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cakes

I went to the cookery class, which is now on Thursday mornings instead of Wednesday. I wasn’t sure what I’d be making this week, but I knew I was a week behind the others. So, whatever they made last week, I’d be making this week. The problem was, I couldn’t remember what they made last week. Anyway, it turned out I was making a brownie, which I think is an American dessert that we never had when I was young. The only thing I knew about a brownie was that it had a soft center, and I thought it was made of chocolate. The first part of making the brownie was melting sugar and chocolate together. The teacher explained that I had to do this over a saucepan, not in the microwave, because using the microwave could cause the chocolate to split or get too hot. I wasn’t quite sure what that meant—maybe I’m not supposed to understand as a beginner—but apparently, it’s just about slowly heating the ingredients and nothing else. Sometimes I analyze things too much, or maybe I just want to understa...
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football

A few months ago, I visited the local football club to discuss crowdfunding and how they could receive match funding by starting a campaign. This would not only introduce a new way of funding projects but also help sustain the club's future. They can do more match funding in the future for other projects and will understand how it works better and it can be even more successful, They agreed to try crowdfunding, which involved creating a page—a new endeavor for them. It wasn’t just a donation page; it included rewards designed to encourage people to contribute to the project.  Weeks passed without much news, except that they were still working on the page. Finally, the page is live with a few donations, but they still have a long way to go before they can afford the Veo camera they want to record training sessions. I have spread the link to the page on social media, it is going to be harder than I thought to get the required subscribers, it needs 25 at least and the next couple of m...
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pastry

I woke up early today, and sleep hasn’t been coming easily lately. I dozed off in the chair for a nap, probably because of the early start. I went to my cooking class and had to get there an hour early due to the buses. This week, we worked on what the others did last week: shortbread and shortcrust pastry. I’ve tried making shortbread before, but there are helpful tips you learn when someone shows you, like cutting the butter into pieces to avoid warming it too much and refrigerating it. It’s probably all in the recipe, but it’s nice to be shown—even though you could watch it on YouTube. I moved on to the shortcrust pastry while the shortbread was in the fridge. I tried getting the breadcrumb consistency again, but it didn’t work. I ended up making more shortbread and had to restart the shortcrust pastry. I forgot the salt, so the taste will probably be flat. There’s a technique involving using a knife to cut the mixture, something about mixing it properly. I’m sure you can learn this...
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machines

I’ve been dealing with update issues on both my phone and laptop lately. Some updates are messing up the devices, and trying to remove them is quite challenging. Technical issues are  all over the place these days, I was trying to have a call on teams its was playing up like anykthing I am no technician so findi these issuex hard to oslve even when you take the issue to the shop they don't get ti right  I have bought some smalrt glasses and will no doubt have issues with them, the AI thingy which we son't get fully in this country due to some privacy shit,, is really dumb and does not understand instructions sometimes. and  it can get very frustrating and would sound wierd to someone listeneind Iike I am talking to myself  I have no intention of wearing these glasses all the time but it seems to have turned out like that they are a bit big for me but I have not got hold of some parts that help a little bit but they are still a bit big the lenses in these glasses are ...
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disaster

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I'm not much of a TV fan, but I watched a program last night about the Piper Alpha disaster, which happened on July 6, 1988. I vividly remember it because a friend of mine was working on the rig, and I was shocked by the news. I recall my friend Adrian and his mate Kevin going up to Aberdeen in search of work. The oil industry offered the promise of big money and a fresh start. Kevin didn’t land a job on the rigs and had to return home, but Adrian got hired. I’m not sure what his role was—there were terms like "roustabout" mentioned, which I think might mean a type of laborer. Adrian had recently married and was expecting a child with his girlfriend, whom I also knew. They were childhood sweethearts, and I imagine Adrian felt pressure or had the drive to secure a better future for his family. He wasn’t foolish; he did well in school. I first met him there—he was a few years older and had the nickname "Fido" for some reason. I remember him getting into a fight in...
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hassle

I went for a walk yesterday afternoon, taking one of my usual routes, and came across a gate. There was someone working on the path nearby, so I kicked the gate open like I usually do if it's stuck. The guy on the tractor mentioned it was a bit stiff, and I replied that I didn’t see the point of having the gate there since it served no purpose. He said he liked the gate or something, but I argued that it didn’t do any good. He started talking about children or something, but I think he was just being difficult. There’s a historic easement on the path, as people have walked it for years. He pointed out the old gateposts, and I said they might have been there before the easement existed. It use to be a n old country house and maube there was no easement then and it was all private property I am not goingto dig up the place's historey But since people have been using the path for decades, it now has an easement on it.  I walked on and did not close the other gate he shouted someth...
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meta

I've been getting used to my new smart glasses, which I've had for a few days now. I took them out today, and they seem to have what they call "hallucinations." The first one sent me on a wild goose chase about a mobile phone—it claimed there was a phone on the ground near my fence, but there wasn’t. These glasses, as I mentioned, have been embraced by the visually impaired community. I heard about a man in Texas who has retired his expensive, probably cumbersome and hassle-ridden CCTV system, and now just uses the Meta Ray-Ban glasses to read his letters. It seems liberating and opens the door to other possibilities these glasses might offer in the future. It's amazing to hear these have changed some people's lives for the better under purely by accident Hopefully they will improve again as time goes by and make it possible for visually impaired people to participate in things in society which they may be closed out of now by ignorance or whatever I have been...
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