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Pre-Thanksgiving is on November 13 this year. Invites have been sent, but I need a place to keep track of things – what are people bringing, what’s left to do, other stuff.

Menu (so far)

If you are coming and bringing something, please leave a comment below.

• Applewood smoked turkey
• Stuffing
• Mashed potatoes
• Handmade Rolls
• Key Lime Pie
• Green Bean Casserole
• Whatever anyone else brings.

Left to do

These aren’t all related (directly) to Pre-Thanksgiving, they just fall into this timeline.

• Paint living room
• Paint kitchen room
• Install new dishwasher
• Return guitar/amp to [redacted]

Grocery List/Prep Work

• apple wood
• honey
• kosher salt
• roasted garlic paste
• sour dough
• leeks

Here’s the menu for Thanksgiving:

• Roast Turkey
• Gravy
• Sour Dough Dressing
• Corn
• Mashed Potatoes
• Brown and Serve Rolls
• Green Bean Casserole
• Barbecue Green Beans
• Candied Yams

This doesn’t even include desserts or beverages but I’m thinking New Belgium’s 2 Below along with some Epic Brew Unfiltered Wheat.

I really like cooking. I love to prepare as far in advance as possible and execute perfectly the day of the event. It’s a challenge involving Gant charts leading up to a 3 p.m. go live. It’s as much a time keeping challenge as it is a cooking challenge.

But it’s also a lot of work. I mean obviously it is, duh. But it’s as much work preparing for the plan as it is executing the plan. And I’m feeling lazy. I made Andrew pizza rolls for breakfast (huzzah for a toaster over) because my kitchen is atrocious. today is the day when we are supposed to clean and prep the whole house for the rest of the week. We need to rake also. So today will be crazy busy. But hopefully we can maintain the house the rest of the week and get everything done.

It’s still all worth it. There’s almost no other time of the year when I can justify spending so much on a meal, both in time and money. And it’s always exhausting, but in a good way. So here’s to getting it all done!

Oh, I also finished my 9,000 piece puzzle yesterday. I plan on getting that sucker mounted sometime before Thursday too.

I’m totally getting into the Thanksgiving spirit, and by spirit I mean my love of spending multiple days cooking for a meal that will last all of two hours (maybe). I’m going to be working on a menu in the next day or so. Does anyone know if there is an open recipe xml schema out there? I’d like to start using this site as my recipe cookbook in the hope that when ubiquitous computing happens I won’t have to waste time entering my favorites.

In site news I removed the internal trackbacks I had and revamped the 404 page since I still can’t get canonical URLs to work, and by still can’t I of course mean haven’t actually put any effort into it. Why can I just sit around and stuff fixes itself, eh? I apparently still have a ton of 404 errors being produced, but most of them are from Google and Yahoo spiders. You too can follow my 404 RSS feed if you are so inclined. Or just weird.

I started playing more Kingdom of Loathing again. I really dig those folks in the Lucky 888s. I was overjoyed to see them still active after my lengthy absence. Not that I was in anyway some sort of glue that held them together. Just that, well… you know how the internet is – you gain amazing seniority by being around for more than a month. The Lucky 888s are just about the coolest people I know online and hanging out with them in a stick figure MMORPG is somehow comforting.  I’m blue_canary in the game if you ever drop by.

I used to consider myself a patient person; in many ways I can wait forever (cooking is one of those ways) but I’ve become very impatient in recent years, especially when it’s for things I can do myself.

Oh well. I’m just irritated that Matt Caminiti is leaving today. I was glad when he became an FTE (“Now you’re playing for our team”) and all the equity built up that made for a great working relationship is now lost.

So it goes.

In other news, cooking news, I’m pretty stoked about Thanksgiving this year. I relish the idea of cooking for a large group and this year really seems like it’s going to be free of the heavy drama marring past events, so HUZZAH! I’ve been thinking of menu items all week.