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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #775 on: May 28, 2009, 01:13:07 AM »
My knees hurt. When I seem to say this to older people at work, they scoff. But I suppose they don't understand that standing in place for hours with little movement tends to cause more pressure around your knees to build up, thus pain. :/ I know I'm a youngin', but I ain't friggin' JCVD.

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #776 on: May 28, 2009, 01:24:45 AM »
Wait what - Andrew has a job?!

What job?

Is this going to hamper your writing time? ;_;

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #777 on: May 28, 2009, 01:39:15 AM »
Wait what - Andrew has a job?!

What job?

Is this going to hamper your writing time? ;_;

Technical Writing gig.

And hopefully not. Hopefully it will actually encourage me to use my time in a better manner!

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #778 on: May 28, 2009, 02:02:28 AM »
I've been beta-ing Safari 4.0 for the passed hour, and though I really love the new placement of tabs, I really dislike Safari's default font's weakness to site CSS fonts. So I'll just go ahead and download me some Firefox again, or perhaps I should just relax a bit and understand that font is font and I should be happy to browse the web. And congratulations on the job, Andrew.

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #779 on: May 28, 2009, 02:11:26 AM »
Made beef stew for dinner. My stew skills are improving, since this is holy shit good, and made it from start to finish in just under an hour. I am quite satisfied with myself on this one.
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #780 on: May 28, 2009, 04:27:40 AM »
Ohshi- I've been working on a beef stew recipe myself, but I slowcook it a bit more. We need to swap notes at some point. I'm very satisfied with the consistency and general spicing, but I think the broth needs a bit more savoriness. Suggestions?

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #781 on: May 28, 2009, 04:39:55 AM »
To be frank? On the advice of my mother, who was a professional chef for many years, when cooking at home it is often best to cheat one's ass off and use things like premade seasoning mixes and stocks/broths.

For this one, I used the Lawrey's beef stew mix(only about 3/4ths of the packet though) and "lower sodium" canned chicken broth. 2 cans of that, about a pound of stew meat that I'd cut into smaller peices, red potatoes, baby carrots and a large sweet yellow onion.

Started the thing off by making eyeballing a thin roux of sorts with basic vegitable oil and bisquick(sp?). Added the meat in to that, along with the seasoning mix and stirred it around to coat the meat with the roux. Let that cook just a bit while I started chopping veggies. Added one can of chicken broth, threw in the potatoes. Waited until I was done chopping the onion to add the second can of broth and the onion and carrots. Let that cook, covered, on just over medium for roughly 40-45 minutes, stirring about 3 times over the course of it. Boom, beef stew.

I'm sure it could still be a whole lot better if I did my seasoning from scratch and such, but on a Taste:Effort ratio, this was pretty damn amazing.

EDIT: Note here. If you use the Lawrey's seasoning, be SURE you also use the low sodium chicken stock. It was still almost too salty for my taste(though Jenna loved it. My salt preferance is very low), so I imagine the Lawrey's seasoning is the culprit there. I normally use the McCormick.
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #782 on: May 28, 2009, 04:57:53 AM »
You guys are great.

Andrew and I were just talking yesterday about starting a "What's for dinner, DL?" thread because I roasted a chicken (and took pictures) and I was proud.

Maybe not such a bad idea anyway? I hadn't given much credit to the cooking prowess of the DL as a whole, but I remember there were one or two of you around. >_>
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #783 on: May 28, 2009, 05:02:14 AM »
Dooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeet. Yummy pictures.
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #784 on: May 28, 2009, 05:04:26 AM »
Pictures? Uh, not my thing, sorry.

Though if you and Andy ever decide to come out here I will cheerfully feed you~
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #785 on: May 28, 2009, 05:07:11 AM »
Awesome advice
Interesting with the roux and the chicken broth. I have a different adding order- I actually do onions both early and late. The early onions kind of melt away into tasty, and the late onions stay solid enough to nom on. Also I love salt, though my guests may not. I'll have to experiment.

Though I usually save the stew for the winter. Maybe time for summerstew!

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #786 on: May 28, 2009, 05:07:40 AM »
I'd be up for that.  I've done a lot of cooking/baking recently, different stuff (Quinoa with shrimp, roasted red peppers, red onions, mushrooms, tomato; Tikki Masala Chicken; Wedding Soup which I haven't made in ages...etc.).  Going to make my peanut butter cup pie for a resident dinner this Friday.

Next on the agenda - alligator steaks.  Friend brought some back from Florida.  Mmmm...
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #787 on: May 28, 2009, 05:10:49 AM »
I only add the onions early specifically because the step-sprog won't eat onions. So if I let them melt away into basically part of the broth...
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #788 on: May 28, 2009, 05:12:34 AM »
Also, if any of you cooking types want my dad's recipie file(despite not being a chef like my mother, he's possibly the better cook. Dude recreates recepies after eating them once/twice as a hobby...) just poke me on AIM and ask for it. I'll transfer it over.
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #789 on: May 28, 2009, 05:14:43 AM »
Pictures? Uh, not my thing, sorry.

Though if you and Andy ever decide to come out here I will cheerfully feed you~

Pictures aren't necessary, I'm more after recipes/cooking-type advices and whatnot. I just happened to think about it because I had taken a picture of my meal.

Andrew and I will be more than happy to take you up on that offer soon. Now that we're school free, we have a remarkable amount of time. Yay~
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #790 on: May 29, 2009, 12:27:52 AM »
Now that I've read the Three Musketeers an unfathomable amount of times, it's about enough experience to tackle the book en français. Not too sure where I'm going to nab a copy, mais j'essayerai.

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #791 on: May 29, 2009, 03:12:25 AM »
First day of work. It was mainly a drag given that I had nothing much to do all day. Educational days are slow.

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #792 on: May 29, 2009, 08:30:48 AM »
I helped a friend assemble a hobo pirate raft today.  It is called the Miss Alaska.  It will crash a raft race.  Guy's spent a couple years designing and building it and it is now afloat.  Probably the best use of my Thursday evening in a while.

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #793 on: May 29, 2009, 07:38:41 PM »
Posting from my lunch break, because today I get to do work between bouts of learning. Yay!

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #794 on: May 29, 2009, 08:22:53 PM »
I think I'm getting a cold. hate.
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #795 on: May 30, 2009, 07:48:18 AM »
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5459/lolycx.jpg

Updated picture of the same wallpaper, now with more RPG characters and less space furries. Also more character space!
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #796 on: May 30, 2009, 09:26:50 AM »
Win Wallpaper is Win.

Does Yuri's card have the Soul Eater Rune as its elemental symbol? o_O?


EDIT: Are you willing to take customized requests? I personally want to see one of these with the Meeple Fantasy 6 cast/villains. >.>;;

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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #797 on: May 30, 2009, 09:30:11 AM »
It's not Tide until it's a CAPTAIN FALCON mirror, so I think you need just one more version~
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #798 on: May 30, 2009, 12:26:45 PM »
Playing around with photoshop, RPGDL Banners ahoy!





I'm so witty. >.>;;

If anyone can find a higher-quality version of those images of Gilder and Virginia, I might be able to salvage that first banner into something clearer and workable.
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Re: Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows: G'morning, 2009!
« Reply #799 on: May 30, 2009, 12:53:31 PM »
Love that picture of Yuri. Is that fanart?

Edit: I'll take a look for Gilder and Virginia tonight. I damn well should  be able to find something for both.
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