Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Having a night out with my best gal.

Today's Trip: Night Shots (3 pics). I love the Night Mode on my phone. Needs some work on the focus, though....

Today's Trip: Mountains (3 pics)

So good to see the North Shore moutnains again. And COVERED in snow. ❤️

Today's Trip: Landscapes (3 Pics)

Today's Trip: Fun Stuff

Today's Trip: The ghost town of Florence, WA.

When driving home, I was wondering if I should hurry home after sunset, or take my time. I decided to take my time. I haven't done a night drive in a long time, and it was nice to just relax and take in the stars....

Unintentional Warp Effect. Left my night mode on while driving at 25MPH.

Maybe there's hope for Monroe after all. Trans and LGBT flags in front of the Monroe Congregational United Church of Christ.

Where I am now...

Where I am now.

I was hoping to do the first of the "cough test" game streams tomorrow. But I did a private art stream yesterday, and my cough was not happy about that. We'll try again in a few weeks.

I arted today! Arted...not a whole lot. But I arted!

From Michael Che's Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq53uibpd4i/

"ya kno.. a lot of people are not drinking bid light, cause the company used a trans person in their ad.. and these mostly right wing bud light customers have tossed all their bud lights in the trash in a blind rage.. and it got me ta'thinkin.. just hear me out.. what if we got trans people...hear me out.. to do ads for guns..?"

One of the places I visited back during the ST:TMP movie premiere. That whole trip was kind of a pilgrimage...not just to ST:TMP, but the original series, Babylon 5 (I visited the old studio site), Jim Morrison's old apartment and even a location from Will Pharrell's Happy video.

"I'm getting worried about you, Jenn. You've been alone in that apartment for two years now, and now you're not even working...."
"Oh, don't worry about me. EVERYTHING'S FiIiIIIIIiiiIine."

IT'S A JOB SKILL?! I need to get this on my resume ASAP....

This wasn't my first graphics program back in the day (that was CSHOW, but it was the first one I used to manipulate graphics, TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO IN DOS.

(I had to reinstall it after someone prompted me for ASCII art of Tasha Yar. :D )

Ah, I got the Tasha Yar Self-Eulogy program running on Windows XP!

So, I made some struan bread last night/this morning. It came out better than it had any right to.

The recipe just didn't work. There were a lot of ingredients to the bread, which I expected, but once everything was put together, it made for a very hard chunky dough. My mixer wasn't having any of it (making that ugly "I'm burning my motor" noise), and when I hand kneaded it, it was just rough.

I ended up adding almost triple the water it asked for to get it into a fairly dense but proper feeling dough. It called for three rises, though, and all three worked BEAUTIFULLY.

But I think where things went wrong for the second time was it said to punch it down and put it in the fridge overnight. I did so, and when I took it out of the fridge to rise to room temperature, it rose very lightly. Even after warming up the oven and leaving it in there for an hour to rise, it barely rose. I think Seattle "room temperature" is just too cold for good rising in any season other than Summer.

So I just baked it. And, you know? It's good. It's dense, but it's good. I think I either need a whole new recipe, or just use the ingredients and ignore the instructions, putting the bread directly in the oven instead of trying to get it to rise out of the fridge.

It's actually really good tasting. There's a LOT of stuff in it, like rolled oats, corn meal, cooked brown rice, yogurt (subbing for buttermilk) giving it a good texture. Also the repeated rising and punching down gave it a real subtle sour taste that's just BARELY there.

I've got two weeks of this bread now, I think I'll make it again, but this time, follow my own instincts instead of the instructions.