Miscellany

* The weather's changing here, which means, guess what? I'm sick. There's a train-wreck in my sinuses and the rest of me is reeling from the impact. I stayed home today.

* I stayed home today, so I'm working on my doomed NaNoWriMo project. Yay, fever + fiction! I'll never hit 50,000 words (or probably even 20,000 words), but I'm ahead of triadruid now. :)

* I also read Laurell K. Hamilton's A Lick of Frost today. It was an awfully fast read, but fairly plotful for LKH. I'm disappointed with it, though. That woman promises a lot more in the way of interesting sex than she ever actually delivers on. She wussed out on Merry/Sholto (I mean, really, that would have been a much better scene if she'd let him keep his tentacles), and now on Merry/Holly/Ash. Meh. Only the fact that orcjohn keeps lending me these things keeps me reading them. I'm gonna have to start looking for kinky smut elsewhere. Any suggestions?

* I'll post the answer to my earlier game later on tonight. I'll post LJ-Balderdash, too. Sorry, folks, it slipped my brain.

Miscellany

* The weather's changing here, which means, guess what? I'm sick. There's a train-wreck in my sinuses and the rest of me is reeling from the impact. I stayed home today.

* I stayed home today, so I'm working on my doomed NaNoWriMo project. Yay, fever + fiction! I'll never hit 50,000 words (or probably even 20,000 words), but I'm ahead of triadruid now. :)

* I also read Laurell K. Hamilton's A Lick of Frost today. It was an awfully fast read, but fairly plotful for LKH. I'm disappointed with it, though. That woman promises a lot more in the way of interesting sex than she ever actually delivers on. She wussed out on Merry/Sholto (I mean, really, that would have been a much better scene if she'd let him keep his tentacles), and now on Merry/Holly/Ash. Meh. Only the fact that orcjohn keeps lending me these things keeps me reading them. I'm gonna have to start looking for kinky smut elsewhere. Any suggestions?

* I'll post the answer to my earlier game later on tonight. I'll post LJ-Balderdash, too. Sorry, folks, it slipped my brain.

It's Science Thursday!

Today's experiment:
Mini sugar-free cheesecakes!

Four mini-cheesecakes (and six muffin tins filled with leftover cheesecake stuff) are in the oven. I have no idea how long to bake them! I have no idea how Splenda bakes! I have no idea if you can make cheesecakes in muffin tins! That's why it's SCIENCE!!

If they're good, I'll post the recipes later. I have: plain ol' cheesecake, raspberry cheesecake, irish cream and chocolate cheesecake, and spice cheesecake. I have already failed at the sugar-free part because there's Chambord in the raspberry one, and irish cream and chocolate in the irish cream and chocolate one. They're still a lot less sugarish than I would normally make them, though, so if they come out edible, I'm counting it as a win.

CAKESPERIMENTATION!

EDIT: The spice one is pretty good. The texture is funny, though -- sugar assists in the blending process, so the batter never did get entirely smooth. Tastes okay, though. Might try it in the blender next time.

It's Science Thursday!

Today's experiment:
Mini sugar-free cheesecakes!

Four mini-cheesecakes (and six muffin tins filled with leftover cheesecake stuff) are in the oven. I have no idea how long to bake them! I have no idea how Splenda bakes! I have no idea if you can make cheesecakes in muffin tins! That's why it's SCIENCE!!

If they're good, I'll post the recipes later. I have: plain ol' cheesecake, raspberry cheesecake, irish cream and chocolate cheesecake, and spice cheesecake. I have already failed at the sugar-free part because there's Chambord in the raspberry one, and irish cream and chocolate in the irish cream and chocolate one. They're still a lot less sugarish than I would normally make them, though, so if they come out edible, I'm counting it as a win.

CAKESPERIMENTATION!

EDIT: The spice one is pretty good. The texture is funny, though -- sugar assists in the blending process, so the batter never did get entirely smooth. Tastes okay, though. Might try it in the blender next time.