So at the beach tonight there was a young fam. Parents w/ their boy and girl about 7-5yo-ish respectively with 2 dogs.
Anyway the girl absolutely nailed her bro in the head w/ a tennis ball from 15m away. Seriously good throwing arm and aim.
Boy started crying and walked off with dad.. mum cracked the shits at daughter "you can't throw tennis balls at people!".
As a younger sibling myself I would've been thrilled to have landed that.
Butter Chicken. Excuse my French, but I fucking nailed it.
Edit. Thanks everyone. Tasted great. Here's the recipe, it's basically unfuckupable....
https://www.recipetineats.com/one-pan-baked-butter-chicken/#wprm-recipe-container-123891
Epic cooking sesh complete - made a gigantic amount of dal (most for the freezer) and used up almost all the sad veg in the fridge. That's me done until xmas eve. Pretty glad at what I've got thru - chipping away at my old red rice too by mixing it in with basmati. I'll be glad to start having fewer and fewer bottles and boxes of things in my kitchen.
Planning to do some more big cooks in Jan when I've still got time, and add more to the freezer where I've got space. Going to prepare myself for the very busy few months after that. I'll make sure I've always got food without needing to spend on takeaways etc.
I’m making a biscoff trifle for friend Christmas on the weekend and just realised I have no trifle dish. And big trifle dishes are hard to track down at this time of year apparently. I think I found one in stock at the local Salt & Pepper store, half price as well. But does this dish have any other uses or only for trifle? Sounds like a kitchen cupboard clogger.
Lower decks ending. Well, time to cancel paramount plus.
I'm 10 days into one meal a day with no carbs, and I feel amazing. Today I feel like my mood was better than its been in months. Not hungry at all between meals, really enjoying what I'm eatin, which recently has been a 250g steak, a zucchini, an avocado and one other random veg, sometimes eggs sometimes not. One black coffee, one serve electrolyte drink, and lots of water
Haven't heard from @Mittens_meow@aussie.zone in a while. Hope they're OK.
HELLOOOOO 3 WEEK HOLIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
ahh.
Day #15 of my 7 day gardening project. Only 7 days more to go 🤞
It is currently 31° outside, and 27.8 inside
I'm gonna turn on the high velocity fan I got from Kmart and hope that saves me today and tomorrow
I am kinda blessed to have a library in walking distance though. If it gets above 35 inside, I'm gonna bail and go spend the day there
E: oh, and the house is fine besides that. No complaints
ee got me new PCIe to PCI converter today in Melbs and it's being brought down on Sat. For an old but exxy soundcard for the studio.
Better fuckin' work (interwebbles says yes so we're hoping). Have to re-do an entire DAW (OS and plugs) which I'm not looking forward to (it takes forever). Been about six months since making choons and keen to jump back in over the break.
Nevertheless surprised an obscure part like that only took 2 days to arrive this close to xmas.
Huh, TIL that annoying classical hold music song that sounds truly dreadful, and has that high pitched bit that ALWAYS crackles out is an actual song that was released on CD as part of an album in the 90s. It's actually not as annoying as it is on the phone. If it wasn't hold music and I still stumbled across it, I would probably actually put it on for a bit of a chill vibe. As it stands, I think I'd just get
war6 hour hold time flashbacks from it(High pitched bit that sounds like it's melting the phone lines starts at 2:50)
Sigh. Just spent an hour past my appointment in the GPs waiting room. Why do they always run so late? Surely they should leave some buffer time or make appointments longer? So annoying. Seriously I would be happier to drive further to a clinic that can manage their bookings rather than sit endlessly at one that can’t. But they all seem the same.
Had a long chat with a cousin this morning and that's set a relaxed tone to the day... screw uni, there's nothing I could do with this processed data until mid Jan anyway and I NEED A BREAK. Feeling so happy that I have a day of no obligations!
Just lounging around finishing up Happy Valley (such a good show!) and then I'll cook up what I can in the crisper (sad red cabbage), appeal my stupid parking fine online, set up my new phone (still haven't done it...) and head to t'shops for a few little gifts if I feel like it.
shit is falling apart at work, despite my warning that this is a shit time of the year to be attempting stuff. Everyone seems super stressed but I'm just sitting here making jokes in quiet cause if they ask me to engage all they are gonna get is "I fucking told you so, enjoy the consequences of your actions"
Magpie/dero rambles
Yet another person going out of their way to go right up to the water dish and gawk… perhaps if I wrote ‘wildlife water’ on the side? Or if I got a proper birdbath and put it more inside the property boundary. (Not sure whether I would have to remove it once I left though. And it would be a target for vandalism.)
