I came home hungry with
nothing in the fridge. Unfortunately all the meat I had put there from
the freezer was still frozen. Sometimes I forget to take out meat from
the freezer and since it takes a couple of days to defrost I have to
plan a bit ahead. Of course I could just leave it out or microwave
defrost it. The problem with the microwave is you can end up cooking it
and microwaved meat is not too good. Taking it outside the fridge still
takes a couple of hours which I didn't want to wait.
So I rumage through the cupboards. Sometimes I have meat in a can that
I can make. Like ham or spam or fried dace (which is a fish) --
something like that. I'm rarely in the mood to eat a meal with no meat
at all. That would be a snack to me. Or I'd just get a craving later.
The closest thing I had was Woo's spaghetti. I had all the ingredients
except the extra ground beef. But I did have the chili which has little
ground beef bits in it. You're hungry, have a craving, it's no time to
be picky.
Now sometimes when I'm hungry I make lots of food. I can still eat it
all but it's definitely more than I should eat. This time I made a
whole lot of spaghetti sauce. The thing is you don't need that much
spaghetti sauce. I made enough for half a dozen people if I had two or
three pounds of pasta which I don't. So now I have a big bowl of
spaghetti sauce that'll last me a week or two since I'm not going to
eath it every meal.
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I've been maniacally
watching "The West Wing" season one. Usually I get a DVD and copy it to
my hard drive so I can send the DVD back the next day to NetFlix. DVDs
are anywhere from 3-1/2 to 7-1/2 GB or so, usually being about 6 GB. So
I can keep like three images around, maybe four but that means I have
an uncomfortably low amount of free disk space for a Unix system.
The West Wing comes on double-sided disks. Each side is 7 GB of data.
Eight episodes per disk and one or two commentaries. That's a lot of
data and I need to clear it from my hard drive before the next disk
arrives the next day. So I stayed up Sunday night watching most of disk
1. Monday watching the rest of disk 1 and half of disk 2. Tuesday just
getting started on disk 3. It's an excellent show but I didn't really
want to watch it this fast.
So I'm still like a month and a half behind NetFlix. When I first
subscribed I came up with a 1 disk per 3 days viewing rate that I think
was fair to both NetFlix and me. Unfortunately I stopped watching for
three months and have been slowly catching up all this year. I also
have limits like I only send one DVD back per day even if I have more.
It's weird the rules I make.
At work I'm listening to the Oracle OpenWorld keynotes from last week.
They're all on Real video and available to the Internet. I really like
that Oracle has lots of events and stuff on video, whether it's public
or private. I wish Apple had more stuff on video but that's the price
of doing it all in-house -- sometimes you don't have the manpower and
resources to do it properly. I think Oracle has a 3rd party doing the
video recording and providing the feed. I'm not sure.
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