Tuesday. 5th. Took me a while on Monday to get to sleep. Still woke up early though. Did my music practise in the morning. Busy day, but I don't even know where most of it went. Did washing up at lunch time and weeding after work. Stu cooked dinner - creamy mushroom and chicken fettucini. Nothing of use in the evening though, just jigsaw and rss feed reading and feeling blah. Did the washing up. Again. Watched some Lie to Me. Found that "print screen" started working again. WTF is it with windows 11 that things just stop and start working at random (still haven't had time to fight with the scanner that just stopped working a couple of weeks ago).
I also raged at All The Things.
For example. People complaining about fortnightly rubbish pickups (that have recycling and food/green waste pickups). I just don't *get it*. Growing up we didn't have any recycling (to begin with) and just one little metal bin for a family of four. Nowadays we put out like one bag of rubbish a week. We're lucky to put out the rubbish bin once a month, and then it's rarely more than half full. What are people even doing now? Putting literally everything into the rubbish bin, including all their recycling and food waste? Maybe they only eat packaged food and nothing fresh. No idea. Like I said, I just don't *get it*.
Also. If they want more people living in higher density buildings, there needs to be bigger units at a "reasonable" price. These days the only units you can get are *tiny* little two bedroom units, or maybe a three storey penthouse - usually for a *lot* more than a house of the same size. People probably have to get a house because they need the indoor space. I'm sure plenty of families would be happy to live in a unit if you could get a decent size one without paying twice as much for it. Far out, we'd be much happier in a unit because we wouldn't have a yard to try and keep weed free. But try getting anything the size of our place in a unit. Good luck with that.
Also. If they want more people to use electric cars, fricken standardise on power connectors. At the moment it's like a Beta vs VHS war or HD-DVD vs Bluray. And an electric car is fine if you have two cars and one is the city car and one is for holidays. Good luck travelling anywhere much in Australia outside the big cities with an electric car. Much of Australia is simply inaccessible without petrol at the moment.
Wednesday. Slept mostly ok. Another busy day but at least I got stuff done. Did some weeding at lunch. Cooked up some veggies to have with lefover pork for dinner. Went through half of my Eurasia blog photos tweaking the colour balance a little (my old camera had way too much red and not enough blue) and cropping as necessary.
Thursday. Took ages to get to sleep but still woke up super early (like 5am). Ok day. *At* work blerf. It's noisy and distracting in the office. Drinks was good, but ours was literally the only table there - noone else was there! Too much covid in the office I guess. Watched the first episode of Black Books. Had a raging battle with the printer that is now jamming literally every page. It puts toner down but then jams before fusing it. Ended up angry and depressed. Also had some Spar pizzas for dinner because Chris didn't have any Dr Oc. Definitely not good.
Friday. Busy day, had fun making up dashboards for some testing we're doing in a few weeks. Chicken kiev for dinner (the Steggles ones are nowhere near as good as the Ingham ones). Watched a couple of episodes of Gunther's Anatomy series.
Saturday. A day of All The Things. House, jigsaw, photos.
This magpie came down after I'd been weeding for a while to see if I'd disturbed any bug noms for it
We dug Stumpy out cause we hadn't seen him in days.
Dinner was the last of the pork, refried in jelly, with some leftover rice from during the week and cabbage and kewpie sesame dressing
Watched The King's Speech in the evening, which we hadn't seen since we saw it at Stu's dad's place in 2013.
Today. Rinse and repeat really. Although mostly getting Eurasia photos sorted and ready for the blog. Basa fillets for dinner, which will be in next week's post.
Happy tree is being obscured by another tree.. doh!
Third episode of Black Books. 19:30 is bed time right?
Sylvia Johnson
I'm having printer troubles too. Jamming a lot! I think it might be 10 years old and if you look to buy the same model, it is out of stock. So maybe it is not made anymore. Don't know where to start for a new printer, as I like the one I have.