Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

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.

StruanWatch 2K23 - the instructions at this point day to fridge the dough, which is what I think went wrong last time, so I'm going straight to the bench proof....

StruanWatch 2K23 - We already have a MUCH better dough.

I just made some amazing fried chicken in a completely different way than I normally do.

Basically, threw some chicken thighs into a bowl, and added ten of the Colonel's eleven herbs and spices (I was out of celery salt), an egg and Tapatio sauce for some heat. Mixed it all up so it got all over the chicken.

Then I added flour by the quarter cupful, mixed it up, and did it again until the chicken was white with flour. Deep fried it up and OH MY THAT'S GOOD. Lot less wasted flour, too.

Some of the last things I ordered before the layoff are starting to trickle in. Ironically, as a reward for deciding to stick with Tableau and continue my lease.

THAT WENT WELL.

Movie Hot Rod finally came in. I normally don't buy doubles of toys, but the current "Transformers Retro" line is reissuing some of the toys I didn't have in 84-86, and some I did, but in the animation colors.

What's funny is, I didn't like putting all the stickers on the toys back in the 80s, because I wanted them to look more like the animation models as it is, so I began picking up the reissues.

"He slimed me. I feel so funky."

First the Wii Shop Channel, then the Wii U and 3DS eShops, and now a more personal end of an era...

The day I was asked to stay on past my first Christmas Peak in 2009-2010, I torpedoed my bank account and picked up a Wii and Nintendo DSi to have the systems on hand for support. One of the games I picked up was Picross 3D (I've loved Picross since Mario's Picross on the Game Boy).

It's a very involved game, very intense, and while I love Picross it took a while to plough through this game. Tonight, FOURTEEN YEARS LATER, I finished the first game I ever bought at the "Nintendo Fun 'n' Games" company store back in the day. :)

Oh hey...I'm out of Max Headroom episodes. What should I put on to replace it on my Saturday Sci Fi Theater...oh no...oh no no no.

::dives in::

Tonight's TNG is "Galaxy's Child."

Suddenly all these bridge shots mean something more this week....

Also, watching this post transition, Geordi really REALLY comes across as a creeper in dealing with Leah Brahms. It really comes across that he did more with that personnel file in the episodes between Booby Trap and this. I'm surprised they got married.

Funny how that shift in perspective changes things.

Me and the puppy watching Night Gallery.

The patient is out of the hospital! Thanks to some very much needed TLC from Lissa.

...always watching...
...always seeing...

Okay, having Plex turn my home network into a video server was nice, but I didn't realize it would work over the internet. Sci Fi date night with the puppy....