7a protein chx soup 15g, caf, fiber
11:00a 10 - 10 - 10 eccentric-only pushups. (trying eccentrics / AM session x half-inclines / PM)
11a yogurt 15g
2pm shakshuka
3pm 15 - 15 - 15 half-incline pushups
Young Chow. Salmon roll, special du jour sushi roll, eggroll, med spicy Happy Family w/brown rice. *chefkiss*
Shakshuka ala [me]:
Over low heat, add 1 tbsp olive oil to a small nonstick pan. Add 1 tbsp minced garlic, heat until simmering and just beginning to caramelize. Stir in 6 oz tomato sauce (Rao's), 1 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp cumin, 1 tbsp harissa (Trader Joe hot), 1/3 cup (?) canned chickpeas. Heat until simmering. With a nonstick-safe scraper or spoon, make 2 evenly-spaced wells and crack an egg into each well. Cook 5-8 minutes depending how done you like your egg yolks. Slide onto a wide soup bowl to plate, and serve with a hunk of ciabatta. (Next time: stir in 4-8 kalamata olives, minced chopped or whole; finish with parsley, cilantro, and/or crumbled feta or grated parmesan-romano.)
work: "low-hanging fruit" in approval phase
monthly stmts recording
robovac
trash out
bfst burrito prdn?
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At a few newer fuel stations in recent travels, I've noticed "Unleaded 88" at significantly lower prices than even economy 87 octane conventional gasoline. I wasn't sure if "Unleaded 88" was safe for our aging vehicles though, so I avoided it but made the mental note to check into it. U'88 aka E15 is what we used to call "gasahol", 15% ethanol and the rest octane. Not to be confused with E85! Definitely still don't want to put E85 in a conventional engine, lol. They're probably calling it "Unleaded 88" at the pump to head off confusion around the E15 / E85 designations.
E15 tends to carry less impurities than conventional octane fuel. In theory ethanol attracts/absorbs atmospheric water, which could lead to poorer fuel economy, but I think that's assuming a less sealed fuel reservoir than is realistic; and even then it would take months, like 4-6 months, for an open fuel tank to attract enough water to affect engine performance. This same fuel is also subject to evaporation; you wouldn't leave a vehicle sitting unused with the gas cap open that long, it would stink up your garage or you'd be getting other pollutants (pollen, dust, insects, plant debris) besides just wind-driven rain in your fuel port outdoors.
So with normal usage, E15 actually absorbs and suspends water that would otherwise separate out to the bottom of the tank with conventional no-alcohol fuel. The lower price and renewability of E15 is a lot of upside and only niche-case if not completely imaginary downside. Bottom line: "Unleaded 88" is generally safe for the great majority of post-2001 mid-market car engines, ours included.
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Aspie Quiz
Interpreting the Aspie Quiz, and links to other diagnostic tools
what if you're intersex? I mean, that's an overlooked category in wayyy more domains than this, but anyway -
44 / 200 aspie points : 100% probability of being neurotypical. (But is this q'aire scientifically valid?)
I answered some questions according to what I'm like as an adult - not as the fearful, microtraumatized (and consequently, often dissociated) escape artist I was in grammar school into middle school. Also a lot of responses in the gray "sometimes" area, because my relationship to the world is not through a monochrome filter.
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CA: Either the community pierce / resist value calculator and I disagree about the relationship of elemental to physical pierce/resist, or I was ignoring something critical about general base att/def as magnified by pierce/resist factors. Whatever the case, the calculator says my "lazy" def alliance is still better than a Layla-led alliance, i.e.:
[ Kat - Hera - Azriel ] .GT. [ Layla - Kat - Hera ]
That will likely change as Layla's base att/def scales up; it's only L44 rn.