Phil moves from Scotland, to explore a hotter dryer existence in Adelaide, whilst studying Electrical Power Engineering at the University of South Australia. Lots of pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/thetopping

Saturday, 8 May 2010

Big week down, big week to go.

Whew. Big week.

I had my laptop and flash drive both fully operational by the end of Monday, so I got a lot done, of course there was a lot to do, so I'm still a bit behind. I've got the hang of spraying backups wildly around now, so that on Wednesday, when I just forgot my flash drive as I left Mawson Lakes, I was able to carry on working as if nothing had happened, the only irritation being the loss of hardware (luckily some guy found it and I got it back on Friday).

I pretty much spent the whole week working on my VIP (Virtual Instrumentation Programming) and ERP (Engineering Research Practice) assignments, and my Dynamics lab report. When I get all that lot done, I've got an EPS (Electrical Power Systems) lab report to write up, and that's all due a week from now.

So another big week to come.

Also, why did nobody tell me how easy pizza is to make? We pay a fair bit (remember I'm comparing this to the price of beans and bread) for it ready-made from supermarkets, and getting a take away's like eating out. Now I've got the magic ingredient (a.k.a. yeast, a big tub ~300gram, and at half a teaspoon per pizza I don't think I'll be running out any time soon) the rest is just flour and water mashed up. Well I've been eating nothing but pizza for the past week: for breakfast, egg calzone (you can eat it like a sandwich), cold pizza packed lunch, and a large cheese & tomato pizza for dinner. Cost for the week: about $5, that's about three of your Earth British pounds. Living on a budget WIN. I've gone through more than 3kg of flour so far though, not sure it's such a good diet...

3 comments:

  1. I forgot that I'd put you in reader there so my first thought when you popped up was, "wait.. when did Topping get famous?"

    Not that you don't deserve to be, of course.

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  2. I think the sun's boiled your brain Topping. It may be slightly hypocritical but you need to eat something different. Atleast put some MEAT on your pizzas

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  3. Benzo made us pizza before but he used wholemeal flour which was odd but not bad. Brownbread pizza a possible alternative for you if you are worried about flour consumption?

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