Melbourne

I'm on the plane and about to go... I'm just gonna make this trip work! Au revoir.

Well after several delays and 3 flights and a long bus ride, over 24 hours from leaving home we are FINALLY at our first accommodation in Japan and I am ready to eat 50 convenience store meals and then sleep for 50 hours. Trying to bust out the Japanese after so long is breaking my brain. Next few days will be full on soaking up the atmoshere so I might be incognito over here. Thank you all for the wonderful messages this morning.

I still have some question marks for the second part of my trip but I've got plenty of flexible options and I'm not feeling quite so stressed out about it now...

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/article/i-changed-my-ethnic-name-to-get-a-job-i-lost-my-identity-in-the-process-but-id-do-it-again/f00subs99

Guess it's not just me sadly

Expert on abc radio saying nucular. Sorry, can’t take him seriously.

Alrighty. One referneces down. One to go!

Still not getting my hopes up because of the police check but who knows, they might be understanding.

Hopefully.

Shout out to PTV for using a replacement bus driver who doesn’t even know where he is fucking going. Cheers to the passenger who helped him out with google maps. If I didn’t have to fix something in the office I’d have already turned around and gone home.

Today's project inspired by recent events: I have bottled 6 single serve arauras.

I'm about to try dragon fruit for the first time. Brb.

Update: interesting. Not bad. Not flavourable. A bit like kiwi fruit's mute brother.

I'm just going to introduce my super secret recipe garlic bread:

I have apparently passed the vetting (haha) process to do dodgy art for Pets of the Homeless in a few weeks. If you wish to charitably donate and have your fur/feather/scaled friends artistically demolished There is an FB event thing on the 14th of next. [not linking because FB]

I am full of pasta and regret (that I didn't eat enough for lunch and then stuffed myself with pasta). Was yum though.....

I'm thinking of making sweet and sour pork using a jar of Kan Tong. Once upon a time I tried chicken tonight (some sort of "creamy" concoction) and that put me off jar sauces for life but I'm willing to give Kan Tong a go.

Mama's making Kan Tong, doesn't take long for the word to spread around.......

True

Sleep well everyone. 😘

Pakige

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In exactly 20 minutes (as of the time of writing, closer to 10 at the time of posting lol), apple with change the number on my iCloud account and let me back in. In preparation, I wiped my MacBook then forgot to do the updates. I never upgraded it past Mojave because I wanted my 32 bit app support they deprecated in Catalina, so when I wiped it it went back to high Sierra. Unfortunately though, I couldn't even install it because my clock was years behind so https wasn't working.... I had to do some weird shit messing around with installer logs and nvram to force it to download over http

I can apparently go to Monterey, but I'm not sure about it. I've always known Mac as OSX, and I'm not sure about this new OS that looks like a glorified iPad, but it's gonna take 7 hours to install (♥️♥️♥️♥️ Australian internet) so I guess I have time to think about it

Hot cocoa time

One of my workmates have enlightened me to some spices that they reckon taste like KFC seasoning.

I reckon I'm going to have to buy some and give it a try on some chicken next week if it all works out.

Stupid phone! Why is the mute button where my ear can turn it off?! Not great when calling emergency.

It took me one hour to write a fairly basic work email. Brain is in OFF mode today.

Movie Review. Tudo Bem no Natal que Vem with my fave Brazilian actor Leandro Hassam. This guy is as good as Groucho Marx, no lie.

this was a surprisingly good xmas movie, sincere, not overly schmaltzy at all. A cross between Back to the Future and A Christmas Carol.

4.5 hobbits