Kazza the Blank One

Sunday.  5th.  Corned beef leftovers for dinner.  Mash, Shogun 1.5.

Monday.  Slept mostly ok.  Fighting with proxies.  Definitely not cut out for this.  Got Turkey hotel photos labelled.

Tuesday.  Took til like midnight to get to sleep.  Had a meltdown in the afternoon because my brain doesn't work anymore and I can't comprehend stuff and I'm just too overwhelmed.  Labelled Turkey food photos in the evening.  

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Meh day.  Felt like I achieved nothing although when I wrote it down for Connor it didn't sound so bad.  Finished what we could of the leftovers from the club (the rest is in the freezer).  Finished uploading all my Turkey photos with 24 hours to spare!  Also finished part picking all the sets that I want to for Vic's Lego.  You'd think those things would be cause for celebration, and I was going to have a drink when it was all done, but they were both such a slog I was just feeling eh about it all and it got too late to have a drink anyway.

Thursday.  Took forever to get to sleep.  I really should have had that drink.  Another meh day feeling like I didn't achieve much.  Drinks was ok although the new bartender was in a meeting til 17:10 then left at 18:15 without even cleaning up.  Hmmmm.  Pizza, Mash, Laid Back Camp 3.5.  In other news @kapgar's rss feed started working again and I got a flurry of recent posts.

Friday.  Ok sleep I think.  Ok day.  Prepped and did a bunch of kerberos crap.  

Friday = brown food night!

Mash/Death in Paradise 9.4 (last episode of D.I. Mooney).

Saturday.  Woke up at Dentist Time til around 5.  Hurray. 

Finished putting away the Lego from the sets I decided not to pick (too much missing to be worth it).  And tidied all the boxes up.  Other than that just house stuff.  Went over to Nick & Tab's for a very nice creamy mushroom pasta and black forest cheesecake.  Altho converstation mostly revolved around playing with the doggo heh.

Sunday.  Woke up around 1:30-4:45ish.  Hurray.  Mostly just house stuff in the morning (also rang the Mother Type Person for Mother's Day), then food shopping, then it felt like I was cooking all afternoon (an hour and a half at least anyway).

The sky cleared up today.  May have seen the solar storm the other night had it not been for all the rain.. Might get lucky and see it tonight.. I'll probably be awake half the night anyway..

Ten years ago tonight my mother and I headed off on a two week tour of Turkey. 

Ten years!!

!!!

The opportunity for this trip came up while my father was dying of brain cancer so we didn't think it would be possible.  But towards the end we realised he didn't have long to go and asked if it was still possible to join the trip.  And it was.  So we went.

We had a lovely time.  I quite liked Turkey (now Türkiye), it had a pretty chilled vibe to it.

The past few months I've been culling photos and last night I finished getting everything online.

So here's my Turkey 2014 photos!  If your browser forces https feel free to force it back to http (and you'll need http if you want to comment).  One day soon I'm going to try and fix up my holiday blogs to get them all consistent and fix the https crap.

Enjoy!

Monday.  29th.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Okish day.  I think.  Dunno.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Okish day.  I think.  Dunno.

Wednesday.  Slept ok. 

Talked to Henrch about proxy trial we're doing.  Had a nice catchup with Ding after work at the Lighty.  We shared some arancini balls and calamari.

Thursday.  Slept mostly ok (restless in the middle of the night for a while).  Busy day dealing with All The BS.  Quietish drinks, pizza, Mash, Death in Paradise 9.3, Apothecary Diaries.

Friday.  Slept mostly ok.  At one point in the mid morning I heard a bang and what sounded like a bark.  I went and looked out the window and there was a KANGAROO in the driveway!!  I assume it smacked into the fence making the bang.  By the time I got outside it was well and truly gone though.  In other news I'm definitely feeling to old and dumb for my job.  Leftovers, Mash, Orville 3.7.

