Timmah!

Gotta fill-up before I r0ll out: LOve the ease of work in cast iron; no need to worry about being delicate, can transfer to oven...use over a campfire... Can't stress enough the consummate utility of Maillard in all things culinary Medium-high heat & stir until just set; ~20 sec. glorious cheeeeseeee!!! Flip over to allow cheese to participate in Maillard action... ....aaand flip back over to plate...

...and Stevie Ray Vaughan is my favorite artist...& where all the style went: he apparently took it with him. This cat was LEGEND, whether playing some nameless dive on a Friday night or President Bush's Inaugural Ball, The El Mocambo, a charity event (of which he did many), with Buddy Guy, to celebrate a friends birthday, at his eponymous Legend's Club (he's the only Blues Legend left, imho), some State Fair or anywhere: He always gave it all, inexorably drawing-in his audience to journey with him to the planes of greatness to which he ascended when playing, performing. . . Gotta include his performance of 'Texas Flood' played at Bush's Inaugural Ball. Purely epic, & introduced by none other than The Iceman himself: Albert Collins, whom SRV insisted by invited to play; giving credit to fellow Legends who came before him & were his influence & peers.

We're all b0rn natural scientists, with the Scientific Method literally wired into our DNA. Curiosity & cause & effect, to wit: Notice something, ask a question, observe & research (data) relevant to the question, make a prediction of what's going on & what's gonna happen given the information (hypothesis), test the hypothesis (which is just a story to explain a phenomenon), observe (gather data (information) to test hypothesis, draw a conclusion. Did it answer the question? Did it predict future results given the context, the system in which the phenomenon in question occurs? NO? repeat, refine. Yes?: Theory! working theory. 4 year olds do this. Crows, Corvids do this. Manifold mammals do this. An environment that has elements trying to kill you, & one in which you usually must also in-turn kill (participate) develops, evolves this trait of curiosity, observation (vigilance, too), to avoid being food & rather one who collects food & those other things which facilitate survival & advance our genes through reproduction. That hungry lion pride on the savannah, as you were resting in a tree with your simian compatriots...in a clade, if you will...an adjacent Orangutan, a gibbon...maybe even a chimp. Well, Fred -not the smartest Catarrhine in the tree- is NOT in the tree; his dumb ass decided to rest his neck for a time comfortably under the tree. Shortly, he was fueling feline mitochondria. You notice & then hypothesize they went for low-hanging fruit, so-to-speak. You hypothesize that they will do this in the future: make a prediction; and decide to make it a point of focus to rest perhaps a few branches higher from this day forward. From your perch, you observe, as the days melt into weeks & months that, indeed the li0nesses do go for targets of convenience the vast majority of occasions they hunt, & have now formed: A theory!; a working theory. Everybody does it, since pre history. It's encoded into our genes & fun to witness young ones practice what comes natural, before it's drubbed from far too many.

I, too try to...

Red Wriggler worms are native to Europe; they live in the top 3-6 inches of the forest floor; just under the leaves. They consume the AEROBIC -as in the presence of oxygen- microorganisms that decompose the organic matter- read leaves & twigs laying under the trees. There is no smell, other than the rich smell of loam, humus. The stench of which you speak- r0t- occurs under & is produces by ANaerobic microorganisms. If I didn't lift the lid, one would not be able to guess what's in the bin. I feed them only that which they can consume within a 24-48 hour period; only adding additional food after what I've offered is consumed. You could keep this under your office desk & not even notice....anywhere. NO SMELL. Do you smell the all-pervading stench of rot when you go for a walk in the woods? That same process is occurring throughout the woods, everywhere in the world....

I have the video from last summer; with some interesting shots, taking the viewer along for a ride around one of my haunts I've fished since childhood. Just gotta dig it up & edit it.

That, being nonetheless a comparative term relative to one's experience(s) & psychological attributes, is a degree of experience, whose personal range with which I'm familiar; the more shit you do, see -in many spheres [psychological, intellectual/cognitive etc.], -the greater your perspective & proficiency, etc. At the 1/2-century mark, I'm comfortable with my abilities to adeptly navigate the pursuits, whatever the sphere, I might choose. It's really rather logarithmic, in ways; certain skillsets overlapping & facilitating comprehensive evolution(s) vis a vis their mutuality, modularity(ies). As one aggregates information, knowledge, wisdom...yadda yadda... Being creatures of awareness, the more you know, the more you grow... tldr: https://youtu.be/B1HSvXanqIM?t=40

Time to do another bag or 2....then freeze them in ice cube trays. Soo good, I ran out. One of the 'seasonings' I prepare as it is ssso nice to pop a cube of caramelized onions into a dish to quickly elevate it by orders of magnitude.

