Sunday.  31st.  Baked a cake! Two cakes actually. A coconut cake done properly (in the oven!) and a plain vanilla butter cake from the Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Book. Stu didn't want a numbered cake, but I decided I needed to practise cooking cakes (I never do it) so that one day I can make numbered cakes. And everything else. Used the top element only, which apparently doesn't work very well for baking cakes. The coconut cake was hot and crispy on top, but still soggy on the bottom (done in a silicone mould). The butter cake fared better because it was in a metal tin so the heat transferred better. It was a good experiment for testing out the oven, but next time I think I'll go back to my regular mode of rear element with fan (or at least top element with fan). I also may have made a batch of vanilla cream icing. With some very very very very old icing mixture. It had turned into little balls of hard icing sugar which needed persuading to go through the sifter. Dinner was pizzas, because, the sweetie. And birthday calories don't count right? DS9 6.17.

Monday.  1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 

All. The. Crap. kind of a day. Leftovers for dinner I think. DS9 6.18.

Tuesday.  Rinse and repeat of Monday. Had a bit of a tootle on the saxophone. Cooked up a batch of brussels sprouts and bacon and a cauliflower and pasta bake for dinner. DS9 6.19.

Wednesday.  Rinse and repeat of Monday and Tuesday. Including saxophone. And leftovers of above. DS9 6.20 which was a lot of fun.

Thursday.  Did some work on prod DC migration stuff. No time for tootling though because I wanted to label some photos. Pizzas and garlic bread for dinner. DS9 6.21 and more labelling.

Friday.  Bits and pieces day. Tried to replicate a problem with our virtual environment but couldn't do it. I did manage to copy paste 12 groups with the APIs in a few minutes that would have taken hours to do manually. Did my Saturday morning routine after work so my Saturday would be more freed up. Kievs for dinner, DS9 6.22, Tokyo Trial #3.

Saturday.  Somewhat restless sleep. Even though I did a lot of my Saturday routine last night, I still ended up doing a whole bunch of housework today. Other bits and pieces too. Luv-a-duck, zucchini and leftover pasta bake for dinner. Then watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which I'd never seen before.

This turd has been taught to eat the house by its turd parents

Sunday.  Slept okish I think. Another day of just trying to Get Things Done.

Sunday.  10th.  Epic roast beef for dinner. 

DS9 5.24 then Cruella.

Monday.  Slept mostly ok.  Was both Neil and XL for the day.  

Did more Europe photo labelling. At some point since I geotagged these photos nine years ago, Google has shifted the satellite imagery around, by like ten metres. So the pointer for photos is out of place compared to the images. Super annoying. Slow cooker lamb shanks for dinner yum yum yum.

DS9 5.25. Silly episode. More Europe labelling - over a quarter of the way through it now. My eyes were tired much of the day, and irritation in my right eye from the afternoon until bed time sigh.

Tuesday.  Acts 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. Don't forget us Gentiles :)

Slept okish. Lots of decom planning. Leftovers and veggies for dinner. DS9 5.26. More Europe labelling. Rinse and repeat with sore tired eyes and irritated right eye for much of the day. Sigh.

Wednesday.  Romans 3:22 This righteousness is given through faith in[h] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,[i] through the shedding of his blood--to be received by faith.  

Woke up at like 4:30.  Hurray.  Decom work and documenting settings on the new proxy system at work.

Experimented with mac and cheese at lunch.  This is just a bit of macaroni that I cooked then at the end mixed through some slices of plastic cheese I had in the freezer and a bit of milk.  I'll reserve judgement until I get my sense of taste back.

Pizzas for dinner. Made three different ones this time - pepperoni, olive, and tomato and dill.  Stu assures me they were good.

DS9 6.1. Finished labelling a day of photos then bed time. Hrmmm.

Thursday.  Did a script to see what groups are "member ofs" which, while they can mostly be seen in the GUI, it's buggy, so this is definitive.  

Merry Christmas to me!!  Yum yum!!

Had EffanC over for cheese and an epic Chong Co feast!  Thanks sweetie!!

There were Thai fish cakes, roti, crispy crab net rolls, tangy lemon squid, prik pao moo grob pork, wagyu beef salad, satay chicken, massaman curry and coconut rice.

Lovely evening.

Friday.  Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

Slept like crap funnily enough. Added functionality to another script that's been annoying me since the old environment so that was super cool.  Now I can find rules where all the servers have disappeared. Slightly early finish. Kievs for dinner, DS9 6.2, early night.

