i want the words"Leviticus 19:28" tattooed on my arm

it's saturday, 2130 hours, had a pretty sweet day.

yesterday we went for an after work ride, weather was spectacular, i love love love my bike.  i climbed up some stuff i hadn't cleaned before, must have been all that road riding that made my legs strong, and coming down the mountain i felt flowy and smooth, like a river, and fast, and i felt like i was in my own kick ass video.   it was a pretty sweet ass ride.

i also cooked a buch, made some tomato bisque with fresh tomatoes from some farmers garden that Drew gave me, also made chocolate chip bacon cookies, which pretty much kicked ass.  regular chocolate chip recipe that you find on the back of a pack of bittersweet chocolate chips, but instead of two sticks of butter, one stick of butter and one half cup of bacon grease.   of course we had to fry up a bunch of bacon to get the grease, so there was also a bunch of bacon, which goes great on buttered bread as well as just eating it.  mmmmm, bacon.  i don't care how trite or cliche it is, bacon is fucking awesome and tasty and one of the best things ever.  another great reason to get kicked out of the garden of eden.  there was no bacon tree, how could it have been paradise?

so, that was yesterday.....today i went to work, it was slow, there were a bunch of crazy weird people in, but also some decent and fun customers.  overall a pretty good day.  i ate waaaaay too much meat, honestly.  i need to go a day or two eating nothing but vegetables.  seriously.

came home from work and there was dinner waiting for me, that pretty much rocked.  i'm a lucky guy.

i have been dabbling in the realm of discount cheese.  i can't always tell if the cheese is supposed to taste like that, or if it's bad and that is why it's discounted.  either way, it's an adventure, and a glass of wine helps immensely.

as for my no drinking month....oh well.  last night i had a shot or two of vodka, and tonight i had a glass of red.  the thing is, i'm not taking in a huge bunch of alcohol calories, and i don't' think i'm putting too much strain on my system.   i know i should drink nothing but water to help lose weight and fix myself, but having one glass of wine is better than having one bottle of wine.  so i got that going for me.

my new crazy thing i'm doing is....for the rest of the month, i am not using any soap or shampoo in the shower.  only water.  i am only washing myself with water.  apparently our bodies will regulate themselves and soap and shampoo just fuck up the regulation, they are apparently completely unnecessary, and do more harm than good.  i've heard it from some people, and read it on some blogs.  well, the only way to verify is to try it myself, and i have nothing better to do with my time, so....

the cool thing is...if it really works, not only will i save a bunch of cash by not having to buy soap and shampoo, but also it's a cool conspiracy that i can actually get behind.  and i love a good conspiracy.  it will also be pretty neat if my skin feels better and my hair looks and feels better.  supposedly it is healthier to not use soap or shampoo, and i can see that.  even "all natural organic" soap and shampoo are extra chemicals that aren't natural to our body.   i will write more on this as i progress.

if i prove something, if i prove shampoo and soap are not unnecessary and are just a way to keep us needing more and more skin and hair products, if i prove it's a conspiracy by the chemical companies, is it still a conspiracy?  i'll have to check on that.

right now i think i shall retire to the boudoir and read a bit and then fall asleep.  i'm tired.  my legs are a bit sore as well, i think they need a rest.  tomorrow is bike polo, so that should be a good time.

now i snooze.

movie review: premium rush

holy crap i'm tired.  been up since 5:30 this morning to go to the gym, only to find out the gym is closed for labor day.  fuck me.  i am hoping to go tomorrow morning and throw weights around like i planned on doing today.

went to work, it was slow but we had a pretty kick ass time.

then this evening i went and saw premium rush, starring seven time Grammy award winner and human Muppet Joe Gordon Levitt, and co-starring a fixed gear bike.

i ride a fixed gear bike, no brakes and all that.  i love it.  it's fun, and i think it makes me a better cyclist.  it definitely makes me stronger, no coasting, my legs have to constantly peddle, and so when i'm on my other bikes and my legs are tired, they are used to peddling and they keep on moving.   riding a fixed gear isn't for everyone, but it's a hell of a lot of fun and it's different, you are way more aware of what is going on and what your bike is doing.

