Sunday.  12th.  Cooked a very nice lamb roast for dinner with all the veggies.

Death in Paradise 12.1, some Dotz, and photoshopped (with gimp) a photo of Vicki for Kit to blur out the background.

Monday.  Slept mostly ok.  Even got another 20 minutes sleep after I woke up at 5:30. 

I desperately wish we had a FOGO bin.  

Unproductive morning then worked with my newfound method of doing a full config dump to automate a text backup of policies (there's full data backups but you can't easily pull out just the policy from that).  Cooked up some cheesy mince and salad for dinner.  Death in Paradise 12.2.

Tuesday.  Lights out was a little bit late, so then ended up too tired to go to sleep.  Restless for like an hour, then the storm kept me awake for another hour or so.  So, tired day.  Frustration with Powershell that's setup differently in dev and prod.  At least prod works.  Spent the afternoon on the quality script again - made some good progress with that. 

Took this rather spectacular photo of the sun behind one of the epic dandelions in the afternoon.  Had to turn the phone down so the camera was at the bottom, then point it up a the sun.  Could barely see the screen to see what I was doing cause it was so low down.

Leftovers for dinner then Death in Paradise 12.3, then Mum photo picking.

Wednesday.  Slept okish I think.  Made some good progress on the quality script, but again it was like one step forward two steps back as you find bugs.  Raced up at 16:30 to pickup the car (they even had a power outage for an hour in the afternoon!), then raced home. 

Beat the storm by just a couple of minutes.  

Hail!!!

As I was out the back watching the hail I realised I'd forgotten to water all the plants out the back that morning, and all my strawberries were all flop :(  And I couldn't even bring them under cover because it was HAILING.  At least they all got some water (and they mostly perked back up later but a lot of the fresh runners died :(:( ).  And the mini capsicum out the front which I *did* water that morning was also all flop :(  Stoopid 30+ degree hot and windy days.

After the storm I propped it up on the side of a bucket, and it did recover.

Death in Paradise 12.4.  Some of the murders are wayyy too unbelievable.  Like right in the middle of a wedding?  With the most preposterous setup for an alibi.  Dumb dumb dumb.

Thursday.  Got the quality script mostly working.  Still a few issues.  Drinks at Bar 59 again.  It was a lot more crowded this time!!

XL got sweet potato chips this week - they were amazingly crunchy.  The chef wouldn't tell me how he made them so totes amazeballs!

Got Dominos pizzas delivered (even though we had stuff to make our own).  Tried to get a vomit pizza but it was a big letdown oh well.  Death in Paradise 12.5.

Friday.  Debugging and fixing the quality script.  Even figured out why a part of it was running so slowly.  Turns out if you have a big array in memory, and make a copy of it with another name, even if you only do lookups on one of them, it's super slow.  I guess Powershell doesn't like having too much in memory at once.  Christmas movie season continued with Die Hard 3.  

Saturday.  18th.  22 years since the worst day of the Canberra bushfires (I wasn't living here yet, but I did mention it in my two week old blog).  A day of All The Things.  Mostly house stuff, hardly time for any fun. 

I really should take before and after photos of this crap

Another week, another 800mL lemon juice.  Jim is very kindly going to take this lot off my hands, as our freezer is very full of the stuff!!

Cooked up a heap of veggies for dinner, including a potato bake, to have with some leftover mince.

Death in Paradise 12.6, then Darkest Hour, which we'd both watched on our way home from New Zealand in 2018.  

Sunday.  Slightly late night due to tv *and* a movie, which meant I couldn't get to sleep because I was too tired and restless.  Another day of All The Things, altho did have a bit more time to do some hobbies.  No roast this week, oh well.

2024. Pretty standard year really. Busy busy busy!

Our big trip this year was to Tasmania. So no overseas travel, but does overstrait count? We spent a month there and had a great time. We could easily do the same route around the island and see all different things if were to go again, there's that much to see. I took five days off in January so I could get a nine day break, to make up for the shortened break at Christmas (which essentially only felt like a long weekend after the whole leadup/Christmas/post Christmas family stuff). In early February we went to Tumut with Tony/Frank/Karen for the TRBC Tumut River Tap Days. The day itself was hot but it was a lovely afternoon with beer and friends. I went down to Junee/Wagga for the Lego show in Wagga Wagga which was great and uncrowded, then stayed with David the night and caught up with Kellie's family. Sydney in May for a tour of WestConnex, the Ramses Gold of the Pharaohs exhibition, and Rachel and Hayden's wedding, with a couple of days playing tourist with Mum in the middle. In September we went up to Port Macquarie for Jeff's 80th birthday party. It was a lot of driving for just a day there, but Jeff had a wonderful time with most of his family there. Stu went up again in December for Potty's 50th. In October we flew up to Queensland for Ben and Sarah's wedding. It would have been nice to stay longer and have a proper catchup with Chay and also David, but Stu was too stressed with work to think about it.

My job continues to generally be "Sadie" - lots of decom work. A couple of bouts of being the Naughty Email Intervention Layer when Neil was on leave. On one of those I did a bunch of work in the test environment to make it match prod. We setup a new notifications db and decommissioned like half a dozen others. Looked at a proxy as a POC sorry POV. Not overly impressed. Cloud stuff just really is too.. nebulous.. troubleshooting and logging is invariably crap. The biggest project of the year was migrating a couple of thousand VMs to a new environment with a new version of the firewalling software. In advance of the move I spent two days deleting 10% of the rulebase so there'd be less rules to migrate. Then we had to maintain two environments while we spent a month migrating everything. But it generally went quite well, and we did the majority of it during business hours with no outages. Of course none of Daniel's scripts work in the new environment, so with a jump start from someone in security, and a lot of help from Nick, we managed to get a bunch of them working with some new powershell modules. I've learnt a lot about powershell, but I'm still really dumb so it's a struggle. Socially, there was a gin night while I was in Tassie, but was able to have leftovers when I got back. We won a trivia night in July, but luckily someone else volunteered to run the next one, which we were in no danger of winning in October. The social club had a 70th birthday "cocktail" night although it was primarily beer, wine and bubbles. A great night anyway. A couple of work Christmas parties, then my Christmas bbq at the lake in December for 58 people. About the 11th year in a row I've run it. Good times.

I've generally been pretty healthy this year. Other than being fat. Hit the fattest I've ever been in January, so went low carb and did lots of walking up Mt Rogers and managed to lose a few kilos quickly so I didn't have to lug them up mountains in Tasmania. Had the usual bouts of insomnia here and there. Did a sleep study in September. I have a bit of sleep apnea when I sleep on my back. No surprises there, I avoid sleeping on my back, except when I'm asleep and don't notice. Had a couple of sore throats in October, but if they were colds they only lasted a day or two. Got new glasses in November. Should NOT have gone to Specsavers. This time the optometrist was like "eh close enough" with the vision check so I never got that whole "oh wow I can see moment" when I first tried on the new glasses. Also one of the pairs I got was far too small and I can't get them to fit right, so wearing the "spare" glasses that don't have the anti-reflective coating on them.

