
breakfast burrito
1? 2? Nekot packs

lunch break chicken water over Klimt puzzle

leftover pesto chx
Pennyworth til bedtime

protein cocoa, caf, vitamins
pizza eggs

gloomy rainy chilly garbage weather

VOO, VGT dividended