Winter soup, reados, and car fixes

 Last evening, I found there was supposed to be an easy fix for when the tire pressure light won't go off after the tires have been properly inflated. Mine was one, which made me very suspicious of whether the dealer guys had in fact checked when I asked them to the recent time I was there for a new battery, but anyway, there it was, it came on.

Neighbor took great care, found two tires a bit low, adjusted everything, he has a tool for everything, including a tire inflator thing.All the more suspicious that that couldn't have happened in the week since I was in to the dealership.  Rethinking my loyalty to them now.  Neighbor asked about the alert light still on.  Tires were fine, light was on.  I said last time I noticed that, I'd had tires inflated locally, then asked at the dealership, who said, no, the customer can't do that, we will do it for you.  I now realize they were treating me like a dippy old lady, and I absolutely could do it myself.  

So I went out this morning to find the button the YouTube video showed me, to reset the tire pressure system.  And there it wasn't.  No sign of it. Oh. So, determined, I went into vehicle settings and blundered about, found calibration, no idea what it was but said, okay do that.  It did, I guess, then an exit screen came up, and I exited. And the alert light was off, yay.

On the way there I'd accidentally found out various interesting things, including my oil level, fine, my average mph, also fine, and managed to get the total mileage restored instead of the trip mileage.  And did it all while keeping the English menu up. Phew.

Then I thought I'd better find out more, and between google and youtube found it's necessary to do this after any change to the tires. Calibration is the magic thing to do. So now I know.

Moving on from a minor success to more important things.  Lunch.  This is where I got out that broccoli leaf soup kit I put together, carrot, scallions, broccoli leaves, added chicken stock, and their idea of great seasoning was a pinch of salt and a dash of pepper. So I did salt, but also a teaspoon of curry powder. That's not enough for heat, just enough for a lovely warm depth of flavor. Also chicken stock cubes.

And I decided that sausages, hot Italian chicken, would go fine in here, too.

 

So here's the kit cooking nicely, with the sausage chunks browning in the background, ready to add once the soup is cooked and blended.

 And here's lunch. Also it made five more lunches while I was at it.  And it's really good.  Definitely recommend you make a soup of broccoli leaves if you haven't before.  I will enjoy this. Must remember it.  It's a powerhouse sort of food, too.  And very welcome on another freezing winter day.

And I did another reado today.  I follow Moose Allain, a very funny cartoonist, and sometimes have to check the cultural assumptions he makes in order to get the joke.  Today the point of the panel was the word contraction.  Which I instantly read as contradiction..and had to see comments on it before I went back and saw the joke by, um, reading the word as written.

It strikes me that reados are a bit like my hearos, too.  I don't have volume issues with hearing, but slight distortion ones.  So if I heard contraction, it's very likely it would sound like contradiction, my hearing often adding in a syllable on the way to the brain for some reason.  Like the vision correction I need, to knock out the extra outlines caused by astigmatism.  I wonder if anyone has linked these up. Think of the credentials you could get out of this study. And the inventions you might trigger.