Inside The Perimeter

On Saturday morning I met Betsy at Emerald City Bagels, as normal. What I discovered is that the idiotic DOT is in the process of pouring concrete, taking away almost all of the street parking on Glenwood Ave in East Atlanta Village, in the name of “traffic calming”. What a bunch of bullshit! Businesses are having a hard enough time these days, why install a literal barrier for their customers?

I’ve decided to allow myself two more months of ESPN+, until the Bundesliga season ends. I’ve learned that ESPN’s contract to show Bundesliga games ends at the conclusion of this season, so I will see where it is shown next season before making any future decisions. My favorite team Werder Bremen may also be relegated to the second division again this season, which may make this a moot point.

Wordle: four, my starter was DIRTY

Another Friday the 13th!
Another Friday to score 4x Fuel Points at Kroger, and given the elevated price of gas, is significant.

Awhile back I mentioned the idea of listening to a band’s / musician’s entire catalog, of course sequentially. I’ve undertaken this with my first band, REM. As of today I’ve listened to their first three albums — “Murmur”, “Reckoning”, and “Fables of the Reconstruction”. I have to admit that Fables was never one of my favorites, but I enjoyed it for what it is. I’m about to hit the sweet spot of releases— “Life’s Rich Pageant”, “Document”, “Green”, “Out of Time”, “Automatic for the People”, “Monster” — to which I have listened ad nauseam as a late-teen / twenty-something. I can’t wait!

I also put an hour in on the trainer yesterday. Woot!

I stayed up late last night because Amazon told me that my package was out for delivery and due to be delivered between 9-10pm. At 10pm the delivery status was changed to “on or before March 16th”. I’m contemplating canceling the order.

Today I’m running a couple of morning errands, and then will spend the rest of the afternoon working in Wee Little Farm and my basement.

Wordle: four, my starter was PRIME

I don’t want to believe this, but next week Atlanta will be below freezing temperatures again. Oh, the tender shoots on plants will be suffering just like my bank account will after the ITP Estate’s roof is replaced then.

Wordle: five, my starter was CRUEL. I think it may be time for me to take a break from Wordle since I’ve lost respect for its editors…

Happy Black Sheep Founders Day, everyone! It’s like a religion I no longer follow, but still recognize their holidays.

Ich habe in einer kleinen, kostenlosen Bibliothek ein deutsches vegetarisches Kochbuch gefunden!
Or in English…
I found a German vegetarian cookbook in a small free library.

The book is from 1995, and the price listed on the sales sticker is in Deutsch Marks – DM 29,80. I intend to use this cookbook to improve my German reading skills, at least in the culinary realm.

Wordle: four, my starter was COUGH

I don’t get to say this very often, but I’m a winner! On Sunday I won the raffle for the gift bag put together by Mushroom Mountain! I forget the retail value of all of the things that I won, but if I had to guess, it’s somewhere around $200. I won with one of the five tickets for which I paid $20. Woot!

Because I spent a lot of time driving home I didn’t make a recipe from a cookbook last night. I did watch a movie, however; I watched Singles.

Wordle: three, my starter was WAGER

I did a lot of farmer cosplay over the weekend, including sitting in a session about paw paw, even though I can’t seem to grow the trees in Wee Little Farm and have probably given up trying. In addition to all my farmer learning I heard about a couple of events later this year that I may attend.

Mars Hill University is a pretty, and slightly hilly small campus. Mars Hill is a tiny town which (currently?) can’t handle events; there is only one functioning restaurant, a coffee shop, a bakery, a bagel shop, and a brewery within walking distance of my AirBnB (I admit that I was in the 1% trying to be only on foot). If I remember correctly there were at least two additional restaurants this time last year.

I went to Mars Hill Brewing, located in the old Mars Hill theater, on Friday night. At that time they were unfortunately sold out of my first choice, but did have an ESB along with eight other selections. After sessions on Saturday there was a social held at the brewery from 6-9pm. When I arrived at 6:10pm I stood in line for a while since there one bartender entertaining two people with samples. While waiting I noticed that four more taps had been kicked since I left the day before, including all of the beers which sounded tasty to me. So I left, walked back to my AirBnB, made dinner, ate it with a beer, and then went to bed to read.

This weekend I also discovered why you rarely see pimento cheese made using smoked Gouda cheese.

Wordle: five, my starter was PRIME. After a good run, may Wordle mojo has been very poor lately.

I had so much to do yesterday while I was down in Griffin, but the symposium and early dinner at a BBQ restaurant took up all of the day. I did stop at Kroger yesterday to refill the M6, saving 70¢/gallon off of the currently high gas prices.

Speaking of high prices, my roofing/guttering quote came in $3k more than my upper limit, and $8k more than what I was hoping it would cost. I think a lot of the roofing cost is materials, including putting on OSB decking which my roof doesn’t currently have (not the way houses were built in the 1950s). Unfortunately time is not on my side. I procrastinated and only got one quote, so this may be the option I must choose…

Wordle: six, my starter was COUPE

I am trying to cobble together a pizza oven for the back patio of Wee Little Farm so that I can bake pizzas outside this year. When I committed to doing this project I never realized how hard it would be for me to find solid clay bricks. The Big Box stores sell solid concrete bricks, or clay bricks which have holes in them. And to think that there wasn’t once a huge brickyard right here in Atlanta…

I’m starting to wonder if I will receive a roofing quote from the company who came to the house on Monday. Seems that it is increasingly difficult to get contractors/workers to follow their commitments. I will have to reach out later if I don’t hear anything this morning.

Wordle: three, my starter was NITRO

I’ve been building a DVD and Blu-Ray collection over the past few years. Here are the discs I am still seeking every time I enter a thrift store:

• Stop Making Sense
• Avengers: End Game (Blu-Ray)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (Blu-Ray)
• Elf (Blu-Ray)
• The Larry Sanders Show [complete series]
• Detectorists [complete series]
• Alias [season 5]

Alias may seem like a weird desire. A month or so ago I found and bought seasons 1, 3, and 4; yesterday I found and bought season 2. And why would I buy any of them? Jennifer Garner…

At my Trees Atlanta volunteering last Saturday I briefly chatted with someone who said she ran with Atlanta Snack Club. This surprised me since I thought that it had disbanded. Pity I can’t run any longer, it could’ve been an alternative to hashing.

Wordle: five, my starter was RISKY

The roofer arrived yesterday later than expected. He is tasked with providing me with a quote for the work we talked about. Hopefully this won’t be crazy high. I need this to happen soon as I was informed by the insurance broker that no company will provide a policy for a house with a roof older than fifteen years old. The inmates now run the asylum…

Sometimes timing works for me, sometimes it works against me. Last Friday I found out about a conference called Spore to Store, which is all about mushroom growing, a subject in which I have much interest. This conference is being held in Griffin, GA this week on Thursday and Friday. On Friday I will be farmer cosplaying at the Organic Growers Schools Spring Conference in Mars Hill, NC. Dangen. If I hadn’t invested 600 non-refundable dollars I’d consider switching conferences. I looked into registration for the mushroom conference to see if I can attend Thursday’s sessions. It turns out that ticket sales have already ended, but I may drive down to Griffin on Thursday and take my chances. I’ve bookmarked their website and hopefully if they have the conference again next year I can attend.

Wordle: three, my starter was ROAST