So I was at work today. Pretty fantastic thing that is, I was taking out the recycling, and I did what I often do when I do that. I stopped and looked around the alley, just simply to look, and look what I spotted! A great mural hidden in the alley. I've been told that it's from the Make Work studio, which is just at the end of this alley. I really liked the piece, I get the feeling of a vast mountain wilderness, but one that is in it's vastness empty. There's a patchiness to the painting that creates this feeling for me, the animals in it seem to be clumped together. The same way the trees are, much the way a patch work of clear cut areas look. At the same time the animals also look as it they're on the move. It's got three words on it as well, the one you can see in the picture here is home, I can't remember the other two but I remember they affected my thoughts of the message of the piece. I came to the conclusion that this painting is against industrial forestry.

  Secondly, I made kettle chips, without a mandolin... Man I wish I had a mandolin to work with, I sliced these things paper thin all by hand, while it didn't take me long as I was frying in batches anyways, my hand got a little sore. They turned out great though, the potatoes especially, go figure hey. The mix is Beets, Carrots, and Potatoes, being about fifty percent Potato, and twenty-five percent each Beets and Carrots. The salsa here is a sweet salsa made with Tomato, Cucumber, and Tomatillo. The Tomatillo was incredibly sweet, and almost apple like in consistency and flavour.

Thirdly, just because I love bikes, here's one for you. This is my polo bike, It's one of the six bikes that Kate and I own collectively. This one probably the most unique, not to say it's any better but every feature of it stands out as different than all the rest. Mainly the fact that it is a single speed, and a fixed gear. What's even more special about this bike is the gear ratio. I've got a thirty-six tooth gear on the front, (though I feel like I should double check the count on that I might be wrong.) and a twenty-three tooth track gear on the rear. I just put a bigger one on a week or so ago, went up from eighteen, on the rear. So this put me at a 3.1 gear ratio, It's incredibly low, nearly a granny gear. This makes it perfect for polo, I can ride backwards no problem, braking is much faster and my sprints have improved immensely. I love it, all except for bombing hills on it, I feel like my legs will snap like twigs doing that. Here's a video if you've never seen bike polo in action before.