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I’ve reached a stage in my life where new kitchen gadgets are a source of excitement. Bought a blender yesterday that also heats/cooks the food as it is being blended. Think of all the possibilities…
I watch those late night infomercials just for the food porn. The exercise ones bore me but the cleaning and food ones excite me.
Someone needs to open a business called The LaundroCat which combines a laundry and cat cafe. Have a coffee and cuddle a cat while you wait for your laundry to be done. There is a lot of potential for extra sales in the cafe as no one would be able to leave because the cats would immediately sit on the freshly washed clothes.
Ok this is actually genius.
Hu-fucking-zzah! For anyone following my utterly tedious work sitcho, it is finally SIGNIFICANTLY better after some feet were solidly put down at today's meeting. I have time frames! And $ figures! And direction! And managed to tell our overbearing yet thoroughly incompetent admin/"HR" to (a) stop patronising me (not in those words) and (b) that her particular processes might be protecting the business, but if she was so genuinely concerned about my well being then her officious way of doing things and dragging them out 1000% didn't help (almost in those words).
Definitely much better work life balance coming up, I CAN LET GO OF MY OLD PROJECTS FUCK YES, and I can genuinely taste the freedom to finally start moving on, whether it be here or elsewhere. Now, if only my rent wasn't so high - but at least it won't change until next April. Feeling p good right now. I'm much happier with the uncertainty (atm) of the next chapter vs the dread of staying on.
Until then... Hectic couple of weeks before the role change!
E: soxcat tax as it's her last night here. She's been an exceptional kitty the last few days. Love this little bunch of fur and cuddles.
prrrr
bought a little 12" ooni fyra the other day and gave it a kick in the guts last night. pumped out a margherita and a pepperoni pie. each pie took a little over a minute to cook.
i think i focused a little too much on getting a high temp, something difficult to do with my other pizza cooking options. first one came out with a bottom that was burnt evenly across the whole bottom (though the carbon layer was very thin), the second one i dropped the temp of the stone about 50c and it came out much better, but i probably need to drop it a little more, and let the pies cook for a little longer. the dough was fully cooked, but some of the toppings (like buffalo mozzarella chunks) didn't have time to melt fully. the pepperoni did cup though.
i think i also need to blend my pizza sauce (usually i like it chunky) but on a small 12" pie cooked super fast it can lead to a bit of unevenness, and makes it harder to get the sauce much closer to the edges which i also need to do (with the cheese too), as large rising edge crust caused the ingredients to shift towards the middle.
after 2 pies we were full (puppers also got a slice each, and the cats got some pepperoni), but i reckon next weekend i will do much better. still, they were fucking delicious and pretty damned good for a first poke. apologies for unappealing torch-lit pizza pic, gets dark early these atm.
the machine itself is pretty easy to operate, just runs on hardwood pellets, though it can only store about 15 mins of pellets at a time, so you need to keep topping it up. getting pizzas into and out of the small aperture is pretty easy too. seems like a pretty good contraption, and i reckon it wont be long before i have a technique down to pump out ripper pizzas.
Something inside my brain twitched whenever I read "pie" as a term for a pizza. American?
That second pic could be a promo pic in a catalogue!
ouch big fight with fam.
butters puts up a better fight we've been here before.
Got dinner from a pizza place called The Gusher.
There's only one choice of drink for the occasion..
What kind of pizza? Was it good? Did it gush?
A double whammy there. Love it.
Finally after 26hrs I can now take myself to bed and sleep, I think I can taste sounds at the moment.
The dude who runs the dodgy laundromat I'm in paid for my machine because I'm wearing a Raiders cap and he is too. He doesn't know I just wear the hats because I like them, I don't follow NFL at all.
do you have a plan if he asks you any questions about sportsball? just abandon your washing and scram?
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night? What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early? The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in!"
Being growled at by a pre-teen certainly feels great first thing on a Monday.
my spicy puppies love to growl at me in the morning, and leap about on the bed like lunatics while play wrestling. one is about 30kg, the other about 40kg. sometimes it hurts, but generally i love it.
Don't worry, soon they will be an actual teen and you'll struggle to get them to event grunt at you in the morning.
Thank you dear friend (you know who you are 💜), for our dinner tonight. It's absolutely delicious. Truly appreciated.
Really hoping the local woolies has sweet potat noodles (the glassy type).
I had a dream about japchae last night. Specifically it was an intimate macro close up sesame seeds.