Saturday.  Slept somewhat better.  Cleaned the house, labelled some photos, did some jigsaw. Kit came over in the afternoon. They had pizza. I had leftover lamb and frozen veggies. Hurray.  Nice evening.

Sunday.  Slept like crap. Sigh. Hung out with Kit for a while and the sweetie cooked us some eggs for brunch. Then Kit wandered off. Felt pretty flat in the afternoon and didn't achieve much.  

Google Image Search tells me this is a Packard Clipper....

Sunday.  3rd.  It's going to be an eat the fridge and freezer week this week.  Starting with a cabbage bake (spiked with yellow curry paste) and some nice frozen fish fillets I got at Chris's a while back.  Then DS9 5.18.

Monday.  Pretty distracted morning at work so didn't get much done.  Did a bit of cleaning planning in the afternoon.  Finished culling Europe 2016 photos for the blog!!  DS9 5.19.

Tuesday.  We changed the house battery mode to "save battery for power outages" yesterday so it didn't drain overnight, and instead kept the lights on (and my computer running) while sparkies a couple of houses down had the power off for their work for an hour or so.

Did some deleting which was nice, and some more networking stuff for Jim (that I missed last week cause I don't *do* layer 1/2 heh).  Also got a couple of scripts working which made me pretty happy.  Made up a potato bake for dinner to use up a bunch of things, then DS9 5.20.  Dumb episode. 

Wednesday.  Slept okish.  Tried to do an improvement on one of my scripts but it was too complicated and my perfectionism got in the way so ended up abandoning it for now.  Leftovers for dinner I think.  DS9 5.21.

Thursday.

Acts 26:22.. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen-- 23 that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles." .. spoken by Paul in Caesarea!!!  Been there!!

Awake stoopidly early.  Did some more decom planning.  Chris didn't have any pepperoni so I made olive and feta pizzas.  Stu tells me they were good.  I miss being able to to taste salt!!

DS9 5.22 - somewhat interesting moral dilemma.  Then Europe photo labelling.

Friday.  Did some tidying of all the rules we've setup for the potential new load balancing solution.  May have had cheesy vegemite scrolls for lunch.

Then deleted a heap of stuff out of the old prod load balancing environment. Deleting crap on a Friday afternoon.. what could go wrong? ;)  Kievs and fries for dinner then DS9 5.23.

Saturday.  Woke up at like 4:30 or something #grunt.  House and hobbies kind of a day.  At one point I was trying to rename a folder in Windows Explorer and it just froze up.  I looked at Event Viewer and my heart sank when I saw a disk bad blocks error.  So now I have to figure out what I've done on my computer since my last good backup on Wednesday.  And wonder if I can trust that disk anymore.  So anyway, later on I was trying to find out what the hell disk was DR9.  OMFG.. rm9's comments.. THIS!!.. In the end used Winobj64.exe from Sysinternals to figure out it was actually a USB stick that I'd plugged in at the same time that had the error.  Phew!!!  I let the sweetie order a karaage chicken pizza for dinner.  Whoops.  Then we watched The Post.  I had literally no idea what it was about other than it stared Tom Hanks, and that I assumed it was about the Washington Post.  For some reason I also picked the music.  John Williams!  But definitely not in your face, quite subtle.  Stu wondered early on if it was about Daniel Ellsberg, which he was right about too.

Sunday.  Another house and hobbies day again.  Having a beer while I write this - first drink in over two weeks.  Sigh.  

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.  13th.  Cooked quite a nice roast beef and veggies for dinner. DS9 4.25 (end of season 4, and Nana Visitor is in fact pregnant (with Bashir's baby no less haha)).

Monday.  

Acts 8:32 - He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth - originally from Isaiah, Philip explains it to an Ethiopian eunuch.

Up half the night doing All The Poop.  Hurray.  Had a very slo-mo day.  After dinner and DS9 5.1 took my temperature and it was over 38. So off to hospital we go. Hurray.  Utterly utterly miserable experience.  Really don't know if I should have gone.  But I did get All The Antibiotics so there's that.

Tuesday.  Got home around 15:00.  The sweetie got a vomit pizza from Dominos (and a pepperoni).  DS9 5.2 then straight to bed.

Still not as good as the original.  

