I hung out with a Nicaraguan gun runner a few times back when I was a stripper. He'd probably killed someone.

I am sitting with everyone who can't get off the couch and feels guilty about it. This is getting to be a crowded couch.

I have an idea - we'll trade houses! I'll go to smonster's house and clean up, she'll go to Aims' house and clean up, Aims will go to Strix's house and clean up, and Strix will come to my house and clean up, and then we'll all meet here and go hang out in my niece's hot tub. The beauty of it is, we can add as many people as necessary all along the chain. Well, the real beauty is the hot tub, but who's in?

Zen has *all* the good ideas this weekend!

Flexeril consumed, bed time imminent.

That's business...you can't count that. I met a mob accountant. Ex-roommate's baby daddy...very polite. Still made the hairs stand up on my neck.

I think that the killers at krav were legally empowered by their respective governments, so not prosecutable under local laws, but hey...maybe even literal minefields in play here.

There was one guy who apparently really meant "If I told you I'd have to kill you." We were assured by management that he was an assassin for the French government--I guess someone gets to meet assassins from European governments, so it could have been me?

Still seems a bit sketch, tho.

I need to get up to freaking reheat dinner, not cook it, and to get some passwords off the dying computer. It feels really challenging at the mo.

One small victory against sloth - I gave the bathroom sink a quick scrub. And with that, I retire.

ita !, good luck with the heating dinner thing. My dinner tonight was string cheese and an apple, though I did get tomorrow's prepped.

Smonster - well lime juice and oil and picante sauce are liquids. If you want more you can use honey instead of brown sugar. But the onions and the tomatoes will make their own liquid. To some extent so will the mustard greens. You can chop the tomatoes to make sure they release their juice. My experience is that slow cooked veggies don't turn out dry. In fact you will want to check them 3.5 to 4 hours in to see if they are too liguid. If it is looking more like soup than casserole, that is the point at which you add corn meal to thicken. If it is too dry you can add a couple of teaspoons of wine.But I've never had that happen with mustard greens.

Hmm, okay. Thanks, Typo Boy.

Unless I want soup, I don't add liquids - apart from flavors I want to add - to crock pots. It's very moist cooking.

I'm in, Zen, but I hope the hot tub is in a much cooler climate; it's 10:30 p.m. here and it's still 97. Bleargh.

I managed to do a big grocery run, prep chopped salad base, make taco salad for dinner ad clean up the kitchen, and make brownies in a cup for us -- first time, not bad, very rich though. I think next time I'll take out of the mug and top with a scoop of good vanilla ice cream.

Greens tend to release a lot of water when cooking.