Sunday.  23rd.  Roasted some veggies to have with some leftover meat.  Watched The Crown then had an early night.

Monday.  Slept mostly ok except for numb hands every five minutes overnight.  Been really fricken annoying lately.  Sadly my ancient cory (that I got as one of five in 2015 and was the only survivor of the Two Foot Tank of Death Fiasco) had died.  This was it a couple of weeks ago when it was starting to look like maybe it was on its way out..

Day was ok.  Trying to document some stuff but finding problems.  Man I really shouldn't look at things.  Saw three of my birds at lunch.  Then it was all dingbats and numbskulls in the afternoon, including some sheer incompetance.  Leftovers for dinner (mmmmm end bits from the roast pork we did at the club Saturday night).  Finished culling days 15/16 of Europe photos.  Day 15 wasn't too bad but day 16 was pretty hard.  Too many photos that look similar and hard to choose the best.

Tuesday.  Couldn't get to sleep til past midnight :(  Then numb hands again.  Sigh.  Another crazy day with all the peeps talking to me.  Cooked creamy pasta for dinner which was nice (added a bunch of leftover peas which didn't really work texturewise but did add some vegetation).  

Finished culling up to day 19.  There's a third series of War on Waste on iView, but I realised I haven't seen season two, so went back to start watching that.  Booked tickets for Indiana Jones, but seriously why TF do they charge booking fees to book online??  Surely they'd be encouraging that to save having to pay box office staff?  Dodgy Dendy strikes again.  Hate.  I probably didn't even need to book in advance, it was clear it wasn't going to be anywhere near full.

Wednesday.  Slept a bit better.  Busy day again.  Went and did a screen test at work.  I doubt they'll want me for any sort of video, but you never know for audio.  After work went and had Disappointing Sushi with the sweetie (so called because the hot stuff is *always* cold).  But because the sweetie is a regular at lunch, the owner brought out a complimentary plate of KFC, which was fresh out of the fryer and pretty awesome, so that was really nice :)

Then we went and saw Indiana Jones, which I'll put in another post.

Thursday.  Slept ok.  The sweetie didn't though.  Several nights in a row of not being able to get to sleep til like 1, 2 or 3 o'clock, stressing about All The Things (mostly work).  Poor thing.  Yet another crazy busy day.  Had a vendor meeting in the afternoon so was late to drinks :(  Pity because it was busy too.  Pizza for dinner (mac and cheese! which was actually pretty decent) then into Season 5 of Death in Paradise.

Friday.  Completely overwhelming day.  Had to just STOP at one point and list All The Things that people had been hassling me about to I could prioritise to get things done.  Did manage to get a lot done (once I had a chance to breathe) and finished up at 16:00 so could head out to the club.  Slightly more relaxed this Friday than last, but not by much.  Had to have a laugh at some point because I said "Hey Siri, tell me a story", and she spouted out half a dozen bizarre little short stories.  Straight out of AI, as the text isn't Googleable.  Also, funny fire is funny..

Oh, I also finished making an iceberg out of Vic's huge pile of 1x4 bricks

Saturday.  Slept ok (and the sweetie slept somewhat better as well).  Did a bit of work around our van tidying up leaves and such, then joined the club working bee.  Just ended up helping load/unload trailerfulls of logs, and helping distribute road base on the main driveway.

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Came home and cooked a basa bake and a cauliflower bake (I won't mention the massive pile of MOLDY CHEESE I had to pick out after throwing on top of the cauliflower bake, WTF Woollies???) and then watched Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Sunday.  Woke up after 1 for over three hours.  Sigh.  Then ended up sleeping in til past 8 - two hours of my day WASTED to insomnia.  Felt completely overwhelmend with life - culling is just so damned HARD and there's so much HOUSEWORK TO DO.  In the end really all I got done was to tidy a bunch of surfaces and rearrage all the clutter somewhat.   Sigh. 

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I'm half tempted to call the number to see what BS they spin.  But that would require talking to people.  Which I hate.  Sigh.

Sunday.  Roast beef for dinner, then The Crown.

Monday.  Slept ok.  Meh day.  Did some sneaky work for Aquila for another team and got everything consistent and documented.  Couldn't help myself.  Leftover turkey and veggies for dinner.  Started watching Amazing Race Australia from last year.

