This is Day 15 with no TV, although it’s harder to avoid than you think.  I have watched a small amount of TV since my lady folded on Day 2 with the Little House on the Prairie initiative after Nellie Oleson called her ugly in front of the other girls.  She immediately ran back home, started crying, and then watching Felicity re-runs.  I’m staying strong outside of some Chelsea Lately last night only because I ran out of daylight and was forced to watch whatever she was until bed time.  She is requiring me to replace the remote today. 

During this time, I’ve found myself engaging in subjects I normally don’t regard with interest.  I’ve also done a significant amount of grilling, which I enjoy.  So, somewhere in here, I mentioned to my girlfriend that she should chip in on the effort and make some sourdough bread.  She balked at the idea until I pointed to the “WWLID” bracelet I made her out of a squirrel skin I tanned the other day.  The problem she claims is that her mother says you must have some kind of starter kit from another individual, who has a batch of Sourdough currently in process. 

So, let me get this straight.  According to my gf’s mother, the roots of every portion of Sourdough Bread that we consume can be traced back thousands, or millions, of years depending on your beliefs of how we got here.  I started to immediately Google, but I remembered this would be outside the realm of Barking Carnival/Double T Nation/Red Raider Sports and I’m relying on people for all my news.  I had no idea Sourdough Bread was this old, but it provided a lot of closure for me on why I found one of Santa Ana’s hairs in my biscuit the other day at the cafe down the street.  So, before you bite into another piece of Sourdough Bread, you might want to take up my new practice of mashing it up with a fork first to check for artifacts.  I found an arrowhead the other day in my sandwich bread at Panera, and what appears to be 14th Century Ming pottery shards at Jason’s Deli.

Dedfischer’s personal collection of Sourdough Artifacts on consignment now at the Dallas Museum of Natural History until 6/30/09.