The pokemon waffle iron works well. The next step is to work up a recipe that meets my standards for simplicity: Fastest outcomes (it's BREAKFAST, you should be eating in less than 15 minutes), minimum work, fewest dirtied utensils, fewest ingredients needed on-hand, no difficult or logistically impossible steps like "mix together melted butter and cold milk". There's leavening issue to challenge so I may have to take as many as eight ingredients.

My part of feast preparation: lentil pottage with roasted delicata squash and ham, and apple cobbler.

Can this cat make it to that shelf by the window, almost a whole meter away? My sources say "yes".

Okay, it actually TASTES pretty good, but the purple carrots are doing scary things to my gizzards and gravy dish. (In addition to gizzards and carrots, there's sweet onion and white mushroom, and almost enough butter roux to thicken 800ml of broth.)

"bickering ghosts" is how I feel "internet friends" (affectioned but never yet actually in-person met) probably view me and persons similarly distant as me. We can be troublesome or supportive, kind or cruel, but we are always distant and somewhat by that unimportant. It's okay. It's just ... limiting.

Chicken mixed rice: Julienne carrot, chopped mushroom and onion, diced chicken simmered with water, soy sauce, mirin, dashi granules, then dumped into rice cooker as the majority of the moisture in a rice cooker run. The browned bits on the rice are where the sugar in the mirin got toasted a little bit.

tofu, onion and spinach sammich.

Giant-looking dragonfly spotted on the way out of the last run through apartment to check for leftover possessions.