We've had a relatively quiet year with friends. Stu has simply been so stressed out by work that doing any sort of socialising is too much for him to bear a lot of the time. David came up in January to look at the oven. Met up with him and Shane and Jess for dinner in October, and he came for dinner later in October. Stayed with Mum a couple of days in May and we played tourist which was kinda cool. Kit came to visit with Oreo in February and May, and by herself in June. Had multiple visits to Herbert's with Tony/Frank/Karen as well as with the Chrises and Neil. Had Tony and Jo over for dinner in April. Had cocktails at Molly/Hippo and dinner at Molly/Bar Rochford/Akiba with Luc in April, August and October (busy year for him in Canberra! Here three times!). Picked up the sweetie a few times after drinks with Dennis. Had drinks/dinner with Ding at the Lighty in April. Went over to Nick and Tab's for dinner in May. Met up with Luc and Cynthia in Sydney for dinner in May. Had Fred's 50th at Herbert's in June. Went over to Chris and Geoff's for raclette in September. Had a Rocky Horror night at Rob and Fiona's which was a lot of fun. We caught up with Chay, Daemon and Augie in October, the first time we'd seen them since 2016! James/George/Josh/Rachel took me to afternoon tea in December on their way to Melbourne.

We went out to the club five times all up. See aforementioned notes above about Stu being stressed by work. We went out for a Remembrance dinner near Anzac Day in April. Ian and Chris's anniversary formal night in June. There was a working been in July. I did Christmas in July for like the tenth year in a row (except for 2020, stoopid covid). And Rob and Fiona's Christmas party in November.

Had another busy year of photo processing. I got my Turkey 2014 trip photos culled, labelled and blogged in time for the ten year anniversary of our departure in May. I started processing David's America 2023 photos, but didn't get very far through it because I had too many other projects I was working on. Got Tasmania photos online in time for the six month anniversary of that trip. I got our Queensland 2014 trip photos culled and labelled, but couldn't get them online on the tenth anniversary because Vodien broke my database. So they were a month late. I've also been doing a lot of filing/organising of general Canberra photos, Stu's family photos (pulled out 600 photos of Immy cause she hardly has any of her as a little kid), and pulling photos in case of having to need them for Mum's funeral one day (easier to get that done now rather than being in a hurry if things happened suddenly).

No big changes with the fish. The upstairs two foot has countless guppies, and I'm having to weed all the java fern out of it regularly. The four foot has a loach, three male guppies and two female guppies, and 11 congo tetras (I think). I still have Chrissie's two clown loaches - I've had them for nearly seven years now. The "angel" tank has maybe ten or so guppies in it. The downstairs two foot has a big sucking catfish and two female guppies. I've been meaning to give them a boyfriend for a while now... In January the filter clogged up the outlet on the "angel" tank and water backed up and leaked over the back, which was super annoying and made a big mess. In October the stone I had weighing down the filter wool to stop a repeat of January drifted over the well with the wool and got stuck in the outlet. Water backed up and leaked over the back, which was super annoying and made a big mess. Stumpy's UVB light died in December, but two pet stores and the reptile store at Gold Creek don't have them. Waiting for Gold Creek to get more stock.

I had a big Lego year this year. I've spent ages on Vic's Lego all year. I finished inventorying loose pieces so I knew what was left, then used that to pick parts for some more sets that looked somewhat completable. I then wishlisted all the missing pieces (a couple of thousand of them! eep!) and noted the average price for them (to compare seller prices). I bought a big batch off a dude in South Australia and it's taken weeks to mark everything off and file them into sets. I did build a few of the smaller sets that are complete, but was hoping to do a lot more over the break that I just didn't get the time for. I made a 31x31 mosaic of a QR code that will take you to my blog. I borrowed Jo's (originally Riley's) Winter Holiday Train (10254) and bought some missing pieces to complete it. Of my own I did Scaled-Up Lego Minifigure (40649), Minifigure (3723), Moving Truck (40586) and Notre-Dame de Paris (21061). All a lot of fun.

Jigsaws continue whenever I have time. Which is not often at home. I still haven't assembled the Disney jigsaw as I don't have anywhere I can do it.

I pulled out my Spirograph in January and had a bit of fun with it. Also had a play with my Rubik's Rings puzzles (never could solve those things). I'm still playing the clarinet. I'm still not very good at it. Spent the year working through a Crystal Creations koala. While it was all actually pretty good quality, the colours they provided were all off, so it looks dumb. I got some Diamond Dotz ones for Christmas and have done one and started on a bigger one.

It's been a warm year. Had our usual share of storms, rainbows and even some hail. It snowed out at the club in July which was pretty awesome. The humidity in January and December wasn't fun.

Windows 11 continues to piss me off with its trash - like files opening on a completely different desktop to the one you're on, even if the app is open on your current desktop; notepad search sucking donkey balls and just dumping you at random places in the file when you close the search box (but keeping unsaved files open over reboots is nice, although only at home, not at work); refusing to shut down when I tell it to; refusing to eject hard drives some times. But at the beginning of the year we found it will FINALLY let you ungroup taskbar items. Google may be improving the security of the internet by FORCING https, even without consent, but it did break my blog because Chrome refused to load the http css/js content on a https page. Vodien broke my blog/database in June - from broken CageFS file system errors and script errors, to broken cpanel passwords, to a mysql database reverted to October last year, to a completely broken website. Took weeks of yelling for them to fix it. Then in August they broke my database AGAIN, by reverting the database to the same point in October last year. Took weeks of yelling and pleading to finally get a complete export of my database taken after my last blog entry but before they broke it. I took that database and moved to CloudLoop, who have been amazing. I used the opportunity to do a massive cleanup of all my blogs. I fixed up all the things I'd been meaning to fix up for years, got my holiday blogs to a consistent design, got everything working in https, and cleared 14000 image assets so my blog entries publish in seconds instead of minutes. We bought a new printer in October (an Oki) because the old Brother one had a fault with the fuser and was smudging all the prints. Such a waste. Why is everything so crap these days? We bought a new lawn mower in November because the starter rip cord ripped right off on the old one. Stu has used it once. I've used it three times. In December I coded up some Perl to pull weather data from BOM's API and put a little widget on my blog to show the current weather. I dispute their "feels like" temperatures though!

