Meat ball galore (vegetarian alert level red)

Video.

Bakery.

Nicole at Woolies.

Electronic components at Jaycar.

More electronic components. I actually went twice today. Both times to buy fuses. The first time I bought fast ones. My power supply kept burning out every time I turned it off and on again. Fast ones in the primary circuit (the part that connects to the mains power) needs to be a slow one though so I went back. In the end I found a 1 Amp. slow fuse to stay alive.

Karin and Gavin have to move house this week. They started today. I went to see the empty and painted house for the first time today. It looks very, very good. I love the big windows every where that lets lots of light enter the whole house.

I spent a large part of the day experimenting with a little electronic circuit to drive a relay. I had to max. out my knowledge from uni but I managed to actually think of a working circuit. I put it together on a breadboard and it worked as expected. This is the top view.

This is the side view, kind of.

And then it was hammer meatball time!

For this we need 500 grams of ground up dead animals. 6 pieces of Dutch rusk (beschuit) which can be substituted with bread crumbs. Salt. Pepper. Paprika powder. Curry powder. Oh, and also drop in an egg.

Use quantities to your liking. I'm still not sure how much to use of each. Mix is all up. Use your hand, it's more fun :-)

Make nice, round balls.

Melt a block of butter on high temperature.

When all the butter is melted, put in the meat balls and seal the outside.

When the outside is sealed, add half a litre of water, turn down the heat and let is simmer for 20-30 minutes.

The result should be nice yummy meat balls!

I put mine on a bun with some butter. Yummmmmmm :-)

While I was around I thought I photograph the contents of our fridge. Check out the milk supply. And the Nippy's. Good stuff. Everything else is Nicole's I think ;-)

And this is the freezer.

This are the fridge magnets on our fridge.

Weekend!

Crossing the street after work.

We went to Henley beach where we watched the sun set after dinner.

ICs

There was a small line-up at Cibo this morning. I don't like that because my milk gets warm while I wait...

I took this photo at Victoria Square. Quite a nice building that I hadn't really noticed before.

On my way home I stopped by Dick Smith where I bought a few Integrated Circuits (ICs). The guy there told me Dick Smith is stopping sales of electronic components. They're clearing out already. Sad. Especially because Dick Smith started his chain of shops with idea of providing electronic components to ordinary people for hobby use. They don't sell much these though. If you hear a kid say his hobby is electronics, these days that means he owns a play station...

I designed this small circuit but I'm not sure if it will work. The idea is that if IC1's (=D flip flop) Q goes high, transistor T2 will conduct for a small amount of time until the complete voltage from Q stands over C1 which shuts down T1. When Q goes 'low', C1 would discharge.

Would this work? Feedback welcome.

My own meat tray!

I had breakfast at work. Thank god for delis that sell milk. Delis are called "Milk bars" in certain parts of Australia by the way.

When I left work the line-ups for the bus stops were gigantic. Un real.

I heard someone call me from a car while walking to my bus stop. It was Gianna and Greg! We didn't even have time for a decent hi / bye but I managed to get a photo in! :-)

I thought my bus would be packed but funnily enough it stayed rather empty the whole ride.

Bowls went well tonight. We played against nice people. We won 26-21. Here we see Gavin bowl.

Because one person was missing, Gav and I both did three shots instead of two.

It's great being able to bowl more than two times in one end.

The best thing was that during the break, I won a meat tray in the lottery! I reckon we'll have to crank up the bbq this weekend (and pray that we won't get food poisoning) :-)

On the way home it smelled smokey outside. Apparently there was a fire in the Adelaide hills this evening but it's 'contained' now thankfully. Scary shit.

YWALK

I was out of coffee at work. I don't use the overpriced, maintenance hungry espresso maker so I have to get my own beans and get them grounded. While waiting I looked at some other coffee and my jaw dropped when I saw this. $135.00 for 500 GRAMS of coffee beans. And these are not even the ones that come out of a monkey's ass!

Oh, and get this. The girl serving me didn't know what half of 26 was. I couldn't believe it and I thought I misheard when she asked her colleague. But then when she told him the calculator was broken and she asked again I asked her what the problem was because her colleague was busy. She needed to know what half of 26 was. I told her 13 but I should've said 9.50. This girl was over 25 and she works a cash register...

At least I got my ground coffee. It was pretty alright.

I went to Victoria Square for lunch. Some company had their yearly 'sports' day there. They did all the 'fun' stuff. Like walking on planks with 4 people at the same time. ho-ho-ho.

They took over half the park. Intruders!

I like the Aboriginal flag (on the left) 1000x better than the Australian flag (on the right). It has so much more meaning to it. I don't like the union jack at all. It reminds me of English tourists trashing Amsterdam.

After work Nicole picked me up and on our way home we saw a car with the plate "YWALK" which phonetically sounds like "Why walk?". Nice one.

After a quick dinner at home we went to the beach. The water was a bit dirty and I didn't find my ring but it was nice nevertheless :-)

Nicole floating about.

Me under water.

Afterwards we sat on a little sand dune and watched the sun set while drying up.

Picking up the last rays of sun light for the day.

The light on the clouds was beautiful.

And cappuccino at Vili's afterwards :-)

A normal day, kinda.

This morning we had a three hour meeting with about six people of one of our clients. I think it went very well. Our efforts of the last week definitely paid off. We could show the whole system. Really it's a combination of five different pieces of software working together. It makes it rather complex.

When we came back to the office I went out for lunch.

It was almost unreal to sit there again. My brain is still a bit rest less.

I took a photo of myself and when I saw it I realized why people think I scare people. I don't mind. It's nice and quiet that way hehe.

I did make a better one. I hope this is less scary.

After work we went to PJ's. George the bartender got a new, better job which is awesome. Unfortunately it's not at PJ's and the Monday nights there will not be the same without him. We may actually stop going there which makes me sad a bit.