I had steak for my last b/day, when I turned 28 last june.
Got a new vacuum pump from my old man too, along with a big bottle of oil for it.
Haven't actually used it yet though, think I will do a vac distillation of my 2C-D once I get round to doing the LAH reduction on the nitrostyrene. Should be fun, not something I'm used to doing, and using LAH should be a challenge, what with its air/water sensitive pyrophoric tendencies.
As for the steak, rare...definitely not, the thought quite honestly turns my stomach. Bloody meat is not at all appetizing to me, I like my steak and roast beef well done. Not quite carbonized to the point of conductivity on the outside, certainly not crunchy, but I do like my steaks nicely well done, fully brown all the way through, with the fat on the edges slightly burnt.
What I'm munching on now..just finished chowing down 3/4 of a roast chicken w/gravy. Was good. My folks do a chicken fairly often and share a breast portion between them. With my mom's MS and her mind going she eats next to fuck all now, which means I end up getting to eat almost the entire bird, the other breast plus the remnants of the one they had, the legs and thighs all go to me.
Just waiting for a cherry pie (tesco, didn't make this) to finish baking in the oven. They only cost a quid from tesco for cherry, apple or rhubarb pies, but never mind the price, they sell some truly excellent pies, with a fair bit of filling in them.
I'm hankering after doing a few pies myself though, making the pastry etc. from scratch.
Japanese wineberry and sea buckthorn seems to me like they would go really well together in a pie, with lots of sugar and a bit of honey for flavor, to counter the really tart flavor of the sea buckthorn, those berries are seriously sour, but tasty straight off the bush nevertheless, and there are MASSES of blackberry bushes just a two minute walk from my house, and more still on a nearby playing field. I find a fair bit of ergot too (not going in a pie of course!). I've been doing a lot of reading on that little fungus, and want to try culturing it on agar, mutating it with various mutagens, such as nitrosamines, hydroxylamine, alpha-radiation and others until I can isolate a strain that produces a decent quantity of alkaloids in micronized alginate/perfluorocarbon oxygen-transport immobilized microspheres for growth in liquid culture media in stirred tank or bubble-column bioreactors.
Methinks thats going to prove to be my most ambitious, not to mention bloody complicated project yet.
Time to go check on that pie and find out when its ready. Theres a pot of double cream to drink with it too.
Good job, as I'm still bloody hungry. Thankfully i should get paid tomorrow, so I can go get some chow (and some diphenidine/MXP, been looking forward to my next trip on that, think I'll pick up 4-5g and a bit of the MXP while I'm in town from the head shop)
Last time, on a 3g prolonged 2-day trip session, had my mind thoroughly blown. Fucking amazing stuff.