Ice Bucket Challenge + Fedora

Wow, it's been a while! A redditor posted a challenge that involved performing the Ice Bucket Challenge. For those who don't know, the Ice Bucket Challenge is a recent trend where a nominated person would have to face the choice of dumping ice water on their head or donating $100 to ALS research. Typically, the person has 24 hours to complete the challenge, or they are considered to forfeit by way of donation. The person would then nominate several other people, who must then face the challenge and around and around we go.

(Note: In order to avoid being a horrible person, it is customary to donate regardless of water dumpage.)

At the time of this writing, $41.8 million has been donated!

So a certain redditor has issued the challenge to anyone in exchange for two months of reddit gold.

The only condition is that I read a certain script beforehand, which he has sent me, and I should preferably be sporting a fedora and neckbeard. Tragically, I do not have a neckbeard. Equally tragic is that I do have a fedora...

Pizza Roulette!

I've accepted a challenge to play a game of Pizza Roulette! You can read over the challenge HERE! It's like Russian Roulette, except that instead of a bullet, one slice of pizza will be loaded up with a Ghost Pepper. So it's actually a bit worse than Russian Roulette.

Here are the rules:

Buy Pizza

Load one slice of pizza with the ghost pepper (one of the world's hottest peppers, you can buy this online or at some shops)

Cook it!

Put the pizza onto any object that spins well and will hold the whole pizza comfortably.

Spin the pizza around.

Eat the slice facing you.

Hope that the slice isn't loaded with pure agony.

If you cannot prove that you have put the ghost pepper on the pizza, no gold for you. You can't use any other type of chilli.

Reward: One month of Reddit Gold.

Seems simple enough. Here I go!

Bonus Round! Rules are:

•  Do not drink milk/any other substance that stops chilli pain within a minute of eating the slice of doom.
• Eat the entire slice of pizza with the chilli on. No crapping out after one or two bites.
• No screaming/moaning in agony.
• After eating the cursed slice (and before drinking anything to cure the pain), you must cry out the following: "/u/ConsiderablyMediocre is the greatest, I can not thank him any more for placing this wonderful gift upon me!"
• Play black metal in the background while playing, to prove your manliness. You must sing along to it after eating the slice and before drinking anything to cure the pain. Whether you do this before or after proclaiming your love for me is your choice.
• Also mention Ol_Dirty_Man.

Reward: Two months of Reddit Gold, a hand written congratulatory letter, and a hand drawn depiction of my suffering.

This was a bit more of a challenge. The song playing in the background in Infinite Fields of Mind, by Abigail Williams. Enjoy!

Shatner Style Spoken Word Challenge

A challenge has been issued! Someone in /r/GoForGold has posted a challenge titled "Sing a song of your choice Shatner style. 2 months of gold to the 2 best submissions."

Rules:

1. Video tape self  "singing" any song in the style of William Shatner's "Rocket Man".
2. Upload to YouTube.
3. Best 2 videos will recieve 2 months of Reddit Gold each.

I really agonized over what song to butcher. I was trying to decide between TLC's "No Scrubs" and the Dueling Banjo's from Deliverance (the song was not required to have lyrics).

However, I recently found out that, after a 3 year hiatus, homestarrunner.com has updated! In order to commemorate this momentous event in internet history, I have selected the song, Trogdor, as my entry.

Enjoy!

Cosmos Challenge

Rex_Mundi has issued an interesting challenge. I had to play him at a game he invented called Cosmos. They game is free and can be found HERE!!! It was actually really fun! It's sort of a strange cross between poker and cribbage, but there's a twist at the end of the game where almost anyone can win, dependng on their strategy and luck throughout the game.

I played a few rounds by myself just to get a feel for the game. Rex was also there in the lobby and was very friendly and able to answer questions. When the time came for us to have a four-way game with two other players, he was pretty patient and explained all the game mechanics to us.

It took me a few rounds to really get the hang of everything, but once I got it, it was a great game. If I can, I'm going to check out the tournament later this month and see if I can win some cash!

A Dozen Eggs in 3 Minutes

SeeScottRock, who is currently one of my favorite challengers, posted a another food challenge called A SLIGHTLY LESS ASANINE EATING CHALLENGE!!!

The rules are:

1.) MAKE A DOZEN HARD BOILED (GRADE A LARGE FROM A CHICKEN, YOU LOOPHOLE FINDING NUTJOBS) EGGS.

