Sandor from wildfermentation.com sent out this invitation yesterday. It’s a web-broadcast 2 day live demo of mad fermenting! here is his letter….

Hello friends,

I m venturing into new media as part of my effort to scale back
traveling while continuing to spread fermentation fervor.

On June 7 and 8, I will be teaching an intensive 2-day webinar, to
be broadcast live over the internet from 10AM-4PM (Pacific daylight
time) both days. We will be making kraut, miso, tempeh, natto, kefir,
amazake, mead, fish sauce, sourdough, porridge, and idli. Internet
viewers will be able to email questions, and participants will
receive an edited DVD recording of the workshop. The cost of the
workshop is $60. For further information and registration, visit
http://www.academyofspirit.com/sandor.html
.

Also look for me starting in June on You Tube. By the time I send out
my summer workshop schedule in a few weeks, I hope to have some videos
posted and links to send.

That s all for now. I hear the garden calling&

Sandor

This is going to be awesome. Sandor’s book also titled ‘Wild Fermentation’ is practically holy scripture in my home. I’ll be there Sandor, thanks for bubbling my way =)

J

yes, me. I just want lots of monies. No moar bloggins’. I’m at Mom’s house until Saturday. We’re going to go pick up grandma and grandpa soon too. Nate and I have been having a good time. We’ve played hackeysack, baseball, and diablo 2 for the last few days. And mom let him stay home from school a bit too. Morgan’s been really busy working on this dance show she’s in. I got to see some of it last night. It was pretty fantastic. I am so proud to think she’s my little sister. I’ve been helping mother make lots of good food. We started a batch of kimchi, some banana honey raw milk kefir, some bubbly honey ferment, and some sunflower sprouts.

Nate and I were down in the basement and it was dark…and we had found this scythe. I was wearing my black hoody with a dark black hood. And so Gorgi comes sauntering down the stairs…he is their little white Doggie…pretty cute, and he still has his balls. Actually he’s a father of an entire litter of puppies that we know of. Well..Gorgi took one look at me and let out a noise kind of like a toilet choking. So I brandished the scythe menacingly and ran at him…he backpeddled over himself and turned around, and just plain bulletted up the staircase, across the room.

Okay. I don’t want money. I miss you Mariah! I just recharged the batteries on my camera, and went looking through the photos. There is a giant stone mushroom I found out in the forest. It’s at least 15 tall, and wow!

We brought Gma and Gpa back home, they get to sleep in Mom’s bed, Mom and Mike are sleeping in Nate’s bed, and I’m sleeping on the futon. Nate’s sleeping on the floor.

Gorgi pee’d all over the couch when i scared him and he wouldn’t come near me all night, but then I gave him a cookie and he’s all smiles.

I went in and stole the Mouse from Nate’s laptop so i dunt have to use the touch pad. And I gave Morgan a kiss as she slept.

I once forsake computers…lasted around a year and half. I was a lot happier, I smoked a lot more pot. You know who you are Kierstin Kohn! But overall it was a good thing. Now that I’m back and plugged in, I grip the little pixelus digitus with a vengeance! I can spend a LOT of time on the computer. Between work and home life, it’s probably at least 12 hours a day. Like damn. I hope no one finds out! :P

When I was a kid and living at home, I’d sneak up at night to play on the computer. For seventh and eighth grade, I would get up at 4:30am every morning to logon to everquest for a few hours before school. I loved it, I was at once having to be extremely sneaky and quiet, rebelling against my parent’s rules, and escaping this world into something liquid and magical.

It’s less rewarding these days…i can has distraktshunz…? But here I am. Lonely or not. Shiverpeg. I would go mad without the computer, all things aside, and I’ll go crazy with it anyway. So i realized that Morgan listens to some of the same hiphop that Robyn and I roll with in the car. She’s turning 13 this year. She must just be much cooler then I was. I didn’t even know what music was until I was probably 15 at least.

fish! i just feel weak.tired. I shouldn’t share that with people. I found Rachael Perrell online. I haven’t seen her in my dreams in years. There was a terribly violent and disturbing(yet spirited and empowering) one the other night that prompted me to go look for her again. Low and behold…facebook. Ahhhha! She was part of some highly organized underground movement to knock off a large economic hub for some entire region of future world. They all knew they were going to die in the process, and cause the deaths of many many many more people. And they did. They’re entire lives build up to that point, and then they were gone. But not without leaving a mark. I remembered them.

