Sunday.  3rd.  Cooked an epic roast pork, with a blue cheese potato/sweet potato/onion/bacon bake, brussels sprouts/bacon and capsicum.  I wouldn't have bought a roast pork this close to Christmas cause we're just going to be having it again in a few weeks, but Stu got it cause they were out of the beef he liked the other week.  It felt very much like a Christmas dinner.  Especially when I had some eggnog for dessert :)  6.2 of The Crown.

Monday.  Awake for a couple of hours with hurty, so bit of a zombie morning.  Aquila and I planned out a migration for tomorrow. 

I turn around for five minutes and the creeper has already taken over the garden.  Sigh.

Scanned another one of my ABC singing books after work.  Cooked cheesy cauliflower and mince stuffed capsicums for dinner.  It was kinda like a capsicum based pizza.

Tuesday.  Slept somewhat better.  I've been getting things done before and after work, but there's just too much to dooooo.  I don't have time to go to work.  Did the migration with Aquila in the afternoon.  Music then leftover pork and veggies for dinner.  Got back into culling photos from our Turkey trip.  Of 2014.  hrmm.  Twin Peaks 1.6.

Wednesday.  Um.

Thursday.  Vendor meeting in the morning.  Not getting anywhere.  I keep asking questions.  I keep not getting answers.  Big Christmas party in the afternoon which was pretty chilled.  The rain stayed just southeast of us.

Friday.  Awake for a little while in the middle of the night but otherwise slept ok.  Training and interruptions kind of a day.  Bit of decom work in the arvo.  Music, pizza, then Die Hard 2.  Which went a lot later than I planned on account of interruptions and having to turn everything off for the EPIC STORM.

Saturday.  Woke up around 4:40 for another small storm and didn't get much more sleep after that.  Had a day of trying to do All The Things.  Did I mention the EPIC STORM?

Tried to close off my Citibank account which we got for fee-free overseas purchases/ATM withdrawals but now don't use anymore because our new bank accounts also have it.  But got this error:

Your account closure request can not be processed at this point in time.

Dumb.

Fried up some leftover pork with some cabbage, spring onion, rice and pork jelly for dinner which was very nice, then watched The Orville 2.2.  Then I put on Home Alone 2 which I've only seen once a very long time ago.  As soon as the music started I was like OMFG John Williams .. I'd forgotten he'd done the music for the first one, and obviously they got him back to do the second one.  The music in this was Christmas magic, with a lot of elements of Harry Potter, and a bit of Superman and Indiana Jones.  I loved the first half of the movie, although I did get hit in the face by this, because I've literally stood right there too... I might have had a moment..

Another funny bit, Kevin asks for more ice cream with this line "Two? Make it three; I'm not driving" which cracked me up cause I reckon that's where Jamie (Jamie vs Julia) got that from whenever he adds an extra bay leaf!

Sunday.  Slept ok.  Another busy day of doing All The Things.  Discovered that some time between September and October iMazing has started exporting MOV files the exact same way as if I copy them in windows explorer - the files are identical and don't have the HDR nonsense that was plaguing them before.  Possibly an update to iMazing changed something?   Or possibly also Apple changing things - because now whenever I copy MOV files in explorer it retains the correct modified datestamp.  Maybe Apple finally fixed that $#!+ ??  The other thing Apple is doing now is display photos to explorer as HEIC files rather than JPG.  FFS Apple is so crap.

So achieved lots this weekend.  Still have so much to do.  I don't have time for this whole work nonsense.  Need to win the lotto so I can retire...

Monday.  6th.  Backdating because of the Second Great Vodien Outage of 2023.

Slept ok.  Urgghh they forced me to start using Windoze 11 at work.  I hate Windoze 11. So. Much.  Even worse is that notifications are all but invisible.  Skype changes the colour of its icon ever so subtly and there's a tiny red dot under the icon instead of a tiny blue dot.  So I'm missing stuff all the time.  And don't even get me started on not being able to ungroup task bar icons.  Crap in the morning and proxy trialling in the afternoon.  Cooked green spaghetti from RecipeTin Eats for dinner.  I wish books like this would use "real world" measurements, like two or three cloves of garlic, instead of a teaspoon or whatever.  Or the juice zest of one lemon instead of a tablespoon and x mL.  That sort of thing.  It was quite nice though.  Evening was filing "Canberra Life" photos.

