My sweet lady has concocted this otherwise wonderful dish. Or should I say, "bowl"? Nah, it's more like rock solid frozen slab of something edible after tedious chipping it with Trotsky-style ice axe and melting the resulting crumbled ice. In the process, frozen plastic of the bowl has cracked like glass, so it took some caution when eating it.
In the end, it was quite edible, even if it's not really a borsch per se, as borsches normally don't contain macaronis.
Meanwhile, I've stuck with my repairs of my Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1. It's very sad, as this Panas is actually an allowed knock-off of that Leica D Lux 2 which can't be found for sale for less than $1499 here in US.
Tons of gold plating, but no traces of that proverbial broken tooth in the lense movement. Panas just won't turn on anyway when on (charged) battery, and there's no power adapter for this camera purchased at the computer flea market, to try.
Here's my present for my sweet lady, the creator of that American borsch -- a restored Literati. It took me $12 plus 12+ hours to charge its creepy old battery, but it works fine, even if the ereader hardly holds the charge for more than 2 hours. It can't read anything except just two ebook formats, so my hundreds of FB2 ebooks on my SD card are not visible to it. Even if they could be "Calibreyed", there are no Cyrillics on the device. Forget about Kanji either. It can be hacked somewhat, so one can go to google.com and browse elsewhere from there instead of staying prisoner of that single Kobo Web page. But it's not worth the effort:
Washed out logo is the result of washing the "device" in alcohol (isopropyl one). A little more effort, and I could render it brand-less.
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| panasonic dmc_lx1 lumix self-shot / mirrored (Photo credit: dr. motte) |
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