It’s one of those things that when you read about what is involved they make it sound really hard - lots of warnings about carefully adding oil drop by drop or you will ruin it, the recipes all seem to make it sound like a really labour intense effort with a high risk of failure. So a lot of people won’t even get to the point of trying to do it and finding out how easy it actually is.

I think if you are used to bought mayonnaise you are also expecting a different flavour profile, so when you make it what you get tastes “wrong” because it is not what you are expecting.

A batch of mayonnaise has now been made, ready to go on my fish burger for dinner.

When I was a kid we used to make this horrible concoction based on condensed milk that we called mayonnaise, I am very grateful that is no longer a thing in my life. I don’t really like the standard purchased mayonnaise these days either. There was one brand of whole egg mayonnaise that I liked, but they changed from glass jars to plastic recently so I decided it is time to stop being lazy and start making my own. Last time I made it I pasturised the egg first, this time I decided to live on the edge and use it raw. If I die of salmonella poisoning in the next couple of weeks you will know where it came from.

35/50. Unusually high for me, but I will admit there were a couple of lucky guesses in the mix.

The price increases tend to be one sudden jump upwards and then a slow slide downwards too. The different stations used to be fairly synchronised but they are all over the place these days.

I have the Petrol Spy app which tracks the prices at different places and it has a graph which shows the average prices over the last couple of months for each state. The different price pattern between them are crazy. We currently have price cycles that go up then back down over about a month, Perth apparently has dramatic weekly fluctuations. I’m pretty sure Melbourne’s price cycles used to be a lot shorter, it would be interesting to have comparison over time as well.

I have a lovely gold one, why?

The fuel light’s not on yet so I don’t count it as urgent… I don’t need to go anywhere much so I can probably manage another week on a few fumes but it is definitely not something I can put off too much longer.

Miserable weather today. The car was getting very low on fuel but I didn’t really want to stop. I’d seen petrol this morning at 193c so made a bargain with myself that I would stop if it was below 190, but otherwise I would put it off. Damn petrol station had 187c. I was very affronted by its refusal to cooperate in my attempt to avoid stopping so decided to make a stand and refuse to fill up at such a rude and uncooperative petrol station. Home has now been successfully achieved and petrol can wait for another day.

Even basic recycling of things like plastics is not done well.

Government using contractors as part of the system is fine, but not having a system at all seems to be the problem. Government should at the very least be setting up effective frameworks for management, recycling and disposal of all types of waste. Instead they set up a few guidelines and leave it to “market forces” and wonder why we end up with dodgy systems geared towards profit for company owners at the expense of the health and safety of the general public and the workers involved in the industry.

In the past decade or so in Victoria alone there have been: warehouses full of soft plastic being stockpiled, warehouses full of contaminated “mixed recycling” being stockpiled, warehouses full of toxic chemicals stockpiled and being stored incorrectly, a massive property being used as an illegal dump for huge volumes of toxic waste being secretly buried, an old landfill site leaking dangerous levels of methane into houses in a nearby housing estate

These are just the ones that were big enough to be in the media that I can remember off the top of my head. This is what “market forces” and weak regulations get us

I have about three possums per square metre where I am. I hear them carousing across the roof nightly, one lives (and raises baby possums) in the blocked off chimney in the bedroom, and I regualrly hear them disputing territory in the back yard. I recently lost a staring competition with a possum sitting on the fence outside my kitchen window. I’ve also had a possum come inside the house on three separate occasions.

I like possums in general, but I’d be very happy to have a few less of them around, I’m completely outnumbered and the garden suffers from their nibbling as well.

My cold has mostly gone but my sinuses are still full and it’s causing my teeth to ache. I hope it’s not a sign I’m getting a sinus infection or something, I have an appointment to have a broken tooth with a root near the sinus cavity removed next week and I’m a bit concerned a sinus problem could prevent that happening. I’ve been waiting months for this appointment already.

I have switched mostly to men’s socks - my feet are right at the top of the standard size range for women, which means they are more stretched and wear holes quicker. The larger sizes of women’s socks are often a bit too big and less available, but the standard size in men’s business socks tends to work well.

I don’t think it was so much an overreaction to Covid or excessive spending, I think it was more a case of not spending in the right way, so most of what was spent was wasted.

The whole point of lockdowns was to slow the spread to allow medical services time to increase the capacity to deal with a higher volume of patients, but that didn’t really happen. If they had spent their money on things that would increase capacity, streamline process etc. it would have led to the ability to clear a lot of backlog of patients, reduce ramping etc. when that capacity was not needed for Covid. That obviously hasn’t happened.

I don’t work in the hospitals but I expect the experience there was similar to my organisation - the potential problems were ignored early on when it would have been the best time to do something, then when Covid hit a lot of money got splashed around on short-term initiatives so managers could feel they were doing something (thanks for the free food, but really a waste of money), but no effective longer term changes were met. This is combined with workers leaving because of overwork and insufficient staff numbers and pay making it hard to recruit and retain new people, which is the culmination of years/decades of insufficient funding.

Having gone through a few royal comissions at work I can quite confidently say it won’t do anything. A few executives get tossed out, some minor cosmetic changes get made and the staff all get new uniforms with the new logo on it. All of the real systemic and funding problems that are the root cause remain.

I have been sorting out some end of financial year stuff and am pleased to say I have exceeded my Superannuation balance goal for the year.

I also received an awesome amount of bank interest, especially compared to previous years where interest rates were so low they were barely worth considering. I do have Coles Mastercard to thank for a lot of it though, as they gave me a 0% for 15 months offer which allowed me to max out my card at no cost and leave nearly $10k in a savings account earning hundreds of dollars in interest payments.

As the time of posting was 5 seconds early this seems to indicate that it took about 4 seconds from when you posted it until when it was actually done. So you might need to post at 11:59:56 to get an exact midnight posting. More investigations may be required to confirm.

Yeah, they’d be happy to charge you with dumping it. Doesn’t mean they’d do a thing to investigate it being dumped on you in the first place.

That looks really good. Much fancier than I was expecting.

I can imagine. The superannuation group on Facebook has been filled with people thinking about making last minute contributions and being shocked to find out the funds have processing timelines and it is already too late. Forward planning is something many people lack.

I once dreamed I had seedlings growing in my legs.

I’ve been waiting to see what the Victorian Remuneration Tribunal comes up with for the politician’s salary increase this year and it is still not released. Cutting it a bit fine as it is supposed to be implimented on 1/7.

I would support it if they decided to just put off deciding until next year and make them lose out on a pay rise altogether this year, and maybe next year too, so they can experience the situation most of the govt. employees are put in every 3-4 years when their EBA is up for review and the employer just refuses to negotiate. I really think the politician’s wages should also be capped at whatever their policy for maximum pay rises in the public sector is.

Mostly eating grass and puking are independent. Mr Woof wants to stop and graze every time we go past an overgrown naturestrip, if it was something that caused him to vomit I’d be constantly surrounded by dog puke. I suspect the link between grass and puking is more that grass is not something that is very digestible to dogs so tends to show up whole and identifiable. It might also be something that occasionally they eat to try to settle their stomach, much like we might have a dry cracker. But just like you can’t assume everyone who sits down to cheese and biscuits is feeling nauseous most dogs are not feeling sick when they eat grass.

I agree on the benefits of a wet & dry vac. I have a little dustbuster style spot cleaner carpet shampoo thing which has been used to clean up many an accidental pet mess.