Had to spend most of yesterday being the grumpy old developer who says “I don’t think you did quite enough testing before that merge…”

I didn’t get to “vote” but not only should that guy not run the bird app, he shouldn’t own it or any other company.

Secret Wassail Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 6 Oranges (cut in half)
  • 1 Box of White Raisins
  • 1 Box of Cinnamon Sticks
  • 12 oz Silvered almonds
  • 6 liters cheap Red jug wine
  • 4 liters cheap White jug wine
  • 2 liters cheap White Rum
  • 2 liters cheap Dark Rum
  • 5 oz Falernum (A.V. Stansfeld Babados, BWI distributed by Sazerac Co Inc New Orleans, LA 70121)
  • 1 box cubed sugar tablets (must be tablets not cubes)
  • 4 oz 151 Rum

Instructions

To the oranges, add 2 liters of red wine, 2 cups of raisins, 4 sticks cinnamon, 12 oz slivered almonds.
Simmer for 45 min (at least), take out the oranges and throw away. Do not squeeze them otherwise the mixture will be too acidic.

At the same time:
Warm up in the wassail bowl and the remain 4 liters of red wine, and 4 liters of white wine.

SET UP THE SUGAR TABLETS ON THE WIRE RACK. (Keep them in a solid block…if they are too spread out they will melt too quickly)

At the appointed wassail time:
Add 5 oz of falernum to the wassail bowl.

Bring out hot wassail bowl, add zest, add hot rum from cooktop.

Pour 1/2 cup 151 rum and put over sugar stack after mounting it to the bowl.

Ignite and keep ladling wassail over sugar until it has all carmelized into the wassail.

WASSAIL, WASSAIL ALL OVER THE TOWN

Only two weeks until the Dark Sky app stops working, making a valuable spot available on my first home screen. I don’t yet know what I will move there…

With the Discovery Channel takeover at HBO, most of the SF shows I was watching are now gone. Time to catch up with the few remaining and cancel.

Well it took a few minutes (and a couple of restarts) to get my phone number moved to the new esim; it has taken a full day for my account on the web site to finally start working. You would think that they would be better at adding a new customer.

Finally had time to switch mobile carriers, there were a few delays but it seems to have worked…except I can’t create an account with the new carrier because I’m not getting the confirmation emails.

The randomly selected Mastodon instance was randomly offline early this morning. Down for maintenance?