Melbourne

This is why I can't have nice things. Flyscreen-Licker lol

🎵 our home is girt by fog 🎶

I don't deny all this optimism since Kamala got the nomination and is now leading in the polls feels good. 😊

We weren't imagining it - plague stalking the streets of melbourne Take care out there folks.

It seems my original logon still works on my work computer - whew! May retire new logon or might keep it for use at home only.

My new raincoat arrived today, so it won't rain again for a good six months I reckon.

What are y'all grateful for today? Sorry it's kinda late.

Randomly bumped into an acquaintance I met through volunteer gardening at uni and we got coffee. Didn't get anyway to contact her, but I told her to come to volunteering next week. She quit last semester and treated it as a therapy session, but I'm sure the gardening leader who loveddddd her chattiness will be happy she's back.

Also grateful for actually going to in-person classes today. Even though we didn't do much and it was all intro shit, I kinda felt like achieved something just by being there and paying attention.

And the subject I failed two years ago because I didn't submit most of the assignments. The one assignment I did submit is exactly the same, just different names and slightly different scenario. There's the whole academic integrity thing that I need to uphold, but I can smash the assignment out in a couple of hours because the main ideas I have from last time.

Found cool citrus trees on campus behind a building with lots of fruit. And turtles. They're hard to get a picture of because of the reflective glass, but I will be sure to take one next time I'm there.

Overall, a good day. It's been a while since I've a day where mentally I felt okay! A stark contrast to the whole being sad over my ex moving on and lying in bed all day. I let it hurt, I caught myself, and am slowly getting out of this funk. I deserve to feel better, and am grateful that I'm finally realising that :)

I think I'm sick again today

Sleep school is alright. This facility is really nice and the staff are great. The food is a little lousy, which is to be expected. It's pretty much hospital grade microwave meals, but they're provided and you're free to head out and do whatever you want.

I should have taken the week off but with how everyone was feeling last week it was still up in the air.

Back in the land of the frozen toes, but I now have a dwelling with a split air system. I'm actually a little surprised at how well it heats. Even beats the portable fancy schmancy Dysons. And... there will actually be aircon this Summer (or whatever weird semblance of a season we have in lieu of Summer). Strangely, I have survived most of my home life without it. I am looking forward to actually being able to sleep through hot weather (although the weird fan in the face thing I had going was working reasonably well).

On my usual weird side notes because, you know, I'm always late to the party... I did discover Acrobat can search within PDFs in a folder. I lament past me for the amount time I have wasted remembering something and then manually searching through endless individual PDFs to find said something. Such a basic thing. (Also am sadly slugging away at a well overdue assignment. cries)

I hope everyone is warm and well.

Carls Jr going into administration, can't say I'm surprised, nobody needs to feel any FOMO on this one.

I'm disappointed lawn bowls is not an Olympic sport.

My "didn't think about food early enough and now I can't be arsed" dinner was a mushroom and goat's cheese omelette. And it was delicious.

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New avatar attached. I love it! EDIT: oops still have to actually attach ... 2nd edit : attached now.

My second horror movie set at camp was Stage Fright starring Minnie Driver for all of 2 seconds and Meatloaf fresh from his Grand Final performance.

Set at a musical theatre camp, the killer hates musical theatre and wears a Wish version of the ghost face mask and it's pretty obvious who it is under the mask. Motivations are nonsensical as well. But the musical parts were rather catchy.

4/10 for mine.

Just used UpDoc for the first time, pretty sweet. Got a med cert in about an hour for $20, didn't have to speak to anyone or go anywhere.

TW: medical things.

I've been helping the old man with building a medical registry for the last decade. It ended up being a really interesting project with a lot of stats (and a great bonding thing). Anyway he's giving a talk soon so helping him out with the powerpoint stuff scanning things etc.

Last night he showed me:

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One of the first survival graphs (it was the original document) for the precursor to that sub-specialty. My jaw dropped. What it shows is how quickly things were moving at the beginning and how they were all over it in the early 50's. No software, just a pen and typewriter.

Barely made it on time to work today, though the traffic was awful this morning with the fog.

I think I've also got the case of the minor sniffles now :(

Late anti-gratitude sentiment.

My mum bought a "urine detector" torch from Temu (it's pretty much just a low quality UV light) and our carpet is full of piss. My dog has marked pretty much everywhere and it's gone into the carpet.

Also 'missed' the 8am class because I couldn't sleep and it wasn't a good idea to drive. Fun fact: being awake for I think 16 hours is like having your BAC at .05. Or maybe it's 17, don't remember.

Mwave finally got my GPU in and sent it out. I sent a follow up email last week seeing what was happening, and they got back to me yesterday to say they're going to refund my shipping costs (18 bucks or something like that) and they'd contact the warehouse people to ask them to send it out as a matter of priority, which they did around 1pm.

I'm still a bit disappointed that they didn't tell me it was out of stock until after I gave them money, but shit happens, I suppose. I probably won't order from them again if there's an alternative, or it's something I want quickly, but they seem genuinely apologetic and djd refund the shipping costs, so they seem alright.

They kept the service as express though, so it's probably on a plane coming down from Sydney now, and will most likely arrive by 2pm. Hopefully anyways, because I think my current GPU is actually on its last legs, even though the only thing obviously wrong with it is the fan

Ooooooo that fog be foggy

Movie review. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain. I decided to watch even tho it had hugh grant

I grew up watching all those 40s and 50s brit B &W movies, the Powell stuff, all the war stuff, the david lean, the lavendar hill mob/ealing stuff, anything and everything from rank and elstree studios. I watched The Corn is Green and that movie based on The Citadel ( about coal miners )

And none of them were as fucking twee as this.

a town full of genuinely nasty people and they made it cute

and yet there is some real pathos here, these towns really were hit hard by the tragedy of lives lost in wwi

This movie was filmed with a grant from the EU. The town where this was filmed voted leave in Brexit. Now there is no more EU money to help support backward towns in rural Britain. .

100 hobbits indeed

PS, some lovely cinematography , also big music for a little story

After watching Twisters last week (actually really enjoyed it!), I had a dream last night in which a team created a giant shipping box that they managed to “tornado proof”. A huge tornado was coming, so we were pulling people into the box and bought in a little ship with these 5 alien creatures who we thought we were cool with. It then got... a little gory.

Earlier in the night I dreamed that there were 2 islands just north of Auckland that claimed to make the best chocolate chip biscuits and they were in a bit of a war about it and I was trying to choose which one to go do a tour of and it was getting real nasty between them.

Got the new GPU installed. Pretty snazzy. Also managed to not let anything explode, so that's nice.

The cable situation is horrible now though. The last GPU was powered entirely through the pcie contact thingies, this one needs an 8 pin power cable. Had to do some googling to figure out what I was doing and how to make it work, but thankfully it seems like whoever created these cables was smart enough to consider non smart cookies (me), and design the cables to only go in 1 way, so no explosions

Watching the olympics and I joked with the Mrs “how funny would it be if this block island was just down at like, Cowes or something”

She goes “yeah philip island was a strange choice”

I go “what?! They are actually doing it on Philip island?! You’re shitting me!”

“Nah, they announced it ages ago I’m pretty sure!”

“But they are sprooking it as some fancy tropical thing! And they’re just doing it down the island? You’ve gotta be kidding me! You can fucking drive there!”

That is just the funniest thing to me.