We were too young to rent this particular movie, but we looked old for our age, and we knew that if we just didn't giggle or make spectacles of ourselves, we'd be fine.

It helped that we had Kerri's mother's movie-rental card, which would allow us to rent anything in the store. We had wandered around the store, browsing the stacks of movies for rent. We didn't have anything in particular we wanted to see, but it was Saturday, and we wanted to watch something.For some reason, approximately 90% of all movie titles start with the letters R, S, or T, and that's where we spent hmost of our browsing time. We'd hold up movies to each other, soliciting opinions, but they'd all be struck down for one reason or another.

We spotted it then, hidden in plain view; a simple, black box. Kerri looked at me quizzically and said words that were such incredible understatements that I'm surprised the world didn't cave in on us right then and there:

Funny, I've never made this one; I just stole the recipe from Jeff's mother back at Thanksgiving. It's been sitting in my inbox ever since, begging to be posted. I've adored pecan pie ever since the first time my grandfather took me down to the pecan orchard to gather pecans that my grandmother turned into a pie that very same day.

Some foods just get better as you get older.Pecan pie

3 eggs, beaten
½ cup sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
¼ cup melted butter
1 cup pecans
unbaked pie shell

Can be made into butterscotch or chocolate peanut clusters. I like both. Recipe courtesy of Jeff's mother.Butterscotch or chocolate peanut clusters

½ cup Peter Pan smooth or creamy peanut butter*
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate or butterscotch pieces
1 cup salted peanuts, whole

"Five?" he said, somewhat incredulously. "You have five designs sitting on your computer right now? Why don't you actually finish one of them?"

Not a bad idea, that. Therefore, I present skin number fourteen, "ironworks." It's definitely for CSS-capable browsers. If you're interested, wander over to the skins page and take a look.

Who knows, maybe I'll finish the other four unfinished designs, too. Post comments if you run into any problems, or (better yet) can confirm happiness in browsers aside from IE6 and Mozilla.

The results from the 'friend quiz' test have been an almost endless source of amusement for me. I originally posted about the test last Wednesday; I left the entry on the main page for a few days so the more infrequent cat.net readers would get a chance to take it.

Andy and Geof both scored 90, and it got worse from there. I've had great fun ribbing Jeff about missing a question that even he admits he knows the answer to. As he put it, "I just didn't read all the answers…"So, without further blathering, the answers to last week's quiz:

Who nicknamed me 'domesticat'?
a. Andrew
b. Monica
c. Brad
d. Jeff
e. Danno

The about page for this site would've helped a few of you…

If I return to school, what will I study?
a. Classical Literature
b. Philosophy
c. Creative Writing
d. German
e. French

It starts nibbling at you around track 5: he's building up to something here, but you can't figure out what it is. It doesn't focus until halfway through track 6 of CD 1; probably because you're busy and not really paying much attention to the sonic hints he's giving.