Sunday.  2nd.  All The Leftovers for dinner - some pasta from the club, some veggies from last weekend, and some bits of cut up bread from the club fried in bacon fat (wheee). Stranger Things 2.1.

Monday.  Restless sleep.

Was about to do Monday morning STUFF including cleaning the kitchen and doing some weeding before my washing was ready to hang out, only to find a bit watery mess. Yesterday when I did a water change in Chrissie's tank I went around watering all the plants. I probably put too much into the big plant above the bins, so I stood with a towel waiting for it in case it overflowed. It came about half way up the tray then stopped, so I carried on. This morning there was water all over the top shelf, drips down the wall, drips onto the shelves and rungs below and over all the bins. Fricken great. So then I had clean up the mess. I don't have TIME for this trash. And that reminds me, I overfilled one of the ferns on top of Stumpy's tank and that went everywhere too. Sigh. Being NEIL and fighting with proxies at work. Nine minutes of weeding at lunch. Had to deal with mail servers being spazzes so didn't finish up til nearly dinner time. Sigh. Need. More. TIME!!! Stu cooked a couple of pretty spectacular pasta bakes with pasta leftover from the club event. The puttanesca one was pretty good, the creamy one needed a little more cream (we ran out) but was still tasty (and crispy!).

Stranger Things 2.2 then photo picking and half watching/listening to Half-Life Histories.

Tuesday.  Awake from around midnight for a couple of hours hurray. NEIL/proxies.

It hailed in the morning!

I wasn't in any sweeps this year (they've mostly died post covid) so picked number 14 (Half Yours, based on my birthday) before the race to see what would happen.  And he won!  With the second female jockey winning race.  Although I was a bit disturbed about all the blood, they said it was a "minor cut" on the inside of his cheek, but what from?  The bit? hrmmm

Cooked up a very tasty rump cap and veggies for dinner.

Stranger Things 2.3, photo stuffs.

Wednesday.  5th.  Remember remember.  Slept somewhat ok. I think. It was nice and cold which helped. Although it meant the house was like 13C in the morning. Couldn't be stuffed running around and closing up the vents (again) so endured the cold.

NEIL/proxies (rinse and repeat). One of my fingernails is falling off. Hurray. Leftovers for dinner. Stranger Things 2.4. I can't SEE anymore. For the last few months I've been able to use my regular glasses for the computer but now it's going back to me needing to wear my "computer" glasses. Sigh. Started watching V for Vendetta but only got half way through.

Thursday.  Slept okish I think. NEIL mostly and dealing with whatever crap people came to me with. Did spend a bit of time planning how to get off some legacy load balancers. Good drinks.

The only correct way to eat Cheezels!!!

Pizzas, Stranger Things 2.5.

Chris didn't have any "special sauce" so the one on the bottom had a sauce of mayo and tomato paste.  We put pickles and mince on it to make a "cheeseburger" pizza.

Friday.  

Tried to have a catchup day - tried to get my inbox under control. Still a long way to go. TV dinner for dinner (the sweetie was at the club) then watched The China Syndrome (influenced by all the those Half-Life Histories videos!). It was freaky that this movie came out just a few days before the Three Mile Island accident!

Saturday.  Awake from 4:28 when a massive bang woke me up. Nothing much on the radar or lightning maps. Was hoping it was just a "bolt out of the blue" but no, crazy lightning all around. Turned off my computer and disconnected a few things, then didn't get back to sleep. Hurray. Mostly house stuff in the morning and some slide rescanning. David and Kellie came over later in the afternoon and we locked in Christmas plans with the mother type person. Had a drink or two and a nice catchup.  Early dinner of kievs, then David and Kellie went off to see Ricky Martin, then the sweetie and I watched Back to the Future and V for Vendetta.

Sunday.  Couldn't get to sleep til like 1am on account of epic restless legs. Sigh. Took David and Kellie out for brunch as a belated birthday brunch for David so that was quite nice to hang out.

Had a quick walk down to the lake after.

These turds where zooming up and down the lake.  Pretty sure petrol motor boats are not allowed on Lake Ginninderra.  hrmmmm.

Then we went to Vinnies at Mitchell then the Green Shed sorry Vinnies sorry Goodies Junction.

Came home and David fixed the last Mirabella light hurray! (took him a while - in the end he did what the sweetie was going to do - take out all the "good" lights and keep turning on/off until the last one went into pairing mode).  Then D&K went home, the sweetie went food shopping, and I did some music.  And just like that the weekend is over.. hrmmm..

