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daylog posted: Mon 2013-06-24 04:37:24 tags: daylogs
Led my first battle with Order of Azeron into the wee hours last night, so I blew off church this morning. So slowly that it snuck up on me, Castle Age blossomed, from basically a heroic-fantasy-themed rip-off of Mafia Wars, into a rather complex and lively MMORPG. I used to say that FFXI would have to be my last MMORPG unless I hit the lottery. Mafia Wars, Farmville et al. all eventually pissed me off or just got boring, but CA managed to make a liar of me.

No question that CA is an MMO, of course. I hesitated to call it an RPG - but "RPG" means something different from what it used to in the mid-1980s. CA's guild PvP aspects totally are strategized around character class (cleric, mage, warrior or rogue), which is what passes for "role" in today's gaming parlance.

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Lite housekeeping: cleaned the bathroom, transferred boots from my Sterilite gasket box to gallon zip-seal bags, and stowed with winter socks and outgrown pants. Washed and dried the gasket box, repurposed it as kitchen storage. Dusted and washed shelves and the top of the fridge. Made a batch of chili. Not keen on diced tomato consistency, might experiment with more sauce, more greens and less diced tomato next time.

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I know I said I'd given up on a truly "bready" bean-meal recipe; but the technique of gluten-free breadmaking is still pretty interesting so I found myself internets-window-shopping pectin. Pectin comes from apples and citrus fruits. You'd think that organic pectin would be A Thing, but in fact, the most recent news from the pectin industy regarding organic product was a 2006 story from Obipektin, a Swiss subsidiary of Spanish biochem conglom Natraceutical. Obipektin was looking into patenting an organic pectin process, but a cursory Googling suggests nothing ever came of it.

Off-the-shelf pectin is not exactly cheap: ~65 cents/oz liquid or $2.99/1.75 oz powdered (both Sure-Jell products at Publix prices). While I was shopping I did discover a new protein index winner in Pubilx Premium breads though: the stone ground whole wheat variety, 4g protein/60 kcal per slice for an index value of .6667, and 10 cents cheaper per loaf than the reduced-cal (my previous protein index pick at .0556) and blended grain (.0500). Also, why the heck does their "reduced calorie" bread have 50% more calories than the whole wheat?