Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly, in the right order?
Sunday, August 30
It's Sunday, So It Must Be Time For -
Pixy's Failed Adventures In Baking!
Status: Not failed yet. Failed. You could drive nails with that one.
Found a second source for cheap gluten-free bread mix. I'd ignored this one since it cost 50% more than the other, then I looked closer, and realised that it was 50% more for twice as much.
Doh.
It's a slightly different mix (soy flour in place of chick pea flour) and is a grain bread (linseeds, sunflower seeds, corn kibbles) but it's made by the same company. I used a little less water than specified, and this time it looks more like dough than cake batter so that's promising.
And I bought enough for six loaves, so I should be able to zero in on a good recipe before I run out.
Update: Hmm. This one also uses baking soda rather than yeast. It hasn't risen at all yet, so I hope it does so as it bakes.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, August 30 2015 03:40 PM (+rSRq)
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I've heard that in some cases, what appears to be a Gluten allergy is actually an allergy to the bleaching agent used in flour. Although finding unbleached flour can be tricky sometimes.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, August 30 2015 06:51 PM (TJ7ih)
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Allergies are tricky, but in my case it's celiac disease rather than an allergy. (Autoimmune reaction rather than a histamine reaction.)
Which is good in that it's a constant thing and won't suddenly flare up and kill me, but bad in that the only treatment is to completely avoid anything containing wheat, barley, or rye.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, August 30 2015 07:26 PM (PiXy!)
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I hope you're keeping notes, so that if you finally succeed you'll be able to replicate the success.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 31 2015 02:16 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, August 31 2015 02:16 AM (+rSRq)
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300ml of cold water makes the bread rise enough but not too much. (The packet says 350ml.)
I think I need to bake it on a light setting then leave it in a warm oven for an hour or so. A darker setting makes the crust too thick, but on a light setting it's still a bit doughy in the middle.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, August 31 2015 10:48 AM (PiXy!)
Help may be coming (in 30 years or so). Glenn says that researchers in Spain have come up with a GM wheat which is 96% gluten reduced compared to regular wheat. And it makes a satisfactory bread.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, September 01 2015 11:29 AM (+rSRq)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Tuesday, September 01 2015 11:38 AM (/lg1c)
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Yep, I saw that. Since it's only gluten-reduced, not gluten-free, and celiac disease has an non-linear dose/response relationship, I'll have to wait and see.
They say that a typical celiac patient should be able to eat three or four slices of this bread without a problem, so it's promising.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, September 02 2015 10:18 AM (PiXy!)
And then Pixy said, measuring cup, measuring cup... Aha!
And then Pixy said, are you sure these proportions are right, bread mix packet? That looks more like cake batter than bread dough.
And then Pixy said, what the hell, the worst that can happen is I end up with no bread, which is where I've been since 2010.
Found some inexpensive packaged gluten-free bread mix* at the supermarket, so I dug out my old bread maker thingy and it's whirring away right now. I lost the instruction book long ago and I'm expecting this first run to be inedible, but it's worth a shot.
Update: Yep, inedible. Definitely too many waters. Will try again with fewer waters.
* In case you're wondering, tapioca starch, potato flour, chick pea flour, and rice flour. There's no real substitute for wheat, unfortunately.
Not the most violent, but in terms of covering a large area, dumping huge amounts of water over everything in sight, blowing down trees, and generally continuing to cause havoc for two full days so far, definitely the biggest.
I can't actually remember the Parramatta River (the main river flowing into Sydney Harbour) flooding before. I'm worried about the Nepean River, which is where we usually get major flooding in weather like this. (Miles and miles from where I live, but the one place we do get significant flooding in Sydney.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, April 22 2015 12:45 AM (+rSRq)
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But it's nicer if it's spread out over more time, I must admit.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, April 22 2015 01:59 AM (+rSRq)
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Well, there's rain and then there's a foot of rainfall in 24 hours accompanied by 80mph winds. That's not so good.
Right now it's stopped here, after 48 hours of constant heavy rain and high winds. It's almost eerie how quiet it is. From the weather radar it looks like I'm in a localised pocket of calm and the storm will be back by morning.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 22 2015 02:05 AM (PiXy!)
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Found a report on flooding on the Parramatta River from earlier this year, which shows that I'm just not all that attentive.