Tuesday.  Slept okish although awak for like an hour in the middle of the night.  Proxy trialling all day.  Tony messaged me just before lunch - he was heading out to Four Winds to pick up some wine and did I wanna come with.  And I was like.. sure why not.  The last time I was out there was in 2012 for the Moving Feast.  So that was nice.

On the way back we came across this lizard with a death wish.  It clearly had no idea of what could possibly kill it, as evidenced by lack of body parts.  And it wouldn't even run away until I full on poked the thing.

In the afternoon watched a few horses run around in circles for a couple of miles.  At one point my $2 was coming second, and later my $5 was coming second.  But they finished at 20th and 7th.

Salmon, salad and leftover veggies for dinner.  Then filing house photos.  Watched Amazing Race 4.10, caught up to all aired episodes.

Wednesday.  Took forever to get to sleep - hot and restless.  Woke up early but managed a bit more sleep.  Nothing useful in the morning.  In the afternoon working with Wardie to document what to do in the event of him being away and us having to turn off MFA in the event of Optus being total idiots and breaking their entire network.  Leftovers for dinner then filing "Friends and Family" photos.

Thursday.  Slept ok.  Ok day I guess.  Good drinks - lots of people.  Popped into Tony's on the way home to pick up my old iPhone 3GS which I sold to Heather in 2012.  And since I'd sold my XS to Tony last year and I'd kept my 5, it meant I could line up every one of my iPhones!!  How cool is this!

3GS - 2010-2012, 5 - 2012 - 2018, XS - 2018-2022, 14 Pro - 2022-present.  We won't talk about the crack Tony got on the XS recently.. 

Friday.  Slept ok.  Got a "How did we do?" survey from Vodien which pissed me off because they still hadn't fixed anything and I hadn't had any contact other than first contact asking for some more information.  So let them know.  Skipped a 4pm meeting because I have zero interest in talking to Certain People at 4pm on a Friday, especially when I often log off around then for POETS.  Had Luv-a-Duck Peking Duck for dinner.  Got as good as Super Bowl obviously, but still very yummy.

Death in Paradise 6.7 and Amazing Race 4.11.

Saturday.  Hurty.  But otherwise slept ok.  Pretty much just did minifig sorting all day.  Except for taking a couple of hours out to do errands in the middle of the day. 

Apparently these are Oyster Plants

Tried to turn the cooler on when we got home but nothing happened.  It sat there for like ten minutes but it was like the pump to suck up the water hadn't run.  And then it errored out.  Sigh.

It wouldn't even run on fan mode which was very upsetting.  So we melted a bit in the afternoon.

So did the house - it even went over the top of the min/max fluid.

Watched David head off to New Zealand on Carnival Splendor.

Had dinner at R&F's with M&M and ChiliRob and Cath and Rob's mother Cath.  Too many Robs and Caths in the room hehe.

When I got home I poked the cooler control panel a bit and somehow got it to run on fan only which was a relief.

Sunday. 

Had a hare-brained idea to go climb Mount Rogers before it got too hot.  It was still too hot.

Spent all day doing minifig sorting and so got to the end of the weekend without having done any of the things I was *meant* to do.  Whoops.  Dug out some beef out of the freezer to have with some roasted veggies.  The Orville 1.11 and Amazing Race 4.12 which was the finale.  I was a bit sad that Emma and Hayley didn't win because they were just lovely people, but then Darren and Tristan decided to call it a three way tie so they split the winnings.  So awesome!!

Sunday.  22nd.  Backdating because when I went to blog this a couple of weeks ago, found that Vodien had broken my CGI scripts AGAIN which meant none of my CGI scripts worked at all, and I couldn't even use the terminal shell.  More on that later.

Leftover veggies and duck sauce that I brought home from the coast for dinner, yum!  Then The Orville 1.8.

Monday.  Be early, slept fairly well.  Still woke up tired though.  And stressed about the lack of weekend.  Meetings in the morning and trial proxy working in the afternoon.  At lunch popped into the mall to get a covid booster and run some errands.  Sausages for dinner and Amazing Race 4.2.  Found myself getting super annoyed at the rich people saying like "oh I never do washing, I buy undies and tshirts and wear them once then throw them out".  People like that are everything that's wrong with the world.  

Tuesday.  Had a pretty rough night on account of vaccine reaction.  Pretty slow morning - still feeling a bit rough. 

Stu cooked gyozas for dinner.

