@matigo Silver or grey is my preference but really it doesn't matter that much. It's a myth that darker colours absorb more sunlight than lighter colours. The radiation frequencies that carry the heat aspect are reflected back by the formulation of the outer paint layers.
Seriously looking at 4-year-old used cars, Kia Cerato or Hyundai i30 automatic transmission hatchbacks are preferred. A car dealer about 15 km away has at least 8 examples of interest.
Two packages arrived today in Amazon boxes, but only one was actually from Amazon. The other was an interstate shipment of N95 head-loop face masks. The sender had used a spare Amazon box.
It item from Amazon was an ESR-brand Rebound Magnetic iPad Keyboard. It looks at first like the Apple magic keyboard, having a similar floating cantilever mount for that attaches to the iPad via magnets. It lacks the same range of adjustment angle as the Apple offering but only costs 29% of the Apple one.
Also, unlike the Apple one, it connects via Bluetooth and charges via an included USB-A to USB-C cable.
most of the numerical keys have three functions, the alternates being accessed via the fn key or the Shift key.
The keyboard is backlit with three brightness setting and six different backlighting colours and the whole thing shuts off if unattended fro more than one minute.
I’ve not been able to find the exact device on the UK or US Amazon websites but here’s the link to the AU website entry: https://www.amazon.com.au/ESR-Compatible-Cantilever-Precision-Multi-Touch/dp/B09N744Y4C/ref=sr_1_26
Made up a risotto on Wednesday night. Used chicken breast pieces, cubed pumpkin, beef bone broth as stock, arborio and basmati rice plus cheese to thicken it up. All these ingredients were on the permitted list of food suitable for the pre-colonoscopy "white low residue" diet.
Tonight I made a basic fritter batter, added most of the remaining risotto to it and cooked eight thick and warming tasty risotto fritters. There's still some plain risotto left, I plan to add some more chicken breat meat to it.
Three weeks ago blood tests showed I was severely anaemic, 74 grams of haemoglobin per litre of blood, normal levels are around 120 g/l, so I was given a unit (240 ml) of whole blood and an iron infusion.Prior to yesterday's colonoscopy & gastroscopy checks another blood sample was collected. My haemoglobin is up to a much more healthy 122 g/l now.
If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is = Pi x Z x Z x A.
This will take a while…
Attempting to rebuild the directory of an APFS Time Machine backup drive that mounted on the laptop's desktop but the Finder didn't show any of the backups made since late 2022. TechTool Pro app shows there are 23 snapshots on this drive and in the last 15 minutes has worked its way through just nine of them.
For three days prior to Friday's colonoscopy, I have to make sure there is no undigested food residue in my bowel. To achieve this I have a list of permitted foods, such as oils, white rice or white bread, plain pasta, lean meat, well-cooked, peeled potato or pumpkin, clear soups or consommés, milk, unsweetened and unflavoured yogurt, cheese, tea or coffee.
Seems to me I could easily have a nice pumpkin or chicken risotto since such a dish is oil, rice, stock, pumpkin or chicken and cheese to finish. Mac and cheese is another possibility.
A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud toward him.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?" The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers,
"Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his laptop computer, connects it to his iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his iPad that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his iPhone and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturised HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman in the U.S. government," says the cowboy. "Wow, that's correct," says the yuppie. "But how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required," answered the cowboy.
"You showed up here even though nobody called you, you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are, and you don't know a thing about cows.
This is a flock of sheep. Now give me back my dog."
@variablepulserate Went home after 11.5 hours in hospital. Haemoglobin should be better, more tests needed, seeing my GP in 90 minutes.