Sunday. 21st. Roast beef for dinner which was very nice, and lots of leftovers. Mash and Shogun 1.3.
Oh Chris saved me a Charlie today!! This was the first one I've ever seen. Forty years after I saw my very first $1 coin at church one morning.
Monday. Hurty for a couple of hours overnight. Ok day, fighting with stoopid proxies doing stoopid things - like behaving more like a router than a firewall in terms of pattern matching. Dumb. Over the weekend I put a thing into the MyWay peeps to say Stu's MyWard card had expired and what's the story. The dude called and said too bad so sad bye bye, you lose the $5 you need to buy a new card so that the funds can be transferred. I'm utterly filled with rage that a) you have to pay $5 for MyWay cards that have $0 credit on them in the first place and b) that the stoopid things would even expire at all. The dude said the expiry was part of the terms and conditions and I said that was a dumb condition and there was deathly silence. I suspect the dude agrees that it's a dumb condition but he's not allowed to say so. Red curry with leftover beef for dinner. Started labelling Turkey photos. Stoopid dog barked for hours in the evening.
Tuesday. Took ages to get to sleep - strung out by the dog barking non stop til past 22:00. Utterly sick of *everything* at the moment. Mostly shattered confidence from not being able to figure out a stoopid problem at work because I'm stoopid. But everything piled on top of that makes me want to just quit my job and go live as a hermit somewhere. Had a couple of meltdowns during the day because it was all just too hard. Photo labelling and Lego picking in the evening.
Wednesday. Slept ok but still feeling to stoopid to do my job. Had meltdowns on the way to and from work and even *at* work. Sigh. Tried out BZ Burgers with Neil at lunch, and had drinks at No. 10 after work. Then pizza/Mash/Laid Back Camp and first two episodes of The Apothecary Diaries.
We liked the Belconnen pictures at BZ Burgers. Remember that dude who lived on the lake for a while? And we still have those buses at bottom right. I miss those butt ugly covered walkways though. They were handy when it rained.
I had Chicken Mack - southern fried chicken, USA cheese, pickles, sour onion, lettuce and Mack sauce ($18). It was quite nice although the chicken was a little crunchy so lost bits of the breading. And I love how they call plastic cheese "USA cheese" hehe.
Thursday. Anzac Day. Slept mostly ok. Got All The Things done in the morning then Lego picking. Put a 2.4kg lamb leg (it was the smallest I could get at the butcher on the weekend) in the slow cooker at 8:00 and by 18:00 it was literally falling off the bone (found one in the bottom of the sauce!). Cooked a bunch of roast veggies to go with it and had TJ over to enjoy it. Quite a nice evening.
There were also Anzac Biscuits. A little bit *too* gooey perhaps ;)
Friday. Slept mostly ok. Flexed off as I'm sure most of Australia did if they could. Got a new headlight for the car (it died in Tasmania). Closed off our ancient Citibank cards that we got for overseas travel but haven't used in ages and now they were taken over by NAB it was easy enough to go into a branch to close them off. Queue was about ten minutes but the dude was able to just close them off without any fuss so that was nice. Had lunch with the sweetie in the mall. Had a quick look in Millers and Myer for wedding attire and got depressed cause clothes shopping is all too hard anyway. Other than that I made a Lego train and did 3/4 hour of weeding. We got Chong Co delivered for dinner although it was a bit rushed because I had to log on before 19:00 to do a cert replacement. Took an hour which is the minimum time it takes if all goes well. Then watched Death in Paradise 9.2.
Saturday. Took ages to get to sleep, but still woke up at 6:00. Another day of getting things done then Lego picking. Went back to Supercheap Auto to get the actual headlight for our car (Stu bought the foglamp by mistake yesterday). Then went out to the club. A fairly quiet night with a remembrance dinner of corned beef and veggies.
They were doing backburning in the Brindabellas
Canberra sure is pretty in autumn
Club remembrance feast
Bec made these lovely biscuits
Sunday. Brought home All The Leftovers from the club (since W/C wouldn't take them). Got home, read about the Port Arthur massacre 28 years ago today. It's also 28 years since Como Presbyterian Church reopened after the bushfires, and 23 years since Alan had his first heart attack. Then labelled day 8 of Turkey, then Lego picking. Dreading having to go back to work tomorrow. I'm too old for this crap.
Leftovers for the next couple of weeks it seems..
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