I hate my apartment.

So there's a game I play. I play it whenever I boil water, heat up a pan, use the stove, or look at the stove.

Best case scenario, I hear the tiny, disconnected fire alarm go off.

For there is STEAM! And some fucking idiot put a fire alarm by the natural flow out for steam from the stove. So we've unplugged it for sanity. Some steam might get in the bedroom by magic or by me forgetting to shut the door. (Yes, cannot cook with an open bedroom door. For steam means fire. Or spaghetti. They just want to be thorough.

Second scenario, there's something in the burner. It may or may not be imaginary. This will still create smoke, even if there's nothing visibly there and it's all been cleaned. Residue from water, oxygen, nitrogen, or carbon in any of its forms can do this. 100% chance of this smoke permeating the door and causing the working fire alarm to blare loudly. Can't cook when anyone's sleeping or... well... it's right over the bed. The little one beeps still, to let us know food's cooking.


Third scenario, this creates fire. This can be from imaginary things too. Often creates heat spikes which can cause over boiling and actual spills... which create stench and fire. Fire is not good for kitchens and makes really irritating fire alarms go into overdrive, I think. They KNOW.


I... hate my apartment. It has a sense of humor. I have a lease that ends in July.

Discovery! Frozen Lemonade!

So I wanted to make frozen lemonade. I decided to make the lemonade by boiling the sugar, water, and lemon juice to get a very, very sweet mix. Then I saw strawberries!

So I chopped up strawberries and tossed them in, and boiled the mix for a while. Once the strawberry chunks were all translucent and colorless, I cooled it and strained them out, putting it in to cool. When it was cool, tossed it in the ice cream maker, then froze it more.

OMGNOM!

VERRAH Tasty!

Epic Sheep.

So the external DVD drive...

No dice. Had to get a new internal for it to work. Got it and it.. worked! Just had to wiggle and giggle it to get things in the right boot priority, and everything installed just fine! It's working on installing WoW right now, and having some issues there, but that's probably my problem.

And job interview tomorrow at best buy! Wish meh lucks!

So on that computer....

I started the lovely process of installing windows. Well, rather, TRIED to do so. Nothing wanted to play with the damned hard drive! So I fidget and bitch and moan... the figure out that the hard drive....

....

........

Was never plugged in.

So I plug it in, and nothing. So I unplug the external DVD, and hit keys I find on the motherboard website and get to the BIOS screen. Then I do a bunch of shit, and find I can get there again if I take out the xp disc.

The BIOS won't recognize the external DVD drive.

Eff.

Gonna get an adapter for the ribbon cable the internal needs but the motherboard won't accept.


And that sushi for the last post looks fucking amazing to me. /nom.

Considering Blogging About Building Your Own Computer...

And this is sushi I made today. Well.. some of it. I took this picture after we put away a lot of it. I could barely fit it onto the platter! This was $6 worth of salmon.

I'm hoping that I can trust myself to mount a processor, but I could probably figure out and give out info on building a compute for dummies at some point. Saves you hundreds.



I also get asstons of halibut so I can try to make halibut rolls. If I ever open my restaurant, I'm using the food setting on my camera for the menu. I'm hungry again from the picture of that sushi.

Fruit Flies... and I need a tripod!

So, I figured out how to make fruit fly bait after they kept swarming on dough that I had rising. Water, sugar, and yeast with a BIT of flour seems to do the job. They totally ignore the fruity stuff I had in favor of it, and it's killing them off by the dozen while they drown. I would like to try to put something like soap in there as well once it gets smelly so they'll die faster, but it at least keeps them off other things.

I also need a tripod. Exhibit A:



That was one twitch in ten seconds of exposure. TEN SECONDS. Mrow.

But... Northwest sunsets are great. Can't bitch about those. Much.

Clouds = Sunset. Not smog. Clouds.

SUMMER!

So summer's finally fucking here! It's 62 degrees and beautifully cloudy with the occasional drop (not drops) of rain. It's so fucking perfect I want to hug and kiss it. It's not hot humid as much as a cool, clean feeling that's not dry but not muggy either. It's a cool, lovely breeze.

I took pictures. I missed my beautiful northwest summers. Been gone since about 2004 or 2005.

Freaking Incredible

So I went to http://www.makemysushi.com/ to learn some stuffs about making sushis. I had the rice, and I went to Haggen for the fishes. BTW, Haggen fish person really knew her stuff and pointed us to some flash frozen ahi and some super fresh locally caught salmon. Incredible. Friend and I nommed on sushi all day (I'm talking 3 full meals) for $17.

Not going to a sushi place for a LONG time.... until I have excess monies. We made 10 gigantic rolls and ate some of the fish as sashimi.

Definetly making up for the fail at Tokyo House. $40 for burnt chicken and iffy fish. Going to see if I can find unagi and tobiko on the Asian market row that is Meridian. I'm also low on miso paste and edamame.



Right now... wondering how okra would taste with tuna or unagi.