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Cake day: September 4th, 2024

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  • My wife is definitely team ‘make it from scratch’.

    She is also a very slow cook. We also have an infant that is currently taking up 110% of our time.

    It’s hard for me to justify spending two hours a night preparing a lunch for the next day. She likes to sleep in, so I never get to eat it fresh… it’s always leftovers.

    I don’t mind cooking something fresh for lunch or dinner, but I’ll do something that takes 20 minutes of prep and then take care of itself on the stove or in the oven. Chilli, pot roast, or a casserole.

    I think frozen dinners probably have a better balance of protein/carbs/veg than either of us makes, and at half the price.





  • I’ve never stood in like for early voting in the EU. I’ve done it at my supermarket while getting groceries.

    Grab a ballot and envelope, enter booth, do the thing, walk to desk, flash id, get crossed off list, watch volunteer put your envelope in another envelope and drop it in the ballot box.

    In-and-out, three minutes.

    Come to think of it, voting on election day has always been just as smooth. I just have to go to the library or some school, so it’s not as convenient.














  • Three years ago, I bought my wife a laptop with Windows 10 to replace her 10yo windows 7 machine.

    It had hardware issues out of the box, and went in on two repairs. It works fine now, AFAIK.

    But, she still doesn’t trust it, and she doesn’t think that she can move her Adobe CS6 license over to it…

    I even bought her the affinity suite.

    I’m starting to think she’ll never move on from Windows 7.

    I think the major browsers stopped supporting it sometime during the last year, so my best hope is that some included certificates will eventually make her favourite websites stop working. That has to force her over to something more recent… right?

    I use arch, btw.