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.
