roman meal

Looking at the Tribune weather map this morning Chicago is the coldest city in the USA, colder even than International Falls and Green Bay.  Back in the days of the polar vortex I seem to remember a map where we were smart dab in the middle of the vortex target.  Six below right now feels like -24, but I won't be stepping out any time soon to see if frostbite occurs on my uncovered body in half an hour I believe they said.

My mother had a nephew who lived in Berwyn where my mother grew up and he brought her a loaf of genuine Bohemian rye from the old hood whenever he visited her.  I've always liked rye bread better than white, and I really don't see what the fascination with whole wheat bread is.  Remember Roman Meal?

Of course the only bread we knew growing up was the one that built strong bodies twelve ways, which the only thing cool about it was that you could squinch it up into the size of a large gumball, and pop it into your mouth like a big pill.  I remember some young friend of mine who read something about the Romans eating bread and drinking wine, and he was thinking Wonder bread, and it just didn't seem like a meal.

The grocery store used to sell frozen loaves of dough that you could bake into bread, and I did that for a little while.  Probably the only time that I (unlike Master Baker Old Dog) have ever used an oven in my life.  I liked to see what I was cooking and something deep down where it was very hot and I think those things explode from time to time, I just didn't mess with them.  Still don't.

I used to always use margarine because it was cheaper.  I think back in the day it used to be healthy, but lately I think it became bad, and now it is not so bad,  Anymore I use butter because it doesn't cost that much more and I like to think I can taste a difference, but I am probably fooling myself,  There's no fool like an old fool fooling himself.

For years I was a ramen noodle guy.  A package of ramens, some frozen vegetables, maybe some canned corn, I guess that was my staff of life for the last quarter century.  Then I read somewhere that ramen was deadly so now it't just vegetables, but fresh, which is better than frozen, but it takes considerable time and not a few sliced digits to get them chopped up.

Well income equality has long ago fizzled out.  I thought free will and certainly Objective Reality would have a longer run, living machines is fading.  Driverless cars appear to be still on the roads of Beaglestonia, but i can't find much to say about them.  Do them, don't do them, it all seems the same to me.

This week will culminate in Christmas, and in the middle of it will be the shortest day of the year and then the days will start getting longer.  And a week after that the year will be over, do either of my colleagues make a big deal of New Years Eve?  After that the only dim light on the horizon is groundhog day which is, well heart breaking because we know we are going to get six more weeks of winter either way,  Well let's deck us all with bread of barley.