The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

Yay, Tokyopop licensed Beck! Now someone needs to pick up the anime, so I can finally see it. ^_^

The weekend was cold and dull. I concluded after playing Champions of Norrath that the PS2 sucks. More specifically, the controller sucks, badly. I should not have to look at the buttons to tell what they are, damnit! Also, if one button is the "die a firey death in lava" button, it should be clearly labeled as such.

Champions of Norrath, thus far...sucks. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. The story is essentially "Hey! We're being attacked by bad guys! Go kill them. Now go here and kill them! Now go over there and kill them! Now go underground and kill them! Oh yea, something incoherent about a scroll and a vampire. Now go forth and kill!"

After BG: Dark Alliance, it's pretty disappointing. Plus, the PS2 controller sucks. And the whole lava rider thing is dumb. Plus, having to spend ten minutes talking to the same person over and over and over and looking at the quest page and debating what, exactly the game wants you to do is bad. This means you, the game designers, aren't doing your job. That is all.

Friday afternoon on my way home I stopped at the grocery store and, among other things, bought three gallons of milk (one chocolate, two skim). As of this morning two of them are gone. Two people, two gallons of milk, in less than three days.

This strikes me as rather bizzare. We drink more milk than Erik's family, all twelve of them in the big house. And I'll need to buy more milk before the end of the week.

I attempted split pea soup yesterday, which was fun because I didn't like any of the three recipes I had for it. So, I experimented, and it would have turned out perfectly, except I second guessed myself and added another four cups of water, thinking that ten cups wouldn't be enough. Once I realized my error it was too late to scoop the water out (the peas had started breaking down by then), so I proceeded to compound my error. If you ever think "Hey, I'll just turn the heat up for the last hour to boil some of the excess water off," don't. Just...don't.

So, other than being far too thin (Erik likes it thick enough to plaster walls with. This was much more soup-like) and having a slightly charred taste, it came out pretty well. But I was mad that it wasn't perfect, since I came so close!

Does anyone have any good soup recipes where I can use a turkey carcass? Black bean, tortilla, something else - I'm not particularly picky, I just need to get it out of my freezer.

This book is, thus far, a joy and a delight to my libertarian soul. I want to live there!

Free, legal, no strings download if anyone else is interested in reading it. Which also delights my libertarian soul.

Apparently there is a stuffed animal on the roof of my car. It most certainly wasn't there when I parked my car, so I have no idea where it came from. I have not yet checked on this personally, as I can't see it from the windows and I don't feel like walking all the way to that lot, but several people have informed me of this.

How very odd.