This is how we roll

Another in a series of bike as multipurpose cargo vehicle.

Samsonite

I'm sure they make some good products. Or maybe they used to.

I do sometimes wonder what the folks in the airport think when I roll up with my gold medallion tags on my brokeass suitcases.

Playa Dust:

The gift that keeps on giving!

This is the seatpost clamp on my Burning Man bike, which I need to swap the seat out on since a BRC Ranger van ran over the seat at Ranger Outpost Berlin.

Cleveland

One of the times it's really lovely to walk on the busted up sidewalks and streets of Cleveland is at 6:45am: folks actually acknowledge and greet one another, usually with "good morning" or "buenos dias". I had four such interactions in my ten minute walk to the Cleveland RTA rapid station, on my way to fly back to Sacramento.

Granted, these are largely parents, or other caretakers, getting youth off to school, and the youth themselves.

But even with those who might be wandering from their difficult overnight, or those about to get off of a graveyard shift, or just starting an early day shift, there is a sense of... camaraderie? mutual struggle at being up so early? or so late?

Wouldn't it be beautiful if we all acted this way throughout the day?

One trick ponies

If you absolutely must ride a one trick pony in the kitchen, clearly all reasonable minds would agree that said pony should be ONIONS.

But when you have approximately a metric shitton of ripe miniature tomatoes just outside your back door near the end of their season, why not color it up a bit?

Just added these right at flame-out.

Onions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and tomorrow!

Okay, not _just_ onions. Also tofu, and loads of fresh ginger, and fresh basil from the garden. Perfect for making wraps for long airplane rides tomorrow!

Agenda

dangr-us thoughts HQ Agenda for Thursday October 8, 2015

1) Sleep until 11:30am.
2) Drink iced coffee.
3) Hydrate. 
4) Heat up and eat leftover hippieslop* from last night.
5) Get ready for back to back conference calls for volunteer work.
6) Listen to public radio.
7) Blog.

Some days FunEmployment is pretty great.

* Fancypants hippieslop, that just won't photograph worthy of a real food porn post its current state: whole wheat pasta, black beans, peanut sauce, multicolored curried carrots, spinach, shallots, scallions. Not to pat myself on the back too hard, but it's pretty damn delicious.

the best $10 you can spend today!

It's been a while since I implored all of you to donate money, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

Dear friends run a really beautiful non-profit called Alderson Hospitality House. They provide hospitality to the women incarcerated at the Alderson federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia, and their families and friends, entirely through donations.

In a nutshell, from their website, which I encourage you to check out:

The Alderson Hospitality House supports the women of the Federal Prison Camp Alderson and their friends and families. We believe in the importance of visitors during incarceration. Our volunteers and staff, through donations, demonstrate this belief by providing temporary lodging, meals, transportation assistance, information and support.

What that nutshell statement doesn't include are the really critical intangibles they also provide: love, care, warmth, kindness, non-judgment, safety, generosity, and much more.

They have a fundraiser each year called 10-In-10: they encourage you to donate $10, and share it among your networks to try to get ten additional people donating $10 within 10 days.

Or you can do as I just did, and drop the whole $100, and hopefully share it anyway! Here is the link to donate:

https://www.razoo.com/story/10-In-10-4?referral_code=share

Please consider it. I'm pretty confident it'll be about the best $10 you could possibly spend today!

And because I like to hack other people's fundraisers, tell you what: if ten people I know donate any amount, and tell me about it, I'll donate another $100!

Thanks, Duracell!

A long time ago, this blog had regular posts about poor customer service and consumer protection law. I'm not sure I have ever posted about excellent customer service. Well, Duracall just made me a customer for life with their battery guarantee.

They're going to send me a visa gift card for $18.49 to replace a maglite that had a D cell battery corrode and destroy the inside (essentially making the outer case of one of the batteries chemically welded to the inside of the flashlight barrel.)

Welcome to sunset on Lake Erie

Nothing to add.

Uhhhh.. challah?

We're doing our best!

Yom Kippur!

My first attempt to make vegan (or any type) of challah. We'll see after it rests, and we come back from the Decemberists (!!!)

Cooking for a "roving band of anarchists"

Vegan nachos!

Yes: those are fresh tomatoes and fresh basil from the garden on top.

More chickpea tofu red curry food porn

Yes: a little over a hour later, I'm still working on prep. (And cooking, too!)

The start

Of a really big curry. With chickpeas, tofu, and lots and lots of vegetables. Oh, and: rice from Oberlin Xmas.

You're invited!

#postburningmanlaundry

Res ipsa loquitor, no?

Dear reader:

An apology food porn post, since it's been a really long time since I posted.

I went to Burning Man (which is amazing, and intense. I'll probably tell many of you more stories offline if you're interested.) Worked a few 11 hour days doing high price catering. Started to figure out a move to Boston.

This is a fancy assorted plate dinner with my housemates. Eat up!

Spied behind the Cleveland Greyhound station

Ummmm... anyone want some discounted grape jelly?

Mushrooms!

Soon to be turned into roasted stuffed mushrooms, so I gotta get to work!