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Zzz: June 13, 2008

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This past weekend was a shambles. I slept for about 12 hours on Saturday and something similar on Sunday. However, I still got laundry done and ran the Roomba on the bedroom and living room. The first 2 times I cleaned it after establishing this schedule, there was a veritable hockey puck of hair wrapped around the brush roller. This last time it was down to a mere bobbin, so I have some hope that this is actually reducing the total feedstock for dust production.

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After comparing the saturated fat content with butter, I'm trying out Nucoa's trans- fat free margarine again, and it looks like I need to use a little more of it or substantially more water to get oatmeal cookie batter that I can drop out of a spoon without having to pat it back together every third time.

Given that I already have the Cuisinart and a blender, it looks like the mixer is entirely redundant. It's too feeble for any mixing tasks I might actually use it for, since I never use cream or eggs. So far the only useful part of it has been the flour-sifter attachment, which I've been using as a whisk.

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One Game, One Remix Project, One Listener

• Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream
  • I - Crisis
    • 1. Deliverance of the Heart - After a rather non-committal start, this breaks into some very nice vocals.
    • 2. Every Story Begins with a Name - As far as I'm concerned the first few minutes of this track are the theme music for the Mars Phoenix Lander when it became the first spacecraft to be photographed while landing on another planet.
    • 7. Damn Those Turks! - A very tasty arrangement of a track that was so lackluster in the original version that I had no recollection of it at all.
    • 8. Adrenalyne Kyck - The rather morbid monologue in the middle turns out to be a quote from Yoshinori Kitase, who wrote the scenario for the game.
  • II - Dirge
    • 10. Sephiroth's Wake - Some of this is rather reminiscent of the second half of The Orb's Adventures beyond the Ultraworld.
  • III - Advent
    • 8. Kweh! - I like this mostly because I like the actual tune.
    • 9. The Crossroads - This comes across as more of a mashup than a remix of a single song. Still good, though.
  • IV - Order
    • 7. Jenova Returns - The Retronauts people seem to have settled on this as their favourite song from the game because it's the best one that hasn't been overplayed into oblivion, and this arrangement does no harm to it.
    • 9. Black Wing Metamorphosis - Speaking of songs that have been overplayed into oblivion, I think this arrangement does something to rehabilitate this one.

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