Quasijo - Supertiger

It was finally warm enough this weekend to begin cultivating a sourdough starter.  I put two cups of filtered water - at 120˚ - and two cups of bread flour, by volume - because it doesn’t matter, in a Pyrex bowl.  That went on a dinner tray on my balcony covered with a paper plate punched full of holes.  It sat out there for six hours - after which time it was bubbling just a little, then came inside and sat in the sink overnight.  Now it’s rising like crazy and bubbling and fermenting.  I can definitely smell the yeast and attendant bacteria; the thing smells like sourdough and pretty good sourdough at that.

It’ll be a day or too before I know whether I picked up any nasty bugs that’ll make the sponge inedible. So far it looks like a success.  My house kind of stinks, now, though.  That’s a typical, temporary side effect of growing a starter; it’ll stop stinking in a day or two.  That’s pretty much the same time that I either throw the stuff away or pour it into jars and tuck it in the fridge.

Good times!

Lately I’ve been thinking about the Wii availability situation. It’s like diamonds and oxygen. Atmospheric oxygen isn’t concentrated enough to interact with the supply of carbon in a diamond. Put the diamond in liquid oxygen, though, and the crystal evaporates.

I need to look in a rarified consumer environment. More to the point, I need my friends around the country who already have their own Wiis to find one for me. Anyone out there want to find a Wii and send it to me? I’m certain we can find a way to get you paid back hastily.

I started doing morning and night ab sets about two weeks ago. Added running intervals on the third day. I can see the muscle tone developing in my belly. I grow sexier every day.

is not as fat as i was afraid she’d be. Just saw her show at the Birchmere in Alexandria. She’s pretty funny. Much funnier than Gorge Lopez. She disses on men a great deal, but at least she doesn’t pantomime all white people as gay flamingoes. Also, I’ll never be able to watch The Sound of Music again. Would I rather have stayed home and played WoW? Maybe, but only because dinner was overpriced.

The Birchmere operates on a Dinner Theater model which means that you have to arrive two hours in advance to get a good seat for the show. I had insufficient reading material with me so I decided to play body language games. I attempted to take up as much space as possible at my table and surrounding tables without actually filling that space - or alternatively, I imposed a massive amount of personal space on my neighbors. It was pretty simple: I assumed an upright posture and didn’t express interest in conversation. My table was at a corner of the stage, so not directly in front but still pretty good and yet I was alone in the middle of a twelve foot bubble until there really wasn’t anywhere else to sit in the hall. I was very friendly when people engaged me, but I didn’t start conversations and I didn’t look interested in conversation. Folks seemed intimidated. Twice a couple approached and the women asked if they might join me. Their men both glanced around nervously and said they saw a better spot - which ended up being the far corner of the hall out of sight of me. I was amused. I’m also still pondering whether that was a reaction to my posture or to their ladies’ demeanor with me.

Anywho, I’m feeling full of myself tonight and I’m going to take it out on Horde.