Wednesday.  Slept from like 8pm til after 6:30. Winning. Quiet day of dev environment cleaning. Cooked up some leftover beef with cabbage, cauliflower rice, yellow curry paste, lime juice and sour cream then DS9 5.3 which was kinda fun but I still don't think Keiko would have been that happy about the situation.

Thursday.  Finished the dev environment cleaning work I've been working on. The environment there is so *clean* now! Cooked some chicken pieces and veggies for dinner then DS9 5.4.

Thursday.  Not pizza!! *gasp*

Friday.  Did a big catchup on a backlog of decom work that's been piling up. Kievs and cauliflower for dinner (with some panko breadcrumbs and some parmesan cheese).

DS9 5.5 then Trainwreck: Poop Cruise documentary on the Carnival Triumph fire. This one was apparently a lot more miserable for passengers than the Carnival Splendor fire that John Heald wrote about.

Saturday.  Slept ok. First day of feeling somewhat in control and with energy, and managed to get a fair bit done.

The last of the mini capsicums.  They were green when I picked them off the frost-bitten plant in June, and turned orange over a couple of weeks!

Finished off the beef with some cabbage, cauliflower rice, red curry paste and cream.

Then we watched The Empire Strikes Back. Couldn't help myself but pick holes in it, some things I'd never really thought of before.

Sunday.  Slept mostly ok. Got out of the house this morning - went to the arboretum with Tony to try out the new lens. Pretty happy with it. I'm glad I got it. And a nice catchup with Tony too.  Pretty quiet day otherwise.  First beer in two weeks.  Wheeeeeee!

Sunday.  22nd.  Cooked some roast chicken, brussels sprouts and a blue cheese cauliflower bake for dinner.  It sure makes a difference cooking the chicken "upside down" - because the breast meat cooks in juices and so it doesn't dry out as much.  Much more betterer.

DS9 4.16, then Lego Masters 7.7.

Monday.  Slept okish I think.

The mini capsicum plant finally succumbed to the sub-zero temperatures!

Busy day again. Cooked up leftover chicken with some mushrooms, bok choy, yellow curry paste, ginger paste, garlic paste, and Greek yoghurt (I didn't have any coconut cream in the house).

Andor 2.7. Photo culling and picking.

Tuesday.  Took a while to get to sleep and woke up very early hrmmm. Another crazy busy day. Cooked up the last of the leftover chicken with half a cauliflower, cream, lemon juice, dill and some Greek yoghurt (didn't have much cream).  I probably should have let it reduce some more, but I was hungry!

Andor 2.8 then computer backups. Been thinking about life and death recently. And am I the only one that's worried about nuclear war? If I die what is to become of all my photos? Will anyone ever see them? Or care? Is there any point in trying to save them from the EMP apocalypse? And what is the meaning of life really? To know Christ and to make him known. I'm not very good at that.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly okish. A day of interruptions stopping me from getting any work done (of which there was still tonnes to do). After 17:00 it got quiet and I had an hour of peace which I used to finally get to my inbox under control (it's been out of control for a couple of weeks). So that was nice. Pizzas for dinner, must be Thursday. Wait, what? 

Then Andor 2.9. No time for Legomasters, nearly bed time sigh.

Thursday.  Busy day again. After drinks was a trivia night. We might have won. Whoops. But the good thing was they decided in advance that the last place table should run the next one which was a relief for us. Read: me. The first round was called Geospatial, which was Google Earth shots of various cities and landmarks. We totally aced that round. That was literally *my* round haha. The next round was macro shots of various objects and you had to guess what they were. We did pretty well, but a couple eluded us. Current affairs was fairly standard. Music was tv theme tunes. A couple I'd never heard of but Neil and Duncan were like "oh that's F Troop" haha. They did Home and Away too. Gin and I sang that one. What's funny is that I literally haven't heard the theme tune in like 35 years (we watched the first few seasons back in the late 80s/early 90s) but I still remembered all the words. We might have sung a bit of The Love Boat as well.  Aussie TV ads was also a bit of fun. The last round was dumb - photos of random people and had they ever worked here. So yeah, it was all (mostly) on the easy side, so everyone did quite well, but that also made just so much more fun. Great night.

Friday.  Slept relatively well considering. Not too many tickets which was good - gave me some time to finally fix the issues in my config dump script. Took it and ran it over our dev environment, which needs a massive cleanup. We were going to go into the city after work to look at lenses, but in the end didn't go and had kievs for dinner.

