Monday.  15th.  Couldn't get to sleep til past midnight.  Sigh.  But then slept ok.  But still feeling tired and depressed and *dumb*.  All the crap at work.  Leftover beef and veggies for dinner.

This long exposure on the phone makes the clouds in front of the ISS look like an oil painting..

Tuesday.  Couldn't get to sleep for ages on account of cold feet.  Then woke up before 4 and never got back to sleep.  Sigh.  Ok day.  Went into the office and got a flu jab.  Proxy stuff and some migration planning.  More leftover beef for dinner.  Finished culling day 12 of Turkey (which took *forever* on account of having to cull over a thousand photos down to 50.. hmmm!!).  Made a good start on day 13 (the last day) too.  At one point I heard a rather metallic clunk coming from the kitchen as the fridge was turning off.  hmmmm.  Sure enough, the next time the compressor started it made a generally louder noise than normal.  So put a thermometer in the fridge to make sure it was still working properly, and started looking at replacement fridges.  Sigh.

Wednesday.  Ok sleep.  The fridge was still happily sitting on 3C in the morning, so while the compressor is loud, it's still doing its job.  But for how long..?  Did some testing of some reworks to some of our rules to the new version of things not supporting stuff the same way.  Basa bake and veggies for dinner.  Must.  Eat.  Freezer.  And fridge.  At least with fridge stuff we do have the spare downstairs we could use in an emergency.  But the freezer.. that would be a pain.  But I really don't want to go spending two thousand dollars on a new fridge while the old one is still functional.  It could go on like this for years for all we know (ask anyone who's heard our washing machine during its first drain).   

Thursday.  Took forever to get to sleep.  More work on the excludes problem, as well as a task closing party.  Jim did a lovely morning tea so we didn't need lunch, but Neil, XL and I went for a walk at lunch anyway which was nice.

Super quiet drinks (bar tender didn't bring all his friends this week).  Pizza, Mash, and into season 9 of Death in Paradise.  It's a bit of fluff that show but I don't know that many of his solutions would stand up in court.  Half the time it's completely speculation and no real proof, other than a confession (which also wouldn't necessarily stand up).  Early night.

Friday.  Got to sleep ok but then restless legs for ages in the middle of the night and woke up at ~4.  Proxy testing in the morning.  Did a change in the arvo that I don't think broke anything, winning!  Herbert's for happy hour.

Must be Mother's Day soon..

A rare shot of Dino without his hat (I wasn't even trying, I was trying to get the beer lineup and he jumped in the way haha)

Saturday.  Awake for a while in the middle of the night but not too bad.  Had a super busy day doing All The Things and got heaps done - pretty much everything I had on my todo list for the day.  So that was pretty cool.

So cool!

Waiting impatiently for these things to ripen before the first frost...  

Into season 5 of Mash, then Orville 3.6 which was pretty emotional and had a bit of a Back to the Future vibe to it.

Sunday.  Took ages to get to sleep but then slept ok.  Spent most of the day Lego part picking for Vic's Lego.  Very slow going due to basically having to go find one piece at a time then mark it off as deleted from the loose part inventory.  Think like a minute or so for each and every piece.  hmmmm.  There was also the dog barking for like an hour (probably from the same d$*#head neighbours that have always had barking dogs).  I felt so stressed.  Sigh.  Also did a bit of food shopping in the afternoon.

Today's blog entry quote is from Autism From the Inside's channel.  Watched a couple of his videos yesterday.  

Another roast beef in the oven.  I generally try to avoid buying big chunks of beef (chicken and pork and even lamb are generally better for the planet than beef) but Stu likes it so there's that.. 

Sunday.  21st.  Cooked a yummy dinner of lemon butter chicken (chicken thighs, garlic, butter, lemon juice etc) and buttered veggies (mushrooms, zucchini, spring onions, butter, cream etc).  Crown 6.8.

Monday.  Slept ok I think.  

Not a bad day, got some stuffs done.  

Tuesday.  BOM said "no rain".  While it was literally raining.  

Felt flat all day.  Spent too much time stressing about Tassie.  The buttplugs at Cradle Mountain won't let you drive to Dove Lake anymore (and charge you $15 each to take a shuttle bus).  Problem is the shuttles only run from 8am to 6pm but given we want to take our time with the walk there's a very real possibility we could miss the last shuttle.  Could you imagine then having to walk the extra ten kilometres out and back to the car???

Tony said he had a glut of basil, so I asked for some.  This is what he gave me..

!!

So spent like an hour using about two thirds of it to make two tubs of pesto

Is the juice worth the squeeze?  I dunno...

And my kitchen garden is getting a little out of hand..

Cooked a beef roast and a bunch of veggies for dinner.

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Decided I should soften up the old Scarpas.  Oof they're very tough.  Got a bit of house stuff done and some Lego sorting. 

For dinner I cooked a Mexican inspired dinner - beef mince with onion, bacon, garlic powder, taco seasoning, shredded pizza cheese and some cream cheese (omfg it was so good!!) and a salad of lettuce, cucumber, tomato, tasty cheese and coriander, with a dressing of Greek yoghurt, lime juice, garlic powder, salt, pepper and finely topped coriander) which was also really good. 