I know I'm going to be disappointed. One didn't just dream, I really did so plz universe I need that japachae.
i don't know why i've been craving japchae these couple of weeks too, but now i crave nasi lemak more so i'll get that when the shop opens on wednesday
Ha. Posted that "Awful Aspects of Spring" Leunig cartoon to the Book of Faces because I found a copy of it during Operation Sort Shit and it seems to have gone down like a lead balloon.
Dear me.
he's no longer the darling of the virtue signalling upper middle classes , eh
it's like they never took any real notice of his cartoons at all , if there is one thing he hates it's them
Very monotone dinner tonight.
baked fennel, cauliflower chips and pesto kiev balls
I was going to offer you all chips but I ate them :( sorry everybodu.
I have spent all day looking through housing design magazines and have come to a few conclusions.
- There area a lot more people who can afford really big windows then there are truly interesting or innovative designs.
- All houses look better if photographed with a dog or cat visible.
- Some people have an unfathomably high tolerance for multiple clashing patterns and colours.
- Some people have an unfathomably high tolerance for a complete absence of colour or pattern.
- The design feature I like most is the ability to see outside to a garden. Big windows are good for this, but tall windows or multiple windows at different heights works well too.
- After looking through too many designs they all start to blur together. It is apparently possible to overdose on housing magazines.
There's another absolutely inevitable conclusion to 'design' houses - the people who designed them don't have to clean them.
I don't know what it is, but like man I hate going to work. I would rather be home.
But once I get to work I get into the grove of things and enjoy my time. Of course once it's 5pm I am off the clock, but it's just kind of weird.
Could help that I can listen to podcasts and such. At the moment I'm trying to get up to date with Critical Role (and by up to date I mean, I have 48 episodes to go).
Phones were dying so I decided to nip home from the hospital, only once I get back the nurse tells me I'm not allowed back in until 7am even though I literally left for 15 minutes... The poor housemates alone in hospital now and I feel like the biggest tit for leaving them there. Last time I went, I swear they let people in and out pretty frequently for the short stay ward because it's one of the weird in between places of the hospital.
sky pretty
Gotta love calling PTV, or the department of transport as they now call themselves.
Call
Go through the menus choosing the right option
"Sorry that's not actually my department, let me transfer you click"
Hold music that's meant to be relaxing but is actually really terrifying
Old dude who's definitely smoked a few too many ciggies answers and gives you oddly specific information with information you never provided (thanks Myki history)
Old dude spends half the call coughing
At the end of the call cue smoker voice "yeah thanks for calling. There's a survey now"
Click
"HOW LIKELY WOULD YOU BE TO RECOMMEND PUBLIC TRANSPORT VICTORIA TO A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE?????????????????????"
"Thanks for calling click"
This is why I email
Recently had to call PTV as well and it was pretty much exactly the same as your experience minus the coughing. But plus a narration of every single step that was taking place (not that bad rly).
The person I was going to mentor today is away, so if it is not busy I have unexpected bonus time I will be able to study. Which right now means looking through lots of pictures of houses so is pretty fun. Monday's turning out to be not so bad after all.
To the Melbourne tradies. If you don't want the work just say so. Don't give half assed quotes then not get back to customers when the quotes are outrageously incomplete.
My dinner
When one isa eating ze pasta one must speaka Italiano though ze entirety of ze meal no.
Tubular spaghetti is a fucking scam. Ain't no way the sauce is getting all up that tube to make more flavour. Big pasta is just pinching pennies
If you cook it until it's about 85% cooked, then finish the cooking in a gently simmering sauce, you should indeed have sauce up your tube.. er, so to speak. Sauce source: me, who makes bucatini for work every so often. It's actually my favourite long pasta, but not everyone likes the same things :)
Is Monday? :(
Had a great meeting at work with my manager. He's down from WA so we don't get much face to face time. Feeling better about my job, a lot of stress just melted away. Sometimes confronting people about things is the best bet.
The womens football bandwagoner in me is a little obsessed with Mackenzie Arnold, but also obsessed with finding out about all the players and all the teams. My intention is to purchase season subscriptions for the Melbourne womens teams and eventually learn more about AFLW (Maybe). So that I can turn my bandwagon jumping into something more than just that and I have my ADHD hyper-fixation abilities to help me truly get into it all. haha.
No wonder the cats didn't join me last night - I forgot to turn the heater off. Oops.
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