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The list of things we need to cook
Due to some lack of variety.. we want cook more. This is more of a note than a blog entry.. but it's a great place to put it.
Sausage (from Bath Sausage shop), mash, gravy and veg. Make a second staple curry... more of a thai green curry with a little veg, strips of red chillis for colour?). An easy stir fry dish and beef in black bean sauce as 2 chinese staples. The wagamama thing I love.. "yasai yaki soba?".. cus it wasn't too hard.. just quite a lot of ingredients. Actually do lasagne more. Do a roast dinner once a month.. sticking to beef for a while to get used to cooking it. Balti Chicken recipe from Leith's. Also try stir fried Monkfish from leith's. Shepherd's pie. Steak. Gnocchi with a simple sauce ... and more simple pasta stuff. Try and get some really decent pies (farmers market?) for pie and mash.
No longer seeking your approval
I've taken down the comments for this blog. I went for the quick method of removing the forms and wiping the entries in the database. None were so interesting as to bother keeping. I thank Xiven for actually pointing out that I had comment spam.. much of it nearly 2 months old. So begone fowl spam. I shall now merely write.. well, write and live in fear of the bee I can see trying to get in.
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Dunno why I wrote the title in semi-skript-kiddie. So anyway, today we did a truly wonderful first attempt at a sunday roast. The meat was very tasty, potatoes were great and nothing went even remotely wrong. I appreciate that roasting some meat isn't the hardest thing in the world but it's new to me and I haven't eaten that much of it.
Dunno quite what to cook next. I may spend some time cooking Chicken Kormas to get some skill at them but Claire isn't too much of a fan. I gotta learn how to cut up a chicken sometime as every recipe seems to call for a chicken :|
Oh... been playing Dragon Quest 8 which is interesting and I read all the naruto manga again... ffs.
Moussaka
Shit, 1 minute to write this before some Peter Kaye thing is on that I want to watch. Ok, next time I try and do moussaka... do it in a deeper bowl, thicker layer of white sauce.. not thin. Keep the aubergine at the bottom, but it was fine. Don't cook potatoes too much, and try and keep them sliced better. Add a bit more tomato and stuff if I use too much mince to keep the sauce content ok.
Buy some little individual things then you can frickin freeze it after preparing it or something.
Fighting Oblivion with a Guitar
In recent weeks there have been a few gaming crazes that i've partaken in. First up we had the release of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion which I picked up on xbox 360 (as it's more capable than my pc) and sofa is nice for single player rpgs. I expected an impressive, open ended game with a sucky plot. I don't entirelyk now how much the plot sucks because I haven't felt compelled to do it.. but it's not that great. It seems like a wrapper for the open ended stuff. The overall content of the game is stunning and I played 6 days in every spare moment I had probably hitting 10 hours a day (and some days were work days) until I needed a break from it all. Morrowind was a good game with an excellent concept, and this is a great game with the same concept. Being able to do what you like in a world is fab. Hook them up with the script writers at square-enix or whatever it's called and i'll be happy.
Then came the real fun. Guitar Hero came out 2 days ago and i've been hooked. It's a given that with my love of all things rock music.. and that I attempt to play guitar.. that I should like a guitar based rhythm game with rock. I do.. and so should the entire world. It utilises many concepts from actual guitar playing and the controller is an absolute joy. As testament to how good it is.. I made GwieF come over and play it and he ordered it the very same day. Oh, it's hard too.. very hard at some points. I agree with the guy at IGN.. that they should take a few hints from konami games for the next release and allow you to practice songs at slower speeds and let you review the notes you have to play etc so you can learn the solos. It's just too hard to try and play a guitar solo even on that without being able to practice.
Tantalus Strikes
So my tooth got ripped out and now i'm pretty sorted. Certain things i'd rather not remember. The sounds mostly.
So been playing some games recently, bit of guitar.. getting on with stuff. Final Fantasy 9 is great. I quite like the game mechanics and I certainly like characters and story. I'll be attempting to finish it in the next week before Oblivion comes out.
Also got GRAW (Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter) which seems tasty. I haven't put much time into it yet.. it's one that i'll be persuing during the game drought I think. Tomorrow sees the release of Burnout Revenge on xbox360. It's a while after it came out on xbox/ps2 but I deliberately ignored it then. I'd played too much burnout 3 and needed a break. I've had that break now... so let insanely fast driving commence in high def. mmmmmm.
Got a hard disk for my stupid core xbox 360 too. Happy now, finally got everything I needed to make it a proper console. Oh, Guitar Hero is coming up for the middle of April, that had better hit like the biggest nuclear bomb ever... i want it to be hot hot hot. I'll get it.. then I just have to inflict it on people. Shame it'll probably be too big to take up to Scotland. More about Scotland some other time.
God Damn!
Still no photo.. but then my face doesn't currently resemble it's normal self. Couple of days ago I broke a tooth.. nasty break too. It didn't hurt at first but I made a dentist appointment for Thursday to get it looked at. Wednesday the pain got too much for me so I spent the afternoon in bed. Wednesday night it got impossible.. i was taking painkillers to the limit of what the packet said and even so it hurt like hell. I was up all night and I was really just counting down the seconds til my appointment. I got through it.. but that was the hardest night of my life. The pain was not on a level I could mentally deal with.
