Tag: randomness

Banquet Homestyle Bakes

So, I came home to a quiet apartment… everyone in bed… and I was three little minutes away from dinner – Diana left a plate in the nuker… I’m currently eating it… a “Homestyle Bake” or something like that… you know the type… buy a box off the shelf, put it all in a pan and throw it in the oven… I can’t say it’s good, and I can’t say that it’s bad… I think we’ll try it one more time – only this next time, I’ll fix it and try to change it a bit… needs improvement… needs some sweetness… also could use a bit of heat… maybe red pepper… a change in the cheese couldn’t hurt either… add a different cheese to it… maybe some sharp cheddar, or parmesan… or both…
well, just finished eating it… i honestly believe that i have eaten the same thing out of an MRE… honest… i believe i have… and now that i think about it, it did taste like an MRE… a bit salty, without having that definite salt taste… i wonder what the sodium content on it is… time to go find the box…
Holy-Crap! There’s 1000mg (42% of suggested intake on a 2000 calorie diet) of sodium in one serving. I just took in well over half of the recommend amount of sodium I need in a day! No wonder it tasted salty! Also explains my thirst!
Okay, it was a Banquet Homestyle Bake… Cheesy Ham & Hash Browns… “Cheese Sauce with Savory Ham, Potatoes & Crumb Topping.” and it “Includes Real Cheddar Cheese!”
Hell, I couldn’t tell it was cheddar cheese! I’m disgusted now… Strike that idea of trying it again…. It has way too much salt, and I couldn’t tell that the cheese sauce was a cheddar base… yuck!
Anyway, I’m tired, and am going to bed now…

lj tags

you know… i think i shall start employing the use of tags… might be a good idea… i think i’ll start with the next entry… or maybe the one after that… i dunno… we’ll see i guess…
but i do think it would be beneficial… classify my entries… like random thoughts… rants… crap… stuff… poop… yeah… that’ll work…
but not now… too lazy… need to get back to the housework anyway…

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So, I still haven’t sat down to write my paper on blogging… I really need to take the time to sit down and write something…
I will be heading back out to my parents sometime today to finish working on the van… I had gone out there yesterday to replace the brake pads. I had a bit of trouble… I was having problems with this cheap little “one size fits most” attachment that is used to turn the piston back in on the brake caliper… The stupid thing didn’t fit the calipers I have, so I had to modify the thing…. and it kept slipping… and, in order for me to get the one piston to get turned back into position, I had to take the stupid caliper completely off the van, so that I could apply the force necessary to turn and press the sucker back in… Well, in the process of taking the thing off, I had to, of course take the brake line off the caliper… So, now I am having problems bleeding the system… I’m going to have to completely bleed the thing out, and refill it, because I have yet to get any air out of the system… I keep getting nothing but fluid, and the brakes are still super soft and unresponsive… (Funny thing, dad moved the van last night before we left, and damn near took out a tree, because he could find the parking brake…)
My hand hurts… ratcheting that piston in wasn’t easy…
Taron’s happy… He was able to watch VeggieTales for the first time in a few days… The VCR wasn’t working… I fixed it night before last… A cube of cheese had been put inside…
Well, I have nothing more to report at this time…

Family Values

So, I’ve been keeping up with (through MySpace) all sorts of drama involving a family I know. I really don’t know why I care either…
The largest portion of the drama has been involving one friend, and her relationship with the son of this family. They’ve been fighting for years, and it has (as far as I know – Diana won’t let me get back in touch with the friend) completely fallen apart. I have been in full support of the friend, but, at the same time, I feel for the family…
The mother of the family has started to blog about her children, and has even posted a comment about her son-in-law, praising him and at the same time using the post as a jab at her daughter-in-law (or soon to be ex-daughter-in-law; the friend). Well, the mother’s last post was about her youngest daughter. She feels that she has lost her daughter.
A few years ago, the daughter had moved away to attend school some eight hundred (give or take a few hundred) miles away. During this period the distance between them grew. Now the mother is feeling saddened, for the daughter does not share the same love that she had once before.
I feel sorry for the mother. I feel sorry for I know that her world is falling apart, and that things she once knew are no longer true.
And I don’t know why I care.
I recall the daughter saying that she loved her family, but at the same time, she couldn’t wait to leave, so that she wouldn’t feel the obligations or oppression that she had faced while being at home. The girl realized that she had been and was being stunted by staying at home. She felt a need to break free. And apparently she has. and the mother sees this as something negative. I feel what she is saying, but I can see what the daughter is going through as well.
After having been at home for twenty years, it’s rather nice to go out into the world, and to truly discover who you are… and this road is a very difficult one to travel… and it lasts a lifetime.
I do not fully understand the gravity of the daughter’s situation, for I had never been in an environment as the one she had lived in. The family attended all church functions religiously, the children were schooled at home, and all significant others had to be approved. An old-fashioned family. Must have been difficult.
There had been a rumor circulating that the daughter had discovered a lifestyle which the family, and the Christian based school did not approve. From what I heard, this had been a lie told by another student. When I had heard the rumor, I honestly believed that it was very possible, and that it would explain the absence of communication between the daughter and family. It made sense that the daughter would cut ties based on this lifestyle change based on how the family treated her uncle.
I sometimes wish that I had never told them what the rainbow on his truck meant.
So, now, after a half hour of writing, I have lost all focus on what I was writing about. I believe that I should take that as a sign to step away from the computer, and to go do some housework….

autoKDJ

So, i’m pretty sure that I have mentioned that Diana is into karaoke… and I may have even mentioned that I have set up our home PC to handle karaoke… ripped Diana’s discs to the HD, grabbed a few neato Winamp plugins, and so on… Well, here’s a post about the neato plugins…
autoKDJ…
Totally awesome… Takes advantage of Winamp’s Media Library, and has an interface where you can search your library, cue up songs and enter singer info, and even change pitch, tempo, and speed through the use of the Pacemaker plugin… But wait! There’s more! autoKDJ has a backdoor interface where you can interact with the set-up from a remote PC! You can have your Karaoke PC act as a server, up at the booth, and have a few other PC’s set around the venue so that patrons can enter their names and songs, and it all gets saved at your server – songs placed in queue and rotation sorted out, so that you never have to worry about keeping those silly little slips around or in order…
At any rate autoKDJ is awesome… and a hell of a lot better than the method that our favorite place uses… I’m gonna try and figure out how to sell them to the idea… Sad thing, however, I have seen their mp3-g zip naming system, and for them to take full advantage of autoKDJ, they would have to go through and rename every file… I do not know the size of their collection, but their printed master index takes up two four-inch binders… so… that be some work…
And I have no idea why I am sharing his…