leanne_opaskar, posts by tag: stuff - LiveJournal

My script is 99.5% done, with a need to tweak the last two to three pages, but I'm not sure exactly how. It is at the moment 80 pages on the button. Yarr. I am very happy about this. I have just under two months to put the website together and start getting pages cranked out. I'll need to do some sketches but I have some ideas already. (Though I have a sinking feeling one of the characters is going to wind up looking not totally unlike Albert the Alligator. Must try to avoid that.)

I have also gotten most of the stuff done for the baby shower next weekend (not this weekend, next weekend) -- the cake is ordered, the paper goods are all picked up, the soda is bought, the games are thought of and their necessities purchased but not yet assembled, the prizes are bought, and so forth. I need to finish the project as well, but the project is at mmm ... 85% complete, so that should be done by this weekend, I believe.

So at the moment I am feeling pretty accomplished.

I am a little grumpy at Apple for not doing a full-blown tablet computer with the iPad. I am planning on getting a new computer this year and had really really hoped that the slate would be it. A tablet would be perfect for my needs. *sigh* So now I am looking at a ModBook, maybe. I am dithering on it a bit because I also use my keyboard a lot, not that I can't add a keyboard, but. Yeah. Dither dither dither. If I don't get a ModBook, I'll get a new MacBook. My PowerBook is starting to show signs of age (and at going-on-five-years-old, that's not a surprise).

Had a wonderful time today with delikatcreature and islefox -- went for Indian food, went shopping in the Indian grocery stores. It was great fun! I now have chickpea flour, which I need for *Italian* cooking of all things, and some green cardamom pods, and some asafoetida.

... Really, I don't think asafoetida is all that stinky. The smell reminds me of onions and garlic -- it's sulfurous. I bet it cooks into deliciousness. (And for the record, I bought it for *Roman* cooking instead of Indian ... the ancient Romans apparently used it all the time. Next culinary mini-project is to find some pure resin instead of cut with non-valenthe-safe wheat starch. *sigh*)

I have new sandals. Yay! I have desperately needed a pair for over a year. (Me, this morning, post-hockey: "meiczyslaw, I know what I want to do with the tax return.") Turns out that REI was having a sale today, no less, and we used our dividend, so we effectively got them for half-price.

I want to rave at you people about a new cookbook that I checked out from the library. It is called Beyond the Great Wall, by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. It is unlike any other Chinese cookbook you have ever read. The food in it is probably unlike any other Chinese food you have ever had.

The book focuses entirely on the non-Han Chinese peoples of China, and their distinctive ethnic cuisines. It discusses not only their foods, but the people themselves, their cultures, their lifestyles. It is utterly fascinating, and really brings home a depth of knowledge about China that I had never had before.

And the food. Oh ... my ... it is so simple, yet so profound. Utterly magnificent. I am in awe.

I am going to cook probably several dishes from the book before I have to take it back to the library, and then I am going to go buy a copy. Not just for the food references -- it is giving me ideas for Springside.

If you are at all interested in exploring more about China, this is totally something you should read. And cook from. And ... yeah. Just ... go find a copy. Wow.

1. Drew 1 comic
2. Inked 4 comics
3. Cleaned 3 fish tanks
4. .... euthanized a fishie ):
5. Packed for hockey (still need to pack the car, but bag is put together)
6. Emptied the dishwasher and started filling it again
7. Listened to today's JPod
8. Sent email to the Vista forge guy to check on equipment and stuff

Still to do:
Make and eat dinner
Play hockey

... and uh ... wow, do I have a few minutes to myself? Sweet.

Plan for the week is to scan and color the comics. If I get around to drawing more, great, but it's a short week, so I don't really expect to. I might, though. Also, there will be lunch with steampower and islefox and I don't know who all else on Wednesday, and business meeting with meiczyslaw on Friday.