How was your day dear?: February 2021 Archives

Tuesday.  Spent the morning writing up rules for new prod firewall, and put in a change.  Had lunch with the sweetie at Ramen O.  We walked straight in with no queue!  This time I tried the Yuzu Tonkotsu which was very nice as well.  Be nice if they had a smaller/cheaper option for lunches..

The afternoon was non-stop distractions and interruptions so couldn't do up the rules I'd written up.  Had refried pork and cabbage for dinner.  Got my quota of photos labelled and watched Amazing Race.

Wednesday.  Couldn't get to sleep til after midnight for no good reason.  Got into work early to try and get some work done before interruptions.  Only got half way through.  Sigh.  Ok day otherwise.  At lunch had lunch with the sweetie again.  This time I finally tried out Koku Super Kare and had the wagyu "don".  At $15.90 it'd be awesome value for dinner, but too big and expensive for a food court lunch.  Another place that would benefit from a smaller/cheaper lunch option.  

But where's the chopsticks?? Who would use fork and spoon for this?

Was just getting ready to go home when had to help fix a problem that one of the guys had accidentally caused just before going home.  So was very late getting home.  But that was ok because of the big lunch.  Labelled all of Mum's day five photos (only 103 of them) before dinner (of leftover pork and veggies), and finished the last of the lemon cheesecake.  Backed up my computer and finished labelling day five.  Then cleaned the kitchen and watched some Amazing Race.

Thursday.  Got irrationally cranky at ABC news technicians who can't control volume (it's all over the place with loud (or soft) pieces next the main anchor), not the mention the sports reporter that sounds like he's spitting into his microphone whenever he talks.  Did a whole heap of cleaning work in the afternoon that I've been wanting to do in forever.  Simpsons/Hibike/Amazing Race (the "hanging" challenge was just like Survivor!).  

Friday.  All the stoopid.  I don't even remember what.

Saturday.  Just a day of doing All The Things.  In the afternoon the doorbell rang.  I was half expecting a delivery of some sort (we do sometimes get deliveries on a weekend, including on a Sunday once recently).  But it was David!  He was up to run errands in the Big Smoke and have dinner with some friends.  Cooked @notquitenigella's Asian Style Beef Cheeks for dinner and watched The Dig, about the discovery and excavation of the Sutton Hoo treasure in 1939.  I quite enjoyed it.  

Sunday.  Was hot and uncomfortable and awake for quite a while in the middle of the night.  Hurrah.  Pretty quiet day.  Didn't get a whole lot done.  Not sure I was depressed because I wasn't getting anything done, or wasn't getting anything done because I was depressed.  Shrug.  I did pull apart Neil's ISS though to take back to him while I waited for a storm to hit us, that basically just went around us. 

I was hearing thunder rumbling and wondering what the..

Had to look around about to see the incoming storm

One of the pieces I had to pull apart was a new piece I haven't used before.  And it sucked donkey balls to try and get apart.  Had to make up a rig of other pieces to push it out.

Cooked up a bunch of roast veggies to have with some leftover pork for dinner, then watched some Amazing Race.  

Monday.  8th.  Woke up at 4am-ish for a while.  A day of cleaning and creating a bunch of new objects on various firewalls, fixing up all the problems I found along the way. 

I tried the cheesecake for morning tea.  It turned out quite well!  The base is 250g pack Nice biscuits and 125g butter.  The filling is 2x 250g packets cream cheese, vanilla essence, 1/2 cup caster sugar, 300mL thickened cream (whipped), gelatine, and the juice (~200mL) and zest of four lemons.  I was going to use the bigger tray but I was using that for roasting some veggies.  So the whole thing is quite *thick*.  It was also quite soft.  I have another recipe I want to try before I publish the final results.

Sausages and salad for dinner.  Got pretty much caught up with Eurasia photo labelling.  By 20:30!  So watched another episode of Encore.  Had to put a blankie around me because it was so cold!  Although I did forget to do the dusting/vacuuming and my washing in the morning.

Tuesday.  Had a very early start because Stu needed to be at work early.  So no scanning although I did manage the dusting and vacuuming.  And I bought a bed.  More cleaning work in the morning.  Went jeans shopping again at Target at lunch but that was an epic fail.  Either too skinny or too much room in the crotch.  And something popped in my knee which hurt a bit, but nothing too crazy.  I did manage to find some more sheets for our bed though.  Leftover lamb and greek salad for dinner.  Had all my photo labelling done by 20:10 so watched the first episode of the new season of The Amazing Race.  I actually tried to watch this on the weekend, but Channel 10 stuffed up, and the episode they'd labelled as episode 1 was episode 3.  Buttheads.  But they'd fixed it by Tuesday.  This season was filmed last year, but because of covid they stayed in Australia.  But it still must have been a logistical nightmare with various state border closures.  

