Monday.  Slept ok but still woke up tired.  Did change paperwork for proxy upgrade in the morning.  Did test in the afternoon.  Test lulled us in a false sense of security that prod will be smooth too.. hrmmm.  We both cooked dinner.  Stu used some mince I cooked and made "chorizo mince", I did a cauliflower/broccoli bake and zucchini and capsicum.

Tuesday.  Ok sleep.  Spent most of the day doing further proxy cleanup and tweaking.  David has now booked his flights and the hotels for our cruise next year.  But on the same day I got an email from the cruise company noting that my credit card has expired.  I literally started feeling queasy and anxious about having to deal with them yet again.  We still need to swap out Stu for David.  I don't think I can deal with the stress of that, might need to delegate that job.

So this is what I mean about the negative discolouration.  The top sheet is from May 1983.  It has a bit of a peach tint to it, so the scans come out a little green.  The bottom sheet is from December 1994.  It's very blue, so the scans come out bright yellow.  Very upsetting.  Means I'm going to need to keep the prints for some of these when Mum carks it, because they are in better condition than the negatives. I wonder if Fuji has fared any better over the years (pretty sure she switched to Fuji at some point).

Also.  Petrol!

Wednesday.  Proxy stuff.  Again.  Brisket with veggies, with some spinach Stu cooked for dinner.  Finished labelling all 719 Victoria photos ready for the blog.  Started culling other bits and pieces, like motels, flowers, bugs and other stuff.  They will have separate new posts other than the daily posts. 

Thursday.  Couldn't get to sleep til way past midnight :(  Another proxy day. 

Oh no, not again.  We need to give Coles a bowl of petunias.

Caught up on the whisky night from last week (Neil still had some of everything!).  Not doing it on the main night meant I also got to get them all at once so I could compare and contrast them (normally there wouldn't be enough glasses to do this).  Only half shots of all these!!

Dinner was no-carb pizza.  An idea I got from Jeff at work.  Basically you just skip the base and have a cheese pizza.  OMFG it was so good!!!

Friday.  Still working on proxies.  Stumpy kept me company for a whole hour in the morning.  My butt was getting sore by the end of it!

Had lunch at Herbert's with a couple of Chrises, a Wello, a Tony and a Glenda.  I had the pot pie this time.

Tv dinner for dinner and then watched Sleepless in Seattle.  Which was a given after seeing An Affair to Remember last week.

Saturday.  Woke up at 4am and didn't really get much sleep after that.  Did a Coles run in the morning.

Then spent most of the rest of the day trying to get organised.  I wanted to see if the travel insurance I got in November last year would cover covid hospitalisation.  According to the PDS it probably doesn't, because I had no choice but to get it because I had a credit that needed using up by December 1.  Turns out literally five days later they changed it to include covid cover.  So then I had to email them to see if I'll be covered.  Because I certainly don't want to have to get a whole new policy.  If I did I certainly wouldn't be giving THEM any more of my money.  But it also meant I couldn't do much else holiday-wise until it's sorted. 

In my scanning during the week there were a couple of frames that scanned with mostly the correct colour balance because they were taken in caves with pure black.  Which meant pure clear on the negative.  So the scanner software kinda got the colour balance right.  So I was able to redo two whole rolls by putting the frames in those three slots.  But it was super tedious.  Salmon and cabbage for dinner, then episode three of Obi-Wan Kenobi.  Then we watched The Constant Gardener.  It was pretty good.  Except for Justin's scenes in his Nairobi house that just had *too* much of a green colour shift.  The colour just looked wrong.  Made it look like he was back in London, when he wasn't.

Sunday.  Breakfast with Tony at Little Oink.  Just me though, the sweetie wasn't feeling it.  

Then a walk up Mount Painter (the sweetie would definitely not have liked that haha).

Government House

Woden and the Arboretum

How ugly is this epic monstrosity of a car park at the Arboretum?  All pay parking too.  I feel like I should avoid the place on principle.