Sunday.  26th.  Cooked up some leftover lamb? pork? and a heap of veggies for dinner.

Futurama 13.6.  Then I started watching You are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment on Netflix.

Monday.  Slept like crap. Had an early night but took forever to get to sleep, restless, then awake from like 4. Busy day achieving not much.

Cooked up two pasta bakes with pasta leftover from the weekend - a red one and a white one.

Futurama 13.7. Photo picking and filing. Watched the second episode of You are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, which had little to do with the twins and more on deforestation and climate change and other such fun problems caused by the food industry.

Still grunty about an interaction I had today. This dude, who I've literally never talked to before, messages me and says "Hey mechanic, I'm trying to go somewhere but my car doesn't work, what's wrong?" Ok not in those words, but that exact scenario. No self introduction, nothing about what he was doing, where he was doing it, any errors, or ANYTHING that would actually, you know, give me anything useful to go on. So I ignored the message for a while because I couldn't deal. Eventually he messaged again and starts complaining about it holding up some release or something, and I went through what I went through just there. Never heard back from him. Clearly it was a massive problem. Either that or he found someone nicer to annoy.

Tuesday.  Slept somewhat better maybe.

It was 0.0 degrees outside according to BOM. 12.4 inside according to my Ali Express thermometer. Ran the heater for a while today because it was COLD. I was cranky all day. Being NEIL is super distracting and I have too much to do and too distracted to do it. Then after work had to cook dinner (a bunch of mince and a heap of leftover pasta). Futurama 13.8. Then photo picking while half watching/listening to Half-Life Histories (a rabbit hole I went down after seeing a video on Therac-25 incidents). I blame Dave2 :)

Wednesday.  Woke up at like 4:00 and never got back to sleep. Sigh. Busy distracted day again, and achieving nothing. Well almost nothing. I did get one thing setup for the new proxies. Hanging out for Neil to get back so I can concentrate on other stuff.

Last of the leftover pork for dinner. Futurama 13.9. Another lame episode.  Went for a little walk with the sweetie after dinner.

I'm going to have to ask Damien if I can steal a few heads of these things when they're done

Thursday.  NEIL and proxy stuff mostly.  Had a farewell lunch for Imaar at Ikko.  I had slow cooked beef, it was very nice.

Got a message from Neil in the afternoon that he won't be back til the 17th!! arrgghhh!!  Good drinks though.  Tried the new orange flavoured Hard Rated - alcoholic Fanta!

Made pizzas with a heap of the leftover cheese from the club function last weekend.

Futurama 13.10 (end of season 13 .. hurray that's over and done with .. for now .. )

Friday.  Restless sleep.  NEIL and proxy stuff mostly.  

Got this cool eyeball from the oncologist centre

Kievs for dinner

Then we watched The Last Emperor.  I really didn't know the story at all.  It was kind of sad (and kinda weird it being in English).  I read afterwards what happened to his "main" wife, it was pretty awful.

Saturday.  Restless sleep.

Got ready and headed out to the club (Stu for a committee meeting, me to do more priming, which I forgot to document).  

Came home and picked our first strawberries

Only had like an hour at home before it was time to think about dinner.  I'd found a *heap* of leftovers in the club fridge, so I "dealt with it".  A heap more cheese and pasta, and some sliced up bread rolls.  Given it really wasn't going to last, I cooked up a heap of it.  Dinner of champions!

Then we watched Back to the Future.  Forty years after the events of the "present" time, seventy years after the events of the 1955 time.  Cool stuff.  Oh we ran the cooler when we got home today too.  So in the space of like a week and a half we've run the cooler, the heater, and the cooler again.  Silly really.

Sunday.  Restless sleep.  Panicking slightly over my todo list and losing half my weekend.  Spent a couple of hours in the morning doing gardening and housework and getting grunty about it.  Didn't achieve as much as I wanted.  And there goes the weekend...

Sunday.  19th.  Super yummy roast pork for dinner.  2.5kg so barely fit in my baking dish.  There may have been a lot of fat..!

Because it was so big, the crackling turned out really well, but the meat stayed nice and tender.  It was awesome!

Stu decided we should watch Futurama.  They're into season 13.  But honestly they should just STOP.  It's done its dash.  13.1 was pretty dumb too.  Then I finished watching The Green Mile.

