Chatterbox Wednesday

Relegated again, le shenguin arrive encore

I played PUBG (Yes, again) last night but tried the FPP view for the first time. It felt more like a typical online shooter like this but it had terrible desync. I did kill someone though as I third partied another fight and picked off the winner like the vulture I am. Two more games with TPP view followed, in which I did terrible.

Watched Fear the Walking Dead too.

Day 3 of no booze.

Morning!

KC:D. Finished the last of my side quests, which involved grave robbing, gambling and picking people to carry shit. All in a days work for a knight. Then finally got on with the main quest, escorting the Lord on a hunt. Ended in a good scrap so all's well. Now, apparently, an army has begun its invasion so I'm off to war. Tally Ho! Sorry to disappoint, but no secs this time.

Degu! Turns out his immune system didn't develop when he was young, so all the bad turns he's had are likely due to this. This now means that we'll be having trips to the vets for antibiotics whenever he gets even a minor infection. On one hand, happy to know what it is finally, on the other, sad for the little fella, can't be fun. Anyway, he definitely had his appetite back, as I spent most of last night hand feeding him (his lack of balance means he can't stand and eat properly). Hopefully the drugs will kick in soon and he'll be back to his usual self.

Killed it.

What's everyone had for breakfast? I had porridge with a peanut butter cup melted in and an unremarkable cup of coffee (plus two more peanut butter cups because they come in packs of three . . .).

Peanut bar, coffee.

I just googled White Ace, the reviews sound great.

'An aroma of paint stripper and abandoned mattresses'.

Much like Shenguin's gaff, then.

Smoked mackerel. Toast. Cup of tea.

Is that similiar to a working lunch?

No breakfast.

I'm still waiting for death to take me. In the meantime, I ate two vegan Beyond Burgers last night. One I cooked from frozen in the oven to have with my dinner. The second I had later in the evening for supper, frying it from chilled.

I didn't think they had much taste, but the fried one was better. They were unusually lacking density compared to most burgers. The texture wasn't unpleasant, but it didn't resemble a meat burger particularly. They were still red in the middle, but I'm not sure how important that is. They failed to develop any of the delicious fatty sweet flavours where they were charred on the outside. They were basically quite poor, especially considering they cost over £5 for two. I am disappointed if this is the standard of the new breed of ultra-realistic vegetarian / vegan burgers. I would suggest that they have massively over-played their hand, but it wouldn't be the first time clever marketing wins the day.

I still reckon that Linda McCartney's Mozzarella burgers are by far the nicest and meatiest available, though they are not vegan. They also contain palm oil which the packaging does not confirm is certified as sustainable. I understand this is because they use particular fractions of palm oil rather than straight palm oil, and because of the low global levels of demand for these fractions, it is not available as certified sustainable, but that Linda McCartney do use the mass-balance system for their fractions (a system whereby the palm oil refinery uses a mix of sustainable and non-sustainable palm oil to create the fractions it sells to its customers, and that the sustainable palm oil they use is always at least equivalent to the amount that gets sold to Linda McCartney). I once had too much time on my hands.

Top 5 food disappointments:
1) Accidentally eating a coconut flavoured Quality Street because some bastard in the office had mixed the end of the Quality Street in with the Roses. Worst. Thing. Ever.
2) Eating boiled eggs two mornings in a row in a holiday cottage in the Yorkshire Dales, wondering why the eggs tasted so fowl. Then realising the spoons were silver, and boiled eggs taste disgusting if you eat them with silver spoons. True fact.
3) Vegetable paella in Spain, so salty I couldn't eat it. It was disgusting.
4) Beyond Burgers
5) My mate's posh wedding where his friends only got invited to the evening reception, and the evening buffet basically disappeared in seconds. I ended up having a cheese and onion Ginsters from a garage on the walk back to the hotel. I travelled over 1000km to go to that wedding and was very hungry.

tl:dr? meh

Wow. There's a man who needs a bacon sandwich.

My scores were primarily the work of a 9 year old boy, you bully.

Morning!  I am basically just working non-stop this week.  It is a truly horrendous shock to the system, and I can already feel myself starting to come down with a dose of the shenguins.  I also can't exercise because I injured my foot walking up a hill, my left arm getting out of the bath, and my right arm lifting a box of records.  I thought things were looking up last night when I looked in the box of records and found issue 1 of '2000AD presents Crisis' from about 1988, autographed by the artists/writers, which I thought I had lost, and a quick look on ebay established that mint copies of this are going for anything between £4 and £6. So at least that's something.

No games, no telly, some gin.

Video Games!

Looking forward to getting everything on Switch tomorrow.

And Ace Wombat next week.