It got cray this year.

Breakfast of crazy tea and Flower Power. It's a classier Four Loko. I think it made a difference in me staying up for the whole day this time.


Everyone came over. (e:heidi) and (e:dianne) saved the day with some breakfast food for everyone.

My favorite part was the vuzulvea beer funnel at the parade. (e:flacidness), you tried your best.











Blow, (e:mike), blow!


The bros go wild











Maskottchen!




We finished out the day on Allen as bears.

Our first bike ride of year was the Buffalo bike party. We went with (e:keitht) - it started at Colonial. went down to Founding Father's, MLK Park, and then a fried food party.

We broke away for a while to stop at Mohawk place for infringement. We ended up seeing (e:czarkasm) there.

The ride was short and not too amazing but we met a few cool new people (besides the ride leader who litters cigarette packets). I can't wait for warmer days where people aren't waiting to go inside and the rides go on forever.

Fried oreos are delicious and gross as hell.






(e:paul) and I got to desecrate the expressway.

It's finally getting warm out just in time for St. Patrick's day. I have spring fever.

Sidewalks are showing


And so is the gross garbage that's been hiding
Fingers are free again

And so is my head



I've gone back to being scrawny. Too much programming not enough bike.

(e:paul) wanted brownies the other day but we didn't have any baking chocolate. So I found a recipe that just uses unsweetened cocoa powder and a metric ton of butter to make up for the lack of cocoa butter.

Mom blog recipe here

They turned out really gooey and delicious especially when salted. The pictures of them came out looking a little shitty (hah) but they're still good. lately I feel so rushed I don't even care if the pictures come out alright.

We got completely greenwashed at the coop. We bought this sponge in a rush at the coop and somehow thought it was made of natural material. I remember talking about it in the aisle with (e:paul) wondering what it could have been made of. It turns out it's just a regular sponge, just with "Nature" on the package.


The "Natural Value" scrubbers are made of "tough fibers and abrasives" which I take means plastic since they point out the sponges are cellulose (so are 3Ms, so I assume they're all from the same factories).

I can't believe I fell for it. I really hate all greenwashed marketing, especially for packaged stuff like this. It isn't even good at it. Usually it'd be a regular plastic brillo pad wrapped in brown paper to give it an "earthy" feel, called "Bob's Sea Sponge" , with maybe a GMO and Gluten free label on it. On the back would be a folksy story about how Bob's Natural Sponges loves his artisian sponges, and how he feels about urban farming or kale or something. I really think I could be a marketer.