Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
The joys of research
So . . . if I find myself learning about onion routing one day and teat dips the next, it has to be an interesting book, right? Or at least an eclectic one.
My writing has also led me to the yaksha (if any of my readers are reading this, do NOT follow the link on yaksha) and a Sanskrit poem called The Cloud-Messenger. Not sure how much of that will filter in to the end product. Some seeds never sprout. I’ve placed a whopping huge reference to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States early in the novel, but I may ultimately have to swap out for another book, or perhaps nix that scene entirely.
Now I’m off to read more about goat milking, wind turbines, and Arcadia — not the city-of-my-childhood Arcadia, but the pastoral Eden Arcadia.
But first, I’m going to do a bit of writing.
D.
Today I learned that there’s such a thing as garlic routing. This is starting to seem downright culinary.
Wow, that stub is so brief as to be useless! Onion routing I understand, but garlic routing mystifies me.
Teat dips I got, but the onion routing escaped me (I thought it was a form of propagation of actual onions – you know, some sort of agricultural word like the teat dips).
Having been lucky enough to have enjoyed the first part of the fruit of your labors, I’m now trying to figure out how the teat dips will factor into the product (the onion routing, however, fits already).
Hey, speaking of research: I finally got around to ordering (and reading) that book on home-distilling corn whiskey. I found it fun and interesting – it suffers from the usual small press editing/proofreading problems, but the content makes up for it. It’s not a good Zombie Apocalypse resource, though… unless you anticipate being able to generate 220V current in the ZA. If you are, more power to you, as it were.
So: buy it if you’re interested in a full and easy-to-read explanation of the ins and outs of small-scale distilling. Do not buy it (or be prepared to augment) if you’re looking for a post-ZA livelihood 🙂 I plan on augmenting, myself.
(And glad to hear that your dad’s doing well; you’re safe from prayers here.)
Kira, both should come up in the next 1-2 chapters.
ps: the joys of having so many atheist friends 🙂 The book does sound interesting.
Sorry for the stub article on Wikipedia. Think of garlic routing as being like onion routing, only you’re wrapping multiple messages up in the same layers. Sort of like how a garlic bulb is made up of multiple cloves in onion-skin-like… well, skin, I guess.
(Kind of the inverse of your snowflake routing idea, actually.)