Just finished the A Land Fit For Heroes trilogy by Richard K. Morgan and it was badass.
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Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, or Germany, in no particular order. Then again, of those 4, I've only been to Canada.
Totally. I enjoy the premise of the show, but the delivery is sleep-inducing.
I don't really believe dreams have meaning, but every so often I'll look something up that I dreamed about just to amuse myself and see what some would say it means, usually only if it's something very specific that was in the dream, like an animal or something.
Was visiting Boston with an old friend and we walked past the Granary Burying Ground (a cemetery where many prominent American Revolutionary war figures are buried). As we're walking by I see a young girl in Colonial style dress walk out of one of the buildings carrying an armload of flowers and she starts placing one on each grave. I turned to my friend and asked her when they started doing reenactment stuff at this site, and she was like "What are you talking about?" I go to point to the girl and she's gone, no flowers on any of the graves at all. This happened in broad daylight.
I'd like to go back to London. 3 days wasn't enough and there's still so much I want to see there.
I used to think suicide was such a horrible, selfish thing to do and didn't understand how people couldn't just see that it's a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but I get it now.
Severance. So. Goddamn. Slow.
1 with socks in the winter and 2 in the summer.
It's not a set day of the week, but my partner and I have been slowly working our way through every movie Arnold Schwarzenegger has been in (even if it's just a cameo). We're up to the 1990s, finally.
I do this every time I go visit my father. His wife is a crazy narcissistic loon and I just cannot fucking stand being around her, so I drink when I'm there because it's the only way I can tolerate being around her. But my dad drinks with me, so I dunno, our relationship has been so strained and awkward for so long, I think we both do it to ease some of that tension.
My "Big Jim" hatch chile plant isn't looking very big yet. The Guizeppi Milds and California Wonders are doing a bit better. This was the first day I took them all outside for a few hours to start the hardening off process. I've had them inside with a fan and grow lights up until now.
I expected some flowering at this point, but it's been stupidly cold and rainy here since I planted back in late March (I'm in 6a/6b), so maybe I'm expecting too much too soon? Next week is the first week it will in theory be above 55 degrees F overnight.
I've also been battling gnats (sticky traps and mosquito dunks for the win), which is weird to me because with the fan, the top layer of soil dries out pretty quickly, but I think I have them managed now.
Tried my hand at yeasted sweet bread from the King Arthur Baking School cookbook – one plain, the other is lemon poppyseed.
They came out okay, but I think I screwed myself over by using flour that was too cold because I pulled it straight from the freezer instead of taking it out the night before. The dough got a rise, but not big enough for my liking. Not sure if I also maybe kneaded it too much, as it was really hard to get the long strips for the braids to stay long, they just kept springing back into shorter strips.
Probably won’t make this again, but I think the bread will make for some really good French toast.
(Posted this over on a Baking community as well)
Tried my hand at yeasted sweet bread from the King Arthur Baking School cookbook -- one plain, the other is lemon poppyseed.
They came out okay, but I think I screwed myself over by using flour that was too cold because I pulled it straight from the freezer instead of taking it out the night before. The dough got a rise, but not big enough for my liking. Not sure if I also maybe kneaded it too much, as it was really hard to get the long strips for the braids to stay long, they just kept springing back into shorter strips.
Probably won't make this again, but I think the bread will make for some really good French toast.
They're a bit more leggy than I think is healthy, but hopefully repotting them will help.
Made 2 basic white bread loaves for the first time and they came out pretty decent, despite being a tad lopsided. 
First time trying to grow anything from seed by myself. Fingers crossed it works out!
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Wasn't the white power ranger the green power ranger first, or am I misremembering the story (it's been a while, sorry)?