… but a translation is available on request.
Basically it involves my brother, his girlfriend, a new-year’s eve party, and my brother’s girlfriend’s father’s shotgun.
A good example…
… of a bad example.
Take a hermit living in a big house all by himself, add winemaking as a hobby[1], and before you know it he’s rolled up the carpet and planted a tank in the living room.
Gotta love my bro, he sets the bar low so I can shine :-)
[1] Or maybe obsession.
Much needed waterworks
This is something I’ve been planning for years, finally figured I’d get Frank to do it since I’m not getting around to it myself.
15mm black irrigation pipe, on brackets, running all the way down the side of the house and around the corner. Once I add microjets, I’ll be able to water the whole stretch at the turn of a tap. Ain’t technology awesome?
Rosemary Chicken
Went to the Fishhoek Pick & Pay looking for vegetables, found chicken at R19.99 a kilo. Probably genetically engineered and so full of hormones I’ll start growing breasts, but hey, the price was good.
Made a marinade mix using 3/4 cup olive oil, six teaspoons lemon juice, lots of garlic, two teaspoons mustard powder, half a handful of fresh rosemary and a couple of grinds of black pepper. Marinaded the chicken in this for a day or so, then put the chicken and sauce in a corningware dish, added a handful of cherry tomatoes, and stuck it in the oven at 180 for an hour or so.
Very good.
Spotted at Long Beach Mall
A Citroen Traction Avant, 6 cylinder model (15CV).
Left hand drive, gearlever in the dashboard in typical Citroen style.
I have a soft spot for Citroens, having wrenched on a DS20/5 and quite a lot on a GS a long time ago.
We found the mole!
No, not the Wikileaks one.
Came home, found that Frank had caught this poor thing and put it in a drain hole, where it was running in circles. Ag shame.
Felt sorry for it, let it go over in Sun Valley.
Backing up your eeePc
George Foot wrote an excellent little utility that can back up your eeepc (or any other PC) at the file or at the disk image level.
It’s called EeeBackup.
You start with a Linux box and a USB stick. Run the self-executing shell script [1] to install the utility to the memstick.
Then boot the memstick, select the partitions or the whole drive, point it at the memstick, and off you go.
Perfect for eeeHackers whose experiments flail out of control ever so often.
[1] A bit of a hack in its own right. Read the source.
Celebrating Browning
As Orthodox Browningites, we set off to the range with a bunch of guns, most importantly my M1900 and M1911A1.
Julia shooting the M1900, and on the right the best I could do, six shots at 10m standing.
42 shots at 10m standing. Yea, I should be able to do better.
This gentleman was shooting his Colt 1903 Pocket Hammerless.
Kalashnikitty T-shirts from Eric via Kevin’s blog.