Food Chainsaws

Everyone was back in Vernon this weekend for my Aunt Doreen's 50th birthday party (well we were in Chesire for the party but you know what I mean) and as always it was nice to see everybody. I don't have much of a coherent narrative for the weekend so I'll just throw out some thoughts. I finally got to see Moriah's engagement ring (I guess I haven't mentioned that here yet but pretty much anyone who reads it already knows about it) and it's very pretty. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's something I could see myself picking out.

Moriah and Josh got an awesome new tropical fish while we were there and I picked up Final Fantasy XII. Haven't fired it up yet but will soon; I'm excited about the new battle system; it's not turn-based anymore and you essentially script your allies' actions, which appeals to the programmer in me.

There was a multi-town power outage shortly before we left on Sunday. Those are always interesting, but this was kind of cool because the moon was so full you could still see around outside and stuff. It only lasted a few hours.

Mom gave me and Nina a bunch of things from Mem's kitchen. My two favorites are a big solid cutting board that actually has a meat side and a non-meat side, with a big groove, nay, juice moat around the meat side, and one of those electric carving knives. It's a rather new one, too. Now I know I'm not exactly carving giant slabs of meat all the time, but there's something about owning what is essentially an electric chainsaw for food that is just great. Actually I guess it operates more like a hedge trimmer than a chainsaw...

That's still pretty cool.