Sunday. 30th. Had Jenn over for dinner, wherein we cooked up a huge vegetarian feast. Stu cooked his miso mushrooms. I did a potato bake, a blue cheese broccoli/cauliflower/onion bake and brussels sprouts with hazelnuts.
We debated how long it had been since we saw Jenn last. I looked up my blog and said April 2023, which seemed way too long, but I do remember taking a photo of her hair, and the date on that was April 2023, which pretty much confirms it. We're such slackers at keeping up with people. Watched DS9 2.7 after Jenn left.
Monday. Slept mostly ok I think. Got to hand back over the NEIL job back to Neil hurray!!! Leftovers for dinner then DS9 2.8.
Tuesday. Took ages to get to sleep #grunt. Did a bunch of analysis of some catchall rules so I can put in some more specific ones so we can get rid of the catchall.
I tried feeding Stumpy today. He's still being lethargic and not basking, but he did eat a blueberry and some food which was good.
I'm always suprised how quickly the COLD hits in Canberra. It'll be 30C for days on end, and suddenly it's 5C overnight and leaving the windows open makes for a very cold house. Decided April 1 should be close up all the windows day (several are left permanently locked open over summer). In the afternoon I was cold and hungry so had a cup of tea in our fancy Cunard tea cups.
Luv-a-duck for dinner which was very nice. All. The. Garlic. !!
DS9 2.9. After dinner was watching a video Dave2 linked to on living without a smartphone. Yeah I literally can't even remember how friends and I would meet up without being able to text each other updates or issues. Like what if a train was late, how would you tell who you were meeting? Navigation is another big thing. Nowadays I can turn up anywhere and use GPS on my phone to navigate (except that one time in Switzerland when I had to pay more for a car with satnav because the esim I got didn't work in Switzerland). I can't even imagine the paperwork you'd need to cart around to try and do the same thing with maps. Don't get me wrong, I love maps, and I like navigating, but they're damned heavy and more often than not I'm doing the driving not the navigating, and I can't imagine Mum would have much luck navigating me around European cities. Having said that, we did manage to navigate our way around the USA and Canada in 1983 and 2004 before phones. But for the most part we stayed out of big cities. And the USA is literally designed for road tripping. Signage is way way better there than in Australia or Europe.
Wednesday. Second night in a row dreaming about toilets. I have this bizarre thing where I stress about finding a clean/usable toilet. And not even when I need to actually pee in the middle of the night, it's just this weird obsession I have. Bizarre.
Somewhat busy day. Late home. Stu had had a day so we got KFC hmmm. DS9 2.10.
OneNote is trying to force me to upgrade to Office 365. It's already upgraded itself from the old Technet version I've been using for years AGAINST MY WILL I might add (apparently there's a way to turn off automatic updates so I might try reinstalling it and do that). So now it says I have 90 days of free usage. Well I can tell you that there is no way in HELL I'm going to pay to use it. I will NEVER get an Office 365 subscription. I'll rip everything out of it and use LibreOffice and Notepad if it comes down to it. Which is a shame, because OneNote is actually quite a good product. I like how it keeps different groupings of notes together and you can easily password protect sections.
Thursday. Late getting to sleep, then awake from 5:30 sigh. Went out to put a few things in the recycling bin before it got collected, only to find two big bags of RUBBISH in it!?! WTF!?! I pulled them out and raged for a while. Messaged the neighbours but didn't get a response. In the end put out our bin (which only had one bag of rubbish in it so wasn't worth putting out) and put their rubbish in it. As we were leaving for work neighbour's Dad was out there and I asked him and he said he did it. Sigh. Simon was sick at drinks so if I get sick early next week we'll know why. Pizzas for dinner then DS9 2.11.
Friday. Slept mostly ok. Busy day - put in a heap of those firewall rules which took me all afternoon to do. Kievs and veggies for dinner then DS9 2.12.
Saturday. Awake from like maybe 1 til 4. Sigh. Zombie day. Spent a chunk of the day photo picking from "other peoples photos" and trying to sort out what backups I have of Mum's computer. I'm definitely missing a few years worth from 2015-2017 where I just haven't had the time during visits to get it all copied. Debating a trip to Sydney to do that, as well as sort out the mess they made when they built her a new computer and didn't transfer all the files. Luckily she has all the photos (I hope!) on an external hard drive that has a snapshot backup I made her do some years back. In the evening we went to Bar 59 for an "antiball" but it was a bit of a fizzer really. People forgot or double booked or just didn't turn up, so there was only seven of us there in the end. I tried a few cocktails just for a bit of fun. So it was nice enough night, but dunno if I could be bothered trying to organise another one. Neil very kindly gave us a lift home.
Sunday. Awake for maybe an hour or so in the middle of the night - from 2:27, but the new 2:27, so didn't get to watch the clock go from 2:59 to 2:00. Still pretty tired though. Finally managed to setup SMTP on my iPhone using CloudLoop. Optus is flaky as hell for sending SMTP mail through, plus I get SPF softfails with them because I don't have their mail servers in my SPF records. Did a bit of house stuff, and started thinking about some holiday stuff. Tried again to add my Qantas frequent flier number to my Emirates flights, but I kept getting the error:
Warning:
Sorry, we`re unable to save the changes. Please check all the information and try again.
So I tried their online chat. It was quick and they just did it for me. Unexpectedly quick and painless! Not that I know why I bother really - Qantas expire all my points before I can use them. Then did some other holiday planning.
The Windows 11 Explorer trash is really pissing me off. I have an in tray where I have all the photos that I post to this blog. I update it every week when I'm processing my photos, and when I've posted them they get moved to Done. I sort this folder by date (in reverse to what windows likes to set it to) so that when I'm blogging them I can see and post the photos in order. Every time my computer reboots this setting is lost. I have to go Sort By -> Date (twice to get it in the right order) not just in Explorer, but in Chrome as well. Every damned time. But lately it's gotten worse. Tonight I did an experiment. I had the folder set the way I wanted it, and copied the path to clipboard. I closed explorer on this desktop. Opened up again and pasted the path. Folder view was reset to default. So did it again, this time by navigating manually to the folder. In this method the folder view is retained. And it's repeatable.
I also epic hate how Explorer collapses all explorer folders that you've had expanded whenever you insert or eject removable media. Like WHYYYYYYYY????
I hate Windoze SO MUCH!!
And suddenly the weekend is over. hrmmm.
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