More mundane journal entries...

My parents are currently on a four day holiday to Paris. Unfortunately, they forgot to stock up on food. I had a pizza for lunch and found that I was still hungry come tea time. All that was left in the freezer was a Chicken Tikka Masala but not a meal as you usually get... This was just the chicken and sauce.

Therefore I had to cook the rice myself (Shock! Horror!). To any average Joe, this would not be a difficult task. However, I have had no prior experience cooking rice. I remembered roughly something about Mum saying something like using twice as much water as rice but I couldn't be sure. I decided to have a look in Mum's copy of Delia Smith's 'How to Cook' which quite usefully detailed how to cook rice.

Delia's suggested portion of rice didn't seem to be very much at all. I figured she was a skinny lass and so I put in more and added twice that amount of water and boiled it. Meanwhile, I bunged the chicken tikka into the microwave.

After the sauce was done, the rice would have appeared to be done due to the lack of water. Now that the rice had absorbed the water and stuff, it had become much larger than before and so I think I could have done with cooking a bit less rice. At least I'll know that for next time. However the meal itself was tasty and I felt quite content with myself.

Got lots of washing up and stuff to do. I'll be doing all of that tomorrow. I'll try to clean up all I can tomorrow just to suprise the parents as they usually dont expect me to do that kinda thing.

In other news. I finally burned the Linux Mandrake 8.1 ISO CDs and installed it on my second hard drive. It looks very nice and stuff and installed without a hitch but it doesnt like the fact that my cable connection is on USB rather than network so I can't get Linux online until I get a network card (Which wont be for ages unless I can blag one from work).

So yeah, day nine out of nine of my consecutive non-working days is approaching which is kinda depressing. I spent most of my week off lazing and watching films. *Shrug* Do I feel better from it? Yeah I suppose I do even if I have been tired for the bulk of it... ;)

...and that was Sunday

Had another boring day in. Watched many music videos that I downloaded from Morpheus. Did the washing up and cleaned the kitchen. Tidied my room and chucked out some crap. Hopefully the parents will notice when they come back tomorrow...

Got work tomorrow which I know will will be hell. I'll probably get shouted at for not properly passing out outstanding problems before I left. The day'll be pretty crap too due to Richard (One of the few helpdesk guys that has a clue) being away for 2 weeks meaning less people to take calls and stuff. There's also supposed to be a new employee starting. Don't know when but it'll probably be tomorrow when I have lots of work to catch up on and lots of proceedures to do but also show this new guy what to do... Bah the sooner I get a new job the better.

I was feeling depressed when I began to write this journal but I was in #uk at the time and somehow managed to end up in a loop of folks repeating stuff and changiing them a bit and it became really mental. I've not laughed so much at something from in channel in ages! If no-one else does, I'll stick a copy of the log somewhere as everyone should see what madness occured in #uk this night!

I'm gonna go to bed early as I'm feeling tired again and I need to get up at 6am for work. Bah gotta get the 6.35 tomorrow morning as my folks aren't here to give me a lift...

Nighters