Sunday. 16th. Got a popup alert about some disk error. !! Found this in event logs:
Volume C: (\Device\HarddiskVolume5) needs to be taken offline for a short time to perform a Spot Fix. Please run "CHKDSK /SPOTFIX" locally via the command line, or run "REPAIR-VOLUME <drive:>" locally or remotely via PowerShell.
So I did that.. but makes you wonder what went wrong..
Stu ordered Chong Co for dinner.. whoops. Very yummy though. MacGyver and early night.
Monday. Slept somewhat okish, a bit broken. Depressed about having to go back to work. Started working on some dashboards then the BS started. Sigh. Awful day all up. Leftover Chong Co for dinner, a birdwatching video on birding hotspots in Newcastle, then selected photos from the ~900 I took to blog.
Tuesday to Friday. It's been a week. So busy and so much BS at work it's soul destroying. After work it's just been blog posting. So pretty much no time or energy for anything else.
I did take this photo of the only daffodil I'm probably going to get this year..
And had a very nice lunch at the Labor Club with Neil and DC on Wednesday.
Kiev!
I was so full from that I didn't need much dinner - Stu made these super yummy cheesy stuffed mushrooms.
And so far the only photo I've taken of wattle this year..
Friday. Kievs for dinner then watched White Christmas (Black Mirror). I really like this episode, although I find a couple of bits in it highly disturbing. One interpretation of Hell is just being completely alone for eternity. This would be just like that.
Saturday. Restless legs, took a while to get to sleep. Didn't get a whole lot done in the morning.
The other day when I was trying to figure out the trig I saw from Sherwood Forest I found Parks ACT has a site listing all the publicly accessible trigs in the ACT. I suggested to Stu that maybe we could incorporate trig walks into our bird walks.. :)
After lunch we went out to the Pinnacle again because there were a few birds that had been spotted there that Stu wanted to see. We didn't see those but did find a few noisy friarbirds that Stu hadn't seen in the ACT (and I don't know that I've ever seen). My guts decided they weren't happy half way through so that made for a fun walk back to the car.
Red-necked wallaby
Eastern grey kangaroo
View over Whitlam to Woden
Trig 1 - Mt Painter
View to Woden
Me on top of the Pinnacle
View over Denman Prospect to Mt Tennant
Pinnacle panorama
Trig 2 - I couldn't figure this trig out but I think it's at -35.293641 149.009954
Trig 3 - I think this is the Walker Hill trig taken from the other side of the hill that I took it from last weekend
Bird watcher
Black Mountain Tower
Not much else for the rest of the afternoon and we may have had tv dinners for dinner. Then we watched Project Hail Mary, which was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it (except for the arrival - just turn then engines off and you're in orbit? What about deceleration? Edit: apparently the first half of the trip was accelerating and the second half was decelerating, which also explains why there was gravity until they stopped. And the whole picking up the language in like five minutes). (I'm reminded of Rocheworld with a similarish story and how they use computers and mathematics to learn to communicate).
Sunday. Slightly more productive day, but not by much. We did have this little adventure. As we were backing out to go food shopping Stu thought the car felt lopsided. So we got out and found the rear left tyre was flat.
!!!!
I don't think I would have had the strength to get the wheel nuts off (or back on again) and we needed a hammer to whack the bolt thingie on tight enough to turn them.
I suspect this..
We went and checked all the pressures after doing our food shopping - the spare was at 9 PSI.. !! I just checked it again and it hasn't gotten noticably any flatter..
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