Denman Prospect and Mount Stromlo

Whitlam

Belconnen

Then it was continued trying to keep up with life.  Put some black plastic sheeting the plumbers left behind over the periwinkle next to the lemon tree.  Hoping it'll mostly kill it.  Continued fighting with the scanner and negatives.  Even using the "correct" colour balance settings with the three frames that got it mostly right, the scans were still coming out bright yellow.  Very upsetting.  Also tidying emails and attachments, paying bills etc.  Then cooking All The Food for the next few days.

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? :)

3.6.22

A couple of months ago there was a thing on the Riot-ACT asking for submissions for people's memories/experiences of the Queen's visits to Australia.  I sent in a couple of photos I took of her on Lake Burley Griffin in 2011.

Anyway, I got an invitation for an afternoon tea at the National Capital Exhibition to celebrate the launch, so thought why not.

No idea who this is, does anyone know?

Roslyn Hull and Sally Barnes

Notice anything wrong with this photo?  Neither did we until we went to try and find it, and realised they'd printed the photo backwards!!  But the story gets even funnier.  That tree was stolen a couple of days later!!  They had to replace it.  The replacement tree was pulled down earlier this year.  Check out the story!

And here's my contribution (which we had to go back and find because we missed it the first time).

Thursday.  16th.  Fairly uneventful drive up to Sydney.  Stopped at Weemeeraa Lookout to see Lake George full of water.  Also at Sutton Forest for a loo break and some morning tea.

Got to Mum's just after 12:00.  Had some lunch (bubble and squeak), then setup her new printer (which didn't come with a USB cable, so had to use her old one), and had a bit of a look at our itinerary for Italy.

Later in the afternoon we took a train into Central.  OMFG I HATE people!  The train was full of noisy Caringbah high school kids not wearing masks (they all got off at Hurstville then it was quieter).  

Then took a tram up to Star City.  Again with people not wearing masks.  #grunt.  The tram took *forever*.  I swear it would have been quicker to walk from Town Hall.  We arrived pretty early, so found the restaurant then wandered down to the harbourfront.

I wanted to go to one of the bars and have a drink (to be more relaxed meeting a whole bunch of strangers) but nothing opened til 17:00.  Sigh.  So had to meet people sober which was pretty stressful.  Dinner was at Cucina Porto.  I had crumbed veal which was quite nice.

The lemon sgroppino was also very nice

It was nice to meet Kellie's family, although mostly ended up talking to her Mum's friend Annette.

So that was all nice enough, but we had to wait for Kim and Laila (Kim couldn't get off work til late) and by the time they'd ordered and then had to reorder (because their first pizza was undercooked) and then everyone (not me! ha) got dessert it was getting really damned close to 19:00 and I was getting epic stressed because theatres often don't let you in if you're even a minute late and I had visions of us missing a chunk of the show.  Everyone had to rush through their dessert so we could race across the way to the theatre and we sat down literally at 19:00.  I was not happy.  Just sayin.  But it all worked out in the end, and the show started a few minutes late anyway, and it was actually pretty awesome!  It was somewhat different to the Disney movie, but it seems it was probably more similar to the first couple of books.  They had a bit of a singalong of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious which was a lot of fun, and I maintain that Mum was singing louder than me during the other bits ;)  (Mum wasn't *quite* surprised, on account of her friends guessed for her what the surprise might be)

After the show a bunch of the group wandered off to find a convenience store and I NEEDED to get home to sleep, so decided we should walk to Town Hall rather than waiting fifteen minutes for the next light rail.  They did all come back just as we were about to leave so did get to say goodbye.  

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We walked right onto a Waterfall train at Town Hall, and definitely got home earlier than if we'd taken the light rail.  But bed time was nearly midnight.

