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My five day weekend has been surprisingly light on the WoW playing. The free time I had from not wasting away at the computer I tried to spend cleaning. Overall, I've impressed myself with what I did get done, although I didn't live up to my inflated expectations of myself. The gaming room is quite close to being clean. The junk room that blocks access to the gaming room is cleaner than it was. And I've been productive and actually thrown things away instead of just organizing them. |
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[Nov. 28th, 2009|12:07 am] |
It's late, and I'm tired. I'll talk about the one thing of note.
Back in June, on the 4th, I bought a pair of sunglasses. I wore them over to Alan Poindetxter's old house then back home. I couldn't find them at home, and I wasn't certain I had worn them back home from my visit. Today, I found them. They were in the middle of he floor, out in the open. Obviously my cats took them back in June, and today they decided to return them to me. Stupid cats. |
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| Turkey |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|11:04 am] |
Just before 09:00 this morning I received word that an organic turkey was set aside for me. About 10:00 this morning I picked it up. And now, at about 11:00 my turkey is brining in water, kosher salt, organic dark sugar, and fresh squeezed orange juice.
I decided if I'm going to be so ambitious as to cook and brine a turkey, I should try making actual cranberry sauce. I have cranberries now. I imagine that cranberry sauce is a lot like cherry sauce, but I can look it up before I try.
I'm also ready to make stuffing with sausage, and sour cream mashed potatoes.
Today, I'm also making chicken broth, though I'm uncertain if that is for tomorrow or just for having chicken broth in general. |
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| I'm weak willed |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|09:27 am] |
I had planned to just blow off this whole Thanksgiving thing. I was going to play WoW all day, and eat popcorn.
I gave in though. I've never brined a turkey in my entire life. So I might as well try.
I've acquired some kind of organic whole range fresh turkey. I'm sure it's a pathetically young and flavorless bird, but finding a turkey at eating age is hard to do. I located one place in California I could have ordered from, but I wasn't quite sure I was dedicated enough to do that, so I looked more locally. My CSA has turkeys today, but I have to go and kill mine myself. If I didn't have to pluck it that would be ok. Plucking sucks. No plucking for me.
Of course I'll need gravy now. And stuffing. And mashed potatoes. Today I have a whole chicken I need to turn into stock as well. And I'm a week behind in making creme brulee. |
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| So I remember now... |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|01:30 pm] |
I had more to talk about for Global Village day. They had food again. One thing I noticed this year was that food seemed more authentic. I base this on the fact that quite a few things I ate were completely unlike food as I know it.
The Chinese, for instance, had little dumplings out to sample. The kind you can buy in a restaurant are pretty bland, almost standardized into blandness. I grabbed one, and without thinking much about it I put it into my mouth. It tasted like fish, and not just a little like fish. It was very fish flavored. Way more fish flavored than I could deal with. I did eat it all though.
The Nigerians had a variety of baffling foods out. Some kind of sticky doughlike something that they used to press into meat and juices before eating them. They also had some strongly spiced meat. It was painfully spiced, but not hot like chile. Just a lot of strong flavor.
Another booth, and I forget which nation they were, had meat that was cooked absolutely to death. It was black, but not burnt. It didn't seem to have any liquid left in it. It was pretty good.
The Indian table didn't surprise me, but I suspect that has a lot to do with my having had a lot of exposure to non-commercial Indian food. |
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| Catch up time! |
[Nov. 22nd, 2009|01:10 pm] |
So Friday I was almost rammed again in my car. I was driving down Spring Street and about to make a left turn. There was a school bus at the intersection was I was turning at. I had my blinker on. Part way through the turn I realized that the school bus was about to plow into the side of the me. I swerved wildly to avoid it, and wasn't hit. I stopped soon after to check my blinkers were working, and they were.
I attended Global Village Day on Saturday. The skinny red haired girl with weird accent was there, manning the booth for Iran. That was not one of the countries I had fathom as a guess as to her nationality. I asked her if they still had that museum in the American embassy, and she didn't know, but suspected they did.
I've been plowing through the scepter quests in wow. Ragnaros didn't drop my item! I filed a ticket. Eranikus was hard. I died to him many times. One attempt I stayed alive for 40 minutes, but never got him down out of the sky. Today I got him down just as I'd finally found help, and as they arrived so did a slew of alliance. The alliance almost killed him before the quest completed, but not quite. I have the green shard now. I just need Onyxia, Ragnaros, and Nefarian now. Onyxia could be hard due to the loot issues.