2.) SET A TIMER FOR 3 MINUTES.

3.) EAT AS MANY EGGS AS YOU CAN (WHOLE, NO BITES. PUT THE WHOLE EGG IN YOUR MOUTH AND CHEW ON IT, ONE AT A TIME) IN THAT 3 MINUTES.

4.) ONE MONTH OF GOLD PER 4 EGGS. UP TO 3 MONTHS IS YOUR REWARD. NOTHING IF YOU VOMIT.

5.) P.S. - NO LIQUIDS ;-)

And the Reward:

1 month of Reddit Gold.

I have to admit, I thought this was going to be a piece of cake. Boy,was I wrong. I started off strong, but right around egg five or six I hit a wall. I suddenly just got so sick of the taste. I ended up gagging twice during the challenge.

SeeScottRock mentions in a comment that one of the most difficult parts of the challenge is the dryness of the yolks, much like in the Saltine Challenge, but this wasn't a huge issue for me, but I've hardly eaten all day so maybe my mouth was watering? Who knows...

Also, I totally got the guy's name wrong! In the video I call him SeeScottRun! Dude, if you're reading this, I apologize.

Also also, I totally cough up a chunk of chewed egg yolk on about egg #10, I believe! Oh, the shame...

Here's the video!

Failed Street Magic

Temporarily_Alone has issued a challenge! 

Here are the rules:

1. Approach people in the street asking them if they want to help you with a card trick, sleight of hand or something.
2. Set up the trick however you want (have them pick a card or whatever).
3. Go through the motions of a trick, but at the end it just doesn't work out on purpose (wrong card, sleight doesn't work, etc.). But then you ACT like it was really successful and blew everyone's mind. ("Is this your card?" "N.." "BAZINGA! I did it again, Oh yea!") Then act all pompous and just let the person awkwardly walk away while you are gloating and showing off to the camera and everyone else.
4. Video needs to be original and made after this post. Don't just link to an existing video from someone else.

The Reward: 4 months of Reddit Gold!

 So here's a video of me just outside of the local college embarrassing myself with failed magic tricks!

Temporarily_Alone said that the more awkward the better, so I decided to have some real fun with the last one. Hopefully, I didnt break any rules...

The Random Six-Pack

I took on a challenge to eat six random cans of food out of my pantry.

Rules/Directions:

1. Start rolling that camera.
2. Walk to your pantry.
3. Grab the first 6 cans of food you see.
4. Open and dump half of each can into one bowl.
5. Mix them up.
6. Eat it all.

Reward:

1. 2 months of Reddit Gold.

Here's the video:

By far the sauerkraut and the beets were the worst things in there. Sauerkraut was the worst of the two, by a wide margin. Every bite was just permeated by that sour, acidic taste. Disgusting. 

By the end of it, I poured the juice into a glass and drank the rest of it.

I was gagging periodically which is really more surprising than anything. I've always had a strong stomach. Even the Pepper Challenge didn't upset my stomach, though I did come close to throwing up after the ghost pepper. 

About halfway through this challenge, I wanted pretty badly to just give up. Honestly, the thought crossed my mind that it probably wasn't worth just two months of Gold, but after having come so far I didn't want it to be for nothing.

I did eventually finish the bowl.

Then I cursed SeeScottRock and threw up.

Draw Kate Like One of Your French Girls

I have to warn you. This is an odd one...

I accepted a challenge entitled, "Draw a tasteful nude sketch of Kate Micucci."

I had no idea who this person was. Here's the Wikiepdia page for Kate Micucci.

"Draw me like one of your french girls..."
 - Kate Micucci (Probably)

The original conditions were:

1. As long as there is at least one acceptor, at least one acceptor will receive gold.
2. If there are multiple quality submissions [the submitter of the challenge] will award gold to multiple users, at [his] discretion, up to a maximum of five users.
3. The challenge will remain active for one month from the time of posting, or until the maximum of five rewards has been reached, whichever comes first.

Reward: One month of Reddit Gold.

Pictures had to be hand drawn, but MS Paint was apparently acceptible, judging by a few submissions which had already been rewardig a month of Reddit gold.