Around the house. A second element died in our POS DeLonghi oven on New Years Day. After not being able to get a replacement for the previous dead element, we decided to piss it off and get a new oven. The old one was only four years old. Such a waste. Why is everything so crap these days? David came up in January to do the diagnosis on the old one, and did the installation on the new one. So nice to have a qualified electrician in the family! Although funnily enough the new one has a standard plug and doesn't need to be wired directly in, but it did need a new power point. I grew two mini capsicum plants out the front (the ones out the back got eaten by snails in like one night). They're stoopidly slow growing (not helped by completely infertile soil out the front and very little water) so only a few ripened by June before the frost finally got to them. The fridge made a loud clunk in April when it was turning off which sounded ominous. Sure enough the next time it ran it was a lot noisier. But it's still running, loudly, so there's that I guess. I dread having to buy a new one. This one is at least twenty years old. Anything new won't last anywhere near that long. Our Solar Edge solar system for reasons unknown didn't charge the battery at all for three days in April (it was sunny!). Our lemon tree totally went off this year. By June it was completely laden. In August I started juicing lemons that had fallen off. In November a branch with 112 lemons on it broke off. I've given away dozens of lemons and litres of juice, and made multiple lemon cheesecakes and lemon pepper chicken, and there's litres of juice in the freezer. I drink about an ice cube a day. But more lemons keep falling. All. The. Lemons. We had various problems with ancient electronic timers. Either turning on and just not turning off, or losing time. About three have had issues this year. The turdburger crimson rosellas came back again this year to eat the house. The gas heater died in August - nothing on the control panel. Fortunately a complete reboot of the whole heater at the power point fixed it. First poppy of the season flowered on 1 September. There's still one or two left. We had more purple poppies and epic dandelions. In September I planted out a stick of geranium that had been lying on the ground since January!! How is that even possible that it's still alive?? We had a scheduled power outage in October. The Solar Edge solar system dutifully kicked in and kept all the fish tanks running all day, but it didn't charge the battery. That's not what we were sold on. Annoyed. Got lots of strawberries in November/December. Although I didn't get to eat half of them - the currawongs kept stealing them. They didn't find the ones in the pool though, and neither did the snails so that was a win. In December I heard dripping in the washing machine after it was finished/emptied. Seems the thing is leaking. The first time I let it go and it leaked a *lot* into the drum over a few days. And then one day I found water all over the laundry floor. So it's leaking in two places. So now we turn the water off when we've finished washing. I dread having to buy a new one. This one is at least twenty years old. Anything new won't last anywhere near that long. Redid the silicone sealant on the shower in December - further up the wall this time. Our ExtendaLine that David installed in 2020 had another line break in December. Now I can't fully extend the thing which is super annoying.

Did a reasonable amount of eating out this year. Kinn Thai in Civic is a favourite, we went there in February, April and December. Chong Co is another favourite, with delivery in April, August, October. Same with Dumpling Inn in February, July, September and November (twice). Many visits to Herbert's with Tony/Jo/Frank/Karen/Chrises/Neil etc, including tap takeovers by TRBC (farewell tour) and Hopsters Cooperative Brewery. But they gave me grief over ordering from the kids menu the last time, so I lost it, and very likely will never go back. Dumb business decision will (and in fact already has) cost them. Dinners before/after ANU events with Tony at Badger&Co, 10 Yards, Terra. Some new lunch places with Neil at BZ Burgers, Uyghur Cuisine and No. 10, a few team lunches at Ikko (twice), Ramen-O and Vanilla Pod. Molly, Bar Rochford and Akiba with Luc the three times he was in town. Went to the Burns Club in Holt with the Chrises in January, and at Kambah with David and Kellie and some of David's friends during the Airport Open Day. Kimchi in Dickson with David/Shane/Jess and a colleague of David's in October. Cypher for Wello's birthday in October. Raku with Annie and Stu in May. Had Grease Monkey from their food truck at the Belco markets in May. Pattysmiths in January and June. Pizza at TRBC in Kingston in July, which turned out to be the one and only time I'd ever get there. Pappa Rich before Twisters in August. Returned to the Aussie Crepe House (previously Crepe Cafe) in October for the first time in a few years to avoid the mall food court during school holidays. Beess & Co in September and Gang Gang in November. Four Winds with Tony in November, repeat of the previous year. Yat Bun Tong and Kinh Do delivery/takeaways in May/July.

As usual I somehow ended up doing a whole lot of cooking this year. Staples included Sunday night roasts, Thursday night pizza (mostly made at home) and often Brown-Food-Fridays with chicken Kievs. Did slow cooker lamb in January which was amazing. Lemon dill chicken in January, then again in December with my own dill. Cheese mince and cheesy taco casserole in January (keto ftw!). Tried a carbonara from AntiChef in February but it didn't really work with alternative pasta. Might try it again some time though. Barramundi bake in March, although not as good as basa, and a few tuna bakes. Luv-a-duck cheats Peking duck a couple of times - pretty awesome each time. Did three Mexican things from Nagi Maehashi's Dinner book in May - slow cooker Mexican shredded beef, taco slaw, Mexican red rice which were all excellent, and beef ribs from her website in June, which would need a bit of tweaking to do again. Osso bucu on August. Lemon pepper chicken a couple of times in November. French onion soup in December. Also made Not Quite Nigella's peppermint slice a couple of times, and lemon cheesecake a few times.

Theatre/Shows/Exhibitions/Tours
* Canberra Airport Open Day in April. In the rain. But nice in the afternoon.
* Journey of Australian Science series at the Shine Dome
* Lego show in Wagga Wagga in April
* Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs in Sydney in May. Too many people and not enough room and no flow made it super stressful for me
* Ralph Heimans exhibition at the portrait gallery in May
* Questacon to see the Ryan "Brickman" McNaught Lego exhibition. During school holidays. Not recommended.
* Beethoven's 9th in August
* Questacon again on my birthday in August. Much quieter and more civilised.
* Dark Matter in the Pub in August
* Mint in September (and back again a week later to swap out the earrings I bought)
* Scrivener Dam tour in October

Movies (at the movies)
* Twisters

Movies (TV)
There may have been more that I forgot to blog about or forgot to add to this list
* The Queen
* Mona Lisa Smile
* Mash
* The Sound of Music
* Fantasia 2000
* The Shape of Water
* The Good Son
* Parasite
* Barbie
* A Night To Remember
* Iron Man 1/2/3
* Miss Potter
* Twister
* 9 to 5
* The Door Into Summer
* Mean Girls
* TRON / Tron: Legacy
* Freaky Friday (2018)
* South Solitary
* Wonka (2023)
* Grave of the Fireflies
* Inside Out 2
* Golden Kamuy
* Salt
* My Old Ass
* John Wick
* Die Hard / Die Hard 2
* Love Actually
* The Santa Clause / The Santa Clause 2

