Sunday.  10th.  Cooked a massive tray of brussels sprouts and bacon, cauliflower and broccoli bake, and reheated some brisket in jelly.  So good.  Hardly any leftovers!  Whoops!

Monday.  Slept ok.  Another proxy cleaning/documenting day.  Music after work, and made honey mustard chicken for dinner.  Worked on Victoria photos - flowers and resizing the iphone panorama set - all 258 of them!  Yipe!

Tuesday.  Slept ok I think.  More proxy stuff.  Music, brisket and veggies for dinner.  Victoria photo labelling - flowers and bugs.  Started watching The Silver Brumby.  A kids film, but beautifully filmed.  The cinematography is awesome.  The lead lady character was pretty cool, although that story arc is not in the books at all apparently.

Wednesday.  Slept ok, although had *two* dreams stressing about the trivia night - both dreams I turned up in the room where everyone had already turned up but we had nothing prepared.  The second dream I was telling everyone about the dream I'd literally just had.  Salmon and cabbage for dinner.  Labelled all the Victoria panorama photos.  Then finished The Silver Brumby.  So it was a bit silly in that they had a very well groomed palomino mare playing a "silver" brumby stallion.  And to be honest it was hard to feel any sympathy for the brumbys' story - they really don't belong there anyway.  I was hoping Russell Crowe's character would win .. or at the very least get his own horse back.  

Thursday.  Slept ok I think.  Another proxy day.  So for me it was pretty peaceful.  Stu on the other hand went to the dentist because he'd been in agony for a few days, and came home minus a tooth!!  Nice enough drinks.  Opened an ancient Midori Crush Neil threw out from a Christmas party a few years back.  It was fine :)

The travel insurance people also got back to me - they were happy to simply cancel the old policy and reissue it with the new PDS.  Hurray!

Friday.  Woke up at 01:50 when the sweetie got up in pain.  But then stayed awake til like 04:00.  Sigh.  Had a bit of a cleaning day - mostly cleaning out my inbox(es).  Also playing with proxy settings to prevent uploads of certain files.  Kit arrived late in the afternoon.  Had drinks and pasta/mince for dinner and a lovely catchup.

Saturday.  Kit went out to go shopping and catch up with Katie, so I did a heap of work on my Victoria photos.  And made a lemon cheesecake.  In the evening was Christmas in July at Herbert's.  I might put that in another post.  It was quite fun, if very loud.  

Sunday.  Slept like crap.  Apparently eating and drinking too much will do that to you, who knew.  Kit went out most of the day with her brother and his family.  Finished off Victoria photos, hurray!!  Did some music in the afternoon then All The Cooking.  

Sunday. 26th.  Backdating this on account being out the Sunday evening this was due.

Starting with the epic blue cheese potato bake I made.  I hated blue cheese for the longest time, but having it cooked adds such a wonderful savoury flavour.

Monday.  Went to bed nice and early, but then hurty kept me awake from 3-5 :(  Spent all day documenting proxy policies.  Leftover pork ribs and vegies for dinner.  Labelled 160 Victoria photos.  Then watched Martin Bashir's Diana interview, which in twenty five years I've never actually seen.  

Tuesday.  Took a while to get to sleep - feet were cold.  Didn't achieve anything much useful all day.  Too many problems and people talking to me.  Labelled another 100 or so photos.  Then watched "The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess 2021" which was a documentary about the interview mentioned previously.  

Wednesday.  Slept ok.  Did a bunch of test proxy cleaning.  Then dealing with more problems.  Leftovers from the club for dinner (which Stu was decidedly unimpressed with).  I might have had a sad.  Labelled another hundred photos.  Then watched Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell (part of it anyway, finished it later).  After seeing Filthy Rich I'm so glad they went after her too.

Thursday.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Had a good morning doing proxy stuff.  Optus had a Very Bad Day in the afternoon, cutting work off from the world.  I hadn't gone into the office on account of all the covid floating around, so had a couple of drinks with the sweetie in the evening, including my own little whisky tasting, on account of missing the work one.

