Jennifer's 365 Project

And they get a gazillion birds now. Dayzee doesn't even care about them.
My dad even showed me some interesting papers he recently acquired from his cousin. They were my great grandfather's performance reviews and ship information from when he was a sailor in Europe. Of course all the documentation is in Swedish or Danish, so my dad has been slowly translating everything.

Fantastic day! I've also now got tickets to the Michigan Renaissance Festival so I'm looking forward to going there in a few weeks with everyone.

Late in the afternoon I decided that biscuits sounded like a good idea. So I found a recipe online that didn't use buttermilk (since I don't have any) and got mixing.
The biscuits were large, and not too bad. I'm sure if they were made with buttermilk they'd have been more rich, but that's ok.
I also made some stir fry chicken (one for me and one for Chris since we eat different things). I even made some quinoa (which was totally not needed since I'd already made biscuits) just because.

We decided to leave the computer case box out for a little so the cat could enjoy it. He loves crawling in it, hiding in it, and most of all (apparently) using it as a new bed in the sun.
I spent a chunk of the afternoon hanging out, watching Avatar on Netflix (based on Comfort and Adam's recommendation and yes, it is a pretty amusing show) and playing some Guild Wars 2.
Chris also used the bread machine today and made his first loaf of bread.

The bread machine also makes mini-loafs of cake.

I see some adorable tasty cakes in my future.

Of course, I'm really terrible at trusting fish is done when it's done, so I overcooked it (as I do all fish I make).

The marinade really did help. The salmon tasted pretty good (as long as I didn't think too hard about the fact that it was salmon). I think I might actually try making it again sometime.

I tinkered around with the computers today a bit. I have an old wifi card I was trying to get to work in Windows 7 with not much luck. I'm also working on getting two older boxes up and running.

It was a pretty low key Saturday, which is fine by me considering it was too hot out for me to want to do much.

The parts for my new computer arrived today. Anytime a shipment of computer parts arrive it's like Christmas morning. Lots of packaging and unwrapping to do.
Chris says my new case is like a mini-fridge (it is a tower as opposed to a mid tower which is what I normally buy).
The assembly went faster than expected. Each time I build a new computer it seems like more and more components become snap in/plug and play. I'm just happy that I haven't had to manually set the voltage for the processor with (jumpers on the motherboard) in ages.

It also helps to have all of your data stored on a different hard drive than your operating system. No waiting to transfer files!

That doesn't look like much does it? That's the view from the couch where I laid down after work.

Headaches are annoying...

We've been doing a lot of this lately. He just kind of naps on the file cabinet next to my desk.

I'm glad we've finally come to an arrangement and he's not doing stuff like this anymore.

What can I say? The game is still new....

Took a stroll downtown after work and saw these in the Grand River.

Chris went grocery shopping while I was gaming and came back with some blueberries. That means blueberry cobbler!

Since it was hot out, I took decided to use the grill. Man, I love that thing.
 We also took a long walk through Palmer Park

And I finished out the rest of the day gaming with my Norn Ranger in Guild Wars 2....
...and my adorable fuzzy real life companion Leki. He slept next to me almost all day.

So I went to bed around 7pm last night in anticipation of the Guild Wars 2 launch at 3am. Why? Because it's the weekend! And because I wanted to be on a specific server that also happened to have a lot of people who wanted to be there.

There was a possibility of servers coming up at midnight, so I got up then, logged in, and got on the server I wanted. It was painless! And I should have probably just stayed up as opposed to going to bed so early.

I played for a few hours then went to bed. I've never been really great staying up late and I don't operate well on less than 8 hours of sleep.

I made some cinnamon roll pancakes in the morning then played on and off for pretty much the entire day.
I did take a break to grill some home made pizza though! With a bread machine, whipping up a tasty pizza is really easy. Plus, with it being so hot outside I used that as an excuse to grill more food instead of bake the pizza in the oven. I really do like the taste of it grilled over baked.
Then I just played a lot more Guild Wars 2. It's a really pretty game on my system and I have an aging video card. Yes, I have two video cards for SLI but at the moment Guild Wars 2 does not support it...yet.

I'd love to see what it looks like on a top of the line machine.
I still have a lot of lag while playing in World vs World vs World combat, even with the graphics turned all the way down, but I'm sure part of that is just the sheer hammering the Guild Wars 2 servers are taking at the moment.

Chris was far more productive today than I was. While I was questing away in a virtual world he was cleaning the garage, grocery shopping, mowing the lawn, and picking up around the house.