Steamed Puddings

Oh, fancy-schmancy WordPress blog, I have not forgotten you.  I’ve just been busy with that thing some people call “real life”.

Here’s what’s been on my mind in the last week:

• Portal – this game is awesome, and I’m glad I waited to play it until I finished my thesis.  I still suck at FPS-format games (as usual) but I’m having a lot of fun playing with this one.  I’m not quite at the levels yet where things will start to shoot back at me – that might happen tonight.
• The Keeper – one of my friends spoke positively about the Diva Cup, and then I remembered that I had a Keeper in a drawer waiting to be tried.  It was great for the first couple of days, and awful for the next few.  I’m trying a slightly different version next time.
• cheese – Kiwiman and I went to the tasting portion of the Cuisine Champions of Cheese awards this year.  For $35 each (ouch) we got to taste our way through a purported 400 cheeses, though I suspect there were only about 100 there.  Even better, we bought gigantic offcuts of the sampled cheeses for $5 each.  We are now eating cheese daily, which is great for my taste buds but not so good for arteries and waistlines.

I’m also churning out papers at work.  This week’s task is the smooshing of two gigantic thesis chapters into a manuscript.  The text is whittling down nicely from its current 58 pages – I expect it to end up between 30-40 (excluding figures and tables).  It will be the next week+ of work and it’s due with the other authors just after Easter.