It Started with a Journal

I'm going to Santa Cruz next weekend and apparently we don't even have a venue yet or know what we're going to do, because of the unpredictable weather. Sigh. This is going to turn out to be the best or lamest time ever.

As predicted, it's going to cost about $1,000 to get the piano shipped up here. I guess I'm going to do it. But get this, they now also want to give me some of the other nice furniture they have, like their china cabinet and what not. And obviously if we're going to have multiple heavy items, it makes more sense to ship it all at once, so now I'm just waiting on them to finalize a) what exactly they're sending; b) who they're going to use to ship; and c) when they're going to do it. It's all so crazy.

I've decided to buy a lame. I probably should have gotten one earlier, but I had thought, why buy it when a sharp knife works? Well, this far into my baking 'career,' I've realized that slashing dough, while seemingly easy, is probably the hardest part of the entire process. Either my tools aren't sharp enough or my technique just isn't good enough yet -- either way, it's clear I have to hedge my bets in order to get pretty bread. There's no guarantee that the lame will be a miracle fix, but its express purpose is slashing dough, so it certainly can't hurt (at least worth the $7 investment). I wouldn't need it if I were only baking pan loaves, but it's way more fun to make free-form loaves, and with those good slashes are a must. It's slashing the dough pre-baking that makes bread look like bread, instead of a large, oversized peanut.

Daily News Roundup:

Californians just have to be sooooooo health conscious. You don't like second-hand smoke, your restaurants have cleanliness grades, you spawn all these diet fads, you want to be flame retardant ... god! So picky! Well, now look what you've done. I hope you're happy.

This is the first time I've ever heard of anyone even mentioning the possibility of an MMO dethroning WoW. The culprit? WAR, of course.

This site is hi-larious. Everyone's so gloom and doom lately. Let's not lose our sense of humor. My favorite topics: The Onion, Unpaid Internships, San Francisco, Threatening to Move to Canada, Toyota Prius, Barack Obama, and Apple Products. Things are only funny when they have a semblance of truth to it, and LiveJournal is populated with these truths. And if you can't look at yourself (including me, since I'm, well, a "banana"), laugh, and recognize some of that truth, you are taking yourself way too seriously.

Last but not least: Thank God it's Friday.