Sifu free on EpicGames today.

Never been to the airport viewing area before. This is wild! It’s like a party or something.

I'm pleased to report that TheStench™️ is quite drastically improved. Those little magic odour bags genuinely work a treat. The smell is still strong, but has now faded enough I feel comfortable getting dressed in the bathroom again

I also got all the stuff off the floor, and Jason has now done a whole House map and vacc. Downside: now everything is on the couch and bench (again). Hoping that by the end of next week I'll have found the energy and motivation to properly unpack and either find a place for everything, or donate what I can't

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The bloody iview player decided to cark it 2 minutes before new years. That was a bit disrespectful. Managed to pull it up on YouTube, but the YouTube stream is like 30 seconds behind so it hit midnight way before the countdown even started. Get a dog up ya bloody Australian internet

I can hear the fireworks quite loudly, but I can't see them from the backyard or the street. Bit of a bummer. Oh well. I'm gonna crack open my ginger beer and fancy Tony chocolate and pretend it's a solo party

I've been to pilates and done a load of washing. The rest of the day will be gentle pottering, or possibly flat-out lazing.

Om gonna try my hand at making chicken biryani tonight. I found a recipe on that tin eats site. A few substitutions will be in order though. I don't have plain yogurt or chicken thighs. ChatGPT suggested using coconut milk with a dash of lemon juice slightly evaporated in place of plain yogurt, so I'm gonna try that. I have drumsticks, but no chicken thighs. But I also have lots of chicken breast. The recipe has a note about substituting thighs for breast. Not recommended apparently, but it does have an alternative recommendation to try to keep them juicyish

Another problem I'll probably run into, is that I think everything is meant to be mixed into one enormous pot and cooked together or simmered for a while. In my infinite wisdom, I only bought one pot. I do have a giant wok I can probably use, but it's got a very thin base so I'll need to be careful about the heat

E: and I don't have ghee or butter because I normally substitute all butter for margarine. So that's what it's getting

done a bit of housework, tired now ...lol

what has been really good today is that the young Seagoons have said this house is very dusty, very. So it's not me being lax, it really is dusty. They think it's the carpet, I think it's not just carpet but dust from the front courtyard, the windows that don't close properly, the clothes drier adds some dust, the cats, and car and bus exhaust all combining to make this extra dusty.

Ooft. Bad day. I've been drifting in and out of sleep since 3 something. I've got that classic hit by a truck feeling too. Also woke up feeling unhappy out of nowhere. Don't think I'll make that biryani tonight, that can wait til tomorrow

FFS.

I’m trying to build the nanoblocks model I got for Christmas, and there’s one specific bit that keeps falling apart when I try to do it. This is my third attempt

Those lasers were cool.

@Baku@aussie.zone are you a time traveler?

Lots of planes around (as well as fireworks).