The recipes section is doing okay for a part of the site that hasn’t been indexed by search engines yet, and I am surprised since I haven’t really begun advertising it yet. Hopefully it keeps gaining more exposure.

On Saturday Kris and I bought some new toys. With Kris trying to go back to school she needed a laptop she could take with her wherever she went in order to do school work. She ended up picking up an HP netbook. She isn’t the only one who picked up a new toy though, I picked up a Wacom Bamboo tablet. Last year I did a few daily sketches and I am hoping to get a section up for sketches soon, but before I do I want to get more used to the tablet. I am thinking about finishing up that Superman artwork with it, or sketch something then color it and shade it with the tablet. So far I can say that using it in Photoshop is a lot easier than using a mouse.

On Sunday Kris and I are heading down to NJ for a Super Bowl party at my father’s. He has a high definition 62″ television, so add that to the fact that we will probably head down early and get Denny’s for lunch, it is well worth the trip. It only takes about two hours to get down there, so it shouldn’t be too bad, hopefully traffic won’t be too bad on the way down or on the way back. It would mean more if the Jets could have actually made it into the game though, I guess there’s always next year.

I am getting really tired of saying there’s always next year. Come on Jets, make it all the way already.

I added the newest section of Lep’s Lair last night. I put up recipes because I had them and I think a lot of people would like them. I believe there are a few thousand or so of them in there. If you have some recipes I will add them and I would love to hear feedback on some of the recipes already up, so if you decide to cook them, let me know how they turn out. If I find some more databases filled with recipes I will put them up as well.

As for what I am going to do with this current section as it stands, I am thinking a mailing list for Recipe of the Day and possibly a Recipe of the Day widget like the Zen Quote of the Day widget. It all depends on how successful this section is though, as those two will be a few if I do them.

In the comments on my last blog about me being without power for a day, Mallory and Shiela said that they have gone without power for days, sometimes even a week at a time. I think if that was me, I’d go crazy. I work from home, I am a freelance programmer, so without power I couldn’t work, so being without power for a week I think I’d go mad just doing nothing.

I don’t necessarily think being powerless would be a bad thing though, I think it brings people together. I know that more sex happens when there is no power with no other distractions. I also think that without power you get to know people better. Years ago neighbors knew each other, people watched out for each other, today there’s television and video games and so many other things that get in the way, I think if we didn’t have so many distactions, then we’d get closer to the people around us. It’s strange, the more technology, the more isolated we seem to get.

Now I am not saying that it is just the distractions at home, people tend to work more nowadays, so being out 6 or 7 days a week at work isn’t an uncommon occurrence, so that too plays a factor in it, but if you think about it, work is just another distraction keeping people from each other. I know there are people sitting there saying I am spitting out BS, but when I had a Playstation if I wanted to play with someone, then they’d need to be in the same room as me. Now, I can hop on the XBox and play with my friends in New Jersey. Yes, back then the distance would be hard, but back then you would go out and meet new people because you wouldn’t have anyone else, now you are simply a voice in a video game, or on a phone, or on Skype, actual human interaction seems to be a thing of the past.

Going a day without power was hard for me, but maybe more people should go days without power and go and have a beer with a neighbor, it may bring you closer to the people who are nearest to you.