I wasn't going to bother with this one because I suck at drawing and I'm just not interested in helping some dude fill out his collection of hand-drawn celebrity porn, but then I had an idea. A few minutes later, I submitted this image:

Micucci Descending a Staircase

Needless to say, my submission was not accepted.

However, it did lead the submitter of the challenge to add three additional criteria to the challenge. These criteria were:

1. Is it recognizably a naked lady?
2. Is it recognizably Kate Micucci?
3. Could a person conceivably be "excited" by it?

In accordance with these three criteria, I posted the following submission:

Les Kate d'Avignon

I received no further response.

Saltine Challenge

I'm attempting the Saltine Challenge, posted by Ramtom in /r/GoForGold.

To avoid confusion, this is not the traditional Saltine Challenge, which is to eat six saltine crackers in a minute or less. Rather, this challenge is simply to eat the most possible in under a minute. More of a contest, really. The one who eats the most in a minute wins.

Here are the rules:

1. You must video tape the challenge for proof.
2. In your video, include proof that you are eating salted saltines, and proof that your mouth is empty after eating the saltines.
3. If you don't show an empty mouth after your last saltine eaten in 60 seconds you will be disqualified.
4. No water until after the video/challenge is done. Must show you aren't smuggling water in your mouth before the start.

Reward: One month of Reddit Gold.

So here is a video of me eating as many saltines as possible. 

UPDATE: I won! One month of Reddit Gold is mine!

Aussie Dox Challenge

I just want to start off by saying that I'm not a stalker because I feel like this post has a better than decent chance of landing me on some sort of government watch list. This is by far the creepiest I've felt doing a challenge so far in my brief run.

A challenge was put up in /r/GoForGold in which the task was to find the name and address of the user and send him a letter. The challenge may be viewed HERE.

For those who may not know, this practice is called Doxxing. "Dox" is a play on "Docs", which is short for "Documents". Doxxing is essentially finding someone's personal information on the internet.

To clarify, this redditor was requesting his own dox, not that we dox someone else. Please do not ever do anything that I describe here. Do not ever dox anyone unless they are requesting their own dox, such as those who post in /r/DoxMe. This is a huge invason of privacy and possibly illegal, depending on the circumstances.

The rules are pretty simple:

1. Find out who [he is], and send a letter to [his] current address.
2. The letter must arrive within the month.
3. Only the internet may be used.

The reward for my effort is one month of Reddit Gold.

This challenge was posted on a public forum, so I don't feel too bad reposting it here, but I feel so shameful over the things I've done over the past few days that I don't even want to refer to the guy by his username. He shall henceforth be refered to as "Waldo".

Forgive me...

So Waldo posts this challenge asking us to find him. Here's what I did and how I did it. I'm going to be a bit vague at times, because I don't want anyone else trying it.

First I read through his comment history. Reddit records every post and comment you make and these are visible to anyone who clicks on your username.

He had posted pretty often in /r/Sydney, but a few months ago, he switched to posting in /r/AskNYC and I found a single post in /r/Brooklyn.

He made one comment in /r/Sydney where he mentioned that he now lived in New York with his wife, to whom he was recently married. I also found a picture of him.

After a while, I figured out what city he lived in in Australia and a good amount of other stuff about his life. I went to Google and tried a bunch of searches. I had a pretty good guess what his first name was based on his username, so I searched for a few dozen combinations of his first name with his past employer, name and city, name and a weekly gathering he hosted. I couldn't find anything. He just wasn't showing up.

I went to Facebook, and tried searching there, too, and I found a Facebook page for /r/Sydney. I tried searching the member list for the name I was guessing was his, but he didn't show up there either.

I tried the Facebook page for the weekly gathering he hosted, too, but he wasn't on there either, possibly because he hadn't been involved in it since he moved to New York a few months ago.

However, this Facebook page had instructions for newcomers who wanted to join the gathering and who they need to talk to to sign up. There was a picture of five people who were said to be in charge now. I figured they had to be pretty close with Waldo if they were able to take over for him when he left. Maybe Waldo was on there Friends lists, but these five in the picture were not listed by name. The photo was tagged with five Reddit usernames.

A lot of people use the same username of every site they go to, so I went to Google and typed in each username. I was able to find the full name and Facebook page of everyone in that photo.

For example, one of the guys used to same username on Steam, which listed his first name and the first letter of his last name. I searched for this on the Facebook pages and found him on the page for /r/Sydney. I then checked his page and Friend list. Waldo was not there. A few more of them had their privacy settings set so that I could not see their Friend lists.

