Just over there
Topped off the tank in the red buggy at lunch…. and ran it through a car wash to get rid of a week’s worth of pollen.
Then I parked it at work… it was a mess (More pollen and some kind of seed from a tree with a quick shower to turn it into muck.) by the time I was ready to go home.
Just some randomness.
I often eat alone a lot so dinner is either something frozen or some things thrown together from whatever was in the fridge.
Tonight’s concoction:
[No name]
1/3 pound of pork chunks (they sell it around here as pork “stew meat”) covered in mild chunky salsa and baked at 400F for approx. an hour in a covered casserole dish (I have these tiny ones that are just the right size.). The pork is very tender when it is finished cooking.
Mix with:
feta (the local I get it from only has it “crumbled” – used to get it in blocks -easier to use in sandwiches that way.)
a canned veggie (One of those half size/slightly more than single serving) – tonight was unsalted peas — the feta had plenty of salt.
A pasta. Used “bow ties” tonight.
Mix and eat. Makes enough for two- depending on how hungry you are.
Tonight’s drink:
Finishing up the dregs of a bottle of cinnamon schnapps (Goldslagger?). Added a dribble of it to a large glass of Mountain Dew. Tastes great. I’m sure someone has already given it a “bar drink name”. — If not… what should we call it? Cinnamon Dew? Corny.
Part 6 of Possible Dreams – posted to “TtH” – I’ll update ff.net later in the week.
Part 7 is really close to getting out of hand.
Was watching a bunch of KP episodes this weekend (along with the usual dose of anime (“Agent Aika”/Japanese stuff (“Sukeban Deka – The Movie”)… and realized that one of the plot points of KP Dreams #8 needs to change. Oops.
Rough drafts -
Possible Dreams
#6 is basically done.
#7 needs the last scene finished.
#8 needs the last scene finished and the other parts tied together more.
#9 is just a vague idea and an opening scene.
#10 has the opening scene but not much else.
I’ll start posting them as soon as #9 and #10 are at least fleshed out… next week some time? Maybe?
And then I’ll start working through the ‘Red Raider’ stories
I want to finish”The Apprentice” before the end of the month. And then Buffy’s visit to the Burrow and then Willow’s part. By the end of May? We’ll see.
If that all actually happens — then the summer to actually finish “The Two” (Assuming I don’t spend the summer job hunting %-) )
Unleaded premium… $3.49/gallon today.
So… my monthly fuel costs… almost double what they were a year and a half a go.
Starting to get painful… but still less than it would cost me to get a new car with better gas mileage (Now that the red buggy is paid for.)
With my current salary… I can take it going a little higher… though I’m not happy with it. Especially since the rising gas prices are not because of a gas shortage but are caused by commodities traders getting rich.
And McCain things repealing the Federal gas tax for the summer is going to make a difference? He’s out of his politically addled mind!
Not that the Democratic wonder twins (Obama/Clinton) have any better ideas…
I’ve been trying to finish the fic “Possible Dreams” for weeks. But inspiration/the muse seems to have run far, far away from this ‘story’. Instead I’ve had ideas for a bunch of other stories….
I finally have ideas for the five remaining dreams… maybe I’ll actually have them written by the end of the week? Short ones. Probably 1000 words each.
