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There's a new series of Trauma Room 1 on My5 so ents while eating dinner is watching that.
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Tea: pork chow mein
This was made using belly pork out of the freezer, which made room for some stuff out of the old freezer. I'm not sure what's going on with the latter. I turned it off overnight in the hope that a rest might reset something, then turned it on again this morning, and although it hasn't run properly, it was quietly making noises and doing something. I checked the thermometer I keep in one of the drawers at lunchtime when moving as much as would fit in the other one, then checked it again a couple of hours later, and it had gone down about two degrees! So it's making some kind of attempt to freeze, but obviously not finding it easy. It'd help if it can limp along for a little bit longer, but I'm not sure it's viable
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That's another week done! Timesheet was submitted earlier and has already been authorised, so the weekend may definitely commence
This morning mainly involved some rather dull stuff about upgrading a bunch of things to the latest version of something or other
And this afternoon there was a long discussion about using GitHub Actions for a bunch of stuff I don't work on
With that out of the way and only a couple of hours left, I set to work dealing with the out-of-date mandatory training stuff. Not very interesting, but I suppose it has to be done. I got about halfway through it
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Kipper fillet wiv bread, butter and Polish Horseradish for lunch.
I'm bored again, might go back to work early, if my new PC doesn't arrive soon.
lets see, any more extreme righty's I can wind up??
<naffs off to other threads>
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostOld lady Mahjong thing this morning, loony lady 2 later. Got to get house a bit cleaner for my nephew visit tomorrow.
Some nice people about. I asked the builders filling a skip up the road if I could pay them to take away two sacks of plasterboard, as my local tip won't take it, and they insisted on doing it for free.
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Old lady Mahjong thing this morning, loony lady 2 later. Got to get house a bit cleaner for my nephew visit tomorrow.
Some nice people about. I asked the builders filling a skip up the road if I could pay them to take away two sacks of plasterboard, as my local tip won't take it, and they insisted on doing it for free.
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Morning.
Thursday apparently.
Dry.
Grey.
Gloomy.
Sunless.
Chilly in here at 17.2 deg, 17 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.
1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.84 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 21st of February 2020 BR14 popped in, had dinner, and watched more Hill Street, whereas I watched Death Wish I and Death Wish II, followed by some prog on Dmax about a luny building a buggy for a desert race somewhere, NF remarked that it had got dark, and LM was out on the lash. Hic.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.
Lunch: brunch.
In a fit of insanity I decided to repair the front gate. I wish I hadn't removed the good old leaded paint that was on it previously, only to replace it with that Hammerite crap.
Chopped out various bits rusted beyond repair (as in: not there any more..
Found another bit of pipe of the right (ish) diameter & chopped bits out to fit the new spaces.
Used the bench grinder in Ernie's shed for the first time. I've only owned it for about 25 years or so.
By the time I'd done the needful grinding it was 16:45 so the welding will have to wait until tomorrow.
Can't decide whether to use that Lidl(tm) inverter welder or the good old buzz box.
Tea: beans on toast etc. with scrambled egg. Noticed that a couple of the eggs in the carton were cracked but they smelled & tasted ok. So far so good..
Entertainment: PM. It went <click> a lot and finally went <click> altogether. Hasn't sommat else other than Gaza happened today? Hasn't the Orange Moron killed more fishermen? Just askin' for a friend, like..
Dunno if there's owt to watch on the idiot lantern this evenning. I still haven't recovered from the lack of Maigret yesterday..
Stuff I watched last Thursday is unlikely to continue this.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 16:37.
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Morning all
Rather grey and cloudy here. It was light cloud with blue visible behind, but has become rather murkier in the last half hour or so.
Strong dose of CBA today.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
Well, this was the problem: there wasn't a recipe really! The beef needed to be used and I fancied something spicy so I just tried chucking stuff in, vaguely hoping it would turn out OK
I think I might have Googled a bit first, but that's about as far as I got so it's not really surprising it turned out the way it did. I've known people who can throw together a delicious curry just by eyeballing various spices as they go along, but they've obviously had more practice than me
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