Roman Edirisinghe

Breakfast:
hemp granola with yogurt, sprinkled with Blueberry blossom honey
1 cup Chamomile tea
1 radish

Lunch:
approximately 5 bites of this terrible bean slop I made, which I decided to toss
mixed green salad with tomatoes, sprinkled with parmesan cheese
1 granny smith apple
1 radish
1 glass vanilla kefir

Post Lunch:
1 grapefruit

Dinner:
2 sardine & alfalfa sprout sandwiches (Genesis bread)
1 glass vanilla kefir

Post Dinner:
1 sardine & alfalfa sprout sandwich
1/2 cup Ben & Jerry’s Dublin Mudslide ice cream

Yesterday, I decided to drive to the Guitar Center to try out a couple of resonator guitars they had in stock, which is a 15 mile drive to Brookfield. My car is a beat up 1989 Toyota Camry. En route, a merging 18-wheeler prompted me to apply my brakes. And they didn’t work properly. It was bad. I used the engine “brake” instead, by downshifting to decelerate. Scary. Once I was slowed down, I noticed the brakes did work, albeit poorly.

(I choose to exclude the fact that I actually drove to the Guitar Center and back with this deadly contraption. Call me stupid, or lucky, or stupid AND lucky. Nicole is rightfully pissed off).

I don’t think I was in the right state of mind, even before I left the house. When I returned from the Guitar Center, I discovered I had left my front door WIDE open and the whole place unlocked. I AM stupid AND lucky.

I vowed never to drive my car again. It’s parked in my garage and I plan to donate it to some local charity…if anyone will accept it.

I also decided to buy another vehicle, likely something that would help me transport my musical gear to gigs. My buddy Todd, who owns a used car dealership, recommended a Plymouth Voyager or Dodge Caravan (turns out they’re practically the same car with a different label), and recommended I stay away from any Ford. I thought, “Good idea!” So I started checking the inventories listed by many local dealers. At one point, I noticed a particular vehicle described as a “Flexible Fuel” vehicle. Flex fuel? What the heck is that? I had never hear of it before. A Google search revealed a great deal of information, especially from the E85fuel site. It turns out that Flexible Fuel vehicles are designed to run on either standard unleaded gasoline or Ethanol (alcohol), or a combination of both. This combo fuel (E85), comprised of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, is now available at some gas stations around the country. Some states will actually offer incentives to gas stations that carry it. This sounds like a good thing in light of this ridiculous oil crisis/dependence. The web site also lists vehicles which are specifically designed for E85.

I’m really happy about this. I was really struggling with the idea of buying another oil dependent vehicle, and it seems that E85 might be a great option. It’s too bad that the Feds don’t draw enough attention to this. Why should they? After all, our beloved George W Bush has his bloody hands in the pockets of big oil companies. Why draw attention away from them? After all, they are the ones who ultimately get richer off increased fuel prices. Along that vein, how do we know that this crisis really follows the rules of supply and demand?

While looking, I also found a site that reviews the Dodge Caravan/Plymouth Voyager, and offers the buyer tips on what to look for. Apparently, this vehicle, while blessed with a fine engine, is also cursed with a terrible transmission.

Stay tuned as I look for a fine E85 vehicle.

Dinner @ Izumi’s:
3 pieces of salmon sashimi
2 pieces of albacore tuna sashimi
1 piece of flounder sashimi
1 piece of red clam sashimi
1 cup miso soup
3 steamed crab dumplings
3 rolls of fermented soybean maki
3 tbsp. Flax seed oil

Breakfast:
grapefruit
banana
1 cup kefir
granny smith apple

Lunch @ Mo’s Cucina:
crab meat salad with baby greens (spinach, arugala, romaine), tomatoes, parmesan cheese
5 slices of baguette dipped in balsamic vinegar/olive oil
2 cups kefir

My buddy Ryan forwarded me a link to several sets of great wallpapers for your desktops comprised entirely of satellite images of our beautiful terrestrial sphere.

Satellite Image Wallpaper

Dinner:
1 granny smith apple
Red rice
Sauteed red chard with carrots, onions, garlic and ginger
1 cup kefir

Post-Dinner:
1 cup kefir
4 cucumber pickle spears
1/2 cup Ben & Jerry’s Dublin Mudslide ice cream
2 tablespoons rice pudding

Holly and I are playing at the Beans and Barley Farmer’s Market this coming Saturday, and we went over many of the tunes today.

So, I started practicing music at roughly noon, and ended at roughly 5:00 pm. Not bad.

Breakfast:
Bowl of plain, whole milk yogurt with blueberry blossom honey
1 grapefruit
a handful of hazelnuts

Lunch:
Red rice
Sauteed red chard with carrots, onions, garlic and ginger
1 cup kefir
a handful of hazelnuts

Pre-Dinner:
1/2 cup of salted peanuts
1 cup kefir

Dinner @ Nicole’s:
Little neck clams
whole wheat pasta with homemade tomato sauce
eggplant parmigiani

Breakfast:
1 grapefruit

Lunch @ Anodyne:
1 “Rabbit” sandwich (carrots, sprouts, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, tamari, almond mayo on rye bread)

Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co
(414) 276-8081
(414) 276-2739
1208 E Brady St
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Post-Lunch:
1 cup rooibos tea
2 tbsp Flax seed oil