September 29, 2013

I had a pretty slow day. I watched several YouTube videos but spent most of my day trying to catch up on DVR stuff. I made it through The Big Bang Theory. Not a bad effort. I also hauled one load in Euro Truck Simulator 2 and it went horribly. There was recently an update to the game and I don't know if they tweaked the truck physics or if I'm just really out of practice because I flipped the truck once and ran into a bunch of guardrails trying not to flip my truck. I made 20,000 euros for the trip and it cost me 23,000 euros to repair my truck. So that sucked.

This afternoon I went to the store to get eggs. An older man was also getting eggs and he commented on how the price of a certain brand of eggs was really going up. I agreed but I had no idea what he was talking about. Then he mentioned something about how cows weren't legal in town but you could have chickens. It was an interesting egg shopping experience.

The eggs were for fried rice. Which I attempted to make. I changed the recipe a bit, excluding some vegetables but adding in sugar snap peas, broccoli, and corn. The rice cooked well in my rice cooker, and the vegetables did well in the pan, then I added them all together. It was still going well at this point and then I scooched it to the side of the pan and added the egg. That is when it went south. The recipe said to cook it on low heat for three or four minutes, stirring it constantly until the egg was cooked. I assume they were going for a scrambled egg thing because that is what I was going for. But it wasn't happening. It took way longer to cook and I had to turn the heat up quite a bit. And in the end you really couldn't tell there were eggs involved, which is a shame because that is my favorite part of fried rice. I also think I needed to add more soy sauce maybe because even though it kind of looked like fried rice, it mostly tasted like rice with vegetables and fake chicken in it. Not necessarily a bad thing but not worth the hour or so I put into making it. In the future I think I would do everything the same but I would scramble the eggs in a separate pan and then mix them in so I didn't miss out on the egg experience. Hopefully whatever recipe I pick next will go over a little better.

Tonight I watched more TV, did my laundry, and finished my friend's letter. I usually put rubber stamps on the envelope but this time it will be a naked envelope because the box with my stamps in it is currently at the bottom of a precarious stack of other things.