Yes, Honey!

The game went rather well, with Ohio State beating Michigan rather handily. They brought in their former starting quarterback (a senior) and he threw a touchdown pass. How nice!

In the afternoon, Dan's dad (Ed) mentioned a hankering for a chocolate cake. Dutifully, I consulted my cookbooks and decided that the only cake which would not require me to make a trip to the store was Nigella Lawson's Honey-bee Cake.

Oh, my goodness. My sweet, sticky, chocolately goodness. Ed helped me by licking out the batter bowl and wondering why I'd bothered putting the rest of it into the oven. He also helped clean up the spatula much later when I glazed the cake. And later still, when we removed the glaze-covered strips of parchment paper from beneath the cake, he set those aside and cleaned them up as well.

And then he had two generous slices of cake with a large glass of milk.

I'd say it turned out rather well. I will make another one for game night at Candyce's sometime as it's really incredibly decadent. Mmm, decadence!

Page 56

This game is going around Facebook and it reminds me of how Barb and I used to read random sentences to each other from different books when we were kids. So easily amused, we were :) Copying in the rules as posted by Karen Clark:

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

The book closest to me happens to be Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitter's Almanac, which is a lovely chatty discussion of knitting projects to be done throughout the year.

My sentence is: You may also increase every second or every fourth round.

I love the fact that all the other responses in Karen's thread (since she's from BioWare) seem to be books on games, writing or game strategy guides :D

It's Really Over =(

Congrats to the EQII team for launching another cool expansion today! Yay!

It's the first one I had absolutely nothing to do with. Zip! Nada!

Feels really weird to me. Sometimes I still feel as though it's "my" game, but I know that everything is different there. The team is different, the way the game's put together has changed and they're doing stuff now that I'm not familiar with. Bittersweet, it is.

Swept the floor and mopped tonight in preparation for Dan's dad's arrival. Didn't clean up as much as I thought I would, though. Possibly I'm just lazy. Or maybe it's that I don't think anyone cares about this crap as much as I do.

In Today's News...

Dan's dad will be here for a couple of weeks starting on Wednesday. We've been picking up stuff and generally trying to pretend we're, you know, like, grown-ups who can take care of a house.

I am not sure we are that successful, but we try!

Today's adventure was finding a way to get our Rock Band guitars off the floor. They'd been in little baskets by the TV which was fine, other than they detracted from Ninja Dude's coolness by cluttering up his background.

After consulting on the internets and traipsing through the hardware store, we finally ended up at a music shop where we bought real guitar hanger-upper-thingers. Our two Rock Band guitars are now Art in the hallway. And Ninja Dude stands out again!

I like playing the drums in Rock Band 2 as it's a heckuva lot easier for me to follow along. The guitar stuff always throws me off and I'm not comfortable singing songs that I don't know. Somehow, sitting behind the little drum set is okay. I think there are maybe 3 songs total that I've ever heard of before. Since I don't know the rest of them, I just focus on those little colored lines and the beat.

Still playing on easy mode, but that's challenging enough for me. :)

How I spent my day

I knit, therefore I purled.