On Reflection

Trance

operativefourtwo — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:59:32 +0000

On Reflection…
It’s not a good idea to read Richard Bandler’s Guide to Trance-Formation late at night when you’re already tired and perhaps a little sleep-deprived.

Dreams

operativefourtwo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:52:28 +0000

So I had the strangest dream last night. Now normally I don’t remember my dreams, but this was so terrifying that it actually woke me up and I could remember most of it.

I was at my friend’s house for a Christmas barbeque. He was in the garden helping his dad pile these huge thick sausages onto the barbeque and I was in the dining room with his mum who was grilling me on my future career path. I can’t remember much of this conversation.

Then later my friend was setting the table inside. It was like a formal dinner with I don’t know how many knives and forks and three glasses for each place setting. I offered to help put the plates out so my friend took me into another even more formal dining room which had already been set out at which point his mum storms in and says: “What are you doing?! Only seniors are allowed in the formal room!”

OK so I take the plates back into the other room and try to put them out, but I can’t work out where they go because the table has so many little placemats on that I just get real confused. Then this little kid, say around seven years old (I can only assume he’s my friend’s brother even though I know this guy hasn’t got a brother) comes up to me and tells me I’m doing it all wrong. He says, “Why are you putting them [the plates] out along one side of the table? They should be on both sides.” I tell him I can’t get round to that side of the table. Then he starts polishing the glasses and telling me that I don’t know what I’m doing… I wake up at this point.

Dreams are weird. I wish I knew what this meant.

Time

operativefourtwo — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:04:32 +0000

The Doctor on the subject of time:

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly… timey-wimey… stuff.”

I love this! It’s from the episode “Blink” if anyone’s interested.

Chocolate cupcake recipe

operativefourtwo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:32:37 +0000

Instead of the usual “Hello World!” post, how about a recipe for chocolate cupcakes?

Ingredients:
155g margarine
200g caster sugar
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla extract
200-220g plain flour
1/2 cup – 3/4 cup cocoa powder
1tsp baking powder
1/2tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2tsp salt
~ 1 cup milk
? 3/4 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven 375C Gas mark 5
Sift dry ingredients together
Cream margarine and sugar until fluffy
Beat eggs and vanilla extract
Beat eggs and vanilla into creamed margarine and sugar
- Add a little of the flour mix to the margarine and sugar before beating in the eggs
- Add eggs approx 1/2 at a time
Fold in flour
- Flour then milk, flour, milk and finish by folding in flour
Stir in chocolate chips
Fill cases
Bake (around 20 minutes)

And remember “Cookies need love like everything does” so that includes chocolate cupcakes too!