Monday.  Slept like crap - awake for ages because I was hot.  Another disjointed distracted day at work. The temperature today got to like 32C! Turned the cooler on for the first time this year. Yeah last week we had the heater on (briefly), this week we had the cooler on. That's Canberra for you. Leftover pork for dinner. Futurama 13.2 then blog reading and photo filing.

Tuesday.  1 Timothy 2:11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women[c] will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. .... yeah hmmm.  Again, makes you wonder how much of this is cultural.  

Slept like crap again - awake for ages because I was hot. Even with the cooler fan going.

Busy being NEIL in the morning and not getting any other work done. My Christmas present arrived! ;) To be revealed.. one day..!  Penultimate nuking session, finished the Wasgij jigsaw, then walked up and visited Neil.

Then battled peak hour traffic to get home. Canberra has peak hour traffic.. who knew!? Leftover pork and veggies (refried in the "aspic" - I don't know why you'd want to eat that stuff cold anyway - just use it as a kind of "stock" to fry stuff in - much more yummierer!) for dinner, Futurama 13.3, blogged my last two Diamond Dotz birds sets.

Wednesday.  

Last nuking!!!!!!

Got conflicting advice about my skin.  They're all like.. keep it moisturised.. but those bits, keep them dry.  Like make up your mind.  Rang the bell though hurray!

Got home and had a couple of beers and got Chong Co delivered for dinner then Futurama 13.4

Thursday.  1 Timothy 4:10 That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.  .. "all people" .. and "especially"..? what does that even mean?

Okish sleep.  Opened the door under the "angel" tank to get the food out and it was tougher to open than usual.  Which usually means swollen chipboard from a leak.  Except I couldn't find where the leak was coming from.  hrmmmm.  

NEIL for a bit in the morning then fighting with new proxies. If you turn off inspection on a site it can't figure out what browser you're using, and so it blocks you (we block Firefox from general browsing and only allow it to some sites). But it won't give you an error, you just get a connection reset. So dumb. Then fighting with the test mail servers after someone spammed the hell out of them.

Went into drinks for the first time in months. Then it was a trivia night. It was one of THOSE trivia nights - stoopidly complicated question/marking setup (like three parts to an answer, each with two parts, and if you get one out of the two you get half a point, but if you get both parts right you get two points, oh and you have to mark each others, it's not marked centrally so there's no consistency in the scoring). Yeah so fricken dumb. One round wasn't even trivia, it was look at this picture for 10 seconds, then answer the crappiest stuff, like how many ears were in this picture, or how many feet were in this other picture. Not even trivia. Dumb dumb dumb. But my expecations for these trivia nights are so low now that I just didn't care. And I had bubbles. I don't even know what the final scores were, I didn't get a photo. I think we came third. They spun a wheel to determine who'd run the next one, and it missed us by one. Winning!  Also, Gin picked me up some Subway to have for dinner.. first Subway in like three months!!

Friday.  1 Timothy 5:23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.  Yeah cause fresh water back in the day was usually contaminated, and alcohol killed a lot of the germs.

Logged onto work briefly to be NEIL for the overnight stuff, then took an RDO.

Did some washing, did some weeding, went shopping (actually had fairly successful shopping mission.  Was chatting to Faye at Subway at lunch about how I'd been away with the C word, and she gave me a free cookie! So sweet :) ), took some cans for recycling and suddenly it's 15:45. And nowhere near enough done on my todo list. hrmmm.

I've missed Subway so much..!!  So much that I had it for dinner last night then lunch today haha

Drinks at Jo's in the afternoon and Tony came too so that was a nice catchup.

Cooked up some veggies to go with some leftover pork. Futurama 13.5.  Then I watched "Apollo 13: Survival" documentary on Netflix which was pretty interesting.  Jim Lovell only died a couple of months ago, and Marilyn only a couple of years ago.

Saturday.  1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.  .. not necessarily "money".. but the "love of money".  

Got a few things done in the morning then we headed out. First up to "The Shed", an offshoot of the Green Shed. Quite a bit smaller than the old shed, but he only has the lease til December so he may find something bigger (and with better parking would be nice!). They still charged me $3 for jigsaws, although I have a feeling they only did that after I asked (they revised the total down). They charged $2 each for some plates which I thought was a little high. Oh well.

This would fit in nicely with Mum's collection :)

Then next door to the other second hand place there (Down Memory Lane, I think??).  Mum would definitely recognise this ;)

Then out to the club for the "Spooktacular" halloween night. But first up went for a wander with the sweetie.

