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I seriously think cooking has given me as many scars as bikes and braces and bus windows and old warzones combined. The amount of fricking burns I accumulate is ridiculous. Fortunately they tend to fade after a few years, but *still*.
Burn mark #15 : cooking with wok. Drop chicken into hot oil, hot oil spits out, hits point revealed by short t-shirt and low jeans. See Heather scrape built-up ice from freezer sides with cloth and cook with one hand, periodically renewing ice for the next hour and a half. Still painful. :grumble:
Other burns, mostly faded, are variously from hot fat fryers at previous jobs and the all-time classic, pulling a baking tray out of the oven and getting banged into from behind so tray shoots forward and produces matching scars on inner elbows.
On the other hand, parents being away allows me to watch BSG on a *tv*, wonders of wonders, as opposed to a couple of days later from download. And ohhhh, the happiness. Ricard Hatch and a poltics ep. With lots of little Starbuck/Apollo moments, both in friendship and puppy-dog cuteness and in 'let's menace civilians' mode. This show makes me so very happy.
Mind you, am wondering about something they presented on the show. Zarak (Richard Hatch's character) is a terrorist/freedom fighter, depending on who you ask. If they'd been negatively affected by Zarak - people who'd previously been affected by him pre-fleeing the Colonies, the soldiers who'd dealt with his prison insurrection and his way of doing things - it was 'terrorist', but if you hadn't been, and hadn't been directly infulenced by his actions, it was 'freedom fighter'.
I'm just wondering if this is what drives the division in how people view similar in this world. In the UK, the IRA and its offshoots and their Protestant opponents (name currently escapes me) were terrorists. Okay, so, yes, united/Brits booted out Ireland is a thing to want, but as far as we were concerned, they were terrorists. We'd seen too many bombs go off and we still live with the little things that are holdovers even now from bombing - you can't leave luggage alone in a station or airport, no bins near such places or in the City of London (that is, the old City, mostly financial now), and the call for Inspector White on London Transport. And we used to get terribly angry with Americans who naively believed they were funding freedom fighters, when it'd long ago devolved into money, revenge and power over the little people. All I know is that you're a terrorist as soon as that first bomb goes off with the intent to kill people.
Burn mark #15 : cooking with wok. Drop chicken into hot oil, hot oil spits out, hits point revealed by short t-shirt and low jeans. See Heather scrape built-up ice from freezer sides with cloth and cook with one hand, periodically renewing ice for the next hour and a half. Still painful. :grumble:
Other burns, mostly faded, are variously from hot fat fryers at previous jobs and the all-time classic, pulling a baking tray out of the oven and getting banged into from behind so tray shoots forward and produces matching scars on inner elbows.
On the other hand, parents being away allows me to watch BSG on a *tv*, wonders of wonders, as opposed to a couple of days later from download. And ohhhh, the happiness. Ricard Hatch and a poltics ep. With lots of little Starbuck/Apollo moments, both in friendship and puppy-dog cuteness and in 'let's menace civilians' mode. This show makes me so very happy.
Mind you, am wondering about something they presented on the show. Zarak (Richard Hatch's character) is a terrorist/freedom fighter, depending on who you ask. If they'd been negatively affected by Zarak - people who'd previously been affected by him pre-fleeing the Colonies, the soldiers who'd dealt with his prison insurrection and his way of doing things - it was 'terrorist', but if you hadn't been, and hadn't been directly infulenced by his actions, it was 'freedom fighter'.
I'm just wondering if this is what drives the division in how people view similar in this world. In the UK, the IRA and its offshoots and their Protestant opponents (name currently escapes me) were terrorists. Okay, so, yes, united/Brits booted out Ireland is a thing to want, but as far as we were concerned, they were terrorists. We'd seen too many bombs go off and we still live with the little things that are holdovers even now from bombing - you can't leave luggage alone in a station or airport, no bins near such places or in the City of London (that is, the old City, mostly financial now), and the call for Inspector White on London Transport. And we used to get terribly angry with Americans who naively believed they were funding freedom fighters, when it'd long ago devolved into money, revenge and power over the little people. All I know is that you're a terrorist as soon as that first bomb goes off with the intent to kill people.