DS9 4.17 then Lego Masters.

Saturday.  Slightly early night, but then woke up at 4:40 doh. Mostly filing Lego all day. Headed out to the club in the late afternoon - first time we'd been out in six months! Eeep! It was Chris and Ian's 10th wedding anniversary formal night which was pretty cool. It was James Bond themed, and of course there was trivia, and we might have won. Whoops. Not toooo late a night.

I always love seeing STARS out at the club.. and the phone can pick up the Milky Way

Sunday.  Slept relatively well considering. Came home and then mostly just Lego filing.  Think will have an early night tonight!

Sunday.  8th.  Leftovers for dinner.  Had to endure DS9 4.8 Too much of DS9 is like this, just something to be endured. Didn't feel like doing anything after. 19:30 is bed time right?

Monday.  Awake from like 1-4 or something silly. Ridiculous. Had a quite productive day though, alternating between house stuff, photo stuff, computer stuff and I finished a jigsaw. Leftovers for dinner then watched DS9 4.9. Somewhat better episode, if a bit silly. Did some Mum photo picking after dinner.

Tuesday.  Slept mostly ok. Was both XL and NEIL at work, but also had time to figure out a PowerShell problem and get my pretty report working. Leftovers for dinner then DS9 4.10. Then culling of Salzburg photos from 2016. I really do need to make an "ultimate" Sound of Music location guide one day. It'd have more on it than literally anyone else.

The mini capsicum is hanging in there even in the sub-zero temperatures overnight!

Wednesday.  Took a while to get to sleep but then slept mostly okish. Another day of tickets and scripting and not too much BS, which always makes for a pleasant work day. Also played with Copilot to get it to tell me what some regex did, and write me a regex for something else I wanted to do - and it actually worked!! It was actually pretty amazing.  Kievs and chippies for dinner because the sweetie wanted comfort food so had that instead of leftovers.

DS9 4.11 and a bit of Salzburg culling, but mostly getting distracted by Sound of Music locations.

Thursday.  When I first did my Pixie it was quite warm.  This past week has been sub-zero in the mornings..

Slept okish I think. Just tickets mostly at work. Good drinks - several groups came which was good. Pizzas and DS9 4.12.

Friday the 13th!!  Awake for hours on and off *sigh*. But did turn the heater off in the hopes we'd be able to turn it on again in the morning - and we could! Winning!! Tickets and scripting day, quite nice. Did more playing with Copilot - gave it a problem and got it to solve the PowerShell for me. Pretty awesome. Lunch with the Chrises and Tony at the Burns Club (not that one, the other one!) which was nice.

Dinner was a blue cheese cabbage bake and brussels sprouts with some pulled pork I dug out of the freezer.

DS9 4.13 then new Lego Masters!!! Lego Grand Masters of the Galaxy!

Saturday.  Slept mostly ok.

Ok morning, but not really super productive. In the afternoon we ran a couple of errands then went to the Handmade Markets at EPIC. Had to get potato on a stick of course, and TRBC was there too!  (the food hall was more fun for me than the hand-made stuff)

Potato on a stick!

Tempura mushrooms

Musk stick, and lemon meringue pie

New Ginja Ninja!!

Dropped into the Green Shed, sorry Vinnies, sorry Goodies Junction on the way home. 

Sunbow?

Leftovers for dinner then we watched The Holdovers, which was quite a nice movie.

Sunday.  Slept mostly ok. Quiet day, bit of house stuff, some jigsaws.  It was cold and wet and miserable, nice day to stay indoors.

Sunday.  1st of June.  1st day of winter.  Although feels like it's been around a little while longer.  Heater is permanently on because we're too scared to touch the controller in case it dies and never comes back again.  And the peeps at Heating Cooling Warehouse STILL haven't acknowledged that we bought a brand-new-second-hand controller off them.  Will need to call them.

Ahem.

Turns out if you fry sour dough in bacon fat it turns out amazingly..

The sweetie did a pea and ham soup for dinner.

DS9 4.2 then The Bomb episode 2.

Monday.  Photos and jigsaw kind of a day.  

Did a slow cooker lamb shoulder for dinner with a bunch of veggies.  Slow cooker lamb sure is a winner.  I separated the fat out though before making the gravy with it - got a whole small decor container of fat out that we might otherwise have eaten.  

DS9 4.3 then The Bomb episode 3.

