What I’m Up To: Home Alone; Lunch; Another Lunch; Standing While Working and A Dr. Mike Eades Comment Thread

February 17, 2015|Richard Nikoley||

1. Beatrice is away for the school vacation week, with the dogs. Down at the parents’ place in Vista. Right now, on an overnighter with mom & sis at one of the Indian casinos down there. I don’t have to walk or feed dogs, and can watch Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead as loud as I want. BTW, anyone feel like TWD has gotten off to an awful start this season, 2 initial episodes of mind numbing self-reflection and whinny ass shit?

2. Had lunch with “J”—the one I’m trying to help find a smart geek for—at Original Gravity Public House. They feature ultra craft micro brews, sausages, and fries cooked in duck fat.

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We shared, and competed half-half on who had the better condiment mix (sauerkraut, pickled jalapeño, sautéed green pepper, sautéed onion). Sausages were buffalo, pheasant, and duck. Highly recommended.

3. Had lunch with Kit Perkins (best Paleo transformation ever)—the guy behind Topo, the weird-ass Standing Desk Mat—at Brown Chicken Brown Cow, that do grass fed gourmet burgers and free range chicken. Topo is a great success in terms of launch, with about 1,000 pre-orders from folks like you. At last count, 65 of them from here, at the launch price of a hundred bucks. Thanks. My $650 for that has been paid, plus Kit bought lunch. You’ll like it. I don’t always stand when I work, but when I do, I stand on a Topo (prototype). You can still pre-order.

4. Duck Dodgers and I have been reasonably active in Mike Eades’ comments, in spite of my scathing post in response. Discussion has been reasonably cordial with minimal snark once things got going, and Eades has been gentlemanly in putting our comments through and responding to them. You can scan/read the thread here. My last comment, about tiger nuts of all things, is still in his mod queue but I’m confident will be up later when next he revisits the blog [it’s now been posted and replied to].

…Alright. That should about do it for now. Working on a couple of posts; one, about some new research on Vitamin K2, an old subject around here. Another has been languishing but it will eventually come to light. It’s about the very strange nutrition in raw honey, including microbes we’d normally consider pathogenic.

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5 Comments

  1. Amy on February 17, 2015 at 16:13

    Nope, I liked the mid-season opener episodes. The character development and psych drama are the best things about the show.

    Your lunch with J looks and sounds deeply yummy. Thanks for torturing me on a fasting day.



  2. Alan on February 17, 2015 at 16:51

    Yeah, I think TWD has gotten off to a slow start. Self reflection is good, but we need some badass people.



  3. Bret on February 18, 2015 at 03:21

    […] and Eades has been gentlemanly in putting our comments through and responding to them.

    A fairly abrupt 180. I suspect that’s because he’s realized you two are not the flat earthers he carelessly assumed you were before.

    I don’t have any faith he will man up with an actual argument, given that he’s spent the last 10 months copping out behind “I’m too busy for this” and “this is all so basic it merits no explanation.” But we’ll see.

    How were the duck fat fries?



  4. Jed on February 18, 2015 at 15:24

    Ha. The thing is, he must have spent a hell of a lot of time replying to all the others, not to mention posting how busy he was to answer Duck’s concerns. Now if you add up all the time he took to reply to all the queries from his readers, and then continue to post how he doesn’t have the time to post, he could have easily addressed Duck in full. I see Eades main problem as ‘time management.’

    I can see now how empty my life was before I discovered FTA and Tim and Sisson.



  5. michael goroncy on February 18, 2015 at 18:36

    “and can watch Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead as loud as I want.  “

    Problem Solved….Cordless Headphones (good quality)..can even go for a crap and miss no live action. Been pure bliss.