Done yesterday (20101225 Sa)
1225 Sa * up 7:30ish; W=199; drugs, nose, teeth; YD made breakfast Tasty gluten-free maple pancakes. Yum! * Opening prezzies : Calls from Chaos, Mom @ The Hero Project via catsittingstill - Creating the next generation of heros using modern psychology. Way Cool. * Start borscht - roast ham bone, parsnips, beets; brown onions, beef, ham fat. Put half the carrots and parsnips in with the browned stuff to boil * take beets out of oven and let them cool @ Ice-Flavored Ice Cream - A Love Letter to Yuletide @ w00t w00t booyah - Advent, Day 25 - DONE - "The Rose" @ The Playfully Mad Bubble-Blower - Celebrating the Season The Birthday of the Light The Christmas Cat * 10:20 print boarding pass. (10:45ish; B13) @ spaces between notes - A Story, A Story, dedicated with celebration to the memory of Trudy Herring/Mama Dragon "The Singer and the Dragon" * 11:50 - the beets and beef are peeled and cut up. A little plastic nub on the ceramic peeler broke, rendering it useless. :( @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Accessibility tools for websites Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 * Add roots. Shred and add cabbage. Add meat. Simmer. * 1ish - serve with sour cream and dill. Yum. : Moira and M. are here. Scott ~1:30 @ The Neat Company - NeatReceipts & NeatDesk Scanners | NeatWorks Scanner Software * buy: pantsu, kleenex * pack a picnic. (beef jerky and trail mix -- it'll do) * Pack. * load drugs * trim beard * Track down remaining tracks for a super-rough cut of Amethyst Rose. (Daddy's World from CC&S; QV from Baycon 2010 * Burn pre-pre-pre-release of AR. Probably absolute crap. * Load xfer disk. Charge kindle. * Post party info. * One gallon of borscht left to go into the fridge. Not bad. * bed ~11
A quiet Newton's Birthday at home. I spent the morning making Ukrainian-style borscht, which came out very tasty. Probably the best batch ever, probably because I left out the potatoes, used nearly 5 pounds of fresh beets, and tossed the cabbage, turnip, rutabaga, and half the carrots in at the very end so they stayed crunchy.
Not many visitors; a combination of bad weather and other things to do, I suppose. Hopefully we'll get more next week. Good talk with Moira, though, and we only had a gallon of borscht left to go in the fridge.
Finished packing, and threw together a CD of scratch and sample tracks for Amethyst Rose because I wanted Mom to hear it, even though it's way too rough for public consumption. (Mom's mostly deaf, and very prejudiced.)
Quite a few links, many of them somewhat twisted holiday-themed stuff.