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Success! I finally made a batch of bread in the bread machine that didn't have a crater in the top big enough to float a boat. Thank the gods for high altitude flour, which is making all the difference in the attractiveness of my baked goods. It did still fall, though, if not as badly as before, so I think next step is to decrease the yeast by a bit. The breads I've made with smaller amounts of yeast have been much more normal-looking, and I think it may just be a fault with this particular recipe. We'll see.

I'm slowly getting unstressed to the point of being able to write again, and to prove it I accidentally wrote 1400 words worth of Fraser/Diefenbaker gen last night. Not posting it, because a few bits need to be reworked and and the ending is lacking in something I cannot figure out. But it exists, and that is progress!

While I was doing spring cleaning on my hard drive this afternoon, I found these bits of Steve/Tony fic I never did anything with. I think they were supposed to be part of a larger fic set during the current Iron Man storyline, and they obviously had something to do with Tony killing himself, but I really have no idea where I was going with this. So here, have some contextless uber-angst.


( Tony Stark: not the most mentally stable guy in 616 )

French-Braided Four-Strand Remains A Pipe Dream Though

I did my first French braid! \o/

I've been trying to teach myself how to French braid for a few months now with very little progress, but I was bored tonight watching NCIS and needed something to do with my hands, so I thought I'd give it another shot. And I have met with great success!

...well, great is probably an overstatement. Moderate success. Success in some small measure. Evidence of potential success lying ahead. But while it may be messy and uneven looking, it is still a French braid, and way better than anything I've managed before. The principles are sound, it's just the technique needs some refining. I think I need to do it in fewer sections, for one thing, so it looks smoother down the back of my head. (also my hair looks kind of gross, but that's just because I already heavy-oiled it for the night before I decided to try this.)

( man, I really need a better camera )