Monday. 10th. Backdated because I spent the time I should have been blogging on cooking instead.
Stormy overnight. Woke up around 2, then 3, then 4, but managed to get back to sleep each time. Not a terribly productive day at work - fighting all the crap. Found out HBZ is leaving. And I immediately started feeling a sense of impending doom. So did Con. Yummy dinner of slow cooked pork neck and all the veggies. Beyond Paradise 1.4, then bed.
Tuesday. Slept mostly ok I think. The BS started as soon as I logged in - a product used by our security team needs direct internet access, *apparently* doesn't support a proxy (to be confirmed). Seriously this is a SECURITY product??? Didn't get anywhere with the errors on the new mail servers. Although we were able to do a restore of an old one to a new one and it's working ok. Mince and cabbage for dinner. Beyond Paradise 1.5.
Wednesday. Slept mostly ok I think. Was stretching just after I got up and felt a bit of a twang in my shoulder which hurts a bit. Another unproductive day of dealing with crap and no word back from mail server vendor. Nearly two weeks into keto and I'm already sick of food. Sick of cooking. Sick of having to think about what to eat. Some retard used my Gmail address to book a hotel in South Carolina. Very tempted to cancel the day before so he gets charged the first night fee and has nowhere to stay. Stressed with travel agent who hasn't been communicating very well. And finished Beyond Paradise, which had a nice crossover into Death in Paradise at the end of the 2023 season.
Thursday. Slept okish. After emailing the mob in South Carolina last night that someone had booked the hotel using my email address, I got a thing back from them to say they'd cancelled the booking. Lolz. Another day of not getting much done due to all the crap. Some of Con's grad cohort came to drinks which was a bit of fun. Pizzas then started into Return to Paradise - a spinoff series set on the South Coast, with filming locations on the South Coast as well as Avalon.
Friday. Had a bit of time for scripting in the afternoon. But couldn't get a simple foreach to work. Sigh. Kievs for dinner, then Stranger Things 1.2, then the first two episodes of Meltdown: Three Mile Island.
Saturday. Slept okish until about 4:30. hrmm.
When you pack up the majority of the carbs in your pantry (I couldn't move in there). Will slowly start going through this in a few weeks.
Stu found a keto muffin recipe that's actually quite good
Had a busy morning including house stuff, booking flights to Adelaide, taking my brand-new-second-hand saxophone for a service, going to Green Shed sorry Vinnies sorry Goodies Junction. It's still got most of the vibes of the Green Shed in terms of range of stuff for sale. But all the bits and pieces are arranged mostly by colour. Odd. It's also a bit expensive, like the cheapest stuff is still a dollar (sub dollar would be better for something small), cheap plastic glasses are still $2 which seems a bit high. Jigsaws are somewhat variable but mostly $4 (Green Shed was $3 per jigsaw flat rate). However, they retain the colour coded bargain weeks that Vinnies do, which means that that $4 jigsaw is only $1 or $2 depending on the coloured tag. So I wasn't going to buy anything. And then I did. Whoops. More house stuff in the afternoon.
Stu cooked creamy mushrooms and cauliflower rice for dinner - yum!
Return to Paradise 1.2, then finished the last two episodes of Meltdown: Three Mile Island.
Sunday. Slept ok I think. Another busy day of house stuff, but this time had a bit of time for hobbies. Played some clarinet for possibly the first time this year. hrmmm.
Dropped into the reptile place at Gold Creek. They *still* don't have a 48" 10% UV light, but they did suggest an edison screw heater with UV that I could try in the meantime. But I'm a bit worried about giving Stumpy sunburn, he hasn't had any UV all summer. The baby blueys are so cute though!!
Did you know you can buy garlic cloves by the kilo? Only $12 too! Bargain!!
Lots of cooking in the afternoon, so no time to blog.
A big veggie bake, a heap of garlic, and one of Tony's eggplants with ham and cheese. The eggplant went very slimy though
Lachie's breakfast lasagna
Watched Stranger Things 1.3. Tried to start on Chernobyl, but, technology. Turned on the NAS for the first time in months. The thing booted which was nice, but the admin interface and sharing protocols are so old my computer wouldn't talk to it. Had to fire up an ancient version of Firefox I had lying around to be able to connect to the admin interface. Reenabled SMB 1 on my computer but will need to reboot to use it.
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