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[dreamer_easy]

Just threw together dinner. Almost literally - I was working so quickly that I was all but hurling ingredients through the air, watched by bemused cats. It's only beanloaf and mac & cheese, but I was determined to cook more than one dish having heated up the oven - I'm experimenting with energy-efficient cooking. Making porridge in a vacuum flask is a doddle; I also managed a lentil stew the other day. Cooking beans, however, may need a rethink. (I reckon the boiling water just sits on top of them in the flask - I'll have to try changing its position through the day.)

Spent idk half an hour? trying to find something in the solar system which happens about every thirty years. Settled on the period of Comet Temple-Tuttle.

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[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I'm geetting by with only a rice cooker and an electric skillet, it doesn't get much more energy efficient than that! LOL. If only it was voluntary. :P

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Saturn orbits the Sun every 29.5 years...

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

That's where I started - but I couldn't think of a way to make it relevant to the story. Partly because my astrophysics sucks. "How often is Saturn closest to the Earth?" "Uh... every year? I think?" etc

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Huh. Fair point, and yes. Finding something that approaches Earth only once every 30 years is a bit harder. :)