Day 186: Heather went into work today to make up for the fire alarm issues last week so the day started around 5:30... I hate single digit hours in the morning on the weekends. Eventually the boys crawled out of the basement and I made them some pancakes. After which they played on the piano a bit... Apparently neither of them have had any formal training... I plugged my ears and pushed past it. Eventually so did they. They returned to the basement to play some more video games because the weather was crappy. I continued the epic tool finding mission I started weeks ago. I got the boys a plate of fruit and zucchini bread for lunch while they played... The weather cleared up a bit and they head out of the house on their bikes. Sidekick stopped by for a coffee... I had mentioned the wife was at work so it was safe to come over. Nothing new, just discussed some projects that needed taken care of, most involving transportation. Heather finally got home and scared people away, my friend left, Lawson's friend left, it was almost quiet. Tried something different for dinner, the chicken fingers we make with the flours we use has proven to foul the oil and at times overflowed the pot... Trying to improve on this was tragic tonight. The changes we made exasperated the problem and at 300 deg all the oil instantaneous bubbled out of the pan into the stove. Deep frying turned into almost pan frying and a gallon of oiled needed to be removed from the stove top... A job that will need to be finished tomorrow. We did get it cooked, tasted fine but good lord what a mess. A movie and bed was in order, which also involved the mitten once again... Apparently now she can't see the knots in this color so the mitten got once again made back into a ball of string. String #3 came out, Red... Leftover from another project, not soft or fluffy or warm but yes, it went through the new ritual and was knotted up into a mitten tonight while the movie was on... Pretty sure tomorrow it will be a ball of string again.