On the game:

I love my Druid, I loathe what’s been done to him for Cata… I really struggle to find the will to log in some days and I’m entirely sympathetic to your perspective. I can only say that the people I’m around is what keeps me in the game and if that ever goes, that will be the beginning of a lengthy WoW hiatus.

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2011/04/braised_veal_shoulder_with_gremolata_and_tomato_olive_sauce

It’s absolutely to die for, reheats well and can feed two for 3 excellent meals…. swap in various vegies and a startch and you’re good to go.

I also highly recommend the http://www.thefillingstationnyc.com/ for oil, vinegar and salt that will literally change your life.

Also highly recommend Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook. I made stock from his technique for the first time over the holiday and mother-of-god, where has THAT been all my life. Real home-made stock is just so beyond wonderful, I’m without words to describe.

Reading “Master and Commander” by Patrick O’brian (the books the film was based on), and if you have a little patience with them, I’m absolutely convinced that people who love beautiful prose and character driven novels will become enraptured by them.

Watching “Breaking Bad” (intense, depressing in spots, but amazingly well written and brilliantly acted), I absolutely love how well the dialogue is written.

I’ve been watching “Spooks” – “MI:5″ in the U.S. – I didn’t like the pilot at all, but I stayed with it through the first season. I’m up to season 8. Totally hooked.

I intentionally haven’t watched any of Season 4 of “Fringe”. It felt like end of Season 3 was a good place to end it for me: Abrams tends to spin wildly out of control after a few seasons (“Lost”, “Alias”) and I figured I’d step away from the remote before it got silly.

We like “Grimm” a little more than “Once Upon a Time”, but we’re watching both.

I’m debating SW:TOR. Also MoP. Neither very seriously.

Say hi to Brade, and I hope your hands get better.

As far as reading goes, I’m still buried in the Terry Goodkind “Sword of Truth” books. Nearing the end of series one, and still two more box sets to go yay! There’s a lot to be said for coming late to a series. I’m very much on the fantasy side of Sci Fi when it comes to books – TV series I tend to branch out more because there’s not so much choice.