Wednesday.  Couldn't get to sleep til after midnight, then woke up before 6am.  hrmm.  Finished prep work on some tidy up work, awaiting feedback so I don't break anything.  Tried again jeans shopping, this time at Best & Less.  I did find one pair that at least fitted without even needing to be taken up.  But of course the pockets are way too small - even smaller than what I have now.  I'm going to have to invite Sarah over for dinner and ask her to make me a bigger pocket!  They also have a button up fly which is a big poo.  But they only had one pair in stock, so I still need to keep going.  Sigh.  Just before 5pm our bed arrived.  They said three to five business days.  That was next day.  I'll save that for another post though.  Saw the second episode of The Amazing Race.  

Thursday.  Took ages to get to sleep again, then woke up at 4am with hurty.  Sigh.  When I was getting some painkillers I thought I heard a plop.  Kept getting stuff out of the fridge but I thought I heard another plop.  So I turned the lights on and looked behind the digital radio, and there was a fish.  Not in its tank.  Stoopid fish.  I must have freaked it out moving around in the near darkness and it zoomed out of the tank and onto the bench.  Lucky I heard it otherwise there'd have been a dried out fish by morning :(  Drinks, Dr Oc pizzas, Hibike Euphonium and Encore.

Friday.  Hurty again.  In the evening we had C over for dinner.  She tries to be gluten free, but we didn't have any gluten free pasta and Chris doesn't sell it either.  So my solution was to use an epic zucchini Connor brought in on Thursday.  I used the mandolin to slice it up thin and mixed in with bolognase sauce.  It actually turned out really well!  Except I forgot to take an after photo.  Whoops.

Saturday. 

A day of All The Things.  I tried to have a bit of fun, but mostly just tidied the house.  And we made the bed.  Jenn came over for dinner (Stu had Turkish feast delivered).  Then we played Carcassonne, which I just won.

Sunday.  Valetines Day.  I'd have wished the mother and the brother happy anniversaries, but, well .. Went for a walk in the morning.  Tried to count the species of birds I saw.  Magpies, currawongs, cockatoos, galahs, crested pigeons, rosellas, wattle birds, an lbb.. heard a raven and peewees but didn't see those.  They've also blocked the direct route up to try and restore the slope from erosion, and diverted the path a bit to the side.

We finished season one of Hibike Euphonium at lunch.  In the afternoon I did quite a bit of work organising the filing cabinet and pulling out stuff to be scanned and tossed.  Downloaded and processed phone photos but only managed to get half way through blogging last week before dinner was ready (roast pork with epic crackling!!).  Simpsons and into season two of Hibike Euphonium.  Finished last week's blog entry at 9pm.  

Monday.  Today!  Ok sleep I think.  Spent ages in the morning looking at a problem that was never going to be ours but how do you prove that.  After Ward and I couldn't find anything obvious we passed it to another team who actually quite quickly figured out the problem.  Felt like I'd wasted too much of my time though hrmm.  But I did managed to cut over to the new piece of poo firewall in test in the afternoon, which was super epic awsome, on account of it's taken nearly a year to get there.  Leftover sausages and veggies for dinner, labelled over two hundred photos, and did this blog entry.  Time to collapse...

No movies this week!  Gasp!  What am I going to do for a blog title.. 

Where were we?  Epic lamb roast.  31st Jan.  Backdated.

Watched more Hibike Euphonium.  

Monday.  Spent all morning renaming firewall objects to fit our naming scheme.  And documenting a whole stack of rules that had been done that I was going to need to duplicate.  Spent the entire afternoon doing all the rules - twice - on two different firewalls.  

In the evening a storm rolled through.  I was trying to run a script to copy "recent" files to One Drive (files modified since last backup), but the thing made my computer have a sad, so I ended up just shutting it down and disconnecting it from power and network.  There might have been just a bit of rain.

So it was a bit of a scramble to move the few things in cardboard out of the way and empty a few boxes.  Desperately need to declutter.

Had lamb red curry for dinner and finished season 6 of The Simpsons (Who shot Mr Burns?).  I never watched The Simpsons, but I do remember when the episode came out at the end of 1995 in Australia.  People were talking about it and I went and use this new fandangled thing called the internet to find out who did it (because the start of season 7 had already aired in the US).  Fun stuff.  So I knew who did it twenty five years ago.  Although not having seen the episode I didn't know how/why.  

After dinner fired everything up again from shutting it down for the storm.  Except the UPS decided to be a big stinky poo.  When I turned it on it had a fast beep and "reset battery" alarm.  If I held the on button down it would reset, but then it claimed it was in overload.  Which was silly because literally nothing was trying to use it (I even disconnected everything to prove it).  And then it got into such a state that I had to turn it off at the wall.  So now my computer is on mains power which is a big poo.  So by 8pm I'd only labelled fifty photos out of the three hundred I really needed to do to catch up.  At least the sweetie did the washing up yayyy.  Had another fight with windows, which has gone back to mapping by IP address rather than dns/netbios name.

Tuesday.  Remember that stoopid firewall that was being a big poo last year?  Well Wardie upgraded it the other weekend, which fixed it.  Go fricken figure.  So did up the bunch of rules I needed to do on it.  Only took like seven months to get to that point.  Hrmm.  Sausages and salad for dinner.  Did some photo labelling but ran out of steam and started looking at bed frames online.  Found one that looked promising, and found it at two different fly-by-night retailers (Eliving Furniture and MyDeal) which both got pretty scathing reviews on review sites.  

