Sunday, No Fun Day

After staying up most of the night you’d think I’d sleep in and recover but I was up and at them by eight bells. Well, I was up and showered. I had a load of laundry still to tackle and an ambitious plan to catchup on the work I’d missed out on during the previous day’s debacle. But I got a crazy idea first and decided to procrastinate. I’d meant to do it the night before but was disheveled and out of sorts. I made a short video. Find it below.

After filming this much simpler video compared to the last one, which I have yet to embed in the Musings for you. Maybe I won’t, maybe I’ll just leave that link. I don’t think I get any precious views from embedded videos, but who cares. Even with it being simpler it still took me over an hour to edit. So instead of starting my workday at nine or ten on a Sunday it was going to be later. Then as I was uploading the finished product I glanced out my window and saw an ambulance pull up. A beautiful blonde EMT hopped out and started gearing up. I couldn’t start work now, I had to see what was happening, I wouldn’t be much of a nosey neighbour if I didn’t. They went in and came out with the husband. They walked him out so didn’t need the cart, which raises and lowers with electric motors now and can be operated by one person. Never a dull moment at the Harbour.

That’s not entirely true of course. The next nine hours or so were very dull. I ended up starting work around eleven and continued steady until five. I started with the most frustrating bit and then had the more defined smaller portion to cover in the middle and the fun and easy bit for the finale. So it was in the middle of the middle that I took a meal break. I took just over an hour of time off to make the dish pictured below. You could call it inspired by or in reaction to the Friday Family Feast meal. I had a bunch of cheese, pepperoni and sauce in the fridge with no other specific purpose. I cooked up another sausage in the air fryer according the directions from the recipe and I chopped two stacks of pepperoni into quarters. When they are full sized I find that when you get an edge of them in a bite they pull cheese off and make a bit of a mess so I hacked them into smaller chunks. I knew I was going to use the tortilla and wasn’t planning to make ultra thin crust pizzas but rather to make a pizza burrito type meal. I was at a loss how to cook the sauce and cheese but not solidify the tortilla. I ended up putting them under the broiler at 400F for seven minutes. It definitely stiffened them but they were just barely pliable enough that I could fold them into a wrap. A better idea would have been to heat the sloppy middle up on a baking sheet and scoop it into the tortilla immediately after ejecting from the oven like a chef with a flat top at a diner. Or the other alternative would have been to make the pizza and use one wrap for the bottom and quesadilla it into a pizza quesadilla. Live and learn I guess. This was pretty tasty but had to be gripped and ripped. You couldn’t put it down once you started lest it disintegrate.

I got back to work after cleaning up and it wasn’t until around half eight that I powered down and tried to wind down into bed. I was asleep around half nine I think, maybe a touch later. I went from my computer screen to apologizing to my family that I didn’t do the Christmas list they wanted to my bed and YouTube until the lights went out. Long day.