Sunday, September 28, 2003
Congrats to Roger Clemens, who won the final regular season start of his incomparable career today, even the Baltimore dugout applauding. His first strikeout victim? Current Orioles manager Mike Hargrove, in 1984. Baseball stats track so many particulars that there are always odd & amusing "coincidences" occurring.
Why online local weather radar is handy: Wanted to bike over to Dunkin Donuts tonight, pouring rain, rain in forecast. Local radar showed a narrow string of heavy showers moving north from Middlesex County. Wasn't even raining in Scotch Plains, & no more rain after that until 5 or 6 am. So I sat tight inside for 45 minutes, the rain stopped, crickets chirping, wiped off bike seat & off I went.
Why I always lock up my bike even tho it's an old clunker: A bike had been abandoned on the sidewalk outside Capt. John's Tackle & Bait shop, the thief apparently caught in downpour & realizing he was better off on foot, ducking under trees. An ordinary 26" bike, nothing new or sporty about it. Later, returning from my errand, that bike had been replaced by smaller kid's bike, another opportunist thief trading up. The casual stealing & abandoning of bikes is epidemic in this little city. My solid unglamorous single speed Eurotour (currently not on road due to slashed rear tire) was stolen from behind my apt - on a rainy night - & I recovered it two days later, taking it back from a kid who was probably telling the truth when he said he found it dumped on a lawn near here. The kid didn't know I had reported it stolen. As I was riding it home, a cop stopped ME & asked where I'd gotten it! That kid would've ended up downtown in the police station waiting for a parent to come get him & probably slap him silly. Older bikers on expensive machines often compliment that bike as perfect for for its purpose.
Soybeans as a snack: Take a handful of fresh green soybeans in shell, rinse them, spread on a plate & microwave for three to three & a half minutes. Let cool a bit, sprinkle with a little salt, then squeeze the little beans out with your fingers & eat them. Tastes like baby limas with firmer texture. Bought a big bag of 'em for buck at the farmer's market downtown, from a nice gal named Theresa with a pair of swell muscular gams, who works for Farmer John DeWolf of New Egypt NJ. This week Farmer John was there in person, big old guy relaxing in a lawn chair while Theresa ran the stand. Soybeans could eliminate starvation in much of the world, really are a miracle protein food, but grown so easily & cheaply that most of America's crop is used as animal feed - that is, to grow blood meat; McMammals & McPoultry.
For those who appreciate beautiful women of various sizes in various non-pornographic poses clothed & unclothed. I recommend Glamour Models. All professional photographers & models, from all over America, & nicest pix are probably the least slick. A recent fave is Jasmine, photographed by Kentuckyan Lynn Farmer. Addictive. There are a few links on the site that try to steer you toward porn, but they're pretty easy to identify & avoid.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Why online local weather radar is handy: Wanted to bike over to Dunkin Donuts tonight, pouring rain, rain in forecast. Local radar showed a narrow string of heavy showers moving north from Middlesex County. Wasn't even raining in Scotch Plains, & no more rain after that until 5 or 6 am. So I sat tight inside for 45 minutes, the rain stopped, crickets chirping, wiped off bike seat & off I went.
Why I always lock up my bike even tho it's an old clunker: A bike had been abandoned on the sidewalk outside Capt. John's Tackle & Bait shop, the thief apparently caught in downpour & realizing he was better off on foot, ducking under trees. An ordinary 26" bike, nothing new or sporty about it. Later, returning from my errand, that bike had been replaced by smaller kid's bike, another opportunist thief trading up. The casual stealing & abandoning of bikes is epidemic in this little city. My solid unglamorous single speed Eurotour (currently not on road due to slashed rear tire) was stolen from behind my apt - on a rainy night - & I recovered it two days later, taking it back from a kid who was probably telling the truth when he said he found it dumped on a lawn near here. The kid didn't know I had reported it stolen. As I was riding it home, a cop stopped ME & asked where I'd gotten it! That kid would've ended up downtown in the police station waiting for a parent to come get him & probably slap him silly. Older bikers on expensive machines often compliment that bike as perfect for for its purpose.
Soybeans as a snack: Take a handful of fresh green soybeans in shell, rinse them, spread on a plate & microwave for three to three & a half minutes. Let cool a bit, sprinkle with a little salt, then squeeze the little beans out with your fingers & eat them. Tastes like baby limas with firmer texture. Bought a big bag of 'em for buck at the farmer's market downtown, from a nice gal named Theresa with a pair of swell muscular gams, who works for Farmer John DeWolf of New Egypt NJ. This week Farmer John was there in person, big old guy relaxing in a lawn chair while Theresa ran the stand. Soybeans could eliminate starvation in much of the world, really are a miracle protein food, but grown so easily & cheaply that most of America's crop is used as animal feed - that is, to grow blood meat; McMammals & McPoultry.
For those who appreciate beautiful women of various sizes in various non-pornographic poses clothed & unclothed. I recommend Glamour Models. All professional photographers & models, from all over America, & nicest pix are probably the least slick. A recent fave is Jasmine, photographed by Kentuckyan Lynn Farmer. Addictive. There are a few links on the site that try to steer you toward porn, but they're pretty easy to identify & avoid.