One of them had their settings turned down, though, and Waldo was on there. I wasn't sure if it was him, though, because the profile picture was of a fairly obese woman, but I did have a full first and last name.

I googled the full name and got Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Vimeo and a few others. The pictures on those sites matched the picture I had found posted in Waldo's reddit comments.

I found him!

So I started sifting through his comments and posts on these social media sites, including the obese-lady Facebook page I had found.

After this breakthrough, it actually got really hard for me to find anything else that was useful. I found the names of some friends and family, his wife was tagged in a Facebook album of the wedding, and I found his current employer, but none of that really got me any closer to his address soley using the internet.

One of the things that began to make this difficult for me was that he had moved so recently, and from another country, no less. So there were a lot of free and frightening online directories that he could be showing up in, but he wasn't. In addition, even when I did find contact information for him, it was his former information.

I started looking into his wife, assuming they had the same address, but both her first and last names are so common that way too many results came up and I had no method or patience to narrow it down.

In the end, I contacted Waldo privately and let him know what I had found and how I had found it. Never in my life have I been so happy to fail, and Waldo was a good sport about it and said that if no one else managed to get a letter to him, then the Gold was mine.

I want to share a few things I've learned while doing this. I'm not an expert on online security, and my advice here is not authoratative or comprehensive, just a few things I've noticed.

1. The fact that I can go onto Reddit, click on someone's username and see every comment and post they've ever made is scary. Even if you do not give out actual personal information about yourself on such a site, it's amazing how many clues and traces you leave around which are easy to spot to someone looking for them.
2. The fact that I can go onto Facebook, type in a first name and get a last name is also scary. Facebook has this default autofill thing that works on member lists in groups and on friends lists which makes it way too easy to find people with partial informaiton. Tagging people in photos also seems like an awful idea. That's how I found Waldo's wife.
3. On the subject of Facebook, you can set your privacy setting to whatever you want, but unless your friends do it, too, I can still find you. However, setting your privacy settings to be pretty strict does make it more difficult for me to get anything from your profile once I've found it.
4. Also, I don't think I'll ever set my profile pic to be an actual picture of me again. If someone doesn't know what I look like, they don't know me well enough to be looking at my informaiton anyways and a profile picture is ultimately how I was able to confirm that I'd found the right guy.
5. Don't use the same username on every site you go to. A lot of sites pretend to be secure because they only give out partial information on you, such as a first name and last initial on Steam, but if I have something in common with all of them, such as your username, then I can find all those partial pieces and put them all together myself. Odin help you if your username is also your email address.
6. Don't pick a username that is your name, or a variation of your name, or a reference to your name, or a pun of your name...you get the idea.
7. If you ever start a website from scratch and purchase a domain name, do it through a service that blocks "whois" search tools. Finding the full name, address and phone number of someone close to Waldo was as easy as copying and pasting a web address into one of these search tools. GoDaddy made things very difficult for me, though.

I think the scariest thing about this challenge is not that someone could find my info online, but that anyone could find my info online! I have absolutely zero exerience or knowledge in this sort of thing and with only a few hours of looking I was able to find an absurd amount of information on Waldo and many of his friends and family.

Privacy is no more. I think I'm going to go delete some stuff...

Until next time!

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Complete!

So the Ghost Pepper Challenge is officially complete and I'd just like to share a few thoughts.

First of all, I don't mean to be crude, but because I know some of you are wondering, the peppers were not as spicy coming out as they were going in. This actually really surprised me. I fully expected to have some pretty ridiculous complications in my gastro-intestinals for most of this challenge.

For most of the hotter peppers, I drank a pretty good amount of milk and had some high fat and starchy foods to chase it down, so my only guess is that I managed to break down much of the capsaicin before it reached the other end. That was my goal, I just didn't really think I'd succeed. Even with the final three (Habanero, Ghost Pepper, and Trinidad Moruga Scorpian) I had a pretty sore stomach, but nothing made it all the way through.

Honestly, I was also pretty surprised that I didn't throw any of the peppers up. I've seen Ghost Pepper videos where the person eating the pepper would throw up, and a Trinidad video where the person thought he would. I was heaving for just a moment with the Ghost pepper, and I was worried I was about to puke in a friend's sink, and I think I came pretty close with the Trinidad Scorpian, but in both cases, it never happened.