Wednesday.  Slept somewhat better.  Fighting with frustrating trial proxy.  Then was fighting with this super weird problem with some really bizarre symptoms we'd literally never seen before.  Turned out to be assymmetric routing which I could have probably figured out quicker if I'd actually paid attention to the logs that were LITERALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.  I was so upset.  That lack of situational awareness and tunnel vision is how planes crash.  Good thing I don't fly planes I guess.  

On a lighter note.

Thursday.  Awake for ages in the middle of the night.  Just restless.  Didn't take any work notes so no idea what I did.  Probably crap.  Had a sausage at drinks on a "welcome to summer" night, which was freezing cold.  Pizza for dinner (not much for me), then first episode of David Attenborough's Tasmania.

Friday.  Some cleaning in the morning, and some security talks in the afternoon.  Kiev for dinner (Kiev Fridays!!) then Death in Paradise 6.5.

Saturday.  Super productive day doing All The Things!!  Including chopping some huge branches off the photinia (thanks Tony!!), a green waste run, moving the rest of the stones (thanks Tony and F!!), and gave away our old pool cover to M&M. 

Five!!

Two fours and a five!!!

Manly men!!

This gecko ran out from under the pool cover as we moved it.  So cute!

Did some music in the afternoon as well, then pasta for dinner and then watched The War of the Roses.

Sunday.  Slept ok.  Did a few bits and pieces in the morning but the mostly inventorying Vic's Lego (nearly done with the loose pieces!).  Took me about fifty minutes to play through all the hymns I've collected.  Will probably need to split them in two.  Put on dinner and then I sat down to blog.

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

FFS.  What have they done this time.  Checked my address book scripts.  Also broken.  So then tried to use the terminal to access stuff via CLI.

cagefs_enter: Error entering cagefs jail: Unable to determine realpath of /home2/<user> (No such file or directory)

FFS.  And error logs were full of this crap

[2023-10-29 17:37:38]: CageFS jail error Unable to determine realpath of /home2/<user> (No such file or directory)
[2023-10-29 17:37:38]: uid: (1935/<user>) gid: (1937<user>) cmd: mt.cgi

Sigh.  So no blogging for me.  But did go in and backup my database just in cases.  Basa bake for dinner, then The Orville 1.9 and Amazing Race 4.6.

Friday.  Kit was desperate for some company with friends, so we headed down.  Left around 18:00, getting Scottish Restaurant drive through for dinner on the way.  

Otherwise a fairly uneventful drive and we even managed to find the driveway in the dark first go when we arrived at around 20:30.

We met Biscuit's seven new little crumbs (9 days old).

Chatted for a while, and not tooo late a night.

Saturday.

Who wouldn't want to wake up to this crap every morning?  Literally the view out the bedroom window when I woke up.

Found myself some leftovers that I'd brought down for breakfast. 

Then did all the animals.  There's still Arthur and Frankie the cats, Vicki, Biscuit and her seven crumbs, and Jasper.  Eight ducks (down from fourteen as she sold six of them that morning), about seven or eight guinea fowl, about thirty chickens and a couple of turkeys.  Then Scout and Ricky the horses, Al and Kerry the alpacas, and I dunno like twenty or thirty sheep.  And don't forget that little cow (bull) above.  There were two.  Now there's one.  And a freezer full of the other.

Headed down to the beach, walking all the way along Kioloa and part way up Shelly Beach and back.

Picked up some pies on the way home for lunch.  I started a jigsaw in the afternoon.  We found some luv-a-duck in the fridge, so had that with some spring onion and cucumber in rice paper rolls (not as good as peking duck pancakes but who cares).  Then chatted and went to bed at normal time.

Sunday.  Did the animals first up.  Then headed into Batemans Bay for brunch.  

Eventually left a bit after twelve.  Did some food shopping on the way home so didn't get home til after 15:00.  Exhausted.  And just in time to do my end of weekend routine.  

30.9.23

The sweetie and I took a day out of our long weekend and went on a Magical Mystery tour to Captains Flat.

Our first stop was the Air Disaster Memorial at Fairbairn.  You're no longer allowed to drive to it (perhaps all the stories of hauntings and cars mysteriously dying put them off) so you have to walk the twenty or so minutes to it.

