ahhhhh, sunday.

i love relaxing on the sunday after a gaming session. yesterday's was the first session of Pete's space campaign, and it was good fun. i'm thrilled with my character so far. i don't have a good feel for kratkrat's or Brian's yet -- they're both a little more conservative -- but as always, Dylan did an amazing job of characterizing a really interesting idea. (he's playing a robot whose name is the rate of decay of a cobalt isotope, or something to that effect.)

i'm spending the day watching movies on cable and thinking about food. i have a lot of shallots on hand because they were super cheap on sale, so i hunted for recipes using them and came up with this. the pumpkin and fennel are cooling now, and i'll put the whole thing together in a little while.

i have a very good feeling about this.

oh yeah, the bathroom

i haven't done the shelves yet. they need to be sanded and painted, and i just needed to relax today. i'll get to them this week.

there's water coming through the wall at one spot, which i'm finding rather mystifying. i didn't have this problem before, and it can't possibly be related to painting -- i didn't take the previous paint off, after all. stranger yet, there's really no reason for there to be pipes behind that wall, so i don't really get where the water is coming from. possibly it's leaking down from one of the water tanks on the roof, i suppose.

anyway, i'll have to call the office and bug them about it in the morning. it's not a big enough deal to mess up Rikki's weekend. (Rikki is the new maintenance guy. he's a cute little Hispanic dude with a spiked mullet worthy of an 80s hair band.)

also, cats are good.

the most important thing i've learned in the last few years

a sale doesn't save you money if you have to buy more than you can use.

dinner verdict

spectacular. absolutely spectacular. do not listen when they say you can substitute butternut squash -- it would be much too sweet. and there must be a way to incorporate goat cheese somehow...

god damn, that was good. god DAMN.