Imported Facebook Note

A note in the day time

The surf was small today... so I took out my gigantic board this morning... only to discover (after three weeks of surfing almost everyday exclusively on the little board) that the gigantic board is really gigantic... at 25-3/4 inches, it's really, really wide. It was a struggle and I felt like a total loser (except those mitts really do help with the paddling). After about an hour and a half, I decided to decide that it wasn't a good day for surfing and came home...

...but it was too beautiful a day to be inside... so I went out for a bike ride... aside from the frost-bite paranoia (it's not actually *that* cold... but there's still snow everywhere, and I only had bike shorts, not bike pants) it was almost like summer. It was an excellent ride, though after coming up what looks like only a little hill on my street but is in reality an overwhelmingly long, steep, mountainous incline, it was definitely time for hot chocolate. (that my neighbour across the street manages to do it seemingly effortlessly while hauling a baby (or two, who knows) in a bike trailer does not make me feel in anyway inadequate)

I wanted some papadams with my hot chocolate... and so was going to use up the rest of the expensive package ($2.49 at the 4th street market, $.99 at superstore... exact same stuff, by the way... that "Golden Boy" stuff in the plastic bag with that creepy looking pink rabbit and the kid... there's no complaining though... I'm sure $.99 would be considered a ridiculous rip off in India)... anyway... here's an important lesson I learnt: you cannot fry papadams in olive oil... for some reason, the oil seems to soak right through to the other side of the papadam, and the the pools of olive oil just don't go away... even if you scott-towel the heck out of them... (what are scott towels called now? I don't remember... ) and they also stay perfectly flat... which could be a good thing if it actually cooks, but it didn't.... and it tastes really odd... kind of like sausages (now you're going to want to try this, I know)...

Anyway... just thought I'd write a note in the day time as I'm enjoying my hot chocolate... now I'm going back out in the sun to harvest more vitamin D... going to go for a walk... maybe into town...