From monumentaustralia.org.au:

The cairn commemorates ten people, including three Commonwealth Ministers and the Chief of the General Staff, who were killed in 1940 when their Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Hudson crashed while circling prior to landing at Fairbairn Airport. The cairn was completed in 1958 and officially dedicated in 1960. 

No ghosts to be heard or seen today though.

And then another twenty or so minutes walk back.  Longer if you stop to take photos of flowers and paintballs.

Then we continued on.

Our next stop was Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) run by the University of Sydney School of Physics.  I never even knew it was there.  They ask you to turn mobile phones off, but the thing is located right next to the landing strip for the Queanbeyan Model Aircraft Club.  Weird.

It's still pretty cool though.

As we were leaving a dude came driving up to make sure we weren't stealing any equipment from the place (since it was unattended at the time).

Pressed on.

We didn't stop in Captains Flat but drove straight through to the radar!  I was fully expecting a gate across the road and we'd have to walk, but apparently not!

But this was super cool (and even cooler because there was mobile coverage on top of the mountain so I could do it)

We stopped in Captains Flat on the way back.  I knew the pub wouldn't be open (they closed for renovations and it's for sale now), but even the cafe we had lunch in last time looked very closed.

There really is very little in Captains Flat - we drove all the way up to the end of town and back.

Then we headed home.

Monday.  2nd.  Not backdating for a change.  But it is running pretty late on a Sunday afternoon when I still have two dinners to prep/cook.  And that's without even doing the Captains Flat post.  hrmmm.  Awake for a while in the middle of the night, but otherwise slept ok.  Tony helped me with a greenwaste run in the morning which was very nice of him.  Then Lego inventorying and jigsaw but not much else.  Apple is so retarded.  I told it to trust my phone the other week.  It still doesn't and I still need to enter the password every time I want to back it up.  Tuna casserole for dinner.

Left is "brown".  Right is "reddish brown".  According to Bricklink, the radar dish doesn't exist in brown, only reddish brown.  I beg to differ.  

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep - hot and restless.  Have I mentioned how hot it's been the past little while?  Ok day.  Procrastinating at looking a new proxy product by catching up on life.  Watched the first episode of Twin Peaks, which I've never seen, although I have known whodunnit for over thirty years.

Wednesday.  Took ages to get to sleep - hot and restless. 

Halloween cupcakes by a-cakes

Went to reply to an email of Mum's in the evening and it wouldn't send.  First up I was getting TLS failures.  I'd already updated a couple of the dlls for Eudora a couple of years ago, but found updated ones from the Hermes project so got past that fairly quickly.

Great. Except now I get:
the SMTP server (mail.internode.on.net) said:
550 mf-505: Sender Policy - Relay Denied

*sigh*  F$*%ing internode have broken their SMTP server (moved it to AWS).  Previously you could always use their SMTP server if you were on their network.  Now.. they're like nope, screw you.  So much for an internet "service" provider.  Got literally nothing else done tonight.  

Thursday.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Cranky with everything and everyone.  Fighting with proxies most of the day.  Busy drinks (old farts drinks).  Pizza for dinner (although not much because too much pigging out on snackages).

Friday.  Fighting with proxies in the morning.  Gave up because the thing won't block an executable file if it's been renamed to .txt.  Did decom work in the arvo, because Fridays.  Ahsoka in the evening.

Saturday.  Awake in the middle of the night for two or three hours.  Sigh.  Had breakfast at The Scottish Restaurant then did food shopping from a couple of places.  Was nearly midday by the time we got home.  Sigh.  Afternoon alternating between cleaning the house and finishing the jigsaw.  Roast beef for dinner and had Chris and Glenda over which was lovely.  Played Battle of the Sexes in the evening.  The questions were fun but the rules were pretty confusing and the gameplay was a bit retarded.

There was roast beef and potato bake and other veggies

Glenda brought pavlova!

Sunday.  Awake for a little while in the middle of the night but not as badly as last night.  Spent the ENTIRE MORNING fighting with SMTP. 

Had a go at connecting to Vodien for authenticated SMTP. 

Firstly had to enable "esoteric" features in Eudora so that I could see the ports.  Ended up setting the SMTP port to 587.

Started off with errors like
535 Incorrect authentication data
Can't send to ''. The server gives this reason: '550 SMTP AUTH is required for message submission on port 587'.

I was able to get Thunderbird to authenticate against my kazza.id.au host and send, so then spent ages fiddling with configs in Eudora trying to get it to work.  Eventually after MUCH hacking I got it to work.