We watched the first episode of Obi-wan Kenobi which wasn't bad.  Then I watched The Man from Snowy River.  Such a glorious Australian film.  Don't think I've seen it in years though.

Friday.  More proxy work.  Made "special fried rice" for dinner which was qute nice.  Then watched An Affair to Remember.  I've been wanting to see this movie for ages because of its references in Sleepless in Seattle.  I probably should have not wasted a couple of hours of my life on it.  It was pretty silly.  And dumb.  Like Ken is the sweetest guy ever, even standing by her and taking care of her even though she admitted an affair and wanted to leave him.  Why would you give up someone like that to run off with someone who's a playboy and has already proven his willingness to cheat and run off with someone else??  Stoopid.  But what was funny about it was they agreed to meet on July 1st.  Which just so happened to be the night we watched it.  Synchronicity!

Saturday.  Tried to tidy the pantry in the morning because we keep losing stuff in there.  Then did some food shopping at the markets and chemist.

Yikes!

Stu was sad the markets fish is in pieces (I think this thing was in the Sydney 2000 Olympics opening ceremony).  They might still be planning to put it back.

Then spent most of the rest of the day cooking.  hrmm.  Put on a brisket first, then made up a breakfast lasagna for the sweetie, and also cooked up a bunch of chicken.  And all the veggies.  

These things are so good - just cream cheese and fried bacon bits rolled in chives.  So simple but so tasty!  Had to hide them so the sweetie wouldn't eat them all ;)

Breakfast lasagna I made for the sweetie

Brisket and veggies for dinner.  I might have served myself way too much meat.  Whoops.

Watched A Clockwork Orange in the evening.  Strange strange movie.  Although not as disturbing as the book apparently.

Sunday.  A bit of fish stuff, but mostly Lego counting and scanning.  Scanning is being problematic now.  I'm getting through more rolls because I'm not scanning everything in them.  But it does mean it's more hands on which I don't have the time for during the day (when doing a whole roll you stick two sheets in at a time and come back half an hour later to swap them out.  But I don't really have time to sit and choose which ones to scan and swap them out more often).  The other problem is that the negatives from 1994 have started to go very blue.  Which means they scan bright yellow.  hrmmm.

Finally got to try out drinks at The Howling Moon, a lovely rooftop bar with great views at sunset.

Oh yes, there were noms - olives (unfortunately not pitted) and arancini balls

Tried for dinner at Bentspoke but it was *packed* - don't come the first night of school holidays!!

So ended up at Mr Shabu Shabu

Couldn't be stuffed blogging when I got home, and then the week kicks in and it's all too hard... 

Sunday.  19th.  Stu cooked dinner using some mince I'd cooked previously, and some cauliflower in a white sauce which was very nice.

Got filled with rage trying to open a Coles liquid soap bottle.  It said turn anticlockwise to open, but twisting just turned the knob around and nothing happened.  A similar thing happened to my brother with a Woolworths soap bottle and he ended up breaking it trying to get it open.  I just undid the main cap and used it as a fefill bottle instead.  I think I'll stick with Palmolive.  Why TF do they make things so hard???

Monday.  Slept okish.  Frustated with waking up every hour or so with numb hands.  At work I was sick of the stoopid by like 9am.  Music practise in the evening, although very raspy, no idea why.  It's a fairly new reed too.  hrmm.  Leftover chicken drumsticks for dinner.  Did some photo culling and blogging and felt like it was the first "normal" weeknight in weeks.  Good to get some things done.

Tuesday.  Spent some time finding photos for my Ansto blog post (haven't finished yet).  More stoopid at work.  Scanner was in a bad mood in the afternoon, kept stuffing up the exposures.  Maybe it gets tired being on all day.  Leftover beef cheeks for dinner.  Watched a cool episode of the Simpsons - where Homer finds himself in a Lego world (Brick Like Me).  So much fun!!  Watched something online which had "may the mass times acceleration be with you" in it, but can't remember what it was, whoops.