Seven magpies came to see me at lunch.

Tuesday.  Took ages to get to sleep.  Ok day I think?  Cooked up some mince for dinner, with a slightly Mexican vibe.  Continuing on the photo culling.  Wanted to get three days culled in two nights to keep up with the schedule.  Gonna be a struggle.

Wednesay.  Ok day I think?  Forgot to do a change after lunch, but managed to sneak it in later.  Whoops.  

After work met up with the sweetie and Dennis at Dolly's for a drink, then went to Tiger Lane for dinner.  I had Lucky Duck which was ok but not super epic awesome, and not really worth $18.  Stu had some fried chicken, but I think Kimchi's is better.

No energy for photo culling when I got home so watched a bit of Amazing Race (and was very confused when they started showing names for a whole new group of racers starting in Sydney.  It's not the first time channel 10 have mixed things up but surely they would have gotten it fixed by now??  Had to do a quick Google (and try and avoid spoilers) to realise that they actually had two sets of ten teams racing).

Thursday.  Slept ok I think.  Busy day.  Started working on a change for next week, but had to abandon that before 10 to deal with All The Things and never got back to it.  Ok drinks.  Around tonight got into season 3 of Futurama, but Disney are playing things out of order.  Started watching Picard season 3, which was fun, with Riker and Crusher.  

Friday.  Awake for a couple of hours stressing about All The Things.  Logged into work and my desktop session was gonnnnnne!!!  OMFG!!!  They'd sent an email AFTER I'D LOGGED OFF last night asking people to log off to test a new desktop.  I might have had a meltdown.  Fortunately it was actually still there, just hidden, so that was a relief.  Had a gardener come to have a look at the garden to give us a quote on weed cleanup.  Second episode of Picard, then started watching Chernobyl 1986, a 2020 Russian production.  Kinda like Titanic - fictionalised story around true events.

Saturday.  Slept fairly well.  Busy day of housework and photo culling, and fighting with Hilton Rewards who allowed a retard to sign up with my email address but refused to contact the person or change the email address or do anything to help me.  After they said "too bad so sad" (literally the last thing they said to me was "I request you to change your email so that you won't receive unwanted emails").  Bastards.  Also went out at lunch (Pattysmiths) and did some food shopping.  And all while listening to the Classic 100 Favourite Instruments.  Stu cooked sausages and mashed potato, then Futurama/Picard, and I finished watching Chernobyl 1986.

Sunday.  Slept ok.  Spent most of the day doing photo culling (and a few other bits and pieces) while listening to the Classic 100.

Sunday.  21st.  Had yummy basa bake for dinner, then Futurama, The Crown (Charles and Di's engagement and wedding) and Lego Grandmasters.

Monday.  Slept okish.  Cleaning and tidying day.  Photo culling and Lego Grandmasters in the evening.  The sweetie was having a day so we ended up getting pizza for dinner, including vomit pizza!

Tuesday.  Took forever to get to sleep - stressing about All The Things and restless.  Cleaning and decommissioning day.  Six magpies came to see me at lunch - three from either side of the ant hill demarcation line.  

Skipped doing any music to get an early start on culling.  Leftover butt beef cheeks for dinner.  Still took til 20:00 to cull three days of photos.  hmm.  

Wednesday.  Late getting to sleep, slept ok but woke up around 5.  Sick of the stoopid by 9am.  Sigh.  Did a cleaning change in prod which noone has yelled about so far.  

Thursday.  Slept ok I think.  

Ok day I think.  After work went with the hills to the Hellenic Club for dinner and AWS show with Emma Pask and Ed Wilson (I'll put pics in another post).  I had veal scallopene for dinner which wasn't on the menu but I saw the dude next to us eating it and asked for it.  It was yummy!

Friday.  Took me a while to get to sleep even though it was very late.  And then woke up early.  Sigh.  Surprisingly not a zombie day though so that was nice.  Lots of cleaning and decommissioning work.  Did some weeding at lunch.  A currawong was closely monitoring the situation and even came down right next to me to pick up a big juicy worm I must have dislodged.  After work was Whisky Live which was fun as always.  

