The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Food/Drink

Café Der Overlord

After a few years of contemplating I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and invested in a milk frother. Over the last few days I’ve managed to make sweet fluffy milk with coconut sugar and vanilla extract, hot cocoa with a helping of British Nesquik I purchased by accident from the Amazing Zon (which is fine because the Murican one suuuuuuuuuuucks by comparison), American strawberry Nesquik (looking to get in some of the British one too!) which made a warm strawberry fluff, and tonight I made warm fluffy eggnog with equal part milk and a bit of Cream Sherry for an added kick. I’m not sure about anyone else, but for me mixing eggnog with Cream Sherry or Marsala gives it a zabaglione taste (that’s an Italian wine custard). Nice to have a nice fluffy drinkable version for when I don’t feel like hovering over a stove making it from scratch, during the holidays anyway…

 

I have so many ideas on what kind of flavored foam I can conjure to go with each brew of tea, or what kind of hot cocoas and chocolates I can make! Methinks my weekend will have a few drinkable clouds, maybe even a London Fog finally! I could also probably use it to make a nice Japanese Matcha Cream to go over a Matcha Latte, and many other drinkable brain children.

Gaming

Music For The Self Sufficient Destructive

Been rocking out to the Serious Sam 4 Soundtrack. This is one of my favorite tracks in the game, it’s a remix of the original Corridor of Death from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.

This entire series has excellent music going all the way back to the boss battles of First Encounter, and a large portion of the second. Sometimes I think I like to play these games specifically to rock out. Hell, with the holidays we also have:

Just once I should play this at work for the holidays. :v

All in an Overlord's day / Food/Drink

Sweet, Savor, and Spice

This will probably be the last breakfast snapshot I take with this camera, the new one should arrive sometime around the weekend. Today I powered myself with more bacon n eggs, this time with fried eggs topped with some habanero salsa. I also made some blueberry/raspberry pancakes on a whim, with plenty more throughout the week. Also making sure to get some milk, OJ and a mix of blueberry and jasmine tea, fruit and jasmine always seem to pair together really well.

I was also going to make some muffins, but I ran out of eggs. On the brightside I did finish my Christmas shopping, now all I have to do is wait for it all to show up. 8) This weekend went by too fast…

All in an Overlord's day

Easy Like Sunday Morning

I’ve been in recovery mode from all of last week. I did manage to drag my ass out of bed at a semi-decent hour, cleaned the dishes and made a nice breakfast. An omelet sounded good, and I forgot about the special cheeses I had leftover from my cheese/wine snackage during vacation. I shredded what was left of both inside the omelet and it was nom, all of it was.

Other than that I’ve been drinking warm beverages and playing a few games to unwind. A couple indies and Serious Sam 4; Yutram and I finally beat it tonight. I hope they release a workshop for it like they did for the other games, and maybe other gamemodes like they did in BFE and the HD remasters. I’ll save the rest of my thoughts for another post though. Most games that I actually finish generally get the honor of having their own dedicated post.

All in an Overlord's day / Open Threads

Belated Thanksgiving/Black Plague Friday Open Thread

Sorry for not writing. I had to do a turn and burn yesterday, and the only time I had was to shower, eat and prepare my work tea for Midnight. I’m kinda surprised that we actually had probably the best Black Friday ever. They didn’t enforce the mask rule, but they did keep people in line and limited the amount of people coming in instead of it being the usual free for all. I don’t even know how I’m still awake. I was going to shower and nap when I got home this morning, but ended up doing some cleaning instead.

I didn’t buy anything at work during the sale, but I did do a little online shopping and managed to buy a DSLR camera! I went with a EOS Rebel T7i, and since I’ve been wanting to steam/froth milk more I also in a milk steamer/frother along with some holiday gifts. I still have some more shopping to do, but it will have to wait until I’m more… awake.

Food/Drink

Blueberries n Creme In A Cuppa

I wanted to make a London Fog, but by the time I got around to making my cuppa it was late enough that caffeine would do me no solid favors. But there was still that craving for something warm and sweet after a long agonizing day and finding out another co-worker is out due to COVID. I always wondered if it was possible to make a latte with herbal teas, and sure enough I wasn’t disappointed! All you need to do is brew some blueberry tea (I used this one) brewed in a teapot, and steamed/frothed milk mixed with a little bit of vanilla and honey to make it creamy. It was a nice blueberry kiss on an otherwise blue day.

Now I’ll have to challenge myself and attempt to make lattes out of more of my tea collection just to see what I can come up with.

Work2

The Blackest Of Fridays Approaches

So, despite there being a pandemic and an escalation in cases, businesses like the one I work for are still going through with Black Friday. All day I had to reassure morons that Black Friday is still a go, and endure complaints from Karens’ and Kens’ alike because we are lacking current gen consoles to sell, or any other bullshit item that is made overseas. I think my favorite conspiracy theory I’ve heard thus far from these eternal virgins is “The damn deepstate is preventing me from buying a PS5!” these people can all go collectively die from COVID in a fire with dildos covered in glue and rolled in glass and salt for all I care. For fucks sake… I want to buy AMD’s new 6800XT and much like NVidia and the console releases it has been rendered nothing more than unobtanium for most on the quest to score one, and I’m not throwing a giant Karenfest for not getting one in my hand. I don’t get what it is about the holidays that brings a person’s inner fuckass out, other than another excuse to just treat people like absolute shit. And after having a Polyester Cockwomble at the helm for the last four years enabling these types of human excrement it’s more than clear to me that’s likely the case. I’m just glad I’m only getting a 50% dose of these douchecanoes with an immediate shower to follow.

I’m dreading this Friday. We’ve had a small handful of people contract COVID at work ever since this all started, and I would be surprised if we followed any social distancing/mask guidelines once everything starts. We already have a No Mask No Entry policy that we pretty much don’t follow despite already being fined more than a few times. I’ve learned from watching others that people are more than likely to bend to your will if you act enough like an asshole. I can’t say I’ve ever been into that kind of mentality, and I don’t understand why so many people cream their jeans to be around what would otherwise be overgrown children or malformed adults. If I had the choice to be alone for the rest of my life or never be alone but only be surrounded by assholes you can sign me up for the former; It’s better to be alone by yourself than be alone in a crowd.

Also… why the fuck are people hording toilet paper again!? We’re not even having a lockdown.

All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Meanwhile… In My Weekend Land

I wasn’t really feeling it this weekend. Still feeling jetlagged from the last work week, and the cold dark weather doesn’t seem to be helping me want to stay awake. I’ve been taking it easy these last couple days, returning to Skyrim which is basically a comfort food game at this point. I played a little at lunch the other day, piloting my TARDIS around Skyrim, and that was enough for me to cause shenanigans on my desktop version.

I keep meaning to sit down and play Special Edition now that it has plenty of mods to garner my interest, but the plans I have in store for the build would probably take me a couple days to prepare. :v So for the time being I’ll settle with Oldrim from time to time when I feel the need to throw my melons at people.

Or salad I guess.