Then I watched Hannah Gadsby's "Something Special".

Thursday.  Slept mostly ok but woke up at like 4:30 or something.  Mostly Lego sorting day.  Hurray.  Nearly done though.  I keep saying that, but there always seems to be more..  Made pizzas for dinner then Death in Paradise 8.2.

This whole low carb nonsense has been pretty effective.. have lost like three kilos in three weeks..

Friday.  Slept mostly ok but woke up at like 4:45.  OMFG I FINISHED INVENTORYING VIC'S LEGO!!!  Gonna have a break before next stage though.  There's still a loonnnnggggg way to go.  Fried up some beef in jelly and had with salad for dinner.

Mash/Orville 2.12 (lolz with Marina Sirtis and directed by Jonathon Frakes).

Saturday.  Slept mostly ok but woke up pretty early.  With the Lego done it was back to almost a regular weekend day and trying to get All The Things done. 

Booked some Tassie stuff which was good.  Man, how much of a ripoff is Strahan??  $200/night for essentially a caravan park.  Yeesh.  Went over to Chrissie's for dinner which was nice, haven't really seen her much since pre covid.

Sunday.  Slept mostly ok but woke up pretty early.  Back to usual Sunday including feeling blah about having to go back to work tomorrow..

And now to cook All The Food...

Monday.  8th.  30th anniversary of the Como-Jannali bushfires, my 21st blogiversary, David Bowie would have turned 77.  Slept mostly ok.  Oh The Humidity in the morning though!!  OMFG Con discovered Windoze 11 will FINALLY let you ungroup taskbar icons.  Totally made my day.  Mostly working on decoms.  Chatted to Chris and Glenda after work for an hour about Japan.  Then went for a walk.  Then cooked up some scrambled eggs for breakfasts this week.  And then it was bedtime.  Sigh.

My copy of unlink the rings was in an incomplete state.  I spent ages and ages and ages getting it into a 2x6 configuration that could be recovered with help online.  Then followed a tutorial to solve it.  Cause I was always too dumb to solve these puzzles.

Tuesday.  Low carb regime starts today.  Need to try and lose a few kilos in the next six weeks.  Except I didn't sleep.  Awake from like before 2 to after 4.  Then slept a bit but then awake again.  Zombie day. 

Mostly spent the day working backwards through my todo list finding things to work on.  Couldn't really concentrate on much though - too tired.  Cooked a nice dinner - leftover sausages, with mushrooms cooked in butter and a little cream at the end, and broccoli (from Chris's!  Just microwaved for a couple of minutes) with a sauce of olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.  Looks simple but took 3/4 hour - mostly because I wasn't thinking clearly on account of being a zombie, and the not putting the mushrooms on til later (should have put them on first).

After dinner went for a walk up Mt Rogers.

And then it was bed time, because if you try and cook and exercise it takes up your entire damned evening.  Sigh.

Wednesday.  Was too tired to go to sleep.  Was almost asleep but the sweetie poked me cause I was snoring then it took another hour and a half to get to sleep.  So Wednesday was another zombie day.  When I went to feed the fish in the "angel" tank in the morning noticed the door was scraping the bottom which it wouldn't normally do.  So looked closer and there was water all over the bottom shelf.  !!!!  Looks like one of the filter wools up the top and drifted into the outlet and clogged it up, so it was backed up all over the top, leaking out the edge near the inlets for the powercords for the filter and lights, and flooding everything beneath.  Man they really should make fish tank stands out of real wood instead of chipboard which just swells up when it gets wet.  Yanked the power, got out some towels and dried it all as best I could, then setup a fan to blow on everything to dry it.  (But with Oh The Humidity all week I left that fan running for DAYS and it didn't even fully dry).  Continued looking at my todo list at work and more looking at decoms.  Went clothes shopping at Target at lunch.  It didn't end in tears, but it certainly wasn't successful.  The only jeans they have in stock (pretty much) are stoopid skinny ones.  I took two into try on but only tried the first one and knew the second one would never work.  But look at this.  Look at the pocket!!  Pity there was exactly ONE pair of this Yasmin style in store, nowhere near my size.  Pity, would have been cool.

Then I tried on seven (SEVEN) different bras.  !!  Only three of them even vaguely fitted.  One was a bit too small, one was a bit too big, and the one that was definitely the most comfortable had FOUR clasps instead of the usual three.  Damn my grandmother for giving me ginormous boobs to have to deal with.  In the end bought the one with four clips, but there weren't any more, so the hunt will continue. 

For dinner I fried up some leftover pork and cabbage in whatever jelly I could find in the freezer, which I think was lamb jelly because it was full of rosemary.  Don't eat those dried fried onions in future though, they are definitely not low carb.

Did some Turkey photo culling then went for a walk.  Hot.  Humid.  Sigh.

