Ah, Christmas puddings are at half price now.
This is the season to be jolly.
@variablepulserate Being alone always has its benefits, like doing things only on my own schedule and making food as spicy as I want.
@peemee I'm going to find out how well I can make a roast beef dinner come together in about an hour.
Gin is one of the most interesting categories. Lots of disastrous stuff out there but plenty of really nice ones too. My litmus test is whether I can enjoy it neat (at room temperature) or not — for me, if something has to be chilled/diluted to be remotely enjoyable, it's not high quality.
@matigo a bit of both, notably that I had to wait for my shipment of stuff to arrive (and then do all the insurance paperwork for the damaged items) and that's a tight deadline. I'll be away for 3 months in spring though and seeing family and friends then, so all good — just a few weeks left.
Cheaper flight tickets then anyway.
@variablepulserate Some bizarre bug meant Firefox stopped responding to all keyboard input, so I tried to restart it.
I have it set to clear all history when I quit, but that's never stopped it restoring my tabs before. Except this time it did — and I managed to replicate it 3 times. Eventually told it to stop forgetting my browsing history (but still clear cookies etc.) and now the restore happens properly.
It seems Firefox decided that crashing and taking all my open tabs and history with it would be a good way to start the evening.
@peemee The way app design works nowadays, even if you did get it free today and never updated it, you might well find in a few weeks that it'd phoned home and locked you out of certain things until you bought a subscription.
It is cheaper to buy a corded Bosch hammer drill than a new battery for the Bosch drill I already have.
I did have reservations when buying this battery drill second-hand…knew I had enough batteries to deal with already.
Won auctions last week for 4 bookshelf speakers (Celestion F1) and a Yamaha RX-V373 receiver. Thought it would be a fun change from the monitors I've been using for the last 5 years (which are still being shipped).
Speaker wire arrived today and I spent an hour cutting and stripping them etc. to install the 2 front speakers.
Now, since the TS–RCA cable that will link my USB audio interface to the receiver won't arrive till tomorrow, I've just been listening to BBC Radio 3 and Classical FM all day. Headphones aside, this is the first really decent audio I've had in months, and I've really missed it.
2 speakers remain unused for now: I'm thinking I'll buy some ceiling mounts for them and install them as a quadraphonic setup when my shipment (with the sorely missed hammer drill) arrives.
Having a lot of fun doing all this. The funny thing is that I'm still sleeping on a stack of yoga mats because the "essentials" — in the shipment — have yet to arrive.