There are clearly no county fair ribbons in my future

My cherry jam didn't set properly. I don't know if the cherries were too ripe, or the pectin was old, or if I should have drained all the excess cherry juice before cooking them rather than saving it, or what. Now I'm going to have to try and fix it with more sugar and pectin, which will hopefully turn my fail!jam into real jam and not over-sweeten it too much (or over-lemon-flavor it too much, because you add lemon juice to counteract the extra sugar, but I originally cooked it with an entire lemon peel in it). On the other hand, this gives me a chance to add the amaretto I forgot to put in the first time around.

I'm going to have to buy more ridiculously over-priced Ball jars from the hardware store if I want to have a chance to do a batch of grape or some other flavor seanchai actually likes. (Maybe I should have asked "hey, what do you think about cherries" before buying three pounds of them at the farmer's market and spending hours slicing and pitting them)

Also, is it possible for the adoptive father in City Hunter to be any more of a jackass? It's only episode #1 and already I want to punch him. Dude, when your dying best friend asked you to take care of his wife and kid, I really don't think he meant "Hey, please kidnap my son from his mother and take him to another country to raise him as a trained killer who can one day avenge me! Also, if you could become a ruthless drug lord and raise him in a drug cartel camp surrounded by land mines and armed guards, that would just be icing on the cake. And please make sure you never tell him you love him. Love is for the weak."