Got back and had to backup my computer but the external drive was being a poo and either not showing up in windows, or showing up but not being accessible.  Went and washed my hair (it was to damned HOT AND HUMID to deal with) then rebooted it again and was able to backup, but then it didn't finish til like 22:30 (after filling up the disk and I had to delete some crap) which is WAYYY past my bedtime.  Sigh.

Thursday.  Once again I couldn't get to sleep (til after midnight this time).

Oh the humidity!!

Another day of decom work and working through my todo list.  Drinks at Lighty after work (man after work drink prices, pub prices HURT) and KFC for dinner (we won't mention Subway for lunch, definitely not low carb!!).  Mr Miyagi in MASH and Death in Paradise 7.8.

Friday.  After like four nights in a row of not sleeping went into the other room and slept somewhat betterly.  Felt actually somewhat alive in the morning and was able to get through some housework before work.

Deleting Day at work which always makes me happy.  Lunch with the Chrises at the Burns Club.  No not that one, the other one.  There's another one, did you know?  Turns out I'd been there year and a bit ago when it was Magpies.  We won't mention the magpie that brought its kid along and wanted food.  And we're like, nah this salty stuff is no good for you.  Which is the exact same thing with me and unhealthy food.  I KNOW it's unhealthy but damn it tastes good.

Did I mention the humidity?

Fried up some leftover pork in lamb jelly and had it with salad which was very nice.

Saturday.  So the brother type person called on Friday night and offered to come and look at the oven (remember it tripped the power on New Years night) since I'd been too afraid to run it ever since.  So of course overnight I was stressing about the oven.  Because the damned DELONGHI POS is less than FOUR YEARS OLD and has already died TWICE.  And because I stress, I don't sleep.  Hurray for being me.  Got a bit of stuffs done in the morning but not really enough. 

The baby capsicums are still alive..

David arrived mid afternoon.  We turned on the oven.  It didn't trip at least but it didn't heat up.  So he pulled it out and found that sure enough, the rear element had blown (the one we use All The Time).

So we went out to buy a new oven.  Because it's too damned hard to get replacement parts for Delonghi POS we went with a Westinghouse.  And normally we wouldn't get extended warranty but this time we did.  Because they PROMISED that they would replace elements if they blew.  And at least for Westinghouse you CAN get replacement elements. Unlike Delonghi CRAP.  We took our car because it was supposed to rain like Any Second, and it did in fact start to rain while were picking up the oven.

We were too busy installing stuff to pay too much attention to the Epic Storm (which mostly passed south and east of us).  

Yeah doing electrical work during a massive thunderstorm is surely the greatest idea in the world.

But as I mentioned it was pretty sedate at our place.

Did I mention I have the bested brother in the entire universe?

Once it was all going (you have to run it for like half an hour to burn out all the manufacturing grease) we left it on and threw some veggies in it..

This oven probably runs a little hotter than the old one (or morely likely just has better air flow because of a bigger space for the fan to let out its heat..) so the bottom rack heated a lot more than I'm used to..

And of course then there was the lamb which was EPIC AMAZING.  Who knew you could stick a couple of kilos of lamb in a slow cooker all afternoon with garlic and rosemary and you end up with pulled lamb which doesn't even need gravy it's so tender and juicy.  Oh wait, I might have, if I'd actually gotten to taste any of the lamb I did this way back in 2021 for the club Christmas in July (ok, I got like one mouthful back then).  

Then we just chatted while David tried (and failed) to get Google to talk to our lounge room lights.

Sunday.  Woke up around 1:44 and didn't get back to sleep til well after 4 and then it wasn't great sleep.  Sigh.  Cooked some bacon and eggs and spinach for breakfast (spinach is a big fat poo - you cook half a bag of the stuff and get like two mouthfuls each).  Then David and I went to the tip to dump some flouros and batteries and course we needed to do a Green Shed run.  Don't tell Stu but I got some more jigsaws.  Then to Vinnies so David could look at DVDs and OMFG I actually bought a pair of jeans!!  ha!  Came back and had some lunch (well David did, I had mine later) and we started a jigsaw.  Which we did for the next several hours.  Whoops.  

Cooked up an epic feast for dinner, hopefully for leftovers for breakfast for the week...

Oh, also, Chrome (and of course edge) are being Big Fat Poos and aren't allowing commenting anymore because OMFG IT'S SO INSECURE.. Search does the same thing but at least you can click proceed anyway.  But posting comments is problematic - it won't save form data because OMFG IT'S SO INSECURE - but even if you click post anyway you get some error from the blog (don't have a copy on me right now).  I was going to hardcode the form posting to https this weekend but, well, life.  Maybe next weekend.  Anyway, thanks Dave2 for the comments (and Mum too), I did try to respond.. 

Monday.  Christmas Day!  Late night because of the carols, but then woke up at 6am.  Because that's what I do.  Ok sleep in between though.  Never turned my computer on all day because of storms coming and going and needing to do All The Things anyway. 

When you plant mint seeds and poppies grow instead

Cooked up an epic Christmas Day feast for the two of us.

There was a woollies turkey roast, some sweet potato and sage, a blue cheese potato bake, brussels sprouts with bacon and hazelnuts and onion and sage stuffing.