TV
We were getting into a good routine of Death in Paradise on Thursdays, The Orville on Friday or Saturdays, The Crown on Sundays, as well as Mash, The Simpsons and Futurama over dinner. Then they all finished and we haven't been watching as much together. There's a few things I want to watch so hopefully will get into a routine again in the new year.
* Death in Paradise - from mid season 7 to mid season 11
* The Orville from mid season 2 til the end
* Mash from mid season 2 til the end. Fun seeing various people pop up that became famous later - like Mr Miyagi, Larry Wilcox, James Cromwell, GW Bailey, Patrick Swayze, David Graf, "Larry" Fishburne
* Sex Education from mid season 4 til the end
* The Crown from mid season 6 til the end. Although there's 20 years of the Queen's life left so they may make another series.
* Some Big Bang Theory on tv in Tassie
* Shogun all of season 1
* Laid Back Camp season 3
* Start of The Apothecary Diaries. It didn't really grab me (maybe it would have gotten better) so Stu watched it by himself.
* Lego Masters Australia vs The World
* First three seasons of the American Lego Masters, and a Christmas special
* Documentaries - Brats, Pretty Baby, The Movies that Made Us (on Friday the 13th), Feminists: What were they thinking?
* Start of Girl Band Cry. Another one that really didn't grab me.
* Amazing Race season 8 (another celebrity edition)
* Black Mirror - all of it
* The Simpsons - some of season 36
* Futurama - whatever this year's season is

Weddings
* Rachel and Hayden
* Ben and Sarah

Other stuff
* late night on NYE watching the fireworks
* went out to Cotter Dam on New Years Day because it was spilling. It was quite crowded out there. Walked all the way up to the viewing spot.
* took a *lot* of photos of flowers. And food.
* remembered the January 1994 bushfires thirty years ago
* went shopping for jeans in January. Failed. Did get a bra though.
* bought some jeans at Vinnies of all places in January
* also managed to get some "skinny" jeans in January at Kmart because that's all that was left in the store. Hate.
* impressed with a Seiko battery from 1998 that was still working, and has been powering a thermometer all year
* got my first Charlie coin in April
* got grunty at Access Canberra because MyWay cards can expire and they expect you to fork out $5 for a new one (no credit on new cards) so they can transfer the balance. Decided to ignore the problem until the new MyWay+ system came along in December, and Stu could transfer his balance.
* saw a kangaroo in our driveway in May (sounded like it smacked into the fence) but it disappeared before I got outside
* ABC Classic 100 "Feel Good" in June
* had my nails "professionally" done in June
* watched the Olympics opening ceremony but nothing else
* had a play with ChatGPT. It's trash. Asked it to write a trivia night round on current events. Most of the questions couldn't actually be answered because they were wrong.
* saddened to hear that TRBC was closing down in September
* found some five leaf clovers in September
* wandered round Yarralumla in September and saw the old brick works
* saw Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in October. Well, my phone did, I didn't
* found a two leaf clover in October
* visited the Lake Ginninderra spillway and wetlands in November
* encouraged the epic dandelions around the place
* watched lots of Jamie and Julia
* booked another holiday next year with the mother type person
* did the Plonk beer advent calendar
* got a random Blue Screen of Death in December
* got to level 15000 in Candy Crush just before the end of the year
* saw a rat among the daisies under the lemon tree

My biggest stress this year is simply a lack of TIME. I desperately want to retire so I can actually slow down and enjoy life and just do my hobbies and have a quiet life. Even over the Christmas break I spent too much time trying to get All The Things done, and not nearly enough time on my hobbies. Didn't really feel relaxing at all. I have heaps of photo projects I want to work on next year as well. And I'm desperate to get Vic's Lego out of the house, but so little of it is complete. Deep breaths. It'll all be ok in the end.

Happy New Year to everyone, I'll try and have one too!

This was one Duncan found at a garage sale or something, but originally from the National Gallery.  It was actually factory sealed so I was pretty grunty that once again they managed to lose pieces from it.

However, the quality was so shocking that it's entirely possible the pieces were never there.  Basically the pieces are *almost* identical in shape, which means they'd fit on three sides and *still* be wrong.  The bits where there was colour it wasn't so bad, but the black bit in the corner couldn't be finished without redoing the twenty-odd pieces over and over again until the right combination could be found.  I said screw that, and shoved them in any old way for the photo.

Given it was from the National Gallery it was probably expensive, I'd have been pissed if I'd bought this new.

Not sure where this one came from.  May have been the common area.  I recognise the mountains on the far side from our cruise up and down Lake Como in 2022, but haven't gotten around to finding out where this was taken.  Edit: It was taken in Bellagio - Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 24 looking down Salita Serbelloni.

This was a Ravensburger 1500 piece jigsaw I picked up at the Green Shed, so it was impressive that it was complete.  The problem is all that blue.  I did this downstairs and was able to get everything else done last summer.  But it sat untouched over winter because it was just too damned hard.  In spring I decided it really needed doing by the end of the year and if I did five pieces a day it'd get done.  Did that for a while and eventually was able to get going on it a bit faster and finished it late November.

I can't remember where this one came from.  I'm pretty sure it got started when David was living here though, or maybe during a visit.  It's trash though - the pieces are almost identical and fit when they're wrong.  Life is too short for trashy jigsaws so I didn't even get back into it, just laid it out for a photo and packed it all up.  This was by Holdson / Ambassador if you're looking for brands to avoid.

This was a nice 500 piece jigsaw from the Green Shed that said "complete".  Yeah not anymore it's not.  This is why you store your puzzles in baggies people, to stop handfuls of pieces at a time being lost all over the Green Shed floor..

This one of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne was another Holdson/Ambassador jigsaw from the same series as the trash "Autumn Scene, Victoria" one above.  I was all set to put this one away again untouched if the cut had been the same.  But it was a better cut.  Not perfect and pieces would still fit even when wrong, but it wasn't too bad in the end, and even more impressive that it was complete, given it was another Green Shed jigsaw.

And this one of Asakusa and the Sky Tree in Tokyo we borrowed from the common area.

Sunday.  1st.  Summer!! Final countdown to Christmas!!  Christmas music on the clarinet!!

:)

Also, Tony and Karen&Frank and I are doing the Plonk beer advent calendar again this year!

Roasted up some veggies and had it with leftover turkey from the club night.

Black Museum on Black Mirror.

Oh did I mention I picked up my new glasses last week?  The vision in them is *ok*.. I mean it's a bit better than it was.. but I certainly did get that whole "oh wow I can see" feeling from them.  Sigh.  Should NOT have gone to Specsavers. Also the ones with the anti-reflective coating are too tight and keep sliding down my nose and they're driving me NUTS.

Monday.  Slept fairly well.  Busy time before work just trying to catch up with life.

My washing dried in about five minutes outside.

Did some work on some decom tickets, and was able to use my new scripts to do the hard work for me, which was super exciting.  A few copy/pastes and it's done.. whereas to do it manually would be like twenty or way way more clicks per group.  Late finish.  Had a brief break before dinner and looking at holiday stuff after dinner and suddently it's nearly 20:00.  Sigh.  Labelled pics from our recent Queensland trip.  At one point it smelt like aviation fuel coming through the cooler.  Maybe that Virgin plane on its way to Adelaide that just flew over was leaking fuel.. hrmm.  Striking Vipers on Black Mirror.  

Tuesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Another busy morning trying to keep up with life.  More decom work at work, and did up another script.  Cooked more veggies for dinner and finished off the lamb from last week.

