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Life

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Hard to believe it’s been over a month since my last post.

Life goes relatively well. life has gotten an update through November.

I purchased the complete series of Battlestar Galactica and have been watching it. This show is amazing. Yay for awesome SciFi. I guess it’s kind of my Christmas gift to myself.

This weekend has been full of eventfulness. Tim came to visit us and there has been a lot of gaming. We also went to Patrick’s last night (dragging along Tim, Keith, and Dan) for more games. Games have been fun.

Most importantly, for me, is that I have finally gotten [the redo of] RPG Get! playtested. This was actually extremely useful, because it showed very quickly that enemies were underpowered, rewards were overpowered, and the current system for mission attempts was too prone to deck screw. Changes are being made to the rules and cards, and hopefully the next playtest will go better. (Thanks, Tim, for helping.)

In other news, I finally ordered my laptop. I ended up purchasing the Toshiba, figuring that the price was great, and Costco provides a 90-day return policy plus 2 year warranty, so I can’t really go wrong. It arrived Friday evening, and I’ve just started setting it up (since the weekend has been full of distraction). So far, I’m extremely happy with the purchase.

I have also been getting back into KoL recently. There has been a pre-Crimbo (KoL’s Christmas) celebration in Crimbopolis, a special area of Hobopolis with unique loot. I managed to get fairly bad luck in my first three runs, ending up with three outfit pieces and none of the three optional drops. The fourth run managed to get one optional drop, but I ended up just purchasing the other two afterward from another clan this afternoon… so I finally have the full set of gear from the dungeon. Yay.

Tim is leaving tomorrow morning, and photos will be posted at some point. Yay life.

Photo Firsts (Janel), Photos, and (Ph/F)ood

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I tried a food experiment today that turned out really tasty. It’s basically palo, except with chicken instead of pork and with nothing else (no egg or tofu).

Coat 1 chicken breast in five-spice powder (palo mix). Quickly fry on both sides in a little bit of oil. Add water, soy sauce, and a little sugar to the pan and boil for about 20 minutes, flipping the chicken sporatically. Serve over rice.

I also discovered that you can make rice by sticking 1/2 cup rice and 1 cup water in the microwave for 10 minutes. Much easier than pulling out the rice cooker when it’s just rice for one. It’s not as fluffy, but it’s much simpler.

Yesterday, Sharon and I made fresh spring rolls. We also played a lot of Rock Band with Matt.

Life has also been full of photos lately.









Also, here’s my first photo of Janel:

August 31, 2001 in the portables after class (I believe Spanish class?).

Wheee

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That was a rather fitting end to my horrible week, and rather interesting month.

Basically, we had kind of an emergency at work on Wednesday, and I spent the day debugging and fixing it. The scheduled patch release took place from 3 pm until 9 pm (much longer than I’ve seen any patch release go), then we did an e-release for my fix. Things seemed fine, until we realized the patch broke some customers… so it was back into the office to make another fix for another e-release that finished around 3 am. I suppose this release has given us so much trouble that I shouldn’t really be surprised at this point.

Yesterday was the release party, and it was held at Temple with an open bar. I proceeded to get fairly drunk… turns out having 5 drinks in the first hour, then another 2 before leaving is probably not the best of plans, particularly when my previous record was 3 in about an hour and a half. Still, the result was drunk karaoke at Sharon’s place, which might be one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. I also apparently drunk texted at least one person. Whee. Also, Chambord on the rocks might be the best drink ever, despite tasting like it’s pure melted sugar. I believe three of my seven drinks were just straight Chambord.

Here are some photos.
(There’s apparently also some video clips of drunk karaoke. I should go look through these at some point.)

















Today will be more random fun. Good end to the week. :)

Japanese food and karaoke

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Yesterday was a very nice departure from the normal monotony.
There was awesome Japanese food at Kappou Gomi.



Then there was real karaoke at Do Re Mi (where we, of course, did “Don’t Stop Believin'”) followed by Karaoke Revolution at Sharon’s/Charles’ apartment.

More photos are here.
Many, many thanks to Sharon and Charles for organizing things.

I also made a few tasty things yesterday. I experimented with peanut butter and jelly brownies. They didn’t end up half bad, although the jelly kind of crystalized and got rather strange to eat. I also made mac and cheese with veggies… pretty basic and easy, but tasty. I also bought like a pound of deli turkey to snack on, and it’s already over half gone. Mmm meat.

Today will be awesome tasty Mexican food for lunch.

I’m feeling much better. :)