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unicorndukeYesterday morning it was -17 with no wind, the coldest it got here. I put towels around doors and windows if they felt drafty and closed all the curtains on others. I also pushed the heat up overnight that night since normally it goes down to 58 but I felt perhaps the house was struggling to stay warm and it would be better if the heat was running most of the night at a higher temperature. Mara got lots of short walks and did try to walk on snow yesterday morning. I had to rescue her when her feets got too cold. She also got 15 minute blocks of balcony time before I made her come inside.
My computer has abruptly decided it is on it's last legs by having what I suspect is battery problems. It decided that the AC adapter is not the right type and it isn't charging at all although it is holding at current battery level. I have an extra adapter so I'll try that but I think that's mostly prolonging the inevitable so I need to do some research on decent laptops. I do play video games (minecraft, deep space galactic, valheim so not super hard on a computer but need some power) so it'll need a dedicated graphics card and a decent processor but otherwise I don't really care. I've also got a chunk of cashback on my credit card that I've been saving for this purpose so my budget it around $1200, which is more than I would be able to do without the cashback. Given how good computer stuff if, I expect to be able to get a decent laptop for that price.
From the team retreat, they had a ton of eggs leftover so I took home two 18 packs of eggs and used almost all of them up making a triple batch of pastry cream and a double batch of eclairs. I've got a lot of egg whites left from the pastry cream so I'm going to make fancy meringue ice cream with them this afternoon. My bread making has been a great success using the sandwich bread recipe from America's Test Kitchen book of gluten free recipes. I need to let it rise for 2-3 hours but that's because the house is cold. I've been making two at a time and I've started sticking one in the basement freezer for the summer. Gluten free bread is now $8 a loaf in the store so I'm getting serious about my bread making. Especially now that I started using my flour mill again. It had been stored for a while but I ground a bunch of sorghum that I grew a couple years ago and white rice.
My computer has abruptly decided it is on it's last legs by having what I suspect is battery problems. It decided that the AC adapter is not the right type and it isn't charging at all although it is holding at current battery level. I have an extra adapter so I'll try that but I think that's mostly prolonging the inevitable so I need to do some research on decent laptops. I do play video games (minecraft, deep space galactic, valheim so not super hard on a computer but need some power) so it'll need a dedicated graphics card and a decent processor but otherwise I don't really care. I've also got a chunk of cashback on my credit card that I've been saving for this purpose so my budget it around $1200, which is more than I would be able to do without the cashback. Given how good computer stuff if, I expect to be able to get a decent laptop for that price.
From the team retreat, they had a ton of eggs leftover so I took home two 18 packs of eggs and used almost all of them up making a triple batch of pastry cream and a double batch of eclairs. I've got a lot of egg whites left from the pastry cream so I'm going to make fancy meringue ice cream with them this afternoon. My bread making has been a great success using the sandwich bread recipe from America's Test Kitchen book of gluten free recipes. I need to let it rise for 2-3 hours but that's because the house is cold. I've been making two at a time and I've started sticking one in the basement freezer for the summer. Gluten free bread is now $8 a loaf in the store so I'm getting serious about my bread making. Especially now that I started using my flour mill again. It had been stored for a while but I ground a bunch of sorghum that I grew a couple years ago and white rice.