I plan to be at yoga from 14:00 until 17:00 today. Should be exciting.
Global Village day was kind of sad. There aren't many foreign students attending the school anymore, and attendance was very light. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|04:14 pm] |
It was pointed out to me that Thanksgiving isn't this week, so I was off in my calculations of when Presidents Day is. That post has been corrected.
It was really cold this morning. I had to stop and put on more clothes as I biked. I had them with me so it wasn't a terrible problem. Side zip pants are made for those kinds of problems.
I desperately want to buy a 17-40 f/4 and a 70-200 f/2.8 IS L II. One is $700, and the other isn't even announced yet, but will probably be $2400. I really don't like the idea of an f/4 lens, but every time I look at the f/2.8 version I end up feeling like I want the f/4.
It was cold in my house last night.
I never made bread.
I haven't cleaned much in a while, except to try and maintain what I achieved.
I'm still trying to decide what to do on Thanksgiving. Specifically, if I want to go ahead and cook up a turkey and mashed potatoes and stuffing and gravy. It could take me forever to eat all of it. Alternatively, I could cook up something besides a turkey, as long as it leads to gravy. It's the gravy I want. Lastly, I could just do nothing special and clean my house that day.
I would still like to find some attractive young woman to photograph. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|06:55 am] |
Waiting until Supermart will be open to head to work.
It's cold in my house this morning. This might be the reason Charybdis sat still to be petted.
President's Day is in ten days, because apparently Thanksgiving isn't in two days.
Having good cold weather clothes makes biking in the cold quite pleasant. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|11:06 pm] |
I watered my plants today. I plan to not water them on Wednesday, but had better water them on Friday.
I ate through a fair number of vegetables today, but not enough.
I plan to make creme brulee tomorrow. I'll need a new propane tank for my blowtorch, because my last new propane tank I didn't install correctly and it vented all of its gas into my house. There was no explosion.
After months, maybe even years, of procrastination, I just spent a few minutes to write a script to redirect a URL based on the date. My life just got simpler.
I walked. |
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| Long Pause |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|04:27 pm] |
November 9th was apparently my last post of substance.
I didn't water my plants on Wednesday or Friday of last week. I need to remember to do it today.
I attended the CERT sort of training. The real training was canceled because the instructors were responding to H1N1, but we still hung out for a day and had an overview.
I'm very behind on eating vegetables, and a new box shows up tomorrow. I need to pay more attention to the box.
I plan to go to yoga soon.
I'm almost caught up getting pictures to people I think.
I've read most of my leather bound copy of Hitchhiker's. I'll finish it soon, despite not intending to read it all. I'll have to read Mostly Harmless after that. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|03:57 pm] |
I was looking at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ytaya's journal to relate some of her information on pain/walking to someone else who has problems. She hasn't updated in quite a while. I think she's dead. |
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[Nov. 9th, 2009|10:46 pm] |
It is back to being cold outside.
I ran a little tonight. And walked a little.
Having successfully watered my plants for over a week on all the proper days, two of the five are now overwatered. I'll need to cut back on their water.
I went to yoga tonight. Only one other person showed up, which was a change from last week when the room was quite full.
Last week was a terrible week of getting anything done. I think I'm better this week.
I can't think of anything else. |
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|05:53 pm] |
Read Zombie Bukkake while raiding Ulduar. Simple book, about zombies. Much too "intellectual" for my taste. I wanted terrible writing and worse sex, instead I got good writing that focused on the finer points of a zombie apocalypse centered around bukkake. In the book, eyeballs taste like cum.
Right now I'm reading The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, by Douglas Adams. I'm not sure I'll finish it, but I've read it twice already since I bought it. I'd say when I bought it, but the receipt for it is missing. I probably discarded it the second time I read it, since I stopped keeping the book receipts inside the books over a decade ago.
I'm at Asian Garden's again. I suspect it will be another week with no one here. And I don't seem to have my cell phone, so I can't call anyone and offer to buy them food in exchange for them coming. Probably worthwhile to just give up on coming since no one cares.
Not alone! There's a hedgehog fancier here. |
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