The week we went to Sydney for an 80th

Except I'm not going to blog about that for now, because it really needs its own two or three (or more!) posts!

Sunday.  7th.  Leftover Dumpling Inn for dinner then we watched Turner and Hooch which I probably haven't seen since it came out at he movies or maybe shortly thereafter.

Monday.  Various coughing fits overnight. Lay in bed for a few hours in the morning, then a quiet day. Got some Dotz done which was nice. And we went out to Hall Cemetery so Stu could try and find some birds.

Found one!
Eagle gravestone

Roses at Hall cemetery

Mushrooms at Hall Cemetery

I finished watching Pleasantville that I started watching the other night. Sounds like Toy Story in places, thanks Randy Newman. Leftover Dumpling Inn for dinner and Stu put on an episode of a YouTube birder he follows. Then episode three of 3 Body Problem. I'm still coughing, except my belly hurts too much from all the coughing so I can't cough properly.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep (coughing too much) and also coughing throughout the night. Logged on to work in the hopes of having a quiet day catching up on emails. Sent an email to the desktop guys thanking them for their help with the proxy rollout, and how smoothly it went. Like 30 seconds later (actually about fifteen minutes) people are complaining about the proxies not working. I literally jinxed it. Sigh.  Spent all morning stressed out about that, but Ward and Con helped and we fixed it by lunch time. Then watched a firewall upgrade for a chunk of the afternoon. Called it at 16:00. Leftover Dumpling Inn for dinner then more bird documentaries over dinner.

Wednesday.  Coughing for chunks of the night. Got to do a bit of decom work which was nice. Cooked up a potato bake and some veggies for dinner which was nice too. MacGyver then 3 Body Problem episode 4. Felt like I might *finally* be starting to feel a bit better and coughing a bit less.

Veggie bakeoff

Thursday.  Still awake for ages coughing overnight sigh. Nothing much morning but a nice quiet afternoon of prepping decoms which was nice. 

Tested out the external flash on my new camera.  Bizarrely it literally won't let you use the external flash unless you enable "shutter sounds".  Like WTF?  What a bizarre setting to have to enable for it to work.  The shutter sound is an artificial "clunk" like old mirrored cameras would make.  It's kinda nice in a way because without it the camera is utterly silent when it takes a photo.  But I also like being utterly silent when I'm taking photos.

Flash test

Made a pepperoni, a cheese, and a potato and rosemary pizza for dinner, then MacGyver and 3 Body Problem episode 5.

Three pizzas

Friday.  Packed up and headed off to Sydney!  As I said, that'll be another few posts.