Not backdating for a rare change...!
Monday. At lunch time a shower sealer dude came to look at the shower. Basically he was stumped. Never a good start. Sigh. David mowed the lawn in the afternoon - bestest brother ever!! Spent some time in the evening dumping the sql from my old gallery apps into csv. I dumped the two tables - one with the file names and one with the descriptions, then did vlookups in excel to merge them together. Really I just wanted a dump of what I had since I can't get the gallery app to work (it's just too old and the mysql calls don't work in php7 - I'd basically have to convert mysql_ to mysqli_ *everywhere* and there'd still be no guarantee that it'd work). Then I dropped the two databases and cleared out all the content.
Tuesday. December. Seriously wtf? I remember things in July being super recent, how can it possibly be December already? Such a bizarre year. Spent the evening doing more tidying up of my hosting.
Wednesday. Went jeans shopping at lunch. Arrghh. I was hoping that the trend towards bigger phones would eventually filter back into a trend for bigger pockets in jeans. Well half the jeans I looked at didn't have any pockets at all!! And the ones that did were that horrible fake wear style that I thought died a fashion disaster years ago. Hate. Hate. Hate. I'm going to have to replace them soon though as they're falling apart. I looked up my blog to see when I bought them - September 2016! Four pairs, which meant each pair lasted about a year's worth of wear. Take that Jeans West with your stoopid crappy jeans that only lasted the equivalent of like six months - last half as long and pay four times the price? I don't think so! Apple continued to be a piece of crap, and I got the "device attached to the system is not functioning" error - while copying photos! Piece of crap. Worked second go through, and even got both movies off it first go. Didn't get anything else much done though after backing up the phone and backing up my computer and paying bills. On a lighter note, our recycling got picked up.
Thursday. Cirrus has unveiled its west tower.
In other news, it was revealed that the garbos wanted a 4% pay rise. Per year. For three years. !! Taking them up to something like $110k/year. Which is a *lot*. Certainly a lot more than I make. Craziness. Had a good long play with making dashboards in our new service desk system. Took my notes that I'd written last week up to load a new beer into the till. Seemed to work :) Mandalorian in the evening.
Friday. Woke up at 3am. Hurrah. So a bit of a zombie day. Had a bit of a play with reporting in our new service desk system.
Saturday. All. The. Things. Crazy busy productive day just getting things done, including food shopping. Stu cooked mackerel in miso paste for dinner. Mandalorian and then the live action Mulan in the evening. I thought it wasn't too bad, certainly better than Aladdin (which was pretty lame) and even The Lion King (which was almost identical to the original but flat and lifeless).
Sunday. Not quite as productive a day but not too bad.
These are nice - mini toasts (bought at Chris's for $2) with leftover cream cheese from the weekend, and blackberries we bought on Saturday. The tomato ones were ok but a bit big to fit in my mouth and too hard to bite in half.
Went for a walk at lunch and saw inside a mobile phone tower comms room that someone had left the door open on.
Had a huge roast beef for dinner (leftovers ftw!) and someone brought up planning Christmas, which is always .. tricky.. hrmm.
Monday. ok day I guess. Went for a walk and saw one of my birds (haven't seen them really at all in weeks and weeks). Spent half an hour hacking weeds and cherry tree suckers and didn't even make a dent. Sausages and salad for dinner. Watched the first episode of a documentary series on The Mandalorian which was interesting. But by the time that was all done it was 8:14pm, and too late to really feel like starting anything new. So I blogged. Hurrah.
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