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Re: My Daily Walk (Dec 19, 2021) :-)

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Was a grrrreat day to walk! 50 degrees F, very sunny, so sunny that had 
to carry my jacket with my hand after 35 minutes of it. There were no 
cool breeze this time to let me keep wearing it.

In long walks slightest inconvenience becomes major issues. I am 
therefore certain that ancient man carried his stuff in a way that left 
both his hands free to swing. There are signs of that also, like the way 
bow and arrows and various bags and stuff are held in the back of the 
person so he can walk without holding anything in his hands.

I had to take a piss so bad and there were all these people around 
making it impossible. When I have soup for my meal I have to either wait 
enough before starting the walk to get the extra liquid out of my 
system, or like today I'll have to piss somewhere suitable along the 
track. At last found a little bridge and walked underneath. Whatever bug 
that will drink out of that piss tonight will get a nice dose of 
riboflavin :) Today was my B complex day. I take it with my every other 
meal, i.e. once every four days.

Now that I've been eating once every other day sometimes I buy too much 
leafy vegetables by old habit. And once a Church announced in Craigslist 
that their vegetable garden was free for everyone to come and take as 
they wished; I got a ton of leafy vegetables from there. Then dealt with 
the problem of what to do with them :)

The ones I can eat raw are no problem. They go fast with various 
sandwiches. The rest that require cooking can only be consumed in large 
amounts fast if sautéed. In the Persian dish "borAni" several pot-fulls 
of such vegetables (spinach, collard greens, kale, leak, ...) get 
reduced to an almost paste-like medium size bowl-full of something that 
we add lots of garlic and fried onions to it and eat alongside plain 
yogurt, even mixed sometimes. It's an Iranian dish and you need to have 
had them while growing up to enjoy it otherwise you won't touch it (my 
ex never ate that when I made them). THAT gets rid of every leafy 
vegetable that you have too much of, and is a heck of a source for all 
the minerals that your body needs. Note that they're not fried. Only a 
very tiny percentage of them gets actually fried. The rest are just 
broken down vegetables that have lost most of their water via escaping 
steam.

As someone who tries to live a life of a human that his body was built 
around, perhaps I should not eat yogurt. I do it for probiotic benefits. 
Maintaining livestock is much older than agriculture and went on for 
much longer than we've had agricultural products. But still, it has not 
been long enough to determine how our body works best. So having yogurt 
is a violation of the correct form of life for human. There is a way to 
get all the probiotic benefits from vegetables but I haven't researched 
it enough. As soon as I find out how, yogurt will be history for me.

I don't buy yogurt readily made. Most Americans don't know how to make 
plain yogurt and on top of that fuck it up with other added ingredients. 
The so called "Greek" yogurt is closer to real yogurt, but I don't trust 
that either. I buy whole milk and heat it up then wait for it to cool 
and at the right temperature add a bit of my remaining yogurt in the 
fridge. Cover it up and place it somewhere warm; next day I have a 
gallon of yogurt, the real yogurt, if you can call the pasteurized milk 
"real milk".

If it's too watery (read it "fraudulent milk" in the market) I extract 
the excess water out with an extra thin cloth to correct texture. This 
water is not to be thrown away. When I gather a good pot load of this 
water, I boil it down to a light brown thick paste at the bottom of the 
pot (very delicate procedure - 9 times out of 10 you fuck it up if 
you're not careful). This paste is the wonderful tasting substance that 
Iranians have had for eons for adding a sour touch to their soups :-) 
When I was a little kid, almost all my pocket money in elementary school 
went for a little slab of this paste between classes :) Together with a 
couple of other items, these were the snacks kids had in those years in 
Iran.

I saw Snickers (I think they were called "Mars" bar) for sale in school 
for the first time when I was in 10th grade. Those original wonderful 
ones would get a bit hard to bite if it was cold. And they produced a 
lot of energy for us. And they tasted just perfect. Last time I tried 
Snickers (a couple of years ago) it was a soft gooey stupid substance 
littered with grits and an oily gross after-taste, so sweet that it 
burnt my mouth for half hour after that. It was disgusting compared to 
those original ones sold in school in 10th grade.

A lot of good stuff to eat have totally disappeared in USA. Moreover, 
people today don't seem to know or realize that. Newer generations never 
saw anything other than what shit that's available today.

While walking I saw three large crows chasing after a bird of pray that 
was slightly larger than them. The bird was doing her things but the 
crows were bothering her noisily all the time. A crow chick must've been 
somewhere on the ground and crows were protecting her.

I saw a dung beetle this time with yellow feet! So now I'm sure it has 
to do with what dungs they eat at which time of the year. Some hawthorns 
and other smaller large-seeded fruits are yellow this time of the year.

Saw and have been seeing many centipedes also. They're shorter and 
smaller than Iranian versions and it's funny that their names also 
reflect that :) Centipede should mean "100 limbs" and the Iranian 
version's name if I do a literal translation is "1000 limbs" :-) Hehe :)

And they are indeed about 10 times longer and thicker. Their movement is 
also different. Here the centipede walks straight, the body is often 
just a straight one inch long sequence of units that move straight 
forward. The Iranian version never walks straight. Like snakes they 
always move forward by going left and right in a wavy way.

Saw the Chink and none of the rest of the regulars. Christmas is too 
near for the affected ones. So I must've missed the Chink yesterday 
while distracted. So even Beaners are now occupied with Christmas. But 
saw that CH (Cro-Magnon) woman again! I'll know more after Christmas and 
even more after new year's eve. None of the three tall giants were 
there. They may have traveled elsewhere to be with their kids or something.

Christmas has of course no effect on me whatsoever. My memories and 
traditions are about the winter solstice night, the Yalda Night, not 
Christmas. It is that long night that Iranians observe and stay awake 
and eat and drink certain items and tell each other stories. Read poems. 
Read interesting books about nature. I observe Yalda via skype with my 
family as a simpler version of that tradition. It is much easier for me 
of course because their time in Tehran is at least 8.5 hours ahead, so 
by the time it is 4am for them and they end the ceremony, here is just 
8pm or so. But I do stay a couple of hours longer than usual before 
going to bed just to pay my respects to Mithra :-) I read something 
interesting usually, with the cats on my lap keeping me company. I also 
light a little beautiful oil lantern I have and let it shine all through 
the night till morning. I've been doing that since I bought it from some 
garage sale years back. It gives off a beautiful green light, making the 
occasion special, as if you're sitting inside the woods.

Knowing all my folks are asleep and all my cats are dreaming and quiet 
is not a bad time to be awake reading amazing stuff about evolution and 
man :-) Especially in the longest most quiet night of the year paying 
respect to such an old and such an Iranian tradition.

That night is just three nights away now :)


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