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Watching an episode of QI. Emma Thompson just told the story of her Oscar-winning script for Sense and Sensibility being rescued by Stephen Fry. Her computer had fritzed, and her script was unreadable. She called a computer tech, who couldn't fix it, so she took her computer bodily (in her dressing gown, apparently) by taxi to Stephen's house, and begged him to fix it; she said it took him seven hours. Apparently Hugh Laurie was there, too.
Stephen Fry made a comment about the advantages of being a nerd. I know people like that, though - the people who fix computer problems that supposed computer experts can't fix.
(Alan Davies joked that he couldn't actually fix her computer, so he just wrote the script because it would be faster.)
If nothing else, it's also nice to know that Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson are all still friends, after all these years.
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Tonight I am cooking: chicken. Three ways.
v1: Rub surface with honey.
v2: Rub surface with honey, then roll in flour/crumb mix. (Gluten-free flour, and gluten-free corn crumbs.)
v3: Dip in egg-oil mix, then roll in flour-crumb mix. (After googling a breading recipe.)
All: Bake in oven.
We shall see how closely these tread the path of tasty.
Meanwhile, in attempting to cook (whilst, I acknowledge in my own defence, having a bad pain day for my shoulder), I have:
- spilt chicken blood on the floor
- had honey-chicken-blood-mixed runoff from v1 process in bowl spill over counter and floor
- messed flour over knobs on stove
- and, after having cleaned up the floor messes and been left with a slightly damp floor, proceeded to knock a plate off the counter putting the last tray of chicken in the oven, causing the plate to shatter and flour/crumb mix residue on plate to coat floor.
*sighs*
With all the mess and the pain and the shattered crockery, this chicken better be fucking worth it.
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