Then had a good long chat to Chris and Geoff. Then it was up to the shed for drinks and a spectacular charcuterie board, and an amazing dinner with lots of different things. Little bit of a late night but not too bad.

Sunday.  Got up and went and tidied up the shed a bit, with a bit of help from Brenton. Then home via the Scottish Restaurant, which took them 18 MINUTES to deliver our food from when we first arrived. So much for FAST food. Also. BOM updated their website a few days ago, and in the process shut down the APIs used by third party apps for the radar. TWITTER MUCH??? I'm so pissed off that RainRadarAU doesn't work anymore - I always preferred it to the BOM app. Hopefully there will be enough backlash/complaints and they'll restore them. Got a few things done in the afternoon and pfft, there goes the weekend. Sigh.

Sunday.  28th.  Reheated some mince that I cooked on Friday with some cream cheese and had that with salad for dinner. DS9 7.16. Early night.

Monday.  Slept mostly ok.

Prepped some complicated comms rules for another section. Went to put the lamb shoulder into the slow cooker at lunch but it didn't fit. Sigh. This is what happens when you let someone else do the shopping for you. So put it in the oven in a baking tray with some stock and covered it in foil and roasted at 110C all afternoon. I couldn't tell how much power we were using because SolarEdge is trash and lost contact with the battery before lunch (and still hadn't gotten it back by the evening). A bit after 5 took it out to look at it. The garlic wasn't cooked and the lamb wasn't falling apart, so put the temp up a bit and freed the garlic and cooked at a higher temperature for like twenty minutes, then put in some brussels sprouts. So turns out the lamb was super tender, really well cooked, although it was a battle to get at the meat past all the fat.

Put on DS9 7.17, but when I went to turn the lounge lights off it hadn't made contact yet and popped up the menu to do stuff, but I hit the wrong button - instead of cancel to try again, I hit dismiss group, and then it was GONE. It's not the first time I've done this, but last time I was able to recreate the group (somehow, NFI how). This time no such luck. The Mirabella Genio app is one of the WORST apps out there. I was trying everything to get the group back but the app is utter TRASH and I was getting more and more stressed and eventually somehow deleted the actual light devices and two of them started flashing. I literally ended up having a meltdown because life is too damned HARD at the moment. Couldn't finish the episode and our lights are still stuffed up.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep, then restless sleep thereafter. Hurray.

Busy day. Took the sweetie off to get an MRI on his back.

KFC on the way home. Oops. Neighbours have a visitor from Victoria who's parked partly in our driveway even with the extra space. #grunt. Finished DS9 7.17. Still haven't fixed the lights (actually managed to get one of them to pair last night, but not the other).

Wednesday.  Galations 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance (patience!), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. I was going to print these out in emoji and stick them to my monitor to remind myself, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Con asked me to work on the new proxy policy. But first I had to get my persistent machine setup so I could actually *work* on it (rather than trying to switch between the two). So that took most of the morning. Then documenting and asking questions about what's been done so far and trying to wrap my head around this thing again. Off in the afternoon to get nuked (1/15). Two and a half hours out of the house later. Sigh.

Then needed to cook dinner, DS9 7.18, go comet hunting, then it was practically bed time. Sigh.  I did download comet photos and post them though.

Thursday.  Busy day. Conflicting priorities. Hurrah. Off to get nuked (2/15). I got there early and they were running early and it went quickly so I was out of there by the time I was meant to start. Winning!

Dominos for dinner. Whoops. DS9 7.19. Finished htmlifying Europe food photos.

Friday.  

Busy day. Mostly proxy stuff. Nuking 3/15. Kievs for dinner.

DS9 7.20 then the first episode of Trainwreck: Storm Area 51, which was pretty hilarious.

Saturday.  Busy day. And yet with all the running around and scanning taking longer than it should (hurray perfectionism) I didn't get nearly enough done.

Cooked a lasagna and blue cheese potato bake and roast tomatoes for dinner.

DS9 7.21 then the other episode of Storm Area 51.

Sunday.  Bit of a late night (fighting with my backup drive). Woke up 6:00. Except actually 7:00. Another busy day of trying to do All The Things and only doing about A Quarter Of The Things. Blerf.

We still haven't fixed the last Mirabella light.  I've tried a few times to get them into pairing mode but nothing happens.  When we get around to it we might try taking out all the "good" lights and leaving just the unpaired one so we can fiddle.

