Another net failure this morning, over 80 minutes from 07:57:30 to 2026 09:19:41. That used
to be relatively common, but this time it caught me by surprise. I suppose that's a good
sign. Spent some time running Aussie
Broadband's mobile phone based test, which then claims to have sent a fault report.
If it did, it ended up in /dev/null. The last fault report they claim to have seen
was 7 years ago.
But while I was messing around with power cycling the NTD and restarting dhclient, the net
came back. No word from Aussie on the matter; there was once a time when they would
broadcast a message about the outage.
Some case of file system corruption. OK, never mind, we'll have to do without that file
(and another elsewhere), which we probably would never have looked at anyway. Remove the
files and continue.
Oh. No continue. tiwi hung. And no display. I've had issues with that before: for
reasons I don't understand, it insists on coming up with video on the DVI port, and there's nothing there. OK, Big
Red Button (the black one). But that would probably mean it hanging during boot.
Fortunately it didn't, and it came back up normally. I still don't have a display. Time to
remove tiwi from the network, and probably replace the disk drive.
Yvonne is so happy about the flavour of the prawns. Are they really that much better than
the much smaller prawns I eat for breakfast? I added one 4 g prawn and one 11 g prawn for
comparison.
The difference was surprising: the tiger prawns had almost no taste, while the other two
(much cheaper) prawns tasted much better! I really didn't expect that.
The main course was grilled yellowfin tuna steaks. How do we do them? Google Gemini recommends marinating in garlic and soya sauce and then grilling for 2
minutes on either side for medium rare, or 3 minutes for medium.
Medium rare, of course. But the result was welloverdone! Quite disappointing.
A good thing I didn't follow the instructions on the packaging: make sure that the fish is
cooked through! Next time I should give it one minute each side.
Nasi goreng for breakfast today,
certainly not for the first time: my first recorded case was nearly 60 years ago. But
it's still not right: I'm now using kecap manis instead of dark soya sauce,
but it's not dark enough. I tried more (25 ml instead of 15 ml), but it didn't make much
difference. Maybe I need dark sauce as well. 10 light, 15 kecap manis, 10 dark next time?
Also tried my Sichuan pepper oil, this time 3.2 g. And strangely it was hardly noticeable.
A year ago I received a battery tester, effectively a clamp that fits batteries and
connects to a digital multimeter. It's convenient because I don't have to fiddle around
with leads.
This one has the advantage of a saner contact method, also allowing testing of button
batteries of different thickness. Put a battery in it, one of two that I had taken out of a
room thermometer. No display. Oh. Another battery? Works fine. But my multimeter showed
that both were OK. Put the batteries on charge. My charger didn't want to know the first
one either! It was defective. It seems that the tester measures the voltage under load,
though it would be nice if it were to show some indication if it were defective.
Two years ago today we collected Mona. Things have gone relatively well, though she still doesn't want to know the
dogs. Larissa keeps trying, but I
don't see it happening.
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