morning teefs

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

HELLOOOOO 3 WEEK HOLIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

ahh.

My Samsung photo gallery highlights of 2024 is literally all photos of Gibson 🤣

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"

And work is done!!!!

Last emails sent. Out of Office message set. Time to make some dinner, get some beers and stick my dick out the window so I can fuck the world!!!!

Okay that last one is optional and probably won't happen but the day is young!!!!

Closest they've come yet

Thanks @Seagoon for keeping Tucker Time alive, most appreciated. Good idea to include breakfast and lunch. I shall be keeping that. I've made today's post. 💜💜💜

Aldi Garlic dip, I put it in a pita wrap, I recommend everyone give the dip a go.

I'm very tempted to make a bacon and egg toasted butty like this one.

can't stop thinking about googly eyes

where can I get some big ones, where are all the good statues that need googlies , where can I wreak mischief without getting in trouble

I've been trying to set up a bot on here that could do the DT thread but every time I try configure the files my computer says I don't have permission

2 more meetings to go. Then it's over for the year.

My studio and ps5 are waiting patiently lol

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

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.

I'm mentally calculating the "Hours left" for 2024 and the "Hours of work" to do in my head. I'm not going to get it all done. I'm left trying to decide who I have to let down.

I'm so tired I'm going to bed early and then waking up too early, and then I'm tired again by the time it's get up time.

Haven't heard from @[email protected] in a while. Hope they're OK.

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.

2nd last day of work. Oh let today go quickly.

Tomorrow's going to be interesting because we're required to be on then offsite for a function then back onsite? Maybe if we're lucky we'll just go home after the function.

The kid now has a cold. She walked in and said "I hate you" before going back to bed.

Thank Frank tomorrow is my last day until Jan 2, SO over this place. Way too busy, and everyone is grumpy AF (including me).

I still can't believe that if I were to start slapping people upside the head, -- I -- would be the one getting in trouble for it. It was self-defense, Your Honour.

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.

Day #15 of my 7 day gardening project. Only 7 days more to go 🤞

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.

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.

the SUV deployed its emergency breaks for the first time ever on me. No surprises what road i was on: the monash. if i was in the old hatch we woulda hit, no doubt. But the SUV saw and responded before I even noticed the threat and broke so hard my face hurts. Have to say, I am impressed with it.

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.

First beach dins for the summer.

Was looking forward to that.

turns out the water sys. down here had a leak near the lettuce. Was wondering why they were looking so good.

Four out of eight biscuit batches have been made. Dough for two more chilling in the fridge for baking tomorrow.

On my way to work. Do this meeting, head over to a client for a while, then sneak back home lol

Manager might not be in office. Sneaking might be sooner.

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

I have a turps headache. And this paint job is not looking good.

Airhorns and hangovers don't mix well.

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

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.

Good night everyone 😘

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)

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.

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.