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We found a $4 tent at the DI. Opening it up revealed it to be in pretty good condition, and not missing any parts. It is pretty small (Alison and I could both fit in it, but a few bonus children would not fit). We decided to buy it after a little consideration. The 5 lb cheese is starting to smell pretty good - perhaps the yeast thing is over (hopefully). We have gotten some peas, and a few more strawberries from the garden, but I suspect that some birds have gotten most of the strawberries. We do have a good head of broccoli coming (and we will be eating it soon I would assume) There has been a new Twilight Imperium expansion made. I would really like it, but can't really justify getting it (as I never get to play the game anyway). It is a fun game, but my friends don't like long games any more. We have another session of our RPG coming up tomorrow. Mason is not going to be there. His wife is sick, so it makes sense, but I have seen players lose interest in a game after miss...

I just had some wonderful oatmeal bread. It is too bad that _you_ are not lucky enough to be married to someone who is a certified bread genius. (She even has her bread mensa certificate of smartness and everything). Also, the 5 lb cheese has a slightly yeasty smell (and I think that it probably got some yeast growing in it). I waxed it and it balooned the wax with its gas - hopefully it survives. We ate one tiny strawberry from our garden the other day. It was tasty. We also have peas coming up soon. Also, we have recently discovered Colosimo's Bratwurst (which are quite tasty - fairly reminiscent of real German bratwurst). I am working on a MSV Atlas - which is coming along nicely. I might post a new version of the MSV some time soon - I hope to make more headway in the equation parsing and arbitrary fractal calculation before I do, but if the Atlas is a hit locally I could se myself posting it before those other things are done. Finally, we are reading Good Omens - we found it a...

Session 0 summation: They are all riding on the Trax going north to SLC. The train crashes into a giant organic thing that fell out of the sky. They discover a creature on top of it and help some people off the train (and attend to their injuries). The creature enters an opening into the large object, and they attempt to follow it. The large object begins to dimension shift, and they are all left on the ground. They talk to a representitive of walmart, who invites them to meet with them and discuss the events with him. 0.5 The interlude: Zhengi is approached by a member of the Diablo gang and told that the gang leader (Mr. Blaire) would like to talk to him, and anyone else who was at the 'event' earlier that night. Zhengi agrees, and calls everyone in the middle of the night. The next morning they go to walmart headquarters. On the way, Mara gets a call from the secretary of her apartment saying that two government men came and were looking for her. They arrive at walmart and d...

On friday Alison mentioned how she wanted to make a 5 lb cheese with the new slow roaster that we just found at the di. Powdered milk doesn't have fat in it cause that would cause it to spoil quicker. We bought some whipping cream to try to add in a little fat to the milk (all of our long term cheeses have been pretty hard, and it seems to me that we need to add some fat to them to soften them.) On Saturday morning we started to make the cheese. We made a quadruple recipe (the slow cooker only holds 4 and a half gallons, not actually five). It came out well. Now we have about ten pounds of cheese stored away (five from various other cheese making exploits.) As you can see, our old cheeses are much smaller. The four that are red were waxed with ordinary cheese wax. The yellow one was waxed with 'cream' cheese wax. The big one is not yet dried, so I have not yet waxed it (though I think I will go with the red wax on this one.) On saturday, we had the first salad from our (rea...

I have just had to reinstall my operating system. They wanted everyone at work on the standard desktop, and I had installed everything myself. Fortunately it took a minimum of time so far. The first role playing session went well. Jae (as was expected) ended up as a homeless bum with multiple guns. They met the aliens, and got caught up in some corporate intrigue. It was pretty fun. We are meeting again next Thursday. Perhaps I will feel more ready this time (though that cannot be guaranteed, life as it is). I am considering making a page on my website that allows the user to connect to google talk, and uses only html and ajax. If I did this, then I could be on google talk while using the kindle. I have not yet finished my preliminary preparations, but I will report on it as I move forward. I also made another triple batch of granola. Since the grocery store was out of bulk raisins, we used golden raisins instead. They are more sour than the normal ones. It ended up a slightly differen...