Friday.  17th.  Slept ok but still woke up at 6:30.  Because that's what I do.  We decided we'd drive to go see my flat, because a few years ago the RETARDS at Transport NSW decided that you can't get a direct train to Kogarah anymore (NFI why) so it was going to take an hour by public transport or less than half an hour by car (even in peak hour traffic).  We ended up getting there pretty early so went for a walk around the block.  Then we waited for the real estate agent to turn up.  When she hadn't by 9:05 I called them and hassled them and then had to wait while they tracked her down.  Meanwhile the tenant is waiting for us so she could go into work.  Eventually (like twenty minutes late) the real estate agent turned up, spent most of the time on her phone, I think said "apologies" once, and we got to go in.  The tenant is quite lovely and the flat is fine.  But pissed that we were so late because of the agent. 

Took Mum home then hopped on a train into the city.  Found a sign that says that masks are in fact still required on public transport, but Transport NSW is doing NOTHING to enforce it.  The train trip was horrendous - again people not wearing masks, and some guy making an absolute racket on his phone.  I hate people SO MUCH!!!!

Met up with Tony at Central.  

Had a light lunch at the Great Southern Hotel

Took a tram from Central to Circular Quay.  Had my mind BLOWN that all of George Street is now trams-only and no cars!!  Such a bizarre thing to see!!  (and I didn't even get any photos!)

We got to Circular Quay thinking we might go to Cockatoo Island, but OMFG Transport NSW information is ABYSMAL.  Other than an electronic "which wharf?" sign there was no details whatsover at the wharf about timing of ferries to Cockatoo Island. 

Transport NSW information is so bad, they literally have laminated A4 printouts telling you to go find a human to talk to

So (after waiting to see if the next Manly Ferry that came in was a Freshwater class ferry (they're retiring them but I thought a couple might still be running)) we abandoned that idea and headed for the Harbour Bridge Pylon. 

Anti-vehical barricades - looks nasty if you try to drive over them!

Chips on a Stick truck!!  I wanted to get one of these, but they weren't open in the afternoon and later I was way too exhausted and wanted to go home.

So on the way to the pylon we looked up their website and they close at 14:00.  WTF??  It was about 13:20 at that point and wouldn't be worth the $19 to get just a quick view and no time in the museum so abandoned that idea and went back to Circular Quay.  

Talked to a human at Circular Quay and got a bit of info and caught a ferry to Cockatoo Island (which I'll save for another post).  

Got back to Circular Quay and took a train to Central.  Had some drinks at the Covent Garden Hotel, then met up with Mum at Super Bowl for Peking Duck!  I haven't been there since the last time I was there with @StuartCRyan at the end of 2014, but nothing had changed and the Peking Duck was amazing (and Mum enjoyed it too - she'd never had it before!! *gasp*).

After dinner we did Vivid, which I'll save for another post.  Another night of getting to bed after midnight.   *sigh*.

Saturday.  18th.  Slept ok but still woke up 6:30.  Because that's what I do.  Picked up Tony at Sutherland and headed out to Ansto.  I'll save that for another post too.

Got lunch at Maccas drive through at Menai, then came home, via a quick stop at Sublime Point and Lake George.

I think this is the fire at Bluescope Steel

LAKE George!

It was *so awesome* to get home to the sweetie, we sooo just want a quiet life.  Chicken Kiev for dinner and then a super early night.

Backdated.

Since I was in Sydney anyway, we thought we'd go see Vivid.  My first time since the first time in 2018.  Going on a Friday night wasn't ideal, because crowds, and we had to wait about 3/4 hour for the Goods Line laser show.  And I'd been on my feet most of the day so my ankles were *aching* by the end of it.  It was still pretty cool though.  And there was even a ferry ride.  Let's not talk about how I thought I was going to lose all my Canon photos because the memory stick had a spaz.  But I think the lock switch was almost engaged which confused it.  I was able to get all the photos off it no problems.

Sunday.  5th.  Leftover photos from last week..

Slow roasted a couple of punnets of tomatoes.  So awesome!  (just a bit of olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe mixed herbs, can't remember)

Dinner was beef cheeks and a heap of roasted veggies

Monday.  6th.  Slept ok.  Ok day, thinking about more cleaning and upgrading.

