Miss you already.

This past weekend I attended Con of the North, here are my findings, cut to protect the uninterested.
( CotN 2012 )

Headed to Con of the North next weekend, first vacation time I've taken off in I don't know how long. Otherwise everything is same-old same-old.

And Happy Holidays if you don't celebrate Christmas.

Happy winter if you're not a holiday kind of person. I find that the seasons resonate fairly deeply with me. It doesn't feel like winter yet; I haven't smelled snow, or that odd scent streams get, haven't heard snow whispering across the drifts, heard the crunch as I walk. I'm sure that's coming, but it's not here yet, but it's close. Other seasons have their appeal, but I think winter may be my favorite.

Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, may you know the warmth and companionship of friends and family!

-Kevin

We Remember. Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knpZ2TvvBro

Recently in Kev's kitchen I baked a "champagne cake" then ended up using 12 egg whites. Being thrifty I froze the yolks and puttered on. a later cake consumed another 4 egg whites, and I began to wonder what to do with the jar of frozen yolks. Various searches through baking books, online recipe storehouses, and querying coworkers turned up no good leads, until I remembered to search like a user and not an information professional.

Googleing 'use up extra egg yolks' turned up this page with the link to a lemon bar recipe. While there was a frikken ton of stirring, it is all I can do not to gleefully freeze some egg whites so I can make more lemon curd to keep for my very own. Yummy, yummy lemon curd.

I didn't bother with the freshly squozen lemon juice, the bottle of juice that's pretending to choke on a lemon worked just fine, and meant I could skip the straining phase, though I had the cheese cloth and strainer ready. Bars are cooling on the stove, bowl was licked sorta clean, happy Kev is ready for bed soon. now if I'd done this next week when the party I thought was Saturday is actually happening, everything would be perfect ;) oh well, the bars certainly won't go to waste.

Also done this evening was a pan of butterscotch fudge using chips and a can of sweetened condensed milk. the milk boiled over in the micowave this time, but it looks really tasty.

Yup, the Tylenol PM is making itself felt, time to toddle-off.

Headed back to work tomorrow, expect several months of silence here until I have free time again. :)

Roughly 4' tall, 3' spread at top.




Close up of the berry pods on the mystery plant.

Spent the day hanging out with bedside_trauma. Disc golf did not happen due to the rain/muddy course, but lunch was had at La Casita--decent American Mexican, nothing phenomenal, at least on my plate. Gave Google+ a once over since Jeff wanted to show it off. I'm still not comfortable handing Google my personal data to go which whatever else they know about me, but if someone sends me an invite I'll set up an account.

Played Ascension with the new expansion, now dubbed by me 'the Banish Everything! expansion'. Seriously, I understand that getting rid of crappy cards is important, but nearly every new card we saw had a banish ability. Finally remembered my gift certificate to the Source and did some browsing there. Bought Flapjacks and Sasquatches since I'd seen it demo'd at Con of the North. Played that and a couple games of CoC and headed home.

( review of Flapjacks and Sasquatch )

According to their facebook page a new version of Flapjacks & Sasquatches is being kickstarted with better card quality and possibly custom dice? Good on them!