# Made 2 Oaths Tonight - ROOPHLOCH 2024

2024-09-08 - [53] 6:22

It's after bar close currently. I made 2 oaths to the bartender tonight by the end of 2025. At the moment, I'm sitting right outside of my house on the sidewalk in the pitch dark of the middle of the night writing this so it can be a part of ROOPHLOCH 2024, as I hope all posts this month qualify for.

Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2024 [Gemini]

As I said, there were 2 particular oaths I made. It's not quite Winter Nights yet and is a full season and some change away from New Year's Day. That said, I made 2 oaths and they were:

- Learn all 88 constellations (of course there can be or are more than that depending on cultures, but when it comes to reciting for instance Orion and Cassiopeia, there are 88 constellations folks go with) and be able to recognize most of them in the sky, if not the vast majority.
- Memorize and be able to recite the entire script of Abbott & Costello's "Who's On First" skit.

This post is a bit short, so I'll mention some things I did in the last day

## Grilled Brats

I had made some sauerkraut in June and am finishing up said sauerkraut with some brats I grilled today. All tasty as heck. As I ate the brats with sauerkraut, I was thinking of which hotdish I will make first this coming season. If there is an archetype of "Minnesota Lutheran" culturally, I feel like that archetype has been coursing through my spirit this last day. I'm incredibly excited to be able to make Supper In a Pumpkin and Tater Tot Hotdish again!

Supper In a Pumpkin
Tater Tot Hotdish

## Made Salsa With Fresh Veggies

Someone in my neighborhood gave me a lot of super fresh tomatoes and let me pick jalapenos. A friend also in my neighborhood gave me some fresh cobs of sweet corn. As such, I made some salsa. I'm super excited to taste it in 1-2 days. Had to shift around the recipe because there weren't "2 large jalapenos", but instead a lot of young jalapenos. Not sure how this salsa will taste compared to the previous stuff I made, but the ingredients were much fresher, more local, and even with imported ingredients, this salsa tastes heckin good. Promised the bartender some of the salsa sometime on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. They seem to like it when I make it and hopefully these fresh ingredients make it taste even better!

Fermented Salsa Recipe

With the fresh tomatoes and jalapenos, this salsa is really colorful and likely super packed with flavor! Got green, yellow, orange, red, and deep blood red. Quite a bit of that might blend as the fermentation happens, but this salsa is a super fast ferment of 1-2 days compared to like 2+ weeks for sauerkraut.

## Who's On First

I made the oath specifically to just memorize and be able to recite the script before the end of 2025, but I think at some point I might extend that to being able to do that even at the end of December 2025. That will keep this challenge from being a "memorize it quickly and you're done" challenge. No promises yet there, but it would be nice if I could keep an oath to the end of the year.

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