barely fatal

• The Shield Season 3
• The Wire Season 4
• Homocide by David Simon (goes well with the Wire)
• Ghostbusters for PS3

Sweet, thanks Ma and Dad!

I like chocolate, innovation and birthday cakes, so I thought why not making an innovative chocolate cake for my birthday.

My mom has this cookbook for stuff made with, from or based on chocolate (you have no idea what all can be done with cholocate!). So I decided to try the Chocolate-Marshmallow cake. It came out orange. And bouncy.

Now the marshmallows don’t go in the cake. They make the icing. You melt them in a pot and put them on the chocolate cake – first as a thick adhesive liquid, which later turns into a very robust, inert, yet elastic coating. You can be sure, throw it at a wall and it’ll bounce right back.

Since the shop only had multicolored marshmallows (white, yellow, pink stripes) the icing turned out a bright orange. In total the cake contains 80% sugar or so.  It tastes surprisingly good, but I can tell y’ll, it sends your blood pressure near zero. Oh, but if you ever need a volcano for a school project …

It’s hot today. So hot, I vacuum-cleaned naked.

Okay, that was a lie. But even after saying that, it’s hard to get the picture out of the head, huh? Yeah, the human mind is a beautiful instrument. It is hot today. Way too hot for housework, fully clad or otherwise. No, actually I went shopping for clothes. Around midday, before the big Saturday afternoon rush hours. And I got 80% of what I wanted, good average. And then I bought shoes, again. I wonder, how many pairs of shoes can a man own until he has to question his masculinity? … Oh wait – that was a chauvinistic remark wasn’t it? Phew, I’m saved.

Watching the second season of Rome now, on TV. It’s running against a casting show for girls in bikinis. They cast … err, the best girl in a bikini. And just when I thought I was being chauvinistic.

Tried Battlefield Heroes yesterday. Cute. Can’t stand it for long, the music, the toy graphics, dumbed-down multiplayer, the pay-or-miss-out model, the two levels I’ve seen in two hours…Battlefield has finally reached the mainstream.