Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I remember this angle so so so well. When I had my "Ten Minutes on the Bridge" moment at Star Trek: The Experience in Los Vegas, I spent a lot of time behind the arch where the picture was taken. I was actually too scared to go up front for too long cause "That's not where my station was." ❤️

I really wish I could share the picture, but it has someone else in it, and honestly, I'm not looking real good in the pic. :)

Go watch the video walking you through the new Enterprise D set and the immaculate care they put into it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewF5hbJXMtE

I've always had problems with neck and shoulder pain (that "crick in my neck"). I'm on Day Three of it, so it's time to break out the personal massager....

Decided to catch the new Night Court cause I loved the old one and, Holy Cow, Melissa Rauch is TINY.

As much as digital TV is an improvement over analog, I do miss being able to watch weaker signals when it gets cloudy.

"But, Jenn, it's always cloudy in Seattle."

I know, I know.

When I was very very young and far more feral, I used to call Lieutenant Farrell here "Ensign Skull" cause my baby brain thought his face looked like a skull.

I was kind of a jerk as a kid. Lieutenant Farrell's probably a nice guy....

My personal Starfleet Museum....

Remember that episode where Geordi turned into a giant teddy bear and rode the Enterprise like a horse? That was awesome.

83 in the house. 😭 If I knew we weren't getting cold later in the next few days, I'd install the A/C.

Damn. ChatGPT has a sense of taste!

It's here....

I ran into Redmond today for a dental appointment, and decided to give Five Guys a second try. My first Five Guys burger was cold and had turned into a solid slab of fat, which didn't exactly enamor me. So I tried it hot.

Actually a fairly good burger! Close to Whataburger in flavor, but not quite there. But it has a problem: it's far too gooey. It's a hamburger paste once you're about halfway through the burger. Also, no way I ccan finish even small fries, and I don't like wasting food.

If it weren't for those two things, it'd probably be my Whataburger surrogate up here.

I look at this crumb structure in the heel of the bread where it didn't collapse and think, yeah, I think it's the oven that caused the bread to collapse. This looks like real bread.

Thirty years after I used my first web browser, Lynx is still useful for getting around paywalls....

The Indian Spiced Watermelon Mint Smoothie makes its first appearance for this year. :9

Tonight's Dr. Who was "School Reunion."

I don't want to say they wasted Anthony Stewart Head for this episode. They didn't. He's ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. But as an alien headmaster? This guy just oozed The Master. I know that when the previews of this episode came out, I was thinking OH, WE'RE GETTING THE MASTER. And we kind of got him. Cause he really had that "refined evil" thing down. Just as an alien headmaster, and not The Master.

Not a fan of the cattiness between Sarah Jane and Rose, especially with Sarah Jane kinda starting it, but the denoument of Sarah Jane willing to help Rose when "her time comes" was really lovely.

"What's the matter, fearless leader? You and Starscream look real geeky."

I was not expecting THAT in the last episode of Picard....

WE HAVE STRUAN BREAD! Yeah, it collapsed, but at the same time, the bread is very very good.

Despite it collapsing, It's not dense and is nicely moist and perfectly chewy. I'm thinking what collapsed the bread was either overworking the dough (the recipe calls for FIVE risings) or the stove being too hot (it's supposed to bake at 350, but even with my oven set to 325, it ended up at 375 and was ready far faster than it should have.

But it's GOOD regardless.

Also, these two loaves are about a month of bread for me, so I'm giving a loaf to the girls. I just didn't want to cut the recipe in half in case that's what killed it last time.

StruanWatch 2K23 - the tops collapsed, but the spongy look from the bottom is promising. Now we wait....

StruanWatch 2K23 - oh, this is looking GOOD.