Lovely dinner and stand-in Riker

Dinner with rigel and bleemoo was lovely last night; they were excellent company and wonderful dinner guests. I shall have to have them over to cook for more often. The apple cider chicken came out well; it's basically a sauteed chicken dish in a thick, coarsely pureed sauce made of carrots, onions, cider, heavy cream, and apple vinegar, topped with a garnish of a sauteed apple slice in butter. I thought all the vegetable flavors worked well together. Having made it once I think I can do it without the cream, but it would take away from the richness of the puree. Rigel suggested trying almond milk, which might be a non-dairy way of keeping it creamy. I like that idea; I've never had almond milk before, but I've always wanted to try it.

Joe is coming to visit today for the rest of the week, along with his girlfriend and another friend of theirs. I'm excited to see him. He's going to be filling in as Riker in the Burn Notice session I'll be running this weekend. That promises to be interesting; I'm really looking forward to seeing what he'll do with the character. At the moment there are two storylines active in the campaign-- one a job for a friend of Donovan's mother that involves busting up an underground boxing ring, the other about Gwen's brother and ex-fiancee coming from Ireland to warn her that someone's trying to frame her --so I've got to sort out how those two will interact in this session. I guess I could put one on hold for the other, just so one has a chance of getting resolved sooner rather than later, or I could just let them follow whichever thread they prefer at the moment. That probably will require even more planning on my part-- I like an extremely well-planned out campaign --so I'm going to have to buckle down.

Room rearrangement

I have integrated the new bookshelf into my room. I moved my old one ninety degrees so it sits on the other wall in the corner it was in, and put the new one, which is taller and narrower, in its place. I confess, it is a darker color than I hoped it would be, but seeing as my problem with the old one was that it was too light, I guess there's just no pleasing me, huh? I know I'll just have to unload the books from it when it's time to use it in the show, but I've got a fair bit of time before then, Might as well get some use of it and not just have it clutter up my room. I hope it can help me keep my things better organized. I'd like it to make my room seem neater; otherwise I'm afraid it's just taking up too much space.