Bean stew finished cooking ~10:45, set it aside to cool, and crashed hard on a couple glasses of wine. Woke to the alarm ~1:30 to stick the now-cooled pot in the fridge, fell back down immediately until 10:30AM. Coffee, vitamins, a scramble wrap. Castle Age: My 25th Azeron surprised me by dropping TWO insignias, which was exactly what I needed to finish my best-in-slot Armor of Redemption. This jacked my Divine Power total up to 465, more than ample for any current monster with a divine armor factor. Sa... (...more)

Went a little crazy with bored eating yesterday, to the tune of 2617 kcal and 71.8g protein. Blame those darn Banquet pot pies and burrito trios. Or properly, blame the fact that I ate 2 pies and 6 burritos for a total of 2260 kcal in microwave convenience food alone. Today we have gym clothes ready in the car, and Friday evenings are a nice low-traffic time at the gym, so I didn't feel bad about breakfast (2 slices of bread with 2 tsp of PB each, 520 kcal / 22g protein) and a $4.44 Wendy's lunch: doubl... (...more)

Once I decided to start keeping a diet journal, I started assembling a spreadsheet of my "go-to" foods, by kcal, protein, and protein grams per kcal. A few select items to illustrate what falls where in the rankings: The highest ratio of protein to calories so far is Ball Park Smoked White Turkey Franks, with 45 kcal and 6g protein per dog, or .1333 grams of protein per kcal. Food.com/Betty Crocker "simple" chili: .1092 turkey dog on a slice of pubilx blended grain bread: .0857 egg, if you can cook... (...more)

(day 9) We got separated in a big busy old restaurant - went to the front desk to have you paged and you ninja'd up behind me. It was your face, maybe softer and fresher from an old photo, and it took my face-recognition brainmeats a second to decide it was you - but of course, who else would it be?

One of the things I didn't pay much attention to, when I was shopping a replacement for \\wraith, was the optical drive capabilities. Previously I had spent the extra for DVD-RAM capability, because once upon a time it seemed feasible to keep full backups on DVD-RAM. But over the years, with software libraries and client digital media authoring, a 4.7GB data DVD capacity became, shall we say, cramped. I assumed and rightly so that any recent, well-reviewed, off-lease machine's optical drive would write ... (...more)