Wednesday.  Took ages to get to sleep because my feet were cold.  Had a good cleaning day.  

So here's where our new drainpipe goes down.  It goes all the way to the ground level then round the corner to in front of the garage.  They've got render and sealer and a layer of plastic on the walls.  Then they have a fabric sheath (which you can see) around a big pile of blue metal.  The idea is to let the drainage flow around to the front where there's another pipe to allow drainage in addition to the actual drainpipe.

The concreter came in the morning to do the front steps.  He spent all morning doing up the formwork.

At lunch time the concrete truck came

And they filled up the stairs and path with concrete

This is the finished product (taken Thursday morning).  They're sooo much nicer than the old stairs!

Leftover pork ribs for dinner.  Finished culling Victoria photos down for the blog!  And then finished watching through Lie to Me.  Quite enjoyed that series (we'd seen about half of it twelve years ago, but have been watching through the whole thing).  

Thursday.  Helped de-rack a bunch of comms gear.  Kinda fun to be doing something physical (I'm normally strictly layer 3 and above ;) ). 

Due to the lettuce crisis at the moment I had to have spinach instead of lettuce at Subway.  You'd think a lot of rain would be a good thing for Australia.  Yeah notsomuch apparently.  Got Sichuan Chinese for dinner.  Had the lovely pork and also the dry fried chicken with epic chilli. I avoided most of the chilli and it wasn't too bad but Stu ate a bunch and nearly died.  He got the hiccoughs and even had to rescue his mouth with some milk!  So delicious though ;)

Finished season 25 of The Simpsons.  Then I felt like watching something a bit fluffy, so watched The Little Mermaid II, which was okish.  They got most of the original voice actor cast which was nice, but the graphics were *very* cheap compared to the original.

Friday.  Not great sleep.  Ok morning, then lunch with the Chrises and a Neil and a Tony at Herberts.  Braddles and Tony and I shared all the noms - chorizo, chicken skewers and jalapeno poppers and chips.  Yum yum. 

Some of us might have stayed all afternoon.  Whoops.  Watched a very sweet story on Stuart Harris and his discovery of a new species of maratus peacock spider.  Such a cute little spider!!  It was before the 19-20 fires though, so no idea how they have fared.  

Saturday.  Damien came over for a war game with Stu.  I went through Victoria photos for the blog and did some house stuff.  I might have also baked a coconut cake (Yum! Delicious!)

Game setup

End game

Nun with a gun!

Stairs are drying out

After Damien left we headed out to the club for Ian and Chris's anniversary formal night.  Any excuse to get out a little black dress and look a bit pretty :)

Stayed up a bit too late.  Not helped by losing an earring and then spending ages looking for it (found it!).

Sunday.  Couldn't get to sleep for *hours* because I was COLD.  We really need a better doona out there.  And need to put the electric blanket on the bed too.  In the end I used the sweetie as a hot water bottle to finally get to sleep (after having to deal with mild hurty as well).  Came home pretty early and tried (and failed) to get more sleep, so the morning was a complete writeoff.  Did some Lego stuff in the afternoon, then All The Cooking (a blue cheese potato bake and a brussels sprouts tray with salmon for dinner, and a bunch of mince to have with whatever over the next couple of weeks).  Started season twenty six of The Simpsons and season two of The Crown. 

20:00 is bed time right? :)

Monday.  13th.  Blogged.  Like All Day.  And then still nowhere near catching up.  In the evening I watched Mary Poppins, which I hadn't seen in a very very long time.  That was quite a bit of fun.  

Tuesday.  Plumbers came and put a sealant on top of the render.

The tower looked pretty at sunset.

In the evening went with the hills to Surprising Science at the Shine Dome.  I've never actually even been inside that building!!

