Date: 2008-07-01 12:12 Subject: Today Security: Public Location: OTW to the market. Jiggidy jig. Mood: chipper Music: Garbage Tags: food

I'm feeling supportive as I make my LJ rounds today. If I didn't post on yours, then I still hope things pan out well for you. It seems like the start of one of those weeks.

Woke up cold today. Looks like the heat spell has had its back broken, and cooler weather will prevail. I'm able to get up a little earlier everyday, and that's really heartening, and I've got kind of a busy day today. Bread for lunch, laundry, coffee, managing my FFXI account and now I'm strapping on the boots for a walk down to the supermarket so I can help Brent make yakisoba and I can stir fry beef and broccoli tonight.  When I get back, it's sending the resume to a temp service so maybe I can get a bike or something while I'm up here. The hills are steep, but I bet it's great for my thighs and calves.

Taking photos on the walk there, and maybe an edit on the post later on about Exalted again. I really think only brantai cares all that much, though. Maybe Viski, so I might just tell them instead. No reason to clutter up LJ with musings others arn't particularly interested in. OTOH, Sidereals are pretty neat...

Actually, the mechanical aspects are ok, and I like talking about them with other mechanic wonks, but I'd probably rather talk about the upcoming game, so you might get that instead. Helps me iron out my ideas anyhow.

EDIT: Less Sidereal, more exhaustion. That walk to the grocery is much, much longer then it looked. And that steep downhill incline became uphill on the way up! No fair!

And, of course, it decided to get hot just after I set out. I blew through my water both ways, so I think I'm just going to sit at my laptop and hibernate until Brent and Val get back. Ye gods.

Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link

Date: 2008-06-27 14:32 Subject: Mildly Pumped Security: Public Mood: chipper Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers Tags: camarilla, exalted!, food, seattle

I had a good evening last night. Really unhealthy food, but hey, I was dying for something with chili on it for a long time. I don't know if you're been privy to this rant yet, but in short, if I order something with chili on it, chili needs to cover it. No lame cups of chili. Still, man, that chiliburger was massive. You know what that means.

Lunch tomorrow. Or, rather, today. I totally ate the rest of that burger, so it's healthy eating for the rest of the week right?

Oh snap. It's Friday. So let's reset that timer, shall we? ^_^
Still, I lost some muscle weight and gained some fat weight, so I shouldn't take that too far. Walking and various exercises should clear up some of the lost muscle weight. I'm not going to worry too much about having put on weight though. I'm more concerned about the sedentary lifestyle I'd been working on for several months. Activity is definitely increasing my energy level.

Anyhow, it was my first trip into the city, which was fun. I mean, there's a subtle difference between Seattle and St. Louis besides hills and trees, and it's heavily dependent on the area. The truth is, I like a lot of areas in downtown St. Louis and the like, but crossing the floating bridge but day and night was pretty.

I finally got around to ironing out Atol on the spreadsheet, spending the banked xp that I'd earned from games and the bump to MC 3. The results are really pretty stunning with just a few bumps. Still, I had a few things go from 3 to 4, and a level 3 Rote, so I'm going to need to ask around and do a little OOC legwork to make sure its kosher. Nothing seems off about it, and the only thing I did that might surprise anyone is totally forgoing the Fame merit at all, since part of the IC dialog I had last game revolved around how Atol was leaving on a musical pilgrimage of sorts because he couldn't get his sound right and his band never took off. (Several band members left, in game, so.)

I'm doing the NPCs for the Exalted game, and kind of like how straight-forward the Dragonblooded Charms are compared to Solar or, especially, Sidereal Charms. They have the smallest Essence pools, so over a long period, their Charms are designed to be as efficient as possible, so you see a lot of '1 Mote per X' costs in their Charm trees. Without looking harder at the overall mechanics, I think the DB book is one of the best and most flavorful.

After working with the Mage and Camarillia spreadsheets, though, I kind of wish someone had done the same thing for 1st Ed. Exalted but since there never was a LARP for Exalted, there's not a lot of call for it.

4 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link

Date: 2008-05-13 04:52 Subject: [Food] Breakfast Eggs. Security: Public Mood: hungry Tags: food, moods

It's, like, 5 am at work right now and I'm surprisingly famished. Usually I bring in a Hot Pocket or a sandwich to tide me over until I get home and, well, I'm always hungry when I get home but it's only an issue in the last half hour of work or so. But anyhow, here I am thinking deep thoughts about art, gaming, and experience points when my stomach rumbles. I realize I've read something about pierogi, which I've never heard of until last week and now they're cropping up in all kinds of shit I'm reading, and I'm thinking about how good they sound.

And that's how you know you're hungry, if the pangs in your stomach don't educate you properly.

Normally, there's all kinds of up-for-grabs shit in the fridge that I pass on. I've got this vaguely defined fear of eating stuff left in the fridge at work for reasons that range from 'is this still good?' and 'what if someone else has dibs?' to 'I don't want to wash a dish at work'*. When you're hungry though, it's surprising what you're willing to either rationalize or just blame on someone else. There was lasagna in there yesterday, but nothing today. Just my luck. Looks like I'm waiting until morning.

By the time I get home, I'm willing to eat anything, but lately eggs have been a huge favorite. I'm not sure what's gotten into me, but I guess just regular eggs have gotten boring though, so I've started mixing them with weird things. Two days ago, I wanted nothing more then eggs on steaming rice with japanese mayo and soysasuce. I settled for swapping the rice for bread, but it was surpringly excellent. Last morning, it was leftover salmon and eggs steamed in soysauce on toast.  

I realized that since I've started midnights, my breakfasts when I cook have been consistantly odd. Like the time Taco Bell was closed (Because they don't open until 9.**) so I made some kind of weird random taco things, complete with a spontaniously created taco sauce because I refused to eat tacos sans sauce. I was, in fact, so enamored of my taco-creations that I took pictures of them with my camera phone. I haven't posted them on the net, or anything, but I've still got them. I don't know why.

So, food is this weird thing with me. But I really want weird polish dumplings now.

* Which I've learned is my job anyhow for some reason, so whatever.
** Look, I'm just not used to thinking about Taco Bell being closed.

2 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link