Warm and moist again. Unpleasant in the sun, ok in the shade. Partly cloudy to actual rain is possible if the national forecast is true. Yesterday it ended up being partly cloudy, and the clouds were low and dark. All over town it was similar, low dark clouds, no rain, and humid.
I lost most of my morning to sugar. I really need to figure out a ‘breakfast-y’ snack that I can eat instead of a donut or some other sugar. Now that I know for sure what’s happening, and I can see the graph, I’m less interested in continuing my bad habits.
In the afternoon I did my pickups and I dropped stuff off at the shop. I didn’t make it to my rent house to see why the garage door is jamming. Just as well because when I rescheduled, she told me about several other things I should take a look at. I really need to schedule a few hours there. That’s not much, since it will be the first time since the storm cleanup…
Today I’ve got a couple of pickups. One is right by the house, one, not so close. And there is an estate sale that has some stuff for my hobby that I’d like to pick up if the price is right. All this is mostly work avoidance if I’m honest with myself. Yesterday took far too long, and it felt like a couple of months ago, before I realized I was spending all my time doing pickups.
I’m bidding on less, in fewer auctions, and winning fewer items because I’m less aggressive on price. It’s a noticeable difference. Just because I’m not using the extra time effectively, doesn’t mean I don’t have more.
And I need to be better about that. Meantime, stack. It’s easy!
nick
Hard-boiled egg? Microwavable taquitos? Depends on what you consider ‘breakfast-y’.
Good morning, chicken boy! Up early, or still up?
Breakfast-y (snack) foods. How about porridge? 2 x 1.5 minutes in the microwave with a stir in-between. Soluble fibre and complex carbohydrates, which should give a low and slow curve, if you don’t go overboard with the sugar on top. Honey, molasses, or maple syrup might be better, and tastier. The key to good porridge is to add enough salt to the dry oats before the liquids (water and milk); you need a surprising amount of salt.
For really good porridge, order an “O’Sullivan” handmade porridge bowl from Helen Ennis at https://dunbeaconpottery.com/ Serve with cream and Demerara sugar. A splash of Whiskey for special occasions.
For convenience and portability – an individual dried sausage: Salametti, Kaminwürzen, Landjäger, Käsekrainer, Pipes d’Ardenne, etc… Lots of regional variants and versions, with and without cheese, nuts, berries, venison, etc.. No cooking required, and it gives an umami wake-up kick without a load of sugar. It’s not super difficult to make your own dried sausage if you like to cook.
Maybe go “continental”: a boiled egg with a couple of slices of ham or salami and cheese. Bread or crispbread optional.
Kippers, if you like fish. Grill them outdoors, though, for family olfactory tolerance. Not as convenient as porridge or an egg. Make Kedgeree with the leftovers.
Making myself hungry, now.
Sunny and nice at the BOL today. Would be even nicer if I were free to dawdle and enjoy it, but places to go and things to do…
One more breakfast snack… smoked salmon or gravlax. Nice on its own with black pepper and lemon juice, on bread or toast with horseradish, on a bagel with cream cheese if you’re a Noo Yawker, or on top of an avocado if you are a yuppie.
Management tracks our AI model credits monthly, and some of the members of my group have opted to create busy work for themselves and earn brownie points by using Claude Code and other services to convert pieces of my stable library module C code into C++. I’m not sure how that will work out since they don’t seem to be doing a lot of testing, but it may be something worth exploring for your conversion project if you have a small piece of the application where it would be readily apparent if something went awry in the translation.
I’ve raised my objections, but it falls on deaf ears. I’m spending today unwinding a bunch of changes another group made to my code’s logic using the AI that they didn’t test at all before putting up the pull request.
I know.
Young minds. Fresh Ideas. Be tolerant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-igbPoFhcw
That “Star Trek” movie gets an unfair amount of cr*p.
It is the only one with the original cast that I own on physical media.
UP. Briefly. Trying an Epic meat bar as early snack. They still have a little sugar in them, but not much.
I was up late reading, so will be napping as soon as I can get D1 out the door. Dang book.
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When I was in Norway for work, there were like 12 different fish things at breakfast, mostly pickled, and they were delicious. Best with a chunk of fresh bread and loads of butter though. Other than smoked salmon, I’m not sure I could eat a jar plain on the plate.
I do have smoked salmon in my stacks.
n
WRT estate auctions– silver is crazy high. Last week, no one seemed to know that pieces labeled “Sterling Silver, Weighted” would be worth anything. I missed a couple of lots because they closed at dinner and I hadn’t managed my max bid well. They went for $18 and $26, one bid higher than me. So me and another guy bidding.
This week, similar items went for $120 and $140, and that’s still probably less than the melt value. The risk is you don’t really know the metal weight until you peal the foil. Still, my small candlesticks yielded $350 worth of silver. I’m pretty sure these lots would be similar.
n
(in the past, silver wasn’t worth enough to make breaking and peeling the weighted silver objects worthwhile.)
Yes, but…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15620321/Prepping-WWIII-scientists-need-emergency-kit.html
–a chainsaw in the top 20? And someone misunderstands “gas powered” I think. For most people, two 200W solar panels, and a car battery with a charger/inverter is probably a better choice.
–lotta trees falling on houses in London? and Self defence? Seriously? Where’s the wink emojii?
Gah.
n
What – you expect them to be able to afford to pay someone to take down their fence?
Chainsaws aren’t for self defense? Ash Williams would like to have a word with you.
The PC didn’t want to sleep last night. So I shut it down. Turned it on this morning and there was a flash of text before the splash screen. Audio and Video didn’t work. I tried turning on the DVD drive, it seemed to work last time. Not this time. So I said a couple of bad works and took the trash to the street.
The PC went to standby while I was gone. Woke it up and audio and video work.
Beats me.
Bruce Campbell went public about his cancer diagnosis this week.
Incurable but manageable.