But the picture there shows the same ferry terminal as the video above, except that back in January water was flowing from somewhere else across the terminal and draining into the river, where now the river itself has risen to flood the terminal and everything around it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 22 2015 02:39 AM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, April 22 2015 05:06 AM (+rSRq)
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Weather moves from west to east over most of Australia, but in the opposite direction in the far north. The result is that tropical storms will occasionally get stuck and wander south, sometimes as far as Sydney.
Very similar to the continental US and hurricanes tracking up your east coast, just with north and south reversed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, April 22 2015 09:11 PM (PiXy!)
Most people have a story to tell when they find themselves passed out on the bathroom floor in a puddle of their own vomit. Even if they can't remember it.
Me, nope. Dinner at home, listening to Ace of Spades podcast, start to feel really sick, run for bathroom [TMI elided] then the food poisoning (if that's what it was) brings on a migraine as a special guest star and I find I can't stand up any more, or even sit up, and lying down on a floor that I've just thrown up on actually starts to look like a good option.
Then I pass out for a while.
And, in extra bonus this-is-my-life-now news, my neighbours are making so much noise (at some time after 10 at night, and they've been carrying on like this since 8:30 this morning) that they wake me up. Food poisoning, migraine, massive sleep deficit due to recent rush jobs at work, comatose on the bathroom floor, and they wake me up.
No idea what it was. My first thought was scombroid poisoning, but unless turkey has been reclassified as fish, that's impossible. Very rapid onset, almost equally rapid recovery.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, February 15 2015 01:38 AM (+rSRq)
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I had Salmonella once, and you're right, it's not a lot of fun. This felt markedly different, though - I didn't go into a list of symptoms, but they included tingling in my hands and feet, severe dizziness, and sweating like a pig in a boiler room.
The symptoms match a couple of different types of fish-borne illnesses very closely, but turkeys ain't fish, so I don't know what the hell it was. Just happy that it seems to be over.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, February 15 2015 02:14 AM (PiXy!)
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Stomach flu? I had a dose three years ago, the tingling/dizziness/sweating sounds a lot like how I felt at points during The Event. Lasted about 18 hours more or less, took a couple of days to get over completely. No migraine, thankfully, but there was a point around 4am that I felt like I was going to die... and I didn't care.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, February 15 2015 06:09 AM (jGQR+)
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I don't think norovirus causes tingling in the hands and feet like that. I wonder if you got a small dose of botulism?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, February 15 2015 09:03 AM (+rSRq)
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Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, December 04 2014 06:18 PM (jGQR+)
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, December 04 2014 10:59 PM (PiXy!)
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Ah, I see. I don't remember a scene where Yuno uses a cat as a booster seat in a cafe!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, December 05 2014 09:00 AM (jGQR+)
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I do remember it, somewhat. She didn't know it was there when she sat down. Or didn't know it was a cat and not a cushion. One or the other.
Hard to know which season/episode it is, since they aren't in order. And if they were in order it wouldn't matter. I may need to re5-watch this again. (The 5 may be a lowball estimate.)
Posted by: Mikeski at Friday, December 05 2014 06:46 PM (luDkn)
I have a natural wake-sleep cycle of about 28 hours. Left to my own devices, I'll go to bed and wake up about four hours later every day. Which means that once a week I sync up with the rest of the world.
Whenever I take time off work and don't actually go on a trip somewhere, this happens, but so long as I take time off in full weeks, I go back to work synced up with the rest of the company. I've been like this since my late teens; as a child, I was normal. In that respect.
Well, it's not a lot of fun, but... I guess I'm lucky in a way that my job so often requires me to work weird hours, so that I always have an excuse. (Okay, I didn't get in to the office until noon on Monday, but I was working on that crashed server until 3AM on Saturday...)
Of course, as with all self-diagnoses, it's possible that I'm just a hypochondriac with bad sleep habits who's been on call 24x7 for six years straight.
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Some drug company has apparently come out with a new medication to "treat" this--I've been hearing a bunch of commercials on the radio lately: "I'm blind, and I have non-24" or whatever they call it, and an exhortation to call a toll-free number or talk to your doctor or something.
Posted by: RickC at Sunday, November 16 2014 08:59 AM (0a7VZ)
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One quarter, at the University of Casual Sun-Bathing, I took the weed-out course for computer science majors....and ended up spending more time logged-on than the sysadmin. And in the course of that quarter, I went to a 28-hour day. I'd get up, and if it was dark I couldn't tell if it was 8pm or 4am. I'd sleep about 9 hours and do things for about 19.
One of the more odd things about 28-hour days is that there's only six of 'em in a week.
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