MarsPhoenix [From Phoenix mission ops: Phoenix is no longer communicating with Earth. We’ll continue to listen, but it’s likely its mission has ended.]

Bye bye, MarsPhoenix.

• 00:43 I am reduced to playing Little Big Planet. #
• 16:38 Just back from shop. OMFG it was *heaving*. No time to run now, got typing to do. Dammit. #

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• 13:29 Trying to keep busy to distract from Frood being away, but being distracted from keeping busy by Frood being away 🙁 #
• 21:03 Finally hunger has produced enough activation energy to drive me to make dinner. Sometimes it’s an arse not being able to eat junk food. #
• 21:07 There’s something a bit odd about gaining a follower I don’t know who isn’t just spam. What did I do to deserve it? Am I that interesting? #
• 21:14 Off to torture myself with the rubbish that is Silent Hill. I haven’t seen it. I hear it sucks chunky goat vomit through a twisty straw. #
• 22:28 @andygates The what? #
• 00:43 I am reduced to playing Little Big Planet. #

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Things I was supposed to do today, in order:

• Tidy flat.
• Go to gym.
• Go to pool.
• Have shower.
• Get shopping done for dinner.
• Put petrol in car.
• Type up all of the material completed so far for NaNoWriMo.
• Have dinner.

What I have actually done today, in order:

• Wasted time on teh intarnets.
• Read half of this month’s FT.
• Gone to pool.
• Wasted time on teh intarnets.
• Gone to shop and bought dinner.
• Wasted time on teh intarnets.
• Tidied flat (swept the floor and everything!)

And lo! Here I am on teh intarnets again.

This is the maddest cat I have ever seen.

Dude! Bubble wrap?

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• 11:06 @warrenellis You’ve never been to Glenrothes, have you? I’d recommend maintaining that state. #
• 11:08 @andygates Nah. It was a monocular vision + oven FAIL. Burnt hole in left finger and smacked right wrist off other side while flinching. Ow. #

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Friends came to dinner recently. Starter was soup. I’d made a decadently rich 8-carcass chicken soup, but one of the guests was a veggie, so Frood made French Onion Soup. I don’t like French Onion Soup, so that puts me out of the running order when it comes to making the stuff. I can’t tell whether it tastes nice because all French Onion Soup is teh nasteh, as far as I am concerned.

Said friend enjoyed this soup so much she asked for the recipe. Frood duly obliged. Sort of (sic throughout):

French onion soops.

Take ye a brace of fine middling to big onions.
Peel then bifurcate longitudinally.
Bifurcate the hemispheres longitudinally once more.
Take ye each quarter and thence slice latitudinally each quarter of an inch.
Take ye one high sided flat bottomed sauce pan a hands span in diameter.
Heat ye a brace of table spoons of olive oil whence a satisfying knob of well churned butter is added athwart it.
Fry thy onions in this mixture briskly for five of thine earth minutes.
Reduce ye now the heat.
Simmer ye for a solitary hour.
Stir ye thine onions occasionally at first.
As the colour of thy onions darkens the incidence of stirrings needs must be increased to prevent catching and burnings of such.
During this time adden ye mixed herbs and the pepper that is black.
Whence onions are shrivelled liken unto a well cooked onions, both carameralised and deepen of colour mahogany.
Add ye a generous splooshen or glugg of redden wine.
Thence adden some three quarters to an pint of vegetable stocks.
Cooks ye the pottage at a simmer for some half of an hour to allow concensuses of flavours.
Season ye more if required.

Eaten avec cruitons garliks or plains

Wilt feeden some ones to twos dependings on hunger and size of bowl.

Enjoy

Magister Frood

Sigh.

• 17:50 Finally back from East Kilbride. Phew. Why does "Now Entering West Lothian" sign on the M8 say "Council of the Year 2006"? #
• 17:51 Is that really the best thing they can think of to say about themselves? #
• 23:14 I have burnt myself. Quite badly. Arse. #

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• 11:13 Why is the coffee on training courses always so bad? Spesh when you really need the caffeine? 🙁 #
• 19:04 @andygates Watcha getting? Eh? #
• 19:05 Back from first yoga sesh. 1/2 way thru lesson she switched to speaking in Sanskrit. I had No Clue what I was doing. #
• 19:35 @splinister Especially as she was instructing us in how to do new moves in Sanskrit! #

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We has Little Big Planet and it TEH AWSUM!

I don’t think that I’ll ever drag Frood away.

Full review to follow but it am be my bed time.