Is one cutlet the same as every cutlet? Well, yes and no, sometimes. Raynard cut meat after school and on weekends through high school and he’s been here ever since. Early on he sold me on the pin bone as the best bargain in steaks. The pin bone is the first cut from the sirloin area of the beef loin. This steak looks much like the beef loin T-bone and porterhouse steaks in that it contains the T-bone the large eye muscle and the tenderloin muscle. However, it also contains an oval-shaped bone called the pin bone that is the tip portion of the hip bone.

“You can never go down to the same river twice,” he says, “Do you ever get bored with sex?  Imagine the gunfight in ‘High Noon’ with AK-47s.”

By now he can debone a leg of lamb with less than ten percent of his mental capacity. The remaining ninety, undisciplined, finds its way on its own. He has not led an unexamined life, he is deliberate and has deliberated. The biggest recent surprise in his life is that his lady friend recently experienced an unplanned pregnancy and kept the baby.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. Walter Benjamin

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