Mind you, I'm not talking about particularly exciting cooking; basically I've moved from "boil-in-a-bag rice" to "remove the rice from the boiling bag and try cooking it in something," in this case chicken soup. I was trying for sort of chickeny rice but what I ended up with was, well, chicken-and-rice soup. Next time I try this I'm not going to ( Read more... )

My brother got a Wii. I've been fiddling with it when it's available, mostly doing Wii Sports because the other game he has is Guitar Hero and a. I can't figure out how to make my own band on that so as not to potentially screw up what he and his fiancee are doing with it and b. I am extremely bad at it. I screw up beginner mode ( Read more... )

Yep. Watchmen the movie is just like Watchmen the book in that it is an artistic success, having successfully inspired emotion and provoked thought.

I enjoyed neither the emotion nor the thought I left the theater with, though. I'm really not sure whether I want to recommend it to people or not. The effects were excellent, I only noticed a ( Read more... )

Also, I heard the most entertaining steakhouse slogan ever on the radio shortly before leaving Iowa. The place is apparently in Clear Lake, and the slogan is "Butcher's Steakhouse. You can't beat our meat."

Now that I am back where my computer is instead of six hundred miles away, congrats to Matt and Meg on their wedding (and if I get a comment on this from either of you before you're back from Disney World you're both on notice, so there. ;))

Ye gods that's a drive. I'm very glad I was able to make it, though.

Illidan is dead. Yay!

. . . at some point I should probably update my WoW icon. This one's a little outdated, even if the Clever Hat is still really stylin'.

I'm kinda surprised, because I got out the door a little late this morning, had to skip breakfast, was a little leftover cranky from last night, ran out of work right after my supervisor went to lunch, and then got rained on biking home. But then? I went to the grocery store and it turned right around, because after a long and much-mourned ( Read more... )

Forgot to put this up yesterday: 7.273 miles in 35:58, average speed 12.2.

Wednesday was my mom's birthday, and also the last day my sister and my brother-in-law were in town, so we all had lunch, and then they left for the airport and my mom and I went to see, oddly enough, The Dark Knight. Not the sort of movie I expect my mom to want to see, ( Read more... )

8.936 miles in 44:16 today, with an average speed of 12.1 mph. Had a bit of a tailbreeze coming down the longish hill on my way home today so I decided to see how fast I could go: maxed out at 28.5 for about three seconds before I started coasting ( Read more... )

3.824 miles in 21:46, at an average 10.6 mph. Only got to do the more uphill half of the route and I was bucking a headwind, but it's still disappointing.

Then I came out of the theater after the movie to find it bucketing down rain, and though I am not averse to riding in the rain, I do take a somewhat dim view of being soaked to the skin inside ( Read more... )