I was reading some Straight Dope yesterday and found out that the origin of the name Baxter is supposedly from a word meaning baker, specifically a female one. Supposedly is good enough for me and so whenever some asks what I do for a living, that is what I will tell them.

That way I can add getting punted off a bridge by Jack Black to my list of occupational hazards, which is actually ridiculously short compared to when I worked in the Deli.

There’s been a song that has been sporadically popping into my head for last four months or so.  It was a classical piece, which is something I don’t normally listen to, so I really had no idea what it was.  Now, due to my habit of aimless clicking links on the internet, I’m pretty sure that it’s the chorus of Pachelbel’s Canon.

It’s pretty annoying because I normally associate the tune with chick flicks and boring documentaries.  Thankfully, it only pops into my head when nothing else is in there and can easily bbe erradicated by humming Smiling Face by James Taylor; I, Don Quixote from The Man of la Mancha; or Lover’s Concerto, specifically the version performed by The Toys.

I think I did even it properly!  It tasted pretty decent too, though next time I’d cut the beef up a little more and back off on the cayanne and black peppercorn.  I thought I wanted it spicy, but I ended up eating more bread and milk than actual curry.  Maybe I’ll actually put the apple in next time as well.

If you notice, I served this in the popular half-over the rice fashion, apparently to make myself feel like a weeaboo.  The fact that the food tastefully matches the the design on plate is completely unintentional.  I’ve had those dishes for a couple years, I swear.

Anyway, this took about two or so hours to cook from scratch, and it didn’t help that I started at 7:59 PM on a really freaking hot day.  Oh gawd, I’m sweating all over.  Urgh.

Oh!  I got the recipe from this site, which I would highly recommend.  The guy who writes it is seriously awesome.

Better cooking through use of cheap pizza and hair ties.

I ended up not making curry. I’ve got to find a decent recipe that I understand first. I want to try making Japanese curry, a little research told me there are different kinds, but I want to find one that isn’t sweet and tells what spices to use instead of a bouillon-type block. I don’t think I could find a decent kind of block in the store, if any at all.

I used to be an extremely picker eater. I had a very limited diet of summer sausage, cheese, and pizza. That’s pretty much all I’ve eaten for the 11 months since I’ve moved out of my parent’s house. This some how caused me to lose about fifty pounds. It also turned my skin yellow, so I think we can safely chalk it up to malnutrition.

BUT! One day I decided to buy a bag of tortilla chips and a jar of hot salsa and it all changed. The tortilla chips sucked (Just a “hint” of lime, my fundament.) but the salsa was awesome so I bought a bag of Tostitos and it was great. This started a whirlwind of change in my dietary habits. That was about a week or two ago.

Just today I found a box of Pierogies, which are like pasta shells with creamy mashed potatoes and cheese in them. I had never imagined such a concept before. Twenty minutes later I was eating them. They were okay, even if all the stuff squirted out of them when you cut them in half. It seriously looked like a huge zit popping. Not being squeamish is one of my biggest strengths, however, so I really didn’t care.

This was a step up from yesterday when I experimented to see if putting Yankee Pot Roast-style stew on top of rice tasted like stir-fry, only without the broccoli. It doesn’t, as it turns out. The potatoes and rice together were also more starchy than I would liked. Also, I cooked the rice wrong so it came out a little dry. But I ate it.

Tomorrow I’m thinking about trying to make curry after I get off of work. We’ll see how it goes.

..until I expand my content even more and find a bunch of stuff I have to fix because I basically just spliced a bunch of CSS into an already existing theme until it looked somewhat decent. Lol, run-on sentence.

I’m going to go eat the pizza that has been sitting out for about two and a half hours. At least I remembered to take it out of the oven. I tend ignore my basic bodily needs when I’m working on a project. Or anything, really.

That’s why the site looks so horrible right now.  It’ll get better.  I’m working on it.

I was just really tired of Kubrick smooshing my pictures in it’s horribly narrow content space.

• “Seto” seems to be a fairly popular name in manga.  The reason I noticed this is because I’ve been reading a lot of scanlations recently and am now incapable of reading the phrase “Hey, Seto!” without hearing LittleKuriboh’s impression of Mokuba saying it.  It sort of breaks the mood of the story sometimes.  Especially if it’s a shoujo series and the Seto in question is a girl being talked to by her boyfriend.
• My feet come into contact with my refrigerator more than my hands do.  I’ve caught on to the fact that I can open both of the doors by gripping the handles with my toes and I can get the doors shut by side kicking or knee-slamming them.  It’s especially fun with the freezer, because it’s really high up and I can still reach it with ease.
  I also found that I can open the cooler door at work by axe kicking it if my arms are full.  I made extra sure to sanitize the hell out of it when I came out, though.
• “Well, if you two get hitched someday, maybe I’ll be the one that fixes your broken electronic appliances.” is the best sentiment ever displayed by a game any sort of character whatsoever. I’m not sure why I finally decided this. I mean, I played Earthbound years ago and it’s always been one of my favorite lines.  I do know that I aspire to be like Jeff now.
• Sweet Baby James cures all ills.  I heard Smiling Face on the radio today, and then I looked up some of his concert videos on YouTube, and now I can’t stop listening to him.  I was humming Smiling Face for at least 3 hours at work this afternoon and that somehow caused me to be in a very good mood all night.  I need to buy one one of his albums now.

Yes, it’s a WordPress blog with a standard Kubrick theme for now.  I’ll work on it later.