Saturday.  Woke up at Dentist Time until about 5.  Sigh.  Turkey labelling and part picking in the morning.  11:37 I headed down to Wagga for the Lego show.  Missed all David's calls telling me to come to his place so we could all go down together.  Whoops.  I was too busy listening to Casefile on Port Arthur and the phone was on silent and not paired with the car.  Met up with them at the show.  As usual for a rural show it's a lot more civilised than the Canberra shows due to lack of crowds.  Especially the afternoon sessions.  Dropped in at the chemist on the way back to David's.  Chatted for a bit while David tidied (if I just stay in a room it'll give him focus to clean it cause normally he'd just avoid it hehe).  He has some pretty cool lasers that have little refractive attachments on them which make super pretty patterns.  And All The Torches :)  Headed out to the Jail Brake Inn Cafe for dinner but even though they close at 8, when we got there at 7 she said she wouldn't cook dinner for the 8.5 of us.  Oh well.  There were some pretty cool epic moths tho!

So headed back to the Junee Hotel for table games and I had a very very nice chicken Kiev

Nice catchup with Kellie's family.  Came back to David's and collapsed.

Sunday.  Had Mac and Cheese for breakfast and chatted to David for a while while he cleared his dining room table.  Maybe I should visit more often so he'll be focussed to tidy :)  Listened to the Casefile episode on the murder of Peter Falconio on the way home.  Finished labelling Turkey photos then some Lego part picking.

Sunday.  21st.  Roast beef for dinner which was very nice, and lots of leftovers.  Mash and Shogun 1.3.

Oh Chris saved me a Charlie today!!  This was the first one I've ever seen.  Forty years after I saw my very first $1 coin at church one morning.

Monday.  Hurty for a couple of hours overnight.  Ok day, fighting with stoopid proxies doing stoopid things - like behaving more like a router than a firewall in terms of pattern matching.  Dumb.  Over the weekend I put a thing into the MyWay peeps to say Stu's MyWard card had expired and what's the story.  The dude called and said too bad so sad bye bye, you lose the $5 you need to buy a new card so that the funds can be transferred.  I'm utterly filled with rage that a) you have to pay $5 for MyWay cards that have $0 credit on them in the first place and b) that the stoopid things would even expire at all.  The dude said the expiry was part of the terms and conditions and I said that was a dumb condition and there was deathly silence.  I suspect the dude agrees that it's a dumb condition but he's not allowed to say so.  Red curry with leftover beef for dinner.  Started labelling Turkey photos.  Stoopid dog barked for hours in the evening.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep - strung out by the dog barking non stop til past 22:00.  Utterly sick of *everything* at the moment.  Mostly shattered confidence from not being able to figure out a stoopid problem at work because I'm stoopid.  But everything piled on top of that makes me want to just quit my job and go live as a hermit somewhere.  Had a couple of meltdowns during the day because it was all just too hard.  Photo labelling and Lego picking in the evening.

Wednesday.  Slept ok but still feeling to stoopid to do my job.  Had meltdowns on the way to and from work and even *at* work.  Sigh.  Tried out BZ Burgers with Neil at lunch, and had drinks at No. 10 after work.  Then pizza/Mash/Laid Back Camp and first two episodes of The Apothecary Diaries.  

We liked the Belconnen pictures at BZ Burgers.  Remember that dude who lived on the lake for a while?  And we still have those buses at bottom right.  I miss those butt ugly covered walkways though.  They were handy when it rained.

I had Chicken Mack - southern fried chicken, USA cheese, pickles, sour onion, lettuce and Mack sauce ($18).  It was quite nice although the chicken was a little crunchy so lost bits of the breading.  And I love how they call plastic cheese "USA cheese" hehe.

Thursday.  Anzac Day.  Slept mostly ok.  Got All The Things done in the morning then Lego picking.  Put a 2.4kg lamb leg (it was the smallest I could get at the butcher on the weekend) in the slow cooker at 8:00 and by 18:00 it was literally falling off the bone (found one in the bottom of the sauce!).  Cooked a bunch of roast veggies to go with it and had TJ over to enjoy it.  Quite a nice evening.

