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in my DVR I still have 2 episodes of Heroes, one episode of Sanctuary and one of Sarah Connor, plus the replay of the Legend of the Seeker pilot which i missed the first time around.

i just don’t care about Heroes enough to watch 2 hours of it. Sanctuary is something i usually put on in the background. i’m not excited about watching Sarah Connor either. LotS i do want to see, and may watch today.

i’m on vacation next week, so i’m using that as an excuse for not getting these shows cleared out of my DVR - i need stuff to watch next week. i really don’t need any such thing. i can always find something to watch. besides which, i have the first 3 Indiana Jones movies on order from Amazon. i got Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for x-mas and enjoyed it muchly. i’m going to have an Indiana Jones marathon one day on my vacation.

ooOOO. i just checked my tracking # and my movies were delivered today.

damn damn damn. i just found out that the show labeled Legend of the Seeker was really TMZ. damned CW channel. it’s not the first time one of these shows has been mislabeled. once again, Hulu.com will save the day.

Jason Chan's Zombie Playground

thus far, i have neglected to mention my zombie paranoia and i’m not going to go into it now.
however, i need to share a my new desktop picture. i found it on this site in “the junk drawer”

the artist is Jason Chan. (more…)

like coffee? like eggnog? here ya go.

yesterday i bought some eggnog because it is december and it’s the only time of year that i’ll drink the stuff. last night i had a nice cup o’ eggnog with a bit o’ captain morgan in it, garnished with whipped cream and nutmeg.

this morning i woke up thinking gee, wouldn’t eggnog be great in my coffee too?

damn right.

here’s how i made it: (all measurements are approx)

1 tbs instant coffee

1/2 c hot (boiling) water (it filled my mug not quite half way)

2/3 c eggnog (once added, it filled my mug nearly to the top)

1 swig captain morgan spiced rum (optional)

nutmeg to taste

Directions:

put instant coffee into coffee mug. boil water. add water to instant coffee; stir. add eggnog and stir. this may make your eggnog coffee a little colder than you like. i put mine in the microwave for a few seconds to bring it up to a more desirable morning beverage temperature. add a swig o’ the captain if you so desire then garnish with a bit o’ nutmeg. whipped cream on the top wouldn’t be out of order, either.

The pumpkin cheesecake turned out wonderfully. I haven’t taken a picture of it, but there’s still some left, so maybe i will later. i will make this cheesecake again, probably next year.

i got the recipe here. i substituted milk for the brandy. and i’d recommend loosening the cake from the pan when you turn the oven off, as opposed to when you take the cake out.

i have an episode of Legend of the Seeker to watch. i haven’t decided if i’ll watch it tonight or save it for tomorrow. right now i’m watching this show on the History Channel about tunnels and hidden passages in Europe that allowed people to hide from the Nazis during WWII. i like me some hidden tunnels. if i were ridiculously wealthy, i would build a big-ass mansion riddled with secret passages and layers of tunnels underneath, complete with underground bunkers.

not only would i get immense enjoyment out of such a juvenile house, it would serve a practical purpose as a fortress against zombie invasion.

pumpkin swirl cheesecake

an awful picture of my pumpkin swirl cheesecake taken with my webcam. tomorrow, i’ll try to take a proper picture of it with my real camera. yes, it does have 2 giant cracks in the middle. the recipe said turn the oven off and leave the cake in for 1 hr and then to loosen the sides after taking it out. i wish i had loosened the sides sooner.

tomorrow is thanksgiving and today i am baking a pumpkin-swirl cheesecake. the batter was delicious, so i hope the cake lives up to expectations. that is, i hope it sets properly. i have yet to have a cheesecake not set, but this is a new recipe that i found on the internet, i only trust it’s good.

last night at work a customer came in at about 9:20pm to exchange a sofa. usually our store is closed at 9, but starting this week and through the holiday season, we’ll be open until 10. it also bears to note that my store has a strict return/exchange policy; all customers must have a receipt for any returns or exchanges. anyhow, the associate working the furniture department told me a customer had a sofa to exchange because she wanted a different color, after cursing somewhat, i asked the kid if the customer had a receipt, he said, “yes, she said she had one. and she was here earlier and talked to _other associate_ who told her she could exchange the sofa.”

ok fine, the lady has her receipt, it’s a little late in the evening to be moving sofas, but whatever. we go to the loading dock where the customer and her husband have backed up their pickup truck, full of metal pipes and wooden boards and sundry bits of carpentry work, with a black durahide (fake leather) sofa strapped on top. before they take the sofa off, i ask the lady, “you have your receipt, ma’am?” she says “yes, i was hear earlier and spoke to _other associate_” they take the sofa off the truck; the lady’s husband stumbling over the pipes and boards and buckets he’d perched to sofa on. then the customers drive back around to the front of the store to do their sofa exchange.

up at our service desk, the gal at the counter asks the lady for the receipt so she can process the transaction. surprise, she doesn’t have the recipt. (more…)