I just finished a really good Quadradius match. Very close the whole way through, though about 40 turns weren’t spent doing much since we’d both established such evenly matched positions and the game wasn’t dropping many height-changing power-ups. He was slaughtering me with a Jump Proof Scavenger — I must have lost three pieces that way. But I was finally able to set off a Bankrupt Row and evacuate my threatened pieces to the protected squares. (Bankrupted squares sap enemy pieces of all their powers.) Then he came after my pieces in the upper left area (I’m green — see the screencap below). He ran Beneficiary, Invisible, Move Again, and a Destroy Column all in one turn. I was really sure he had the game at this point. So he takes out my Inhibited piece in the middle, and I hop onto a new orb which turns out to be Pilfer Radial. I run the power-up and suck up like five extremely good powers. That’s when he conceded.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I bought a two-month membership. It’s definitely worth the three bucks. Some of those powers I mentioned, like Invisible and Bankrupt, are only available to registered users. (Edit: BTW, I’m “fortunethief” on Quadradius. Just in case anyone wants to play a match sometime. Yes, I took the name from a Magic card.)

Made chili for dinner last night. I didn’t have any ground beef defrosted, so I used bacon ends & pieces and some cubed chicken breast for the meat. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t anywhere close to my previous batches. I think I might have over-stirred it; that can really dry out chili because the released bean starches are hygroscopic.

(Tangent*: Did you know hygroscopy is the correct term for what most people call hydroscopy? I can’t believe Alton Brown led me astray… But to be fair, that’s a Greek root you don’t hear very often. “Hygro-” means wet, “hydro-” means water. Hygroscopic, BTW, basically means “soaks up liquid.”)

* Stolen from Peter.

Anyway, here’s the dish. I made up some buttered/toasted bread slices to go with it.

Oh yeah, Brett and I planted some herbs in pots over the storage cellar today. We did dill, parsley, chives, basil, and spearmint. I’ve never been that good with plants and I think this is the first time he’s ever planted anything, so who knows if anything’ll grow. I hope it does though; fresh herbs are stupid expensive if you get them at the grocery store. Fresh rosemary, for example, is $2.19 for two-thirds of an ounce at Safeway. That’s more than fifty dollars per pound. Ridiculous.

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