There were also Anzac Biscuits.  A little bit *too* gooey perhaps ;)

Friday.  Slept mostly ok.  Flexed off as I'm sure most of Australia did if they could.  Got a new headlight for the car (it died in Tasmania).  Closed off our ancient Citibank cards that we got for overseas travel but haven't used in ages and now they were taken over by NAB it was easy enough to go into a branch to close them off.  Queue was about ten minutes but the dude was able to just close them off without any fuss so that was nice.  Had lunch with the sweetie in the mall.  Had a quick look in Millers and Myer for wedding attire and got depressed cause clothes shopping is all too hard anyway.  Other than that I made a Lego train and did 3/4 hour of weeding.  We got Chong Co delivered for dinner although it was a bit rushed because I had to log on before 19:00 to do a cert replacement.  Took an hour which is the minimum time it takes if all goes well.  Then watched Death in Paradise 9.2.

Saturday.  Took ages to get to sleep, but still woke up at 6:00.  Another day of getting things done then Lego picking.  Went back to Supercheap Auto to get the actual headlight for our car (Stu bought the foglamp by mistake yesterday).  Then went out to the club.  A fairly quiet night with a remembrance dinner of corned beef and veggies.

They were doing backburning in the Brindabellas

Canberra sure is pretty in autumn

Club remembrance feast

Bec made these lovely biscuits


Sunday.  Brought home All The Leftovers from the club (since W/C wouldn't take them).  Got home, read about the Port Arthur massacre 28 years ago today.  It's also 28 years since Como Presbyterian Church reopened after the bushfires, and 23 years since Alan had his first heart attack.  Then labelled day 8 of Turkey, then Lego picking.  Dreading having to go back to work tomorrow.  I'm too old for this crap.

Leftovers for the next couple of weeks it seems.. 

Monday.  15th.  Couldn't get to sleep til past midnight.  Sigh.  But then slept ok.  But still feeling tired and depressed and *dumb*.  All the crap at work.  Leftover beef and veggies for dinner.

This long exposure on the phone makes the clouds in front of the ISS look like an oil painting..

Tuesday.  Couldn't get to sleep for ages on account of cold feet.  Then woke up before 4 and never got back to sleep.  Sigh.  Ok day.  Went into the office and got a flu jab.  Proxy stuff and some migration planning.  More leftover beef for dinner.  Finished culling day 12 of Turkey (which took *forever* on account of having to cull over a thousand photos down to 50.. hmmm!!).  Made a good start on day 13 (the last day) too.  At one point I heard a rather metallic clunk coming from the kitchen as the fridge was turning off.  hmmmm.  Sure enough, the next time the compressor started it made a generally louder noise than normal.  So put a thermometer in the fridge to make sure it was still working properly, and started looking at replacement fridges.  Sigh.

Wednesday.  Ok sleep.  The fridge was still happily sitting on 3C in the morning, so while the compressor is loud, it's still doing its job.  But for how long..?  Did some testing of some reworks to some of our rules to the new version of things not supporting stuff the same way.  Basa bake and veggies for dinner.  Must.  Eat.  Freezer.  And fridge.  At least with fridge stuff we do have the spare downstairs we could use in an emergency.  But the freezer.. that would be a pain.  But I really don't want to go spending two thousand dollars on a new fridge while the old one is still functional.  It could go on like this for years for all we know (ask anyone who's heard our washing machine during its first drain).   

Thursday.  Tooke forever to get to sleep.  More work on the excludes problem, as well as a task closing party.  Jim did a lovely morning tea so we didn't need lunch, but Neil, XL and I went for a walk at lunch anyway which was nice.

Super quiet drinks (bar tender didn't bring all his friends this week).  Pizza, Mash, and into season 9 of Death in Paradise.  It's a bit of fluff that show but I don't know that many of his solutions would stand up in court.  Half the time it's completely speculation and no real proof, other than a confession (which also wouldn't necessarily stand up).  Early night.

Friday.  Got to sleep ok but then restless legs for ages in the middle of the night and woke up at ~4.  Proxy testing in the morning.  Did a change in the arvo that I don't think broke anything, winning!  Herbert's for happy hour.

Must be Mother's Day soon..

A rare shot of Dino without his hat (I wasn't even trying, I was trying to get the beer lineup and he jumped in the way haha)

Saturday.  Awake for a while in the middle of the night but not too bad.  Had a super busy day doing All The Things and got heaps done - pretty much everything I had on my todo list for the day.  So that was pretty cool.

So cool!

Waiting impatiently for these things to ripen before the first frost...  

