I’m just not in the mood for it. I have no issues with the holiday as such, and I’m all for candy, but I’m just not caring this year.

but it’s more than that, its coming to the point with all the decorations sold in stores, all the adult size costumes for sale now, who is this holiday for anymore?

I don’t know. this malaise is pretty big. I just don’t care about halloween. bleh.

Should have gotten more sleep last night. Oh well. I’ll get a bunch tonight.

hopefully.

and its halloween.

more on that in a while.

I had to uninstall and reinstall my graphics card drivers in order to get my copy of Emperor: Battle for Dune working on this laptop.

I’m KIND OF sad that I did this during class, but on the other hand, the class about Dante, in the 5 hours so far as spent roughly 45 minutes on the comedy.

but now I can get my game to work once I get home to get the registration key.

w00t!

(btw, jon, I’d play dune 2000(the first westwood game I’d ever played) but I left it at home. ’s all right, this version(once working) is actually a superior game, imo)

on halloween, I’d need to buy some antelope brains.

because hatch-meister’s jibber jabbering about the Dune RTS makes me want to play it.

I AM THE KWISATZ HADERACH!

thank goodness for them. Otherwise I probably would not have noticed that my comp had automatically switched the clock back for Daylight Savings time until probably tomorrow.

for a little bit, talked to a guy that I helped with a TV a few weeks ago. He’s 60, working at Kohls. He made some really bad investments, and now he’s trying to get back into the mortgage industry. He moved into this complex about 3 months ago.

he’s 60, and starting over. Hell, I’m 25 and I’m finding this situation difficult. I can’t imagine having lived that long and f’ed up that badly.

So I stayed at the party for about 45 minutes, and then decided, enough is enough. I had green mead to bottle after all(6% alc. content right now, THANK YOU TI-85!). I felt honored that someone came up and knocked on my door and told me to come back down and grab more to eat. But I was right then in the middle of bottling, and I said I might be down later.

I’m not going back down. These aren’t my people yet. Not to mention about half of them are over 35, no one is around my age, and I felt like the odd man out. They weren’t exactly ready to talk to me, nor I to them. It’s only been a month. I did clean my apartment tonight, though. It’s pretty spic and span now, except for my room. That gets tackled tomorrow.

it’s been a long day where nothing much was accomplished, and school’s in session this week too. ugh.

this post is a lot like how my day went, a bunch of meandering nothing-ness. oh well.

I’ve missed making very simple programs with you. TOday I just made a program that figures out Alcohol by Volume and Alcohol by weight, when you enter in original gravity and final gravity.

It may be the most productive thing I’ve done mathematically in ages.

they’re having one in the commons area around the pool. Should I attend? Or should I get the two papers done for Monday?

decisions decisions.

Because I made biscuits again, and I wish to share my genius. And my mother’s recipe. Because they’re good biscuits. Now, I always double the recipe, but then I’ve never had a problem baking these. Ever.

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening (warmed, room temp preferable)
3/4 cup milk.

1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
2. cut in the shortening. And for God’s sakes, use an ACTUAL dough blender. You could use a fork I suppose, but I cannot be responsible for what happens from your ill-advised course of action. You’ll want to do this for about 5 minutes. A coarse look to the flour is what you’re looking for, and if you cut it for about 5 minutes, blending it all in, you should have it no problem.
3. Pour in the milk
4. Mix the concoction with a fork, until it starts clumping together, and you can’t do much anymore.
5. Coat your hands with some flour, and knead the dough. Do this until it has roughly the texture of play dough.
6. Roll it out using a rolling pin, to about 1/4 to a 1/2 of an inch thick.
7. using a glass, cut circles in your dough.
8. put as many as will fit on a cooking pan.

9. bake at 400F for about 15 minutes. The biscuits will be pale, you could probably use a stick of frozen butter and rub it on the top of the biscuits and cook them for about a minute more to get them more goldenfied. But I don’t do that.
10. enjoy your biscuits.

I’d preheat the oven to about 400 and then while its heating up, do all of the steps. There are, I think, two key steps in making your biscuits turn out fantastic: CUT THE SHORTENING IN REAL WELL, mixing it in will keep the flour from getting too hard when baked. And Roll out the dough. That will keep things uniform, so that you’re not baking the edges to a crisp to get the middles done.

Now. Follow my steps TO THE LETTER. and then email me and let me know how the biscuits turned out. Send pictures if you want. I’ll post them and any comments.

BISCUIT CHALLENGE…..GOOOOOOO!!!!

got a book. Anybody know any publishers? Fantasy fiction publishers?

C’mon. Instant hit. Little to no editing needed. It was used as a Master’s thesis. C’mon. Instant hit.

I got a response from the gentleman I interviewed with last weekend. I’m accepted into his teacher training, he doesn’t require a non-compete clause to be signed, and he pays mileage for trips over 15 miles. Plus he pays $20 per hour for training, unlike the $7 an hour from Kaplan.

So, we’ll see how that goes. I’m cautiously optimistic.

is a no-go. They offerred for me to retest, but I said “nope”. I don’t have 5 hours to waste because I didn’t make their limit.

Plus, it’s a 80 mile roundtrip in order to go to work up there, and that’s just something I can’t reconcile.

so I tested some out tonight(I know, I know, 2 weeks for it to fully carbonate…blahblahblah. Just another way to keep me from my beer!).

it was really good.

I didn’t realize the amount of force that the grains I soaked in the water before adding the malt/hops would have on the final product, but it balances out the hops quite well. I can’t taste the malt specifically, but it’s a sweeter concoction right now, probably because it hasn’t eaten through the priming sugar fully yet.

But still, I’d like to think it’s a success. And pretty tasty too.

bloggers getting a 500 internal server error right now.

jerks.