Mackay.

9:50 am, October 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, photography, roundups by Liz

Last weekend I flew up to Mackay – part of an early birthday present from Jarod. For those playing along at home, my birthday is the 30th of October.

Here are some photos with inadequate captions.

The Marina…

Kenny, easily the most excitable dog in the world…

And his favourite thing to do…

Followed closely by…

We went to the beach…

Kenny came too…

I found a dying crab…

And took a photo of the sunset…

On Sunday we went to Pinnacle for a Pie, and I got used to seeing acres and acres of (baby) sugar cane…

Then it was hometime, with a stopover in Brisbane…

And a cold, wet, dark welcome by Sydney…

And then I started the working week all over again.

Hey Kid, I’m a Computer

7:19 pm, October 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in geekery, internets by Jarod

I can’t tell you how many times “Hey kid, I’m a computer” and “Stop all the downloading” was quoted in IRC channels I frequented.

Whitey’s New Boots

6:05 pm, October 26th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, photography by Jarod

I recently treated whitey to a new set of boots… and in the process saved almost a kilo of weight. Crazy!

These were replaced:

With these:

Hubs are these:

Rims are these:

And they’re laced together with super light DT Swiss Revolution spokes and held in with super sexy red DT Swiss Alloy Nipples.

On the quick ride I took it for to bed them in, the wheels were nothing short of spectacular. The whole bike just felt so nimble.

Sadly, the same couldn’t be said for the cranks. They were extremely grindy and horrible sounding, so I’ll have to do something about that before the Fling. Which incidentally is in a week and a halfs time. Shit.

Press for Pizza

2:17 pm, October 24th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, photography by Jarod

I pressed it but got no pizza :-( From the Cooks River Ride today.

Forkless Cruiser

6:05 pm, October 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings by Jarod

If I were to own a Cruiser Bike, this one. Seriously cool!!

Photo credit goes too Etienne Musslin

On the shelf…

8:35 pm, October 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted in girlthings, internets by Liz

A cat and some hair ties. Hers, not mine.

‘My Place & Yours‘ – Meet me at Mikes.

Liz’s Mushli Bars

2:00 pm, October 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in Recipe, girlthings, internets, liz cooks sometimes, photography by Liz

Jarod, ever the optimist, asked me to make him some muesli bars. I tried a few weeks back and ended up with some kind of weird cookies, but this weekend after studying many recipes on the internet, I came up with this:

50g butter
1/2 cup raw sugar
1/4 honey
1 crushed Weetbix
Just under 3/4 cup of Carman’s Classic Fruit Muesli
1/2 cup self raising flour

1. Preheat oven to 170C.
2. Melt butter, sugar and honey in a saucepan on medium heat.
3. Stir until sugar dissolved, then set aside to cool slightly.
4. In a bowl, combine Weetbix, muesli and self raising flour.
5. Pour combined dry ingredients into the butter, sugar and honey.
6. Mix well with a wooden spoon until combined.
7. Spread mix onto a baking paper lined tray, and put in the oven.
8. Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
9. Remove from oven and let cool before cutting to your preferred size.

Jarod approves. Om nom nom.

Lots of riding then not much riding

6:37 pm, October 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, local, whinging by Jarod

Since I did the mammoth 75km ride last last Sunday (for the Spring Cycle), I’ve been extraordinarily lazy with my riding. I got a lil bit flu’ey and run down and just didn’t really get back into the swing of turning the pedals over. The intermittent rain over the course of the long weekend didn’t really help either.

There’s 4 weeks to go til the Highland Fling. And it’s not as though I’m heading down there to break any records or anything. It’s just that I want to be fit when I tackle the 50kms and post the best possible time I can. Much like with the 50km Dirtworks, if I roll over the finish line and know I had nothing left to give then I’ll be happy.

Now it’s time to bust out some proper training rides. Oh wait, it’s raining!

CanBERRA!

9:42 pm, October 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, photography by Liz

On the weekend, Jarod and I went to CanBERRA for a day of Fun! and Interesting Things!

In reality, we went to Floriade and then to the QUESTACON.

We drove down in the early, early hours of the morning. I kinda dozed through most of it, while Jarod drove. We arrived and it was COLD. Luckily we’d bought some extra layers, so we put them on and then started the walk around Floriade.

There were Tulips!

And more Tulips!

And tasty Donut Holes!

Then we met up for lunch with some of Jarod’s family, and I scored some lovely super early birthday presents. Then – Questacon! Which was Indoors! And Warm! And Dry! And FULL of science!

And Stegosauri!

And Mirrors!

And a room full of Earthquake!

And Lightning!

And Colours!

And Impatient Children!

We were exhausted by the end of it, but it was a pretty good day.

Cake in a Mug!

9:14 pm, October 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in Recipe, boythings, geekery, internets, liz cooks sometimes, photography by Jarod

Liz made a Cake in a Mug. So I was took stacks of photos.

Ingredients:

- 3 tablespoons SR flour
- 3 tablespoons caster sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 3 tablespoons softened butter
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 tablespoon choc chips (or more)
- 1 large mug

Method:

- Cream the butter and sugar with a fork.
- Add dry ingredients to the mug…mix well.
- Crack egg into mug. Mix well, scrape bottom to avoid any pockets of flour in the corners.
- Pour in the milk and vanilla essence. Mix some more.
- Add the choc-chips and stir a tiny bit. not too much or they all go to the bottom.
- Pop your mug into the microwave and cook for 2 minutes 30 seconds on high.
- Use mits when you get it out of the microwave. Tip into bowl already filled with ice cream.

It turned out to be nothing short of delicious, and we nommed the lot. Ok, now that all that formal stuff on how to make it is out of the way, lets have photos and crazy caption time!!

All the ingredients assembled.

Caster Sugar. Mmmmm, sweet!

The butter refused it leave its spoon. It was later prodded by a fork.

Creamed butter and sugar.

Cooooocooooooaaaa!

Self Raising Flour.

Stir stir stir.

1 egg. No egg shell.

More stiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrring.

Milk.

Yet more stirring.

Clean the outside edges for cleanliness sake.

Taste the batter to ensure deliciousness.

Add a precise quantity of choc bits.

Cook for two and a half minutes in your microwave on high.

Or until it rises and hits the ceiling of your microwave.

Use an oven mit. It’s friggen hot.

Icecream first.

Then the cake cake cake.

Thumbs up after a quick taste test.