Saturday 31 August

An enjoyable day. 

On Friday evening, we'd decided to do a half day trip to the GC.  

Quick visit to the Gold Coast. Mags had a run and a swim. Phoebe and I walked, splashed, coffee'd, breakied. 

Congratulated ourselves on the way home observing the traffic snarl that we'd avoided on the way down.

Phoebe Row

 

Another great morning on the river.

As a fun aside, met a number of people i know fun the wider rowing community were at centenary this morning. Firstly Graham, Mel and myself took Phoebe for a row. Secondly Dragons rowing club who usually row in the churning waters near breakfast Creek, are having a session at Centenary and saw grammarian John King and our cox Sarah. Took a photo.

This week the two new rowers were put together in a double. They are going so well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 24 August

Park run

Breakfast 

House inspections 

Lunch

Snooze

GOMA State Library & Art Gallery 

Grammarian allocations

Dinner

Video call to Henry's birthday 

Desert 

PARK RUN 

Rocks Riverside parkrun results for event #526. At 00:38:01, your time was a distinct improvement on last week. It was noted that you did walk a bit and a sore knee, puffed lungs and lacking drive are simply excuses. Be warned at 40:01 Phoebe is only 2 minutes behind you and closing quickly.  

The photo was taken within a minute of Phoebe crossing the finish line and reflects the difference a couple of minutes makes.

Then breakfast with friends.

Mark and Tim joined us.  Phoebe knocked up as wonderful spread:

Bacon, scrambled Eggs, lentil slosh,  mince, 

Coffee.  Yum.

 

 

 

 

GOMA STATE LIBRARY & ART GALLERY

Drove in and parked under GOMA.  $17

 

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Art Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State Library

 After we looked at GOMA, we looked through the state library and the art gallery

HP8562A Keyboard Repair

 HP8562A Spectrum Analyzer Keyboard tear down and repair

It's Ekka Wednesday on a cold wet Brisbane day and what better to do that to get the girlfriend to dismantle a spectrum analyser.

PROBLEM
the 0 and 1 keys basically don't work and other keys are difficult.  

The one on the left has a dodgy keyboard.
The one on the right displays ERR317 and ERR344.
PLAN A is to clean the contacts on the first unit and then fix the right unit.
PLAN B is to swap the right keyboard to the left.

1 REMOVE OUTER COVER
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Saturday 10 Aug

Well I'd forgotten to set my alarm and woke at 6:15.  The Normal Saturday morning activity is park run. Need to leave by 6:30 for that to happen. Rolled over and that was the end of the park run thought for today. 

Emerging some time later, Phoebe and I sat on the back deck looking at houses on the net. 

Decided that was all too depressing and switched to a new plan. 

Into GOMA arriving just after 10.

Bought coffee and a toastie before heading into a paid exhibit. 

At noon, we departed GOMA and drove to Beenleigh UC in Mt Warren Park for Catherine Solomon's inauguration as their minister. Stopped just before the church and phoebe bought a coffee and she sushi. Entered the service carrying the take away coffee. Hit the mark. 

Saw various people I knew including:

Andrew, 

Tim and Ro,

Erin,

Tony & Jenny,

Peter smale, Andrew Gunton.

Back home by 3:30 ish and had an hours snooze then off to the St Andrews bush dance. Saw more people known including:

Dave Fittell, Tim Hills, Robyn, Tom and for the first time, Tom's mum. 

They did a round of dances then a meal and another round of dances. 

Hokey pokey

Chicken dance

Strip the willow 

Waves of Bondi 

Pride of Erin 

Happy Birthday Chris

Friday night and the kids are coming for dinner.  We are also celebrating Chris's birthday.  I decided to do roast beef.  I figured Chris would enjoy a hearty meal. 

Chris inducted chocolate cake was preferred. Phoebe kindly bought that. 

Dinner was served in the kitchen and we took our plates to the back yard and sat around the fire. 

3:20 rise and shine

3:25 meat in slow cooker.

Sprinkled French onion soup powder on to meat. 

Slow cooker on high. 

Went rowing. 

8:00 switch to low. 

Went to work. 

 2:30 leave work

 3:00 Arrive home

3:30 poured off excess juice /water

I want roast not stew. I don't know if they have pumped the meat but there was a lot of water. 

 4:00 Peel potatoes

T-1.5hrs 4:30 Potatoes in Oven at 175. with extra virgin olive oil with mixed herbs sprinkle. 

UPDATE: 175 is too hot.  150 is not hot enough. Needs to be in the middle. 

Turned slow cooker to warm.

 4:30pm Start Peeling Pumpkin, Onion, Sweet Potato.

T-1hr 5pm In oven. Also turned potatoes           

White sauce

Gravey

T-15min 5:45 Cauliflower in microwave 

T-10. 5:50 & Broccoli in steamer

6:00. Eat

Cake.

Mon 5

Boy2Men discussion

At my place. 

Dinner was the usual Spag bog.

I did both the usual 1kg mince version and a vegetarian version that used a tin of brown lentils instead of meat.  Everything else same. 

Recipe is in a previous post:

http://thomsoneu.blogspot.com/2022/12/spag-bog.html?m=1

For the vegetarian version:

1 tin brown lentils 

1/3 bottle Tomato Paste

1 tin crushed tomatoes. 

Everything else the same. 

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Early morning 6amish.

City from Swan Rd

Sun 4 Aug

Well it's 1:30am.

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The cat is awake too.

Reflecting back on a lovely weekend. 

Sunday morning looked after some learn to row kids while bobbing around on the river. Breakfast with Tim at Phoebe's. Rest of Sunday at work. That was a bit stressful. 

Saturday night Graham and Mel joined me and Phoebe around the fire. Saturday morning park run. Looked at a couple of houses that didn't suit - usually because they didn't suit the bank.