Category: Fighting Dharma
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Buttermilk for Baking
Fluid Milk Milk Milk, discussed in a reasonably useful Wikipedia entry, is the milk of dairy cows, processed. The fluid milk used in baking, by commercial bakers and home bakers, in Europe and America is mainly cows’ milk. Milk must be taken to a dairy plant to be processed within hours after being harvested in…
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2023 Rides
My spreadsheet for 2023 is published as a Google Sheet on my Google Drive account. I rode my Cannondale Topstone. I rode 6,638.6 Km. I continued to make notes of maintenance. I continued to lubricate the drive train with paraffin. I changed the tires and tubes during the year. Recovery from surgery in January restricted…
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Elevations
Endless I will modify and add to this post. (It is an endless post.) Devices and Technological Garmin Edge 130 elevations My Garmin Edge 130 cycling computer was an “entry level” GPS device with a barometric altimeter. That model is no longer on the market. It has some entry level product issues. The software was…
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Distances from CRD 3
Endless I moved to NW Esquimalt to the house I refer to as location CRD3 in late June, 2023. I have noted distances from home on the routes I ride often. There are many ways of adding to a ride; I am concentrating on simple routes. This post will be updated without a change in…
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Vic West, CRD 2
I moved to Victoria West in 2020, part of the City of Victoria on the Esquimalt side of the Gorge, west of urban Victoria. As of November 2020, I was north (or west) of the Bay Street Bridge, north of the Johnson Street Bridge, near the Selkirk Trestle. I was few hundred m. west of…
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Escape Collective
Cycling Tips Magazine In my view, CyclingTips was the leading source of information on maintaining and repairing bicyles in 2020, 2021 and 2022. CyclingTips started as an online magazine (web publication in 2008; commercial web publication in 2013). It was published successfully as a web publication, with associated podcasts and other internet content. The Nerd…
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Hypertension
Resources Wikipedia Wikipidia entries provide information on the science and Medical professions professional views of subjects relevant to hypertension: Salt and sodium: Governments USA The US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service’s FoodData Central (“USDA FDC”) can search 5 data sets. It may be necessary to search in each set. The American government collects or…
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2022 Rides
My spreadsheet for 2022 is published as a Google Sheet on my Google Drive account. Good year. I rode my Cannondale Topstone. I rode 6095.1 Km. I rode with a hernia. Medical care was slow. I made more notes of maintenance this year than in the past. I started lubricating the drive train with paraffin.…
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Bread Baking, 2022
Bread Machine Repair Seized up My Zojirushi Virtuoso model BB-PAC20 bread machine stopped working on June 27, 2022. The pan would not even seat on the drive connectors in the machine. One of the drive shafts was seized. The pan was already loaded with unmixed ingredients for a light rye bread. I dumped the ingredients…
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Sodium in Bread
Sodium Health Bread has some sodium without salt, but the main source of sodium is salt. Humans can taste salt but cannot know how, by taste, much salt is in their food, or how much sodium they are consuming. The reasons that have not been explained by anatomical research on the human sensory organs. (“salt…