serinde: (Sacred Chao)
serinde ([personal profile] serinde) wrote2004-06-21 10:27 am

And now, some actual content.

Saturday: Since I wanted to learn a bit more about the practical application of such things, I volunteered to decontaminate [livejournal.com profile] 8782's dad's laptop. And boy, was it a fruitful test subject. Viruses, adware, hadn't seen a critical update since Win98 was installed...oy. I cleaned out the malware (with advice and commentary from the redheads), went through Windows Update til my eyeballs bled, and sent it back clean with Firefox and a personal firewall installed as extra bonus. Fear my l33t skillz. Now I know why I feel so dirty whenever I touch a Windows machine. Even poor outdated limping ol' amoeba feels clean and fresh in comparison.

I can't remember the rest of the day, possibly in part because I was making strawberry daiquiris. Apropos of which--hey [livejournal.com profile] tactisle, I still have your bartending book. And when they say "add crushed ice", exactly how much do they mean?

Sunday: I ran a Champions tutorial for them as could make it (that being Azrael, The Norseman, Solarus, and The Fury). Went tolerably well, except I got real bitchy at several points, whereat Steve stuffed a handy gardenburger down my throat til I got over it. (It turned out that, by 10pm, I'd still only had some 550 calories all day. No wonder, then. Ooooops.) I don't know what keeps ganging agley, but once again I am trying to run a good old-fashioned four color campaign, and end up instead with a collection of weirdos, crazies, and misanthropes. I'm just chanting to myself the mantra that Team Constellation (the game I ran in college) was an even more out-there collection of screwballs and fucked-ups--some were fuckups too, but that's not what I'm referring to at the moment--, and that turned out pretty okay.

[identity profile] tactisle.livejournal.com 2004-06-22 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Heehee... I dunno, though, have you ever tried to defuckify a UNIXy box that was put together by someone with his dad's compu-sense?

Ooh, wow, did I actually lend you a bartending book? I thought I'd just lost mine, and was all ready to go buy another. :) And I still have your 1918 Flu Epidemic book too. Perhaps an exchange is in order...

Crushed ice, for a daiquiri? It really depends on whether you're trying to make a "modern American daiquiri", i.e. a fruit slushee with rum in -- or a "classic daiquiri", which is a fruit 'n' rum cocktail over crushed ice, like the way you'd serve soda over crushed ice, and sugar on the rim. The fruit slushee style needs a blender and BUTTLOADS of ice, if I recall aright. (we always used frozen strawberries to cut down on the ice, and keep them from tasting watered-down)

Good luck with the Champions thing. I hope the characters start caring about each other enough to be a team. :)