Sunday. 17th. Lamb roast and drinks with Kit.
Monday. A fair bit of inbox tidying and decommission cleaning. Got travel insurance for the cruise next year, but trying to get an ESTA was a pain in the poo poo hole. When it came to putting through payment I clicked on the link and got a browser pop up saying it was going to leave the page. Which I clearly didn't want to do. So tried again and this time got a popup from the site saying I was going to leave the page. So went "back" to see if there was something I missed but then it complained I already had an application in process. So got to the end again and it was all "THE PAYMENT STATUS COULD NOT BE DETERMINED AT THIS TIME. PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER FOR THE PAYMENT STATUS." and literally no way to pay. Tried different browsers with no luck. #grunt. So that was a waste of a good chunk of the evening.
Tuesday. Slept ok. Reloaded my ESTA application and it came straight up with the option to pay. So just needed to wait for it to sort itself out. Fighting with all the stoopid. Had some mulled wine, and cooked sausages, cauliflower, bacon and these little kale sprouts I got off Tony which were fricken *amazing* - little crunchy leafy balls of goodness. Also blogged last week.
Lunch: toasted cheese sandwich with pizza blend cheese to take it to next level
This photo cannot possibly capture how awesome those little sprouts of kale were!
Wednesday. More dealing with all the stoopid, and frustration with people that don't respond to messages and/or disappear for hours at a time. Also had to finally start using Outlook for the first time, ever. And my welcome to it was a two hour delay in mails arriving because of "issues". Seriously whoever thought that cloud would be a good idea for this crap?? Was watching stoopid crap on the internet in the evening and backing up my computer when I found out my desktop no longer existed (I have robocopy scripts that save the output to a folder on my desktop). And I'm like WTF?? I had actually noticed the other day that everything on my desktop had little OneDrive icons. Turns out Microsoft had taken upon itself to backup my desktop, documents and downloads directories to OneDrive. EXCEPT IT HADN'T!!! Half the files were actually missing. I even looked online and they simply weren't there. It had badly synced my files and chunks of them were missing. So I turned off backup, at least for desktop, and will need to restore my files from last week's backup. Fricken HATE. Microsoft is doing an Apple and doing things of its own accord WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. HATE HATE HATE. Literally the second time this week my files have been screwed with by others (last time was on Friday when a rogue backup script deleted everything at work).
Thursday. Farewell for Casey who's moving to Melbourne, then Christmas in July drinks at work. There were so many snackages I didn't need dinner, and in fact brought home all the leftovers that were going to be thrown out otherwise.
Friday. I dunno. Mostly trying to get organised. Declared POETS and we headed down the coast to see Kit and Pete. The top of Clyde Mountain was pretty foggy, but it cleared up lower down. I really wanted to get there by dark, but that didn't work out. Oh well. Had steak and salad for dinner and had a few drinks and chatted.
Arthur, King of the Britons
Saturday. I went to bed relatively early (altho an hour later than usual) but didn't get to sleep til like super super late (like after everyone else went to bed haha). Had a bit of a sleepin though so wasn't tooo bad. Watched Kit feed all the animals.
Al and Kerry Paca
Kit and Pete hand-raised Lolly when she was abandoned. She's very friendly and so damned cute!
Ricky the tiny horse
Then we had breakfast which was at nearly lunch time.
I started a jigsaw and got a chunk done on it before we headed down to Bawley Point. The river mouth was a bit too deep to cross, so we headed all the way down to Kioloa. There was a fairly lethargic seal dozing on the rocks, which everyone thought was very unusual. Walked all the way up the beach and back. The seal was still there, but some others had already called some experts to get it checked out.
Had a lamb roast for dinner, with one of Kit and Pete's sheep.
Then we played a game of Squatter. Which, like real life with sheep, is basically a case of what Bad Things will happen at every turn. Kit won. I think I was doing ok, but it was a bit hard to tell since it was all so random and Bad Things kept happening.
Slightly earlier night.
Sunday. Slept a lot better. Bacon and eggs again for breakfast, then we watched Biscuit herding sheep which was pretty cool.
Then headed home. Unpacked and tidied up the house. Did a bit more on the jigsaw. Then put on dinner (roasted a bunch of veggies to have with leftover lamb) and did photos and blogging stuffs.
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