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Shitty Product Review: Sainsbury's Spiced Apple Air Freshener2020-12-21 | 12:35
A lovely smelling air freshener, redolent of the Yule season, in a handy aerosol can. When used in the bathroom smells like mulled turd.

Verdict: 6/10

That Was The Week That Was2020-12-20 | 21:20
I would say "what a week!" but that would definitely be an exaggeration. Not much to write home about, but I'll give it a whirl.

My Raspberry Pi (3 B) arrived. A case was included but could not contain the Pi because of a heatsink. I managed to cut a hole in the case
using my penknife. Number of times the penknife slipped and nearly closed the blade onto my finger(s): 3
Set up the Pi and installed MariaDB; set up dBeaver on my laptop to manage this db.
Had Friday as a day off; went into town and popped into Clas Ohlson. Picked up some oak shelves from the reduced/damaged bin. The shelves
were in good general condition with a couple of dings. No problem since I had a specific use for them in mind.
Used the Clas oak to replace a couple of shelves on the gym storage rack. Each shelf is rated for 150kg but that seems to be the maximum
that can be supported by the shelf; the current shelves are 5mm MDF and are sagging under around 90kg of kettlebells. I have no doubt that if the 
weight was spread across the 'runners' holding up the MDF everything would have been fine. The new oak shelves are much better and now I don't 
have to worry about being woken at 02:46 by everything crashing down.
Grazed my knuckle with a tenon saw while cutting the new oak shelves to fit.
Took the salt beef out of its brine and boiled it. Tried a slice and it's pretty good. Pretty pretty pretty good.
Took the pastrami out of its brine, coated with ground black peppercorns and ground coriander seed, smoked to internal temperature of 70C 
before steaming for 3 hours. Tried a slice and, like the salt beef, it's pretty good. Very peppery.
Put up the Yule tree and other Yule decorations. The front room is pretty cosy now with two sets of fairy lights.
Ordered some new dumbbells AND it seems they will be here before the 25th.


The Week in Review2020-12-13 | 21:50
Stealing an idea from some IRC boodles I might start publishing a summary of my week. I often feel like I don't actually do anything; this will
either prove me right, or wrong.:
This week, in no particular order of excitement, litness or significance:

Went for a few short walks while my ankle *still* recovers from being rolled two weeks ago!
Lifted some weight.
Woke up in the night with chest pains. This was because I'd lifted weight and then slept in an awkward position. Also: some trapped wind.
Stuck a small brisket (800g) in some brine for salt beef.
Stuck another small brisket (800g) in some brine for pastrami.
Bought a new mechanical keyboard.
Bought a Raspberry Pi 3 off the electronic Bay. Hopefully this arrives in time for Yule. I have some vague furtling plans for this.
Watched some Christmas movies:

The Long Kiss Goodnight | [IMDb]
Die Hard 2: Die Harder | [IMDb]
The Bourne Identity | [IMDb]

Defrosted the fridge freezer. The freezer looked like Hoth.



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