Saturday.  Some cleaning of the bedroom in the morning, and did a sort of Dad's Tasmania photos (this time he'd only smooshed together two trips).  I also found a whole heap more photos of the Lego Brickshow from last year.  I swear I'd taken more photos than I had seen on the Canon and iPhone.  Yeah - they were on the G5X - over 500 of them!  So might post some more of those at some point.  Headed out to the club in the late afternoon for an "M" themed night, which I used as a good excuse to trot out my Minifig costume!

Marcanna and Greg did an amazing Mexican feast!

It was also the club's birthday this week, so they had a big cake.  John and Shirley told a heap of stuff about the early history of the club, would have been nice to get it on video actually.  Doh.

Sunday.  Somewhat broken sleep (the sweetie couldn't sleep and I was actually a bit hot under a couple of doonas even though it was literally freezing - our water pipes actually froze solid overnight).  Came home and put all the Tasmania slides away and finished the second section of the Titanic, and did some computer stuff.

Here's a couple of photos of a hot air balloon a couple of weeks ago that were in the wrong directory so got missed...

Friday night I got home from work, chucked everything in the car, and headed straight out again to go down the coast.  We nearly hit a kangaroo on Macs Reef Road.  Stoopid things.  Took it a bit slow and arrived about 19:45.  Had bbq chicken and salad for dinner and then just chatted for a bit.  Little bit of a late night but not too bad.

I slept like crap - woke up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night.  So a slow start.  Followed Kit around like these ducks as she did the morning animal routine.

These guys will be a lot of dinners one day

There's like eight or nine new lambs under a couple of weeks old which are so cute!

I don't even know how many birds she has.  There's ten ducks, one large male turkey (Nigel), a female turkey and a young turkey, as well as about ten guinea fowl, and countless chickens.

She still has Scout and Ricky

Biscuit has as much fun jumping into the creek as Vicky does

Chatted for a while before we headed into Bateman's Bay for lunch.  We were going to go to the Mariner's, but it was closed til early June.  So went to Catalina, which we've driven past heaps of times but never been in.  I had quite a nice pork belly salad.

Went back to Kit's and everyone else had a nap while I did a jigsaw.  Only 250 pieces but quite tricky - basically just had to pick up a piece, figure out where it went, rinse and repeat 250 times.

Then Kit and Pete and I played a couple of games.  First What Next? (The Skyscraper Caper) which is kinda like a choose your own adventure, but we failed on pretty much everything.  Then Dragonworld which was decent enough and I actually managed to win it.

Since we'd had a big lunch, dinner was just ham and cheese toasted sandwiches.  Then listening to music on YouTube.

Slept ok Saturday night.  Pete cooked us breakfast while I followed Kit around doing the animals.

Had our breakfast then we came home.  Was 12:30 by the time we got home, and I was stressed most of the way home about losing so much time out of my weekend.  Not sure how long I can keep up this work nonsense, it just takes up too much damned time..

Sunday.  30th.  Backdated because once again I ran out of time.  Tacos for dinner and watched the last episode of season 3 of The Crown.

Monday.  Woke up at like 1:30 til like 4:30.  Sigh.  I don't even really know what I did all day.  But my birds came to see me after six months of not.  Got stuck in a call from 14:00-15:00 which meant I was super late putting the dishwasher on - missed the sun and cut into the battery :(  Had kale chips and chicken kiev for dinner and did a bunch of photo filing.

Tuesday.  Decent sleep hurray!!  Cleaning/migration stuff at work.  But getting super frustrated at all the stoopid.  Then did some doco for another team.  Because that's what I do.  Yellow curry for dinner - used up a bunch of stuff in the fridge.  But still ended up with a heap more as leftovers.  Was good though.  Photo filing then started (finally) on Lego Grandmasters!!

Wednesday.  Took ages to get to sleep because of cold feet.  But then slept ok.  A day of not getting anything done, just sitting there and dealing with everyone else's problems.  More photo filing, and my bowels started hurting again.  Sigh.  Honey mustard chicken leftovers for dinner.

Super low rainbow!!

