Sunday. 19th April. Leftover curry for dinner then Professor T 4.3. Then I continued watching a Disney series The 90s Greatest, which has been a bit lame but a bit of memories. What was freaky is the second last episode looked at the Waco seige and the Oklahoma City bombing.. both 19th April.. woah!!!
Monday. Slept okish I think. Was looking at ways to download the URL categories for our new proxies. They literally don't have a way to do it. They just say, oh use this third party python script that someone has written to call the APIs yourself. Lame. Then I found they'd upgraded our version of Postman to a cloud version which forces you to create an account on their cloud and sign in to use most features. Except we block that because it's a massive security risk to, you know, save your passwords in clear text on remote servers. Not to mention that by upgrading they blatted all my collections which filled me with all kinds of rage. Then I got home and found the Chinese ebayer I bought a lens cap with a string off, sold a plain cap with no string. Like how hard is it?? Filled with rage at that too. Later she partially refunded me (it was only like $5 to start with) since it didn't match the photo. It does seem to be a genuine Canon lens cap too, although can you believe "Made in Japan" printed on it if it came from China? Stu cooked up some broccolini in a nice sauce and we had that leftover sausages from the Christmas party, which was very nice. Then Professor T 4.4.
Took ages to get to sleep, woke up early, and Stu was SICK in the middle of the night! He never gets sick (almost never). He was feeling slightly nauseous before dinner. No idea what set him off. Fighting with the new proxies all day. Trying to get my head around their dumbness. Although did find one super useful feature in their URL categories (which is utterly needed to do the daftness of how their URL categories actually work) - it lets you find other places that has a wildcard (because you need to add an explicit URL to the wildcard category, otherwise it won't be included in the wildcard. Don't even get me started on that trash). Cooked up some brussels sprouts, capsicum and potato gems for dinner.
Professor T 4.5. OMFG I hate ebay so much. I've been needing to sell some of Vic's Lego, but ebay make it as painful as they possibly can. They don't *do* letters, so even though I can fit stuff in a large letter box (<2 cm thick) if you try and choose that it blanks out what the local postage will be and only shows you international (at $13-$30). So you choose regular package which is like $7-$9 which isn't toooo bad considering it has tracking, but they don't give you any provision to charge for packaging (the box cost me like ~$1). And then they will charge like 13% FEE on POSTAGE, which is money they literally steal out of your profit. But if you don't jump through eBay's hoops (and include tracking) then you're at the mercy of the buyer whether they'll just lie and say the package didn't turn up, and ebay will literally take your money back off you. Then you have to go to Australia Post and argue with them to try and get a refund which they'll only do up to $100 unless you buy insurance. It's the most stressful thing ever. I hate it. I really really wish there was a better alternative to ebay. And don't even get me started on Windoze 11. If I'm on another desktop and click to open windows explorer, it takes me to ANOTHER DESKTOP ENTIRELY!!! Same with Notepad. Double click on a text file on one desktop, and it opens notepad ON ANOTHER DESKTOP!! How is it that windows is STILL SO BAD???
Wednesday. Slept mostly okish I think. Didn't get much done all morning - too many meetings. Tried out Gianni's with Neil at lunch and had their lunch special. Managed to get something working on the new proxies that I'd been fighting with. Turns out someone else just hadn't done their job properly and my stuff worked once it was fixed. Sigh. Leftover Japanese curry for dinner (we're almost through it!), then Professor T 4.6 (end of season 4).
Thursday. Took a while to get to sleep but okish sleep after that. Lots of doing doco today and testing the new proxies. Quiet drinks, only one other table. Made pizzas and garlic bread for dinner and watched Death in Paradise 15.1 since Professor T season 5 isn't on Prime yet.
Friday. Restless sleep. Distracted morning. For lunch we went to Bentspoke to celebrate Neil having worked there 50 years!! It was actually last year that the anniversary came around, but he was recovering from knee surgery so it got put off. Lovely afternoon and around twenty people came.
Saturday. Anzac Day. Went to bed as soon as I got home last night, okish sleep, considering. Nice quiet day just doing house stuff and photo stuff.
I may have made some Anzac biscuits. These were a lot drier than last time (I measured everything properly for a change) so they held their shape a lot better (the last ones melted everywhere).
Kievs and gems for dinner (since we missed out last night) and then watched Amelia which was somewhat interesting.
Sunday. Mostly ok sleep but awake super early (half an hour earlier than normal) to go out to Mulligan's Flat for a bird walk of sorts. I've never actually been out there. Didn't see a huge number of birds (we were really just scoping out the place and went for a walk round the dam) but there was a little flock of red-rumped parrots having a bath which was pretty cool. Then we went to Cafè Luzon, a Filipino inspired cafe for brunch. I had the eggs benedikto which was quite nice although the spinach left that weird spinach feeling in my mouth long after. Then just a quiet day, and did some dotz and some music.
Our friend at Cafè Luzon...
We may or may not have Chong Co coming for dinner... :)
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