RIP dear brave "Eli Copter" who so bravely gave its life to take out the "Butcher Of Baghdad" and a collection of other crumb-bums. My condolences to Copter's family.
What can I say? I got back last night, cooked up some "BT21 A-Sha Dry Noodles" that I've been buying at Whole Foods, 4 packs in a box with a bunch of cartoon characters on it. The noodles are interesting, nice and chewy. You have to cook the shit out of them, like 10 minutes minimum. I've found the key is when they float. I put in beef and a lot of vegetables of course.
What I need to do is get to work on making my own noodles with "vital wheat gluten" then I can get even better chewiness and cut the carbs.
Then I did the usual, watched YouTube, drank wine, studied in my Hebrew book, blew the shofar a bit. I woke up at 9 due to my alarm then went back to sleep until about 10:30. Maybe that's OK on a Monday, I don't know.
Other than busking, my next somewhat important performance is on the 27th, to play Taps at 3PM. That's a holiday, Memorial Day, so I should busk that day also. After that, the next thing coming up is the Red White And Blue Parade, which is on the 4th of July and some people from the temple will march in it. I'm considering taking the shofar and doing some blowing, but I want to check the etiquette of it first.
The only time I marched in a parade was in the "graduation" from Army Basic Training, and I guess the Olympic Festivals I was in. So I've got a little experience.
This picture (Credit: Chabad) shows the two different types of shofarot commonly used. The gal's holding the ram's horn type, while the shofar salesman is holding the kudu horn, Yemenite kind. Both are kosher, but I prefer the ram's horn by far. It's harder to play while the long one is much easier to play. The ram's horn is easier to carry, or to hide if needed. And a big one for me is, the Christians who like to LARP as some kind of Jews blow the Yemenite one because it's easier, and big and showy. There's even some ass on YouTube who's proud of his ability to play two at once. And some other clown actually sticks a trumpet mouthpiece into his, which is not kosher. I could carry a Yemenite one in a soprano sax bag, and I like a deeper sound, but I don't want to be confused with those cringy folks.
I had to sort a ton of IC's I'd pulled out of three plugins that had ... tons of vintage IC's in them, then sort them out, then along with a bunch of other things, list the things, 25 of them. I then listed some things on Craig's List, and then did a grocery run at Sprouts and H Mart. Really just a box of wine from Sprouts and a few veggies at H Mart. Or, it started out to be, but I noticed they had some parrotfish in the fish department so I got one - Ah, the memories. So tonight's dinner was miso ramen with parrotfish.
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