Melbourne

Hi Everyone! I had a computer disaster on Friday, and had to replace my home computer. And then sign in again to the DT. Aaaaaannd I'd forgotten my password, so I had to re-register and therefore am now the Witch of Thornbury instead of Thornburywitch. Will organise cute ID piccy as soon as I discover one. Suggestions welcome.

Do not talk to me about resetting my network access password - there are some things that are better left unspoken. This includes Optus Customer Service - which falls into the three lies for the price of one category imo. On the good side, the nice people that sold me this device removed all the bloatware - I am deeply grateful.

Taking today off 'sick'. About to head out and get a big breakfast and coffee.

Had a team member return to work today after a lengthy holiday. It's been so peaceful without him. Hopefully he has another job lined up and can fudge off into the sunset.

Have a great day everyone ❤️

While I do spend a bit more on energy working from home, the fact is it's still massively less than what I would have spent on public transport going to and from the office, to say nothing of incidentals that I might have gotten i.e. coffee etc.

And speaking of which energy provider is trying to jack up the prices by 30%. Yeah how about fuck off and sayonara. I'm already spending more this year despite the fact I'm using less energy compared to last year thanks to the split system.

I took Force's unwanted great day today and it was rather meh so I can understand why it was rejected.

Had a mix of running around to do laundry for stuff I couldn't do at home, and working from multiple places. The office was completely empty, which was weird and off-putting, but I was glad someone turned up at the end. Had my first in person conversation in quite a while. My body needed it but that has also now exhausted me, so I think it'll be an early night for me.

Tomorrow is the early start day. I dowanna... I also really don't feel ready to handle the drive again, after today's brief but awful time on the road, but I'll have to. At least I have my nice android auto unit to make it more bearable!

I think the next few days are still going to be slow. I am definitely not 100%. Stupid blasted night time cough be gone already.

Biscuits!

For some reason one of the trays had quite deep cracks in the biscuits, so I decided to dust those ones with icing sugar and will ice the others. Ths house smells beautifully spicy, it will be a challenge to make sure I don't accidentally eat them all.

thinking about moving to another dimension in a year or so but i will still offer food truck service

Mrs and i went and drive around a new estate yesterday. There are hundreds of homes! I knew they were building stuff, but all you can see from the highway is half a dozen new places. All look at LOT nicer than our mid 2000's build, but they have no supermarket, no doctors, no daycare, nothing. Our block might be a bit smaller, and all the houses might look the same, but I think I almost prefer our "jack of all trades master of none" home than something really awesome 15 minutes drive away from everything.

EDIT: Super impressed to see how a house would jack off!

Can anyone fetch me a coffee? I'm pinned under a purring cat.

edit: it's more snoring cat than purring TBH

Edit 2: it's OK now, I accidentally hit play with sound on a video of a steam train pulling into the station, Miss Meow decided it was prudent to move out of the way of the train. I'm now back with both my coffee and a cat on my lap, currently purring (may soon morph back into snoring)/

I envy people who have high energy. They can achieve so much.

Dear duolingo:

"The lessons start today at four" and "the lessons start at four today" are the exact same sentence communicatively. Don't start getting fucking uppity and direct translation-y with a fucking romance language.

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Canoe slalom is very entertaining, but what a bonkers sport. I wonder how many drinks were involved in coming up with it.

blarg, monday....

So I got the full story about the client today. A lot of history and some bad blood between the 2 organisations. Should be interesting once I meet them this week.

Also:

Cheese cat (excuse all the boxes, they're hers lol)

My 2 ingredient dessert

False alarm on the last comment, apparently it's some tradie dude measuring our fence to install a security gate. Would've been nice if somebody warned me so I don't prepare the battle stations and charge out as if somebody's casing the joint, but I guess not

I figured out how to export a list of the music people I listen to from Spotify and into a spreadsheet and I am having wayyyyyy too much fun with this.

I listen to 1,147 different people (on average that means each of them appear around 1.3 times in my liked songs playlist). Of those, 70 start with "The " (3 more start with "The" as part of their names, ie Thelma Houston)

I don't even know who like 70% of these people are, they just happen to appear on one random song I liked on May 7th, 2021, and now forever reside on my playlist.

But there's a JoJo, JoJi, Ruji, Bazanji, benee, war Paramore, Christian Wannerwall, 2 different doctors, 10 different dudes named John, and 3 little people (plus 6 lil people). One person is registered (®), one is incorporated, and there's 2 people with $ in their names. And don't forget Dan Andrews

I don't know why I'm doing this instead of sleeping, but I currently don't regret my actions

Gratitude thread :)

Grateful for warm showers

Took the kids to Monsalvat in Eltham yesterday. The weather wasn't ideal but it was still a great trip, it feels like you've gone back in time to somewhere in Europe.

And I do like the idea of a self sufficient artist's commune

Ugh… the house is a mess and it’s hard to move.

No rain here. Think I will go out for a walk and do some shopping.

later 😘

Looks like the first pack I’ll get will be the Rock Mix for Beat Saber.

For reference if and you’d like to add an opinion. https://aussie.zone/comment/10764343

Good Morning. 😊

The birds are singing.

It started raining once I left the front door and stopped when I got home.

Nail in tyre in the non repairable zone. 😪

At least the TPMS is reporting normal pressure values in the past 4 hours. It should survive before a trip to Bob Jane tomorrow morning.

Anti-gratitude thread.

The anxiety I feel in my chest. My life feels like it's in the shambles. Behind with uni stuff and done no meal prep. Also just woke up because last night I took my mum into emergency because she was having heart attack symptoms. She seems to be fine and is going to the GP.