Yet another weekend filled with food and entertainment. Things start off on Friday evening for finishing up my first attempt at making Lasagna. Saturday was chicken and waffle night at the house; and I spend most of Sunday recovering. Jen’s portable fire pit is a frigging awesome replacement for the go board that we normally congregate around while outside.

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The previous day while at the supermarket, I decided to try my hand at making lasagna. Having just had a wonderful lasagna from Angelini Osteria, a quick search pulled up a “recipe”. It is as good a starting point as any, but I’m making my own little modifications to the basic recipe as I go along. Hsiang-Wei(gtetra) came over to work on his Gaplant for which he pretty much finished painting and only requires the clear coats and decals to finish up the sucker.

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I need another weekend to recover from my weekends. Dinner and a bar on Friday; Thai food lunch, home made dumplings and homemade chocolate mousse on Saturday; followed by skiing, NFC/AFC Championship games, and a family dinner on Sunday. I’m almost glad to be at work so that I can use this time to recover before starting this all up again come the next weekend.

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Weekend update: January’s build gathering. This month we had about 7 new people come to the gathering. The size of the gathering is getting back to normal after all the holidays and such. This looks like a good start to the new year. I got some work on my RSO that has been sitting idle on my desk for the past few weeks, and I cracked open the Gun Tank and got the core fighter done for the thing. Having built the core fighters for previous kits, this is by far the most complex core fighter to date. The parts separation is pretty intense. I’m still not too sure the over engineering is necessary, but the thing is pretty cool regardless. More details about the gathering after the jump.

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Early last year, Angel, Nicky and a few of us did a sushi night where we gathering all the necessary ingredients and made our own sushi rolls, tempura, and sashami. It was a fairly successful evening, but since then, we have yet to try it again. Wanting to do something to start off the new year correctly, Helen, me, Angel, and decided to do another sushi night. So out went the invites and list of ingredients. We had about 15-16 people at the event and a few Japanese friends of Helen, so I get to test out my Japanese culinary cooking skills on some natives.

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It was a decently busy weekend. I went to my friend’s mom’s house and learned and made a bunch of tamales of different flavors. I’m finally started up on my latest project that I actually sorta started a few years back when I first bought it, but shelved. Then there was the build gathering. This one was very interesting. And whilst I tell the story later, I will definitely come off as a complete asshole, but you just had to be here to fully understand and grasp the big picture. Regardless it was another great gathering. At the end of the night, we piled up all the guitars, for a group picture. I’m sorta cheating, as the left handed, ultra dusty, guitars are mine… but at least I have some variety in that there’s an electric, acoustic, and classical guitars. And unfortunately, I had forgotten to snap pictures during the gathering, but I did snap a few things off my phone, a little too late however.

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I finally got off my ass to finish the sucker. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working very slowly to finish up the weapons and final touch ups on the kit. There was Thanksgiving, then there was that stupid Assassin’s Creed game, not the new one mind you, the old one that came out several years ago; yeah, I got suckered into it while watching a friend of mine play Assassin’s Creed 2. Regardless, I was able to slip in some work on the kit now and then. The benefit of having long stretches of time between clear coats and paint drying is that it allows for the paints and clear coats to fully cure up. With the weapons completed, the kit is thrown together and pictures are taken.

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