Started into the 2024 season of Futurama, whatever they're up to now.  Mum photo picking then Smithereens on Black Mirror with Moriarty heh.  An episode with "present day" technology for the most part, but gripping.

Wednesday.  Restless, took a while to get to sleep, but still woke up early.  Busy day.  Got some bulk deleting scripts working to save me even more time on decoms.

Went back to Specsavers to try and get my glasses adjusted.  They pinched the nose piece a lot closer together, so now they don't slide down my nose - they just stick out way too far and hurt.  Sigh.

Have I ever mentioned how TRASH Windoze 11 is?  Today I opened a text file.  It opened in notepad on my main desktop no issues.  Five minutes later I opened the text file again.  This time it decided to open ON MY OTHER DESKTOP!!! WHICH I HAVEN'T EVEN USED TODAY!!!  What the actual F MICROSOFT?? 

Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too on Black Mirror.  Miley Cyrus as herself much?  I found the house they filmed in on Google maps.  It's actually a place you can rent for like $8000/night.  And it's surrounded by a lot of electric fences.  

And that was the end of that for Black Mirror.  I've finished watching all the episodes so far.  I could easily rewatch them all (if the sweetie ever wanted to watch them).  I found the show fascinating for the most part.  Although it's usually very dark and often twisted.  

Thursday.  Slept okish. 

I have a jungle in the back yard

Had to take the bus to work (the sweetie came out at one point a complete zombie from a few nights in a row of not sleeping on account of being so stressed out by work).  Got to try out the MyWay+ app QR code.  Which you have to hold low enough for it to read it.  And currently you're not meant to tap off until they can work out bugs.  Half the people got free rides.  Kids just didn't even bother trying, they just walked on.  They're doing road works near one stop, which meant the GPS wouldn't activate because the bus wasn't close enough, so everyone there got a free ride.  Other people weren't scanning things the right way or tapping properly, so some of those just went meh and ignored it and got a free ride.  And there's still no real time location tracking of buses.  Lame.

Busy day.  Ok drinks.  Pizza/ice cream/Death in Paradise 10.6.

We had some slippage...

Friday.  Restless sleep - too hot and humid.  Awake from maybe 4.  Another decom day and more looking at scripts.  Made a lemon cheesecake after work.  Leftovers for dinner (too stinking hot and humid to run the oven for kievs).  Christmas movie season started with Die Hard.  I've learn almost all the words in German to sing along at the end :)

Saturday.  Slept somewhat ok.  Did I mention all the rain and storms this week?  Busy house day doing All The Things.  Went out for a bit of food shopping and errands.  Apparently Knead's sourdoughs mostly failed because it was so humid they wouldn't rise.  Tried two places to get a replacement light for Stumpy's tank which started flashing on Friday.  Failed.

Twin buses...

Pork/parmesan/truffle sausages for dinner and cheesecake!

Death in Paradise 10.7.

Sunday.  Took forever to get to sleep - hot/restless/itchy.  Did I mention the humidity?  Everything is damp.  Not looking forward to this being the new normal for Canberra with global warming.  At least today was a lot less humid.  The cooler was actually useful as a cooler and not just a humidifier.  Went out to the Reptile Zoo at Gold Creek after lunch to try and get a UV light for Stumpy's tank.  I actually even called them before we went to see if they had one.  They said they should.  They didn't.  They had a 5% one in 48", but she reckons blue-tongues probably need like the 12% ones.  Which of course they didn't have.  They barely had any four foot lights at all.  There's all sorts of random sizes nowadays, like 46" wtf?? 

If/when Stumpy carks it, we'd be very tempted to get a bearded dragon.. they're so awesome!

Made some French onion soup, although probably made it too liquidy.  Might be an epic disaster.  Also blogged Notre-Dame in Lego.  Been meaning to for a while, but they just reopened it this weekend, so thought it would be a good time.

Sunday.  24th.  Had a very nice butterfly lamb roast which turned out really well and it wasn't too gristly.  There was even a crackling of sorts, which may have turned out better if I hadn't put a lid on the baking dish!

Finished watching the Lego Masters Christmas special from the American series.  For some reason channel 9 didn't put any ads through it.  Go figure!

Monday.  Slept mostly ok but woke up early.  Busy hour before work trying to catch up with life.  Frustrating day getting nowhere with my script cause I'm dumb.  Leftovers for dinner and blogging.  Watched Crocodile on Black Mirror - distracted by the scenery in Iceland!

Tuesday.  Slept mostly ok.  More frustration with my script.  Had some time off it and went to figure out some other stuff which was cool.  Gave up trying to work out the bug with my script and ran it over prod anyway.. where the server promptly said piss off and disconnected the script.  Sigh.  Leftovers for dinner.  Mum photo picking then Hang the DJ on Black Mirror which was kinda sweet.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Oh the humidity!!!  But hardly any rain - ripped off!!  Someone decided that we could save a fortune in electricity during the energy crisis in the extreme heat wave by mandating that we close all the blinds and turn off monitors not in use.  Property peeps didn't even say excuse me as they pushed past me to get at the blind handle.  Never mind that these blinds are flimsy AF and closing them would make very little difference, or the fact that it was 21.5C outside when they did it.  Then they turned off the aircon.  

Yeah it was a pretty miserable afternoon.

Had some success with my script though - managed to get it to hobble along and generate a nice report for me which was pretty cool.  No progress on the powershell module though.  Leftovers for dinner then Metalhead on Black Mirror.

Thursday.  Slept mostly ok. 

Tiniest poppy ever??

Wanted to get a few things done in the morning but derailed by people wanting stuff.  Work Christmas party in the afternoon which was pretty chilled. 

Photobomb!!

Ate way too much.  They wouldn't give me extra crackling as I went through (even though we were right at the back of the queue and there was heaps of crackling left).

But after the speeches when serving was all done, I grabbed a little bit more.  And then XL grabbed us a bunch more as well.  I may have eaten way too much.  Whoops.  Didn't have anything at all for dinner.  

Friday.  Took a while to get to sleep but then slept mostly ok.

Had a catchup morning - dealing with several weeks worth of mail.  Had a bit of fun in the afternoon redoing our links portal.  Made the sweetie pizza for dinner since he missed out last night.

Treehouse of Horror XXXV then John Wick.  With a phone call from the mother type person in the middle.

Saturday.  Slept ok I think.  

Some house stuff in the morning.  After lunch we headed out to the club.  Helped out with dinner prep and with serving.  It was a feast of epic proportions!  It was a pretty good night, with over 70 people there!!  Might have accidentally stayed up til nearly 2am.  !!!!!

It might have rained A LOT over Canberra which was pretty awesome.  The Christmas tree .. and all of us.. got a little.. moist .. ! ;)

Who's gonna make the gravy..?   Me!!  I've never made this much gravy before!  A whole packet!

