bits of a weekend
Jul. 14th, 2002 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI learned a new thing this weekend: when you use the broiler on your oven, keep the door open a bit. I'd never used the broiler before... and I got to see flames in my oven twice Friday afternoon... Luckily the London broil came out fine anyway, though I did need to clean the oven after Shabbat.
I played the 2-player version of Citadels, which worked reasonably well, contrary to my expectations. And I got to see how some of the characters offered in the expansion set work, as well. Still got trounced thr oughly two out of three times, but it was fun.
I managed a bunch of boring mundane stuff this weekend, including getting more paper into the recycling that previously had been generating new levels of dust in a corner of my apartment, getting the batteries changed on my thermostat (it no longer blinks at me now), cleaning the oven, watering the plants. I also have cooked more food: another batch of the roasted onions and potatoes (my apartment doesn't store potatoes well, so it behooves me to cook them quickly), another chocolate bread pudding, and experiments with puff pastry, one piece with fruit, jam, and cinnamon, the other with sauteed mustard greens, caramelized onions, feta, and freshly ground pepper.
I also finally saw "Minority Report," and was interested in the plot, but squicked by a couple of scenes (how's that for non-spoilers, for the 1.5 people who haven't seen it yet?). I was left wondering how they'd planned to nationalize the program when the main people had limited range, too. And I'll admit to thinking, when I saw highways that were not only on the ground, that it would make non-first-floor moves much easier... (those cars were really cool-looking). I'd hate to have advertising so personalized and talking to me, as well.
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I played the 2-player version of Citadels, which worked reasonably well, contrary to my expectations. And I got to see how some of the characters offered in the expansion set work, as well. Still got trounced thr oughly two out of three times, but it was fun.
I managed a bunch of boring mundane stuff this weekend, including getting more paper into the recycling that previously had been generating new levels of dust in a corner of my apartment, getting the batteries changed on my thermostat (it no longer blinks at me now), cleaning the oven, watering the plants. I also have cooked more food: another batch of the roasted onions and potatoes (my apartment doesn't store potatoes well, so it behooves me to cook them quickly), another chocolate bread pudding, and experiments with puff pastry, one piece with fruit, jam, and cinnamon, the other with sauteed mustard greens, caramelized onions, feta, and freshly ground pepper.
I also finally saw "Minority Report," and was interested in the plot, but squicked by a couple of scenes (how's that for non-spoilers, for the 1.5 people who haven't seen it yet?). I was left wondering how they'd planned to nationalize the program when the main people had limited range, too. And I'll admit to thinking, when I saw highways that were not only on the ground, that it would make non-first-floor moves much easier... (those cars were really cool-looking). I'd hate to have advertising so personalized and talking to me, as well.
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