Still hot. Still humid. Over 100F yesterday afternoon. I got my weather station working here at the house, but not the display in my office, so I’ll have real numbers again soon. Just have to put the outdoor part back up. I’m sure today will be pretty much like yesterday. Maybe with a touch more moisture from the sky.
I did my normal morning stuff. Then I did some pickups. Got the times wrong and missed two that I’ll have to get today. Hopefully, as one of them doesn’t have pickup times for the rest of the week. Having to get the kid at 3pm put the same crimp in my schedule as a normal school day.
While I didn’t get all the pickups done, I did get to Costco. Picked up some lamb chops for dinner, and a couple of things for the BOL this weekend. W likes to have more lunch meat choices than I normally have on hand, and I also grabbed a bag of frozen mixed veg. I’ll repack the veg in single meal sizes and take most to the BOL. It’s an easy way to get something very close to fresh veg.
Dinner was lamb chops grilled on cast iron in the kitchen. I’d normally grill them outside, but it was so hot I didn’t want to fire up the BBQ. The result was very nice, using the hot pan method (crazy hot dry pan, then add oil and reduce heat to cook.) Easy clean up too. Frozen veg tossed in a saute’ pan and some garlic naan from the freezer filled out the plates. Honestly, I should be eating out of the freezers, but I didn’t plan ahead and thaw anything, so fresh from Costco was a quick choice. From prep to plate was about 15 minutes.
I picked up a small Lodge cast iron wok in an auction and I’m looking forward to giving that a try some time soon.
D1 was diagnosed with some anemia so cooking more with iron isn’t a bad thing.
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I decided to order a battery and back cover for my phone. Total was $34 and it’s a straightforward job. I don’t really want to spend time moving to a new phone right now. Paul’s experience and previous moves combined, and I’m thinking it’s less time to fix the old phone than get everything set up on a new on. I do have a Galaxy Note II handy, but when I started to move to it last night, I can’t find all my SIM card stuff and the Note needs an adapter to use my current smaller SIM. That was part of the motivation to just fix the old phone. One thing about using older tech, the repairs are usually cheap. And the phone still sells for ~$120-150 so I’m not spending more on parts than it’s worth.
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It is all distraction and time sink when I need to be more focused.
Preemptively replacing the balloon that the old battery has become, before it burns me, the SIM and memory card, or my whole house or car seems to fall under “always be working to improve your situation.”
At least it makes me feel better to think about it that way.
Throw some stuff on the stacks too…
nick