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It’s been a good day, getting myself back into some better habits, one of them being keeping a blog.  Guitar practice, drawig and writing all got done today, some progress on my Fallout 3 mod prototype as well, made some money on some quite painless overtime and had a little quality time with the 360 and Force Unleashed.

Force Unleashed is pretty good so far, except that the camera sometimes makes it difficult for me to see what I need to, especially in boss fights, and it really could have done with more intelligent auto-aim so I don’t keep firing force powers into empty space.  I like the combat and physics though, it’s still fun throwing people around and see them react realistically, it’s a really impressive engine.  I quite like the story myself, as a Star Wars fan.  It helps make some sense of the ending of Sith and helps understand how things came to be as they were at the beginning of the original trilogy.  And whilst elements are predictable, there are some surprises to be had, and some quite strong characters.

Made Pulled Pork for the first time today, which was abit of a gamble since I followed no single recipe and improvised a lot, having neither a Slow Cooker or a Barbeque as most instructions perscribe.  Not complicated though, just a shoudler of pork in a glass dish with beer and chicken stock (not broth as some recipies call for) with some salt, sugar and curry power on, since that’s what I have and a lot of the ingrediants recepies needed were in the curry powder.  After 3 hours on 150 degrees (C) it was pretty tender, though not quite so much as I have seen in YouTube videos, it maybe could have used more time.  The meat on it’s own is pretty great, but the surprisingly palatable liquid, to someone who really doesn’t care for beer, added a fantastic flavour to it.  Should have sandwiches from it for a while now, until I have another go.  More liquid might be the way to go, as the good meat was the submerged part, and obviously a lot of it goes over the time, I might need to add to it after cooking, though I don’t know if interupting it could have ill effects.

As well as being damn tasty, it’s quite a feeling of achievement for someone who so rarely cooks properly beyond putting frozen food in the oven, and it’s a dish I have long wanted to try since seeing it on Dexter and from hearing of it from my deranged Welsh friend Dan.  Neither of these people should really be role-models…