Tuesday.  Slept like crap.  Didn't get to sleep til like midnight, and then an ordeal to get comfortable. Back to work. Stayed "offline" all day to avoid the questions. Spent the day catching up on emails and doing tickets. Cooked up the last of the mince I cooked the other day with some tomato and cheese - simple but tasty. DS9 4.4.

Wednesday.  Slept okish. I think. Another relatively quiet day at work - the calm before the storm really. Leftovers for dinner. DS9 4.5.

Thursday.  Slept okish. I'm now XL for a month. Did a few tickets but distracted waiting for responses from people. Pizza for dinner, must be Thursday! DS9 4.7 (what happened to 4.6??) and recognised James Cromwell even under all his prosthetics! Then episode 5 of the bomb (don't know what day we watched episode 4).

Friday.  Awake from like 3:30 or so. Hurray.  Got some tickets done and had some time in the afternoon to work on my reporting script. Even got it to do what I wanted which was nice. Kievs for dinner, DS9 4.6 (labelled as 4.7 in Netflix - so the wrong way around compared to IMDB) then episode 6 of the bomb.

Saturday.  Slept okish. Quiet day of All The Things. Well, some house stuff, jigsaw, scanning, photo stuff and listening to the Classic 100 Piano.

I asked the sweetie what he wanted to do for dinner. We got Chong Co. Heh.

Watched Inglorious Basterds after dinner. It was .. "interesting" .. hrmmm!  

Sunday.  Slept okish - even slept in til nearly 7!! Went out by myself to do food shopping (Stu's back is having a week since he went into the office a couple of times during the week and had to sit up straight for too long). Forgot it was Sunday at Jamo - usually parking is a nightmare on Sundays. Fortunately the rain kept the crowds away so parking wasn't an issue.

I haven't been to Coles at Jamo since December and the entire store has been completely redesigned and refitted. Very stressful. Super quiet day, mostly just jigsaw and listening to Classic 100 Piano.  Beethoven made number 1.  Again.  How many times has Beethoven won?  Must be a few heh..

Was filing photos and came across photos I took of a tree removal being done at our neighbour Rhonda Owen's house years ago.  It prompted me to go look for real estate agent photos of the place to see what it looked like now (and then).

The funny thing is, there's actually a few key moments and memories of my life that I have that were at that house.

First up, is that I learned to ride a bike right here!!  There were a few kids over at their place playing and puttering around on the bikes.  I was on a bike (this was before I'd learned to ride) and was just going round and round the clothes line.  I remember the moment that I was obviously fast enough to get the gyroscopic stability and the feeling of actually "getting it".  It was pretty cool.

I also had my one and only ride on a motorcycle in that back yard, as David Owen's father was there for a birthday party and was giving all the kids rides.

The Owens had a Commodore (I think) computer with an actual cassette tape drive that would take half or three quarters of an hour to load a game from tape. Excruciating!!  This is where it was setup.  Very likely at this exact side table!

One time I went down to see if I could play on the computer and walked into a full on orb web face first right here!!  I was horrified!!  I spent ages at the door trying to pull that spider web off.  Rhonda let me in even though David wasn't home to play with.  Awkward!!

Monday.  19th.  Went into the city in the evening to meet up with Luc for dinner.  We just had some pizza in the bar because it was relatively people-free.  Nice catchup.

Tuesday.  Slept okish.  More of All The Things. Not that I feel like I achieved much. Did a roast chicken with lots of veggies for dinner. Actually managed to have some leftover veggies. Then watched Perfect Days. Very nice and all but no story heh.

Wednesday.  Awake from 4 for ages but got a bit more sleep.  Just bits and pieces really. Cooked a chicken yellow curry for dinner. Andor 2.3.

Thursday.  Okish sleep, still stressing about All The Things. Gloomy day. Stu fixed the heater with a $1.35 part. Well, we thought he did. 20 minutes later it died again, same behaviour. Sigh.

Friday.  Up stoopidly early to go get bits chopped out.

Saturday.  Home via chemist mid morning. To a cold house. Heater is still playing up sigh. Very quiet day. Fiona came by with a care package which was lovely and we chatted for a bit. And talked to Mum and David. Got Chong Co delivered for dinner. DS9 3.20, then a documentary on LSD.

Sunday.  Slept mostly okish. Another very quiet day.  Managed to get the heater going for a little while in the morning so at least wasn't freezing all day like yesterday.  Plus the sun came out which helped.