Must be Sunday.  Windoze has forgotten all my folder settings again.  

Sunday.  21st.  Stu cooked a cabbage bake and I threw some zucchini in and we had that with some leftover roast beef. Definitely not a great roast - tough (even though it was rare to medium rare) and a line of gristle through it. DS9 7.10 which was pretty good. Think I'm getting a cold sore. Not surprising, and actually surprised I haven't gotten one sooner with my immune system being shot and all.

Monday.  Awake half the night stressing about some thing I had to delete at work and how I was going to do it. When I fully woke up I realised that thing didn't even exist and I'd probably just dreamt it. Sigh. Busy day being NEIL and doing All The Things for All The People. Leftovers for dinner then DS9 7.11 then Europe photo labelling (food photos!)

It hailed in the afternoon (very small hail)

It knocked lots of petals off the cherry tree..

Tuesday.  Felt like I was in the one position all night and that every time I woke up to consider rolling over I just stayed there. hrmm. Busy day being NEIL and doing All The Things for All The People. Someone at 16:40 asked me if I liked Kingsleys. Now I want Kingsleys!!! hrmmmmmmm. Leftovers for dinner, DS9 7.12 which was pretty silly, Europe food photo labelling.

#poppyporn starts... NOW!!!

Lunch was pepperoni and olive pizza scrolls..

Wednesday.  Another disjointed but busy day. "Your failure to plan does not constitute my emergency". Except when it does and you have to stay back doing stuff for peeps.  DS9 7.13. Finished Europe food photo labelling (finally!!)

Lunch was little cheese bread toasties, cream cheese, and either tomato, olive, cheese, pepperoni or roast garlic

Dinner was Luv-a-duck cheats Peking duck.  I love this so much!

Thursday.  Busy day doing All The Things for All The People. Pizzas for dinner, then DS9 7.14 (it would have been nice to go to Matt and Michelle's bucks/hens, but, people. Sigh). Thought I'd put on the Lego Batman Movie cause it's disappearing off Netflix soon and I couldn't remember if I'd ever seen it. Turns out I had, back in 2017, and apparently I own a copy. Not that I could find it when I looked..  So much for getting anything else done though, that movie requires 100% attention or you'll miss stuff!!

Friday.  Took an RDO!!  House stuff in the morning then labelling Europe photos. In the afternoon we went out to the club and lit the fire and had a few drinks and some tv dinners and it was all very pleasant. At 19:30 we were like, now what, and invited Ian down for some whisky which was lovely too.

#fresiaporn starts... NOW!!!

I got this bottle of shiraz from Ben and Sarah for my 50th and we shared it in front of the fire.  It was really nice!

Saturday.  Actually slept relatively well, I thought, although I wasn't really transfunctionating in the morning (not sure I was making much sense talking the mother type person).

I was going to make scrambled eggs.. but couldn't bring myself to break them when they all plopped into the pan intact..

Finally got around to doing a second coat of primer on some of the cabinetry. It's been sitting in a half done state for years.  This is an in-progress shot.

Came home in the afternoon. Stu was in agony from his back from after lunch until we got some more powerful painkillers into him when we got home. Most unpleasant for all involved. Mainly him. Finished labelling Europe hotel photos. Pizza for dinner (comfort food for the sweetie!), DS9 7.15, then bed.

Sunday.  Slept relatively well. A day of All The Things. Was a bit confused when I plugged my phone in to back it up that iTunes wanted to upgrade to iOS 26. WTF? I'm only on 18. Turns out they're aligning with the year. Which is dumb anyway because it's 2025 not 2026. Got to half way through htmlifying Europe hotel photos.

Sunday.  14th.  Stu cooked a very yummy cream cheese, chicken and leek casserole for dinner.  He may have also gotten me a kilo of garlic :)  Not that I ate much of it.  Sigh.

But a mere fraction..

DS9 7.4 (bit silly).

Monday.  Still feeling blerf. I can't see either. Maybe cause of spending too much time on my phone in bed. Plus an irritated eyelid making seeing even harder. Sigh. Felt like trash all day, even worse than yesterday, go figure. Leftovers for dinner. DS9 7.5.

Tuesday.  Felt a whole lot better, although mouth pretty icky. Mostly decom work at work. Leftovers for dinner. DS9 7.6. Something got confused in YouTube and I've been watching Anti-Chef for days with no ads. But my browser must have kicked itself or something because ads are back with a vengeance. It's like it's been making up for lost time and getting multiple sets of ads in like a 10 minute video. Sigh.

