The Middlethon and the Conference

For Dinner:

Made Chicken noodle soup

1. Boiled water
2. Put shredded chicken carcass into soup to boil
3. Added some garlic, broccoli pieces, shredded carrots, salt and two chilli peppers
   
4. Left to boil for about 2 hours
5. Took out the chicken carcass and pulled the meat from the bones

Next day

1. Brought the broth to boil
2. Added the noodles, spring onions, monge touts and nice chunky carrots

Chicken and sweet pepper halves

1. Half lots of red peppers, put them into the grill
2. Boiled shredded chicken in chop suey with some ginger and spring onions
3. Mix chicken and sauce with some crunchy vegetables
4. Pour into the pepper halves and leave in oven at gas mark 5 for 30 minutes

[The mistake at this point was adding so many noodles, it turned into porridge :( ]

The dinner took about two hours to prepare and eat. So we only got to watch 4 episodes of the Middleman. Ali and Eva brought dessert (cookies and fruit salad) [and Kevin brought some too...].

Got 2 hours sleep and went to the airport for my flight to east midlands.
Conference was interesting- my PhD needs a lot of work. There was a guy that gave a presentation about crystals in food. He explained how stupid it was to "Ban trans fats" from products because trans fats allow crystallizations in butter, our jelly bellies, ice cream, etc. On top of that he had the actions and the appearance of Bill Nighy in Love Actually.
I chatted to a guy at dinner that uses light tweezers. The future is now :)

Got back to college- my RAM finally arrived. They have monster aluminium radiators sticking out of the chips.

Looking forward to building it. Going with 64Bit XP and Ubuntu.