Tuesday.  Got up to find I'd left a big pillar candle burning all night 😱  The monitors were still in standby too (not off) so obviously I'd been planning to go back.. just never actually did.  Scary!! 

Then the fun began.  The plumbers came in the morning to dig up the front foot path to get at the blocked pipe beneath it.  

So the horizontal pipe was completely full of roots.  But below this is concrete pipe which is in a poorly state.  And the bottom of it is filled with grout from tilers washing their buckets out probably thirty years ago.  Or maybe more.  Possibly from when the house was built (because how would they do it otherwise when it was all sealed up??).

Otherwise a cleaning planning day.  Stumpy was playing peekaboo.  Leftover beef cheeks for dinner.

Wednesday.  The plumbers came back and declared war on the stair case so they could completely re-lay the pipe.  They stopped when the concrete saw died.

Stu cooked tomato-mince-gnocchi for dinner which wasn't as tasty as the one he did the other week, but was still nice because I didn't have to cook :)  

Also, our front left stove element has died (it died while I was cooking on the weekend, and confirmed dead tonight).  Sad times.  Not sure how hard it will be to find/replace the element, vs buying a whole new stove.  Hmmmm.  Victoria photo culling in the evening.  

Thursday.  Plumbers finished ripping out the stairs and dug dug dug a massive trench by the side of the house.

Worked from home in the morning, but went into the office (via crowdedest Chemist Warehouse visit ever) in the afternoon.  Pizza for dinner.

Friday.  Azure training all day.  The plumbers rendered the wall (since the concrete in the bricks had disintegrated to the point of allowing all the blocked up water to flow right into the bin area). 

Slow cooked honey rosemary chicken for dinner (which will be in a separate post.  One day.).  Then we had to watch Top Gun.  For reasons which will become apparent eventually.

Saturday.  In at work in the morning for load testing.  Then Lego inventorying all afternoon.  Later in the afternoon I felt like I might be getting sick - slight sore throat and cough.  Stu had had an immune reaction on Monday but then had been ok for a couple of days, but Thursday/Friday he was a little congested in the evenings, and moreso on Saturday afternoon.  hmmm.  Leftover beef cheeks for dinner, then we watched The Monuments Men which was actually quite a bit of fun.  Very fictionalised but still pretty cool what they did.

Sunday.  I actually felt better but the sweetie felt worse.  So he took a RAT - which was very clearly negative - which was a relief.  Pretty much just Lego all day again.  Cooked slow cooked pork ribs and roast veggies for dinner (for which I used my brisket wet/dry rubs with the addition of a bit of apple cider vinegar and garlic powder).

The sweetie went back to his uni work (to finish his last essay, maybe for his last uni subject forever.. maybe..) so I watched Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley version) which wasn't too bad.  One of these days I might read the book.

Monday.  Today.  Did a few house things in the morning.  Setup an app password so Eudora can backup my Gmail.  Then spent the entire rest of the day culling photos and blogging.  I only managed three blog entries out of all of that.  What an exhausting day.  

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.

Wherein we saw Woronora Dam, Lego Jurassic World by Ryan "Brickman" McNaught, The Australian Museum and St Mary's Cathedral.   (backdated)

Lake George is actually a lake at the moment!

Tom Ugly's Bridge.  I hardly have any photos of this bridge.  I really must rectify that.

St Mary's Cathedral

Sydney

Registrar General's Building

Frazer Fountain

St Mary's Cathedral

Din Tai Fung!  Even though it was a Wednesday at lunch time, Westfield was not crowded at all.  All those peeps working from home I guess.

EB wanted a new Opal Card so we went into St James.

St James Church

The Mint

NSW Parliament House

Sydney Hospital

Il Porcellino outside Sydney Hospital

The Mint

Hyde Park Barracks

Hyde Park

Sunset from Southern Cross Drive

Dinner at Shanghai Chinese Restaurant (after not finding anything open-looking in Mittagong).

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.