Sunday.  Woke up around 5:30 and 6 briefly but slept through til 6:25.  Got ready and headed up a bit after 7 only to find most of the cleanup had already been done.  But I did spend ages doing a heap of washing up.  People took some of the food and I brought home what was left.  Tammy also found this little tortoise!  She had to run though so didn't have time to wait for it to come out fully.

Quiet day at home.  Tired after only four hours sleep funnily enough!!!

Sunday.  10th.  Roast pork for dinner.  Crackling was awesome, pork was pretty decent. 

We started back into The Simpsons again now that we've finished Mash.  The Waldo Moment on Black Mirror.  Reminded me a bit of the end of season 4 of Rake.

Monday.  11th.  Lest we forget.  Slept mostly ok.  Talked to vendor about their stuffup and what they were doing to fix it.  Started to have a think about how to fix the stuff myself.  Certainly a good exercise in learning scripting and the environment.  Cooked lemon pepper chicken for dinner.  It was very lemony.  And very peppery.  Yumm!

White Christmas on Black Mirror.  Wow.. that is literally the definition of Hell (at least one interpretation of it).

Tuesday.  Slept mostly ok although woke up very early.  Frustrating day fighting with Powershell.  I'm too dumb for this crap.  Lunch with Tony at Four Winds (he had wine to pick up and had pizza vouchers, so like, same time as last year).  No lizards with a death wish today though.

Sparkling rose (very nice!), riesling, chardonnay, shiraz rose

With Potato and Gorgonzola pizza (my favourite) - olive oil base, potato, white onion, gorgonzola, rosemary and cheese.

Unfortunately I was still feeling grumpy from the weekend, so wasn't in the best of moods :(  Life is too damned hard.  Leftovers for dinner and Mum photo picking.  Nosedive on Black Mirror.  Man some of these stories aren't far off being reality in the not too distant future.  Still depressed.  I just want to be a hermit.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok, although woke up very early.  Tantalisingly close to getting my script working.  Except I keep coming up against road blocks.  Like nested json files talking to apis.  hrmm.  Optometrist at lunch.  In and out in under an hour.  The optometrist I had though was very "eh, close enough".  Usually they spend ages going "is this one clearer or this one?".  This dude was like, eh, that'll do.  Should not have gone to Specavers?  Still, definitely could see better.  Then actually spent more time with the assitants choosing frames and them doing levels, which I've never actually had done before.  But OMFG the dude had HAGRID sized hands!!   They were enormous!!  I couldn't stop looking at them.  So with a buy one get one free offer and health insurance, I ended up getting two pairs of general glasses for $78.  WTF?  Home, dinner, backups, hair, bed.

Thursday.  Slept mostly ok.  Here I was thinking I'd actually get a strawberry.  It was not quite ripe in the morning so set an alert on my phone to get it in the evening before the snails got to it.  It was gone by the time I got home.  Sigh.

I did pick a different not-quite-ripe strawberry in the evening.  The only one I've managed to get so far.

Not sure what to do with this self-seeded geranium.  It's in a dumb spot but it's kinda pretty.  So dunno if I should rip it out or just move it somewhere..

Another road block with my scripting.  Asked Nick for help but he's like, hey I got this other thing working.. so I started all over again with that.  Except literally noone has every put this stuff on the internet.  You put in exact commands and get like two pages in Google which are the vendor pages.  Sigh.  Busy drinks which was good.  Pizzas for dinner.  Nearly forgot to get photos.  Gone one of mine (I only ate half)

Playtest on Black Mirror.  Far out I wish they'd keep the camera still.  

Friday.  Slept mostly ok.  Frustrating day with powershell.  I too dumb.  The sweetie got Dumpling Inn comfort food for dinner.  He'd had a crap week.  Death in Paradise 10.4.  Shut Up and Dance on Black Mirror.

Tiniest poppy ever.. just a few centimetres high!!

Saturday.  Slept mostly ok (although took ages to get to sleep).  Trying to do All The Things.  Got some of it done.  Leftover pork and veggies for dinner.  The sweetie put My Old Ass, a Canadian movie.  No idea why haha.  It was a bit silly but also kinda sweet.

Sunday.  Slept mostly ok.  Bits and pieces in the morning.  Went out the back to get the watering can and noticed a couple of strawberries ripe enough to pick.  Cool.  Went out the front to plant some mini capsicums (yeah yeah shoulda been planted weeks ago).  Returned the watering can out the back.  And saw two currawongs looking at me.  And the strawberries were gone.  The turdburger currawongs are the bastards eating my strawberries!!  Pissed off.  Storm came through so turned everything off.  Was just about to start on my Sunday evening routine when the mother type person called, so that took half an hour out of things so was a bit of a stretch to get everything done.  Just made it.. dinner time!!

Sunday.  3rd. 

We got another rump cap beef roast to cook.  I didn't realise how expensive it was - 1.8kg was like $50!!  eeep!!  This one wasn't as epic awesome as the last time we got one.  It was cooked nicely to medium rare but it was a lot tougher than last time. 

Watched The Entire History of You on Black Mirror. 

Speaking of Black Mirror.  The other night's episode Fifteen Million Merits had a scene in it where the dude literally couldn't even close his eyes to block out ads.  This is disturbingly close to being a thing in real life.  The only time I ever have to sit through ads on my phone is when I'm playing Candy Crush.  Yeah, still playing it.  But only when I have the spare 45-50 minutes to play an entire episode of 15 levels.  And I only do that so I can "win" the round against other people and get the 40 gold (it used to be 45).  Point is, when you don't finish in the requisite moves you can watch ads to get more moves and a bonus.  I don't watch the ads.  I literally just lay the phone down and count down the number of seconds until it's due to be finished.  Most of the time I have no idea what the ad is even for.  The point is, apparently Apple are thinking about monitoring eye contact during ads.  This could either be a good thing - they'll see that I'm not watching the ads and so not bother to give me such long ones, or they'll figure out a way to force you to watch them.  At that point I'll quit once and for all.

Monday.  Awake for an hour or two in the middle of the night.  Hurray.  Meh day.  Cooked lemon pepper chicken for dinner.  With maybe like 0.3% of the lemon juice I have in the house.  I think I'd keep the veggies separate next time.

Did some catchup blogging in the evening.  Watched Be Right Back on Black Mirror.  I reckon some of that sort of thing is really not that far off (apparently in the decade since the episode has aired there's been a few apps out there that have tried).

Tuesday.  Remember remember the 5th of November.  I always do cause it's the day I started at my current job.  17 years ago.  Eep!  Meanwhile, Neil has been there 49 years.   !!!!!!  Did some futzing around with powershell scripts.  Even managed to get something to work in our new environment which was pretty exciting.  Leftover beef with salad for dinner, photo picking and White Bear on Black Mirror.  

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Frustrating day with scripting at work - not nearly as successful as yesterday.  Late home, late dinner, then sorting files, backing up computer, washed hair, bed.