The talks were by Dr Indrani Mukherjee, who was looking at the historical availability of trace elements and their correlation with the evolution of eukaryotic cells; and Dr Zoë Doubleday, who was establishing chemical fingerprints in marine animal bones to track where they come from (it has a bit to do with temperature so doesn't work in mammals or tuna), and finding there was a fairly good correlation of latitude in southern hemisphere, but not so good for northern hemisphere.

Then we all went for dinner at Little Steamer.

Honey Golden Potato ($9.50) - a bit like salt and vinegar chips, only sweeter and not as sour

Master Cut Baby Eggplant ($12.80) - this was really good

Steamed Prawn Dumpling ($13.80 - got 6 not 4 pieces - bonus!)

Duck Fried Noodles ($14.80)

Wednesday.  Slept like crap (awake for hours in middle of night).  Had a cleaning day which was nice.  Watched Saving Mr Banks while trying to get ready to go to Sydney and going over to Annie's for birthday cake.  I must have paused the movie about fifty times which really isn't the way to watch a movie but I really had no choice if I was going to see it before I left.  The cake was pretty epic :)

Thursday.  Had a full on melt down because the recycling truck came and our bin wasn't out.  They changed our day, but in my mind bin night is Tuesday night, so when they said Thursday I thought it meant Thursday night.  Sigh.  Then I went to Sydney.

The plumbers laid new drain pipes on Friday, but hid them all so I couldn't get a good photo.  Maybe tomorrow I'll get something.

Saturday.  Got home from Sydney completely exhausted.  Two nights in a row of midnight bed times and 6:30 wakeups.  

Had chicken kiev for dinner, watched Simpsons/Crown and went to bed at 8pm.

Sunday.  Today.  Had nearly ten hours sleep which was awesome.  Total catchup day - house/washing/computer/fish stuff all day, and no time for Lego.  Immy came over for a couple of hours in the afternoon.  OMFG I could never be a teenager again, it's just so much DRAMA.  But then it was super late and I still had blogging to do.. hmmmm!  The sweetie is cooking dinner while I try and catch up on photo/blogging stuff.

Tuesday.  31st.  Last day of autumn.  Slept ok.  I think.  I forget.  Went to the chemist after work and accidentally got KFC on the way home.  

Wednesday.  1st June.  First day of winter.  And hoooooooh boy it felt like it.  There was snow on the Brindabellas which we saw glimpses of on the way to work, but didn't get any photos.  Stoopidly crazy busy morning and it's just fricken *noisy* in the office and everything was happening at once and my brain couldn't deal.  But some of the noise went away and I went DND for a bit and got some things done and felt better in the afternoon.  It was COLD in the house when we got home!

Thursday.  Still very cold. 

Doing my own thing mostly all day which was nice.  Drinks and body corporate meeting after work.  Had Mills and Grills pickup for dinner which was nice enough, we haven't had them in ages.

Friday.  Woke up a bit early because of hurty.  Went and saw The Queen and Me exhibition after work (which I'll post separately.  One day.).  But here's a pic of my salt and pepper squid at Badger & Co.

Saturday.  Had a sleep in which is pretty unusual for me.  Firewall migration in the morning.  Then mostly Lego all day.  Sausages and cabbage for dinner then watched The Imitation Game.

Count rocks they said.  It'll be fun they said.

Sunday.  Today.  Food shopping in the morning.  Then tried to catch up on house stuff and photo stuff and blog stuff.  Mostly failed.  On account of spending too much time doing Lego and most of the afternoon cooking.  Oh well.

Sunday.  22nd.  Backdating cause long weekend aren't long enough.  Cooked up a bunch of veggies for dinner to have with the last of the leftover chicken.

Monday.  Slept ok.  Spent some time planning another firewall migration and tested it with some test traffic.  Filled the green bin with leaves while Stu cooked dinner - some gnocchi I got last time I went shopping, and using some of the mince I cooked last weekend with some tomato paste and cabbage.  It was very tasty.  Then photo culling and watched the Lego Masters finale which was fun.