Biological issues aside, I did receive a few things at the end of this challenge:

1. 3 months of Reddit Gold from DiavelNJ, Gentleman and Scholar.
2. "Fire-Eater" Title in /r/GoForGold
3. Bragging rights and a few cool stories.

Redditor_in_Wild has yet to show up with the one month of Reddit Gold he promised, but I'm not too heartbroken about it.

So that's about it. I'd be happy to answer more questions in the comments, but that's about all I have for now!

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 10 - Trinidad Moruga Scorpian (1,500,000 - 2,000,000 SHU)

There is a scene in Dante's Purgatory in which Dante has to walk through a cleansing flame to progress on his journey. Of that flame he says, "I would have cast me into molten glass to cool me, when I enter'd ; so intense rag'd the conflagrant mass."

These are literally the most appropriate words I can think of to describe my experience of eating the Trinidad Moruga Scorpian.

This was one of the most uncomfortable moments of my entire life. All of the same effects were there as with the Ghost Pepper, but they were all so much worse. My entire face and throat felt like it was vibrating. My lips felt like they were on fire. My mouth, tongue and throat felt like I had swallowed sand, or thumbtacks. Red hot thumbtacks.

Like Hellraiser, this pepper introduced me to new sensations in levels of intensity which were previously unimaginable.

I have literally never felt anything like this in my entire life...

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 9 - Ghost Pepper (855,000 - 1,463,700 SHU)

Well, I just ate a Ghost Pepper. Due to technical difficulties, I decided to skip the Red Savina. If I ever get my hands on one, I'll still eat it, but I got impatient and just wanted to eat the Ghost Pepper.

By the way, I would like to thank the wonderful gentleman at Pexpeppers.com for providing the last few peppers. Excellent service, very polite, patient, accomodating. If this were eBay, they'd get the coveted "Great Service A++++++++++++++++".

This pepper was a surprise. It was immediately unbearable. No build, no subtle rise in heat. It just exploded in a fireball of pain and regret. This is literally the most miserable I've been in a long, long time and it's the most pain I've felt in a long, long time. 

The pepper actually popped when I bit into it and you can hear it quite easily on the video. My breath was so peppery, that my friend who was present was complaining about the smell. She was sitting about 5 or 6 ft away. My entire face was tingling so bad it felt like I was being electrocuted.  My eyeballs were tingling.

At one point in the video, I mention that it feels like pins and needles in my whole mouth. I want to clarify this. I don't mean that feeling like when your leg falls asleep. I mean it literally felt like thousands of sharp, pointy bits of metal jabbing at the flesh in my mouth and throat.

I was trying desperately to think of something to sing. I'm not a singer. Here's the video...

So that's it! We'll see if my resolve holds out a few more days though. I may just go one pepper farther.....

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 8 - Habanero Pepper (100,000 - 350,000 SHU)

Oh man, this one actually got me pretty good. This is, by far, the hottest pepper I've had yet, and it actually tasted like it. I'm typing this a few hours after eating it and my stomach still hurts pretty good.

My whole face went numb, I was sweating, my eyes were watering. Oh man, this one was good...

I think I'm gonna take a break for a day or so before I attempt the Red Savina...

But I'm still going for it...

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 7 - Thai Pepper (50,000 - 100,000 SHU)

Today's pepper was the Thai Pepper. Specifically, it was the Thai Dragon Pepper. This pepper was pretty intense, but I think I'd still call it a disappointment because I had such high expectations for it. I mean, sure, it was really hot. In fact, it wasn't really "spicy" as much as just "painful", but I've had peppers similar than this in the Philippines called Siling Labuyo and I was hoping for a kick on par with those.

Nevertheless, these peppers were very hot.

I had a pretty horrible realization today, though. I've eaten 7 out of 10 peppers. I have three left, the Habanero, the Red Savina, and the Ghost Pepper. However, I've only gotten though about 10% of the Scoville scale! This means that 90% of this challenge's heat is in these three peppers!

So these next three will really test my resolve and my digestive track. Here's the Thai Pepper.

Tomorrow is the Habanero. See you then ... I hope ...

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 6 - Cayenne Powder (30,000 - 50,000 SHU)

This one is going to take some explanation...

