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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 21/9/2023 (lemmy.nz)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Seems like my body clock has aligned itself to normal hours now - I've actually started sleeping before midnight. Next target is to see if I can bring the sleep time closer to 11PM. Hopefully I can maintain this schedule leading up to the first day at my new job.

Oh, and I need to get a haircut at some stage. My hair was a mess on the first day at my previous job - was planning to go to the salon in the morning so that my hair would be at its best on day one, unfortunately I couldn't find a single salon in my area open at that time. And just my luck, they took a photo of me for my ID card, and my streak of bad ID photos continued.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh man, I hate to tell you that daylight savings starts this weekend.. You might need to starting aiming for 10PM :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

That’ll mean our car clock will become correct after its winter hiatus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Ah, bugger. Well, that's fine I guess, I still have a bit over a week to get adjusted. Thanks for the reminder though!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh how I dislike haircuts. I seem to need one every month to stop myself looking untidy. But I only get one every 3 months or so because it's annoying to do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm also haircut averse.

I put it off until it starts looking untidy, then continue putting it off until my wife starts hinting that I ought to get a haircut, then continue putting it off until I think maybe I'll just start having long hair.

Then one day I wake up, and decide maybe I should get a cut. So I suffer the burden of having to actively decide what my hair should look like. And generally I'm pretty happy with the results. And I think, I should do this more often. And then the cycle repeats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This sounds like me! And it's not a big time commitment, I just don't like having to do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I also don't like getting them, but I'm also getting thinner on top and it looks worse if I let it grow out. Bad times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haha I feel this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

🤛

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's great that you're making progress on the sleep cycle.

Terrible ID photos seem to be mandatory. Back when I was working, I once had a new job ID photo taken when I had a bright red sunburnt face ... I was so vain I went and asked the photographer to fix it in photoshop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gearing up for a week or so of bachelordom. Wife is Taking the kids down to Dunedin for the school hols to visit family - hoping I can get away to join them in the second but looking less and less likely, as I'm going to be short on staff at work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haha, I am on week 2 of enforced bachelordom. My wife is visiting her family overseas for 6 weeks. Wow, the house is quiet. I'm taking my little one to Fiji next week as I promised him an overseas holiday before he gets to the hulking teenager stage. I've planted 200 kanuka over winter to hopefully offset some carbon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kanuka is my favourite tree!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I love it too. It grows better on dry sites than manuka and is a similarly good pioneer though the land where I am seems to want to become a totara forest. They pop up everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah kanuka is a bit of a nursery tree as well. They do a great job of protecting the other natives. Then when the totara and kauri etc are grown up the kanuka start to die off.

They have beautiful wood too. But part of me wishes they would just live forever.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looking for some advice please on pressure cookers. Have never used one so am looking for a little advice.

I make my own natto, but have read that cooking the beans is best, and easiest, in a pressure steamer. So I guess a pressure cooker plus a steamer basket.

Looking at the usual search results, boy, there are multitudes listed. Has anyone got a pressure cooker, electric or hob powered, plus a steamer basket that all works, who can give me a pointer please?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most of the electric ones are multicookers I think. So I guess it depends if you're going to use it for other cooking functions.

We have a cheaper crockpot one we got a couple of years ago. It came with a metal trivet to use inside to lift whatever you put inside above the liquid if you want to steam. I assume you could probably replicate this with a stove top pressure cooker?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s interesting, thanks for the Crock-pot pointer. Is your’s a sealed lid, so the cooking is under pressure and therefore quicker? The keeping the food above the liquid thing is a key for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's this one: https://www.crockpot.co.nz/crockpot-range/crockpot-express-xl-pressure-multicooker or an older version of it. It comes with a pressure cooking lid and glass lid for slow cooking.

I see they do actually make a extra pot + steaming basket accessory for it too: https://www.crockpot.co.nz/crockpot-range/crockpot-express-xl-cooking-pot-and-steamer-basket

I'm sure other brands would have something similar for their cookers too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’d need the steamer basket, and thought you’d given me the jackpot with that link. However I see this when looking for a retailer - "Unfortunately there are no available retailers for this product".

Ah well, but thanks again for the suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's dumb haha. I had a quick look on Amazon AU and it looks like your could probably get knock off ones that could fit any pressure cooker if you check the dimensions carefully. Probably even cheaper if you check Aliexpress.

Like this one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’d already done the AliE check, and saw loads of steaming baskets. Of course I would need a pressure cooker as well. Maybe the stove top is the way to go with AliE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Weirdly I thought stovetop pressure cookers would be cheaper, but apparently not so from a cursory search. We paid like $150 on special for our electric one years ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well, a great day for me so far. First of all I feel pretty close to baseline (i.e my level of health before mid August)!

Second, I was spoonfeeding a butterfly (I know, I know, but I don't have any pets of my own) because I noticed it had been sitting there for 2 days after hatching, and after it had a long drink and a little flutter around, it saw another butterfly going past, flew up to meet it and they actually started mating.

So I feel like it's out there living its best life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's great to hear!

And congrats on your new career as a butterfly matchmaker 🙂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Ha ha I don't think I can take credit for that one. 😃