A bit worried about potential problems though. Thankfully he didn’t knock it over but when he went up to it a magpie kind of flew up to him and hopped after him as he walked off. The other day someone else might have got swooped as he was loudly complaining about the birds being annoying and saying ‘X says some pr-ck in this area is f-cking feeding them’.
Now the birds were already here and would be regardless of whether I was kind to them. They live in that tree. If you got swooped it’s because you went close to their territory in breeding season!
Plus there are a lot of sketchy randos cutting through the block and a lot of them act seriously alcohol affected/aggressive/unpredictable so I don’t really care about them getting swooped. (That might be why it might have happened.) I actually wouldn’t mind if these disruptive people were deterred from my place.
I’m more just worried about stupid people having normal predictable magpie issues and me being blamed for it, or about being harassed to stop giving them water.
People here are genuinely the type to do that. To come trying to intimidate you for petty reasons and start dictating what you do on your own property.
I’d honestly rather deal with an aggressive bird because they respond to reasonable accommodations.
I spent the morning browsing biscuit packaging ideas and printing some bags. So I didn't actually start on biscuits until after lunch. I have made the cranberry coconut oatmeal biscuits & have the pfeffenusse dough chilling in the fridge.
Edit: I've also realised two of my biscuits are almost identical, just shaped differently. So Oma's biscuits are being swapped out for jam drops.
Airhorns and hangovers don't mix well.
Why don't they play THIS in the shops. Instant customer identification is very high indeed.
The NBN box has landed back in the state (though considering it's taken 3 days each way, I'm guessing they stuck it on a truck not plane). It processed through Melbourne airport yet again last night, and now it's at essendon fields
If they would be so kind as to put it in their little van and take it to my local facility, that's the last thing they'd have to do and I could have it tomorrow . If not, I'm crossing my fingers for a Saturday delivery (which I know they're doing around this time of year, but seems luck of the draw as to which parcels get it)
Last of work 🎉 !!
Pretty much managed to finish everything that needed finishing yesterday. Have a team meeting late this morning and my manager told me to piss off after lunch (he'll cover for me if anyone asks).
I am very much looking forward to doing fuck all for a few weeks.
this pic I took of a snake at the Royal show
I think it's a northern death adder iirc. So cute!!!
Edit: oh there's also a black house spider behind the exit sign above the fire escape in the hallway. It's all tucked in there, also very cute but no pics lol
today's randomness:
Tool battery powerpacks are usually just literal 18650's chained together. I have a chainsaw one that's actually just a buncha nicads. They don't do replacements. I am not paying another couple hundred for a useful tool that I use once in a blue moon. I know you can get replacement battery packs, but are there small, dodgy shops where they will perform the swap for you?
(I want a battery upgrade which will also need new charger but I am not fuckin' soldering lithiums)
I have decided to bake some biscuits for Christmas. I have narrowed my selection down to 8, lets see how many I end up doing! The current shortlist is:
- pfeffenusse
- Scottish shortbread
- coconut macaroons
- cranberry-coconut oatmeal
- embossed lemon shortbread
- Pizzelle (wafers)
- Chocolate Brownie Cookies
- "Oma's biscuits" - another shortbread variation
I'm focusing on recipes that are not too complicated to make, keep fairly well, with at least a few that can be dunked in a cup of tea. I'll give a few as gift boxes and take some to work, with the bulk of them to be a gift to my Mum - she has been making her own biscuits for years, but recently has started to find the effort a bit much, so I'd like to fill her biscuit jar with home made biscuits for a while.
Picked up some of these earplugs recently and highly recommend them. A nuclear bomb could go off down the road and you'd die of radiation poisoning before you ever woke up. Great for tuning in to the harsh inner critic while travelling this holiday season, so if you ever want to be trapped in your head with only the voices to keep you company, pick yourself up a box.
Dammit. I got whammed. Made it to the 19th December though so thats an honourable showing at least. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamageddon
Random thoughts that prevent sleep. I have no idea what a chickpea plant looks like. To the interwebs!
I was just about to check my email for the estimated time for my grocery delivery today when they delivered it. Faboulous timing, they most often deliver around 11am for this time window. Mr Woof Is not happy about someone encroaching on our territory though.
Those extra 4 mins spent looking up the weather meant I posted too slow
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Edit:
☀️Min 12 Max 29 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 0%
Melbourne area:
Sunny. The chance of fog about the nearby hills in the early morning. Light winds becoming south to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the early afternoon then tending east to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the evening.