Tuesday.  No notes.  Whoops.

Wednesday.  Sneaky trip to Sydney to see Brickman's Lego Jurassic World exhibition at the Australian Museum.  Will get that posted.  One day.

Thursday.  Not great sleep.  Nachos for dinner.  Soooo bad but soooo good.

Friday.  Slept ok.  Had a fun afternoon updating some diagrams.  In the evening was Whisky Live.  I hadn't been in a few years because we went two years in a row and it was a bit repetetive.  But this time there was *heaps* of new stuff I'd never even heard of before.  Took notes on lots of things.  I prolly better not mention how many different whiskys I tried :)  It was definitely not covid safe and I was worried about that for a while.  Then I started drinking and stopped worrying.  But as of a week and a bit later I'm still ok, so all good ;)

Saturday.  Slept relatively well considering. 

Mostly doing Lego stuff all day.  For dinner we went into Dickson for dinner.  We tried out Flavours of Jiangnan and had some very tasty brisket and pork.

Slow cooked beef brisket and noodle ($16)

Jiangnan specially cooked dongpou pork ($28)

Then watched Knives Out which was a bit silly but a bit of fun.  I loved one character's description of Daniel Craig's kentucky fried foghorn leghorn chicken southern drawl.  So true haha

Sunday.  Slept pretty well.  Lego and house stuff.  We're into season 25 of The Simpsons.  Then watched Edward Scissorhands which I hadn't seen since I saw it at the movies.  In 1990.

Monday.  Slept well enough.  Did a Green Shed run (dropped a bunch of stuff off and "only" left with six jigsaws) and a bottle drop off (finally took the Christmas party leftovers), and brunch at Teddy Picker's.

Eggs benedict at Teddy Picker's

The wall of cheese at Ainslie IGA

Lego and photo stuff in the afternoon.  Chicken kiev from Chris's for dinner.

No idea for the evening.  Probably depressed about how short long weekends are :)

Sunday.  15th.  Realised I didn't actually set foot out of the house all day.  Dinner was roast chicken and veggies.

Monday.  Woke up at like 1:40ish for like three hours.  Sigh.  Ok morning, but a crazy intense afternoon trying to do all the things and fix all the problems and answer all the questions.  Still going at 17:40 and Stu cooked dinner of Asian greens and rice.  Did some photo culling, then back online to do more work, including fighting firewalls doing strange things.

Also, wtf, I was actually actively using my computer in the evening and it suddenly rebooted for patching.  So much for "active hours".  Microsoft is crap.

Tuesday.  No notes for the day.  Cooked mushroom pesto pasta for dinner.

Wednesday.  No notes again.  Whoops.  

Thursday.  After drinks and after dinner at Turquoise Turkish (some quite nice shish kebabs) we went to see Jess in the Australian Wind Symphony.  It was pretty fun even though I didn't know any of the music.  Turns out a few drinks helps with that, who knew.

Friday.  Slept like crap.  Had lunch with the Chrises at Herbert's which was nice.  

Yummy kiev balls

After work we went over the hills for a lovely chicken dinner and still managed an early night.

Saturday.  Slept a lot better.  House stuff, Lego stuff, scanning.  In the afternoon went and got our democracy sausage.  Then some music.  Dinner was pulled pork from a slow cooker recipe book I picked up at the Green Shed a while back.  Stu really liked it, although I found it a little watery.  Then watched the election coverage.

Sunday.  Slept okish but not great.  Went out in the morning to see some autumn leaves and it turned into a trip up Mount Ainslie, brunch at Edgar's, and a wander around the lake, and didn't get home til lunch time.  Ooops.  So then I just pretty much collapsed.  Sigh.  Didn't get any weeding or green bin filling or music done, although I did do more negative scanning (the ones from after the USA holiday don't seem to have the same magenta-shift so that's good) and some fish stuff.  Roasted a heap of veggies to have with leftover chicken from last weekend.  Downloaded photos but no energy for blogging.