Wednesday.  I'd just gotten to sleep on Tuesday night when right on midnight there was this super loud BEEP BEEP BEEP times four.  I sat right up and saw an orange light down the hall.  But as I was sitting up I caught the cable of my phone which knocked it onto the floor which broke my brain.  By the time I looked up again the light was off.  This of course freaked me out.  Was someone in the house and they had a light on but turned it off?  I had to work hard to get the sweetie to get out of bed to come investigate with me.  We searched the whole house but didn't find anyone.  We weren't even entirely sure what made the noise and light.  But we're pretty sure it was the new smoke detector.  This is one of those ten year battery smoke detectors that you can't take the battery out of (disabling it disables it *forever*).  So we're going to be pretty pissed if it keeps generating false alarms.  There was a daddy long legs in the vicinity so we caught it, and I've been dusting around the area quite regularly in case it was simply a spider that set it off.

Had an ok morning.  Did an audit of a complicated ruleset, to make sure all our firewalls are in sync.  Missed our team meeting to go to a specialist appointment.  Had to wait for ages in the waiting room, the longest I've ever waited there.  While I was there I had to a listen to a woman rabbit on about how the covid vaccine is made from aborted babies, how the news is manipulative (well duh), how Victoria shouldn't have needed to go into lockdown last year, and how is that *noone* in Victoria is accountable for the security guard hotel quarantine contract - clearly it *must* have been Daniel Andrews that authorised it, how the government in Victoria mismanaged the whole thing, because NSW was so much better at dealing with it all, how America is overreporting their covid deaths because the hospitals get paid $15000 for every covid death and so they're reporting deaths as covid deaths even if they died of something else but still tested positive for covid.... omfg I was like *get me out of here* ..!! Seriously you can't make this stuff up.  Eventually I was called up, and I was there so long because he "didn't think I'd arrived yet".  Fricken hopeless.  I was literally right on time.  I did have lunch with the sweetie afterwards so that was nice.  Did some work with Neil on our mail servers which was good.  Had Kingsley's for dinner because the sweetie wanted comfort food after his crazy busy day, and I was up for that too for the same reasons.  Simpsons and Hibike Euphonium and struggling to keep up with Eurasia photo labelling.

Thursday.  So apparently two pieces of Kingsley's southern fried chicken is actually not a lot of food, and I woke up at 3:12 hungry.  Had some cheese etc but couldn't get to back to sleep for at least an hour.  I was pretty tired in the morning with "dropsy".. including probably $15 worth of fish food pellets all over the floor :(  Should definitely not be operating heaving machinery today.  I scooped up a goodly amount of the fish food, because $15.

Had a Lighty lunch that Jim organised.  Connor and I shared the "special" pizza which was very nice.

Watched several episodes of Euphonium in the evening and then I watched the first episode of Encore by Kristin Bell.  It was Annie, and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

Friday.  Apparently two pieces of pizza and a garlic scroll is actually not a lot of food and I woke up a bit after 4am hungry.  Sigh.  Fairly busy day again. 

In the morning Aquila messaged me to see if I wanted to have lunch at Herbert's.   Of course!!

This time I tried the pot pie which was very nice.  I asked for a small serving of fries so I wouldn't stuff myself silly..

In the afternoon we tested the rules on the new firewall with real (testing) traffic which was pretty cool.  Didn't get the paperwork written up for it though.  In the evening went and saw Penguin Bloom with EffanC.

Saturday.  As noted in my movie review, I asked Sam Bloom whether she became friends with Bron again or not, so I was pretty stoked when she answered.  Pretty quiet day.  Didn't do too much house stuff (trying to actually enjoy weekends).  Had a bit of a play with Gimp to do Lego mosaics.  Watched Encore (The Sound of Music).  Stu cooked dinner - sausages and cabbage.  Then Simpsons, Hibike Euphonium, and Star Trek VI in memorium of Christopher Plumber (I wanted to watch The Sound of Music, but accepted Star Trek VI instead).

Sunday.  7th. 

This is why should always carry a camera on your person.  This flutterby landed near me when I was collecting lemons.  I barely had time to snap a photo before it flew away again.

Wrote out a very long todo list for the day, although forgot to add Eurasia photo labelling to it.  So I did a reasonable amount but nowhere near enough. 

I might have done some decluttering of my bedside table drawers.  Some of these soaps I've had since I was a kid.  I think it's time to use them up.

I never made it through the list as far as photo processing and blogging, so it never happened.  In fact I was still part way through the list when someone came to collect Stu's old bed.  While we were loading the trailer suddenly the lights went out.  I looked up and saw this.

Then it was time to make dinner (lots of roast veggies with leftover lamb), and I even made a cheese cake to use up some of our epic supply of lemons.  I wasn't sure if it was going to work or not, having added so much lemon juice (200mL!!).

Simpsons - You don't win friends with salad!! Euphonium and Encore.