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david, 5 months ago to food

Tonight I made Carbonara, based on Luciano Monosilio’s recipe, since I managed to find some guanciale locally.

My plating still needs a fair bit of work.

#food #dinner

frogglin, 5 months ago to random

Another glimpse into my daily work here.

Someone is complaining, a lot, on every post, that she can't pick her kids up from school because she bought a new car and there's no cupholders in the back seat.

Now, I'm not a parent so perhaps I don't know all the details here of raising kids, but do children require cup holders to sustain life?

david, 5 months ago to random

Tonight I made pasta all'amitriciano for dinner (well, an approximation of it, as I couldn't get guanciale and had to substitute speck instead).

It was still delicious, but no photos since my presentation was lacking.

timrichards, 5 months ago to DoctorWho

Who here has been watching the new Doctor Who episodes on Disney? Haven't seen much DW chat here on Mastodon. (BTW they're very good!)

#DoctorWho #DoctorWho60

david, 5 months ago to random

I saw this in the deli and was intrigued, but not enough to buy it. Anyone had this before? What do you use it for?

david, 5 months ago to Bread

A bit short, but smells great. Plain loaf with edible lavender.

#breadPosting #bread #baking

david, 5 months ago to TodayILearned

Today, I had students in the forge (well, ok, I didn't put the students in the forge, but you know what I mean; and the students were adults from work).
Anyway, this was the first time I've had a group (3 people) here to learn the basics of blacksmithing.

Things I learned:

125mm of 12mm square bar (mild steel) is too big for absolute beginners (even if it was mild steel).

Three people is a bit too many for a session. Two students would work well.

Smith & Striker is soooo much more efficient than forging on your own. (I acted as striker to help the students get through the work).

Also, the forge weld on the face of my wrought iron hammer, was not as good as I first thought, with the face coming off today :(

I also had a hammer handle give out on another hammer. (no one was injured).

#blacksmith #teaching

david, 5 months ago to random

Email from eBay:

"It's been more than a year since you last updated your personal info.
Keeping your personal info up to date can help better protect your account."

Ummm... how many people change their "personal info" on a yearly basis? wtf eBay?

david, 5 months ago to food

Small (6 inch) pizza for lunch. #food #pizza

david, 5 months ago to random

Ah, we have got to the part of the week where I go "wtf am I going to cook for dinner?"

david, 5 months ago to random

After all the rain in the last couple of days, there's an explosion of frogs outside tonight.

#sound #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #frog #GracefulTreefrog #RedEyedTreefrog

timrichards, 6 months ago to workersrights

It's probably easier to do this as a freelancer, but I draw a line at working outside my usual set hours. I don't look at email at all over the weekend, and I have notifications turned off on my apps. If something is incredibly urgent people can ring me, and I'll deal with it, but I'm not dancing to the tune of their emails in my spare time.

Work has conquered every day of the week. How do we remain human in a world that worships toil?

#Work https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/20/work-has-conquered-every-day-of-the-week-how-do-we-remain-human-in-a-world-that-worships-toil?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

david, 6 months ago to random

We're rolling out new monitors at work (Dell C2722DE in case you want the specifics), and they come in 99% cardboard packaging (there's a tiny bit of foam to protect the lcd panel). The cardboard though, is a complex origami of interlocking parts and an absolute pain to break down flat. (we break them down as flat as possible to fit as many in the cardboard recycling skips as possible).

So this morning, I knocked out a small pry-bar to assist with undoing the various cardboard clips. I ran out of gas before I could straighten it, but this is a proof of concept and will work fine even if both ends don't align perfectly.

#blacksmith #metalwork

david, 6 months ago to pizza Italian

Le pizza sono molte belle.

#pizza #dinner #food

A small pizza in the neopolitan style on a pizza peel. It has a puffed, leopard spotted crust and a few toppings.
A small pizza in the neopolitan style on a pizza peel. It has a puffed, leopard spotted crust and a few toppings.

david, 6 months ago to random

When we got home yesterday, we discovered youngest child had done pretty much nothing to get his car fixed and it was still stuck under the house (unable to change gear).

I did a bit of web searching, watched some videos from mechanics and found it's the shift linkage bushing (confirmed this morning when I pulled the centre console housing out).

Looks like I might actually be able to fix it myself, but am currently awaiting said child to breakfast and get dressed as he really needs to see what it is and how to fix it, for his own good.

david, 6 months ago to food

A well balanced dinner tonight.

Three cheeses, pinot & rosemary jelly, crackers and sloe gin & soda. Almost covered all the food groups.
#food #dinner

King Island black label triple cream blue Pyengana St Columba Blue Bruny Island Cheese Co Raw George
Spring Bay Sloe Gin

david, 6 months ago to roadtrip

Remind me why we left Tasmania?

Urgh!

#tooDamnHot #roadtrip

david, 6 months ago to roadtrip

For reasons I didn’t bother to find out, there’s a Matilda tank in the park in Singleton.

#roadtrip

timrichards, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

This Optus outage probably points to the advisability of having two different Internet sources, one via NBN and one via mobile. I have iiNet NBN at home and Telstra 5G on my phone, so I assume they wouldn't crash at the same time. (And if they did, we'd have bigger things to worry about, like an alien invasion.)

david, 6 months ago to random

Pottering around Cataract Gorge this morning.

#tassie2023

The first basin areas from the lookout. There’s a small lake in the centre. A suspension bridge on the right. Small hills (wooded) surround.
Selfie on the chairlift
View of the lake and suspension bridge from the chairlift

david, 6 months ago to food

These things are amazing. Not freeze dried raspberries, actual fresh raspberries encased in thick dark chocolate.

#tassie2023 #food

david, 6 months ago to random

Multi-moss miniature landscape. Liffey Falls track.

#Mosstodon #tassie2023

david, 6 months ago to random

My iNaturalist entries are a pretty decent map of where we've been on this trip so far. :)
#tassie2023