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Yosemite under Orion's gaze

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Wednesday Potchke

Wagman gave me some crap at coffee this morning for the dearth of blog writing of late. "What's with all this music?"  Gee Steve, I guess I'm just not feeling it. Pardon me for my lack of inspiration. It is hot out and I have been trying to fix irrigation. Forgot that it was my job to provide.

But let me try to put something together...

This is Beth's horse Diamond who decided to visit me at the mailboxes.

RoxAnn and Mick met my favorite basketball coach, Brian Dutcher, at the Aztec football game and ratted me out for hating football.

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I hear that the Hearth coffee shop is being sold again, for the umpteenth time. 

Home they don't throw my old group of reprobates out.

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I made a killer omelette the other day.

I don't have a good picture but I will describe it to you.

It is modeled after the best omelette I have ever tasted, a tuna omelette at the Grand Hyatt in Poipu.

Our friends Linda and Peter gifted us some bluefin tuna, super fresh from a neighbor.

I quick seared the giant chunk the other night and we ate most of it but I left a sizable piece.

I heated up olive oil in my omelette pan and then added garlic, herbs and sun dried tomatoes and heated it up for a few minutes, sautéing it with the remaining bluefin. 

I have pretty crappy omelette technique but I added the concoction to the middle of the omelette with a healthy dash of a Mexican cheese blend. I thought that it was incredible. Leslie said it was fair, believing that I had not whisked the eggs properly. I can't wait to try it again.

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Ricardo in Thailand sent this:

New one on me. I remember the indigenous people well from my month in Bolivia. Again, skateboarding culture impresses. And these women certainly so so! Wonder how they handle the cobblestones I remember…….

Whatever happened to ... the Bolivian women who skateboard in Indigenous garb?

Skateboarding women of Bolivia wear Indigenous garb to pay homage to the strength of their mothers and grandmothers. Their motto: When you fall, you have the power to get back up.

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The whale that knew too much.

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It is amazing to me that Elon Musk is fighting for the right to spread lies, hatred and disinformation on his platform in the guise of "free speech." Bravo to Brazil for cutting him off, hope it is the first of many. Musk, the guy that accused the Thai cave rescuers of being pedophiles...

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It also blows my mind that Mexico is mad because we captured their cartel leaders and never told them what we were doing. We didn't tell them because their leaders are obviously in the cartels' pocket. They would have blown the whistle faster than hell. Screw these people bringing meth and fentanyl into our country.

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A friend told me that he really enjoyed the Deadpool, Wolverine movie, in fact he saw it twice. I took Leslie the other day. Uh, bad move, not just sophomoric and juvenile, try two hours of your life you will never get back. Ouch.

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I didn't know Steve Silberman, the writer who passed away recently. 

Odd because we are the same age and both hung around the Dead at the same time. 

Don't think I ever ran into him.

But I always respected his intelligence and scholarship and would have loved to know him.

He was a longtime writer for Wired and did pioneering work on the neo divergent community. 

He was also a teaching assistant to Allen Ginsburg at Naropa Institute. 

I think that we have lost one of the best ones.

1 comment:

Liz said...

When I was growing up, the only food Dad ever made for us was cheese omelettes. I don’t think Mom ever made one. Looking back, dad overcooked them