Sunday. 16th. Not backdating for a change :) Pic of the kale chips I made as part of dinner. This was 15 minutes, some bits were a little overdone.
Monday. 17th. Woke up around dentist time for like an hour and a half. On the weekend I got back into collecting some extra data from Dad's slides, to help organise them better. Because he would mix up rolls to put things together by subject. Which is fair enough, but some slides don't have dates (I still need to find out if he ever digitised his slide labels from the books he had which have been lost) but do have processing dates sometimes, or can be linked together by the type of slide etc. He also mixed like three trips up north into one collection, and bushwalks to the same area together. I want to be able to get them back into chronological order for filing. So more of that before work. Tried to do one thing, which took all day because of everything else I had to deal with. I tried to talk to the optometrist about whether the strain for distance is good strain (help reverse the myopia) or bad strain (make it worse). But the receptionist called me back, not the optometrist, and said the optometrist said just not to do it. And I'm like that doesn't answer the question, but of course she didn't have the answer, and wouldn't find out because he'd just said Don't. Fricken sigh. Hate. Cranky all afternoon. And I was cold and hungry ALL DAY (well except for briefly after lunch of nice warm noodles and a walk in the sun). Leftovers for dinner. Tried emailing some peeps to confirm their email addresses before I emailed photos, but Gmail intermittently wouldn't accept mail from Internode:
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.3.0 - Other mail system problem 550-' This mail is unauthenticated, which poses a security risk to the sender and Gmail users, and has been blocked. The sender must authenticate with at least one of SPF or DKIM. For this message, DKIM checks did not pass and SPF check for [kazza.id.au] did not pass with ip: [--]. The sender should visit https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#authentication for instructions on setting up authentication.
Some went through but others bounced. So then I had to fight with Vodien to get an SPF record setup. Internode is super helpful (https://www.internode.on.net/support/guides/email/spf_records/) providing the text to use for their mail servers. But Vodien support was like, do it through cpanel, which is dumb because the cpanel host doesn't "own" the domain per se. Of course that didn't work. Then the actual Vodien DNS manager kept complaining about an invalid name. They actually want you to put a name which is daft because TXT records don't have them. I hate EVERYTHING. Too cranky and depressed to do any Titanic.
Tuesday. Slept okish I guess. Well, after I finally got to sleep, which took like two hours because my feet were cold and wouldn't warm up. Mail policy staring day. Weeding at lunch. Music, cheese kransky and cabbage for dinner (finally finished the cabbage that's been in the fridge since probably January - that stuff just never goes off!!).
Blogged the week before last, which took up most of the evening. Then finally finished watching Avatar. Only took like two weeks hehe.
Wednesday. Took a while to get to sleep again because my feet were cold. Lots of work with Neil. We're probably going to end up deleting half the ruleset on one server because of things either no longer in use or things can be combined.
Saw these at the chicken place and drooled.. but didn't buy any.. this time..
Herbert's for dinner for a tap takeover by Big Shed.
I tried all six beers on tap (half pints each of four of them which were good, not much more than a taste of the Brown (too dark for me), and most of a pint of the hard lemonade which tasted like Solo - yum! dangerous!).
This was the rep and their Golden Stout Time - which smelt exactly like Golden Gaytime - but didn't taste really like it at all. Weird.
Thursday. Slept ok. Had breakfast with the sweetie at 54.
Had a look at a routing alert from last night. Learnt a bunch of stuff and actually got to see some OSPF which we don't have much of. Also started thinking about some more cleanup work.
Managed to get a photo of the eclipse. Not helped by the iPhone not actually using the lens you tell it to. I wanted to use the 3x lens, which works until you put something in front of it, and it's like, oh you wanted to do macro did you, and changes the lens. So retarded. But fought with it and managed to get a couple of pics. It certainly wasn't very exciting from Canberra!
Quiet drinks, pizza, and finished season 1 of The Book of Boba Fett. We didn't see who was in the tank at the end, so asked Siri, Hey Siri, who was in the tank at the end of the Book of Boba Fett?" - and she actually answered correctly! Pretty incredible really.
Friday. Slept ok. Laid out all of Dad's 1969 Grampians and Great Ocean Road photos. There's two rolls that cover that part of the trip, and you could tell from the processing date printing which were which. You can mostly see the frame numbers (Dad wrote all over them obscuring parts of them).
Looking at cleaning stuff. TV dinners for dinner and Rocky Horror Picture Show (because it's fifty years since the show was first performed on stage). Also found a bunch of Disney Singalong movies.. that could be a lot of fun hehe.
Next generation of turdburgers that will probably eat the house again over winter
Saturday. Slept ok. Continued sorting of the Grampians/Great Ocean Road photos. I think I managed to get them all into the correct order. It helped having a bit of local knowledge (from having done the exact same trip ourselves last year). There's a few slides where the dates are clearly wrong, but not entirely sure what the correct date is. They could have been taken late on the first day, or early on the second. Got some house stuff done as well and got some holiday blog entries online. Gmail is still intermittently blocking my emails. Went out for lunch, got the loaded fries at Pattysmiths. Their fries are actually really good, don't even need the bacon and cheese sauce
Then went to the chemist/pet store and did our food shopping and suddenly it's two and a half hours since we left home. #grunt. Some getting organised, music and Titanic and suddenly it's 17:00. Sigh. Sausages and wombok for dinner. Then into season 3 of The Mandalorian, and some Death in Paradise.
Sunday. Woke up some time before 3 and stayed awake for at least two hours, then restless sleep. Sigh. Zombie day. Hurray. Did mostly house cleaning stuff, bit of Titanic, and lots of blogging. Also finally fixed my SPF record - you need to put the domain name (kazza.id.au) as the "name". So dumb. Also dumb: if you open a html file (that loads in Chrome), or a text file (that loads in notepad) it won't open in the desktop you're in, no no no, it opens in the default deskop, or whichever desktop you were using those apps in last (not sure which). Windoze is so hopeless. Is it beer o'clcok yet?
