For some reason, the version I get is slightly different. Instead of chilli sauce I get fried shallots. Still get the segments with kecap manis and oil and spices. Holding the shallot end while cutting means no oily fingers. The other sachet, with the salt/seasoning, has a second segment with chilli powder.
Shall we start comparing how we prepare the deliciousness? First, fill the kettle and set it off. After dumping the package contents into a bowl, add half a cup (or more, if you have a big bowl) of frozen peas. Use your scissors to chop in a couple of fresh spring onions, two or three birdseye chillies, then add more fried shallots, chilli crisp and a good sprinkle of togarashi powder, throw in an ice cube portion of frozen lemon juice. About now the kettle should have boiled, so fill the bowl with hot water. Wait two minutes and dig in. Tasty meal in about five minutes with minimum dishes.
Provided the nonsense in the middle east doesn't escalate too badly we're off to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix next month. So today we tried Azerbaijani food for the first time: khangal and fisinjan. Bloody lovely.
I'm no expert, but I have some experience growing chillies over the years. Whenever I've grown them it's been a selection of seedlings from the nursery, or at best a single young plant. Sometimes I grew them in pots, but these days I'm using beds. Currently I'm at the tail end of our growing season with two different varieties (a birds eye and a Thai) sharing a raised bed with some spring onions and rhubarb.
Every time I've grown chilli I've found that they start slow, then explode in size, then fruit. I always end up with more than I can eat. I'd go as far as to say that they seem to thrive on neglect. I don't top them, rarely feed them, and they just keep performing. I certainly don't treat different types differently. My beds are currently a mix of old clay soil, compost, some ash from the fire, with some granular fertilizer and topped with a straw mulch. I harvest 20 or so per week and leave the rest. I generally get 3 or more months worth this way. My planting notes for this batch say I planted these in December, and started harvesting in March. Both plants are still going strong and loaded with fruit in varied stages of ripeness. I am expecting a few more weeks yet.
I've never really tried to keep them going over winter, as we get fairly severe frosts here. We're already getting nights below freezing, but so far, so good. The plants get good sun in the morning and middle of the day, but by mid afternoon they're in shade.
Opinion seems to be that Ferrari failed in building an electric car that no-one wants to buy.
I wonder if they deliberately built something they know won't be a success so they can point to that failure as pushback on regulations that would prevent them continuing to build traditional petrol cars.
It's likely that the $4M has some rate of return, meaning that you could do this on a bit less. Well, as long as the return exceeded the increase in median income each year. You don't want the capital to run out before you.
My sympathies. I'm in the same boat. My part made it from the UK to Sydney, cleared customs and then tracking updates stopped a bit over a week ago. Good thing we have a second car.
I taught myself VBA when I inherited a job that involved taking data from multiple sources and producing summary reports of various types for multiple stakeholders. The person before me spent days each week doing it, it took me about a week of learning and playing to bring that down to 5 minutes or so.
I found VBA useful for dealing with administrivia.
I ended up doing similar things multiple times afterwards, with variations on source data (excel, text files, word docs), source data location (local drive, network, databases, SharePoint) and output (pivots, charts, tables, text files, email, word docs, etc.) depending on what was needed. Someone else mentioned data validation already.
Similar to their concept of the post-yardwork, let me introduce "the 'miring", the beer you have after completing some DIY project, drunk in silent contemplation of the result.
Partner: "All done love?"
Me: "Yep, just having a 'miring. Be with you in a minute."
Having been on a few Segway tours I was surprised when they stopped making them. Easy to learn, fun to ride. Eventually they will age out and be gone. I wouldn't buy one for myself to have at home, but for whizzing around sightseeing when on holiday they're great.
One of my favourite things about being retired is the ability to go to the shops in the middle of the day, when it's quiet. No crowds. Parking. No rush. Bliss!
After an allergy test revealed that I had a dust allergy I bought a Dyson to replace our cheap generic vacuum cleaner and thought it was the bee's knees. Then the power switch went. And it would clog the power head constantly. Then, at about 10 years old it packed it in completely when the motor died.
Replaced that with a Miele which hasn't missed a beat. So much so we bought a second when we moved into our current house (one for upstairs, one for downstairs, I'm lazy). In terms of suction they are the same or better, but ergonomically they shit all over the Dyson. Not as purple though.
Not OP, but fellow Aussie who's mounted the odd dryer upside down on the wall like this. The dryer is able to be used either way up. The ones I've done tended to come with stickers to place over the control panel so the text is readable again. I've never bothered.
I'm retired, so yeah, time off work isn't an issue. We get away pretty regularly, domestically and internationally. I guess about two months a year, in aggregate, on average?
One lives in my backyard shed, for cleanups and dust collection.
One lives in my garage, for cleaning the cars.
Our house is split level, so we have one for upstairs and another one for downstairs. All to save carrying it up and down the six steps that divide the front and back of the house. These two are the same make and model.
After reading about waste oil coagulant powder used in japan I found that it is simply Stearic acid. It comes in powder form, I believe some use it when making candles. It's fairly inexpensive. A few of spoonfuls into hot oil and it congeals the oil into a fatty lump as it cools that can be dumped into the bin.
For some reason, the version I get is slightly different. Instead of chilli sauce I get fried shallots. Still get the segments with kecap manis and oil and spices. Holding the shallot end while cutting means no oily fingers. The other sachet, with the salt/seasoning, has a second segment with chilli powder.
