no duckies were harmed in the making of this journal.

some from around here probably remember the last one posted, the strawberries and powdered sugar alco-jello thingies (3 trials reported, 3 successes, including one done as catering a formal dinner, woo!). those who've endured me for longer than that probably remember the Chocalypse Cake, which was somewhat less successful, or the DoomBagel Omlette, which was delicious, but messy as all getout.

two more today, The Fish-Kabobs of Mordor, and an as-yet unnammed fusion Pierogi thing. if anyone tries them, please let me know how they go, they are for me, after all, theoretical exercises until one has access to a proper kitchen.

for the Fish-Kabobs of Mordor, get sizable fillets of two different fish, one 'heavy' fish (ie: salmon, bass, etc) and one 'light' fish (ie: whitefish, flounder) several whole rashers of bacon (ie, so you've got the stripy part and the eye, yes you see where this is going), and some largeish scallops.

cut the fillets into more or less equal sized chunks then marinate the lightfish in lemon, rock/sea salt, and some minced parsley. do the dark fish in seeded mustard and black pepper, or hot english mustard and paprika. if anyone uses the weaksauce american mustard whose only relation to real mustard is that its yellow, i will cry ;.; do the scallops in something violent, if i get the chance to do it i'm gonna use portuguese peri-peri sauce, a bit of garlic, and maybe a bit of horseradish, not sure on that last.

once they've marinated, spike your first fish cube just past the tip. then lay one end of the stripy portion of the bacon on it, place a cube of the other fish, wrap the bacon overtop of it, and spike down, once again until the tip just protrudes. repeat until you've gone through two stripy bacon portions, and thus have two eyes left. use them to form a 'cup' around one of the scallops, and then spike that on top to be the Firey Eye of Sauron atop your tower. Make as many kabobs as you've gathered mats for, then bang 'em in a griller, turning frequently, until it's done. usually reckoned by me to be when your stomach says it will kill you if those smells don't become tastes -pronto-.



hrm. took too long to type that, i need to go to work. if i remember, i'll edit in the pierogi thing when i get home. EDIT: crap. i forgot the pierogi recipe. will put it in when/if i remember it.

today i picked it up. tonight it is being tried and certainly from a sensory perspective is huge sucess. look in mirror test is a medium success. look in camera test is pending.

apologies to those who were waitign for me to get back onto chat, it crashed and stupid program won't reopen.

also, mood is not sadness, stupid thing won't change.

sigh. will find out at noon NEXT friday if this time they can do it RIGHT.

WHY did we spend half an hour talking through details, hashing out what could and couldn't work, repeatedly referring back to how what was on the paper was wrong due to my inabilities with a pencil if she was just going to make things exactly to the clearly labelled "poor sketch intended for communicating general thrust of the idea only" picture?

What part of "kitty ears, starting in front at top and bottom and curving back behind the actual ear underneath" means "glue supersized Spock to either side of my head"?

apologies to those who expect me online for chatting fridays, most likely see you in two weeks, though i may be on some tomorrow if i'm feeling better. with luck next week's going to be lost to celebration rather than me having precious little to share besides screams and tears.

REDACTION: on the offchance that those responsible might read this and put timings together, it's not meant personally, but merely as venting, because i've been pushign through the last several days quite heavily, and the past few weeks to a lesser extent, on hope about this hood, and so to have so critical an element to the aesthetic be so very very wrong... venting was needed.

tomorrow at noon i will find out if waiting on Evil Schemes has paid off. i'll also find out, whether it does or not, if it manages to pull me out of the funk of a truly terribad week at work... 27 of 40 hours completed so far, and 6 autistic meltdowns. if things aren't better today/tomorrow than they were yesterday, likelihood of doing somethign regrettable is... dangerously high. guts are too roily to keep anything down due to stress. i really REALLY hope that the Evil Schemes pay off.

Warning: this idea is Powered By Mint Oil, and may make No Sense Whatsoever.


had the notion for a pokemon game on the wii, where the wii game itself is just an interface client, up to ten DSes with a pokemon game inserted simultaneously connect to downloadplay the client (possibly from within the 'World' menu of the pokemon games to speed loading), which then connects them up for a multiplayer Realtime Strategy brawlfest with their currently saved team, control system simiilar to Revenant Wings as the most recent version of the system i'm thinking of that i've played.

What the TV (or ideally, 2 TVs) connected to the Wii would be doing would be between two modes (switching if one screen, one for each with two).
1: birdseye tactical overmap. 2: LucasCam filter swinging a point of view over "dramatic events".. which it would be easy enough to program a filter for 'drama' triggers of various tiers of priority to determine where to swing the camera to. Hell, Empire At War did it easily enough, which is why i called it LucasCam

i don't see there as being much single player content to it if any, if only because writing an AI to realtime any of the various combinations of pokesets would be prohibitive, which would mean rigidly scripted enemy encounters with tailored AIs for their individual configurations. sod that for a joke. Be much better as a party game.

one other notion tidbit was a 'tournament mode' for conventions and such where an appropriately powerful wifi broadcaster could cover the convention grounds, and you could preregister (by friendcode, my goodness, every DS -does- have a unique ID, doesn't it? ) however many people wanted to participate, have the thing random-allocate a tournament table and actually have it poke people's sleep-moding DSes to ask if they want to take their turn wherever they are on the grounds, with option of "no", "i'm coming, dammit" (give them a few minutes to get closer, i'd say starts a timer after which if more than half are "ready now" they can override remaining "i'm comings" and boot them back to the pool) and "ready now" to start.

it's not QUITE as enticing as if they made an eevee-scratch fever game with demented social-sim aspects for the option of building your team without pokeballs, but hot damn i'd play it