Sunday.  28th.  Cooked up an epic lamb roast ($22/kg from Tathra Place in the markets) and veggies for dinner, then watched The Big Year (which some random dude on our holiday told us about).  It was a bit "serious" for all the comedic actors in it, but kinda cool.

Monday.  Slept relatively ok I think, for a change.  Spent much of the day geotagging holiday photos.  Stu also pulled out all the bedroom furniture to vacuum nearly 18 years worth of dust behind stuff...

Had some of Lily's Youfoodz for dinner.

Watched Professor T 1.5 together then I watched Taxi Driver which I've never actually seen.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep, epic restless.  Finished geotagging holiday photos.

In the afternoon we went to Palmerville for a walk and to do some birdwatching.  This Bell 206L-1 (VH-OAS) chopper had been buzzing around Canberra all day, Evoenergy checking powerlines.  

I hadn't walked along the new pathway yet

Such a fun shot..

Finished off Lily's Youfoodz dinners and the last of the salad

Then watched Professor T 1.6 together (end of season one) then I watched a doco on the Titanic - Titanic: Digital Resurrection.  Considering the effort they went to to digitise the ship, the computer graphics they also used were pretty cheesy.  Interesting though.

Wednesday.  April Fools!  Slept okish, only awake for an hour or two around 3.  Back to work.  Yeup definitely an April Fool.  Spent most of the day catching up on chats and emails.  

The sweetie cooked up a heap of veggies and I fried up some lamb, then we watched Professor T 2.1.

You can tell the sweetie was cooking - the potatoes are all lined up nicely ;)

Then spent the rest of the evening putting up reviews of all the places we stayed on our holiday in booking.com.

Thursday.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Mostly still catching up on crap at work.  Had a gin night at drinks but hardly anyone else turned up.  Sad times. 

Bus home (trying to save petrol) then made pizzas for dinner and watched Professor T 2.2.

Friday.  Good Friday.  Although not so good for Jesus back in the day.  Slept mostly ok.  Didn't get much done all day sigh.  Pretty much a nothing day.  We did go for another walk in the afternoon to Palmerville to try out Stu's new toy (all the bird pics I'll put in another post one day).

Kievs for dinner then Professor T 2.3.  I then watched "Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes" from 2015, which was mostly footage around Christa McAuliffe.. (as an aside, I didn't know that her backup, Barbara Morgan, later went on to be a full-blown astronaut in her own right.. cool!).  Eerily, the peeps that are on their way to the moon right now used booster rockets from the shuttle programme.. that wouldn't be freaky .. at. all.   .. !!)

Saturday.  Only awake for an hour or two around midnight.  Spent literally the entire morning doing housework.  Sigh.  Went out with EB to have a look at the new road around the north/east side of the airport which was pretty cool, had a good long drive around the area, then went in to Quangers for lunch at the Royal Hotel (had a very nice caesar salad).

Air traffic control tower at Canberra Airport

Did you know they're closing down the air traffic control tower at Canberra Airport and replacing it with cameras done with remote control..?  What could possibly go wrong?

Swing bridge in Queanbeyan

Caesar salad at the Royal Hotel in Queanbeyan

It's such a shame they haven't setup any sort of dedicated planespotting area with all the new works

Stu cooked a tuna bake and veggies for dinner then we watched Professor T 2.4.  I then watched Lantana which I'd never seen before.  Lots of unlikeable characters behaving badly.  Hurrah.

Easter Sunday.  He is risen!  Slept mostly okish I think.  Woke up 6am!  But 5am in reality. Sigh. Didn't achieve really anything all day.  Stu took Stumpy outside for a walk.

In the afternoon we went over to Annie's for afternoon tea and catchup with the family.  Pebbles wasn't being *quite* the scardey cat...

Leftovers for dinner.  The just-past full moon was rising and it was like, hey there's four peeps in between me and that bright shiny thing!  Pretty cool!  Then watched Molly's Game, which I'd seen on a plane but Stu hadn't seen.  