Monday.  25th. Spent all morning trying to catch up with life and blogging.  Feeling completely overwhelmed at life (even had a bit of a meltdown after blogging (which finished way after lunch) because it was all too hard).  Worked on Eurasia panoramas and got some online.  Cooked a lamb roast with veggies for dinner.  We opened a *very* nice bottle of wine we got at the end of 2012 for our anniversary.  Then Simpsons/Black Books/The Crown.  Also started into the fourth season of Lego Masters.  Had to LOL at the Andrew and Crystal couple (names of my cousin and wife who have since split up).  

We had tardigrades for dinner!!

Tuesday.  Woke up to stress over cruise (the one we put off).  They want us to use the credit so got plunged into the stress of it again.  Ok day.  Nothing special for our anniversary because Stu had uni til quite late.  

Wednesday.  Stress over cruise.  They refused to allow us to use the credit for 2024, forcing us to use it for 2023.  *sigh*.  Ok day.  At the office.  Felt like a Thursday.  Stu cooked pork larb for dinner with some limes from Tim and chilli from Tony.  Continued to stress over cruise.

Thursday.  Ok day.  Pretty quiet drinks.  Picked up some CCs on the way home and had cheesy nachos for dinner.  OMFG the most unhealthiest dinner in the history of the universe but *so good*.  Finished season 23 of The SImpsons.

Friday.  Playing with logs all day.  Was actually kinda fun.  Leftover lamb and veggies for dinner.  Watched Encanto in the evening which was pretty decent.  Nice story and the graphics are spectacular.  

Saturday.  House stuff in the morning.  Stressed over the cruise to the point of depression.  To get a balcony like we had last time would cost us another $1500 USD, which I'm simply not prepared to give them.  I would NEVER EVER EVER EVER deal with this company again.  I was almost at the point of saying F#$% you and walking away from what we've already paid.  The best I can afford with our credit is a window (not a balcony) with an obstructed view.  After tidying up the house and study I thought I'd start inventorying what was left of Vic's Lego.  I had a poke around to see what was available, and one that looked really good was Basebrick.  Except they said they'd send an email to verify the account.  Except that email never arrived.  *sigh*.  So more "everything is awful".  So I started inventorying in excel in the interim.  Sichuan Chinese for dinner then watched The Death of Stalin .. which was.. intersesting.. heh

Sichuan Chinese - Kung pow chicken (lots of chilli so lots of pow), sliced pork twice cooked in green pepper (yummm), stir fry mixed vegetables, with sichuan special fried rice

Sunday.  Woke up early (between 5:30-6:00 is normal now).  Remembered the planets and went and had a look.  This morning Jupiter and Venus were having a sneaky early morning kiss.  I couldn't be stuffed finding the tripod and going outside in the cold, so just did some hand-held photos.  This is off the phone.  Haven't downloaded the camera yet.

Went out fairly early and had breakfast at Market St eats.  I had "Potato Fritters" - potato and cheese fritters, poached eggs, maple glazed bacon, hollandaise, chorizo, pickled cucumber & onion salsa.  Which was really really good.  The poached eggs were perfect, the fritter was delicious.  It was just like eggs benedict but with a croquette instead of bread.  Although the salsa was basically just some chopped red onion.  Kept me going til dinner time ;)

Then we did food shopping and had to wait for Chemist Warehouse being buttheads.  We both put our orders in early while still at home before their opening time.  They open at 9:00.  I got my SMS at 9.39.  We went and picked mine up at 10:30.  They said Stu's order was still in the queue and would be another "ten minutes".  We waited and waited and eventually he went in and was able to pick his up at 10:55.  He got his sms at 11:15.  Absolutely ridiculous that it takes ALL MORNING for them to be organised enough to do an online order.  If it wasn't for the fact that they're *significantly* cheaper than anywhere else we certainly wouldn't bother with them.  

