So last night Jones came over from the Tri-Cities and I made corn dogs. The batter consisted of Kruzteaz pancake mix, corn meal, garlic powder, and S&P. Deep fried ‘em in 375° vegetable oil for 3 minutes. Most of them came out great, but a couple had problems with the batter separating from the sausage during frying. The best way to avoid that seems to be dusting the meat with flour prior to covering with batter and placing them in the oil as slowly as possible (chopsticks help with this). Anyway, we ate those whilst watching Mystery Men.

I didn’t have any sticks to put in the corndogs, so I served them in bowls and we ate with our fingers. Afterwards, Jones suggested the use of chopsticks in the dogs. Doh! Great idea. Gotta get a bunch of extras next time we go for Chinese takeout.

We played a lot of Heroscape last night. Our first game was a three-way with 400-point armies. I won that one, but it was very close. Thank goodness the Deathwalker 9000 has 9 defense.

Then we played a couple games of Mario Party 8. It’s pretty fun, but I wish there was a way to skip more of the animations. No one really needs to watch Boo ride a dolphin 20 spaces more than once. Points of hilarity: Toadette being retarded, the announcer’s “Haw haw!”, Birdo’s apparent indigestion. I won game 1, Brett won game 2.

Then Jones and I played a 360-point game of Heroscape (with a new map) while Brett watched Wonder Years. It was crazy — big bloodbath. I wiped out all of Jones’s Tarn Vikings in one turn, then all but one of his Airborne Elite in another using Mimring. But he got me back with some sneaky Krav Maga Agent maneuvering. In the end, it came down to my last samurai and Crixus (a masked gladiator) against his two Agents. Since he was ranged and I wasn’t, it was a pretty hopeless situation. I charged and died. The fact that he maintained position on a +1 to Attack glyph didn’t help things.

In this picture you can also see Jones’s new hairdo. Pretty cool.

Re: TotD: I think Hufflepuff, going from the Wikipeida entry. But I’ve never read the books.

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