Mountains & Onion Rings

Wednesday, Mar. 14, 2007 - 2:00 a.m.

My computer is currently set to Mountain Standard Time despite the fact that I live in San Francisco.

I downloaded the Daylight Saving patch and tried to install it, then found out I had to undergo a system software upgrade.

This is fine, because it's free.. but it's 150 megabytes! On a freaking LAND LINE!

So. The computer has moved to Denver despite the fact that it's right here in the living room.

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I've discovered that I still can't eat onion rings.

Let me put it another way. I think onion rings are wonderful. And I am not allergic to them or anything like that.

But eating them has always been a two handed disaster.

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I like all kinds of onion rings. I like the preformed "Pringle" ones from Ore Ida because 24 exactly fit on a standard cookie sheet.

I like the battered ones from TGIF. I like the ones from Burger King.

I've even experimented with a fondue setup and chunks of onion in tempura.

But the thing I have never been able to do is eat them without making a complete fool of myself or a complete mess of the table.

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Without fail -- I bite the battered outside, and don't quite manage to completely bite through the hot slippery onion.

And the hot onion 'worm' comes out and leaves the battered empty ring all by itself.

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I figured it out about an hour ago as of this writing.

Made a batch, took them out, allowed them to cool a little, then sliced them into quarters and ate them with a fork.

This is nowhere near as much fun as doing the consumption by hand, but it's neater, and the flavors all stay together.

Eating my onion rings with a fork.

I guess that makes me officially a fogey.

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Another first run episode of South Park is tonight!

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What a shame about Richard Jeni. He turned out to be severely unglued after all.

I guess with the genius part of the mind, there's also the dark side. Most creative people have that issue.

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Do you ever have dreams about people you haven't seen in a very long time?

I had a dream about an ex mother in law of mine. I dreamed she came to San Francisco and that she and I were laughing and shopping and that she got to meet John.

Mind you, I think after the way I ended things with her son, she'd have no reason to do that in real life -- but it was rather strange. Just dropped into the middle of my dreamworld without any real forewarning. Nevertheless, it was an interesting and very vivid dream; one of the most vivid ones I've had in awhile.

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There ya go. Have a good Wednesday and don't forget about South Park!

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