The Edge Of Madness

For some stupid reason I bet Wheels last night while drunk that I could run a marathon in under 6 hours.

I've got 7 months to train for it.

If I do it, Wheels has to run a marathon in a summer dress, a frock if you will.

If I don't, I have to do another marathon in a dress.

Lana actually dragged me out today for training. But we'll see how many weeks I manage

This will be a series of posts just writing down a few of my recipes, so I don't lose them.

Been on a bit of a cooking run at the moment, since I'm working from home most of the time.

I normally only cook for one (since Lana can't eat most of my stuff), so scale however you want.

Ingredients:

• 150grams Chicken. Sliced and diced
• Olive Oil
• 2 cloves of garlic. Diced fine
• 3-4 small red chillis. Diced fine
• 3 large red chillis. Seeded and sliced
• 1 onion. Diced large
• 3-4 spring onions. Sliced
• Some white pepper
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon of sugar
• Some basil

Heat up oil in wok. Toss in garlic & chillis for a few seconds. Toss in everything else except basil. Keep tossing until chicken is cooked. Turn off heat, Toss some basil in, stir around. Put on rice and eat.

So I finally got off my arse and used the trial lesson voucher that Lana got me for my birthday.

Hired a Mini from a car club I'm a member of. I'm a big fan of the car club. Normally I'd ride up, but I still haven't got luggage on Floyd, so it's annoying getting changed at the other end. Nice drive up.

I've also finally got used to driving a manual, and now I'm loving it. I am revving a little too much sometimes though, bit of wheel spin. I've also got the hang of switching from 2nd to 3rd, which has made my life easier

Back to the flying. Bit of rigmarole as they hadn't written the expiry date on the certificate and it had expired. But since they hadn't written it in they honoured it.

Up we went, good fun, after 5 minutes, I'm turning the plan. Can't remember the technical terms, but banking and turning sound good. I had a tendency to keep pulling up & also watching the controls more than the actual ground. Prob from playing too many computer games.

Also I tended to turn a little too hard to start with. But hey, you've got to work out what you can and can't do.

Plane was a Piper Archer. Old plane, and too small to fit me.

Also I didn't really get on with the instructor.

So I'm still debating taking lessons. There's another school an hour away (all schools are an hour away) in Surrey I'm going to check out. Newer planes.

I think the goal of being able to fly your own plane by yourself is more important to me than lessons. But you have to do one to do the other.

Again, me commenting on search terms used to get to my blog.

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Unless a lightbulb pops up behind your head when you have an idea, or you ran down the street in towel shouting "Eureka". No, can't see you know.

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Depends. If you're just randomly donating sperm to strangers on the street, or posting it through people's letterboxes, then I can see that's wrong.

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In your mouth? In your hands? Or in your balls? And why the frig do you need to know this?

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Yep, that's going to stop homeless guys bugging you. Great plan.

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Huh? People refuse to get photographed by people wearing bad shirts? Man, I want to know what type of shirt you normally wear for people to refuse to let you photograph them.

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While I'm fairly certain you were searching for pornstar rates, just had me thinking what would be the average rates for someone to shag a pig?

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Pull it out?

Stay tuned for the next update in a couple of weeks.

BTW, I'm getting a whole bunch more search traffic headed my way due to that whole t-shirt thing.

Few highlights.

Invasion continues to suck. But I finally worked out the "Volgans" are meant to be the Russians.

Dan Dare came back and the first few stories were passable, then back to suckville.

Mach 1 is really, really bad.

Judge Dredd continues to shine. I was thinking about this, it's one the few stories where characters are fairly realistic (yes a futuristic city with a hard as nails Judge is a little out there, but it's actually believable) and well written.

Harlem Heroes was passable, but you can see within the story the brilliance that "Mean Team" will be. Harlem Heroes finished up, with a new story Inferno. This was okay, as long as you totally ignored the plot and just enjoyed the artwork.

Shako. This was crap. It's about a intelligent polar bear who swallows a capsul containing some top secret poison gas the CIA is making. Then the CIA trying to hunt him down, but he kills everyone after him. Then the Russians get involved. Bah, pure crap. The biggest problem was it was impossible to have any empathy for any of the characters. The bear was killing innocents, the CIA wanted the nerve gas. Just a mess.

The other great introduction to the series is "Thargs Future Shocks". Starting from around issue 22. These are one off stories, that do two things. Give new writers & artists a chance to prove themselves and pack a quick twist punch. No hugely memorable stories, but fairly good.

A sneaky addition as well is the cover doesn't reflect any of the comic stories, but instead is a brief couple of paragraph story on the letters page. Prob to help sell copies, but I'd prefer the artwork of one of the stories on the front.

And finally from Prog 36, they finally put the credit of the Writer, Artist and Letterer on each comic. And while it's a bastard thing to say, 30 years later, apart from John Wagner (Judge Dredd), I've never heard of the other writers again. Most of the artists though, I've read many, many comics with their style (Bellardini, Gibson & Ezquerra).

EDIT: Well I looked up who wrote Mach 1. Amazingly it was Pat Mills, whose work on Slaine, Nemesis the Warlock and ABC Warriors I loved. And who also wrote Invasion, which again I do not like. And Shako, which sucked. Fuck, thankfully he gets better as the years roll on