Monday. 12th. Backdating. No notes other than "blogged".
Tuesday. Super crazy busy day all day. Went with the hills to another Surprising Science talk. The first talk was by Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths about uses of colour in nature, not just for visible light but also near infra-red, and how that might have applications in heating and cooling control. The second one was by Professor Drew Evans and was a lot more physics-based, looking at invisibility, and he did mention about how most butterfly wings that look blue aren't actually blue from chemistry but physics.
Wednesday. Had a go at picking up some work I started before my last holiday (that I had to stop looking at cause the proxies blew up). Went into town and had dinner at Chez Kimchi. They've simplified their menu which is *much* nicer. Then went to Coles to do some Christmas shopping.
Thursday. Work. Christmas party planning. Posted a package to Potty. $16 for regular, $20 for express. They said regular *might* get there by Christmas. hrmm. Last drinks of the year. Cheese kransky and salad for dinner. Then it was getting ready for the Christmas party and cleaning the house. Into season 31 of The Simpsons.
Our non-functioning solar setup.
Is Don! Is good! I miss those things, we used to have them all the time when I first came to Canberra.
Friday. My Christmas party!! Had about forty people come. Once again I overspent on booze, although did bring home quite a lot of leftovers so hoping it'll even out. It was slightly windy but otherwise it was a very pleasant afternoon. That was my tenth year running it!! Didn't catch any ducks, but did catch a honeyeater in flight, so to speak.
Went and picked up Mum from Jolimont. Had toasted cheese sandwiches for dinner then pretty much just collapsed.
Saturday. Proxy upgrade first thing. Still haven't fixed any of their bugs. Lame. Had a look at Mum's last two holiday slideshows which was nice. Then headed down to the Burns Club (had to join #grunt) for Kellie's family Christmas lunch. They did a Kris Kringle thing where the budget was 5c to $30 .. and I was like.. um what? Weird. Stu ended up getting some cash and I got a bottle of Apple Pie Baileys yummm :) And I ate too much. All. The. Food. !!
This time like three.. whoops..
Came home and collapsed in a heap from too much food and too much people. David/Kellie/Hayley dropped in on their way back to Junee after they'd been to Ikea. Had a super healthy dinner, then an early night.
Sunday. Decided to drop in unannounced to see Chrissie. I haven't seen her since before Covid!!! It's been a running joke over the last three years that whenever I messaged them to see about catching up one of them would be sick. And sure enough, Chris was sick this time. So we all wore masks. And had a nice long chat. Dropped off Mum at Jolimont then headed home. Stressed about people drama. Stressed about the solar system not working properly and noone responding to our emails/smses. #grunt. But forgot about all that for a while and went to Herberts with Frank and Karen and Tony which was nice.
Watched the third episode of Picard in the evening.
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