Monday.  Slept mostly okish.  Got a bunch of Europe 2016 photo stuff done, and a heap of jigsaw.  Stu has cooked up a bunch of veggies to have with some leftover lamb for dinner.

This little set came as a free gift when I bought Notre-Dame back in June or so.  Not the set I would have necessarily chosen for myself (I'm pretty picky haha) but it's still actually very cute!

The box and baggies

First up is all the furniture to be moved.

Then the truck.  

They give you instructions on how to load the truck so everything fits, and the roof comes off to fit the painting.

Wait for me!

How cute is the organ!?

New pieces for this set

So yeah, a nice fun little set!

Sunday.  11th.  Lamb roast for dinner.

Then watched V for Vendetta.  Not nearly as scary watching this time as it was the first time we watched it.  The world is in a bit of a different place (in terms of who's in power in the UK, USA and Australia at the moment).

Monday.  Slept okish.  I finished culling photos from the cruise (the day entries, still need to do the Carnival Pride, food and hotels).  Got it down to 1042 photos.  Had a meltdown because the barrel vacuum cleaner is so damned hard to use.  I need two hands to hold onto it so it doesn't fall apart which leaves nothing left for moving furniture around, not to mention have to stop every two seconds to pull to barrel closer.  Hate hate hate hate hate.

Tuesday.  Shine Dome talk after work.  They had Mr Dean Yibarbuk who is a ranger in Arhem Land talk about his work with fire management up there which was pretty cool.  And also a talk by Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith.

Dinner at 10 After.

Wednesday.  Dinner at CBD Dumpling House.  Get a seat at the bar and watch the kitchen action!

The pan fried shallot cake was fresh and crispy

The xiao long bao were nice, but not as good as Din Tai Fung

The other dumplings were decent too

The place was packed, but we were in and out in twenty minutes.  Pretty impressive!!

Thursday.  Quickie drink at work then into town for the third night in a row to catch up with Luc who was in town.  We had such a short time to catch up - like less than an hour.  Great to catch up but sad it was so short.

Mary's French, with a Frenchman!

Antebellum

Watched some more Picard.  I'm enjoying this season.  The last couple of episodes were directed by Jonathan Frakes and have four or five original cast members which has been a lot of fun.  It's like Next Gen only more "real" and better character development.

Friday.  Windows patched and rebooted overnight.  They've stuffed up window behaviour.  Now if you maximise a window it'll either completely cover the task bar, or it'll hide the bottom of your window behind your taskbar.  Completely retarded.  ** As of Sunday night this seems to have been fixed, even without another reboot **  Leftover lamb shanks for dinner, then Futurama, then finished season 4 of Death in Paradise.  Kit invited us down for a drink.  Then had sad cause we don't live next door anymore.  

Oh, the other week I made it to level 10000 in Candy Crush!!  Except then this week they completely changed the interface.  That coupled with a super hard level 10086 and I've lost all motivation to play.  Other than logging in to collect daily rewards I've all but stopped playing.  Maybe they'll nerf the level and I'll take it up again.

Also this week I spent several mornings fighting with Dad's slides.  Specifically his ones of Yerranderie.  He did a bushwalking trip in June 1985, and we went there as a family in December 1985.  Those two trips were easy enough to separate.  But within the December trip there were clearly two different rolls of film.  But the second roll of film had photos interspersed with the first roll.  The dates were right (when compared with Mum's photos) so it just didn't make any sense.  Then Stu said "maybe there were two cameras" which also didn't make any sense until I thought about it some more.  Dad had massive problems with his old camera in August 1985 - he lost half of his photos to the camera over-exposing them.  Maybe he got himself a new camera for Christmas?  Mum couldn't remember.  But it was certainly plausible.  Maybe the half a dozen photos in the middle were simply finishing off the last roll of film on the old camera?  I decided to go with that :)

Saturday.  Woke up in the middle of the night for like an hour and a half for no good reason.  Spent most of the day labelling holiday photos and inventorying Vic's Lego.  I did also spent an hour and a half cleaning out a manky fish tank, consolidating a couple of tanks, then arranging the power and lights so that only two tanks are active now, with another essentially just keeping heaters from drying out, running for just a few hours in the middle of the day while the sun is out.  Then I found the house battery simply didn't charge.  Flatline at 10% all day.  Solar Edge strikes again.  #grunt.  Leftovers for dinner then watched Innerspace.

