Egbert von Laserdisc

Known as (@)pme on App.net. Mac, iOS & Android user, abuser of tea & cheese. Medically retired President of a local Men’s Shed group. Grumpy old fart. Interrobang enthusiast‽ Unceded Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri land, Melbourne, Aus. Hater of news articles behind paywalls. Recipient of Age Pension. Immunocompromised. Follow requests lacking avatar, bio and posting history will be ignored.

Ex-Twitter: _windrider (deactivated)
Blog: https://peemee.10centuries.org/
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2026-11-10 08:30:52 GMT

Yesterday morning I poured some water into a cup to use to chase down the morning medication.
Nope, not possible. Tremors in hands meant half a cup of water just wanted to slosh up over the side of the cup. So I drank straight grom the water bottle.
Three hours later, for the noon meds I could hold that same cup OK. GP said yesterday he couldn’t prescribe the medication the neurologist said I needed to control “The Twitch” until he had the results of an ECG. I had one performed within 5 minutes of leaving the clinic, as a pathology collection place shares the building.

2026-11-05 21:22:56 GMT

Interesting. Just had an email from Linkt saying that as I’d made 10 trips on the tollways in October I qualified for a single 26 cents per litre discount at 7-11. It will be available to me via the Linkt app on my phone from November 12th.

2026-08-31 11:19:44 GMT

I’m hurting. Arthritic left knee pain has been excessive today and sciatica which usually afflicts my right leg is doing its awful shit with the left leg, complicating general movement. My eyes are watering from the fumes given off by the liniment I’ve slathered around the knee.

2026-08-28 02:40:21 GMT

Ten years ago a physiotherapist recommended I shoud do some exercises to improve my balance.
Various tremors have forced me to request medical examination to find out if it’s treatable, so now I have a referral to a neurologist.

2026-08-28 02:09:43 GMT

The butcher has been creative again.
https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/117/170/699/132/413/421/original/b0c12a681ec97909.jpeg

2026-07-26 04:30:19 GMT

Some people shouldn’t be let loose in a kitchen. This story was related to me by an older friend in a retirement village. One older widow asked another resident to buy her some casserole steak as she wasn’t well enough to go shopping. When presented with the meat she asked the cost and was told it was $13 per kg. She protested that this was far more expensive than what she normally uses when making steak and vegetable casserole.
Her shopper the asked what she normally used and the answer was, wait for it……
Spam.
Seriously this person used Spam as the meat in a casserole dish.

2026-07-20 11:02:25 GMT

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About 5 years ago I paid $10 for a simple toaster iat Target. Still going strong.

2026-07-09 09:51:58 GMT

https://theshovel.com.au/2026/07/09/joke-candidate-to-face-count-binface-in-uk-byelection/

2026-07-06 04:36:56 GMT

Just bought a ready meal from the butcher. It’s a couple of slow-cooked lambbshanks with vegetables, just heat and serve. Couldn’t be easier.

2026-06-05 04:08:48 GMT

I’m all shook up. A good friend and fellow tech nerd was found deceased in her home in Ringwood today after not appearing at work earlier.
Excuse me now while I get quietly drunk in her memory

2026-04-07 02:58:06 GMT

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But wait, there’s more! Or there used to be. A now defunct towing business used to have one done up as a mini tow-truck.
https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/116/361/179/027/734/916/original/2d88b4ef5f5c7f2e.jpeg

2026-04-07 02:54:01 GMT

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Not unlike the later Daihatsu Midget. A local auto accessories store parks this one beside the highway as a billboard.
https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/116/361/162/919/950/574/original/27844106285be552.jpeg

2026-04-02 21:47:45 GMT

I guess they figured that because the cannula was so awkward to install that it should be strapped down firmly.
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2026-02-06 07:01:50 GMT

Bugger. Just added some blood to a salad I was prepping. Slipped with a sharp knife and cut the side of my thumb. I don’t want to look at it, I’d get all queasy so I’ve slapped an enormous dressing on it. I’m about to head to a local urgent care clinic that closes at 8pm.
Most inconvenient.