So I get a temporary filling and he says that basically we're gonna have to take the tooth out and the sooner the better. He says i'll be comfortable though and the pain will subside cus of the filling. It didn't. I made an appointment to get it removed the next day and waited and waited for the pain to go. So again.. a sleepless night with even more painkillers. Some of the pain I experienced last night was even worse than the previous and this morning I was in really bad shape. Sleep deprived... barely had food for 2 days.. and ridiculous pain. Nice.
So today I go to get it removed.. except it's got an infection and the side of my face has just increased massively. So he can't do it.. gotta wait a week or so whilst taking anti-biotics for the swelling to go down. Essentially though I left there today in a madly depressed state. The pain is now seemingly managable.. just. So i'm off the painkillers until I really need them to sleep tonight. I hope the swelling reduces and I don't even need them. 10 hours.. so we'll see.
So anyway.. worst few days..ever.
mmmm.. stuff
What a productive weekend. All sorts of things.. including a new tv stand and old tv moved into bedroom.. a shave (omg) .. a haircut (zomg!) .. dunno. There was some ddr too and some smoothie. Generally good. We also got a new laptop so I can sit around in the lounge and watch stuff. Naming trend is getting odd. My pc is Kenshin, ipod is Rock Lee and this laptop is Killua... this will give me an electric shock I bet.
I _think_ i upped my readership by 1 to around.. 5 now in the last few weeks. So hi2u new person :). It's kinda the fault of this person that I got my hair cut in a less than traditional style. I was encouraged to also get it dyed black.. this is currently unlikely to happen. I still haven't decided though.. I gotta get used to the hair first. Photos will be added in a while I think, when people start shouting louder.
It's much too cold right now but it's been properly cold for a few days. Gonna be a little bit hard to get up tomorrow, something to look forward to :|
Instant Traval
It's late in the evening.. i've been someplace and i'm on a train home. It's dark outside except for the occasional town or such. Wherever I go, it takes about 90 minutes on a train at night to return from. Birmingham down to Bristol or London to Bath it's a pretty specific amount of time. It's enough time that it nicely matches my skill at Lumines. What's my secret to instantaneous travel? Lumines. I turn it on.. and i'm at my destination as soon as the game finishes. You won't even notice that you were waiting.
Turn it on.. plug in the headphones and kick off the game. The music is making me smile and i'm about awake enough to remember that I should be trying to clear the screen for some big points. Somehow though I just can't clear it... it's a lot less confusing normally. I play pretty quick on the early levels but it's not long before my eyes are suggesting a more sedate pace... right around the time the game decides to kick it up a notch. Right about now i'm trying (and it's futile) to drag myself slightly more awake because the screen is looking a little too cluttered for my liking.. then i fuck up one of the special blocks and all hell brakes loose with my arrangement. I fight the evils of the fast level just to keep it coherent.. then I mellow again when it hits the really really slow stage and I can finally do it whilst barely awake and still end up getting back to where I started. I know there's harder stuff coming in about 15 minutes.. so I best not fuck up. I don't.. i keep it nice and clean, the music is making me drift off. I notice my score.. probably doing well but I can't remember.. and i'm not playing for my score anyway. So now we hit a nasty level.. i feel prepared because i've kept it clean in anticipation... and within about 3 blocks of congratulating myself i've fucked up again. I totally can't wake up now.. it's like i'm asleep and I know someone is trying to put a pillow over my face but I just can't seem to struggle. I get through it.. somehow. Blind fluke.. but I expected it anyway. We pull into a station.. bright lights.. is the train on time? Made another mistake. FFS.. concentrate. I'm still impressed at how well i'm doing for how tired I am. The more impressed I become.. the more mistakes I then make. It's ok though.. i'll be home in 15 minutes so let's see how many points I can make before then. I know staying alive is futile because the screen is already too far gone. There's plenty of space.. but it's over. I smile as I rack up the points leading to my eventual demise.. trying to give myself a couple of minutes to pack the psp away and get off the train. I'm tired.. it's late and usually cold.. and i'm happy cus of the pretty sounds. Most of all.. I barely remember that I've been on a train for 90 minutes.. it was just a comfortable place to be playing and the lights were a little bright.
Cute stereotypical blog post
I want to write 4-5 paragraphs involving some cute little story .. or .. well I dunno. It should be a little emotional, perhaps slightly profound, maybe a moral should be involved. Go go gadget brain!
Well i've come up with the outlines for an excellent episode of He-man. I think it will involve an evil and twisted plan on the part of Skeletor to kidnap a child from Eternia. He won't be a main character, but he will have met Adam in a chance encounter at the start of the show. His parents would worry about him but they died long ago. His foster parents will worry. So anyway, He-man shall go and rescue the kid.. with the aid of friends cus that's a good lesson to learn. Perhaps man at arms will get him out of a bind. Anyway, he rescues the kid..slaps Skeletor who shall curse him a bit and then everyone is happy. The moral shall be that kidnapping and especially date rape are wrong. The kid will then go into rehab cus he was on cocaine anyway.. and kids shouldn't do drugs.
So like.. I don't think that qualified :(. I guess this shall thus be a profound blog post about my inability to write profound blog posts.
I don't know when this inability started... perhaps I was born with the lack of talent required. Maybe it's just that I don't do _anything_ interesting which is worthy of blogging. I never discuss work though that would be futile anyway because it's not something you do for fun.. though we do have some fun. I guess I should try and think of profound gaming moments or experiences.. as that's essentially what I do which could be classed as interesting. Ok. maybe next time.