Done yesterday (20101225 Sa)

[mdlbear]

1225 Sa
  * up 7:30ish; W=199; drugs, nose, teeth; YD made breakfast
    Tasty gluten-free maple pancakes.  Yum!
  * Opening prezzies
  : Calls from Chaos, Mom
  @ The Hero Project via catsittingstill - Creating the next generation of heros using 
    modern psychology.  Way Cool.
  * Start borscht - roast ham bone, parsnips, beets; brown onions, beef, ham
    fat.  Put half the carrots and parsnips in with the browned stuff to boil
  * take beets out of oven and let them cool
  @ Ice-Flavored Ice Cream - A Love Letter to Yuletide
  @ w00t w00t booyah - Advent, Day 25 - DONE - "The Rose"
  @ The Playfully Mad Bubble-Blower - Celebrating the Season
    The Birthday of the Light The Christmas Cat
  * 10:20 print boarding pass.  (10:45ish; B13)
  @ spaces between notes - A Story, A Story, dedicated with celebration to
    the memory of Trudy Herring/Mama Dragon "The Singer and the Dragon"
  * 11:50 - the beets and beef are peeled and cut up.  A little plastic nub on
    the ceramic peeler broke, rendering it useless.  :(
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  * Add roots.  Shred and add cabbage.  Add meat.  Simmer.
  * 1ish - serve with sour cream and dill.  Yum.  
  : Moira and M. are here.  Scott ~1:30
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  * buy: pantsu, kleenex
  * pack a picnic.  (beef jerky and trail mix -- it'll do)
  * Pack.  
  * load drugs
  * trim beard
  * Track down remaining tracks for a super-rough cut of Amethyst Rose.
    (Daddy's World from CC&S; QV from Baycon 2010
  * Burn pre-pre-pre-release of AR.  Probably absolute crap.
  * Load xfer disk.  Charge kindle.  
  * Post party info.
  * One gallon of borscht left to go into the fridge.  Not bad.
  * bed ~11

A quiet Newton's Birthday at home. I spent the morning making Ukrainian-style borscht, which came out very tasty. Probably the best batch ever, probably because I left out the potatoes, used nearly 5 pounds of fresh beets, and tossed the cabbage, turnip, rutabaga, and half the carrots in at the very end so they stayed crunchy.

Not many visitors; a combination of bad weather and other things to do, I suppose. Hopefully we'll get more next week. Good talk with Moira, though, and we only had a gallon of borscht left to go in the fridge.

Finished packing, and threw together a CD of scratch and sample tracks for Amethyst Rose because I wanted Mom to hear it, even though it's way too rough for public consumption. (Mom's mostly deaf, and very prejudiced.)

Quite a few links, many of them somewhat twisted holiday-themed stuff.