You Win Some, You Lose Some

In the game of life, there are some rounds you win, and some you lose.

Here are a few rounds of both this week:

Since everyone wants to hear the bad news first, my mother and I tried to make Living Without's Elegant Chocolate Cake with Coconut Cream filling. I was sort of against the whole cake to begin with, I'm not always a fan of coconut custard and it sounded a little too much like coconut custard filling. However as we proceeded that coconut cream filling was horrible to create. It was almost a total fail as a filling. Despite this, the cake itself looked joyful ;)

And after I didn't like as a cake, she layered it up with some coconut vanilla yogurt and cherry pie filling for a lovely chocolate cherry trifle. 

On the winning side,

we must congratulate a dear reader and friend 

who gave me what everybody's got already

a water buffalo.

(If you do not understand this reference, I pass you on to

  VeggieTales' Silly Song with Larry and you will  understand.)

((Please send complaints about your water buffalo or lack thereof to:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

or Yoda's address if you know where she is.))

Last, but not least the Jedi Master and I won against Make Magazine's MintyBoost USB Charger today.

I learned how to solder! 

(Okay, question: why don't we say the l in solder?)

I am just so amazed and happy with being able to make this thing.

I also learned a lot about resistors and capacitors.

It is supposed to fit in an Altoids Gum tin, but I could not find them anywhere, so we just used old Altoids mint tins. Now we have extra room for the cord.

Its so cool! 

(My new iPhone 4S takes such better pictures than my last phone did. All of this post's pictures are from my phone. Gotta give credit where credit is due, Sonic.)

:)