Just cleaning and Lego after lunch, then headed over to Annie's for drinks and dessert.  It's been exactly a year since we saw them all last.  We're such slackers.

Tuesday.  Boxing Day.  Got to sleep ok but then awake from 4am for ages.  Spent all morning cooking and cleaning.  Stu went to pick up the mother type person.  Then everyone else got here.  Had snackages and did presents and stuffs.

Lunch was epic roast pork (crackling was great but the pork was a little over done), epic potato bake (there were heaps of leftovers!!), potato and sweet potato, peas, home made apple sauce and gravy.

After lunch David went on a shopping and visiting expedition, so I put up the America photos from my blog (they really need culling for a slideshow though).  David was gone for hours haha.  When he eventually did get back we put on Mum's Tasmania slide show.  Meanwhile, we got a message from Annie (who we saw yesterday and who said when we got there she had a sore throat) that she was covid positive.  Sigh.  Had dessert for dinner and an early night.

Wednesday.  Slept okish I think.  Spent most of the morning with Mum looking at Tasmania photos from three out of four of her trips there (1968 with YHA, 1971 with Dad, 2023 with Evelyn and Outback Spirit).  Mum went off to lunch with the others.  I was going to go to Tony's birthday lunch at Dickson, but decided not to "just in case" stoopid covid (it would have been fine).  Instead cleaned up and sorted cables.  When everyone got back David told me what all the cables were so I labelled everything.  We then had a game of Five Crowns which I won.  Put on the news for Mum and made her some garlic prawns with some of the prawns D&K brought up.  Then we watched Luca, which Mum even managed to stay mostly awake through.

Thursday.  Awake from like 3:45 and never got back to sleep.  Sigh.  Dropped Mum off at Jolimont and had a full on meltdown on the way home.  Too much stress?  Release of stress?  I dunno, but over half my break was over and all I've done was cleaning and cooking and family and haven't had a chance to relax yet.  Man I still miss uni holidays.  So.  Much.  Put on some washing and tidied up the fridge and labelled stuff.  Then just another day of trying to get All The Things done.  Did I mention I haven't had a chance to relax yet?  Finished season one of Mash.. the blue ladies!!  They played that episode *a lot* in the eighties.  Then The Orville 2.6.

After sorting the cables that came out of this box and putting them all back in.. sigh..

Friday.  Slept relatively well.  Another day of All The Things.  Got heaps done.  Rewarded myself later in the afternoon by starting a jigsaw.  Stu got pizza for dinner, then Mash, Death in Paradise 7.5 and Twin Peaks 1.7.

Saturday.  Slept relatively well.  Another day of All The Things.  Got heaps done.  In the afternoon I watched the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer because I don't think I've ever actually seen it.  I actually really really HATE the song.  Yeah let's all bully someone for being a bit weird, and only like them if we can use them for something.  So horrible.  The tv special isn't any better, but Clarice is nice.  The Crown 6.5, Twin Peaks 1.8 (which is the end of season one - I thought that would be the end, but it keeps on going haha).

Sunday.  New Year's Eve.  Slept mostly ok although awake around 4 for a while.  Another busy day, mostly catching up on blogging and finishing my year in review post, with a bit of jigsaw as well.  We might have had peeps over tonight, but we're still isolating "just in case" we get covid.  So will be a nice quiet night with just the two of us.

Sunday.  10th.  Barramundi bake for dinner (supposedly more responsible than basa, but it wasn't quite the same)

Then Crown 6.3.

Monday.  Ok sleep.  Ok day.  I felt like I could maybe have a nice wind down to Christmas at right.  Yeah right.  All The People wanting All The Things.  

In the evening started pulling apart Neil's Saturn V.  Then I came to this.  Turns out I'd put this row of cylinder pieces in the wrong way.  But I blame Lego because look at this crap.  You build it all up one way..

So you'd expect it to slot in as is.  But nooooo.. you have to flip it round!

I missed that and put it in the wrong way around.  Pissed off because I certainly wasn't going to remake it all to rephotograph it.  But I'm never going to unsee it.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep - too hot with covers on, too cold without.  In the morning finished reading through my blog entries (so far) for my year in review post.  Probably the earliest that has ever happened, pays to start these things early.  In October.  Can probably start writing things up now, just adding a few things here and there as needed.  Another nothing much day - too many distractions and interruptions to really concentrate on anything.  In the evening organised Christmas with my family.  I was hoping we could do something in January so as not to cut into the break, but alas that was not to be.  Still, it was all organised with not too much stress from me, I just told Mum and David to sort it out amongst themselves :)

Wednesday.  Slept mostly ok.  Another day of too many distractions and interruptions to really concentrate on anything.  Had the division Christmas party at lunch which was actually pretty chilled.  There was a heap of leftover sausages in the fridge which I yoinked for our party.  This cool thing arrived just in time to start!

Thursday.  Not too much in the morning.  In the afternoon had a super intense decommissioning session.  Was at it for three hours straight but still didn't finish it.  Last drinks.  It was pretty quiet and I ended up running the bar while Neil went to a committee meeting.  