Into season 5 of Mash, then Orville 3.6 which was pretty emotional and had a bit of a Back to the Future vibe to it.

Sunday.  Took ages to get to sleep but then slept ok.  Spent most of the day Lego part picking for Vic's Lego.  Very slow going due to basically having to go find one piece at a time then mark it off as deleted from the loose part inventory.  Think like a minute or so for each and every piece.  hmmmm.  There was also the dog barking for like an hour (probably from the same d$*#head neighbours that have always had barking dogs).  I felt so stressed.  Sigh.  Also did a bit of food shopping in the afternoon.

Today's blog entry quote is from Autism From the Inside's channel.  Watched a couple of his videos yesterday.  

Another roast beef in the oven.  I generally try to avoid buying big chunks of beef (chicken and pork and even lamb are generally better for the planet than beef) but Stu likes it so there's that.. 

Sunday.  7th.  Backdated.  Sausages from the freezer for dinner.  Then Mash and Shogun 1.2 (really struggling to keep a grasp of who is who and read the subtitles on account of going blind).  

Monday.  Slept well although woke up at 5:45.  Forgot to do my washing in the morning whoops. Had to be Neil for the day.  Also working on another proxy poc, although not getting very far with it.  Sausages and salad again for dinner.  Feeling inexplicably *sigh* in the evening.  Had some Sheep Dog before bed.  

Tuesday.  Woke up when Stu got up to pee at like 1 or 2 then stayed awake for a couple of hours.  Sigh. 

Happy tree is happy

Went to The Journey of Australian Science after work, this one on soil science.  They had Prof Brajesh Singh who did an interesting presentation on soil health as a foundation of human and planetary health.  I nearly asked how worried he is about Peak Phosphorus, but I didn't in case I sounded too dumb haha.  Then there was Dr Zefang Shen who is studying using artificial intelligence in soil science, although this one lost me a bit.  

Afterwards I met up with Luc at Molly.  I haven't been to Molly since they moved.  It started off quite empty at 7ish, but got more and more crowded as the night went on.  A lovely catch up.  Then bus home.

Five and Dime (bottom) and Paper Plane (top)

Rustiest Nail and Godfather

Gift of the Fifth and Oryza

Wednesday.  Meh sleep.  Bit of proxy stuff but mostly helping out trying to figure out a weird slowness problem.

Thursday.  Slept relatively well.  Meetings and crap all day.  Good drinks - they had a new bartender who brought all his friends heh.  Pizza/Mash/Death in Paradise 8.8 (finished season 8).

Friday.  Awake from 3-5ish.  Sigh.  All the crap all day.  Kiev and veggies for dinner, then Mash/Orville 3.5.  

Saturday.  Bed before 10 but woke up at 4:44. 

Ok day doing All The Things.  Stu cooked another variation of miso mushrooms which was very yummy.

Then Mash/Sex Education 4.8 (end of season 4, probably the end of the whole thing).  It was a long episode and I guess it mostly finished things off.

Sunday.  Slept relatively well, til 6:22!!  All The Things in the morning.  Herbert's for lunch for Matt Dent.

Cooked roast beef for dinner which turned out really really well.  Although I did burn my wrist getting it out of the oven.  Sigh.  Felt like crap all evening cause booze and wrist and generally just feeling sorry for myself cause I'm dumb and I hate people.

Sunday.  31st.  Had tuna casserole and veggies for dinner.

Then Mash and the first episode of Shōgun.

Then got all kinds of depressed cause I didn't get invited to Herbert's birthday on Friday night, and noone told me that the tickets for the Canberra Airport Open Day had come up while I was away, and had "sold out".  

Monday.  April Fool.  Yeah that's me.  Took til past midnight to get to sleep because of feeling blah.  Did some weeding and scattered some purple poppy seeds around the garden, but not fully transfunctionating and too brain dead to concentrate on anything much.  I did finish geotagging photos from Tassie though.  Sausages and frozen veggies for dinner.  Watched Mona Lisa Smile which had vibes of Dead Poets Society but for girls.  