Sunday.  Slept ok.  Spent the entire day (other than going out for lunch and food shopping) labelling photos and inventorying Lego.  The sort of nice quiet day I crave every day.  Oh, and the battery charged today.  Hurray.  

These photos have been sitting in my to be blogged folder all year.

While David was living here, we got sick of Stu's old bed.  It was a bit too small, and I found it too soft for my back.  So we'd been looking around for bed frames without much success.  In January, on impulse, we bought a mattress from Freedom.

The Mattress

It arrived a couple of weeks later.

It was a lot firmer than our last mattress which is what I really wanted, and *bigger* which we both wanted.  So we were quite happy with it and were generally sleeping pretty well (well apart from the insomnia but that's got nothing to do with the mattress ;) ).  But as the months went by, it definitely softened up.  It's nowhere near as firm as it used to be, and in fact you can see the indentations on either side of centre.  And if you roll into the centre, you can feel how firm it used to be.  It also means you can't sleep in certain places because otherwise you're on a tilt.  So in the end I've been disappointed with it.  I guess that's what you get for buying furniture at Freedom.

The Frame

In the middle of last year we went to Ikea and a bunch of bed stores but didn't find anything that we really liked.  At the beginning of January we had another look at Ikea and places in the Canberra Outlet Centre.  We saw one bed at Ikea that we thought might have suited.  But I read some reviews online and I'm glad I did because one of them noted the frame is actually smaller than standard mattress sizes by several centimetres.  David also pointed out that a frame where you need to dig your fingers down the side and under the mattress sucks donkey balls, and I had to agree, especially with a much heavier mattress. I also didn't want to have a foot board, because Stu's last bed had one, and I always worried about banging my leg on it in the dark.

So I spent ages and ages and ages searching online for frames.  I finally found something that I liked at MyDeal.  Except review sites gave the company pretty scathing reviews, noting that if anything goes wrong you've got almost no hope of getting in contact with them or any getting any response out of them.  So I kept looking.  I found the exact same thing at eliving furniture (not linking to their site because it kills your cpu).  They also got pretty bad reviews.  The next thing I found that might work was from Koala.  We kind of liked the easy to assemble design although I did worry that it would squeak.  I also didn't like that you wouldn't be able to move it out to vacuum behind it (if you picked up the base it'd just come off).  It was also three times the price.  Next I found the Cali frame again but this time at Kogan.  At least I've heard of Kogan so I would have been ok to get it from them.  But then Stu got a targeted Instagram ad for a very similar thing from Eva.  It was definitely more expensive, but the company looked good, and we considered it might be a case of "you get what you pay for". 

So we went with the one from Eva.  They said it would take like five business days, but it actually came really quickly, and I wasn't home like I'd been planning to be.  

But.

Their packaging is crap, and a couple of corners had been damaged in transit from either it moving around and tearing the sticky tape holding it in, or someone dropped it.  Either way I was appalled that we'd paid a whole lot of extra money only to have it damaged in transit because their packaging was so bad.  Far out, even Ikea does quality packaging.  If I'm paying hundreds of dollars extra, surely they could afford some decent packaging.

This is what greeted me when I got home.  Pathetic!!

The little flap of cardboard wasn't even attached at this point, it just came off

Well this can't be good

Two pieces were damaged

We didn't know how they'd look once assembled, so we assembled it.

Unfortunately the worst damage is in fact visible on the bottom left there because that piece is facing up.  Its only saving grace is that it's usually covered by linen.