Wednesday.  1 Corinthians 15:32 If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." .. yeah little point to life without an afterlife I guess.

Awake for ages in the middle of the night - probably because my nose was a bit blocked up so couldn't breathe easily. Continued with decom work mostly at work.

We cooked roast beef and a big cauliflower bake for dinner.

Finished htmlifying my Europe 2016 photos! Now for food, hotels and panoramas.

Thursday.  Slept somewhat better. Decom work and DNS audit.

Pizzas for dinner.

Mum photo picking and doing bits for tax. I went to download my super statements for the year. OF COURSE it's offline for maintenance right when I want to do it.

Friday.  Bits and pieces and decom work.  TV dinner for dinner (the sweetie went out to the club).  No Freakier Friday though, it's listed in Disney+ but when you go to watch it it's just a trailer.  Disney+ dumbness.  So watched Terms of Endearment, which I've never actually seen.  As a slice of life some of it felt.. kinda.. "real".. except none of the characters are actually likeable, like, at all (except maybe John Lithgow's character).  I was reminded of the Billy Joel song which has a line "they started to fight when the money got tight and they just didn't count on the tears".

Saturday.  Slept mostly okish. Except for when the storm rolled through and I disconnected some things. Busy day of All The Things. Kievs for dinner. DS9 7.9.

Must be Friday .. wait.. what?

Sunday.  Slept ok. Another busy day of All The Things. Including doing Dotz while the sweetie read a book on the lounge and the radio was on (Last Night at the Proms).   My ideal retirement life. If I live that long. But hearing Bohemian Rhapsody on Classic FM was pretty funny (need to watch the video at some point).  Of course Windoze and Chrome reset all my folder settings again.  Just when I was getting used to it remembering them.

Had a beer.  First in a couple of weeks.  Sigh.

Oh... found this on the Canon that I'd taken back in July but hadn't downloaded.. Love it..

Sunday.  7th.  Leftover lamb refried with some brisket jelly, and some Brussels sprouts with bacon and some garlic cauliflower for dinner then DS9 6.23 (dumb Ferengi episode).

Monday.  1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. .. don't always feel that.

Took ages to get to sleep, then woke up early. Bits and pieces day. NEIL again end of last week and beginning of this week. Also looking into our rule reordering incident and gathering more data. Leftover lamb, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower for dinner. DS9 6.24 (much nicer episode). Europe photo labelling.

Tuesday.  1 Corinthians 11:6 For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head. .. makes you wonder how much of the Bible's instructions are cultural.  Apparently I'm a disgrace at the moment.

Took a while to get to sleep, then awake from 4 for ages. Logged on to be NEIL briefly. Then off to get poisoned. Last round! Hurray!

You're meant to ring the bell on the way out, but I feel like it's a bit premature, you should really do it after a week or two once you've had a chance to recover somewhat.

Quiet afternoon. Started a new blog. Went for a little walk (to encourage the guts to keep moving).

Nearby phone tower with a whole new head (and extra reinforcing to support all the extra weight)

Stu had a very emotional day, with a farewell afternoon tea then a long HR meeting. He may have required ice cream. Cooked dinner. It looked nice. It apparently tasted nice. I didn't eat much, but it still felt like I ate too much. Had some of said ice cream. DS9 6.25. Then finished labelling my Europe 2016 photos!

Wednesday.  Somewhat restless sleep and awake from 5:30. Put on 2.4kg overnight. All fluid.  Slow quiet day. Stomach more off today than usual on first day post poisoning. The sweetie had his last day of work today. He was pretty emotional again. So we had pizza and ice cream. As you do. Not that I had much. DS9 6.26, end of season six. And All. The. Rain. today!!!

Thursday.  September 11.  Remember always.  Slept reasonably well. Lost 2kg overnight. Even felt a little hungry. Not so great during the morning though. Low level nausea all day, but didn't want to take the anti-nausea pills cause I don't want all my guts to stop moving.. hmmm.. Did some doco at work and helped look at a mail problem with Neil. Leftovers for dinner, DS9 7.1. 19:36 is bed time right?

Friday.  1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  I remember Joe Wiltshire once theorising that the tone of this passage is not the lovey-dovey tone you get at weddings but more like a dressing down.

