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People can badmouth Slackers all they want. But when it came to Cyan’s NDA’s during N’uru and MOUL we at least honored them no matter how much of a gag order they turned out to be.
Of course this is Dhel we’re talking about.
>Omnoms
Ok, those stuffed grape leaves turned out to be awesome. I took rice, added green onion, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Rolled em up and put them in my bamboo steamer for 40 mins then let them cool to room temp. Good stuff.
Today the weather wasn’t best, but it wasn’t raining at least. So I went out and did a few errands and a little shopping. Got a nice new shirt at the thrift store and some pomegranate green tea from another store in the next town. And the nice part was that the sun came out during the walk.
Speaking of tea I’ve fallen in love with flowering tea. It’s awesome. Here is my teapot:
I went over to another website and found lavender tea that I’ll have to see if my store can special order. If not I can always order it from the website.
>First post of the new year
I’ve been meaning to get around to this, but you know… Not much to write about. Things are going alright with me, etc.
New years eve was great, I didn’t have to work at all. And even better I didn’t have to be in until 4:00 the next day! There was much booze and snackage to go around. My new years resolution is the same one I do every year, don’t make one.
I decided to pull out the ol bamboo steamer tonight for an experiment. Grape leaves with a spicy rice stuffing. That should go nicely with my tension tamer tea. I like drinking that when I’m not feeling right.
We had a little surprise this evening. The hot water valve for the washer decided to spurt out. Luckily it was caught before a flood could happen. It was just a largeish puddle by the time I got down there to take the stuff out.
>Merry Christmas!
Christmas day… I finally got half way into the spirit. And how can you not when you’re surrounded by Christmas candles, Christmas tea, and your family and friends. We didn’t have a tree this year, and we didn’t really go out of our way to wrap presents for each other (unless you count Princess Barbie and I, we did that for each other). It was one slack Christmas.
I got some nice candles, a mirror to put them on, a Christmas candle snuffer for the Christmas candles, a tiny water fountain, a Japanese style photo album, Japanese red lacquer bowl, Left 4 Dead 2, soaps, bracelets, incense, a candle holder and a real pretty box with gems on top. Oh, and a nice red top, socks, and a brand new teapot for my collection that I’ll have to take a picture of. At this rate I’ll have to make another room dedicated to my pot collection… This one has it’s own special purpose though. It’s one of those flower brewing ones, the flower blooms as you pour the water over it.
Tonight for dinner in fine Slacker tradition we have surf n turf. Steak with smoked salmon pasta. I’m lookin’ forward to it.
I hope you everyone out there had a good Christmas too.
>Christmas Open Thread
I won’t have to return to work until Sunday. That in itself is a nice Christmas present. Tonight I had to make 2 trips to the mailbox to get all the packages and letters (and some of you guys are to thank for that 😛 ). We also have a bunch of goodies from our friends locally. Our teeth will probably rot out by the end of January.
Tonight I played a bit with Day Of Defeat Source in garrysmod. I now have all mountable content in gmod! I’m going to try and get back into making little machinimas. Left 4 Dead (and RL) has kinda left me distracted as seen here:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8epV2uhrkoY&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
>Open Thread
I wasn’t around much yesterday. I was enjoying actually having Sunday off! It was San’s birthday and we had company over for pizza and gifts (xmas and bday). Then I worked on a persons computer for awhile. What a piece of work! I won’t even go into that. Lets just say I have my work cut out for me big time.
And today I worked a full work day. Enough hours to get an hour lunch. I brought my laptop for personal entertainment but sadly there were no free plugs, they were all being used for xmas lights in the breakroom. But at least I had my mp3 player! Saved me from the constant xmas music that’s been playing since spanksgiving…
I remembered when I loved listening to Christmas music. But ever since Christmas began starting around August I’ve lost quite a bit of the spirit, mostly due to the demanding public. One thing goes wrong and the world comes to an end for them and they have to yell so everyone can hear them… Some of the spirit still remains though within the cookies, eggnog, and gift giving to one another, and I can’t forget the Christmas music parodies either. All of that puts me to ease after a hard day of public stupidity.
>The Slackers Play Left 4 Dead (Episode 2 Part 1)
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http://youtube.com/v/M7LmNcbRFxw
I’ll probably have part 2 up sometime tomorrow. Assuming the computer I’m working on doesn’t take up too much of my time.
>Late Night (Or early morning?) Open Thread
I’m proud to say I’m running 2 Left 4 Dead servers now. One private and one public. I recorded some footage tonight, unfortunately the updated fraps I downloaded screwed up the audio when working with it under premiere pro. So I had to roll back to the previous. I guess that just goes to show that if it ain’t broke for ya you don’t fix it.
On another note I’m not sure why, but I’ve really been craving the taste of ginger recently. I like it ground, fresh or pickled. I made a hot sauce and included 2 tbsp of fresh ginger in it, I just had a salad with ginger dressing, pickled ginger tastes good, and of course gingerbread cookies.
>Rethinking the blog
Due to the unofficial demise of the Uru community I will be looking into changing my blog since it’s focus is on a dead subject. I think it’s time to widen the blogs stance beyond more than Uru and I (while mostly keeping the me).
So if you keep coming around, then chances are you’re going to see some changes.
>The Slackers Play Left 4 Dead (Episode 1)
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http://youtube.com/v/15oKqZCPOHE
I haven’t posted in awhile. I’d like to say that I’ve been studying yet another evil FPS game called Left 4 Dead. Over and over again. I’m even running a private server to study how evil and un uru like it is.
BAD came along with me on this study. Also a couple of other friends.