With the mattress on top

Then we found the next problem - the head board is not sturdy at all.  It's held on with three screws, and it wobbles.  Significantly.  You can make it wobble back and forth by a couple of centimetres with just one finger.  In fact if I leaned on it to read I was worried it would snap screws or shred the timber. 

So I complained. 

To their credit, the customer service from Eva was actually pretty good.  The guy called me up to talk about it and really did try to make things right.  If I'd wanted I could have returned the whole bed (which I might have done had I not destroyed all the cardboard trying to keep the house tidy), but he did offer send a tightening and spacing kit, and did give me $100 back (should have asked for more).  Eventually the kits came.  There were three long screws, I assume longer than the original ones, which maybe might have helped, but by this time I was over it.  And the spacing kits were three chunky adjustable spacers that you stick to the bed head, and they lean against the wall.  I really didn't want to do that either.  So I just don't lean on the bed head.  Oh well.

Ultimately I do like the look of the frame, and it was super easy to put together (and will be easy to pull apart if need be, even if they did have a mistake in their lettering of the boards).  Not having a foot board is good for my legs in the dark, although the bed covers do tend to slide off the end.

The Linen

In June last year, after covid lockdowns had eased and on our first outing, I bought some king sized sheets from Target (since we were then going to be going to look for beds and wanted to make sure I had some ready).  They were Tencel fibre which I'd never heard of, but it felt soft, so bought them.  Eventually we got to use them.  They are *very* soft, in fact too soft - they don't have any sort of structural integrity, so feels almost like liquid.  I find them annoying, but Stu likes them.  Annoyingly they pilled up immediately, although that has settled down somewhat.

Once we bought the mattress I did a couple of trips to Target/Harris Scarfe to find more sheets and a doona and doona cover.  I got a fairly lightweight feather doona (mostly feathers not down - so we can use it in summer, and I usually add a second single doona in winter) from Harris Scarfe.  Then I found a nice doona cover at Target, but it was grey not blue.  So bought some grey cotton sheets from Target as well - much nicer than the tencel ones.

And so here we are!

And yet I still prefer the spare bed.  Le sigh.

Sunday.  Blogged on time for once!!  Leftover lemon chicken for dinner.  Lego Masters in the evening.  Think the new neighbours might be knocking out another wall - lots of banging today and tonight.

Monday.  Ok day, mostly cleaning, although very slow progress with it.  Leftover pasta for dinner.  Labelled 232 photos, some while watching Lego Masters.  *Finally* got some rain, with added storm.

Tuesday.  Vicki was in town this week, so I took it as golden opportunity to work from home all week so she could have the same desk every day, and I wouldn't have to deal with being in people's meetings.  Tried to clean stuff but too many people wanting stuff.  We're into season 10 of The Simpsons.  Then Lego Masters.

Wednesday.  Much the same as Tuesday really.  Didn't get quite caught up with photo labelling from last week, but at least didn't get any further behind.  

Most of the leaves fell off the cherry tree in just a few days!

Thursday.  Worked from home again, although did go in for drinks.  Started watching a Netflix documentary on Mercury 13, a story I'd never heard before.

Friday.  More cleaning.  Renamed over eight hundred objects on the CLI and deleted a few hundred unused objects as well.  Stu came home then we headed out - to Chong Co for dinner, then food shopping (had to wave to the seven peeps up in the space station as it flew over Jamo).

Saturday.  Cooked dinner (honey mustard chicken and rice) then we picked up CRD and headed out to the club.  Chatted for a bit and had some lunch, then I got stuck into priming more cabinets.  Had drinks and snackages by the fire and an early night.

Excuse the primer on my fingers!

Sunday.  Slept reasonably well (I thought) but felt pretty tired all day. 