Thursday.  Took ages to get to sleep - stressing about all the things - mostly about my belly.  Star Wars day, and they had two pieces of John Williams music from it between 7 and 8.  Cleaning planning and doco then just people distracting me.  Very quiet drinks, pizza for dinner.

Friday.  Slept ok.  More cleaning work.  Had lunch at Herbert's with the Chrises, Glenda, Neil and Tony.  We're getting to that age where our main topics of conversation are our health issues.  Sigh.  More Lego Grandmasters after dinner.

Satuday.  Slept ok.  Super productive morning.  Lunch at The Scottish Restaurant (got a double cheeseburger but it didn't have any pickles!  How rude!) then food shopping.  Fired up my old computer so I could scan some stuff and download the GPS for the Berrima trip.  Then music and suddenly it's dinner time.  What??  Sigh.  The sweetie cooked dinner though which was nice - oden - Japanese winter comfort food.  It was very nice. 

Then we watched the coronation.  Nice that it's prime time here.  We started off watching the ABC coverage but got bored of the republican debate beforehand, and the commercial coverage was pretty crap so ended up watching the BBC stream. The dude doing the deaf translation looked to be having a lot of fun heh.

Sunday.  Slept in!  A whole half hour!  Sigh.  Had breakfast at Deakin and Me which was nice, then dropped into Parliament House to see the Lego.  I haven't been in there like thirty-something years.  Also stopped into Bunnings to get some gum boots.  

Barely seemed to get anything done.  Did blog the Berrima weekend which took like an hour and twenty minutes.  Ran out of time for main blog of course.  Need. More. Time.  Leftover lamb roast for dinner, Crown, Lego Grandmasters.

Monday.  27th.  Backdating because ran out of time last weekend after blogging the previous two weeks.  Belly still hurting.  Managed to get an appointment with the doctor at 14:00.  APNIC training online for most of the day.  Doctor was like, eh, not sure, probably diverticulitis.  Don't have any fibre for a few days.  WTF.  I can't do that.  Especially since we just brought home a fridge full of salad stuff from the club.  

Tuesday.  APNIC training led training for the middle of the day.  It was a bit of a disaster really.  I struggled to keep up with the learning part, and the labs were a disaster, because they wanted forty people in two groups to configure twenty routers per group to all talk to each other with not very clear instructions.  The online learning and labs were much better structured.  Oh well.  John parked on our side again.  All fricken day.  Vodien got back to me about the perl/mysql issue.  They looked at it in https and said the problems I was having was because of mixed content (Movable Type hard codes my image urls as http://kazza.id.au/whatever and it's too hard to change it).  And I'm like, NO, it's a http site and you're not listening to me.  Sigh.  Stu reckons I should change blogging platforms, but my blog is such a behemoth nothing would be easy.  In other news I found if I sit close enough to my monitor I can see it better with my reading glasses.  And my main glasses are losing their coating and look all scratched up, so it's like trying to look through a dirty scratched window.  Sigh.  Had yoghurt for breakfast and a liquid diet all day.  If you google liquid low fibre diet, it's all crap like sugary drinks.  Gross.  Good luck if you're a diabetic.  So milk, oj, solo and some beef bone broth I found, and ended up with furry teeth and need to brush my teeth mid afternoon.  Beer for dinner, along with a bit of white rice and kewpie.  I went back to the beginning of the trip to try and figure out if other days had been affected by the time randomly changing on my phone.  Sure enough, it did.  Sigh.  My thought (at the time) was that maybe the phone was getting mixed up between ship time and gps time and just changing when it felt like it.  I. Hate. Everything.  

Wednesday.  So it's an epic disaster!!  Pialligo Estate has gone broke!!  No more streaky bacon!! Disaster!!  Completely traumatised trying to get a poop sample for the pathologist.  Nearly died.  But then forgot the form for the other tests.  Sigh.  Cleaning day at work.  Pizza for dinner because the sweetie wanted it.  It's low fibre right?  Watched some more of Avatar.  Turns out the Hallelujah Mountains are held in the air and float in the magnetic vortices due to the Meissner Effect.  There's a whole Avatar wiki page about that crap.  It was fun seeing the scene where they were flying around on the Ikran/Banshees because I'd just done that at Disney ;)

Thursday.  Took *forever* to get to sleep - stressing about All The Things.  Ok day at work.  More cleaning and working with Neil on cleaning policies.  Leftover pizza for dinner and watched episode 3 of Boba Fett.

