[Urbane Guerrilla]

We used that chili powder recipe for chili tonight after the Super Bowl. The rest of it was just a pound-plus of burger, a can of tomatoes, a large can of beans, and a few jalapenos, thin sliced. Full of bowl-o'-red kickin' goodness. Remember BrianR can throttle it way back just by leaving the hot pepper out of the mix and thus letting the subtleties of the milder peppers come out.

Made some homemade guac, too, featuring minced garlic, shallot, a jalapeno, fine chopped tomato, salt, and lime juice squeezed from the fruit. Fortunately, some of our supply of avocados was ripe enough. Them fruits gotta be truly squishy. The hard ones haven't developed their flavor yet, and are tough.

Robert, perhaps it is because the lessons sent through pain are the ones that annoy the fuck out of us -- we grow mulish. Oh, and I haven't looked into yoga, at least not yet. Martial arts can do yoga-like things for a fellow, too. Physical endeavors plus mental exercise seem to do something mighty useful for the human being... it's a thing that makes you go hmmm... or Om. Aikido is particularly... meditative. You can learn a good quality of meditation in an Aikido dojo. And it's a nice gesture of thanks to bring the sensei some incense sticks or cones.