at work on the holiday

I came in a little early, but not before I did the daily cooking quest in Warcraft in hopes of getting ones of the super rare recipes. (No luck, alas) Dropped a little change in the guild bank from some sales, mad some Mad Alchemist's potions, and poked around a bit. At work I wrote most of the instruction manual I've been working on lately for new orientation stuff. Did an evaluation that was painfully long and bad.

Then I saw Kirby at work, who had nothing to do. The QA folks were knitting and reading ads for Friday sales. So we left for about two hours. Visited Central Market, had some hot beverages, and went to Hyde Park for a Thanksgiving lunch. Mmm cranberry relish. It was nice. Since there's no one to supervise me, I'm working at a leisurely pace.

happy thanksgiving

I cooked a Thanksgiving dinner this evening, pork roast with garlic and black pepper, mashed potatoes with caramelized onions and cranberries. The mashed potatoes came out amazing - roughly two pounds of onions reduced down with a stick of butter and splash of bourbon and then mixed into the potatoes. I'm full and exhausted. The kitty is sleeping on the sofa beside me. I have a four day weekend ahead of me. In this cold weather I'm going to read, maybe make some cookies and just relax.