My dinner was great.

In the morning we drove to the market. Because there was a bit of a stabbing early morning we had to take a detour. Stabbings... so damn inconvenient.

The old tram was standing at Victoria Square.

Finally we arrived at the Central market.

Great stuff every where.

Very busy too but somehow it was rather civilised. More than when you go earlier.

We had a sit and a drink too.

In the afternoon Gavin let me know by email (he lives next door since yesterday ;-) that there was lawn bowls on TV.

It was the Australian paired ladies final.

The winners Lynsey Armitage and Karen Murphy.

Later afternoon I finally used the potatoes and red cabbage I bought three weeks ago.

In the evening I worked a bit more on a circuit. I now need to find the best way to make a Printed Circuit Board. I really first need software to create a decent drawing.

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.

The meat balls

I came across one of the freakiest bugs I have seen in my IT career so far today. We were thinking about buying this 3rd party web control. It's a drop down list. You know, like a list of countries. You click the arrow on the side and it folds open a list. Now, I work with 2 screens and was testing this on my right screen, which is the secondary one. The control wouldn't work. Not even the samples from the maker's website. I started looking into this before the weekend and had also emailed the maker to ask what's up with not working on my computer (and 2 other colleagues' computers). He wrote back something about a bug in Internet Explorer and dual screens, not specifying what exactly. Out of sheer desperation I moved my browser window to my left, primary, screen and behold, it bloody worked!

The above picture shows the drop down list in the middle of my 2 screens. When I click it, the list is displayed entirely on the left screen only using half the width of the control. It will NOT show on my right screen. Bizarre.

When I left work I ran into piano-man again. He's cool.

The view behind me as I was waiting for the bus. Nicole can't pick me up anymore because she works a little later than me.

Crossing through the park lands in the bus.

I got off at the shopping centre to buy a block of butter. I also bought to boxes of tissues and 3 pair of socks. Because of the latter we can now postpone washing clothes till the weekend.

I walked home as it was getting dark quickly. This is what people see when they run into me ;-P

The tennis courts close to our house. Unfortunately it's a private club and not open for public. Bastards...

I made meatballs tonight. Big, round giant Dutch meatballs. And as with all super-food we start by melting a big block of butter ;-)

Raw meat "Before" picture. It's about half a kilo of minced meat. I added salt, black pepper, paprika powder, currie powder, 1 egg and fine, dry bread crumbs.

Raw meat "After" picture. 5 lean mean balls of meat.

When you're done rolling, the butter should've almost melted.

Put the balls into the melted, hot butter and brown the outside nicely.

When the outside has been sealed you can add half a litre of water and put the lit on.

The meat balls have to simmer for about 30 minutes so why not crack open some wine?

30 minutes later they are done. Oh, did you notice one is missing in the picture above?

Here it is! In my sandwich. I really need to get some applesauce, maybe tomorrow.