Stopped via Chemist Warehouse on the way home.  I'd already put an order through the app for my script refill, probably half an hour before I got there, but they still said it was going to be "ten minutes".  We waited a full half hour but still no sms, so went in again, and they're like, oh we were busy so some of the app orders were missed.  Fricken hopeless.  Next time I should put the order in a couple of hours in advance.  So didn't get home til after lunch time (although didn't actually have any lunch, because we had bacon and eggs for breakfast).  Didn't really feel like doing anything useful, so thought I'd do something a bit fun - play with the Lego house model I started one day when I was off sick in November 2016!  Sadly Lego have pulled support for Lego Digital Designer, which is a shame, because it's actually a really good program. I got the floors sorted and some more interior details added, but there's still a lot of detail (and all the furniture!) still to go.  This is just the main floor so far.  Then I have start on downstairs.  And the yard.  ;)

Roast pork for dinner (all the crackling!) and Lego Masters.  And blogging.

Where were we?  Epic lamb roast.  31st Jan.  Backdated.

Watched more Hibike Euphonium.  

Monday.  Spent all morning renaming firewall objects to fit our naming scheme.  And documenting a whole stack of rules that had been done that I was going to need to duplicate.  Spent the entire afternoon doing all the rules - twice - on two different firewalls.  

In the evening a storm rolled through.  I was trying to run a script to copy "recent" files to One Drive (files modified since last backup), but the thing made my computer have a sad, so I ended up just shutting it down and disconnecting it from power and network.  There might have been just a bit of rain.

So it was a bit of a scramble to move the few things in cardboard out of the way and empty a few boxes.  Desperately need to declutter.

Had lamb red curry for dinner and finished season 6 of The Simpsons (Who shot Mr Burns?).  I never watched The Simpsons, but I do remember when the episode came out at the end of 1995 in Australia.  People were talking about it and I went and use this new fandangled thing called the internet to find out who did it (because the start of season 7 had already aired in the US).  Fun stuff.  So I knew who did it twenty five years ago.  Although not having seen the episode I didn't know how/why.  

After dinner fired everything up again from shutting it down for the storm.  Except the UPS decided to be a big stinky poo.  When I turned it on it had a fast beep and "reset battery" alarm.  If I held the on button down it would reset, but then it claimed it was in overload.  Which was silly because literally nothing was trying to use it (I even disconnected everything to prove it).  And then it got into such a state that I had to turn it off at the wall.  So now my computer is on mains power which is a big poo.  So by 8pm I'd only labelled fifty photos out of the three hundred I really needed to do to catch up.  At least the sweetie did the washing up yayyy.  Had another fight with windows, which has gone back to mapping by IP address rather than dns/netbios name.

Tuesday.  Remember that stoopid firewall that was being a big poo last year?  Well Wardie upgraded it the other weekend, which fixed it.  Go fricken figure.  So did up the bunch of rules I needed to do on it.  Only took like seven months to get to that point.  Hrmm.  Sausages and salad for dinner.  Did some photo labelling but ran out of steam and started looking at bed frames online.  Found one that looked promising, and found it at two different fly-by-night retailers (Eliving Furniture and MyDeal) which both got pretty scathing reviews on review sites.  

Wednesday.  I'd just gotten to sleep on Tuesday night when right on midnight there was this super loud BEEP BEEP BEEP times four.  I sat right up and saw an orange light down the hall.  But as I was sitting up I caught the cable of my phone which knocked it onto the floor which broke my brain.  By the time I looked up again the light was off.  This of course freaked me out.  Was someone in the house and they had a light on but turned it off?  I had to work hard to get the sweetie to get out of bed to come investigate with me.  We searched the whole house but didn't find anyone.  We weren't even entirely sure what made the noise and light.  But we're pretty sure it was the new smoke detector.  This is one of those ten year battery smoke detectors that you can't take the battery out of (disabling it disables it *forever*).  So we're going to be pretty pissed if it keeps generating false alarms.  There was a daddy long legs in the vicinity so we caught it, and I've been dusting around the area quite regularly in case it was simply a spider that set it off.

