Culinary and Fitness Update

I made a huge pot of vegetable beef soup on Monday night, and dumped about 1-1/2 pounds of okra into the soup pot. It gave the soup a strong peppery taste, so much that my mouth tingles after I've eaten it. I never realized that okra had such a pronounced flavor. The soup is still ok, but very extreme.

I stopped off at Bair Island tonight, after work, and there was heavy equipment, huge steel beams and caution tape set up in an effort to block the entrance to the trails. Everybody was going in anyway, but why can the technocrats and minor functionaries close my trail with no warning? I guess I'll have to ride in Mountain View instead, up until that point in late October when the time changes.