Mediocrities everywhere... I absolve you...

Sunday.  2nd.  Tuna casserole for dinner then The Crown.

Tuna casserole

Monday.  Took *forever* to get to sleep - tired, itchy, restless.  Then it felt like too early a wakeup.  Sigh.  Finished migrating a server I started on Friday.  Also some more routing cleanup on some test devices.  TV dinners for dinner.  It was that kind of day (and we hadn't been shopping so there was barely any food in the house).  Then first pass culled our two days in the Cinque Terre.  

Also disturbed this huge wolf spider while weeding at lunch

Huge wolf spider

Tuesday.   Took forever to get to sleep *again*.  I shouldn't be allowed to operate heavy machinery.  But then it was a crazy stoopid busy day.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok for a change. 

Red rumped parrot couple

Not as crazy busy a day.  Had dinner at BONE .. oh sorry, B ONE.  They really need to fix their branding.

BONE Canberra

Pork belly bao - with kimchi, had a little bit of a kick to it
BONE pork belly bao

Chicken dumplings - ok, but very hard dough
BONE chicken dumplings

Edamame - pretending to be a bit healthy with a little greenery
BONE edamame

Tako karaage - after watching My Octopus Teacher I felt a little conflicted eating these guys..
BONE tako karaage

Canberra winters..

Canberra winters

Then saw Come From Away, which was funny and sad and sweet and very well done with such a small cast, I really enjoyed it.

Come From Away stage

Thursday.  Slept ok.  Hard to concentrate at work - too many people and too much noise and talking.  

These went up all over the building overnight at work.  Clearly some idiot fell over watching their phone and not the steps, which means now we all need warnings/instructions on how to use stairs.  Of course "three points" is utterly ridiculous (you'd need to have both hands on a hand rail) and we ALL mocked it.

3 points

Whisky night at work.  Super quiet though, didn't get many people come up for it.  Sigh.

Whisky night

Whisky tasting

Pizza and Picard (with the Enterprise D! haha)

Friday.  Another server migration.  

We're getting two trees planted on our nature strip.  Neighbour is going to have a sad he won't be able to park there anymore.

Tree location

Lunch at Herbert's with the Chrises, Tony and Neil.  I had a chicken burger.

Herbert's chicken burger

We had been planning to go out to the club after work, but Stu was in the office every day this week and so he didn't feel like leaving the house in the evening (and the pouring rain certainly did help with the motivation).  Chicken kiev for dinner, then the first two thirds of Amadeus Director's Cut, which we both hadn't seen in a very long time.

Saturday.  We were supposed to go the club working bee, but Stu's back was killing him (too many days sitting up at a desk at work).  To be honest I was a bit relieved, as these days I'm waking up on Saturday mornings in a bit of a panic about everything I have to do.  Freeminded out the next six weeks in terms of photo culling and house stuff.  Did some food shopping in the morning then didn't leave the house all day.  Did I mention the rain?  I did a bunch of stuff on my todo list, but there was more I could have done.  Stu cooked Coronation Oden for dinner.  

Coronation oden

Finished season 3 of Picard which I really enjoyed.  Makes me wanna go back and watch all of Next Gen again.  Then we finished Amadeus.

Sunday.  Slept ok.  Continuation of All The Things.  Except I got distracted by one item on my todo list which was "Put Dad's slides away" except I couldn't do that without first trying to find where some mystery slides belong.  Which meant pulling out many rolls and trying to line up printed date/frame stamps.  There's still a few that just don't match up with anything which annoys me.  Dad's slides are probably at the lower end of my priority list, but still the one I end up doing when there's other things that need doing more. And I think it's because it's a *puzzle* that needs to be solved.  Getting them into order and figuring out where things should go is a challenge and there's a satisfaction from assembling an entire roll of film back into its original order.  

Some things I learnt this week (trying this as in idea to help me try and learn something new every day, let's see how long it lasts):  The sphincter at the top of the stomach is called the cardiac sphincter.  Well, it's *also* called that, as well esophageal sphincter which is what I always thought it was.  And the valve used on just about every bicycle/car/truck tyre is called a Schrader Valve.  There you go.