Matisyahu's Blog

I woke up early today to the chime of a message being sent to say that the food I ordered was on its way. When it arrived I put it all away and then got to cooking up the mince – it had been in the freezer for quite some time, I cooked it up and it was truly awful. I’m unsure what may have happened but I’m going to remember next time not to freeze the mince for longer than a few months before the mince I had was all grey and dry – even cooking it with a decent amount of canned tomatoes didn’t fix it up. Unfortunately it was a bit of a waste of food but I had a plan (b) that I could turn to so I guess it wasn’t that bad after all but I guess it is a case of ‘you live and you learn’.

I checked for updates for my software and uBlock Origin Lite 2026.322.1735 was released today. I wasn’t expecting an update so soon after the beta release but there are two notable updates for Safari – I quickly updated, cleared the cache, and set it up cleanly and I haven’t noticed any regressions so far. The update has ben made available on the Apple App Store (both iOS and macOS) and the Microsoft Edge store but it hasn’t arrived yet in the Google Chrome store yet – that may take 24-48 hours. On Tuesday we may see the 26.4 update (which would be Monday in the United States) but it could be possible that they’ll release it on Wednesday (which would be Tuesday in the United States).

On a good side I ordered two CDs on Discogs: Grady Tate Movin’ Day and Grady Tate After The Long Drive Home which are getting shipped from Japan. The Arthur Adams CDs arrived and I ripped them to FLAC, backed them up to the cloud and then I encoded the FLAC to AAC for playback on my iPhone along with playing on my other devices. I’m getting back into listening to music and I’m tempted to buy a DVD player so that I can build up my DVD collection once again. At the rate things are going I may need to buy myself another bookshelf or do some rearranging of furniture around the home – I need some more space.

Winter is coming in the next few months so one of the things I want to do is to setup a curtain on the side door where I can feel the heat escaping. I’m tempted to get some sort of ready made curtain that I purchase ‘off the rack’ but I’ll need to get a tape measure so then when I do pop into a place that sells them that I get the correct sized ones. In the area I have a wicker wood chest for my shoes but what I really would like to get is a proper shoe rack/cabinet – the one at Kmart looks good enough and the colour fits in with the other furniture (I’m avoiding the whole white furniture look because it would look out of place in my house).