3:09PM – Susan, Kristina and Olof have come round to participate in Rowan’s latest madcap scheme: pimping up a Kitkat. One of Matt’s shoeboxes is rapidly being disassembled, and Man Utd. vs Man City is on the radio.
3:13 PM – Rowan: “Women in their natural environment!” Some of the chocolate just went into the microwave, ready to produce some beautiful melted chocolatly goodness.
3:18 PM – A foil mould is being packed into the shoebox. Rowan: “It’s really lumpy, Kristina!” Talking about lumps in the melted chocolate. Looks like the microwave was a bad plan. It’s going to have to be done the old fashioned way with boiling water. Rowan’s talking about health and safety, this can’t go well.
3:20 PM – “It looks like a cowpat!” Yeh, melting the chocolate isn’t going well. The internet radio is stuttering – connection isn’t very good down here!
3:24 PM – Melting chocolate still isn’t working – a war council is in process. Matt: “Melting chocolate is really simple! How are we getting it wrong?!”
3:25 PM – Rowan: “I think that’s dead chocolate. Let’s do it again…”
3:26 – Melting chocolate, MK2:
3:31 PM – The base is getting poured, now it’s been put outside to get it to set.
3:35 PM – A layer of Kitkats is being built to form the crunch interior of the pimped kitkat. There is also much discussion about the draws in the FA cup. There’s also a draft, and it’s freezing my leg.
3:39 PM – We’re waiting for the chocolate base to set before we proceed. It’s been moved to the (working) fridge upstairs as a precaution against bugs.
3:40 PM – Susan: “Shall we start working on the wrapper?” Rowan: “So you’re steam cleaning our grill tray? Only a matter of time until we have an oil fire…” Well, that was roughly what he said.
3:41 – Discussion going on on how to construct the wrapper.
3:45 – We’ve calculated the calorific content of our monstrosity; nearly 7000 calories! Scary! The bar’s roughly 3 times bigger, which presumably makes the calorific content 9x, as it scales with the volume. Yay!
3:54 – The laptop’s gone, which nearly made me lose a bunch of entries, and made it a lot quieter. Work on the wrapper is abandoned. The base is set! Kristina: “Yay!”
3:56 – Emily is apparently not coming 
3:58 – KitKats being laid over the base:
4:00 – More chocolate is being melted by Rowan and Matt. They’ve changed the water for fear of an oil fire, while Kristina and Susan fill in the base. The laptop returns! I can use a keyboard!
4:05 – Chelsea vs Arsenal’s started. The connection isn’t great so it keeps pausing. I’ve noticed some of the entries above aren’t chronological – because of editing with my phone and the laptop! Kristina and Susan are building the Kitkat up in the mould, while Matt and Rowan successfully melt chocolate in the saucepan. Rowan: “If we have too much chocolate, it’s Matt’s fault!” Rowan: “By appointment to Chuck Olof!”
4:08 – Chocolate is fully liquidised.
4:10 – Pouring! Rowan wants to go on an expedition to find more chocolate.
4:13 – The mould is being taped up to try and give it the characteristic Kitkat shape. It’s now being taken off to the fridge to help it to set. Next step is to infringe on KitKat’s trademarks – I mean, make the wrapper.
4:16
4:40 – Took some time off to work on the wrapper. Rowan: “panic and pandemonium as susan draws a belly on the five!” Rowan and Matt work on watching the game.
4:45 Rowan and Matt string an Ethernet cable downstairs to ensure they can watch the game. Andy: “Oh my god Kristina, you’re amazing!” Her handiwork on the KitKat logo is really good.
4:49 We’re unsure of the status of the giant kitkat, it’s solid on the outside, but the inside is a mystery.
4:51 Rowan gets worked up about the football:
16:53 – Kristina’s handiwork is coming along:
16:55 – Talking about kick-off times of football. Apparently you shouldn’t be drunk when you go in.
16:59 – we’re going to get the giant kitkat out of the fridge so it can get wrapped.
17:02 – Rowan: “You failed!” Disaster! It hasn’t set! Back to the fridge!
17:07 – Kristina, Olof and Susan are abandoning us! We’re going to have to finish the wrapping ourselves. This could go wrong…
17:13 – And they’re gone. Good riddance, I say.
17:28 – Matt & Rowan have retired to Matt’s room to watch the football while we wait for the chocolate to fully set. I’ll write some more when something happens!
17:42 – Success! I haven’t made any content disappear by being a total spaz when switching over to my phone to take pictures. Matt and Rowan are still watching the football.
18:13 – In a fit of Chelsea-failure-induced despair, Matt and Rowan eat the Kit-Kat chunky. Andy eats slices of roast chicken.
So I’m sitting here in the JCR, observing my new Monday ritual of a sausage roll and yogurt (because I’m hungry) and a latte (to make me a person again) and I realized I’ve made a mistake.
I think lots of things that I think are interesting, but too short to really deserve a blog post. Stuff like, “Left 4 Dead versus mode is awesome!”. So really I should put them up on Twitter, I thought. So up went twitter account, twitter sidebar on blog; all good. Then I thought, a twitter post is kinda like a Facebook status. I’ll link them together! So every twitter post shows up as a Facebook status.
Great, except that they have subtley different semantics. Facebook statuses (stati?) are noisy – they broadcast to all your friends. Which made me think twice about dumping my stupid minutiae onto Twitter. So yeh, idiot.
Next time I’m at a proper computer they’re getting unlinked.
Also, JCR gingerbread lattes are rubbish! Blurgh.
Like any iPhone user, I’ve installed a heck of a lot of app store apps. Trouble is a lot of them are totally useless, while some I use all the time.
So I’ve decided to start using this procedure: any time I use an app, I bump it up one place in the menu. Hopefully the apps I use the most will rise to the top, and the rubbish sink to the bottom.
Anyone have any other suggestions for strategies?
I should go into college ’cause my computing report is due in today, and it’s not so much as finished as would be ideal. The last 4 days I literally haven’t got back to the house before 10pm, so I’m just so tired it isn’t even funny.
Or… I can just get the mapping of my home directory working properly, and work from here. Great success!
I wish I had other news or thoughts to report, but other than a musing on the fundamental belief of our society (it’s the rule of law, none of this freedom or democracy nonsense!) I haven’t even been thinking about anything halfway interesting, which is just kinda depressing. Although hopefully I’ll find time soon to curl up and read Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness”, which has been sitting on my shelf taunting me for a while now.
I get sad on the inside when I’m insufficiently pseudo-intellectual.
Hopefully there’ll be opportunity to go out sometime soon, feel like I haven’t done that forever.
Anyways, back to the grindstones…
Not sure why that is. Partly I think it’s because I haven’t been struck by anything much to write about; partly because out there in the real world there’s been stuff happening that I’d rather not share with the world at large.
That said, there is stuff I’d like to mention:
- I went to a JoCo gig the other night. It was sweet. May get a blog write-up.
- Heroes is pretty damned good this season.
- Jellybabies are delicious (and 50p less expensive than two bus rides!)
- Nandos had an awesome deal where they gave away half a chicken for free. Excellent.
- Quantum of Solace: Is it better than Casino Royale? No; but that was always going to be a big ask. The really interesting question is which do you prefer, Gemma Arterton or Olga Kurylenko?
- There are an offensively large number of good games coming out over these last months of the year. It’s sad I won’t get around to playing a good chunk of them.
- Top Gear is back! Yay!
Probably some other stuff, but there we go.
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