Screenshot: A Weblog

In between tackling chunks of the pile of work in front of me, I've been poking and dragging my way through the levels of Untangle. It's an insanely simple game - dots are connected with lines, and you drag the dots around until none of the lines cross. I am up to level 18 out of 20 and it is getting quite hard, but there is still something soothing about the combination of luck, logic, and trial-and-error that seems to work best for tackling the puzzles. Plus, it's a pretty game, if you ignore or hide the chat window in the sidebar that varies between inane and obscene. There is the corner of my brain that tells me I could get the same enjoyment - and actually accomplish something useful - by untangling some of my messier skeins of yarn, but I tell that corner of my brain to hush.

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There are a ton of memes like this, but I'm thinking of keeping my weblogging juices flowing by taking part in these Weekend Assignment weblogging prompts. It is contrived, but looking back the questions seem pretty good.

This week we are asked:

Weekend Assignment #201: To promote a new cooking show, a TV station is going to pay you $500 to eat the same basic meal every day for a week, prepared with only minor variations by their on-screen host. What's on the menu?
Extra credit: Do you tend to eat the same thing all the time anyway?

For me, the answer to the extra credit pretty much answers the first question. I definitely get in food ruts where I eat the same thing for a week or two straight. I made a huge batch of Susie's Green-Curry Shrimp last week and have been eating it basically every night since then, making up fresh rice in my microwave rice cooker as needed. I do that with stew and chili a lot also - I can eat either every night for a week easily, especially if it is within the "rules" (or, my own inclination to bake or go to the store) to have fresh bread or biscuits with it.

So, really, this doesn't sound like a challenge at all so long as it is something I like okay. But, I've never understood people who didn't like leftovers. There is a show on the Food Network right now that seems to be all about how to get three different meals out of the same ingredients and preparation processes - it just seems easier and no less appealing to make three times as much of the first dish and be done with it.

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