My name is Elton Hercules John

Monday.  New Years Day.  So New Years Eve we had some beer and watched Rocketman which was quite interesting.  But then had a sad cause we couldn't agree on something else to watch before midnight.  Ended up watching Death in Paradise 7.6.  Watched the Sydney fireworks but made for a late night.  But of course woke up New Years Day 6am.  Because that's what I do.  Bit of a lost day.  Didn't get much done.  After lunch the sweetie suggested going for a drive, and I'm like, the Cotter is spilling.. so off we went.  Turns out there's another lookout you can go up to (have to walk, takes about an hour round trip if you stop and look at flowers and saddle dams and the like).  I haven't been up there since it was still under construction in 2010.  Being New Years Day the place was PACKED.  We were lucky to get a parking spot.

Saddle dam

This butterfly photobombed me!!
Butterfly photobomb

Cotter spilling from top lookout

Cotter spilling from top lookout

Cotter saddle dam

Cotter reservoir

Cotter reservoir

Cotter reservoir

Some of the flowers

Cotter flowers

Cotter flowers

Cotter flowers

Cotter flowers

And some from the bottom

Cotter spilling

Cotter spilling

Kievs for dinner.  Was right near the end of the cooking and was about to turn off the oven.. only to find it was off.  Dead.  Tripped the power.  Sigh.  Think we need to give the damned thing a bowl of petunias.

Tuesday.  Back to work.  Sigh.  Planned to do nothing other than be the Naughty Email Intervention Layer, and clean up the test servers to get them as close to prod as possible.

Wednesday.  Rinse and repeat.

Thursday.  Rinse and repeat.  Death in Paradise 7.7.

Last look before I started taking things down
Last look Christmas tree

Friday.  Finished cleaning up the test policies which made me pretty happy.  Once all was said and done it was like 3pm.  I'd had a pretty intense week of getting this stuff done, surely that means I can knock off right?  The Orville 2.8 and 2.9 in the evening.  And I watched an old Harry Potter special on YouTube.

The capsicums I planted out the front are still alive.  The ones I planted out the back got eaten by snails.
Baby capsicums

LIghts

Saturday.  Woke up at like 4am and don't think I got back to sleep at all.  Zombie tired all day :(  Then had a sad about taking the Christmas tree down and everything being too hard.  So the sweetie put on some John Williams which helped :)  Mostly house stuff (physical stuff) because I was too tired to concentrate on anything.  Leftovers for dinner, Mash, Sex Education 4.2.

Thistles are of the Devil.  I mean seriously, what was God's purpose in inventing these abominations??  Normally I'd rip these things out, but it was out of the way so I left it to flower.  Because they do have pretty flowers.  Will cut off the heads before they go to seed.
Thistle

Six days later and the glow stick from NYE is still going (really only visible in the dark though)
Glow stick

Sunday.  Tried to get an early night on account of being zombie tired all day.  Except I was too tired to go to sleep.  Sigh.  Stoopid restless legs.  So that was all a bit miserable.  Not great sleep either, but still felt somewhat better today.  Walked up Mt Rogers before it got too hot.

Pink epic dandelion

Mt Rogers

Got some stuff done, but wasted entirely too much time on Rubik's puzzles (found in the box when I was looking for my Spirograph).

All our Game and Watches from the 80s
Game and Watches

I have like a thousand Buckyballs (collected before the ban on sales).  I should make something epic out of them..
Buckyballs

I didn't solve this.  In fact I completely bollocksed it up and needed help to unscramble it before could watch a video to solve it.  The big one I bollocksed up too but haven't fixed it yet.
Rubik's Magic

And suddenly it's the end of the weekend.  Sigh.