Friday.  Woke up at 3:30 and never got back to sleep.  Sigh.  But!  THEY FIXED THE PERL/MYSQL PROBLEM!!  They never told me what was wrong, or what they did to fix it, or even admit that yes, they HAD in fact broken it.  I don't really care because my blog is working again hurray!!!!  Figured out that it's actually the time zone changing on my phone photos.  Most would be (say) GMT-5, but then others would be GMT-4.  If you look at the details of a photo the "top" time would (mostly) be correct.  If you drag it up, down the bottom you see the exif time, which would be wrong.  If you click Adjust, you can see the time zone, although you can't actually change it.  Sigh.  Watched You've Got Mail.  But just generally cranky and stressed about everything.  It's been a thoroughly crap week.  

Saturday.  Woke up early.  Cranky.  Stressing about phone photos.  There's no easy way in windows to see the time zone of the files in explorer.  I do have exif tools that show it, but nothing in a nice list.  I should probably script something to pull it all out with exiftool.  In the end what I did was do a dir /B, put the results in a spreadsheet, then use a simple formula to check if the numbers are out of order.  If the file number of one file is less than the one before it, it's out of order.  The first photo of the trip that was out of order was taken on the deck 9 forward deck.  Just one photo that day.  But more on subsequent days.  I have an exif editor that can do batch fixes.  So I have to pull out the photos that are wrong, run the tool over them to change their time, then use RenameMaster to fix the file naming.  Such a tedious process.  But the first few days that I'd previously geotagged had the old Date Taken hard coded in the files somewhere (in the XMP according to irfanview) and it was still using that, so for those ones I had to use Geosetter itself to adjust the times on the incorrect files before I could re geotag them.  Sigh.  By the time I got back to doing St Thomas on day 10 again (where I'd first discovered the problem and had already made some changes) it was a painstaking process to find the ones out of order, moving them out, fixing them up, and regeotagging.  So I spent all morning just fighting with iPhone photos.  Hate.  Apple is such a POS.  House stuff in the afternoon, and had sausages and salad for dinner (first real fibre all week and it was lovely).

Watched Simpsons (finished season 33) and Death In Paradise 4.3  Tried to watch Avatar on our tv, but Disney forced me to upgrade the app, but it wasn't quite at the right place and neither Stu nor me could find how to do any sort of seek other than in ten second increments.  Hate.  So gave up and watched it on my computer.  Not that I watched very much, then had an early night.

Sunday.  Woke up at ~4am.  Sigh.  (5am old time).  Had breakfast with the sweetie at U&Co which was nice.

Did a small food shop, then home to slog my way through the todo list.  No time for fun.  And too stressed about All The Things to feel like starting the next section of the Titanic.  But I did start a jigsaw.  Even though I don't have time for fun.  Roast chicken for dinner.

Monday.  20th.  Backdated cause of blog sadness.  Woke up at 4:19 on account of going to bed at 20:30.  Sigh.  But I'm only going to bed so early because I can't SEEEE anything on my computer in the evenings.  Had a look at the errors on my blog with Perl and MySQL.  Even my addressbook is broken with a similar perl->mysql error.  I'm just hoping that someone else running Perl/MySQL complains about it.  For now, we wait.  

Tuesday.  Ok sleep.  I think.  I started geotagging my holiday photos.  Also did some APNIC training on routing.  It takes ages when you stop to take notes, check mail queues, have to talk to people etc.  More geotagging after work.  Just before bed I was doing day 10 iPhone photos in St Thomas, and realised the phone had been an hour out in the morning, and had changed time half way up the cable car we did in the morning.  So I'll need to go fix the exif times and file names for them.

How good are these?  Mini toasts with cream cheese or blue cheese, quince paste, slow roasted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, salami and strawberries.  Doesn't take long to make and super tasty.

