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Gah, sorry.
I knew one day I would accidentally send out an email instead of just publishing a blog piece, and that day has arrived. Apologies for filling your intray with my BBQ chicken.
Seriously, Substack needs a double-pull on the publish trigger.
I am sorry.
To make up, I’ll be sending out a nice long essay on beating procrastination for the next newsletter. It’ll be free to paying subs, and almost free to everyone else.
Again, er, sorry about the chicken mail out.
My mistake
Figured I’d do some chicken on the Big Green Egg yesterday. Preload the fridge with my protein needs for the week. In the freezer, I had the big fat boy you can see in the pic below, and I grabbed a flat deboned bird from the butcher because if I’m going to trouble of firing up the charcoal, I might as well get as much out of it as possible.
It me.
I meant to run this with yesterday’s Boob column but forgot.
Reading novels instead of news.
I’ve had a moment of clarity about just how much time I was spending on news apps. Because I cut myself off after the US election, I suddenly found myself with hours to fill every day.
Yep. Hours.
Finished Continuum.
I finally wrapped up my three-month-long watch of Continuum on Amazon over the weekend. (And immediately plated up the BBC’s last Day of the Triffids adaptation for fun).
Duck!
Yesterday, I fired up the Big Green Egg and decided to tackle cooking a whole duck. Until now, I’d never cooked one myself. Usually, we grab a roasted duck from Chinatown and have them carve it for us to make this duck salad everyone loves. But for some reason, ducks were on special this week, so Jane picked one up instead of a chicken. I had my doubts, but I figured, why not?
Need pod.
I've had to wean myself off a few podcasts this week. The political ones were the first to go—obviously. I couldn’t keep subjecting myself to that grief and stress for the next few months. But I’ve also ditched some strength training and fitness podcasts. Turns out, a bunch of the hosts were these ultra right-wing, Trump-loving douche-bros and listening to them was just... exhausting. So, I hit delete.