Melbourne

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

I've got a driving lesson today and I am so bloody terrified.

Chest infection is not fun. Stomach hurts from a night spent coughing.

damn, the weather is going to turn to shit, I better grab my raincoat and put on a warm jumper 🤬

I am really loving the temperature. Not the wind. But this is good enough for me to finish lunch quickly and get another walk.

I got a great hair cut, but my hairdresser curled it so much it somehow looked like I had more hair then before (but I trust him) and now that I've washed it, I can say, there is significantly less hair and my trust was well placed.

update on automation server naming:

a friend suggested Claude
as in Rains
As in there will come soft.

...I gotta say, their suggestion has shot right to the goddamn top, with August as a femme variant

Appointment with DES company went well - I think I made brownie points by taking the appointment even if I was exempt and touching base with them.
Also dropped off a stack of stuff at the op shop and did a Coles run, so that's the errands out of the way before more Weather.

Bleh, have to do some compulsory training after work.

Praying it doesn't take too long so I don't get stuck here too late. Body is in a bit of pain as well which is making it hard to finish the day off.

Where's the nice sun gone? :(

The rains have arrived in Ringwood. It's very dark and grey and Miss Meow is convinced that must mean it is dinner time.

My blackhole of a suburb is finally getting some of todays rain! Honestly, I can't wait to move back East next year, sick of getting nothing but wind and the odd five second trickle.

Alright DT I need some brains trust help with this from anyone in a more corporate or structured setting. Or with experience in these kinds of things. Doing some furious googling now as well but there's so many choices.

What MS Office product would you most recommend using to create and share training guides / documentation / knowledge base? Something that's browser based, the pages link to each other, can support inline images and videos, and allows multiple editors with edit tracking, a bit like a wiki but less dense. But nowhere near as technical as github.

Rain just arrived here in Thornbury. Glad I made it home from work before it hit. Everything very very steamy. Am re-thinking dinner plans to something that won't add further humidity to the kitchen.

🥔💤

I was looking for a airfryer curry potato croquette using potenta recipe and would you believe nothing even comes close. So I'm going to make my own.

It seems there’s a lot of good cooks here. While we’re on the topic of food safety, how do you properly transfer raw meat (especially mince) to the pan?

I learned to cook decades ago at home so plenty of bad habits could have been picked up. It wasn’t unheard of to just push the mince into the pan with the cooking utensil and carry on, but someone who worked hospo told me doing that wasn’t safe/hygienic. (Obviously the browned batch was removed first before adding a new one, or if in a big hurry and the inevitable stewing didn’t really matter it was done all at once. It was cooked thoroughly in a large pan.)

Were they right and I was taught wrong? (Very possible.) Or were they being picky? (They tended to be a highly critical one-up sort of person who would backseat you on any task.)

Maybe it matters less for when there’s further cooking, like for bolognese sauce, but if it’s for something re-added at the end or served straight up I do have doubts.

Since hearing that when I cook I now try to use something separate like tongs or fork to transfer raw meat to the pan. And wash that utensil last/separate.