...and the food was good.

Yesterday, I spent the morning and early afternoon baking up rolls. And mashed potatoes. (The mashed potatoes are not tradition for me to make, but I wanted to anyway. Partly because I've got a ton of potatoes in the cupboard from the buy 1 get 1 free deal a few weeks ago, and partly because I wanted to try my hand at it, suspecting that if I threw my little inner chef into the part, I could make a kickass batch, all seasoned and yummy.)

Took the food over to The Nest, where everyone else in the family had already arrived. bouncing surprised all of us by saying he would bring salad, and then showed up with all sorts of special organic plants, spices, herbs, different types of lettuce to sprinkle on plates. He claimed he had read something resembling a HOWTO from an online site about making salads the way 4 star restaurants serve them. Most impressive.

Everything at the dinner tasted really, really good. Judging by the reactions of other family members (along with my own tastebuds), I had succeeded at flavoring both the rolls and potatoes to maximize yumminess. But then again, everything tasted really really good. Mom's roast, wild rice, and yams. The pumpkin pie dad brought. Mmmmmmph. Possibly the best thanksgiving dinner ever. No kidding. I stuffed myself silly.

...

Zan Lynx was the first to arrive at the Feast Fest. I helped him transport Gladiator up the 3 flights of stairs into the festing sanctum. Next, bouncing arrived with Scully, his notebook. Jaeger was last to arrive, so in keeping with tradition, he drove for the fortification run to 7-11.

After acquiring fortifications, we made a brief stop by bouncing's place to pick up a cd by an artist he had discovered alongside Pearl Street which was theoried to be good festing music. Then it was back to the Castle Lair.

Jaeger had brought along his copy of Bladerunner, and bouncing had never seen it, so we had an impromptu midnight viewing.

After the film, bouncing departed, and something resembling festing (as opposed to phesting) occurred among the remaining inhabitants. As semi-background music, we listened to beautiful garbage and watched yanni followed by Maddona's Drowned World Tour.

Having concluded that his useful period of festing capacity was past its peak, Jaeger departed.

Now, Zan Lynx and I remain. I'm feeling on the dead tired side, but there might still be a little festing left in me. My festing accomplishments for the night consist of a couple of additions to the movielog code. A local editing program so that I can fix broken tags without going through an insane amount of hassle to fix them, and a nice little new addition to the movielog web interface.

At this time, I find my capacity to compose English sentences diminishing quickly. Regeneration may be required. Soon.