here’s something funny…i don’t feel intimidated by very intelligent people, even very intelligent people with lots of degrees. I work with them all day long, they’re just people. Yet, when you have a very intelligent girl, a college degree, and some level of personal attraction…whack. I feel intimidated. I liked Rachael as a middle school boy, and even though I’ve never talked to her until now some 10 odd years later, she does crop up in my dreams now and again, always in very lucid, very powerful ones, So i’ve had a aegis crush on dreamworld Rachael for some years…and now talking to her even over facebook, i don’t know what to say. i just want to talk to her.

i don’t ever feel intimidated with Marta though, maybe i know already she values me for me. When Marta got her degree it was kind of exciting, almost like I got one myself!

a fishing WILD movie scooter showed me when i slept on his couch. Equilibrium. What a bad mindtrip. I have to show dad. I-N-T-E-N-S-E! oh here’s something I should have spoken about yet i kept my mouth closed…

I’m going to speak directly to you Scott, because you are reading this right *now*, hah! You don’t trust me in the tiniest bit if I smoke pot. why the fish? Are you afraid it’s not me there behind that face? Are you awkward because you feel like you’re invading my space? Is it an acceptance thing, like by speaking honest to me you’d be accepting everything that has went into my body lately? WHYYYYY? Is it just purely the Pot? You just don’t like it that much? I’m confused…maybe if I was one of those talkative social stoners…you get them high and everybody thinks they’re the kitten’s cake, *Tyler Morgan* /cough. I’m not. I’m just quiet, and I like to cuddle up with a puppy or a nice girl. But the movie was definitely bomb.

well, there are times when i don’t like pot too i suppose. but really though, it sure is a nice way to mellow down your evening. i always have so many damned things racing through my head like a bunch of nubile teenage easter bunnies…they never actually get anything done, but they always WANT too. And if I want to chill out and watch a movie per say…it’s so much easier for me to get into it if i’m a bit stoned. maybe one might say that I shouldn’t be watching movies if thats the case, and i think that could be valid.

anyway, it’s not so important. i’m sorry i bring it into your life =( i really liked hanging out with you. Hannah seems to be doing very well, she definitely has a good head on her shoulders. Kelsey has probably been through a lot in the last year or so. I’m sure it’s been hard on her. You should make a trip up to montana during the summer. Just let me know as you start to plan =)

Robert looked like a nice guy, i approve as long as you don’t let him do you up the butt ! haha…say hi to Jesse for me, and bye to uncle Kenny. We’ll catch up later Scooter, goodnight. btw if you or you or YOU is reading this…and you want to say something. by all means, tell me i’m full of shazbot if thats wuts crankin yo cap!

okay 12:33 am, t-4 to oblivion!

I put a website at dothings.org last night, I have the first couple days of posts in queue. We’re going to low-tech, simple, and fun.

I’m also going to put up an affiliate site at golden4cash.info, it’s kind of an experiment with cookie stuffing, ppc advertising, and if redirects. If you want to help me pay my bills, you could go click on it and fill out some fake information on the front page and hit submit. You will make me $14.25, and if you use fake info, you won’t get bombarded by ads!

We’re working on installing Kaseya at work, it’s a purty sick managed services client, to hell with n-able. Timothy and I found a designer, Elizabeth, to work with us over at purebulk.com. I’m proud to say that I built the server that is running all of our sites(not this one, this one is a dreamhost site) they actually have decent hosting. I’d like to move ALL of my websites over to my server one day, but I don’t have the tools built yet to be able to effectively manage them. I’m not so good with apache yet, and im doing it all by hand. There are lots of good software pieces I can use, like cpanel11, i’d love…but they’re too expensive. By the way, if you go sign up for a host at that dreamhost link, you will earn me $97 dollars.

Bill and I were sipping the robotussin all day at work. Bill is our PHP programmer. Penny gave us looks a couple of times, but nobody else noticed :P He found these bottles for sale at biglots that are like totally pure unbuffered dextromorphan…with no acetominaphine.