Tuesday.  Slept ok.  Nothing much day, leftovers from fridge and freezer for dinner.  Also got an email saying I'd come up on the standby list, so got myself a ticket for the Canberra Airport Open Day.  Messaged David and he was able to get one too.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Nothing much day, did a bit of decom work planning.  Met up with Stu and Dennis after work then had Kinn Thai for dinner.

Demolition in Civic

Chicken pad see ew, chili jam crispy pork, roti

Then backing up holiday photos.

Thursday.  Nothing much day.  Gin night at drinks.  Well not really, they had it a month or so ago while I was in Tasmania.  But there were plenty of leftovers so had a half shot of each.  Pizza for dinner then Death in Paradise 8.7.

Friday.  Since I wasn't invited to the evening Herbert's party, I had my own with the Chrises and Neil.  Got to try all six of the beers for the Bearded Bro Brewery tap takeover (altho one was just a sneaky mouthful I took of Aquila's).  Braddles and I shared some lamb balls and honey soy chicken wings.

Then spent the afternoon deleting stuff.  What could go wrong? :)  Kievs for dinner and Orville 3.4

Saturday.  Woke up at around 1 til well after 4.  Sigh.  Zombie tired.  Hurray. David and Kellie picked me up at 8:45 for the Canberra Airport Open Day.  It was pouring with rain and it was windy and the puddles were several centimetres deep and we got drenched.  I really should have taken my hiking boots which are a lot more waterproof.  Whoops.  Kellie went back to the car while we waited to get on the Hercules.  After a quick walk around the emergency vehicles we decided to call it for the first round and come back a bit later, so headed back to the car.  Which was gone.  Kellie had taken it.  Whoops.  David was a bit upset (busting and hangry sure didn't help) but everyone felt better after a pitstop and some food.  We went back to the airport fence to ponder our next move.  David called Adam/Brenda and it was established that lunch would be at the Burns Club.  After I'd just eaten a double cheeseburger.  Whoops.  There were like twelve of us including a few kids.  And Fiona paid before we had a chance to, so all I could do was give her all the cash I had on me ($20).  Whoops.  Saw Adam Peters for the first time in probably 30-35 years.  And met Craig who was one of the drivers who taught my brother how to drive Sydney trains.  Had a much better afternoon at the airport - saw some of the air shows and the sun came out and the people left at the end so got some nice photos. 

Felt a bit blah when we finally got home, so just watched crap on the internet.  Watched Mash and Sex Education 4.7 with the sweetie, then had some cheese and crackers (didn't need dinner - had it at lunch) and went to bed.

Sunday.  Went to bed at 21:15.  Woke up at what I felt like was about 6:30 but it was only 6:00 on the phone, still, it felt like a good nights' sleep.  Played on my phone for a bit then went and had a shower.  Get back and the bedroom clock says 7:54.  WTF?  Yeah, daylight savings ended, so I actually slept in til 7:00.  Felt a lot better after nearly ten hours sleep.  Wasted wayyyyyy too much time on Friday's XKCD.  You have to make a rube goldberg machine with either one, two or three coloured balls.  My first one was super boring, just one coloured ball with a funnel almost straight down.  The second one was three colours but it was still pretty generic.  After looking around at all the creations on the board I made a third one that was a bit more interesting.  But they're not static - if you refresh the page other boards will stay in place but yours resets.  So I never got screenshots of the first two.  This was my third though:

Then did a bit of Turkey photo stuff, house stuff, weeding, Tasmania finances, and food shopping.  Although we didn't buy much food - still getting through everything in the freezer.  Not entirely sure how I'm going to survive a five day week this week.. hmmm..

Sunday.  24th.  A couple of other notes.  All the toilet paper we had while were away was thin crappy stuff.  Even at the expensive Cradle Mountain place.  It was so nice to get home to the good Quilton stuff!  Another treat was a full keyboard and two large monitors :)  But.. 6:30am is *dark* now!!

