My wife has been visiting her parents, so I have been living the life of a bachelor, which is a bit odd. I bought some steak and eggs and meats. It is odd because the tacit assumption is that the man has to eat more simply without his woman because he is culinarily retarded. However I am not a caveman; I do the cooking. The absence of the woman doesn't mean I lack any of the resources that were present with her. It is just that I slip into steak and eggs when she's not around. Isn't that the basis of a ketogenic diet? Maybe I'll lose some weight.
I bought some charcuterie meats which I cannot even spell without consulting a lexicon. I know they're bad for me with all that nitrates, but when the cat's away the mice will lay the groundwork for cancer. I made a mustard with yellow mustard seeds, salt, curry mixture, and lemon juice. The lemon juice instead of a vinegar was a bit much. It is a very strong presence in the mustard.
So that's what I had for a little lunch. As a nod towards getting back to normal, I made a batch of anasazi beans. That sounds really fancy and they look very much like heirloom beans...but after you cook them, they're tantamount to pinto beans. I added an entire bunch of cilantro and an obscene amount of bouquet garni just to get some green things back into my diet. I also added a few handfuls of other things such as a salt mixture I have that has some tumeric and orange peel, and an onion mixture I have that has a bunch of chives and scallions in it, and I may or may not have thrown in some garlic powder; I cannot remember.
And as far as fret maps are concerned, I use a specialized dom dim fret board map that I created that only has the notes in my scale. I keep it on my manhasset and if I'm playing some chords around the 10th fret, I will secretly look at the map in the corner of my eye and see where all the nearby notes are located. I'm improvising and I just have to wonder about that process. Of course when you watch professionals on stage they do not have fret board maps sitting around as mnemonic devices, but how did they prepare for the stage? By the time they step on stage did they already study their maps and have they already set up their "improv"? Or do they have it all in their head and is that the ideal to which I should be aiming.
These are the kinds of things that keep me up at night. Or at least for five minutes because I have a very clean conscious and I sleep very well to the chagrin of my insomniatic wife