But then my SPF record needed to be updated.  Gmail was rejecting with fun errors like
"Messages missing a valid Message-ID header are not accepted"
but even that was inconsistent.  Eventually after much hacking and googling I settled on 
include:_spf.syrahost.com include:all._spf.ds.network
which as it turns out was buried deep in cpanel as well.

Of course the problem is now I can't send emails to Stu's domain, or to David's domain, because I have those in my cpanel account for web hosting, and now it thinks it owns them and delivers the mail to me not them.  Sigh.  

The afternoon was then music, weeding and blogging.  And I haven't even finished catching up on blogging.  Sigh.

I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. 

Monday. 25th. Backdating because last week's blogging time was taken up with blogging the previous week. Sigh. Awake from 2-5 or so. Sigh. Zombie morning. Did some work on getting stuff backing up to a new server.  Did some weeding while Stu cooked dinner - gyozas, yum.  Tired.  So tired.  But then hardcoded my style sheet to https so at least the blog will render ok in either http or https.

It's a bit hard to tell from the angle what this is.. I was taking a plate out of the microwave and it caught on the rim of the microwave plate and took a great big chip out of it :(  Not happy Jan!

Tuesday.  Slept much more betterer.  Fighting with backups all day.  Weeding and cooking after work so no time for music.  Finished blogging Europe food and drinks pages.  Then watched War on Waste 3.2.

This was fresh ravioli.  From Milan.  Which we didn't realise til we opened it up.  Carbon footprint on this a little ridiculous.  This was right before I dumped a tonne of cheese on it :)

Wednesday.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Still woke up early though.  Fighting with stuff on our DR laptop.  Had a 1.5 hour meeting with a vendor in the afternoon which left me completely wasted, but then had to wait another 1.5 hours for the sweetie.  Sigh.  Beer and homemade pizza for dinner.  Mum got a new computer cause her old one died, but they didn't just install everything fresh and copy data across, no they migrated the c: drive as is and massaged into working on the new hardware.  Which is a shame because she could really do with a clean install of windows in case of any lingering malware and nuisanceware on there.  Didn't get anything done in the evening because we got home so late and then I just wanted to collapse into bed.

You know you're around equinox when the sun is due west at sunset..

Thursday.  Stoopidly busy day.  Trying to get everything wrapped up for a long long weekend.  Ok drinks but very quiet.  Watched first episode of Inside Central Station.

We had a mini team lunch to Ramen O which I haven't been to in ages.  I had Yuzu tonkatsu ramen

Friday.  Slept ok although awake before 5.  Productive morning doing fish stuff and house stuff.  Finished the panorama posts for Europe, which means that whole blog is done!  Go check it out! :)  Also finished Starry Night and worked on Europe costs.  Then watched 1.5 of Ahsoka and 6.1 of Death in Paradise.

Frank and Karen gave me the very last can of Tex Mex for my birthday!!

Saturday we went for a drive but I'll post that separately.  Watched Jewel of the Nile in the evening.  

Sunday.  House and hobby stuff all morning.  Spent some time planning out all the things I always need to get done before Christmas and trying to come up with a plan for getting it all done.  Met up with various peeps at Herbert's for Sunday music.  Basa bake for dinner, then The Orville 1.4 and Death in Paradise 6.2.

Last weekend I tried to find something from my new cookbook that I could do with the roast lamb I was doing.  I found these garlic roast potatoes that looked easy enough and used ingredients I had in the house.  

Simples - potato, garlic, rosemary, thyme, olive oil, salt and pepper

All prepped

Just mix it all up

You're meant to turn the potatoes at twenty minutes (out of forty).  I always do my potatoes longer so this was more like half an hour.  

I also took the garlic out, because cooking them for an hour would burn them, and they looked cooked enough.

I think this was more like fifty minutes.  Ten minutes longer than the recipe, but ten minutes shorter than I'd normally do them for.  I think only one or two of those cloves of garlic (which I threw back in for the photo) made it to the plate ;)

Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Me: I mean these are fairly similar to how I do potatoes anyway.  But I did like adding rosemary and thyme, which I have growing around here anyway, so will use those more often.  Garlic is tricky because it will burn before the potatoes are cooked (the way I do it), so I'd just roast those separately.
Stu: "You've done better".  Yeah I definitely need to cook them longer/hotter :)

For my 50th, Fiona and Rob gave me Nagi Maehashi's cookbook - RecipeTin Eats - Dinner.  I'd never actually come across her site before, but I was amazed at the number of things I'd like to cook even after a quick flick through the book.  ** Edit: I actually had but didn't realise - I found a recipe for san choy bow from her! **

Anyway a few weeks ago I had a got at one - Saucy Baked Pork Meatballs - because we'd be doing our shopping at the markets that weekend and this recipe didn't call for anything special that I didn't have in the house or couldn't easily get outside a supermarket.  