Twenty or so years ago when I was still living in Sydney there were the first mumblings of a plastic bag ban.  As such I started keeping all my plastic bags so that I would be able to have bin liners for years to come.  Then I moved to Canberra (brought all those bags with me!) and continued until we got supermarket green bags.  Even using those we still managed to accumulate plastic bags, except they were thicker (hurray!).  Except now our supply is dwindling.  We still only put out a bag or so of rubbish a week, but they're not being replenished.  I've got very few bags left now.  This was a bag from Sydney from 17-20 years ago.

The lake is very very low at the moment.

Thursday.  Oh the humidity!!  Juiced twenty lemons for Jim - like 1.8 litres worth!! 

Clouds were a little ominous.  Barely any rain though :(

Had some success with scripting which was cool.  Drinks, pizza, Death in Paradise 10.3.

Friday.  Slept mostly ok.  Went to the doctor late morning.  Had a list of 11 things to talk about (booked a long appointment).  Getting old sux donkey balls.  Just saying.  Decided to drop into Herbert's to have the very last of the TRBC beers (the blood orange sour).  Messaged Tony to see if he'd want to join me, so he did.  Even ran into Fred and family who'd come for lunch which was pretty funny.  Had some tenderloins with mustard sauce which were quite nice, but quite small for $21 and did end up hungry later.

Stu also bought a new toy...

Only cause our old one, which we've been using for like fifteen years since Grant sold it to us, died when the rip cord.. ripped off.. hmmmm.  Frustration with scripting at work.  Mostly cause I'm dumb.  But in the end cause the API I'm working with is crap and to do what I need to do I'd need to make like 3000 api calls.  Hurray.  Think I'll wait to see if powercli updates will be any good.  Kievs and veggies for dinner.  

Then watched Goodbye, Farewell and Amen on Mash.  The only thing I remembered from it was the chicken, so was watching the whole first half in light of that.  It was a pretty good ending to a tv series.  Apparently still the most watched episode of a TV series airing, like, ever.  Even after forty years.  I have all the DVDs from Dad, but I guess I'll probably never watch them now.

Saturday.  Slept mostly ok.  Got some stuff done, but not nearly enough.  

My first strawberry of the season.  Photo taken in the morning.  I was going to go back in the afternoon and pick it.  I forgot.  By the next day it was GONE.

Stu tried out our new toy.  It's a lot quieter than the petrol one!  And a lot easier to start.  I always hated mowing the lawn as a teenager.  Our yard was huge and we had a heavy clunky lawnmower that always managed to hit me in the face with twigs even with the catcher on.  So I probably haven't mowed any lawn in thirty five years.  I might take it up again though!!

Pretty flowers on the walk to Herbert's

In the evening was a tap takeover at Herbert's.  I was half not wanting to go (would probably end up drinking too much and spending too much).  But went along anyway with Tony, Frank and Karen (J was busy).  The takeover was from Hopsters Co-operative Brewery.  Shared some nachos with Tony to start with and had a couple of beers.

Mitch the "only paid employee" came and sat with us for a bit which was pretty cool, and he told us about the brewery.  It's actually a democratic co-operative and they choose the best beers from their user's home brewed productions and brew them up at scale.  Very cool.

The gang!

After that I went to get more food and that's where the wheels fell off.  I asked for the "kids gems" ($9).  And Dino was like.. oh, we try to save those for the kids.. So I looked around and I'm like, there's literally no kids here.. and he's like, oh it's cause people "take the piss" and order a kids meal between four people.. and so I'm like, well don't worry about it then (I was literally ready to just not order anything at all), but he said he'd give them to me "just this once" (never mind the time I had them at the TRBC night a few weeks back).  Anyway so I sat down again and pretty much just lost it.  Like, I could have ordered a bowl of chips for $5 or a bowl of gems for $9.  I love gems.  I'd much prefer to have gems than chips.  HOW IS THAT A PROBLEM????  I could barely finish the beer I had (and missed out on trying the last one).  I couldn't even face the gems.  Forced myself to eat a few of them.  Tony had the rest.  And then I went home.  Sigh.

Sunday.  Slept mostly okish, except for hurty for a while in the middle.  Still upset/depressed about last night.  The whole drama, combined with a massive increase in food costs (their pea and ham croquettes were $16 the last time they had them in 2022, now they're $20; and the tenderloins I had yesterday were incredibly expensive for their size (for $5 more I could have had a burger and chips and like four or five times the amount of food)) means I probably won't be going back to Herbert's any time soon.  So didn't achieve much all day.  Did some food shopping.  Did a nice roast pork for dinner.  Fat spatter all over the oven though.. eep!

I'm just so over it all at the moment.  I'm almost at the point of giving up on everything.  If I didn't feel the need to travel I could retire now and just stay at home and do my hobbies and never go out and just have a quiet life.  

Monday.  7th.  Labour Day.  Slept mostly ok I guess.  Woke up ~6.29.  Fish and gardening stuff all morning.  Then setting up and fighting with the new printer (needed another driver to print double sided).  Then trying to sort out tax stuff.  And getting stressed at everything.  Adulting is hard :(

Tuesday.  Slept mostly ok I guess.  Catchup day at work really.  Shine Dome talk in the evening. Prof Nanda Dasgupta talking about the research of Prof Mark Oliphant, and Dr Ed Simpson talking about his work with particle accelerators and making new elements. 

Bronte Cormican-Jones's "Of Line of Light" outside the NFSA

Dinner at Badger&Co after.  Talked into buying more food than I wanted.  Like a LOT more.  Oh well, leftovers.  Hurrah.  Also Badger is pretty hit and miss, and more misses with the specials.  Like the "crispy" pork belly bites that weren't crispy.

Wednesday.  Awake from before 1:30 til after 4.  Hurray.  Zombie day.  Did go to the Crepe Cafe for lunch to avoid the food court in school holidays.  Hadn't been since pre covid.  Except they're the Aussie Crepe House now.  I had the stroganoff crepe (up to $17 now, ouch).  It probably had a bit more cheese filling, but the beef was TOUGH.  

Cooked cheese kranski chipolatas for dinner, and the kitchen smelled wonderfully of them for the next 24 hours or so!

Thursday.  Ok day I think.  Herbert's after work for a final TRBC tap takeover.  Tim came which was nice.  He might be looking for IT work in Canberra, although his wife is not keen on them leaving Tumut.  

Friday.  Crap sleep.  Ok day.  Kept a bit late at work and then had to race down the hill for a bus, which I only *just* caught, to go out to Cypher for Wello's birthday drinks.

Saturday.  Slept mostly ok.  Busy day trying to catch up with life.  Stu was also too stressed with life so we didn't go to the club working bee. 

In the evening was a Rocky Horror night at Rob and Fiona's.  I did a very half-hearted attempt at Eddie (couldn't find a wig or vest, or borrow a saxophone, but did find a scarf which matched and made a slingshot).  

The sweetie went as Dr Scott.

There were frank n furters, meatloaf, and rocky horror road.

Ian even let me have like one of the last ever TRBC beers I'm ever likely to have!

