Sunday. 30th.
Stu finished cooking some potatoes from the club as well as some of the bread and we had that with leftover turkey and veggies. Stranger Things 4.5.
Monday. December! Minimun 8.7, maximum 18, 2 predicted overnight! Welcome to summer! Took ages to get to sleep again. Then awake from 4:30 and never got back to sleep.
Busy day being NEIL for a while, then catching up on chats and emails then clearing the ticket queue.
Cracked open this year's beer advent calendar after work. Which isn't any sort of official one. Since I couldn't go to work drinks for months, Neil saved all the Beer of the Weeks for me. I had almost enough to fill an advent calendar box (I still had the box from last year's Plonk advent calendar). And I've been collecting them now that I'm going back to drinks. I also asked @aquila to pick me up the Bridge Road Brewers Christmas beers, so this photo doesn't show the box as full, but I'll have more beers than will fit :)
Did some music after work, dinner, Stranger Things 4.6, geotagging holiday photos. The house is a disaster. I still haven't finished putting up Christmas decorations. I still haven't fully unpacked or put all my washing away. Need. More. TIME!!!!
This star light is probably 24 years old. This year one of the lights has finally blown in it. I do have one spare bulb but I'd have to pull everything out of the cupboard again to get at it.. next year.. 
Tuesday. Took a while to get to sleep, awake at 4 but got back to sleep.
Welcome to summer in Canberra!!
Busy day. I decided I really wanted to get back to working on a project I started months ago, but it requires a lot of concentration, which I couldn't really do while being NEIL and working on proxies. So tried to get back into it. But was interrupted every five seconds by people wanting crap and distracting me. I even stayed back late after work to work on it because it's quieter then, and I STILL got interrupted by someone wanting crap. FFS. Stu cooked some pasta to go with some pesto I dug out of the freezer.
Stranger Things 4.7. Then it was pretty much bed time. Sigh. Also getting annoyed at my email which isn't downloading properly for some senders. It's like the messages are getting corrupted somehow. Or at least just not rendering correctly. It started around maybe mid to late November. They view ok on the server in webmail. Maybe there's something in one of the headers that's confusing things. There's definitely content downloaded but it's just not displaying. And it's not everything, it's only some mails from some senders. Sigh.
Wednesday. Okish sleep but awake from 4. Got into work early and was able to do a bunch of work before a morning full of meetings.
Connor tried the Stranger Things Upside Down Double at lunch
Got more stuff done in the arvo including fixing an ldap health check for TLS. Got home and the sweetie was cooking up leftovers from the club night. Stranger Things 4.8, then backed up my computer then it was basically bed time. hrmmm.
Thursday. Took ages to get to sleep. Looking at traffic to domain controllers most of the day. Super quiet drinks - just our table.. oof! The sweetie felt like Dominos so that's what we got for dinner. Ate too much. Whoops. Stranger Things 4.9 (end of season 4). Some of season 5 has dropped so we'll be able to start watching that straight away. Although it's another three years later so the kids will be all grown up!
Friday. Meh sleep.
More AD traffic checking. Lunch with the Chrises and Neil and Glenda at the Burns Club (aka Magpies) which was very nice.
Seniors Salt and Pepper Squid, with tartare sauce, lemon chips and salad, $20M $21.50NM. At least the Burns Club is happy to serve anything off the menu, including seniors meals to non seniors. See, it's not that hard, HERBERTS!!
Drinks with Luc and his mate Stephen (from AARNet) at Molly (Old Fashioned and a Rusty Nail)
Then dinner at Bamiyan - we had an epic feast of camel skewers, butter chicken, mantu (lamb dumplings) and lamb biryani. So good!! I ate way too much but did bring home some leftovers. Hasty goodnight as my bus arrived just as we got to the bus stop.
Saturday. Crap sleep (bloated cause I ate (and probably drank) too much). It didn't cool down overnight either so had to have the cooler running with water all night. Spent much of the morning tidying the house.
Yeah it was stoopidly hot, but I'm trying to clear stuff out of the freezer
Then it was all afternoon at Mishi's for her 60th. Picked up TV dinners from Chris's for dinner, then watched Die Hard.
Sunday. Awake from dentist time for a while. More house stuff and sorting out holiday finances.
Finished the puff pastry out of the freezer
Food shopping after lunch.
Ethos topped out this week (you can't see the tree in this pic)
And the Premier inn is gorrrrne, skyline replaced with The Residence at The Markets
And stressing over how little of my todo list I've gotten done this weekend :(
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