Sunday. 19th. Stu cooked another blue cheese cauliflower bake with brussels sprouts for dinner.
MacGyver, then Romy and Michele's high school reunion. I blame Dave2. They don't have in the goofs in IMDB that while they're driving south into Tucson the sun is setting on their left. It would be setting on the right. So they were actually driving north in the shot. Also, dude says he has a Bell Ranger.. he actually has an Agusta A109C.
Monday. Slept mostly okish. Fair bit of crap in the morning, including getting depressed about some possible upcoming changes, and Microsoft is making me want to rage retire. I did get some work done on some dashboards in the afternoon though. Leftovers for dinner, MacGyver, and getting South Coast trip photos online.
Tuesday. Slept mostly okish. Distracted day not really achieving much. We did get the dev load balancers upgraded. We'll be doing a lot more of that in the future with the move to monthly patches. Leftovers for dinner, MacGyver, photo stuff.
Oh and Stu got this cool photo of a kangaroo while he was out birdwatching..
Wednesday. After work had Ben/Sarah/Brae/Kit over for pizzas which was a lovely catchup.
Thursday. Finished fixing the proxy to allow encrypted files without needing to disable inspection completely. Pretty decent drinks. KFC for dinner since we had pizza last night. The Emu Bank KFC really is quite trash. Two out of the three pieces I got were small pieces, and all very dry.
Friday. Got some more dashboards done. Kievs for dinner (with actual vegetables since we didn't have freezer space to get more gems) and Black Mirror.
Saturday. 25th. I still remember the date as Alexia Gallagher's birthday. One of those people from high school I wish I'd kept in contact with. I didn't know how to human back then. Took a while to get to sleep, then awake from five (I never sleep well on party days).
So got ready then headed to the markets to pickup the last of the groceries, the pork and some booze for raffle prizes. Then headed out to the club. Laid out everything for a photo then began the prep work.
Meanwhile, B&T and K&S setup the tables and decorations.
Two issues: I forgot to put the sweet potato on so it was 20 minutes late going on. Definitely not cooked enough when I took it out to put the turkeys in. Then when I got the turkeys out at the 3/4 point they weren't even hot - I could pick them up with my hands. So then had to cook everything for another 40 minutes or so. Slowest ovens in the world. It didn't harm the pork being cooked all that extra time, but the potato bakes got a bit overdone on the bottom. So the pork turned out to be among the best I've ever done. The crackling was all really good all over, and the meat was fall off the bone tender (John had trouble carving it). So unfortunately I've set the bar for myself too high now haha. So yeah all went well, although a late night as it would have taken too much effort to get up and go to bed haha.
Potato bakes before cooking
Very trying...
John carving some turkey
Best roast porks I think I've ever done
The potato bakes were probably a little over done
I forgot to get a photo of the winter salads so this is what was left of them.. and even most of this got eaten before the night was out. I got hard goats cheese this year, which was easier to cut, but not as nice as the creamy stuff
Matching tshirts! (sort of)
Sunday. Crap sleep funnily enough.
Helped T&B tidy up the shed, then we came home. Once we'd unpacked everything I went over to Ben and Sarah's to take some frozen stuff they won't be able to take with them (movers are coming tomorrow!).
Didn't get a whole lot done during the day, too tired to concentrate on anything.
Lost another thumbnail this morning...
Went out for a walk around the Aranda bushlands in the afternoon.
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