bandit king of lunch and string

you had less than ideal poutine. ideally, the fries are crunchy, the cheese curds are squeaky, and the gravy has been applied recently enough that it doesn't slimify anything. sounds like the poutine you had was sitting around a while so the gravy sogged up the fries, and also possibly the gravy was thickened with something weird.

some commercial thickeners are kind of slimy, like the kind made from seaweed, but jar gravy uses it because starch thickeners break down over time, and sometimes get weird-looking at room temperature or refrigerator temperature. like when i make homemade gravy, and i use corn starch or potato starch, the leftover portion that i put in the fridge kind of cracks and gets some liquid in the cracks, and it looks very ugly and unappetizing. of course when you stir it up it's fine. but companies selling gravy want it to look pretty in the jar, not tumerous. so they use various gels and gums to keep it handsome. and imo those taste slimy, and i do not like them.

long story short, give poutine another chance, from a place that makes their gravy in-house. (why don't we have a thumbs up emoji? pretend i put one here)

 

i use cottage cheese as a dip for potato chips, so it'd probably taste good to me at least, but you'd have to eat it quick or it'd make everything soggo.

 

that sounds like an amazing story i'd love to read, but i can't imagine how it could be a game!

 

plain ripple chips, and i put cajun spice on the cottage cheese. :D

 

it's helpybarb's day off, and seebs was busy working, so i made my own breakfast. on the one hand, OW OW OW OW stairs before painkillers are SUCH A BAD. on the other hand, i made lovely fluffy scrambled eggs with mirin and put them on top of some reheated leftover rice and ate that with soy sauce, and it was Very Nice. i have a competence!

i am beardy and i have stonk. i smell like sick guy sweat. i must remember this time: SHAVE BEFORE SHOWER. otherwise hair crumbs.

i don't actually remember my dreams last night, but i know they were pretty dumb, because i came awake with the words "that's just fucking stupid" in my mouth. i didn't sleep well. i sorta remember half waking up every time i turned over. when barb came to prod me i didn't so much wake up as stop trying to sleep.

also it's all gray out and two of the bulbs on my full spectrum lamp are burnt out. i need to replace those. gotta go to menards or home depot or lowes or something, i forget which one is near here. get those daylight bulbs, string trimmer line to replace my spinning wheel drive band, and something for plants that i forget what it was.

O SHIT i gotta pot my forcing bulbs! was supposed to do that in december. bugger.

today is not great.

 

one of the blogthreads i was reading here mentioned 'that time I got reincarnated as a slime' and i checked it out and it's SO CUTE! and i want to say thanks but i don't remember who it was that was talking about it.

 

seebs fixed the pool pump but couldn't remember the word 'pump' and said "water push noun" and i'm dying of cute

 

he is! he's got such a great attitude, and he's so good at getting people to work together. thanks for talking about it, i'm really loving it.

 

i watched 8 episodes in a row and it really saved my day. thanks so much, @vuatson . i've got an earache and sinus headache and neck cramp on top of everything, and it could've been a really terrible day, but instead i petted a kitty and watched this kindly dad-age dude-turned-invulnerable-bouncey-ball improve people's lives. this was an excellent choice.

now i'm going to play minecraft for a while and take care of my lil village dudes. minecolonies is pretty great, you can do things like instantly teleport all your people into the town hall in case of zombie attack. i will keep them all Safe.

 

If you like gravy it's real good because, let's be honest, fries are good delivery system for most things.

The kinds I've had were a thin, almost clear light brown kinda gravy. Not the sausage gravy you'd use on biscuits in the south.

Hmm, still thinner than turkey gravy too, but that's closer.