Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I made empanadas this evening with Nefarious, another really quick and simple meal. The dough I used is really similar to a pizza dough with slightly different spicing, and it was stuffed with cheese, refried beans, salsa, and many tiny shrimp (pre-cooked). Finally, baked for twenty minutes at 400 degrees and then served with guacamole and sour cream. It was eaten by all with gusto.

When Phil gets back from the wedding in Vancouver, I'm going to ask him to help me take much higher quality photos of my paintings because I'm ready to take the step to start selling work, doing commission work, and preparing for a gallery show, so I need to set up a site dedicated to that.

I know everything I cook looks almost exactly the same. I should just take one photo and crop it differently and pretend it's a new photo… But this was really quite delicious — a Korean-style teriyaki shrimp with udon noodles and a mix of fresh garlic, red pepper, zucchini squash, red onion, and green onion if I remember right. Other than what I mentioned I don't think it was spiced with anything other than a little sea salt, mustard seed, and seaweed, and was crazy-delicious… Total cost for the meal (enough for two to three people) was about $7.50 at the most — a delicious meal for about three dollars a person seems good.

Other than that, we did some biking and drawing on the steps with chalk, and I painted some frames I made for my paintings. I also went to the gym for the first time in a month which was great — the tumor removal really does seem to have totally fixed my knee, damage to the nerves below or not — and did a little computer work as well.

I have an interview that I'll work on a little tonight about very intense play piercing including chest skewering (literally — where a long needle is inserted through the ribs and actually rests against the heart so you can see it bouncing with every beat)… I'm somewhat split on publishing it because the response to heavy mod and play content has been so closed-minded lately that I'm strongly considering just publishing it in a private forum instead.

Sorry about the downtime issues — the IAM server just keeps overheating. It will almost certainly have to be taken down for a period later in the week to either move the existing internals into an improved case, or the software to a totally new box. I'll post information here of course but I'd recommend that if you have things like phone numbers stored only on IAM that you save them in case you don't see a notice (although I'd recommend that in general anyway).

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I made a shrimp nasi goreng today, one of my favorite meals from childhood… I was recently asked how much these meals cost me, I guess in part because there's always decent seafood in them. I buy large shrimp, but I peel it myself of course, so at $7.99 for a big big of them it's probably about $3 a meal (so $1.50 a person) in shrimp, and then the veggies and everthing else, even if I'm lazy and use pre-made sauces, rarely brings it past ten dollars, so $5 a person…

Seems like a good deal to me. I actually ordered food yesterday — sushi — and it was terrible, and of course cost far more, and the wait to get it was much longer than cooking a meal from scratch… I felt really ripped off and probably won't bother with that again.