Very good things...

I'm very tired today (see prev.entry), so I shall be brief.

1. The Steelers won the Super Bowl AGAIN! This makes the second time in three years, which is freakin' awesome. I bet you didn't know I followed football. Guess what? I don't. I don't understand half of what goes on in that game, and I prefer football movies to watching it live as there are way fewer moments when you're watching some sort of pause or timeout. However I cheer for the Steelers because my Gram & Gramps did, being so supportive that they threw little house gatherings, dressed in black & gold, and shouted very rude things at the television when they disagreed with calls or plays. Since they passed, people in my family either root for the 'Skins, Packers, or Giants, so I root for the Steelers 'cuz they're a good damned team and for cryin' out loud someone in this family should.
   
   
2. Hey, Nicholas, lookit:
   
   
   
   I found it over here. (Also anyone else that feels like making Obama icons of themselves should go there, too.)
   
   
3. Tonight I get to hang out with Cynthia. She is providing vodka, I am providing stew and we are going to finish An Important Project. It should be assumed there will be much geekery and the occasional, unladylike snort. I am probably going to have to take a nap first, though.
   
   
4. Boy howdy would I like to make shrimp linguini and apple tarts right now. That is not what I get to do.

EDIT: GUESS WHAT. I just got a phone call from Petunia informing me that she is to have a 7 a.m. inducement tomorrow morning (Henry doesn't feel like coming out on his own because *apparently* he's just that comfortable) which means that tomorrow's to be Henry's birthday, Petunia and A-bert will finally get to meet their son, AND THAT I WILL HAVE A NEPHEW! I'm so excited I could pop, but I won't, because then I wouldn't be able to meet him.

Woohoo!

That is all. More later.

\'füd\...

Afternoon, everyone. Today's been pretty slammed thus far, but the über-boss is only in for a couple hours today, so every so often I've a few minutes to type something up in Notepad then copy & post it later. Today's topic (unsurprisingly, really) is food. (Yes, damn it, I failed the breakfast challenge AGAIN this morning, walking out the door with neither the Cheerios I just bought nor the quart of milk sitting in my fridge.)

1. Debbar sent me a recipe this morning, which made me curious, so I attempted to look up possible variations of this idea (pretty much resulting solely in drinks & WoW "recipes"), which *eventually* led me to THIS recipe and now the whole idea of making gigantimammoth stews makes me want to cook & eat a small chunk of Africa. It's a big place, there are lots of animals, I'm pretty sure they won't miss it.
   
   
2. This recipe and a couple others I came across obviously got me thinking about what rhino, elephant, warthog & guinea fowl might taste like. However as those aren’t exactly close to home, I wonder what the difference in taste, texture, and preparation might be for rabbit as opposed to hare. Can anyone answer this? There a lot of running culinary jokes on teh intarwebz about “not wanting hare in your food”, but I was curious whether or not there was a real reason such as its taste behind it or if it was just the obvious play on words.
   
   
3. I keep getting ghost wafts of IPA around here, which is distracting even for someone that's not really into IPAs. No clue what that's about, but it's making me thirsty.
   
   
4. A friend of mine posted something in her journal about this, so I’m cross-posting because it amuses me. Burger King has instituted an application that's used on Facebook that encourages one to ditch ten friends at a time on the site by offering to reward them with a Whopper. Each time a Facebook friend is dumped, the application sends a message to the rejected individual that declares food is stronger than friendship. As if that's amusing enough, BK's "Sacrifice" site is keeping a running tally of the number of sacrifices that have been made. Links with more info.about this are here & here.
   
   
5. Speaking of BK, did you know they've come out with something called the "Angry Whopper"? I *thought* I saw an ad for that on a BK the other day but thought I misread it while driving past.

Now I go back to work where apparently *everyone* today thinks that whatever they want me to do is a big, honking emergency that needs to be done RIGHTNOWOMG (like printing a label for a CD...no, seriously ::wry chuckle::). So glad people are heading to Iguana tonight. :)

More later.

~E.