I looked for a long time to find a fresh cayenne pepper. I looked in every local store I could find. I looked online. I even asked around on /r/SpicySwap. 

For the life of me, I cannot seem to find a fresh, whole cayenne pepper. The closest I've come is Cayenne powder and a few hot sauces.

So I had to settle for powder.

I know that the scoville ratings for cayenne powders vary quite a bit. I tried to find one that didn't have any other ingredients, just the ground pepper. Conventional wisdom says that drying a pepper does not significantly change its scoville rating. Grinding it to powder would not significantly change it unless certain parts, such as the seeds, are left out.

In addition, I felt, for safety's sake, that I should add something to the powder in order to keep this from turning into a horrible, horrible variation on the Cinnamon Challenge. 

I added just a little bit of water. I chose water because, once again, it does nothing to cool the heat of the pepper.

So in the video, the paste you see on the spoon is a mix cayenne powder, and a small amount of water.

If anyone has any objections to the way I've approached this level, let me just say that I totally share your concerns. Find me a fresh cayenne pepper and I'll eat it.

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 5 - Serrano Pepper (10,000 - 23,000 SHU)

Well, I think I've finally gotten to the point where the peppers are getting interesting. The first few were a huge, boring disappointment, as expected. The Jalapeno was surprisingly hot. Now the Serrano was pretty significant.

It took four tries, though. I ate three peppers, which was all I had. The second one was the only one with any real heat, but it wasn't even as bad as the Sriracha sauce. I ran out and bought one more, thinking that maybe I just picked a few duds. I picked the largest, ripest looking one there, and I sure picked a winner...

I still haven't broken a sweat, but for some reason these peppers are making my face tingle. Can anyone tell me if that's normal?

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 4 - Jalapeno (2,500 - 8,000 SHU)

I'm thoroughly humbled right now. The jalapeno still wasn't all that bad overall, but I'll admit that it had a much bigger kick than I thought it would. I've had raw jalapenos in the past many times, but I've never had one like this. It wasn't really the spiciness that was bad as much as the fact that I just wasn't ready for it.

It wasn't so bad that I was dying for milk or anything, but I'm getting to the point where I might need a glass handy for future peppers. My next pepper is potentially three times hotter than this one.

For the sake of variety, after I ate the raw pepper, I tried to down a few of those little slices you get jarred at the store. Their heat was nothing compared to the raw pepper. In fact, I stopped eating them because they almost felt like they were cooling my mouth off.

So that's the jalapeno. I told you I would lose my arrogance once I hit a pepper that really got to me. This was it. I really wasn't expecting it to burn like it did.

This pepper has won my respect...

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 3 - Anaheim Pepper + Sriracha Sauce (1000-2000 SHU)

Today I had an Anaheim Pepper. These peppers are rated between 1,000 and 2,000 SHU. The pepper by itself was pretty disappointing. However, I knew this pepper had a pretty wide range of heat. As I mention in the video, I've seen numbers for it as low as 500 SHU, and I just wasn't interested in another pepper so boring.

So I picked up a bottle of Sriracha sauce (~2000 SHU in US), cut a section of pepper off the bottom to form a sort of cup, filled it with the sauce, and downed it.

It took a second, but this was the first time during this challenge that I felt any real heat. The Bell Pepper, of course, is rated at 0 for a reason, and the Peperoncini was really more sour than it was spicy, though it did have a little kick to it.

Honestly, the Anaheim pepper, by itself, wasn't even as hot as the Peperoncini. It did have a little heat after a few seconds, but it was almost imperceptible.

Sriracha saved me...

(Hysterical laughter is due to off-screen shenanigans...)

So there was a little heat there, but still no challenge. No sweat, nothing serious.

However, I did feel a little. I look forward to the next few days. 

I'm still waiting to be challenged...

Ghost Pepper Challenge: Level 2 - Peperoncini (100-900 SHU)

This was another boring day. I can't wait for tomorrow, but today I just had a Peperoncini. I can't say I'm intimidated by any pepper that comes on a salad, but once again, I'm sure I'll lose that arrogance in a few days.

For now, though, the most challenging thing about these early peppers is not the heat, but the lack thereof. Just like the Bell Pepper, there isn't much to say about the Peperoncini. I'm excited for this to start getting more challenging, though.

Tomorrow can't come soon enough.

Here's the video for today, though: