Flights are booked to visit cousin.

Pretty excited. Never been to Sydney before.

Completing a cert that I'm over qualified for. Necessary but, man this is going to be a slow week....

one hour in

I'm very glad to have an indoor day planned today. Grocery delivery is being dropped off this morning, so I'll be doing some packing of things for the freezer and making another batch of breakfast muffins.

The top temp here (Ballarat) is only expected to be 10 degrees. The whole week ahead looks pretty miserable - the highest expected temp is 13 on Friday, and tomorrow is only expected to get to 9. Plus rain and possible hail.

site: yeah we rebooted the modem but we're still not online this is your fault
me: ok cool, I've raised a ticket, can you please send me a pic of the lights and any flashing sequence
site: We can't find the modem.
me: ....

I just bought a $35 memory foam pillow from KMart. Quite an upgrade from my lumpy-no-matter-what, non memory foam $10 KMart offering - but that did a good enough job for 18 months or so. Fingers crossed for comfy

Goodnight everyone

sweet dreams 😘

Burnt out today. Too much stuff happening the last week or so.

Having a chill the fuck out at home day.

God I'm still so fuckinf salty over Neil Gaiman being an absolute perverted fuckstick. But damn his short stories really informed my personality.

One of my favourites is called Changes, about a man who develops a pill that can just cure cancer. The side effect is it changes the person sex overnight. The short story explores how people start to use it recreationally, discrimination that arises from its use, and how society evolves over the inventors life to incorporate this new way of existing. It's so well written, and I think about it often.

There's so many of his short stories I adore. Why'd he have to go and be such a fucking freak?

I still won't throw them out though, they informed too much of my childhood and I'm too sentimental.

Pizza night

Grilled salmon pizza. Mr Woof got a few bits and was very impressed.

I can has lights in my office, electrician came to change all the fittings ( after months of waiting ) . Yay, no more SAD

I was a bit disappointed that the ham I ordered was not available and they refunded me instead of giving me a different type of ham. But then the ham was in the order anyway, so now I'm very happy because I got free ham. It's a total rollercoaster of emotions this morning!

Nice, I wanted to get a larger Airscape cannister for my coffee but forgot to add one when I just got a bunch of filters from Alternative Brewing. This coffee place I like is doing a deal where you can get one shipped with the beans in it. Everything's coming together

Time for some errands then a little gardening 🙂

My mind is all stuck when it comes to the garden.

It needs unKAOSing.

learning to see chaos, to see it's cause, and learning to wrest order and calm from orchestrated dysfunction has been difficult but worthwhile.

Had a long meeting get pushed back so it felt extra long. Great use of everyone's time that you talk about what you're going to do, just for everyone to get up and leave for the day

Breakfast muffin assembly went well. I bought some 'muffin top' tins that are perfect for cooking eggs in the oven, and I can fit a dozen eggs and a tray of bacon in the oven at once. Assembly and wrapping is still a bit tedious, but I've now got a dozen breakfast muffins in the freezer with a lot less mess and effort than cooking in the pan took.

Now I just need to clean everything up, then vacuum pack all the meat I bought for the freezer.

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Mad flapping antsy nonsense after Body Corp AGM. Probably no huge weird bills, aside from water but that is another type of carp.

it lives!

Found it the other day in the cupboard. Hasn't been turned on in aaaages. Charged it up, gave an error message so I slapped it and hey presto: