215.7? caf vitamin breakfast burrito pay rent gas: 269.0 mi / 9.753 gal = 27.6 mpg * * * Finished S1 of Pennyworth last night. It's set in 1960s London, "before Bruce Wayne was born", but Batman first appeared, fully adult, in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). The Third Reich in Pennyworth survived WW2 and held Netherlands, while in the real world of course the Reich formally surrendered 1945-05-08, to be administered in pieces by the Allied nations. Superman, probably the other single-most... (...more)

tea, caf, vitamins
best breakfast, Easter candy edition

aging castles til ~!0:30a
another 100mg caf

cook the hot dogs
thaw turkey bacon
inventory preparatory to breakfast burrito production

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)