Shall we start comparing how we prepare the deliciousness? First, fill the kettle and set it off. After dumping the package contents into a bowl, add half a cup (or more, if you have a big bowl) of frozen peas. Use your scissors to chop in a couple of fresh spring onions, two or three birdseye chillies, then add more fried shallots, chilli crisp and a good sprinkle of togarashi powder, throw in an ice cube portion of frozen lemon juice. About now the kettle should have boiled, so fill the bowl with hot water. Wait two minutes and dig in. Tasty meal in about five minutes with minimum dishes.
Or, the squid is having the best day ever, getting a piggy back ride from their bestest buddy whale.
Wheeee!
Provided the nonsense in the middle east doesn't escalate too badly we're off to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix next month. So today we tried Azerbaijani food for the first time: khangal and fisinjan. Bloody lovely.
I'm no expert, but I have some experience growing chillies over the years. Whenever I've grown them it's been a selection of seedlings from the nursery, or at best a single young plant. Sometimes I grew them in pots, but these days I'm using beds. Currently I'm at the tail end of our growing season with two different varieties (a birds eye and a Thai) sharing a raised bed with some spring onions and rhubarb.
Every time I've grown chilli I've found that they start slow, then explode in size, then fruit. I always end up with more than I can eat. I'd go as far as to say that they seem to thrive on neglect. I don't top them, rarely feed them, and they just keep performing. I certainly don't treat different types differently. My beds are currently a mix of old clay soil, compost, some ash from the fire, with some granular fertilizer and topped with a straw mulch. I harvest 20 or so per week and leave the rest. I generally get 3 or more months worth this way. My planting notes for this batch say I planted these in December, and started harvesting in March. Both plants are still going strong and loaded with fruit in varied stages of ripeness. I am expecting a few more weeks yet.
I've never really tried to keep them going over winter, as we get fairly severe frosts here. We're already getting nights below freezing, but so far, so good. The plants get good sun in the morning and middle of the day, but by mid afternoon they're in shade.
Hope that helps.
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Opinion seems to be that Ferrari failed in building an electric car that no-one wants to buy.
I wonder if they deliberately built something they know won't be a success so they can point to that failure as pushback on regulations that would prevent them continuing to build traditional petrol cars.
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These sorts of calculations always do my head in.
It's likely that the $4M has some rate of return, meaning that you could do this on a bit less. Well, as long as the return exceeded the increase in median income each year. You don't want the capital to run out before you.
My sympathies. I'm in the same boat. My part made it from the UK to Sydney, cleared customs and then tracking updates stopped a bit over a week ago. Good thing we have a second car.
Not shady, and not strictly a finfluencer either, but Chris Kohler has more hits than misses in his finance inspired short videos.
https://youtube.com/@chriskohlernews
Also available on a t-shirt
I taught myself VBA when I inherited a job that involved taking data from multiple sources and producing summary reports of various types for multiple stakeholders. The person before me spent days each week doing it, it took me about a week of learning and playing to bring that down to 5 minutes or so.
I found VBA useful for dealing with administrivia.
I ended up doing similar things multiple times afterwards, with variations on source data (excel, text files, word docs), source data location (local drive, network, databases, SharePoint) and output (pivots, charts, tables, text files, email, word docs, etc.) depending on what was needed. Someone else mentioned data validation already.
Automate the boring stuff.
Similar to their concept of the post-yardwork, let me introduce "the 'miring", the beer you have after completing some DIY project, drunk in silent contemplation of the result.
Partner: "All done love?" Me: "Yep, just having a 'miring. Be with you in a minute."
Toowoomba is missing? I had a boss from there once. Very proud of the fact it was the second biggest inland city in the country.
Having been on a few Segway tours I was surprised when they stopped making them. Easy to learn, fun to ride. Eventually they will age out and be gone. I wouldn't buy one for myself to have at home, but for whizzing around sightseeing when on holiday they're great.
One of my favourite things about being retired is the ability to go to the shops in the middle of the day, when it's quiet. No crowds. Parking. No rush. Bliss!
Been through this.
After an allergy test revealed that I had a dust allergy I bought a Dyson to replace our cheap generic vacuum cleaner and thought it was the bee's knees. Then the power switch went. And it would clog the power head constantly. Then, at about 10 years old it packed it in completely when the motor died.
Replaced that with a Miele which hasn't missed a beat. So much so we bought a second when we moved into our current house (one for upstairs, one for downstairs, I'm lazy). In terms of suction they are the same or better, but ergonomically they shit all over the Dyson. Not as purple though.
Not OP, but fellow Aussie who's mounted the odd dryer upside down on the wall like this. The dryer is able to be used either way up. The ones I've done tended to come with stickers to place over the control panel so the text is readable again. I've never bothered.
Example: https://www.fisherpaykel.com/au/laundry/dryers/vented/6kg-series-3-vented-dryer-auto-sensing-full-reverse-tumbling-de6060m2-92277.html
I'm retired, so yeah, time off work isn't an issue. We get away pretty regularly, domestically and internationally. I guess about two months a year, in aggregate, on average?
Vacuum Cleaners
We have four.
One lives in my backyard shed, for cleanups and dust collection.
One lives in my garage, for cleaning the cars.
Our house is split level, so we have one for upstairs and another one for downstairs. All to save carrying it up and down the six steps that divide the front and back of the house. These two are the same make and model.
After reading about waste oil coagulant powder used in japan I found that it is simply Stearic acid. It comes in powder form, I believe some use it when making candles. It's fairly inexpensive. A few of spoonfuls into hot oil and it congeals the oil into a fatty lump as it cools that can be dumped into the bin.