After letting breakfast settle I cleaned some pots and pans that I let lay in the sink for far too long. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm a lazy person by nature. After the dishes were cleaned I swept the kitchen and dusted the stairs out of the kitchen. These are rather nice timber frame constructed stairs. They really need a good sanding and refinishing. I just took some Murphy Oil Soap to them.
The rest of the day was mostly lazy. Some tuna salad for lunch followed by a virtual coffee and chat with the local tech group.
I left the chat early so I could finishing prepping dinner: roast chicken. I put it in a brine before goes to my work from home office to meet with folks. Before I pulled it out of the brine I used my mandoline to slice up a mess of spuds. I tossed them with cream, salt, pepper, and thyme. They went into the foiled lined bottom a broiler pan and into the oven. I then spatchcocked the chicken, dried it, oiled it, and salt and peppered it. It went on the top part of the broiler pan and on top of the spuds.
I then fussed about with getting pihole sorted out. That project didn't get finished until after dinner. Looking at all the dns queries is kinda mesmerizing.
I still wasn't able to use pihole to block the game site my boy goes to. I suspect that since it is under sites.google.com/sites is why the school's network that I'm assuming the chromebook is a part of can't block it either.
That is a puzzle to solve another day. For now it's time for a little doom scrolling and watch the next episode in West World.
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