Monday. Couldn't get to sleep til really late, then woke up before 4am for ages. Sigh. Ok day. Lots of tickets. Hong Bo fixed the stoopid thing I couldn't get working last week - missing a dependency that I knew nothing about and wasn't in any of the doco. Sigh. Had UK labelling done by 7pm then watched the last episode of Against the Wind. Then had a bit of a look around at static gallery apps.
Tuesday. Took ages to get to sleep *again* (stoopid cold feet). Very quiet day at work. I don't think I had any tickets. So went through documenting and cleaning out an old server we need to decommission. Cooked up a bunch of veggies in with the mince I cooked Sunday night, and had it with pasta. UK labelling and cleaning took til 8pm. Then blogging. Suddenly it's 9pm. hrmm.
I saw this baby magpie lark on my walk at lunch. The thing could flutter a bit but was clearly too young to be out of the nest. The parents were *not* impressed that I was anywhere near it!
Wednesday. Woke up to the sad news that Charlie of The Daily Coyote had died.
Was scanning slides in the morning and came back after some housework when it had done a pass and the lights were out. Which is super odd, the lights only turn out after it being idle for quite a while (12 minutes as it turns out). When I tried to scan there was no option to scan slides anymore. Tried turning it off and on again, but it still wouldn't come good. And I'd just been saying that there were 58 days left til Christmas, and 50 boxes of slides, which didn't leave much wiggle room to get it all done by Christmas. If the scanner was dead that would blow right out. And then I remembered that I hadn't put out the green bin. I went and got gloves and was about to go outside (I was going to have to empty some of the grass because the bin was way too full of grass) but the track came! Gahhh!!! But then it stopped. And picked up the bin. And I'm like.. wha?? Turns out David had put it out the night before, and even put some of the grass in the neighbour's bin. Seriously, bestest brother ever!! Ok day. Busy busy afternoon. David finished mowing the lawn in the afternoon. Stu wanted pizza for dinner. At least it wasn't takeaway. But they did get extra cheese.
And there was a storm down south.
I rebooted my computer to see if it would help with the scanner. It didn't. I knew it wouldn't. So then David had a look. Turns out the cable connecting the lid to the rest of the scanner had worked its way loose after thousands of times being opened and shut. So it was the first rule of tech support - is it plugged in. Sigh. But did I mention that I have the bestest brother ever?? Finished scanning the morning's slides, but didn't get all the UK labelling done.
Thursday. Neil came to work blind in one eye, so Sharpie and I convinced him to go straight to the ER rather than his optometrist at 12pm. And then I had to be Neil all day. As well as find someone to run the bar. I hassled literally everyone and thankfully someone came in to do it, otherwise we would have had to cancel. R&F invited us out for dinner at Indian Pantry with EffanC. We had one of the banquets which brought a lovely array of food.
Friday. We would have been in Queensland for Ben and Sarah's wedding. But covid happened. So instead it was simply Ben's 40th birthday party at Gungahlin Lakes.
For dinner I had Famous Paddies Chicken - pan fried chicken tenderloins cooked in a whisky cream sauce with bacon, onion and mushrooms, served with house fries. It was delicious!!
Saturday. Just bits and pieces of housework. We were going out for the club halloween night, and I wanted to get there a bit early to do some priming. But Stu wasn't feeling it, so we arrived only just on Happy Hour. I did Lego 80s Classic Space guy again.
Stu wore the beanie he had from a previous year, that everyone thought made him look like Shrek.
Matt and Michelle put on an awesome dinner.
Then got rejected so left quietly before I had a meltdown. But it did make for an early night which was nice.
Sunday. Slept relatively well. Woke up to the news that Sean Connery had died. Came home early. They played our song on the radio on the way home.
Oh wow! We know him!!
Had a relatively productive day I guess. Cooked up a bunch of veggies including a potato bake, and even baked some kranksys so that was a nice Sunday night dinner.
Watched the first episode of the new season of The Mandalorian. See Star Trek, you don't need an overly complicated plotline to be good televsion.
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