Sunday. 11th. Lamb roast for dinner.
Then watched V for Vendetta. Not nearly as scary watching this time as it was the first time we watched it. The world is in a bit of a different place (in terms of who's in power in the UK, USA and Australia at the moment).
Monday. Slept okish. I finished culling photos from the cruise (the day entries, still need to do the Carnival Pride, food and hotels). Got it down to 1042 photos. Had a meltdown because the barrel vacuum cleaner is so damned hard to use. I need two hands to hold onto it so it doesn't fall apart which leaves nothing left for moving furniture around, not to mention have to stop every two seconds to pull to barrel closer. Hate hate hate hate hate.
Tuesday. Shine Dome talk after work. They had Mr Dean Yibarbuk who is a ranger in Arhem Land talk about his work with fire management up there which was pretty cool. And also a talk by Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith.
Dinner at 10 After.
Wednesday. Dinner at CBD Dumpling House. Get a seat at the bar and watch the kitchen action!
The pan fried shallot cake was fresh and crispy
The xiao long bao were nice, but not as good as Din Tai Fung
The other dumplings were decent too
The place was packed, but we were in and out in twenty minutes. Pretty impressive!!
Thursday. Quickie drink at work then into town for the third night in a row to catch up with Luc who was in town. We had such a short time to catch up - like less than an hour. Great to catch up but sad it was so short.
Mary's French, with a Frenchman!
Antebellum
Watched some more Picard. I'm enjoying this season. The last couple of episodes were directed by Jonathan Frakes and have four or five original cast members which has been a lot of fun. It's like Next Gen only more "real" and better character development.
Friday. Windows patched and rebooted overnight. They've stuffed up window behaviour. Now if you maximise a window it'll either completely cover the task bar, or it'll hide the bottom of your window behind your taskbar. Completely retarded. ** As of Sunday night this seems to have been fixed, even without another reboot ** Leftover lamb shanks for dinner, then Futurama, then finished season 4 of Death in Paradise. Kit invited us down for a drink. Then had sad cause we don't live next door anymore.
Oh, the other week I made it to level 10000 in Candy Crush!! Except then this week they completely changed the interface. That coupled with a super hard level 10086 and I've lost all motivation to play. Other than logging in to collect daily rewards I've all but stopped playing. Maybe they'll nerf the level and I'll take it up again.
Also this week I spent several mornings fighting with Dad's slides. Specifically his ones of Yerranderie. He did a bushwalking trip in June 1985, and we went there as a family in December 1985. Those two trips were easy enough to separate. But within the December trip there were clearly two different rolls of film. But the second roll of film had photos interspersed with the first roll. The dates were right (when compared with Mum's photos) so it just didn't make any sense. Then Stu said "maybe there were two cameras" which also didn't make any sense until I thought about it some more. Dad had massive problems with his old camera in August 1985 - he lost half of his photos to the camera over-exposing them. Maybe he got himself a new camera for Christmas? Mum couldn't remember. But it was certainly plausible. Maybe the half a dozen photos in the middle were simply finishing off the last roll of film on the old camera? I decided to go with that :)
Saturday. Woke up in the middle of the night for like an hour and a half for no good reason. Spent most of the day labelling holiday photos and inventorying Vic's Lego. I did also spent an hour and a half cleaning out a manky fish tank, consolidating a couple of tanks, then arranging the power and lights so that only two tanks are active now, with another essentially just keeping heaters from drying out, running for just a few hours in the middle of the day while the sun is out. Then I found the house battery simply didn't charge. Flatline at 10% all day. Solar Edge strikes again. #grunt. Leftovers for dinner then watched Innerspace.
Sunday. Slept ok. Spent the entire day (other than going out for lunch and food shopping) labelling photos and inventorying Lego. The sort of nice quiet day I crave every day. Oh, and the battery charged today. Hurray.
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