Melbourne

Little dog's been naughty today. In out in out. Told him he can stay out in the cold now. He hasn't knocked. I need him to knock so I can ignore him for ten minutes to teach him a lesson. I think he's teaching me a lesson.

Waiting to pick up the papou, having a mental bet if his social club is off and they forgot to tell me.
Edit: seeing a few of the usual suspects. Looks like it's on and he's still in there being social. :D

I was invited to a mutual friend's birthday party and I've met her twice. Could be a good opportunity to socialise but a) there's going to be a bit of drinking which isn't my scene rn considering the eight week fitness challenge I'm doing and b) scary. Do I go or do I not go?

I just put my oodie on I think I’m going to be in it all day except for meal time and cooking.

Argh just the thought of preparing food is making me cold.

Stew on. House smells much warmer. Now we wait.

My neighbour's backyard looks frozen solid

Think I'll need to leave the heating on overnight.. cold is just a bit much at the moment.

I don't remember it being this cold last year.

This local RE agency calls me once every 3 or so months about "amazing results in the area" and asking if I want to sell. I say I'm not interested, thank you, and then instead of getting the message to end the call, she keeps asking questions. I just said I have another call coming in and hung up. Go away.

Oh man I thought today was gonna be cruisey, and I did finish nearly everything by 1pm and stretched out my time at uni a bit, but being the conscientious idiot that I am, I decided to do one last work task when I got back to make up a lil bit of the 2 hours I was away (even though the deadline isn't due for ages and nobody's keeping track of my hours at this job)...

...what was supposed to be a quick half an hour jobbie spiraled into hours because there was a fundamental issue with the entire thing - like, someone's property boundary might be so off that either they or Council are in big trouble. It's way beyond my experience or pay grade, but I just can't let a bit of good problem-solving go...

At least it wasn't outrageous, I came home around 4:15pm and wrapped up around 8pm. Dinner, shower, bunch of tidying up, and now bed.

Also bloody hell, I think I do need a new chair, or at least reevaluate my seating height; my neck and back haven't responded well to wfh today. Alright, NO overworking the next two days.

Movie Review. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror. 1942. Youtube.

A blatant WWII propaganda movie, adapted from the WWI propaganda Sherlock Holmes short story.

The purpose of the movie is to tell the working poor and underclasses of Britain why they should support the government in the war against Germany even tho the working poor and underclass are abused and exploited by the British capitalist class.

The reasons given were culture, we are also defending working class culture, Justice, the British justice system is worth defending against fascism, Home, London and by extension the rest of Britain is home to all. IMO these were good and true reasons.

The working class did support the war effort and as a reward they were given the National Health Service and social housing.

America made a similarly motivated WWII propaganda movie called "The Negro Soldier" by Frank Capra.

The reward was the Civil Rights Act.

The working classes had "Why We Fight" and the reward was the GI Bill and School Lunches.

Australia and India et al, being colonies, needed no reason to fight and were given no rewards.

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