Too hungry to even think about onions; just was insanely hungry & yet took the time to record it... but not think of onions...could have well-sauteed them nicely, along with the honey ham, which had a considerable amount of water, which managed to bring my cast iron pan down from 430F to 130F in a matter of a minute, thanks to all that evaporating water....which would be great for a situation where you would like to employ the steam driven from the ham or onion...but, together would have extended the wait time at least double what it was with the over-watered deli ham....perhaps I intuited this situation from experience... or just dumb luck. Either way, I hadn't eaten all day...consuming only shitty soft drinks; & water to stay hydrated, so I was all about getting that mass of yum in my face!

Would rather engage in interesting activities than spectate fictional characters' narratives. Ergo: Ffs, ever heard of immersive engagement? Unless I misinterpret the nature of your vague, seeming aspersion.

...with alacrity!!

I remember taking German for 4 years in High School, learning declension: Der, Die, Das, Die, Dem, Der, Dem, Den; Ich, du, er, Sie, es, dem, der..... Asking my mom for help during this part of the curriculum, hers & others' were mostly: Didn't much study it, since it was their mother tongue & came naturally; which was all the more frustrating, because there was not many people with whom to practice & engage my learning of the language in my area of Kentucky....

All the weed jokes; how much more of an indictment is it of so many people's chosen apathetic ignorance of basic knowledge when they are ostensibly 'sober'? (That was a statement in the form of a rhetorical question, therefore needing no response).

I am SOO BEYOND TIRED of people using a singular-possessive to indicate a simple plural. Example: You guy's don't know nothin'. I mean, did they stop paying attention in 5th grade? Did they ever pay attention. It's difficult to take any statement someone posits, when they can't proficiently communicate at a grade school level. Then they claim you're being picky. FFS.

OMG!!! Proper plural-possessive apostrophe usage!! You glorious bastard, you! This is a fucking rarity!

Too busy/lazy to edit; fast-forward at your leisure/peril!

https://youtu.be/Q096w0Fz2p4?t=95

This is an obvious plea for additions to the 'Fat Man in Repose' series; fear not, friend; they are in the offing.

The ir0ny does not go unnoticed that the source of this grievous epithet unironically emanates from one whose visage is not unlike The Amazing Randi's 2nd cousin! ...with orders of magnitude < dress habits, of course!

Non sequitur ad hominem?

See? When you share a passion, or keen interest...& this is the answer, it's pretty much wasteful to toss pearls.

'Timmah' operates, at times, on many levels...usually kept tacit due to the uninterested. Noticed people's eyes glaze over from a young age when I would exposit on the granular of any of my many interests...care to discuss slip-faults of the Pacific Rim & their somewhat tangential correlation to Arabica cultivars microclimates?

Never said as much. I prefaced this threD with a polite request for useful commentary, & you immediately do exactly not that with you alter ego

....sigh....Here, pizza fan, maybe this will be more interesting:

We have genes in common with insects, lizards, mice & many microorganisms, both extant & extinct. Our development in the womb is a mini history of our species' evolution taking place during our fetal development; to include forming a tail & reabsorbing it during our 9 month stay in our mother's uterus. Another example would be the endocannabinoid system...ALL SPECIES have this system: ALL OF THEM, to include us. Having a neurochemical system means that we produce the necessary analogs that are the coin of the realm of this system, of course. A deeper, more interesting question, should one choose to further delve beyond the "I'm not a mouse" realm would then be: How has teh Marijuana managed to produce a chemical analog of this endocannabinoid system that acts upon this system? Or, conversely, how did we develop.... ALL SPECIES, a system that this plant- previously to our evolution on this rock-already possessed? Or you could continue to live on the surface of your mind's potential of discovery. In closing, a last tidbit: Plants have more genes than we, as a species.