Pilot's Log

1) My nephew Egan has been staying here this week. Most of his time is alternating between playing Star Wars Lego on the Wii and reading C.S. Lewis Narnia novels. He sleeps in the guest room, which means I can't do any work on my assignment model for IPMS. Yes, we are trying to get him involved in the outside world here, but he won't have none of it. He is very much like I was at his age...and it still worries me a little.

2) Moonshine is in the shop. The resistor for the heater/air conditioner dashboard fan needs to be replaced. In another "Raiders of the Lost Part" safari, Dad and I went to Hillbilly's Auto Parts junkyard in Strawberry Plains for the replacement resistor. We got it for $5, which is a great magnitude better than the $33 the Chevy dealer wanted to charge for a brand-new part, special ordered and shipped and handled. We're having our usual shade-tree mechanic do the work because it goes under the dashboard and that means some tricky finagling with the air bags.

3) I've set a job interview appointment for Tuesday morning in Asheville. Only I have absolutely no idea where in town it is. So I'll need to contact Bro overday.

4) I'm trying to decide what I want for my Midnight Snack. Looks like it's going to be Cinnamon Toast.


FP

I came upon the entry about ramen and suddenly got hungry all over again. This is becoming habitual.

At least my folks bought two six-packs of Maruchan. Maruchan's my favorite brand of ramen. Nissin's Top/Oodles of Noodles is perhaps number 2, along with Campbell's. I don't care for Smack brand...for some reason it comes out too greasy.

My recipie is simple: cook and drain the noodles, dump the flavor spices on them. To conserve my tastebuds, I set limits on the spice...either one packet of spice for a pack and a half of noodles, or about 2/3rds of a pack of spice for one pack of noodles. Of course, this system ends up giving me an overwhelming surplus of flavor packs...for which I'm searching recipies to use them up.

Time to go cook.

FP