Friday.  Woke up for like an hour and a half during the night.  Not much in the morning then it was off to do the shoppying for my Christmas bbq at the lake!  Had close to 60 people come this year, one of the biggest in a long time.  Sadly no ducks came by to be molested.

Saturday.  Woke up for like two hours during the night.  So pretty tired.  Spent ages sorting out all the recycling and leftovers from the party.  These aren't all from the party, some are mine from the past few months.

Also weeding and All The Things.  Although not nearly as much as I needed to get done.

I also cooked up all the chicken sausages that we didn't end up using at our party.  While they'd been put in the fridge straight away on Wednesday, and kept in an esky all Friday afternoon, the esky wasn't super cold.  So I cooked the heck out of them, had one, then froze the rest.  If I don't get food poisoning (over a day later, so far so good) then they'll be fine.

Finished off several containers of old leftovers to clear space in the fridge then watched Love Actually.

Sunday.  Slept relatively well.  More weeding in the morning, then brunch then food shopping and suddenly it's lunch time.  Hmmmm.  Felt blah about everything I needed to do, so barely got any of it done.  Cooked up the beef sausages and had one, same deal as the chicken ones yesterday.  

And just like that the weekend is over and I still have barely scratched my todo list..

Sunday.  19th.  Cooked roast beef for dinner.  It was a topside roast and it was very salty, almost like corned beef (although not *that* salty).  And even though I only cooked it for like an hour and three quarters (for 2kg meat) it seemed overcooked.  It looked a lot more well done that it should have, although it was quite juicy still.  Stu thought maybe it had been brined or something.  hrmm.  Started into season 6 of The Crown.

And in other news.. it's eggnog season!!

I added some tinsel and a string of lights to the Christmas tree.

Monday.  Slept ok for a while but then broken sleep in the middle of the night (not helped by Stu not sleeping really at all, which somehow disturbed me even in the other room).  Was mostly Neil all day and fighting with the servers to do some filtering on more stoopid Microsoft crap that's been coming our way since Friday.  They promised rain and storms all day.  Pfft.  Finally got around to it late in the afternoon.  Cooked a nice yellow curry for dinner.

I'm going to document this better, and this variety had mushrooms cooked at the beginning, but my "official recipe" now will be onion, ginger, half a jar of yellow curry paste, garlic, fish sauce (maybe a couple of table spoons), lime juice (either from a fresh lime with zest, or cheat and use bottled juice), brown sugar (maybe a couple of tablespoons), a tin of light coconut cream (not in the photo), then whatever protein and veggies you feel like.  There was leftover beef in this one, capsicum and bok choy/choy sum.

Back into season 34 of The Simpsons.  Far out this season is.. weird..!  Then lots of photo filing.

Tuesday.  Slept ok.  Bit of mail crap in the morning (fixed the filters I was working on).  Did some comms doco for another infrastructure team because they can't/won't fricken do it themselves.  Seriously other infrastructure teams are the WORST at doing doco/following (our) procedures.  Also some work on some new proxy servers for a migration.  In the evening was filing a small batch of photos from 2010 that had somehow never been filed.  It's a *lot* harder to figure out what stuff is from thirteen years ago, especially without the help of Foursquare checkin history.  Then Twin Peaks 1.5.

This speech was in The Simpsons tonight which was like .. yah huh .. 

Enough of this do-goodery. Open your eyes, rich people. We're not here to help the less fortunate, we're here to bask in our fortunateness. If we really wanted to make a difference, we'd do the one thing we've spent our lives avoiding, paying our taxes. ( Laughter ) Then one organization, "the government," could tackle all of society's ills, instead of leaving it to 1.5 million separate ego-driven micro-bureaucracies called "charities," including... get a load of this scam... religions. But no one here wants the rational way. We all want the United Way because that's the American way. Now, I paid $10,000 for this table. I'm taking it with me.

I don't really discuss politics on my blog, but I do feel like rich people should pay more taxes so the government can properly handle critical stuff like health, education, transport, communication, energy etc and not have that stuff be privatised.

Wednesday.  Slept ok.  Decided to work from home "just in case" I got covid.  Which gave me a bunch of extra time before I started work so I could get things done around the house.  Tidied the kitchen, did a fish tank water change and put my washing away.  Didn't get much actual real work done because I spent the day dealing with people wanting me to solve their problems for them.  Leftovers for dinner.  Finshed filing the directories of "previous years" photos (going back til about 2019), which means my entire "to be filed" folder was empty!!  Hurray!!  Things still do need more refining but pretty happy with that achievement.

Also added more lights to the tree.

Thursday.  Took a while to get to sleep, but then still woke up early.  Again working from home so did more house tidying before I started. 