Came home and did Lego inventorying, then music then weeding then fish stuff and suddenly it's 4pm and I need to do All The Cooking.  Which I'll save for later posts and sign off for now.

Tuesday.  5th.  Took me a while on Monday to get to sleep.  Still woke up early though.  Did my music practise in the morning.  Busy day, but I don't even know where most of it went.  Did washing up at lunch time and weeding after work.  Stu cooked dinner - creamy mushroom and chicken fettucini.  Nothing of use in the evening though, just jigsaw and rss feed reading and feeling blah.  Did the washing up.  Again.  Watched some Lie to Me.  Found that "print screen" started working again.  WTF is it with windows 11 that things just stop and start working at random (still haven't had time to fight with the scanner that just stopped working a couple of weeks ago).

I also raged at All The Things.

For example.  People complaining about fortnightly rubbish pickups (that have recycling and food/green waste pickups).  I just don't *get it*.  Growing up we didn't have any recycling (to begin with) and just one little metal bin for a family of four.  Nowadays we put out like one bag of rubbish a week.  We're lucky to put out the rubbish bin once a month, and then it's rarely more than half full.  What are people even doing now?  Putting literally everything into the rubbish bin, including all their recycling and food waste?  Maybe they only eat packaged food and nothing fresh.  No idea.  Like I said, I just don't *get it*.

Also.  If they want more people living in higher density buildings, there needs to be bigger units at a "reasonable" price.  These days the only units you can get are *tiny* little two bedroom units, or maybe a three storey penthouse - usually for a *lot* more than a house of the same size.  People probably have to get a house because they need the indoor space.  I'm sure plenty of families would be happy to live in a unit if you could get a decent size one without paying twice as much for it. Far out, we'd be much happier in a unit because we wouldn't have a yard to try and keep weed free.  But try getting anything the size of our place in a unit.  Good luck with that.

Also.  If they want more people to use electric cars, fricken standardise on power connectors.  At the moment it's like a Beta vs VHS war or HD-DVD vs Bluray.  And an electric car is fine if you have two cars and one is the city car and one is for holidays.  Good luck travelling anywhere much in Australia outside the big cities with an electric car.  Much of Australia is simply inaccessible without petrol at the moment.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Another busy day but at least I got stuff done.  Did some weeding at lunch.  Cooked up some veggies to have with lefover pork for dinner.  Went through half of my Eurasia blog photos tweaking the colour balance a little (my old camera had way too much red and not enough blue) and cropping as necessary.

Thursday.  Took ages to get to sleep but still woke up super early (like 5am).  Ok day.  *At* work blerf.  It's noisy and distracting in the office.  Drinks was good, but ours was literally the only table there - noone else was there!  Too much covid in the office I guess.  Watched the first episode of Black Books.  Had a raging battle with the printer that is now jamming literally every page.  It puts toner down but then jams before fusing it.  Ended up angry and depressed.  Also had some Spar pizzas for dinner because Chris didn't have any Dr Oc.  Definitely not good.

Friday.  Busy day, had fun making up dashboards for some testing we're doing in a few weeks.  Chicken kiev for dinner (the Steggles ones are nowhere near as good as the Ingham ones).  Watched a couple of episodes of Gunther's Anatomy series.

Saturday.  A day of All The Things.  House, jigsaw, photos.  

This magpie came down after I'd been weeding for a while to see if I'd disturbed any bug noms for it

We dug Stumpy out cause we hadn't seen him in days.

Dinner was the last of the pork, refried in jelly, with some leftover rice from during the week and cabbage and kewpie sesame dressing

Watched The King's Speech in the evening, which we hadn't seen since we saw it at Stu's dad's place in 2013.

Today.  Rinse and repeat really.  Although mostly getting Eurasia photos sorted and ready for the blog.  Basa fillets for dinner, which will be in next week's post.

