RL things I love
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@Arkandel said in RL things I love:
Poutine is disgusting.
Didn't know your mom was named that, although it makes sense if she's cheesy and greasy.
(I hate because I love.)
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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It is so tasty. So, so tasty.
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For those interested in my junk food habits, I also found one last diet Dr Pepper in my section of the work fridge. PARTY TIIIIIME!
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Woke up the other day with a potential solution to a code problem that I'd abandoned in favour of other things several weeks ago, and it's worked.
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@Ninjakitten Yes. So much that. Happens all the time, but usually wake up a little further and can't figure out why the vacuum tubes inside the cat were supposed to fix everything.
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Vicodin. Oh sweet pain relief.
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Latest MRI results are all good! Well tumors still there but still not growing.
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Hey, staying the same size is still pretty decent news! It's not going any where.
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It's Friday and I have no afternoon appointments! I'm so happy.
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@saosmash Yeahhh... if you could pencil me in for a meeting at 3? That would be great.
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Just got this shipped in from the OP from my Kickstarter contribution.
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So, I picked up a couple of weird teas a month or so back. These are each 1kg of raw pu'er tea.
The one in bamboo is just a pretty normal raw pu'er (about eight years old), but the one on the left is termed "spring snow bud raw pu'er" and looked pretty odd in the photos. So needless to say I was curious.
After a month, with my existing brick still being worked on, I succumbed to the curiosity and cracked open the package.
This is the weirdest-looking tea (as in actual camelia sinensis) I've ever seen. The tea is very friable (which is unusual for a pu'er block); what you're seeing there is about 500g left over after I broke off by hand a bunch of the tea and put it into a spare 500g tin I had lying around. This tea's look is a serious WTF, but the aroma is incredibly powerful, like flowers with a tiny hint of grass. The reason it's so easily friable is that it's just the tips of old-growth trees (not shrubs), so they're short. Usually pu'er discs are made with full, long old-growth leaves; individual leaves can be longer than 15cm. These are wound up around each other and compressed together before drying, so taking them apart takes strong tooling. (I use a pair of specialized pliers, although specialized knives are used too.)
It brews up like this.
That's the very first brew. The WTFery with the leaves continues at this point. It looks more like really fat juniper scale leaves than actual tea. This is because these are the first shoots of spring, as I mentioned earlier, and then just the tips. Each "scale" is a bunch of leaves wrapped up around each other in a tube-like formation. It really is tea, it's just not in a form factor I'm used to.
This is by far the best tea I've ever owned. (I've had better, but not in my price range.) It's sweet, with a very slight hint of distant sour and the ghost of a hint of pine flavouring. The liquor, as you can see, has almost no colour, but man does it have flavour. From that first batch I managed to get six full brews (increasing the soak time from 30s to about 2.5m by the last one) without having it lose any flavour. Even after the 2.5m soak time it doesn't get much darker in the liquor than it is in this photo. After the sixth brew the flavour started to noticeably degrade. By the tenth it was a non-starter.
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The crops are approaching harvest time.
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Which reminds me, Stardew Valley is about to release multiplayer. So it'll be multiplayer Harvest moon now.
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Omgggg. MULTIPLAYER STARDEW? Does that mean I can pet my friends' cows??
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Click the Cow.
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Mother's Day. Much love to all the moms out there making the world a better place for their kids, one day at a time. You rock.
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@VulgarKitten Or those of us just raising the next generation of gaming nerds. ^_^
