You're Asian, you must be smart, right?

For lack of better things to do over the weekend, Ave, Ed, Diana (Who hasn't a website) and I decided to make cookies. This involved going to the store, seeing what we needed, and seeing what we needed to buy for the cookies. After some discussion about crap and the merits (or lack thereof) of using margarine versus butter, we got all the ingredients we needed for making some Chocolate Chip Cookies and some Butterscotch Chip Cookies.

Or so we thought.

Turns out we were misled as to how much butter we thought we had and so though we needed something like three or four sticks altogether, we had but one, maybe two. Fooey. So Ave and I ran to the store to grab some butter since Diana and Ed were doing most of the mixing and crap like that.

Ave jumped out of my car at the entrance while I went to park it, and so I went to meet him in the butter isle. A cursory glance revealed some cheap-ass stuff to be had; as Ave put it, "Dude, ninety nine cents for four sticks or so, sweet." So we bolted towards the registers, bought the butter, and went home to finish making the cookie dough.

We then melted the appropriate amount of butter, mixed it all in, and as was putting the remnants into the fridge, he remarked that there was no need to pay him back since he got the butter for so cheap.
"How cheap was it Ave?"
"Like, ninety nine cents, it was awesome."
"That cheap? What's the package say?"
"Uhhh.., something something vegetable shortening. Ah crap."

Of course that wasn't exactly how the conversation went, in fact I don't think there was any query at all, but whatever. Who can really be expected to remember crap like that? In any case, that account of the weekend's conversation can't be as bad as Tim's first attributing a quote (search for fable) to me in one post, and then subsequently referring to me as a girl (search for fable again) not more than a month or so later.

Anyway, Ave, in his money-saving haste, accidentally picked out margarine and we'd already put it in the cookie dough. Luckily the cookies were spared and things turned out alright.

After making the cookies we proceeded to play "TMNT : Battle Nexus", which is a game I have been mostly happy to play. The main problem with the game is that it's really freaking long, and not all that much changes as you progress in the game.
That makes it kinda boring.
Furthermore, the story starts off with some reasonable goodness (a lot it seems to be taken from the Japanese manga I once had), but then it quickly degenerates into seemingly random events and vague attempts to tie it all together.
This makes it confusing and contrived.
However, it is fun to play for a while, and it has the original arcade game, so altogether it's a game worth renting for a little while.

This ends mostly with Ed getting tired of walking over, putting bits of cookie dough on the sheets, putting it in the oven, then going back ten minutes later to repeat.



This is simply one of many such cookies.

# posted by Yann : 22:56