We finally have a working oven. After a decade with a broken one, I've been looking forward to baking some bread. It's in the oven now. Should be ready in 20 minutes. Now that we have the gas range and the million square foot grill in the yard, I decided to cook the old fashioned way. It went like this: pengcognito and I worked outside by the pool today. She is used to working with her laptop...

pengcognito and I went out to Horizons for dinner. We reminisced about old times and talked about food, wine, work, travel, etc. She had a really good shrimp cocktail with pears and some kind of goat cheese salad, and a wonderful tuna dish. I had [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup (' ') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] and I went out to Horizons for dinner...

Professor Penguin, arctic explorer.   Fun from a concept art site.  From sequentialscott pengcognito , heartlessrose , this one's for you.  :)

From pengcognito , a new way to acquire wine (in French, but you can pretty much get the idea.)

Happy Birthday to pengcognito ! Wish I was there to help you celebrate!

Happy Birthday pengcognito !!!

Happy birthday pengcognito ! Hope it's a good one. :)

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal . The following people not on the friends list for ravenstar are close by: bits (150 - 200) grahams , lissa_dora , joe714 , lizreay , maebesfyre (250 - 300) mattw , linus52 , thisgirlsheart , codepoet , malaul (300 - 350) lissadora , ...

From pengcognito : The Amazing Color Changing Card Trick .  I = oblivious... but I knew how they changed the cards.

(You know, I'd be right slime if I didn't link to this Pencognito cartoon, which honors both my birthday and the torment that  Vive Le Suck  brings. So go read Jen's awesome cartoon if you haven't, and then come back. I'll wait.)  Seeing as how it's near the holidays, I thought I'd do a review of an awful Christmas movie. And what better film to take on than Jaws: The Revenge (1987) ? Wait...