Random crap

A cold front crept in last night, bringing a late night thunderstorm and the coolest day in weeks. And weeks.

It’s 83 at 10 a.m. with a pleasant breeze and the temperature is expected to top out at just 91 this afternoon. Yeah, I know. Just 91.

It hit 100 here yesterday with a heat index of about 1,000.

(You know this will be a dull blogpost if I lead off with the weather.)

I’ve transferred my admiral’s flag from Hastings to Seattle Grind and am sipping a mocha frappe and using their Wifi.

My favorite barista Marisha is enjoying her first day at work here and I made a point of telling her coworkers that she was the reason I am here and why I’m not going back to Hastings.

There’s a guy sitting in the corner who I’m sure is watching porn on his iPhone.

After a few Saturday mornings at IHOP, we tried a new breakfast place on Saturday – the Front Page Cafe – where they claim to throw rolls, just like Lambert’s. I didn’t see any rolls being thrown, but I did have a nice cheap breakfast of 2 eggs, a sausage pattie and biscuits and gravy for something like $4.99.

Now I was raised in a Hoosier household where biscuits and gravy were not considered legitimate breakfast food, so I pretty much never order biscuits and gravy in a restaurant. But the Front Page offers three gravy  choices: white, sausage, and chocolate. I first encountered chocolate gravy in a restaurant in Savannah, Tenn. They only serve it on Sunday mornings there because it’s supposed to be a big deal. My friend Tim Balough tried it, but I didn’t. So I gave it a shot on Saturday just to see what the fuss was all about. Turns out it’s something between chocolate pudding and chocolate icing with no discernable gravy taste. I managed to choke down half a biscuit slathered in the stuff and decided diabetics have no business eating that stuff.

Now I’m off to Harbor Freight Tools to buy a cheap multimeter and to Sports Clips for a haircut.