Celebration

We celebrated being 12.5 years together, in Thai Restaurant Rung - Arnhem Center.
It was a delicious meal and everybody was happy. My running schedule has to be postponed for some days because of these celebration dinners. The home kitchen oven broke down due to old age and the watercooker broke down due to internal leakage. A new kitchen is in design, so the final revamp of http://www.4eggsco.nl is momentarily on hold.

The best things in life are free...

The best things in live are free...
Free gifts this week, a free book (Geert Mak - The Bridge; book promotion week) which served as a free train ticket Sunday. A walk in Scheveningen, a fish dinner in the harbor and coffee in a beach club. The beach clubs were warned for extreme high water and heavy winds but the train ride back was smooth and enjoyable while reading. Phoned for an AGP8x Ati Radeon 128 Mb, an advertisement which turned out to be a free pick up. So I hopped on the bicycle for a tour along the Rhine, crossing the Rhine with the solar powered ferry for Doorwerth (castle village) and its wooded hills. Returning Arnhem City; an despairing alien (older male teacher) transmitting verbal communication to a group of female earthlings tuned to cell phones and minimal textile language.

Skating Weather

It was sunny weather yesterday, so great for skating to Castle Doornenburg.
Totals: 28 km, 12,2 kph, 106 Hz, 3120 Kcal in 138 min, TTC 3 lectures libertarianism and conservatism.

Cooked Tjiem Tjiem Kai for a guest;
6 chicken parts (thighs or wing shoulders)
200 gram dried Tjiem Tjiem (Lily flower stamen)
100 gram dried Shiitake mushrooms (todo prasoro = frog umbrella) and dried Wood Ear Fungi (muizenoren = mice ears)
1 piece of ginger root, shredded
3 cloves garlic, 3 bay leafs, 3 spoons sugar
1 spoon Chinese Five Spice Powder
1 teaspoon Ve-Tsin (Monosodium Glutamate = MSG)
Chinese soy sauce

Remove wooded parts of the Tjiem Tjiem and soak with the mushrooms overnight.
Marinade the chicken parts in the mixture of soy sauce, shredded ginger, shredded garlic, spice powder, bay leaves and sugar.
Bake the leaked chicken parts in oil.
Add the marinade, the Tjiem Tjiem and the mushrooms and let it simmer till done.
Serve with white rice and cucumber (preserved in 50-up % vinegar + lemon juice, 2 shredded red peppers and 1 shredded garlic clove).

Sauconies at maximum mileage?

My Saucony runners are 9 months old with around 450 km. Yesterday they helped me break my record; 5.18 km at 8.6 kph at 126 bpm. The foreboding rain might have helped a bit. The Sauconies are softer and more cushioned than the 3 months old Asics I wear in turn.

Another finished; TTC - Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution.
Quantum theory is still a bit incomprehensible but the 'Copenhagen, cat in the box' should be tried. It will be fatal for many cats but science should rule and my garden alone could do without their visits.

What's next? TTC - Ideas in Politics, the last 12 lessons of Flash 8 ( Dreamweaver 8, done the 24 lessons) and the first final of http://www.4eggsco.nl/ Be prepared....