so, the movie is about a bike messenger who has to deliver an important letter for a chinese chick.

speaking of chinese chicks.....i think asian women are really pretty, and i wonder if, in asia, guys hanging out drinking and talking boast to their friends "dude, my girlfriend is asian, she is soooo hot!  and she makes me asian food, it's so delicious and authentic!" i love asian food.  in china do they call it chinese food, or just food?

i love Chinese food, especially fried rice, which is super easy to make and awesome.  left over rice from the fridge works best.  you just chop up some onioins, garlic, and and ginger, maybe a carrot if you have one, and fry it in a wok or pan with super high heat and a good bit of vegetable oil.  then add rice and fry it up,  then add a tablespoon of sugar and two table spoons of shao shing wine (get it at any asian grocery, or use sherry) and cook for 30 seconds, then add oyster sauce and mix it all up and BAM, you are done.  add some soy sauce if you want, but not too much or it gets too salty.  of course you can add mushrooms or diced meat or fish or whatever, as well as peas or broccoli etc.  it's really free form and is fun.

if you think about it, it's amazing how much china has permeated american culture.  there is the obvious, such as kung fu and kung fu movies, Bruce Lee, chinese food, feng shui, it's hip to be buddhist, it's super hip to want to free tibet from china by listening to the Beastie Boys and going to concerts and buying t shirts and bumper stickers, people have chinese symbols tattooed on them, and there is a slew of dumb ass "Confucius says" jokes (confucius say "man who constipated does not give a crap!" ).  there is a lot more Chinese influence in the states i'm sure, all thanks to the chinese.

one thing i don't get is...where the hell do the chinese people come from?   if adam and eve were the first people, and everyone came from them...how did we get chinese people?  unless one of them were chinese....

thinking about it though, it's a good thing adam an eve fucked up and got kicked out of the garden of eden.  ok, it was supposed to be paradise, but they didn't have snowboarding, they didn't have chinese food, they didn't have soooo many awesome wonderful things we take for granted every day. doesn't really sound like paradise to me. if they were in paradise, all blissed out, they wouldn't need to come up with things to entertain themselves and distract them from crappy boring lives, no need to escape, so no booze, no music, no artistic expression.

think about it....all really really great art; poetry, music, painting, all come from pain and a need to express inner angst and turmoil.  they wouldn't have needed any of that in the garden of eden.  so, no stories, no jokes, no books, no movies.

oh, yeah, so, the movie.  it sucked.

i'm tired and going to sleep.  three days, no alcohol.  i'm killing it!

hot monday

it's 1800 hours pm in the evening, it's like...7000 degrees out, i'm sweating like an overweight eastern european on a bangkok sex tour.  today was super fucking hot.
yesterday sort of sucked a bit, work wasn't too bad, but overall i just felt beaten down.  came home exhausted, went to bed, slept amazing, so i got that going for me.

woke up today and went to the gym, lifted more weight than last time.  each time i go, i try to increase weight, even if only a little bit.  i used to think i should do a set number of sets at the same weight, then move up each week.  fuck that.  each time i go to the gym, i am increasing weight, even if only for one set.  and i like it.  i like my new routine, i pared away the extra crap (for now) and i'm just doing basic big moves with heavy weight.  eventually, when i feel like it, i will start to do other exercises and spend an hour or two indoors lifting weights because yeah, that is what i want to do with my life.

didn't ride today though, it was windy and about 800 degrees out.  tomorrow me and george are gonna ride, we are going out at about 1030 because he has kid stuff he has to do, so it should be uncomfortably hot.  if i start hydrating now, i should only be slightly dehydrated tomorrow and only suffer just a little.

tonight i am making citrus marinated salmon with a watercress coulis, and caponata.  no they don't really go together, but i don't much give a fuck. chef thomas keller isn't going to come to my house and get all upset because i made caponata to eat along side his salmon, so i aint sweating it too much.

nothing really going on at the moment, and that isn't too bad.  i sort of like it.

ok, time to blanch some watercress and get on with dinner.  life aint too shabby right now.