Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@spottyfox - Close!

Also: ELO's Time was one of the inspirations for my Genevieve book.

@spottyfox - The Season 18-19 shows are some of my favorites, particularly the Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva trilogy.

[Thoughts Before Bed]

Job interview in the afternoon, wish me luck.

Also, keeping with the good luck feast, what should I get for good luck feasting afterwards?

Not that it helped last time, but, gotta keep hoping.

You know what I miss on modern day PCs? Activity lights.

This Week's Fancy Pants Meal: Zuni Succotash

The last week and change I've had to do without meal prep and lemme tell you, I'm feeling it. Thankfully., I bought all of the ingredients last week, so this week's grocery bill was small.

This is essentially a mix between a vegetable medley and a beef stew. TONS of veggies in it, too, and as a fan of kernel corn, I'm really happy with this. It also feels like a lot of food per serving, while feeling like a light meal.

I am sure I've seen mom make something akin to this....

# Zuni Succotash

Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking

1.0 pound beef (cut into small pieces)
2.0 tbsp vegetable oil
1.0 cup chopped onions
1.0 tbsp chili powder
2.0 cups tomatoes (diced)
2.0 cups corn kernels
2.0 cups green beans (cut into 2 inch lengths)
2.0 tbsp sunflower seeds (hulled) (crushed)
salt
pepper

1 - If using canned tomatoes, drain the diced tomatoes.
2 - Pat meat dry so it will brown properly.
3 - Heat the oil in a large deep skillet over medium-high heat.
4 - Add meat, onion, and chili and sauté until meat is lightly browned and onion is softened.
5 - Stir in tomatoes, corn, and beans and reduce the heat to low.
6 - Simmer for about 15 minutes, until meat is cooked and vegetables are tender.
7 - Stir in crushed sunflower seeds and season with salt and pepper.
8 - Simmer for another 15 to 20 minutes, until succotash has thickened.

4 servings at 400 carbs per serving
Calories 478
Total Fat 21g
Total Carbohydrate 28g
Protein 36g

Normally yields 4 to 6 servings.

#thisweeksmeals #cooking

Need something crushed? Can't go wrong with a possibly century old molcajete.

Thoughts Before Bed:

Just for the record, Street Fighter 6? Keyboard friendly in "classic mode."

These last two weeks have been kinda thrashed for house work, but I got it all done today. I think I'm gonna take it easy tonight, and just try to restart my weekly chores tomorrow.

So I shared a video the other day of my playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo for DOS on a keyboard the other day when a friend asked me how I could do diagonals on a keyboard.

With yesterday's crash, I decided to check on that as I reinstalled all my Steam games. Turns out, I can play most of the Street Fighters just fine on them, except Street Fighter III (I haven't checked Street Fighter 6 just yet).

Something about how SF3 takes inputs just doesn't seem to work very well on a keyboard. A fireball for me on keyboard is Down, Down-Forward, Forward THEN Punch. This works on most games. But in SF3 it seems to be Down, Down-Forward, Forward AND Punch. You have to hold the direction while pressing the action button or it doesn't take.

Not a problem for me on joystick or gamepad, as that's just how it works for me. But the keyboard muscle memory from SSF2T doesn't work in SF3.

SF4 and SF5 go back to the D,DF,F THEN Punch method. It actually really does go towards the feeling of SF3 being a very fine-tuned version of Street Fighter for me, even when playing with the joystick/gamepad. Always felt more "precise" and that' probably why.

Thoughts Before Bed

If I ever win the lottery, I'm going to pay for an MRI of every bone and muscle in my body to see what else is broken that I've forgotten about.

So, I installed a little voice-changing program in Linux, that completely thrashed my installation, so I guess that's my evening then:

My goal for this install was to keep it running for at least two years without reinstalling. The result was 60 days.

So according to the ultrasound I had Tuesday, I apparently dislocated my shoulder in the distant past and the tendons never healed right. This along with the bulged discs in my neck that apparently I've had since third grade makes me wonder...

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED AROUND 1983 THAT CAUSED ALL THIS?

Music Before Bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EfJQYIqhfk