Woke up around 4 needing to pee but also hungry, go figure. Then at 6:30 was hungry again, actually wanting breakfast. Go figure. Off to TCH for nuking prep. Home at lunch time. Feeling like crap although did stay online at work for the afternoon and got a few bits and pieces done. Zombie evening. Kievs for dinner. Oddly even though I don't feel like eating I feel a bit better when I do. Been having mostly "soft" food though.  DS9 7.2 then lots of watching of Anti-Chef.

Saturday.  Felt like utter trash all day, especially in the morning. Pretty much just watched Anti-Chef all day.

Made this lazy-ass mac and cheese for lunch - half a cup of water, boil half a cup of small macaroni for five minutes, then add a dollop of cream and a handful of shredded cheese at the end and melt.  I got Stu to taste it (since I can't judge anything at the moment) and he said it was decent enough.  

The sweetie dragged me out for a walk in the late afternoon which was probably good for my guts.

Dumpling Inn for dinner (even though I didn't really feel like eating I still ended up eating too much, whoops).

DS9 7.3 then the last episode of Tokyo Trial.

Sunday.  Quiet day. Felt a little better. Did some photo stuff and some Dotz.

Sunday.  24th.  Cooked up some fish that Stu bought with a creamy lemon sauce, with some leftover veggies and some frozen veggies.

I've also been eating some lime jelly that I made up with some half price jelly from Chris's.

DS9 6.10.  We might have had a craving for coconut cake.  It would have taken nearly an hour to do it in the oven, so we tried David's method of doing it in the microwave.  It was ok, but hard in places and soggy in others.  Do not recommend.

Very tired.

Monday.  Slept okish maybe. Still feeling blah. I'm kinda over this crap. Another couple of days of blah for this cycle then only one to go at least.

Put on some brisket at lunch and roasted a bunch of veggies (cauliflower bake and brussels sprouts) and some garlic bread because I can actually still taste garlic.

DS9 6.11 then continued watching Anti-Chef from the beginning (up to video 10).

Also. A red-back spider took up residence in our letter box WTF?? All the nope. Normally I will evict spiders but this one didn't want to be caught and there's no way I'm going to keep sticking my hand in a letterbox with a venomous spider there. So she got spray-and-wiped.  Sorry.

Tuesday.  Felt somewhat better today. Back to DC migration stuff and helping Neil cut over to new mail servers. Cooked up the rest of the fish with some leftover veggies for dinner then DS9 6.12. More Ferengi dumbness.

Wednesday.  Felt normal enough to have food for breakfast today (in the first week I don't feel like much, usually will just have some milk). Spent way too long looking at a login problem that we should have been able to figure out and fix earlier hrmmm.

Stumpy gave me "the look" at one point today - the look that says, aight I'm done with my winter fast, give me food.  

Europe photo labelling and Jamie Anti-Chef watching. Leftover brisket and veggies for dinner then DS9 6.13 which was kinda fun seeing what everyone looks like normally.

Thursday.  Woke up at like 2:30 for ages. Continuing to feel a bit better. Bit of DC work and dealing with crap.

Managed to label a day of photos. Pizzas for dinner (must be Thursday!)

Then DS9 6.14 which reminded me of the old Lost in Space episode where they go inside the giant robot (Trip Through the Robot - I only ever saw a couple of episodes of this show like ever, but happened to see that one twice).

Friday.  Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God--this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.  I remember having to learn that once when I was younger.  

Slept a little better. Got a bunch of my DC work done but also a bunch of XL's work and dealing with crap. Just missed getting hailed on getting supplies from Chris's.

Had a fake beer. Just doesn't cut it. Kievs for dinner then DS9 6.15. 

Went over to see Annie and the family after dinner so that was a nice catchup.  Mila was in town too which was nice.

Saturday.  Slept okish. Bit of Lego. Also got my brand-new-second-hand saxomaphone back all clean and shiny. So it seems low D/C notes are super tricky on a saxophone. But higher notes are a lot easier.

Leftover brisket for dinner then DS9 6.16 and Tokyo Trial episode 2.

Sunday.  Woke up at one point needing to pee, then didn't get back to sleep for ages. Mostly a Lego and photo and baking day.

Sunday.  20th.  Heated up some lamb I found in the freezer and had it with a potato/onion/feta bake, cauliflower/onion/spring onion bake, and brussels sprouts, bacon and hazelnuts. Yum yum yum. We both may have had seconds.

Then watched DS9 5.6 with tribbles which was a lot of fun. So I watched the original Trouble with Tribbles to see what they did to integrate the footage. Fun stuff! Ooo new season of Black Mirror! Watched 7.1. You just know that a subscription model isn't going to end well.. and adverts.. had to happen.