Ended up staying up wayyyy too late, but it was fun.

Sunday.  Got like five hours sleep.  Cause I wake up early no matter what.  With sore throat.  Spent the day continuing to catch up with life.  Managed to get all my Queensland photos online, only a month late.  Also went and did food shopping.  Tuna bake and veggies for dinner.  Early night.

Sunday.  29th.  Backdating.  Leftover lasagna with salad for dinner.  Mash, then I watched Inside Out 2.  I think I actually liked it better than the original.  

Monday.  Restless legs so took me ages to get to sleep.  Woke up at 5:30.  Overwhelmed with All The Things that need doing.  I don't have time to go to work.  Then of course work was crazy busy and I couldn't leave early like I wanted to.  Did some weeding after work but no time for music :(  Leftovers for dinner.  Life is all too hard.  But I did do a heap of catchup blogging - seven entries!!

A four and a five!!!

Tuesday.  1st of October.  Ok sleep I think  More migrations at work.  Met up with Luc who was in town again.  Had a couple of drinks at Hippo, then dinner at Akiba.

Sex panther on the left (I tried a sip of this and really liked it), and penicillin on the right

PB&J on Rye

Akiba

Balmain bug bun, pickled baby gem, creamy ponzu 

Kingfish, coconut, nam jim, coriander

Sweet and sticky squid, lime, crispy Thai basil, chilli, mint

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  OMFG I FINISHED THE MIGRATIONS!!!  Took an early mark but didn't even have a celebratory drink hehe.  Leftover lasagna for dinner.  Mum photo picking.  Went to wash my hair, only to find I'd bought the wrong bottle of Head and Shoulders AGAIN!!  OMFG their packaging sucks donkey balls.  

Thursday.  Mostly ok sleep.  Did some planning for some post-migration cleanup work.  Quiet drinks.  Made pizzas.

Friday.  Awake some time before 3 til some time after 5.  Sigh.  Did the cleanup work I'd been planning.  Kievs for dinner.  David Graf was in Mash haha.  Amazing Race and early night.

Saturday.  Somewhat restless sleep but better than Thursday night.  A day of doing All The Things.  I've been scanning the filing cabinet on weekends (when the sun is out to power my old computer).  Decided I didn't need to scan development application notices.  But it was funny to go look at them on Google Maps/Street view now they're done.   So many knock-down-rebuilds!!  Chong Co delivery for dinner.  "Larry" Fishburne in Mash haha.  Then watched Golden Kamuy, which Stu said is like 6/300 of the manga.  hmmm.

Sunday.  Mostly ok sleep I guess?  Woke up at 5:25.  Oh wait, that's 6:25.  Cool I guess.  Another busy day of All The Things.  We went out and bought a new printer.  I didn't want to get HP because, subscription trash (didn't do any research to see if there were any that didn't have it, but I refuse to support companies doing subscription trash).  And didn't want to get Brother because our last one had the "known bug" with the fuser slipping and blurring prints (not to mention the paper jams) after only 15000 prints.  So we're trying Oki.  LED rather than Laser.  See how it goes.  Then did some food shopping.  It didn't feel like a Sunday so forgot to backup phone/do music/blog.  Whoops.  Watched a bit of a YouTube video on The Easy Life in Kamusari.  Then I watched Salt.  Bit of Hollywood fluff.  And how cute is Liev Schreiber?!?

Sigh I just blatted this entry.  Let's start again shall we..

Monday.  9th.  Backdated.  Long story.  

Took forever to get to sleep. Stressing about my database. So a crappy nights' sleep. Then another busy day at work. I was going to try and sneak off a few hours early to catch up with crap but just too busy. Went to Chris's and got some chicken and cooked up some Chicken Tonight, but it was a bit.. gelatinous.. Not bad, just not super epic awesome. Did some culling of Tassie hotel photos. Not that I can post them any time soon.

All the pink and purple crap this week!!

Tuesday. Awake from some time before two til after three. Hurray. Depressed about hosting. Depressed about my health. Everything is awful. Although we did do a prod cutover and noone's screamed yet. Cooked up some mince/pasta for dinner. 

Wednesday. Awake from after 3. Never got back to sleep. Busy day migrating. Got results of my sleep study. Yeah a bit of sleep apnea. Hurray. Depressed and overwhelmed at everything.

Thursday.  Woke up. Wondered what the time was. Estimated about 5:30. Looked at my phone. 5:29. Cool. Busy day of migrations. Nice drinks but only a couple of other people. Made pizzas for dinner.

Then watched Mean Girls. Aww man I don't miss high school one little bit.

Friday the 13th. Slept mostly ok. Feeling overwhelmed at life. Today was ten years ago that we left for our Queensland trip. But I can't post it because my database is still broken. Two and a half weeks later. So this weekend instead of catching up on everything, I have to find a new hosting company for my blog. Because even if Vodien fixed it this time, they'll still break it again in the near future and I don't have the mental capacity to deal with their BS. I'll be putting one star reviews wherever I can find places to do it. Leftovers for dinner, Mash, then I watched TRON, which I think I might have seen once when I was a kid.

Saturday. Slept mostly ok. Did some house stuff then went looking for new hosting.  Went out for lunch and shopping.  Hungry Cracks are doing a parmi burger.  It was a sloppy mess.

The flowers at Jamo were pretty

Saw this in Coles.  I have a mandolin.  It's awesome. But it doesn't have a gaurd.  So I have to be EXTREMELY careful using it.  Yes I have cut myself on it.  No I wasn't drinking.  But I was distracted talking to people.  So it might be kinda nice to have another one for when my current one gets too blunt to use...

Leftover pasta and salad for dinner, Mash, then I watched Tron: Legacy. I didn't think I'd ever seen it, but then where they go into Jeff Bridges' fancy house I was like, that seems familiar.  Weirdly Disney kept changing the aspect ratio.  In some places it'd be widescreen, but others it was much closer to 4:3.  Weird. Oh and there we go - I have seen it.  Yay for dementia and not remembering anything.

Sunday. Spent much of the day trying to fix my blog. Had leftover raclette from Chris on toast for lunch.

Then.. OMFG TRBC is closing down!!!!!! Drank one of the last of three we have in the house. Stu is drinking one of the others. The other is a dark lager so Stu will drink that. I'm half tempted to do a sneaky trip down for one last visit. But aint noone got time for that.

Roast beef for dinner but overdid it :( (1.75 kg in 1.5 hours).  Stu liked it though. And I guess it will do well as leftovers.  Then watched the 2018 version of Freaky Friday.  Wait, what, it's a muscial?  Lolz.  Only 3.8 on IMDB too heh.  I think there's one more version I still need to see.

I wanted to have a hanami party this year.  I messaged Nat and Andrew ages ago but they never got back to me.  Then I was going to invite Chris and Glenda (they're going to Japan in October).  But with all the stress and drama going on, I just didn't feel up to it.  You know I'm not doing well if I pass up an opportunity to have peeps over for a little party ...