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[Nabubrush]

I just don't want to drive over anyone.

[side_show]

Oh god, someone turned it to the "Oldies" station at work that is mostly songs from the 80's, but right now they're playing the MTV Unplugged version of Nirvana's "All Apologies" and I am just feeling a wall of old hit me. 

[theinevitable]

I planned to stop at every stop sign, but seriously... there is a stop sign every 3 seconds here. There is no road you can drive on (that isn't a 6 lane big road) that doesn't have a stop sign at every single tiny intersection.

[Nabubrush]

I planned to stop at every stop sign, but seriously... there is a stop sign every 3 seconds here. There is no road you can drive on (that isn't a 6 lane big road) that doesn't have a stop sign at every single tiny intersection.

How's Chi-Town fixed for stop signs?

[Nabubrush]

Today I am going to hear someone ask, in response to a crawl talking about Cheney's heart transplant, "a human heart?"

There will be no end to jokes about this.

[theinevitable]

At the last minute my GF called and asked if I had work this weekend. I didn't, so I drove up to their family's farm in small town Illinois. 20 miles outside of town felt further than I've ever been from civilization. You could look in every direction and see flat green fields up to the horizon. Helped feed the pigs, grilled steaks, made pancakes, sat in the sun and drank cold beers. Very satisfying. 3 hours later, here I am sitting in my house watching the Mad Men premiere online, only a few hours after it showed live on TV. I love the modern world.

[jay-ell]

...order $60 worth of chocolate bars from France, Belgium & Germany, along with a Mexican-style U.S. bean-to-bar chocolate brand, because Pedro read a book that convinced him that Americans eat too much because our food is crap, and if we ate things that tasted better we wouldn't be as fat.

I told him I would get him the world's most tricked-out Easter basket and we would put this theory to the test. In addition to the fancy, expensive, hard-to-get stuff, I'm also going to throw in some Lindt and Godiva, for comparison's sake.

And possibly a couple of bottles of good wine. Does anybody have a recommendation for something that pairs well with chocolate? Any type is fine, but I'd prefer at least one non-red because I can't tolerate the tannins, and I do expect him to share.

[Nabubrush]

A Pinot Noir is nice with dark chocolate, and that's all I know about wine (other than aerate it).

[jaydub]

It is, however, red.  I know little about non-red wines, other than I don't like them much.

[jay-ell]

I could certainly do one red and one white. Indeed, when I googled "chocolate and wine pairings," I got this page, which recommends strong, spicy wines with dark chocolate (which is mainly what I purchased). But it also recommends cognac with dark chocolates, which I actually have never tried. That could be fun.

I prefer the flavor of red wine, myself, but a single glass is enough to send me to bed with a splitting headache an hour later, so I avoid it as a rule.

[theinevitable]

man, living with a roommate who don't eat no swine makes me crave swine. Pork butt is on sale at work for $1.30/lb, so I am making some carnitas and swallowing my guilt.

[Nabubrush]

Fuck yo roommate. They can make their own damn food.

"I done told you and told you, I'm off the pig."

[theinevitable]

I dunno, I think eating a ton of tacos with delicious fatty intelligent animal parts goes with guilt pretty well. Maybe we can play this white guilt song while we pig out on pig.

OK, I don't want to turn into that annoying guy who talks about biking all the time even though he's had a bike for a week. From today forwards, you can imagine, if you want to, that the item "it was really nice out today and I rode my bike around and did errands and loved life" is in my post.

[theinevitable]

Today I rode 6 or 7 miles. It was really nice. Biking at night (with proper lights, reflectors, etc!) is very pleasant. My butt does not like the seat for 6 miles, though.

[jay-ell]

We just got Danger Boy's bike tuned up for the season. He's really close to being able to ride it without training wheels; Pedro is going to take them off this weekend and take him to the parking lot at a local elementary school to show him how to balance. It's the same place Pedro learned to ride a bike; he got choked up just telling me his plan.

Pedro's bike is still in the shop. His needed a work on one of the gear shifts, and apparently the bike shop is backed up this time of year, go fig.