Sunday. 11th. Leftover lasagna for dinner, and Stu cooked one of the zucchinis Cath brought over to have with it. Then Beyond Paradise 2.6 (last episode of season 2). Then geotagged Mum's Kangaroo Island and Adelaide photos.
Monday. Slept okish, but awake early. Achieved a few bits and pieces at work. Leftover Christmas party sausages and salad for dinner, then watched the Beyond Paradise end of 2024 Christmas special.
Tuesday. Awake from 3:30 for ages hurrah. Made some progress on the proxies but came across more issues, one of which I thought I solved last year but the behaviour has changed.. hrmm. Leftover lasagna and salad for dinner then Beyond Paradise 3.1.
Wednesday. Slept mostly ok until about 5:20. Spent all day working on a rework of a bunch of rules for Dave5. Stu cooked a very yummy miso mackerel and Japanese cucumber salad for dinner.
Beyond Paradise 3.2. Didn't turn my computer on at all in the evening because of all the storms rolling through.
Thursday. Slept mostly ok until about 5:20. Lots of AD comms work planning, thinking about load balancer stuffs and talking to Wardie about All The Things (but mostly how much Microsoft sux). Sneaky drinks in our usual spot with a good turnout and even some randoms! Made pizzas for dinner and then Beyond Paradise 3.3.
Friday. Slept mostly ok until some time after 5, although may have gotten a little more sleep. Did some change paperwork in the morning and was all set to setup a heap of firewall rules when the interruptions started. In the end that got completely abandoned and I did the load balancing stuff. Stu sliced some of Cath's zucchini and I made up a lasagna out of the leftover sauces from last weekend. Beyond Paradise 3.4.
Saturday. Slept okish I think.
In the morning I heard a large plane fly over and went to flight trackers to find out what it was. It was an A330 from Ho Chi Minh City to Sydney, but it had done a big diversion down south. Then I went and looked at a few other planes. Then a few more. It was chaos!! A whole heap of flights to Sydney were in holding patterns waiting for clearance to land. Turns out there was a shortage of Air Traffic Controllers on Friday and Saturday and it was a mess!! (yes I have over 66 thousand photos and screen shots on my phone).
Fairly quiet day, just a bit of house stuff and photo stuff and Lego stuff and a fairly painless food shop. Kievs for dinner (missed out last night!) then watched a making-of special of Stranger Things season 5.
Also the last two days have been EPIC windy. Really crazy.
Sunday. Slept okish. Another quiet day.
At 12:22 my computer BSOD!!! Although event logs said it crashed at 12:08. Hrmmm. Then raged at Windoze because I went over to another desktop, clicked to open Explorer (it's pinned to my task bar).. and it opened ON MY ORIGINAL DESKTOP. TWICE!!! How is it that windoze 11 is so unbelievably BAD??? And this week's random explorer behaviour - windows forgot settings on one of my folders, and Chrome stopped sorting by reverse date order and defaulted back to alphabetical. I hate windows So. Much.
Sylvia Johnson
I was caught up in the Sydney Airport chaos on Thursday evening. Ended up landing about three hours late. We weren't allowed to leave Launceston because there was no time slot
for us to land. After about three time changes we took off and were going to land, however the approach was aborted above Botany Bay cause of the cross winds. Made it safely down on the second attempt.
Aquila
Nice photos of the Yellow-rumped Thornbill ... surprised you could get so close
Kazza the Blank One replied to comment from Aquila
Well I took them at 240mm from our bedroom window, so not really that close :)