Peep Cake, and D&D

[dr4b]

So today I baked in the afternoon. I made a chocolate cake, and I frosted it, and then I took a bunch of pink bunny marshmallow Peeps, cut them in half, and put all the bunny heads on the cake (so it looked like the bunnies were buried in the cake with just their heads sticking out). It was one of those "I wish I had a working digital camera" moments, though I took a picture later on M&J's camera. I played Karaoke Revolution while waiting for the cake to cool. My Japanese reading skill is still too slow for Kawamoto Makoto, but I'm getting back into it enough to do okay on most other songs I like.

The cake was ostensibly for Cory's birthday, and for D&D. We had a BBQ for dinner, and they made cheeseburgers, which were good. We had a whole gang of people (Megan, Josh, Heidi, Cory, Justin, Colleen, Eli, me, and Jarrett) which is fortunate, because it means they ate all the chocolate cake and I didn't get stuck taking any home. D&D was pretty good too. We spent the entire session pretty much bashing on, or getting bashed on, by some weird demon and its summoned friends. Whee. We got to the city we've been travelling to at the end of the session, only to find it being sieged by fire giants. Fun!

I wanted to go to the Quickstep workshop and dance session tomorrow at the Washington Dance Company and convince myself to start dancing again, but my left leg hurts like heck after standing so uncomfortably for four hours at the concert yesterday. We'll see how it feels later I guess.

I have suddenly found myself in the middle of two books concurrently: a biography of Tug McGraw and a biography of Walter Johnson. I find myself compelled to try to finish them both, but context-switching has been bad for my brain, so I think I'll finish the ol' Tugger first and then go back to Barney. We'll see. I should start a webpage about baseball books, since I have read so many in the last few years, and maybe can give some useful reviews or suggestions for people. Hmm...

Actually, crap. I need to get a new camera before Carnival, don't I. I guess I should start researching sooooon. If anyone has a suggestion for a camera that's under $400-500ish, has decent video-taking ability, preferably uses a rechargeable battery and compact flash, etc... oh, and can fit in a pocket... let me know. (Basically, I guess I want the most recent version of my poor dead Powershot S330.)

Comments

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

Any chance you might post pictures of the Peep cake?

[eiriene.livejournal.com]

Chris just got me the Canon Powershot A95 for my birthday... it might be less than what you're looking for, but I know it's gotten a ton of positive reviews.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

hmm... decapitated bunnies!

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

The powershot series is under $300 ; my A80 makes me quite happy. Zephyr will have plenty of advice, but I somehow doubt you can really do better that that in that range; digital SLRs start around $700 last I checked (and they don't fit in your pocket).

Remember to budget for the price of a larger flash card; they always equip you with the stupidest little thing. My 256 MB card has never filled up; also, at least for compact flash, it's actually worth the extra $10 to get the faster card -- it about halves the latency between shots for me.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

mmmm... peeps. I'll have to download the picture and send it to Dee.

[muppetaphrodite.livejournal.com]

I have the Powershot 410 (which goes for about $350 right now) - actually, I've bought it twice because the first one was stolen. It's pretty compact and cute, and takes video and good pictures (I have a bunch posted on my gallery site if you want to see and compare.) It also seems to have less of a latency between shots than previous Canons. Anyway, happy shopping. ;)

[discofish.livejournal.com]

I wanna be in your D&D club. You seem to bake every week!