Had an ok morning.  Did an audit of a complicated ruleset, to make sure all our firewalls are in sync.  Missed our team meeting to go to a specialist appointment.  Had to wait for ages in the waiting room, the longest I've ever waited there.  While I was there I had to a listen to a woman rabbit on about how the covid vaccine is made from aborted babies, how the news is manipulative (well duh), how Victoria shouldn't have needed to go into lockdown last year, and how is that *noone* in Victoria is accountable for the security guard hotel quarantine contract - clearly it *must* have been Daniel Andrews that authorised it, how the government in Victoria mismanaged the whole thing, because NSW was so much better at dealing with it all, how America is overreporting their covid deaths because the hospitals get paid $15000 for every covid death and so they're reporting deaths as covid deaths even if they died of something else but still tested positive for covid.... omfg I was like *get me out of here* ..!! Seriously you can't make this stuff up.  Eventually I was called up, and I was there so long because he "didn't think I'd arrived yet".  Fricken hopeless.  I was literally right on time.  I did have lunch with the sweetie afterwards so that was nice.  Did some work with Neil on our mail servers which was good.  Had Kingsley's for dinner because the sweetie wanted comfort food after his crazy busy day, and I was up for that too for the same reasons.  Simpsons and Hibike Euphonium and struggling to keep up with Eurasia photo labelling.

Thursday.  So apparently two pieces of Kingsley's southern fried chicken is actually not a lot of food, and I woke up at 3:12 hungry.  Had some cheese etc but couldn't get to back to sleep for at least an hour.  I was pretty tired in the morning with "dropsy".. including probably $15 worth of fish food pellets all over the floor :(  Should definitely not be operating heaving machinery today.  I scooped up a goodly amount of the fish food, because $15.

Had a Lighty lunch that Jim organised.  Connor and I shared the "special" pizza which was very nice.

Watched several episodes of Euphonium in the evening and then I watched the first episode of Encore by Kristin Bell.  It was Annie, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

Friday.  Apparently two pieces of pizza and a garlic scroll is actually not a lot of food and I woke up a bit after 4am hungry.  Sigh.  Fairly busy day again. 

In the morning Aquila messaged me to see if I wanted to have lunch at Herbert's.   Of course!!

This time I tried the pot pie which was very nice.  I asked for a small serving of fries so I wouldn't stuff myself silly..

In the afternoon we tested the rules on the new firewall with real (testing) traffic which was pretty cool.  Didn't get the paperwork written up for it though.  In the evening went and saw Penguin Bloom with EffanC.

Saturday.  As noted in my movie review, I asked Sam Bloom whether she became friends with Bron again or not, so I was pretty stoked when she answered.  Pretty quiet day.  Didn't do too much house stuff (trying to actually enjoy weekends).  Had a bit of a play with Gimp to do Lego mosaics.  Watched Encore (The Sound of Music).  Stu cooked dinner - sausages and cabbage.  Then Simpsons, Hibike Euphonium, and Star Trek VI in memorium of Christopher Plumber (I wanted to watch The Sound of Music, but accepted Star Trek VI instead).

Sunday.  7th. 

This is why should always carry a camera on your person.  This flutterby landed near me when I was collecting lemons.  I barely had time to snap a photo before it flew away again.

Wrote out a very long todo list for the day, although forgot to add Eurasia photo labelling to it.  So I did a reasonable amount but nowhere near enough. 

I might have done some decluttering of my bedside table drawers.  Some of these soaps I've had since I was a kid.  I think it's time to use them up.

I never made it through the list as far as photo processing and blogging, so it never happened.  In fact I was still part way through the list when someone came to collect Stu's old bed.  While we were loading the trailer suddenly the lights went out.  I looked up and saw this.

Then it was time to make dinner (lots of roast veggies with leftover lamb), and I even made a cheese cake to use up some of our epic supply of lemons.  I wasn't sure if it was going to work or not, having added so much lemon juice (200mL!!).

Simpsons - You don't win friends with salad!! Euphonium and Encore.