All The Problems in the morning, then documented some more decom work in the afternoon.  Beer and pizza (delivered).  Then after seeing the documentary on Pretty Woman the other night, decided to watch that.  I'm not sure if I've actually seen it or not since I saw it at the movies in 1990.  So that was a bit of fun.  The other day I noticed @kapgar's rss feed wasn't updating.  The rss feed I have in The Old Reader is http://kapgar.typepad.com/my_weblog/index.rdf but if you go to that it tries to download it.  The link on his blog is https://www.kapgar.com/my_weblog/atom.xml but when I try that in The Old Reader I get:

We couldn't find an exact match, but here are some similar feeds we found that might be what you're looking for.
Feeds similar to https://www.kapgar.com/my_weblog/atom.xml
kapgar https://www.kapgar.com/my_weblog/

Shrug.  Could I be bothered contacting him about it?  Dunno.. not sure that he even likes me.  

Friday.  Some training in the morning then spent the rest of the day deleting All The Things.

Stu is staying positive about his covid situation..

Did a bunch of weeding after work then kiev for dinner.

Then into season 7 of Death in Paradise.  Then watched Malcolm.  Wasn't sure if I'd ever actually seen it, but I think I might have a while back.  

This is funny.  We had the print of this above our "fireplace" at home.  If the thing hadn't been damaged by the new air conditioner they put in I would have taken it when Mum sold the house.  It was also in The Henderson Kids.  Annoyingly windoze 11 won't let you screenshot Netflix.. wtf?? Whenever you try you just get a black screen instead of the content.  Irfanview wouldn't work either.  In the end I just took a photo.. but seriously microsoft wtf??

Trippy!

Saturday.  Slept mostly ok.  Did some house stuff in the morning (including putting up some more Christmas decorations) then mostly inventorying. 

Storm in the afternoon.  Cooked creamy fettucini because there was nothing else to do while my computer was off for the (five minute) storm.  

On Netflix last night I saw there was a short film on The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.  !!  So Saturday night I watched it.  OMFG it was so cool.  It was like word for word the same as the story and done in quirky Wes Anderson style.  Turns out there were four short films so I watched the other three as well - The Swan (which I remember reading and being sad about), The Rat Catcher, and Poison, neither of which I remember reading (but may have).  ** Edit: Poison was in Tales of the Unexpected that I have **

Sunday.  Slept ok but then woke up at 4:40 from a dream that we were in Italy and firstly we were on a bus travelling through Milan and I kept seeing things I thought I should take photos of but I was exhausted and it was going to take effort to pull out my camera and then not long after we had to catch a ferry (on the west coast of Italy, yeah nowhere near Milan) but I followed Mum down this sandy hill but we got separated from the tour group so I tried to back up to find them but couldn't and then we had to try and find a bus to get down the hill to the ferry and I was trying to find some contact information for the tour company but I was worried the paperwork was in my luggage that was with them, but I did find it in the end but then I was stressing about trying to get roaming working on Optus.  The lesson I learned from this dream is that you should always always get the mobile number of the tour operator/guide as soon as you meet them in case of emergencies.  I've never done this but I think I might try in future.  Finished putting up Christmas decorations in the morning as well as some house stuff, but then just inventorying most of the day.  

Cooked tuna casserole and veggies for dinner, then into season 2 of The Orville.

How evil is this ad that came up on Candy Crush during the week.. not sure how Apple let them get away with it..

20:08 by the time I'm posting this...

Sunday.  22nd.  Backdating because when I went to blog this a couple of weeks ago, found that Vodien had broken my CGI scripts AGAIN which meant none of my CGI scripts worked at all, and I couldn't even use the terminal shell.  More on that later.

Leftover veggies and duck sauce that I brought home from the coast for dinner, yum!  Then The Orville 1.8.

Monday.  Be early, slept fairly well.  Still woke up tired though.  And stressed about the lack of weekend.  Meetings in the morning and trial proxy working in the afternoon.  At lunch popped into the mall to get a covid booster and run some errands.  Sausages for dinner and Amazing Race 4.2.  Found myself getting super annoyed at the rich people saying like "oh I never do washing, I buy undies and tshirts and wear them once then throw them out".  People like that are everything that's wrong with the world.  

Tuesday.  Had a pretty rough night on account of vaccine reaction.  Pretty slow morning - still feeling a bit rough. 

Stu cooked gyozas for dinner.

Wednesday.  Slept somewhat better.  Fighting with frustrating trial proxy.  Then was fighting with this super weird problem with some really bizarre symptoms we'd literally never seen before.  Turned out to be assymmetric routing which I could have probably figured out quicker if I'd actually paid attention to the logs that were LITERALLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.  I was so upset.  That lack of situational awareness and tunnel vision is how planes crash.  Good thing I don't fly planes I guess.  

On a lighter note.

Thursday.  Awake for ages in the middle of the night.  Just restless.  Didn't take any work notes so no idea what I did.  Probably crap.  Had a sausage at drinks on a "welcome to summer" night, which was freezing cold.  Pizza for dinner (not much for me), then first episode of David Attenborough's Tasmania.

Friday.  Some cleaning in the morning, and some security talks in the afternoon.  Kiev for dinner (Kiev Fridays!!) then Death in Paradise 6.5.

Saturday.  Super productive day doing All The Things!!  Including chopping some huge branches off the photinia (thanks Tony!!), a green waste run, moving the rest of the stones (thanks Tony and F!!), and gave away our old pool cover to M&M. 

