Melbourne

a cool sunset tinted fog has descended onto the city

Alright 2 songs down to an acceptable level. I've earned some fucking around time lol

Tickets to Singapore and Tokyo have been booked, AWWW YISSSS

Well I'm off to bed now. I'm not particularly tired because I accidentally dozed off between 8am-12pm, but with a sufficient amount of melatonin and laying dead still for a few hours I'm sure I'll get there eventually...

4am wakeup 😟 very jam packed day. I'll post unsolicited photos of train stations that stopped being train stations approx 5 decades ago tomorrow Arvo!

Sorted 2 garbage bags of clothing for donation. Made maple syrup gingerbread people to try a different recipe (also used last of the golden syrup with yesterday's batch). Made different coloured icing and put it into little bags so the Minipeelers could get creative (and messy!). Don't think it's quite as good as the original recipe, but the original recipe is a banger. Took the Minipeelers out for a walk, was very humid and kinda yucky. Found bathing suits and goggles for Miniest for her school based week of swimming lessons. Locksmith is coming tomorrow to fix our door lock (Mr P's key snapped in the lock late last week and we couldn't get it out. Then he tried to fix it himself 🙆🏼‍♀️). Now I'm having McDonald's because I can't be bothered doing anything else.

Sky pretty. Glowing mushroom pink.

Gone now. And fog, goddammit fog! has rolled in. This is seriously weird.

Fuckit, ordered more food for pickup next week, I realise I'm just gonna be flat out doing long days at work. Still so much unpacking to do and life admin to sort out too. If I do cook it can go in the freezer.

Last episode of Fisk was bitter-sweet. Seems like they've set it up for the show to end, it won't be the same if they continued on with the characters' lives where they are.

Flights and accommodation booked for the other state 🕺

Watched the Buy Now documentary on Netflix. I don’t like the Netflix documentary style, but the message is still worth watching for. Am disgusted by how much waste we create. Not much we can do on an individual scale, and corporates and governments have no incentive to change anything. Consumption is profit. Economy above all else.

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

My foot has swelled a bit over the past few days. Probably a mild sprain. I should be more careful, feet seem to take ages to heal.

Done!

Time to learn a couple of new songs.

First on the list is "Orestes - A Perfect Circle (Acoustic demo)"

Done!

edit: alright, music is done, vocal is rough but in time. Solid enough to practice without needing the sheet music.

Next is "Right where it belongs - Nine Inch Nails".

And I figured out how to deal with the subtle racism when looking for a band. I changed my profile photo to me playing at a gig lol

I do not miss little flies. Ugh.

Back to Melbs today.

Have to leave behind the fence jumper Winston who just had a bath by his owners and here he is a few minutes later in my place rolling around in dirt:

80% humidity, vom. I have just remembered the Dry function on my AC so that's getting cranked up while I finally sit down and eat something - had nothing but a coffee and a handful of soy crisps all day, no wonder I feel like death.

Bed has been remantled, along with painstakingly working out which slat goes where; suitcase of Immediate Clothes unpacked, and towels and sheets. Everything given a good vac along with the bag and filters replaced. Printer sold. Good shower.

Need to unpack the boxes with pots and pans and just shove stuff somewhere for now. Then boil some pasta and I think that's it for today. zzzz

Reading a thread on the other place, from auscorp and people being fired for accessing data they shouldn't. Man, why? Like, firstly, the Privacy Act is really fucking strict, and is drilled in during training, with excerpts used in the e-learning and whatnot. Secondly, one user states their ex-colleague looked up the CEOs account for the bank they worked at lol, so so so dumb 😭

Reminded me of when I worked at one of the energy companies, and we heard Hugh Jackman had an account with us. We were told, so extremely explicitly, not to access it at all, don't even think of accessing it, he has an account manager so we mere phone monkeys have no reason to check it out and we'll be fired if we do.

Nek minit, my colleague left her brain cells at home and did the dumb. 😂 She was fired so fast time stopped for her 😂

Smdh

So just wondering, how do you guys keep cool during the hot days (especially when it's in the 40s) without A/C?

It's been so long at this point since I lived in the country without A/C that I've kind of forgotten how to do the do. I don't pay the power bill, so at the moment I have pretty much zero hesitation about turning the air con on the night before hot days to keep the house cool. But once I move, I will start paying for my own utilities, and in any case, the house doesn't have a splitty or anything, just a single gas heater in the living room

The only thing that's coming to mind is a wet towel draped over a pedestal fan or two. I'd prefer not to buy one of those portable ones with the pipe that goes out the window because in my experience they usually just end up heating the space it's in, with the only cooling being the air it blows out (mike used to radiate heat out the sides like mad). And I'm a bit concerned with energy efficiency

We're getting our arses kicked in the cricket.