Monday. Slept ok but still woke up tired. Did change paperwork for proxy upgrade in the morning. Did test in the afternoon. Test lulled us in a false sense of security that prod will be smooth too.. hrmmm. We both cooked dinner. Stu used some mince I cooked and made "chorizo mince", I did a cauliflower/broccoli bake and zucchini and capsicum.
Tuesday. Ok sleep. Spent most of the day doing further proxy cleanup and tweaking. David has now booked his flights and the hotels for our cruise next year. But on the same day I got an email from the cruise company noting that my credit card has expired. I literally started feeling queasy and anxious about having to deal with them yet again. We still need to swap out Stu for David. I don't think I can deal with the stress of that, might need to delegate that job.
So this is what I mean about the negative discolouration. The top sheet is from May 1983. It has a bit of a peach tint to it, so the scans come out a little green. The bottom sheet is from December 1994. It's very blue, so the scans come out bright yellow. Very upsetting. Means I'm going to need to keep the prints for some of these when Mum carks it, because they are in better condition than the negatives. I wonder if Fuji has fared any better over the years (pretty sure she switched to Fuji at some point).
Also. Petrol!
Wednesday. Proxy stuff. Again. Brisket with veggies, with some spinach Stu cooked for dinner. Finished labelling all 719 Victoria photos ready for the blog. Started culling other bits and pieces, like motels, flowers, bugs and other stuff. They will have separate new posts other than the daily posts.
Thursday. Couldn't get to sleep til way past midnight :( Another proxy day.
Oh no, not again. We need to give Coles a bowl of petunias.
Caught up on the whisky night from last week (Neil still had some of everything!). Not doing it on the main night meant I also got to get them all at once so I could compare and contrast them (normally there wouldn't be enough glasses to do this). Only half shots of all these!!
Dinner was no-carb pizza. An idea I got from Jeff at work. Basically you just skip the base and have a cheese pizza. OMFG it was so good!!!
Friday. Still working on proxies. Stumpy kept me company for a whole hour in the morning. My butt was getting sore by the end of it!
Had lunch at Herbert's with a couple of Chrises, a Wello, a Tony and a Glenda. I had the pot pie this time.
Tv dinner for dinner and then watched Sleepless in Seattle. Which was a given after seeing An Affair to Remember last week.
Saturday. Woke up at 4am and didn't really get much sleep after that. Did a Coles run in the morning.
Then spent most of the rest of the day trying to get organised. I wanted to see if the travel insurance I got in November last year would cover covid hospitalisation. According to the PDS it probably doesn't, because I had no choice but to get it because I had a credit that needed using up by December 1. Turns out literally five days later they changed it to include covid cover. So then I had to email them to see if I'll be covered. Because I certainly don't want to have to get a whole new policy. If I did I certainly wouldn't be giving THEM any more of my money. But it also meant I couldn't do much else holiday-wise until it's sorted.
In my scanning during the week there were a couple of frames that scanned with mostly the correct colour balance because they were taken in caves with pure black. Which meant pure clear on the negative. So the scanner software kinda got the colour balance right. So I was able to redo two whole rolls by putting the frames in those three slots. But it was super tedious. Salmon and cabbage for dinner, then episode three of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Then we watched The Constant Gardener. It was pretty good. Except for Justin's scenes in his Nairobi house that just had *too* much of a green colour shift. The colour just looked wrong. Made it look like he was back in London, when he wasn't.
Sunday. Breakfast with Tony at Little Oink. Just me though, the sweetie wasn't feeling it.
Then a walk up Mount Painter (the sweetie would definitely not have liked that haha).
Government House
Woden and the Arboretum
How ugly is this epic monstrosity of a car park at the Arboretum? All pay parking too. I feel like I should avoid the place on principle.
Denman Prospect and Mount Stromlo
Whitlam
Belconnen
Then it was continued trying to keep up with life. Put some black plastic sheeting the plumbers left behind over the periwinkle next to the lemon tree. Hoping it'll mostly kill it. Continued fighting with the scanner and negatives. Even using the "correct" colour balance settings with the three frames that got it mostly right, the scans were still coming out bright yellow. Very upsetting. Also tidying emails and attachments, paying bills etc. Then cooking All The Food for the next few days.
