So, like a lot of people I spent the holidays overindulging and being lazy, so I'm feeling bloated and tired. I don't think holidays should be like this. I'd have rather spent more time working on my many backlogged projects. I'm excited for my carbon-fibre kit to come so I can patch up that specialized sirrus. I'm so excited to finally have 21st century bike in the stable. It hangs on a separate wall, even. I'll post an entry about the repair process and how/if it holds up.
Here's a list of projects for the year:
- fix broken sirrus
- finish bolt-on cog fixie for Toronto use
- make leather seat
- re-do deck table with metal
- find cool new housemate
- take some time off work and have a holiday of some sort
- narrow the focus of my garden and be more diligent in its care
That's about all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Harvest Foodworks Multi Grain Flapjacks
I was lucky enough to obtain a vintage sample of Harvest Foodworks "Flapjacks crepes multi-grains" camping pre-mix pancakes. Unfortunately they expired in 2004, which is the primary reason they are now in my possession.
As it seems people would rather not purchase, let alone consume, food that expired 5 years ago. As you can probably gather, I have prepared and consumed this food and in doing so are providing a valuable contribution to modern society.
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( 3.1 / 117 )I'm bearing the unbearable lightness of being hot reasonably well... some days are truly ardurous, but others, despite the difficulties are their own special sorts of treasures... I really don't know exactly what I'm on about. I think sometimes that my thoughts are too many and too overwhelming to be able to focus on anything with any sort of reasonable amount of attention. Right now, write now, I'm having a hard time to keeping this sentence running so I think I will be stopping this entire exercise soon enough.
In other news, well, I'm back working in town making drainwater heat recovery systems. It's nice to commute by bike again. I'm going to bring the puegot hybrid out of retirement, stud its tyres and ride it during the worst of it. The red raleigh singlespeed will be the other bike I'll primarily use on days when the road is dry. I'll clean it up and put a few coats of hard wax on it. I'll have a fixie that I can bring out on sunny days after a storm, when the streets are clean and dry... it's an old raleigh frame I found that has been converted. It'll have fenders, all painted really nicely too... the patient rattle-can job. I should take some pictures of the progress.
Foodwise, it's been a rediscovery of potatoes. I've been roasting them a lot, and did some garlic smashed. I'm going to have leek and potato soup tonight. I've a loaf of sourdough rye from Golden Hearth. Should be a good meal for a dreary sunday evening.
Otherwise, nothing much to report!
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( 3 / 127 )Protein is like the newest trendy ingredient in things... like green tea used to be. Don't just drink it anymore, use green tea soap to bathe, eat green tea powdered foods, sleep on a green tea pillow. Antioxidants will save your miserable soul.
Protein is like that now eh. Feeling blue? Have a protein shake! Too chubby, eat more protein. Fuck ... Read morebread, have a ham-wrapped bacon burger. Then use this protein soap to get the grease you couldn't lick off your fat hands. PROTEIN!! HGH!!!! MAAAA I NEED MORE PROTEIN POWDER
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( 3 / 115 )Well, it's been a busy summer. I started volunteering at Recycle cycles and have been learning heaps about fixing bikes.
I've got two fixed gear bikes now, a nice 80s road bike, an raleigh single-speed, and I still have my busted puegot hybrid. I also have a dutch city bike, a gazelle, but that's going to likely end up in Toronto with Ben as my Toronto bike.
I took a short trip to Chicago with the black fixie and had a blast. Great city to cycle... it's all flatlands. I visited family and had a blast.
Ironworking has been going well, I've learned a lot this summer and hopefully will get some welding tickets this year or early next. Thanks to my aunt, I'll have a good machine of my own and a set of torches, so I'll be doing all sorts of crazy things, for sure.
Food-wise, I've been canning lately... put up a dozen litres of sliced peaches, and a dozen litres of tomato sauce. Lots of frozen berries and tomatoes in the freezer, and some spinach from a friend too. I need to get the chard I still have blanched and frozen.
Lots of thing have happened too, but as I always am fond of saying, hopefully I'll get more pictures and recipes posted soon!
Oh, I started a picture a day thing, but then I dropped my camera into a pint of beer, so that's done until I decide on a new camera. You can view some of them at my flickr album but only the first 100, and up until I broke my camera.
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( 3.1 / 123 )As you can see, I've changed the colours and bit and personalized things. I've taken plenty of pictures of my culinary creations, and some of my other interests. I hope to get to adding some more content soon... and I think this will happen when we get some bad weather. It's been so nice the last few weeks that I've spent little time inside, and even less doing blog-type stuff... anyway, eventually I'll post my fixed gear bike project, some of my brewing stuff, and a lot of my recipes, and I'll try and keep the spam at bay and the blog updated.
Hopefully, haha, but as you can see my track record in this department isn't the greatest. LOL. Thanks for reading, anyway!
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( 2.9 / 199 )LOL, so yeah, I didn't back my shit up, and neither did my lovely webhost, so this is the most recent version of the site I have. I'll try and get the software updated and hopefully keep the spammers at bay. I'll re-do the graphics too, and then I'll start updating my stuff... lots of recipes/cooking stuff to share, and gardening stuff. Should be decent times, I hope.
Otherwise, life has been pretty good the last little while... might head back to school part-time for chem since work is kinda shite these days, but I'd like to finish my welding tickets and all that jazz too. Ah well, we'll see what the future holds.
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