2025-09-17 09:47:14 GMT

Wouldn’t that fuck ya‽ bashed into a curb and suffered a badly deflated front tyre. Waiting on roadside assistance

2025-06-25 13:01:24 GMT

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I keep a kettle in the bedroom which is the smallest of all the roos without plumbing. This I can heat it effectively with an electric convection heater. Today’s maximum temperature was 8°C, with a “feels like” of 1°C. The building is watertight but being some 45 years old, doesn’t have any wall insulation to speak of.
Hasn’t been a fun day at all…

2025-05-05 07:35:06 GMT

Indulging in s favourite snack or two. Both involve celery stalks, one with the channel filled with cottage cheese, the other using crunchy peanut butter. Both are very diabetic friendly options.

2025-03-20 22:35:02 GMT

Snatched a few hours of pain-wracked sleep. If anything, the condition reported a few hours back has worsened. #NotDoingWell

2025-03-13 10:48:55 GMT

Last proper meal until Monday. That’s when I’m scheduled for a colonoscopy/gastroscopy and iron infusion to a): try to work out why I have low iron anaemia and b): to bring up the haemoglobin level to a more normal level.
Tomorrow I start a low residue white food diet which I maintain until after breakfast on Sunday. Then it’s a series of colon-cleansing compounds with lots of water and hydration drinks. After that I’m to fast, allowed certain clear fluids until 5 hours before the hospital admission time. Such fun. NOT.

2025-02-17 08:09:22 GMT

I made apot of rice pudding today, using arborio rice, full cream milk, a hint of salt, some cardamon and a goodly amount of nutmeg.
I didn't have any vanilla so I cracked a few green cardamon pods and added them to the sugar, giving the mix a few pulses with the food processor to combine.
The recipe uses ½ a cup of rice, ¼ cup of sugar and 2⅜ cups of whole milk. It is delicious.

2025-01-17 06:58:22 GMT

Off to Bendigo on Thursday. My Uncle Mike passed away this morning, aged 87. Booked a motel room for that night. He was the last of Mum's siblings to go.

2024-12-03 04:28:07 GMT

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A favourite tea of mine is from tealeaves.com.au up in Sassafras. It's called EEarl grey Cream tea and is Early Grey with more than a hint of vanilla. A delightful tea to serve cold.

2024-10-22 10:48:01 GMT

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I bought a rather neat cordless steam iron from Kmart a few months ago. I can’t work with the ridiculously short cords most irons use. This cordless one can also be used conveniently with the base locked in place. If I have a lot of ironing to do, I have a steamer with a heavy metal iron attachment that really gets the job done.

2024-10-16 09:09:12 GMT

#FoodExperiment
Take one frozen basa fillet. Spray with a light coating of canola oil. Sprinkle crushed nutritional yeast over both sides. Place in the bottom of a preheated air fryer/multicooker. Select 180ºC and cook on the bake/roast setting for six minutes. Flip and repeat.
Result: excellent, well cooked fish with good flavour and fine to soft texture. no doubt the result would have been rather different if I’d used the air fryer setting. The bake/roast setting also applied heat from an element at the base of the six-litre non-stick liner.

2024-10-12 06:23:33 GMT

Dinner tonight will be an egg poached in a tomato and beef pasta sauce with carrots and broccoli to thicken the sauce.

2024-10-09 08:28:42 GMT

#FeedMe
I’ve just ordered a Spanish onion and potato pizza. It has those two items plus goat’s cheese, garlic-infused oil and stretched mozzarella cheese.

2024-09-20 03:18:57 GMT

Basic chicken vegetable soup.
One 450g bag of pre-chopped soup vegetables (carrot, potato, celery, corn, leek, onion and parsley) into a pot with 2.5 litres of chicken stock, one 375g pot of chicken pho soup, a can of ALDI giant (lima) beans in very little tomato sauce, a drained can of chick peas and a small handful of pearled barley. Simmer for at least 15 minutes before sampling to see if more cooking time is needed.
#ComfortFood

2024-08-02 07:01:07 GMT

I have just ordered a new teapot for my collection of such things.
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