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Monthly Archives: March 2017

Maybe this isn’t the car for you…

This was originally an aside from the life-crisis post, but it ended up being longer than I thought.  So here’s the story about that young guy in the car who inspired my idea about random fraction life crises.

My sister, bil, and I were on surface streets and the streets were relatively full. Every time we’d get stopped at a light, the dude would rev his engine. And when the light changed, he wouldn’t immediately move forward and he would rev like he was going to peel out and speed off. Except…he wouldn’t.

He would rev and rev and let the space between him and the next car lengthen. And then…he would start driving forward fairly slowly. It wouldn’t be a crawl, but his start would be slower than mine and I try to start smoothly from a stop instead of just stomping on the gas. It was really strange to see that.

What was even stranger was that he would start building speed and would have room to speed up even more, but then he would suddenly change lanes so that he would be behind a slower car. He would then brake and look all annoyed (it was a convertible and the top was down).

My sister, bil, and I discussed this and I think the consensus was that the guy is intimidated by his car. He doesn’t actually know how to drive it. The way the car was moving made me believe that it had a manual transmission, so we think that this guy isn’t that comfortable driving stick.  He would rev and rev to make sure everyone knew he had an expensive fast car…and then make himself look like an idiot because he would drive pretty slowly for all that build up.

On top of that, the moment he started getting too fast for his comfort (which would have been like 40mph and the speed limit for that section of road was 50mph), he would change lanes so that he was behind a slower car so it would seem like other people were preventing him from going faster. I guess it would have worked better if he would change lanes and try and make a turn or something. But he would change lanes when there was a huge gap between him and the next car and it would be a straight section without any lanes for turning.

Not sure if I can roll my eyes any harder.

I make! A lot of sourdough English muffins edition

I made a lot of sourdough English muffins. I make a lot of sourdough based things when I’m trying to ramp up a starter, in this case the original Chuck, because of all the discard between feedings. I don’t like to throw them away, so I keep trying to find new things to stick sourdough in. KAF is really nice resource for this because they have a whole section of recipes dedicated to sourdough discard. So…I made sourdough English muffins.

The thing with this recipe is that it makes A. LOT. of English muffins. It was ok because I didn’t have any other bread at the time, so I used the English muffins in place of sliced bread for sandwiches and stuff. Or I would toast one to go with my chili or something. But I still had to freeze half of them. At least bread products freeze well.

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Because Chuck wasn’t as active as an established starter when I made the English muffins, they only have kind of a whiff of sourdough flavor to them. But they have really great texture and they crisp up nicely in the toaster. I would try making them again with an established starter.

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