Random Post

[lissajous]

I've got quite a few long, high effort posts sitting in drafts so this is an attempt to be more spontaneous.

I've been having a nice and productive week so far. Tasks are being accomplished but it's not all grindy "do the ironing, move the saucepan lids around" type stuff so that keeps the old dopamine flowing. I was supposed to go into the office today but rain stopped play and I decided to WFT* instead which turned out to be a good thing because halfway through the big All Hands meeting the office internet took a shit and died.

Something I feel like I've gotten much better at this year is minimizing food waste and keeping on top of what's in the cupboards and fridge (the freezer is where the drum from my ice cream machina lives in perpetuity - occasionally joined by frozen peas.) I made Nigella's fantastic sticky toffee pudding recently and I had a small amount of dates leftover (too few to use in another recipe but too many to just eat unaccompanied like a savage.) I thought they might be just about tolerable chopped up fine and scattered over ice cream but it turned out to be a great combination and now I wonder if I should just make vanilla and date ice cream in earnest using the aforementioned maker.

In closing here is a verse from one of the greatest rap songs of all time (O God, our help in ages past):

Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all it's sons away;
They fly forgotten as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

*At the last place I worked one of my coworkers persistently abbreviated working from home as WFT for reasons that were never revealed and I think on't often.