Wednesday.  Ok sleep.  Fixed up the St Thomas morning photos, only to find it's jumped back an hour part way through the day.  FFS Apple make up your mind.  Good thing I have the Canon to note what time we were *actually* in places.  #grunt.  Before we arrived it was an hour early.  It changed half way up the cable car.  Then later in the day it changed back again, and later again it went forward again.  Sigh.  And my eyes got tired very early today which didn't help.  It was raining after work so no weeding.  I can't SEEEE at night, so can't do any photo work because I need to stare at file names and figure out what's going on with them.  What else is there to do in the evenings if I can't work on my computer?  Drink and watch crap on the internet??  Sigh.  Started watching Avatar.  I first/last saw this at the movies in 3D and totally hated the 3D experience.  It's like watching a movie with sunglasses on.  So started watching it again since had just been doing a bunch of Pandora experiences at Disney recently.

Thursday.  Slept ok I think.  OMFG epic storm!!!  Lightning everywhere and it was so dark at 9am lights were turning on outside (I shoulda taken a photo!!)

Did some training, some Neil, quiet drinks, pizza, episode 2 of Boba Fett (really need to rewatch the first episode though, because I was so jetlag tired I can't remember much of it).

Friday.  Did one of the APNIC training labs.  Took a few hours oof!  Some tickets, documenting servers etc.  Pork and salad for dinner.  Then watched Glass Onion which was a bit of fun.

Saturday.  Got ready, cleaned the kitchen then went out to the club for a working bee.  With sore bowels hmm.  Not many people came and it was threatening to rain.  John gave us the job of cleaning the office.  He'd replaced all the insulation and so there was bits of the old stuff *everywhere*.  So we pulled everything out, Stu cleaned every surface, then I put everything back all neat and tidy, and threw a bunch of stuff out as well.  I should have taken a before photo, because the place was such a mess (not just with insulation but from several years of people dumping crap in there).  The after looks pretty impressive though!  It won't last though!!

The social was Mardi Gras themed, and someone said a rainbow vomited in the shed..

Dinner was build your own burgers.  

Noticed during cleanup that someone had left the small oven on.  hrmm.  After dinner was lots of fun music and karaoke, but I was finding it too loud so went to Ian's for whiskey.  Bit of a late night but not too bad.

Sunday.  Belly still hurting.  hmm.  I wanted to be gone by 8, but by the time I'd gone and spent over an hour cleaning up the shed (and noticing someone had also left the big oven on all night *sigh*) it was nearly 11:00 by the time we got home.  I brought home a tonne of food (mostly the salad stuff).  Since my blog was still broken, I decided to email Vodien support.  They basically tried to fob it off "did you get an email about any changes?" "no, and I never have in the past either but it seems unlikely that you *never* patch your systems".  Gave them some evidence of things changing on their end and all the errors I could find.  I did catch up on writing up the rest of my holiday blog entries, even though I can't post them yet.  Started a jigsaw too because too stressed to enjoy doing more of the Titanic.  And my belly hurts.  Chicken kiev for dinner and The Crown.

Sunday.  Chong Co for dinner because I went on strike and said Stu could cook dinner.  Finished season 32 of The Simpsons.  Then just watched crap on the internet because my eyes were too tired.  

Monday.  Slept ok for a change.  Finishing up crap at work.  Even remembered to set an out of office.  But I was having a bad eye day again and couldn't see my todo list.  So mostly just gathering stuff to be packed and laying it all out on the dining table.  Roast turkey for dinner.  Funnily enough the oven didn't trip while turning it on and then off again later.  Go figure.  And no we still haven't had a change to pull it apart and see where the fault might be.  Might need to convince the little brother to come visit some time.  Into season 33 of The Simpsons.

Tuesday.  Took til midnight to get to sleep.  Just felt uncomfortable.  Didn't think I was stressing about anything in particular, but well, you never know.  But slept in til 6:20 so that wasn't too bad.  Spent all morning packing and doing all the todos.  Had lunch at 10:30 because I won't get much chance to eat again til I get to Mum's.

And so.  I'm off again.  I still think it's too soon to go to America.  But I had no choice or lose $10000.  Once again the sweetie is not coming on this trip which is very sadmaking.  But the original point of this trip was to do it with my brother, and when the charter company decided to be @$$holes about everything, Stu said I should do it with David instead of him so we could still do it together.  Bestest sweetie ever.  Definitely going to miss him.  Yet again.  

