30 Tuesday Jan 2018
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What started off as “what can I do with this chicken breast?” ended up as a rather nice garam masala, after a bit of a fridge forage. I think I should spend a week just using stuff up, or perhaps hold a fridge forage dinner party. Could be interesting. Or maybe just weird…
26 Friday Jan 2018
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Cat therapy… helping me hold it together.
And making it impossible for me to get up.
20 Saturday Jan 2018
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When I moved from the previous Casa Azahar I dumped my cheap old rickety ironing board, which I had bought in Salamanca back in 1993. And since I now have the big tables set up in the “office” part of the living room I thought a small table top board would work fine as a replacement. Turns out I was wrong (though I do like how it neatly hangs up in the hall closet). And so today I splashed out on this ridiculously expensive Brabantia ironing board (though it was 40% off thanks to January sales). What the heck. I reckon it will be the last ironing board I ever buy. Now I just need to find a place to store it…
13 Saturday Jan 2018
12 Friday Jan 2018
Posted in casa azahar, cats, computers, iphone
So HEIC is the name Apple chose for its new HEIF standard for photos. HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format, a more streamlined way to store image files. Using advanced, modern compression methods it allows digital photographs to be created in smaller files sizes, while retaining higher image quality than its JPEG alternative. Which sounds great EXCEPT that nobody else is using this format other than Apple, so it won’t download on my computer, blah blah…
After locating an app that would convert HEIC to JPEG, a friend told me that it was actually possible to turn off the HEIC option on the phone, so I have now done that. I mean, I now have 256 GBs and am sure I’ll never get up to using even half of that, so I’m not really interested in saving space. Anyhow, Morcilla looks just as pretty in JPEG, wouldn’t you agree?
Nope, not going out today. What are you guys doing?
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