I’m driving down to denver either tonight or tomorrow morning. It’s a long drive, I’ll get to be by my self. I haven’t seen Scott or Marta in such a long time, I don’t even remember when, at least a year I suppose. Miguel came up to visit me this year, we had some good times, and we didn’t do anything expansively dangerous either.

I get to talk to Scott still too, I like Scott. Scott is a lot of things, and liked by Jared does in fact happen to be one of them. You hear that Scott? I like you! Yeah. So there! :P Anyway dood, we need to play some serious magic when I come visit, mmmm’kay? Like for reals…

Yes, I’ll go see Marta, and Scott, and Miguel for the first few days…and then around Monday I’m going to head up to eagle to see my family. What do I do for the long drives? Well…It depends…but I like to keep the temperature fluxing…I put down the windows for 30-40 minutes and freeze out, and then while they’re still down I crank the heat …and then the windows go up slowly…a bit more and the heat starts to go down..then maybe the airflow comes on, but outside cold air…then it goes off for a bit(its kinda noisy)…then maybe it gets hot, and i put the windows down. Good we’ve made it 67 miles! Just 893 left. Maybe we’ll listen to some chili peppers, or jim morrison. I can really let my voice out when I’m along on the highway, singing into the wind. It’s not as pretty as Marta’s, and not as fine as Scott’s, but it’s mine and i like it to keep me company.

Maybe I’ll scream in the wind for a few miles…then hold my hand out the window if it’s rainy or cold and see how long it can stay.

If I was clever I brought some goods with me, bouza or kimchi are good car riders for the first 65% of the trip. After that it’s red bull, chocolate, and (shhh, don’t tell my mother) sometimes some tobacco. When you’ve still got 300 miles left, and it’s like 1am, tobacco is wonderful on the highway. I’m kind of defensive about that I think, my father smokes…he’s done it on or off for a long time. I like the rich dark tobacco you get at the pipe shop, the stuff that emanates like old wood. Cigarettes really are gross.

There is something transcendent about highways, maybe the same thing happens with walking…? You’re just right there, nothing to worry about behind you, and nothing to fret over in front of you..just keep rolling down the highway…slip slidin away, eh Jesse?

My attention span is slipping now, is 422, i can haz stimulashunz? ttfn

Melyon hangs out at my work after school somedays. She draws some freakin COOL photos. Here is ghengis khan riding a cthulhu dragon mount.

Here is wolf girl.

Melyon has a gallery up at deviant art, here. I noticed that it is a PR2 subdomain…that’s pretty impressive for a DA site I think. I could be wrong.

I’m working on a macbook pro for one of our Lawyer clients. It’s so gorgeous….! It’s a core 2 duo 2.4 with 2gb of dd667 and an nvidia 8600m! It’s probably faster then my desktop I’m sure. And the software is all sooo smooth. Shit just works. It’s almost like you get to spend time using the computer, instead of spending time trying to make it work. :P I like trying to make them work though!

My backlink script is making good progress, and I am feeling better about php every day. Okay bye now.

er…that must have been a typo. what i meant was LAX day at terrazoa ! I’m crunching down a big ol’ excel spreadsheet at work. I was up until 2:30 last night. I worked all day, when I got off, I drove to timothy’s house. We worked on http://purebulk.com until about midnight. I think I managed to put my elementary[wish i could say elemental] php skills to good use. I think I worked around the problem that has been plaguing timothy for months. It was an overcharge/undercharge bug. But I still wish I had ELEMENTAL php skills….how freakin cool!?

so when I got home I started looking into repairing this dead LCD timothy gave me. It’s samsung syncmaster 204b…like a 21″ widescreen with 5ms latency…and I’m about 99% sure that the backlight is out. The thing flickers a lot and takes forever (say 2 hours) to heat up enough to see. But once it’s heated up all the way, it’s a champ. You can buy CCFL screen backlights for like $12 online. I’ve already got a couple ordered and we’re going to see if we can scavenge this beautiful beast.

so 1am hello. Divine Divinity! I finally remembered this game, from a demo i saw years ago, it’s a diablo like dungeon crawling rpg and i got 1 hr of playtime in before i came up through an underground tunnel into an encampment full of orcs which proceded to butcher me like a rotten whale airlifted into the amazon.

okay, bedtime!