Five!!

Two fours and a five!!!

Manly men!!

This gecko ran out from under the pool cover as we moved it.  So cute!

Did some music in the afternoon as well, then pasta for dinner and then watched The War of the Roses.

Sunday.  Slept ok.  Did a few bits and pieces in the morning but the mostly inventorying Vic's Lego (nearly done with the loose pieces!).  Took me about fifty minutes to play through all the hymns I've collected.  Will probably need to split them in two.  Put on dinner and then I sat down to blog.

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

FFS.  What have they done this time.  Checked my address book scripts.  Also broken.  So then tried to use the terminal to access stuff via CLI.

cagefs_enter: Error entering cagefs jail: Unable to determine realpath of /home2/<user> (No such file or directory)

FFS.  And error logs were full of this crap

[2023-10-29 17:37:38]: CageFS jail error Unable to determine realpath of /home2/<user> (No such file or directory)
[2023-10-29 17:37:38]: uid: (1935/<user>) gid: (1937<user>) cmd: mt.cgi

Sigh.  So no blogging for me.  But did go in and backup my database just in cases.  Basa bake for dinner, then The Orville 1.9 and Amazing Race 4.6.

Monday.  September 11th.  Lest we forget.  Busy day.  Spent over an hour on the phone working out some naming schemes and procedures.  Leftover fricassee for dinner.

Tuesday.  Busy day.  Fixing problems.  Looking at another server migration.  Leftover fricassee for dinner.

Wednesday.  Busy day.  More server migration and naming scheme work.  Leftover fricassee for dinner.  Finished labelling food and hotels from Europe trip.

Thursday.  Dunno.  Stuff.

Friday.  Awake for nearly two hours stressing about All The Things.  Because I was hot.  The world is hot.  We're all going to die.  Probably by starvation.  Because the weather will destroy food crops.  Knocked off work early and did a bunch of tidying and some music.  Picked up the sweetie (an hour late) then pizza for dinner and an early night.

Saturday.  Slept ok.  Had to deal with on call crap twice in te morning and twice in the evening sigh.  Had breakfast with Katie and Andrew at Little Bird.  I had the slow cooked pulled pork benedict which was .. interesting..

Then house stuff, panorama labelling and started Starry Night.  Sausages for dinner then Ahsoka ep 4.  Started watching Elemental but only got half an hour in before on call crap stopped that.  Sigh.

The purple poppies are out weeks earlier than last year too..

Sunday.  More late night alerts after I went to bed sigh.  But managed to sleep ok.  Then another day of all the things.  

It got to like 24 again today.  And it's supposed to be 28 tomorrow and Tuesday.  It's completely mental for September.  And Apple is daft.  I finally got around to figuring out how to authorise this computer to my phone.  That done, it said I was using five out of five.  But the only way to clear out other computers to deauth *all* of them.  Hopeless.  And this week I finally started from the beginning of Jamie and Julia (I'd seen a whole heap at random but decided to go through them methodically).  Did you know you can't watch a YouTube playlist in actual chronological order?  So I keep having to override the video selection if I want to watch from oldest to newest.  Dumb dumb dumb.  

Sunday.  6th.  Finished the leftover pork from the club for dinner with a bit of char siu sauce which made it very nice.  Early night.

Monday.  Slept ok.  Stu was still feeling uneasy in his bowels.  Had a not so insane morning which let me catch up on some tickets.  Spent an hour after work doing house cleaning.  Leftovers for dinner.  Did some culling but still didn't finish Verona/Venice.  Watched War on Waste 2.2 (saw third episode another night this week, don't remember which night though).  

Tuesday.  Took til like 1am to get to sleep - itchy and restless legs.  Still woke up before 6 though.  First thing in the morning they came by to dig holes for the new trees, then a little while later they came by to plant the trees.  Which look decidedly like bottlebrushes not English hawthorns.  Not that I'm complaining, just different to what they said.  Another day of non stop interruptions and all the stoopid.  Chicken kiev for dinner.  Because I didn't feel like leftovers.

Wednesday.  Got to sleep ok but then woke up at like 4 for like an hour an a half.  Stressing about All The Things.  Stu was somewhat back to normal with his bowels.  Very unpleasant week for him.  They came by to mulch in the trees.  Lots of being hassled again.  Made some pasta with some mince I dug out of the freezer.  Then I finished culling down the Italy trip!!!  And culled down the food and hotel photos as well.  1303 photos in the main section and a couple of hundred each extra for food and hotels.  Wondering if I had a scratchy throat...

Thursday.  Definitely feeling like I had a scratchy throat.  hmmm.  Decided to work from home.  Craziness in the afternoon.  Sigh.  Still not actually feeling sick, just a slight scratchy throat and an infrequent cough.  Took a RAT at some point today, I think.  Negative.  Pizza for dinner, Futurama, Death in Paradise 5.3.

Friday.  Throat still a bit scratchy.  The plan was to take an RDO and clean the house.  But at this point I didn't even know if I'd be going ahead with the party.  So I worked in the morning.  Did another RAT.  Still negative.  Finished up around 2 then did a quick bit of house cleaning, then went and did the food shopping for the party.  Tv dinners for dinner.  Just because.  5.4 of Death in Paradise.

