Lazy day, cake day

I took a day off today because I had reached the maximum amount of toil that I can accumulate. I think flex time is the best bit about my job.

I baked a mud cake last night and it didn't turn out good. See it went really well, from preparing all the ingredients, mixing them all together and getting a smooth batter and then to the cake tin. The problem came after 10 minutes it's been in the oven. I started smelling chocolate burning. I opened the oven and the edges around my cake was black. Why? I got my sister to turn the oven on to preheat it. She had it at 230C. I put the cake in and didn't re-adjust it back to 160C. The center of the cake was still soft so I turned the oven down and let it bake for the rest of the next 20 minutes that it's suppose to be in there. The center started to rise like a sponge cake (it shouldn't) and batter oozed out of it. I followed the rest of the receipe and let it cool and stuck it in the fridge. The next time I see it, the center had collapsed and sunk in like a giant crater. The thing wasn't cooked completely still, but I ate bits of it anyway and made my parents tried it (which they did unwillingly). It's still edible as all that's in it is utter, sugar, chocolate, eggs and flour, in descending order of quantity. Our whole family doesn't go through that much butter in 3 months!

Anyway 3/4 of the cake is still in the fridge. I didn't bother to ice it. It's just waiting to go in the bin. At least I had my sugar fix for the whole day.

Workaholic

Some people start early. I just found this one person who started his IT career when he was back in high school. He didn't go to uni, not from what I can tell. He just started working and because it was during the dot com boom, he got some vendor certification and kicked it off from there. By the time he's in his early 20s, he's already a MVP, a team lead, and has written a book on his specialty. It is a scary thought indeed. Oh, and did I mention his $1 million property portfolio?

no work for a week

Well that's not entirely true. I have training for the whole of next week so technically I won't be going to work, but it will be hard work. I got the workbooks I'll have to go through and they are pretty thick.