Kazza the Blank One

Backdating.  Hi!

Monday.  Woke up with the storm around 1am and got up to backup my more recent files to OneDrive.  Added to a list of Robocopy commands to copy the most recent (14 days worth) of files from my most commonly used directories.  Still managed to wake up early for the daythough.  Ok day.  I'm no longer NEIL which is awesome ;)  Had roast pork for dinner and watched Mandalorian.

Tuesday.  Went with the sweetie to try out Ramen O.  It's pretty good but a bit expensive ($18 for a basic ramen) to do as a lunch all that often.  I'd love it if they did a smaller version for a cheaper price.  

Then saw this flower in a whole flowerbed of them on the way to the Lighty for Anthony's farewell.

In other news, Kit and Pete finally got keys to their new house!  In the evening had leftover brisket for dinner, fixed up the morning's slide scanning, and blogged last week.

Wednesday.  Had a few hours of training on Ansible and Ansible Tower.  Some pretty cool stuff you can do with it.

Watched Apollo 13 in the evening.  The blog title quote is the correct quote from the mission, not the one they used in the movie (which I can see why they did it, the real quote implies the problem is over and they're all cool now).

Thursday.  Busy day catching up on tickets from Wednesday.  In addition, the problem with Neil being off is that noone else knows how to do the back operations on the till for work drinks.  So I went up with Neil while he did stuff and took a bunch of notes for future reference.  Watched the start of 14 Minutes to Earth in the evening.  Also David figured out that we can in fact still access our NAS with its Netbios name (which died ages ago on my computer, and the DNS doesn't even resolve).  No idea how/why that's started working when it didn't used to work, while accessing via IP stopped working when it used to.  hrmmm.

Friday.  Took a Random Day Off with the sweetie.  I spent it doing all the things I would normally do on the weekend.  I also opened a random package I got in the mail this week - I could tell it was a jigsaw by its sound, but I had no clue who sent it.  I made a guess who sent it which turned out to be true!  So that was pretty cool.  However the quality was a bit of a disaster, but I'll leave that for another post.  Leftover lamb for dinner and watched As the Wind Rises in the evening, which I partly remembered from the last time we saw it.  I thought it was bittersweet, which was much how I described it the first time.  Most of his personal life was made up for the movie, but he did exist, and thought the war with the US was futile.

Saturday.  Out the door pretty early.  Had to do a big food shop and take it all out to the club for the club Christmas Party!  (I'd actually forgotten I'd volunteered to do this, having been quite disappointed that I didn't get to do Christmas in July this year because of Covid.  I got the reminder in the newsletter haha!)  Stopped at The Scottish Restaurant for our energy for the morning, then hit the shops.  Bought all the things from Coles, then to the markets to get the roast porks and some prawns.  Made it to the club by lunch time, then got down to cooking All The Things.  

There were two four kilo pork shoulders that I did in the oven (and home made apple sauce done on the stove), four one kilo turkey roasts that I delegated to have done in the bbq oven, two epic potato bakes, two kilos of peas that I added mint to at the end, two bags of carrots that I had to chop myself because Coles and Aldi don't sell frozen carrots anymore (wtf??) and added honey to, and a bunch of bread rolls. 

I also did some finger food.  I bought a couple of packets of mini toasts, which were topped with cream cheese, and either salmon and dill or tomato or cucumber.  With cucumber/cheese/tomato only option for the gluten-free person :) (we made more than are shown in this photo ;) )

And there were prawns with seafood sauce.  Whole prawns were like $30/kilo at the markets, but someone would have to shell/devein them.  For $40/kilo you could buy them shelled and deveined.  Given that whole prawns are literally half head, you're basically paying $60/kilo for the flesh, so it was a no-brainer to buy them cheaper and already processed.  And everyone loved them!

Eventually all the food was cooked, and I had an army of helpers to serve.

Apparently dinner was well appreciated, and I even got time to cool off in the pool after dinner (and avoid the secret santa cause I hate that crap haha).  Awesome evening!  Note to self:  next time find someone to do music!

Sunday.  Packed up all the leftovers (omfg there were actually some leftovers!  that never happens!) and came home.  Pretty quiet day.  Didn't do much other than put up the Christmas tree and some of the Christmas decorations.