Monday.  

Acts 11:18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, "So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life." .. hurray for us Gentiles!

Slept mostly ok although did get woken up by my alarm which is rare. Decom work planning/writing up at work. Leftovers for dinner, DS9 5.7, photo culling, Black Mirror 7.2.

Tuesday.  Slept mostly ok but awake quite early. Deleting day!! Deleted heaps of crap which always makes me happy. Creamy cheesy mince with leftover for veggies, then DS9 5.8, photo culling, Black Mirror 7.3.

I have no notes from Wednesday to Friday.  It was that kind of week.  Distracted by my hair situation, long meetings, waiting on people for things, medical appointments.  Didn't get nearly as much done at work as I would have liked.  There would have been a few episodes of DS9 in there.  

Thursday I made cheesy vegemite scrolls for lunch - haven't had those in ages!

There was a nice sunrise on Friday

We may have also tried McGriddles.  For some reason they weren't as good as I remember them from Japan and Hong Kong.  Edit:  this is likely because I've lost a lot of my sense of taste at the moment.  Sigh.

Christmas in July prep started after work Friday (the sweetie did the shopping).  

I made the apple sauce, cooked all the sweet potato, and made a peppermint slice.

It's times like this I really miss the little brother...

And there may have been kievs and cauliflower bake for dinner

Saturday.  

Acts 16:31 They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household." .. interesting that all the household would be saved if one member is.. how would that work?

Finished prepping as much as I could (sliced All The Potato, made gravy, toasted pumpkin seeds, washed fruit, printed out All The Instructions) then headed out to the club.  When we go there the shed was full of people which was super stressful and annoying. Usually it's pretty much empty during the day. Turned on the oven then went through everything with Stu. Got the pork into the oven then really left the sweetie and a small team of helpers to do all the putting and taking of stuff in ovens.

I had mulled wine by the fire.

Apparently everything went fairly well.  Except the crackling.  I really should try pouring boiling water over to begin with...

I also made up the pavlovas and took them up

Sunday.  Didn't sleep very well.  Not too much to clean up, and not a vast amount of leftovers. Came home. Got clippered. Fiona came over for a while in afternoon which was nice.

Sunday.  6th.  Had all four stove elements going tonight cooking all the food.

I cooked up a bunch of mince/onion/garlic/bacon for use whenever. I also cooked some salmon, some broccolini, and a very nice sauce of double cream, 2 ice cubes of lemon juice, a bit of salt, pepper and a bunch of dill. Turned out quite well.

Then watched DS9 4.20.

Monday.  Slept mostly ok. Busy day of crap and meetings and not getting any time for cleaning. Redo of the salmon (with the other *huge* piece of salmon we got the other that I had to cut in two) with creamy lemon pepper and dill dressing, this time with cabbage and spring onions with kewpie sesame dressing. DS9 4.21.

Tuesday.  

Acts 5:30 The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead--whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. 31 God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins... as Peter and the apostles are being questioned by the high priest.  God did it.

Didn't get to sleep til after 3. Stoopid restless legs. Hurray. Off to ICON to get poisoned.

Feeling fine until after dinner when the guts started reacting. Hurray. The sweetie cooked sausages with a cabbage bake and brussels sprouts and bacon and hazelnuts. DS9 4.22.

Wednesday.  Got to sleep ok, but then awake from before 3 til after 5 hurray. Nice quiet day, catching up, getting crap under control, just taking it easy. The sweetie reheated the sausages and veggies with some extra tomatoes and shallots which was all very nice, then DS9 4.23.

Thursday.  Slept fairly well til around 4:30 then awake for at least an hour or so, but then some more sleep til 7:30. Hid out and did dev cleaning today which was nice. Pizzas for dinner then DS9 4.24 which was pretty tedious.

Friday.  Slept okish I think. Another cleaning day. Went and got hair chopped. Looks like a mop.  Tony brought us kebabs for lunch which was sweet of him. Kievs for dinner.

Death in Paradise 14.8 (end of season 14) and the end of the Bomb and the Cold War. Achy evening.

Saturday.  Slept okish I think. Achy day. Mostly jigsaw. The sweetie cooked up some mince and a bunch of veggies for dinner (including a blue cheese cauliflower bake) and we watched Star Wars (A New Hope).

Sunday.  Okish sleep. Achy day. Mostly jigsaw.