Monday.  Awake from around 1:15 til after 4 *sigh.  Turns out there was an email from IFTTT telling me they were going to deactivate my applet because I hadn't logged in for a while.  But I never pay attention to their emails cause they're mostly all marketing crap.  I've unsubscribed from the marketing crap so hopefully now I'll see anything useful.  Spent the morning signed out from chats at work so could catch up in peace and quiet.  Logged onto them after lunch and sure enough the crap started rolling in haha.  Did two loads of washing before work, which I brought in at lunch.  Also did a bunch of work in the front garden at lunch and put a heap of stuff in the green bin.  Spent some time tidying the garage after work (which Stu took til Saturday to notice ;) ).  We were going to have leftovers for dinner but the sweetie had had a day, so we got pizza delivered.  Then I started processing holiday photos.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Bits and pieces at work.  Was going to do some decom work but people kept wanting stuff.  More weeding at lunch.  Leftover golden curry from the freezer for dinner.

Wednesday.  Took *forever* to get to sleep.  So bit of a zombie day.  Too tired to concentrate on anything much.  Sausages from the freezer and frozen veggies for dinner.

Thursday.  Had a generous dram of Sheep Dog before bed last night which did the trick, and not only got to sleep ok but also slept ok.  Too many meetings at work to concentrate on getting anything useful done.  TV dinners from the freezer for dinner, then Death in Paradise 8.6.

Good Friday.  Although not so great for Jesus a couple of thousand years ago.  Slept relatively well again which was nice.  Did three quarters of an hour of weeding before it got too hot.  Did some house bits and pieces but mostly just photo processing.  Did a barramundi bake with potatoes for dinner (I got a bag of potatoes for 76c from Woollies the other day and used a bit over half of them).  Also some frozen veggies.  

Then The Orville 3.3 which was a bit weird, and geotagging photos.

Saturday.  Slept relatively well again, hurray!  A day of All The Things.  Combination of weeding, house stuff, bit of jigsaw and geotagging.  Also did a bit of food shopping in the afternoon and got more bark for Stumpy.

I couldn't believe this stick of geranium.  It's been broken off and just lying on the ground for about TWO MONTHS!! But it's still growing new leaves!!  

Stu cooked miso mushrooms for dinner which were delicious.

Then watched Labyrinth.  

Easter Sunday.  Much the same as yesterday - slept relatively well, then weeding/house/photos stuff.  Didn't feel like putting the clarinet back together, so just played some hymns on the recorder - of course starting with "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" :)

And just like that we're a quarter of the way through the year..!!

This should cover most of the GPS logs for our Tassie trip... 

Kilometres (odometer): 5675
Kilometres (GPS): 7055.7
Steps (pedometer): 336228
Photos (Canon): 5041
Photos (G5X): 1131
Photos (iPhone): 3955
Photos (Stu's phone): dunno
Photos (Stu's camera): dunno
MOVs (G5X): 10
MOVs (iPhone): 59
PNGs (iPhone): 70
Photos (total Kaz count): 10127
Photos (total Kaz GB): 57

Saturday.  23rd.  Got home from our Tasmania trip just before 18:00.  Both epic tired.

Big shout out to Tony who fed the fish and Stumpy and watered the plants while we were gone.  And then went above and beyond when one of the fish tank heaters kept tripping the power (including the fridge!) and had to sort out that disaster.  I think he took better care of our plants than I do!  Everything looked super happy, including the mini capsicums out the front that now have mini capsicums on them!

Dinner was wine (from David), cheese, pepperoni, pickles (which had been out of the fridge since we left Cradle Mountain at 11am Friday) and crackers.

While we were away we watched the end of season 3 of Mash, the start of season 3 of The Orville, and Sex Education 4.5.  And a lot of Big Bang Theory on 10 Peach (some of the later seasons).  Back home, we're into season 4 of Mash and 3.2 of The Orville.

Sunday.  Slept like crap - awake from 4:27 for ages.  After not much sleep the night before either this resulted in Not Fully Transfunctionating day today.  Sigh.  Spent the morning downloading photos to my main computer.  Then out to do food shopping (just some essentials, have an entire freezer of food that needs eating).  The afternoon was trying to wrangle my todo list into some sort of order, as well as unpacking, fish stuff etc.  Also got pissed that IFTTT lost connectivity to FourSquare on 1 February, so had to reconnect that, and download two months of checkin history as well.

Dinner tonight will be eat the freezer (sausages and frozen veggies) and hope we don't get food poisoning from any of it being a little defrosted a few times...