Happy tree is being obscured by another tree.. doh!

Third episode of Black Books.  19:30 is bed time right?

Sunday.  20th.  Stu cooked dinner - pumpkin and sage ravioli with burnt butter and salad.  Delicious!  Then watched random flashmob videos to keep me awake until something resembling bed time.

Monday.  I actually had a shower Sunday night on account of getting all sweaty in the garden earlier.  So I was actually fairly relaxed in bed.  For the first hour.  Where I still didn't get to sleep.  At 22:30 the restless legs kicked in.  At 23:00 I had a meltdown.  How can you be so tired that you can't actually sleep.  Sigh.  Then woke up at 6, so was zombie tired.  All day.  Plus I had a sore ring finger.  I thought I might have slept on it funny but I think I actually strained it (I bent the nail back on that finger weeding on Sunday).  Struggled to concentrate all day.  Music after work, leftovers for dinner then had on more flashmob videos to keep my brain awake enough to do photo culling.

Tuesday.  Slept somewhat better, although it still took a while for me to get to sleep and then I woke up at 5am.  More being Neil (in Cairns now!) and documenting cleanup work that needs doing.  The backs of my legs still hurt from all the exertion on Sunday.  Leftovers for dinner then lots of photo culling.  Got frustrated at yet another barking dog in the neighbourhood.  Sigh.

Really need to put Bambi away

Wednesday.  Slept ok, but then a day of non stop messages and phone calls and meetings and stoopid so didn't really get anything useful done.  Leftovers for dinner, then completed a first pass cull of all my Eurasia 2012 photos.

Thursday.  Slept ok I think.  Nothing much in the morning then went DND for a bit to get some work done in the afternoon which was super helpful.  Got back into the swing of things with some doco.

This is the entire Disney behemoth stacked.  Each of the ten sections is cut into four and layered on packing paper from our move in 2007.  So it's forty layers thick.

Friday.  Woke up at 1:40 with the start of hurty.  Took some painkillers.  An hour layer it was worse so maxed out on painkillers but they never fully helped and didn't get back to sleep til after 5.  Sigh.  So yet another zombie day.  Did finish the cleanup doco though.  The Chrises might have talked me into a Herbert's lunch.

This cider was pretty good - nice and strong and not sweet

Prawn and chorizo skewers, and brown sugar chicken skewers

Watched a couple of episodes of Autopsy in the evening.  Well I did, the sweetie went and worked on his essay :)

Saturday.  Slept relatively well, so alternated between house, photo culling and jigsaw after doing food shopping first thing.  Late in the afternoon we headed out to the club (for the first time in four months!) for the Mexican night by M&M which was amazing as always.  Although I did have flashbacks to earlier life when we couldn't find anyone to sit with and all the "cool kids" were sitting together and I had that epic feeling of rejection that was so familiar to me for such a long time and I might have had a small meltdown.  But Rob came to the rescue so that was nice.  

We finished off the last ever TRBC Tex Mex beer.  I really hope they make some more, it was epic awesome!

Sunset was pretty too

So many yummy things to try!

Had a relatively early night, but still woke up at ~2am til well after 5 (there were still people partying in the shed when I went up to pee).  Slept in a bit but today was pretty much zombie day.  Sigh.  

So today was struggling to get through house stuff and photo stuff (did get a few days fully culled though).  In the afternoon setup to cook a whole bunch of the food I got yesterday.  This should keep us going all week and then some.  There's some tomatoes, plus some mince with garlic, eschallot and bacon, some bacon for having with salads, chicken thighs, some pork crackling (experimenting) and veggies.

You'll have to wait til next week to see the results of this - a whole heap of cherry tomatoes cut in half, drizzled with oil, salt, pepper and herbs and slow roasted for a couple of hours.  So good!!  

I also somehow managed to end up with a completely clean kitchen, and photos downloaded and processed and a blog entry, all before 18:00!  Although no music practise, oh well.