Sunday.  Our basa bake dinner (with sweet potato and beetroot for another night)

The Crown in the evening.

Monday.  Blerf meeting all morning.  Electricians finally came to replace the inverter.  My eyes got tired mid afternoon.  It was a dark and rainy day, but the solar system does appear to be working.  The battery got up to 84% in the afternoon without any direct sunlight.  Frustrating evening because I was blind and headachey from not being able to see all afternoon.  

Tuesday.  Took forever to get to sleep then woke up around 5.  Sigh.  The battery went completely flat overnight.  It's not supposed to do that, it's mean to sit at like 10%.  So I got super stressed and grumpy.  Then I couldn't get Redactle out because it wouldn't accept "Earth's" even though I'd put that in and it had matched two other incidences, but not the one in the title.  Clear the cache they said.  It'll fix it they said.  Yeah right.  I lost my entire browsing setup.  Which means all my streaks and stats for all my online games are gone.  The waffle one upset me the most.  And I can't see.  I had a full on meltdown because it was all too hard.  And I haven't played any of those games since.  Meh day.  Stu did get Solar Edge to change the battery settings to not go flat.  We're meant to be able to do that oruselves, but as with everything else by Solar Edge it hasn't worked properly.  Had a drink and watched Star Trek IV in the evening because my eyes were too tired to concentrate on anything that required seeing anything on my computer.

Wednesday.  Slept ok.  Ok day.  Was having a nice quiet morning then All The Things demanded attention at once.  Made a nice salad for dinner.  The sweet potato and beetroot I cooked the other night, with goats cheese, toasted pine nuts and bacon, with an honey, oil and lemon juice dressing.  Annoyingly the bag of rocket I was going to use (that expired today) had gone all manky.  So this salad really wasn't the same.  It really needed the lettuce to lighten it up.  It was still quite nice though.  We won't talk about the heart attack I had on Friday when my poo was a burgundy chocolate colour!

Thursday.  Did a bunch of planning for a big project at work.  Did up all the doco and passed it onto the others to do when I'm on leave.  Also looked at what logs we might be able to trim down to save space.  Then had to be Neil all afternoon while he had bits removed.  Made pizzas for dinner.  Talked to Kit and Pete for a while in the evening (still too hard to do holiday planning in the evening because I can't SEEEE).

Friday.  Woke up at like ~3am til like ~5am.  Sigh.  Did a bunch of holiday planning before work while I could still see.  Had to be Neil again, and did some cleaning.  I had a good eye day, and I could still see in the afternoon so did some holiday planning after work.  I also went into battle with Optus.  Last year when they put my number on a different plan, they set it up in a new account.  But left the shared data plan number behind.  Shared with nothing.  I'd forgotten to stop the automatic payments on this account, so it was in credit.  But the credit was not being used on the new account.  Dumb dumb dumb Optus.  So needed to get the credit transferred to the account which is actually costing money (the shared data plan is "free".. go figure).  And figure out how to access both accounts.  Because I can only access the old one on the website, not the new one.  Turns out I can manage both of them from the app.  So lame though.  Made some creamy mushroom and bacon fettucini for dinner.  Bad for the sweetie but he'd had a crap couple of days and needed the comfort food.  Watched Star Trek VI together in the evening.

Saturday.  Woke up at like 4:30 and never got back to sleep.  Super busy day doing All The Things - house stuff and holiday prep.  Overdid it on the computer though and ended up with tired eyes.  Cooked butt beef cheeks for dinner and watched second episodes of Spy Among Friends and Death in Paradise.

Sunday.  Today.  Woke up at 4:30 and didn't get back to sleep again.  Another super busy day doing All The Things.  We I even cut the ivy back from the ensuite window..

Really need a longer ladder though.  The sparkies had one that went right to the top of the tip of the roof.  