It's a pretty complicated recipe.  Well not really complicated, but there's a fair bit going on.

This is everything for the sauce.  With wine.  Because the recipe called for some and well I suppose we'll need to keep hydrated while we're cooking right? ;)  Not too complicated, but it wanted dumb amounts of tomato paste (why not just used the whole damned tub haha).  And a lot of salt.

Saucy sauce bubbling away

Meanwhile let's get started on the meatballs.  Again not overly complicated, and again there's a lot of salt!

And they're done!

Next up we need to roast them for like fifteen minutes to lightly brown them.  I dunno, might be easier to just fry the things, but I suppose no harm in doing it while preheating the oven or something.  

Once the sauce is cooked through, I used the stick blender Annie gave me for Christmas one year to liquefy it, which worked really well.

Then you mix the whole lot in a baking dish..

Top with cheese..

And roast for twenty five minutes.  

We had them with salad and fresh sourdough bread.

The verdict?  Well they were very nice.  The problem is it took me two hours.  Which is wayyyy too long (I'm a lazy cook).  A lot of that time was spent precisely measuring things out.  If I were to do it again I'd be a lot more lax about measurements and would be able to throw it all together a lot quicker.  And there'd be less salt.  :)  

Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Me: yes, but only if I wasn't bothering to measure everything precisely so I could do it a lot quicker
Stu: yes, but then he didn't have to cook them ;)

Sunday.  20th.  Backdating.  Because dinner on the 27th took all afternoon. TV dinners for dinner (it was that kind of day after getting back from Sydney) on the 20th, then Futurama/Crown and an early night.

Monday.  Woke up at 3am for an hour and a half.. sigh.  The BS started pretty early.  Only got to decommission stuff late in the afternoon.  Cauliflower bake and veggies for dinner and photo labelling in the evening.

Tuesday.  Dunno.  Nice sunrise thought.  And there were flowers.  And slow cooker brisket for dinner.

Wednesday.  All the stoopid.  All the BS.  Beer and wraps for dinner.  But did get some labelling done.  

Moist...

Thursday.  Global warming is real y'all.  Our cherry tree doesn't normally flower til well into September.  But here it is starting a full week before the end of August.

Actually had a great day at work for a change.  Had a lovely day of deleting crap, and hardly any interruptions or BS.  Had some frozen stuff from the freezer for dinner - needed to clear some space for the sweetie to get some ice cream :)  Futurama then Death in Paradise 5.5.

I thought this shadow was cool

Hardly Normal opening here soon..

Friday.  Awake from two til four or so.  Sigh.  Zombie morning.  I finished a few glasses of Diet Coke leftover from the party to help keep me awake.  Another nice day of deleting stuff and not too much BS.  Made wraps again for lunch and leftover brisket for dinner.  Then watched the first episode of Ahsoka.

Saturday.  Slept a bit better but not super great.  Slept til 6:37 which pushed my whole routine back.  Did lots of Europe photos labelling and a bit of house stuff, some fish stuff, weeding and music.  Basically my ideal day.  I'd be happy with days like that for the rest of my life.  Got onto Ikea's chat to ask them about the shelves we want to get and when they're likely to be in stock.  Had to get past the braindead bot to get to a human who said, oh, it's discontinued.  Fricken sigh.  Now don't know if I should keep all the bins I bought or take them all back.  Stu cooked sausages for dinner and we had a romatic night in watching Romancing the Stone (after two weekends of chaos previously and another one next weekend we *needed* a quiet night).  

Sunday.  Slept fairly well.  Mostly photo labelling, bit of house stuff, food shopping, listented to Jurassic Park on Screensounds.  Then spent half the afternoon cooking meat balls from my new recipe book, but more on that in another post.  One day.  It was very nice but it was two and a half hours in the kitchen which is Too Long.  Then Futurama/Crown.

One of the champagne flutes I got for my birthday from M&M