It has been some weekend indeed. One of the busier ones. Church, birthday celebration and a DIY cleaning job on my air-conditioning unit.
Let’s start with church. Pretty much standard service, with the exception of praise and worship being led by Dave Holmes and Andrew Naylor. Had an exciting time directing because I haven’t done production directing in a while. For those of you who don’t know, we have been having two directors for a while now. The TV ministry is in the transition phase between a 4:3 and 16:9 frame size. So half the production is in 4:3 (for recording, or production) and the other is 16:9 for projection purposes. In short, I miss when I have all 8 cameras in my command. That will soon come back when we finally get a full set of 16:9 cameras. So exciting, can’t wait…
Birthday celebration next. It was Debbie’s birthday on Sunday. Instead of going out to restaurants to eat, I decide to open my kitchen after months of it being closed. And I cooked a 3-course meal. And I put the oven in my house to use the first time. So what did I cook. Here’s the menu for the evening…
Special Dinner Menu
In Celebration of Debbie’s Birthdayto start…
green salad served with italian dressingthe main event…
meat loaf with a ketchup and balsamic vinegar saucethe encore…
warm chocolate lava cake courtesy of starbucksto wash it all down…
brown brothers orange muscat and flora 2006
So that was the menu. The meat loaf was my first attempt and I must say that it exceeded my expectations. I wasn’t quite sure that it would come out well because I forgot to get cheese (one of the ingredients), and I couldn’t find breadcumbs so I substituted that with wheat germ (thanks to a website). And it’s pretty hard to find fresh herbs in FairPrice, so I ended up using a dried version of thyme for the meat loaf. But thank God that it came out well. And we had fun that night. I hope Debbie enjoyed just as much as I did.
After sending Debbie home on Sunday evening, I decided to remove the front cover of my air-conditioning unit. You see, it has not been producing cold air even though I’ve set the thermostat at 21 degrees Celsius. And half the blower wasn’t blowing any air out. So I removed the front cover and lo and behold, I found the reason why I haven’t been getting cold air. There was a thick, and I mean thick, layer of dust on the condenser (where the air gets cooled, those fine fins that you can see). So I took the vacuum cleaner and gave it a good vacuum. And I also cleaned the blower to get the other half working again. Suffice to say that tonnes of dust was removed yesterday night and now the aircon is working fine and dandy again.
A very busy weekend for me indeed. And I enjoyed it totally, especially Sunday evening. I shall follow up with dinner pics when I get my camera back. So until the next time, cheers… :Þ