05/14/2007: "Mucho randomo"

music: whatever this crap jazz is here at Dunn Bros.
mood: motivated

I'm on a training week for work, which means I don't have to go to the office. The next five days will be filled with much coffee and web video training on stupid crap that I already know but need a stupid piece of paper saying that yes indeed, I do know how to do my job that I've been doing for over 2 years now. Stupid.

Why is it so hard to find free wi-fi in my neighborhood?

Why is that guy at Isabel's Coffee Cafe on Cedar Ave. always such a crankypants? Dude, you own a coffee shop. You have nothing to be angry about.

I made this chocolate cake thing for my bro-in-law's birthday on Saturday. Dan and I have named it The Face Melter, Uglycake, and Splatcake. Even though I cook a lot I still haven't done a lot of baking or pastry-related culinary arts. Splatcake taught me a lot about what I'll do next time I make it. Here's what I did: Started off with two round cake pans and a box of brownie mix. Partially cooked the brownies. Should have cooked them longer so they were more set. Added a box of chocolate cake mix on top of the brownies. Baked them to fluffy goodness. Should have used parchment paper in the pans. VERY IMPORTANT STEP that I missed. Took part of a can of chocolate/chocolate chip frosting and mixed it with Cool Whip to make a mousse. This went between the two browniecake layers. Should have carved out a hole in the lower layer for this. Frosted the outside as best I could since it was all sliding around on the mousse. In the end the top layer split and I said fuck it on frosting the outside so it was pretty. All agreed it was super-duper awesome chocolate death anyway.

The MNRG Wheelies were a riot. Very excited about traveling to Dayton, OH for our first away bout.

Coffee is good.

Nothing can make me cry like a little bitch like a Final Fantasy ending. I finished FFX2 FINALLY since I really couldn't have done anything else in that game besides finish out the Bevelle cloisters. Whoops, forgot about that when I saved my New Game Plus data over that. I seriously need to revisit FFX now because I STILL don't quite get who/what Tidus was. I guess I'm just slow.

OK, back to training. Microsoft, I am your bitch.