Both days this weekend the Solar Edge inverter has lost contact with the server, so we haven't been able to see the stats in the app (or website).  We have to go flip the switch on it to reset to reconnect.  Solar Edge is CRAP!!  The other annoyance is when it was sort of working briefly last year the panels were doing over 11kw.  But I haven't seen them get much over 9 since they got it working again.  I don't know if that's just because the angle of the sun is different or what.  We'll have to wait til December to find out I guess.  We had an inspector come Wednesday morning and they found the sparkie hadn't done a couple of minor things.  So they were back again Friday to finish up.  I asked him why, once the battery is charged and we're maxing out the 5kw back to the grid, does it say we're consuming ~3kw, when we're *actually* only consuming about 1kw.  He had no idea.  He said he'd find out and get back to us.  He hasn't.  #grunt.

Oh, and the neighbour parked on our side yesterday morning while he was shovelling gravel from his trailer.  And hasn't moved his damned car back since.  At what point do I pile a whole bunch of crap behind his car in protest??

Went on strike this afternoon because I'm sick of everything, so the sweetie is getting Chong Co for dinner.

Monday.  16th.  Ok day.  Well other not being able to see all day.  Everything was out of focus all day :(  Music after work.  Did another tuna casserole, but forgot to put in the mustard I got out, and didn't have any chili.  Also didn't fry the onions first because I didn't have time. 

I also fixed the search on my blog.  For reasons unknown it's now taking ~12 second to do a search, which is over the throttle limit.  No idea why, it never used to do that before.  Anyways, in 
MT-5.2.2/lib/MT/Core.pm
I changed
'SearchThrottleSeconds'     => { default => 30 },
(it was 5 previously).

I still haven't fixed the problem of getting a "405 Not Allowed" (nginx) whenever I post.  Fortunately it does actually post.

Tuesday.  Had Kit come over in the evening.  Had sausages and salad for dinner and ate and drank and chatted so that was lovely.

Wednesday.  18th.  Twenty years since the bushfires in Canberra.  I wasn't here then, but I did blog about it.  Herbert's with Frank and Karen and Tony, as a last hurrah before going into quarantine.

This was on Spider's monitor at work and I rescued it and took it outside

Chicken burger at Herbert's

Thursday.  Woke up at ~3:20 for like two hours.  Sigh.  Felt like a Friday because I was home after being at work.  

Friday.  Slept somewhat better.  Except then it felt like a Saturday.  Sigh.  Did twenty minutes of weeding during the day.  Did some actual cleaning in the afternoon which made me feel like I'd actualy achieved something.  Felt like I had a sore throat all day.  Leftover chicken for dinner.  Two episodes of Bocchi the Rock.  Went for a wander with the sweetie so he could play with his new camera.

Saturday.  Woke up at ~1am and didn't get back to sleep until after 5.  Sigh.  So a complete zombie day.  Also my throat was very sore - it hurt to swallow.  But not like a viral sore throat - more like a bacterial sore throat. I know I did a load of washing and a couple of small jigsaws, but I don't really remember much else.  Oh I did setup a travel blog. Made a nice salad to go with dinner Stu cooked - pork mince meatballs.  Then finished Bocchi the Rock.  

Sunday.  So by all accounts it seems third party apps are officially banned from Twitter.  I put up post that said something like

"I can't believe @elonmusk is still blocking @echofon.  Is he *trying* to push people away from the platform??  What a bad manager.  Watching @twitter die a slow painful death".

And had my account suspended for 12 hours for "engaging in targeted harassment of someone".  Bots clearly can't read tense, or understand any context.  Just pick up on a few key words and make assumptions.  It's still suspended I think because it wanted my phone number to reactivate.  Meh.  Twitter is going to implode.  At least if Elon Musk is allowed to keep running it into the ground.  And then I'll laugh.  I joined fifteen years ago as a way to post updates on our honeymoon.  Other than Chris Hadfield, Aviation Herald, Flightradar24 and posting Wordle scores I really don't care about Twitter anymore anyway.  

Talked to David in the morning about our cruise and we planned out the shore excursions we want to do.  We both like to see as much as possible, don't want to pay for crap we don't have to, and stress about taking cameras near water.  And he one point he said "isn't it nice that our interests align" which I thought was pretty cool :) 

Went for another walk with the sweetie in the afternoon.

Roast turkey for dinner, and finished season 2 of The Crown.  And my throat was feeling much better hurray!