Saturday.  Went to be early but then woke up at midnight for over three hours.  Stressing about All The Things.  Sigh. 

Spent all day cleaning.  All of this should have been done yesterday and Saturday was meant to be completely chilled with just the food prep to do.  Sigh.  Just before Kit left the coast I did a third RAT.  Still negative.  But messaged everyone anyway to let them know the situation and they didn't have to come if they didn't want to risk getting sick.  A few people did pull out and I don't blame them.

I'll save the party for another post.

Sunday.  Woke up at 6:30.  Because that's what I do.  No matter how late I go to bed.  Saw Kit off at 8.  Tried to get more sleep but failed.  Slow day just doing a big cleanup - two loads of washing up, sorting the rubbish and recycling and vacuuming the lounge room.  Not much else.  Did start a jigsaw in the afternoon because didn't feel like doing anything else.  Cooked up some of the leftover party food for dinner with some brussells sprouts.  

Saw a cool video on sesquizygotic twins this week, in which twins share all of their maternal DNA, but only about half their paternal DNA.  They're stoopidly rare and they're not quite sure how it happens.  One theory is that an egg gets two sperm, and somehow they still manage to divide up the chromosomes successfully so as to not get duplicates.  Cool stuff!

Sunday.  30th.  Veggies with leftover lamb for dinner, Crown, early night.

Monday.  Slept okish.  Still woke up a few times.  Spent some time trying to find a pub to go to for my Sydney party.  I wanted to go to the Argyle again (had a nice time there last time) but it doesn't open til like 4pm which is way too late.  Sigh.  Busy day.  Again.  Leftover turkey and veggies for dinner.  And spent some more time looking for a pub.  

Tuesday.  Slept okish.  Morning of All The Hassling All At Once.  Did some weeding at lunch.  Then an afternoon of all the BS.  Cranky at everything.  

Wednesday.  Dunno, no notes, but it was another busy day.  

Thursday.

Completely defeated by Microsoft "security".  Cranky and stressed yet again.  After drinks it was all too much and the stress of the week just exploded and I literally had a meltdown all the way home.  Made pizzas for dinner.

Friday.  Had an early night, but then woke up at Dentist Time and never got back to sleep.  Stu on the other hand was sick all night and didn't get *any* sleep.  He was eventually actually sick but that didn't help him feel any better.  Poor thing.  I took an RDO and spent the day cleaning the house.  Hurray.  Well actually the morning was mostly tidying up and weeding etc in the front yard.  The afternoon was mostly tidying inside.  In the middle was a pub lunch at Herbert's with the Chrises, Tony, Frank and Karen.

Saturday.  Had an early night and slept somewhat better.  Spent the entire day cleaning the house.  Hurray.  Hardly any culling which was on the todo list though. 

Dinner at Badger&Co (literally the same thing I ordered last time I was there a year ago).

Then saw "Jeremy Laser" at the ANU Women's Revue.  They also played recorder (!!  Titanic  !!) and trombone.

After twenty minutes of just them getting setup and the band playing, just before the show started a group of five people walked in (twenty minutes late!!!!) and then demanded that people move around to accommodate their group of FIVE.  Tossers.

I had just about the perfect seat, but alas they asked us not to take any photos, so just got a sneaky one at the end.

Highlights from my crap memory (I was desperate to take some notes but didn't want to get out my phone)

* We Didn't Start the Movement (to the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire)
* Never Gonna Give them Up (Rickrolled!!!  regarding returning museum artefacts)
* cute little in-between-skit music including the Wii home screen music, ABBA's SOS, and Jess playing Titanic music on recorder
* Fixer Upper (from Frozen)
* three lines from Do you Wanna Build a Snowman, except I can't actually remember the question.. go away Anna, ok bye.. must ask Jess what they asked
* a parking skit where they complained about campus parking, which I had to laugh at because when *I* was at uni there was no such thing as student parking on campus
* Jess singing I'm Too Sexy
* Let's hear it for Canberra
* ANU / Xanadu

Scotland forever!!

So yeah quite a bit of fun, but it did make for a very late night :(

Sunday.  Spent All Morning FINALLY putting some sealant over the cracked grout around the loose tiles in the shower.  $20 solution to a $20000 problem.  Hopefully.  Remains to be seen if it works.  But OMFG caulking guns are hard work.  My forearms are going to ACHE tomorrow.

Then did some more cleaning.  Even managed some music.  But didn't finish my goal of culling Verona and Venice photos this weekend.  Sigh.  And the poor sweetie is still sick.  His entire gut is on strike and he felt miserable all weekend.  He's eaten like four pieces of toast in three days.  Eeep!

Some random things I've learnt lately..
* the fact that the sun is made up of hydrogen and helium was first discovered by a woman - Cecilia Payne - but of course because she was a woman she never really got the credit
* a Camera Lucida is a super cool optical device which allows an artist to superimpose a real life scene onto paper so they can trace it out.  I want one!! haha