Well, we finally got the computer looked at. It wsan't completely fixed, and I'm going to put it through it's paces as best I can in the next few days to prove that, but that's not really important. The computer is working again, so I can get behind the keyboard and do my usual stuff until I annoy the whole family with being online all night. Actually, I have been wanting to cut back on my net time, and having to use my laptop allowed me to do that (It's so hard to navigate the net with that touchpad).
Now that I'm back, I was able to keep my promise. If anyone out there dialogues with Caprice, point out that I have her picture uploaded finally, it was there last I checked, so I linked it in the table like the others. I kind of wish I had a few more requests to work on, I would entertain such things more often if they came, but I understand my not getting them, I don't really do funny, and my style is still in development. I do have some things on my plate right now that my sister asked me to do, I'll try to upload a couple of them when the're done, one of them is going to be a gem if I can get it to look right, and it'll be funny (to some of you out there).
This humidity is tiring, I was putting together the pieces for a tabletop Zen garden and I'm sapped of my energy right now.
Comments:
Mamma Vash:
Well, a couple months ago I did say I would try it, so I had to stick to my word as best I could and in my case that was making it myself. I used anise and rum to flavor this batch, but the anice disagreed with my sister's medication so next time I'll have to do something not quite as strong (I was thinking about hazelnut, but I'm the only one in my family who likes that so maybe something less exotic, vanilla is so common, but there are other extracts out there to try). I put almonds chopped really fine into my tweaked version, and no one even really noticed they were there, but the flavor would have lacked without them. Tweaking is fun anyway, the challenge is to keep the parameters of the recipe intact so that you're not making a totally different dish, but changing up the flavors and add-in ingredients (like the nuts) makes for great variety, the spice of life. Funny thing though, I was in a dollar store the other day and saw three different kinds of biscotti on the shelf, I almost laughed when I saw it, but in handling the packaging, I think those versions were all too hard to be any good though. $1.50 per piece, that's a bit much isn't it? Shoot, if you really wanted to do it, you could probably make and sell the stuff for 75¢ a piece. Not a bad idea if that kind of side business interests you.
After the initial jolt of surprise, it was funny to me too. From the way he just sat there, I think he really dazed himself, but I can't figure out how it is he missed this glass window with about ten years of dirt and grime all over it. I've heard of birds attacking their own reflections, but this didn't quite make sense. With as loud as he was though, I thought a turkey had hit the window.
What kind of moron tells people to destroy nature for that toxic garbage? The hazards of that are tremendous, and what of the noxious toxic fumes when that stuff burns (plastic grass plus known wildfire dangers don't mix very well in my book). There are far better, natural ways to manage water consumption. I like the thought of a rock garden, my brother delivered the morning paper to a house where they'd done that to the whole front yard, but they used baseball sized river rock (the smooth roundy ones) and it looked nice. On that same token, get a half ton of sand delivered, find a few nice chunks of sandstone (or another lightwieght rock type) and make your own whole yard sized Zen garden, that would make for productive use of the yard. If people have to have plants, cactus, which go for pretty near a year if not longer sometimes without water would make visually interesting and very economical in terms of water savings garden. In Texas, you can actually find prickly pear cactus leaves in the produce sections of some grocery stores, they're very edible plants once you get the needles off (the needles make great replacement needles for record players so I'm told). Just something to think about: There are always environmentally friendly ways to conserve resources, and they should always be encouraged over environmental contamination and destruction.
Anime Dreams!
| Picture Requests |
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- Melfina (Outlaw Star), for Outlaw Melfina
- Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), for kout3uka
- Sanosuke (Rurouni Kenshin) for Caprice
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| Project Now Closed |