So twenty years ago was moving day.  I hired a 2 tonne truck, managed to reverse it up our driveway, and had a few friends come and help load and unload.  I only had a bedroom's worth of furniture to move so it wasn't very hard.

After the anniversary dinner I went and stayed the night at my new flat.  So I officially moved out of home when I was exactly twenty six and a half.  I didn't have any of my furniture yet, so spent a few nights on an inflatable mattress.  I can't remember the reasoning, maybe I didn't have my main computer, I don't know, but I remember dialling into CIA with Telix and from there telnetting to a shell to check my mail.  

So I decided today to export all the blood pressure readings (and heart rate and weight) from the app I've been using for the past four years (iBP Tracker by Finger Taps).  Turns out the export to email function doesn't actually work.  Neither does the online backup option.

So I was forced to go through each day's entry and manually record it elsewhere.

#grunt

I got through the past month, which is what I want to take to the doctor.

What a piece of crap.  Guess what application I *won't* be using anymore.

Another thing I realised tonight is how much crap I have on my computer.  At least twenty year's worth.

I did find this list of quotes (file was last saved 16.10.97) which I remember well..

Life is short and DNA is long
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all the evidence
An optimist: someone who hasn't been given all the facts yet
Friction is a drag
Very funny Scotty. Now beam up the clothes!
Recycle!! Today's garbage is tommorrow's world!
Marriage is grand. Divorce? 20 grand.
Marriage - it's not just a word, it's a sentence!
Hello? Constipation Hotline? Yes, I can hold...
Support mental health... or I'll *KILL* you
If you're 1 in a million, there's a thousand Chinese just like you.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Psychic midget escapes from prison... Small Medium at Large!
World to end at 10pm! Film at 11
Floggings will continue until morale improves.
Who tested Preperations A through G, and why??
9 out of 10 men who try CAMELs prefer women.
8 out of 10 people suffer from hemmorhoids. The other 2 enjoy them.
Who is All, and why does he get so much mail??
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my drive??
Who is General Protection, and why does he always find fault??
Who is Joy, and why does everyone jump for her??
Who is Will, and why should I fire at him??
Warning : Breathing may be hazardous to your health!
Shin : device for finding furniture in the dark
Stick : A boomerang that doesn't work
No trespassing... prosecutors will be violated!
Warning : research causes cancer
Ok, I pulled the pin, now what? Hey, where are you going??
When I get bored, I beam myself back and forth - Worf
The only way to avoid temptation is to yield to it.
Today's subliminal message sponsered by : Ben Dover
Today's subliminal message sponsered by : Justin Hale
Today's subliminal message sponsered by : Mike Rotch
Despite the high cost of living, it still remains popular.
The world is like a kleenex.. you use it, then you throw it away.
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... no, it's a bird.
2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do.
Tonight's forecast : darkness, followed by light.
In God we trust. All others require a credit check.
If practice makes perfect and noone's perfect, then why practice?

I left home today for the last time ever.  The family home.  Mum had lived there for forty two years.  I lived there for twenty six and a half years.

Sadness.

Although was too busy to feel much sadness during the process of removal, but did have a sad walk through at the end.

The end of an era.  The family home that noone else has lived in.  Now sold and to be rented out.

Yah.

But David and I did amuse ourselves by poking fun at mum .. "you've never moved have you?" .. because really she hadn't - not with a whole house of furniture and *stuff*.  Little things like rubbish bags and cleaning equipment she kept wanting to pack and send away and we're like, no you need to save those because you *will* need them.  heh.

Final council cleanup of everything left over

She got the dining table and chairs restored and reupholstered to match the new lounge.  It actually looks really good.

This is the sofa bed part of the new lounge

The china cabinet we built the other night, now filled up

So got mum moved in at the other end, and stayed til about 3pm unpacking boxes with Aunty Di.  Then I came home.  I never want to leave the house again.

Then I got depressed again at deadbeat ebayers who *still* haven't made any sort of contact with me.  I hate people.

I did finish decorating the Christmas tree though which made me feel a bit better.  It sparkles.