Tupperware Meal

I noticed the other day that the Tupperware in my home is microwave oven safe. I also noticed there was one Tupperware box that is close to the size of two instant noodle bricks. I could just about fit two instant noodle bricks in it with about half a centimeters space around the edges. 

I put the seasoning power in the Tupperware box and two instant noodle bricks, then I add just enough water to cover the noodles. Then I put the Tupperware box with noodles in the microwave oven for 10 minutes. The noodles come out perfect and I don't need to break them up into bits. Then I mix the noodles with plain white rice with no seasoning at all; I get a perfect meal for 3 that cost less than £1. You could also top off the instant noodles with frozen vegetables, very nice. 

I wonder if there is stoneware cooking tray with the same dimensions as the Tupperware box. That would be perfect. Then I could put it in a conventional oven and stack it with other things without using much energy. I would cook the noodles and jacket potatoes together. 

Someone at my work place has Bombay Bad boy flavoured pot noodles for lunch. I tried those instant noodles once, it burnt both ends 😆. I thought it was just a flavour. It was really spicy. 

Liz Truss Takes the Helm

A few days ago on Monday morning I learned that Liz Truss won the leadership race and became the Prime Minister of the UK. The impression I got from Liz Truss is that she is a problem solver, someone that has been solving complicated problems all her life. She worked in high positions in 'Shell' and 'A T &T' before. She now has a very big problem to solve so this will be interesting. I think her Dad is a Maths Professor. 

I was thinking, if they lowered VAT to about 15%, they would get the same revenue as last year because everything is inflated. That would help everyone because it would bring down the prices. VAT is 20% now so when I buy 5 t-shirts, one of them is just tax. I guess it's not that simple, right? 

This last six months of inflation has proven that we can't afford to rely on fossil fuels to power our world. I would say we should use water power because there are rivers everywhere on this island. We could put water wheels everywhere. I read somewhere that the average wind speed in the UK is highest in Europe but then I think to myself how long do those large windmills need to spin before they even offset their own carbon footprint; they have to burn a lot of fuel to make each one of those things. Why don't they make lots of smaller windmills instead of large ones. I don't know. 

New Leader

We are just hours away from finding out who will be the next Prime Minister of the UK. 

I have nothing to say.

Good luck to Rishi Or Liz, we are going to have a very hard time soon. 

Over the Moon

According to the news I heard on my smart speaker, NASA has prepared the most powerful rocket in the world to take astronauts back to the moon. I think the rocket is called Artemis 1. I'm guessing there will be a family of Artemis rockets. 

I wonder what they will do about the Radiation problem. The Appollo astronauts in the 70's narrowly avoided death because they went to the moon when it wasn't being hit by solar flares, they didn't know at the time that the radiation from a solar flare would kill the crew if they were on the moon. I think the moon and the Earth are hit by Solar Flares quite often but the Earth's magnetic field is very powerful and deflects the flares away; the moon doesn't have a magnetic field so the surface of the moon gets bombarded by radiation. 

I was also wondering why train drivers are paid more than bus drivers in England, I think it is more difficult to drive a bus than a train. Is it because they have a better trade union or something like that? I don't know. I always see RMT on the news organising strike action. 

Sometimes the world doesn't make sense. 

Air-Fryer Pasty

I just realized the other day that you can put a  pasty in an air-fryer without using cooking oil and it will bake it like it is in an oven. It comes out just right every time because the heat is always consistent. This also works with all my favourite vegetarian sausage rolls I buy from the frozen section. 

I like the air-fryer in my household, it has a mechanical timer that turns off the oven automatically when the time is up. You just set the time and the temperature and then leave it. When it is finished it rings a mechanical bell from inside the casing and turns off, it is very much like a toaster oven.

I wonder if I can make jacket potatoes with an air-fryer. 

August 2022

In August it was a bit cooler than July but still very dry and sunny. Towards the end of the month it rained a bit. 

It was during August that I realized that we will have a recession in winter. I am certain there will be a recession in the winter months because the price cap on electricity and gas will go up and cash set aside for spending will be used to pay energy bills. I'm not a grim outcome seeker, or a super intelligent man, I'm just an ordinary man that can see where the ball is going. I think many small businesses will stop making profit soon because people will be spending less and they will be paying more. In mid October people will turn their heating on at night and will have less money to spend. 

I was looking at the James Web Space Telescope site often. They were looking at all sorts of things. They even saw the atmosphere of an exoplanet and could see that is was made of carbon dioxide; 90's-alan would never imagine in his lifetime that we would look directly at planets in other solar systems. 

I can now see what 12 years of British austerity has done to the police force. Many lawless people felt free to brandish weapons during daylight hours and use them. There was even a little girl shot dead in Liverpool. It was very obvious that we had a lot more crime. It has been steadily increasing. You can't compromise the police force  without increasing crime unfortunately. 

Several people from inside technology companies claimed that their AI thinking machines were conscious and self-aware. Many people are worried that thinking machines will become sly and turn against mankind. The question is, can you become sly just by thinking or is it a design feature. I try to imagine machines being my friend. If they do things that people could never do then they will create more jobs or if they only do our jobs better then they will destroy our jobs. I don't know what is going to happen. I can only guess. 

I try to be happy. I have to pray more and try to feel ok. 

Energy Floss

At the end of winter 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Just before spring 2022 in march I believe, many nations placed trade sanctions on Russia. 

The thing that surprised me is the fuel suppliers instantly increased their prices. The fuel in the petrol station was already traded before the incident so I don't understand why the price should go up straight away. To me that was unfair. Later I found out that they made record high profit, to me that means it wasn't necessary for them to increase the price so early. The price should go up weeks after the incident. Why do we still live in a world where we rely on trade of fuel for our energy? 

I think the Nations that are independent and don't rely on trade of fuel to get their energy will be free of recession in winter. This winter we will have a recession because the cost of energy will be too high, it will bring down spending. 

I often wonder if Margaret Thatcher was right to privatise our gas and electricity suppliers. some of them are imploding so perhaps it's the fuel traders that are the problem and not the energy providers. I really don't know.