No cancer!!!! Woooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

I've embarked upon a fitness journey again. I got reasonably fit and lost weight a couple of years back (actually not sure how long ago it was) but let it all go for some reason/s (tiredness? The lure of cakes?) I downloaded an app called FitOn and have been doing short low impact routines from there for the past 4 days, sometimes twice a day. I already feel better (altruism?) and I think my balance and strength has improved, so I've got that going for me at least.

My presentation went so well! Got really great feedback from the people who attended, small group but all really engaged. Hopefully I get some new clients out of it. I think I'll get to roll it out at another co-working location too.

I catered too and ordered waaaay too much food. I'll be eating sushi and sashimi for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next few days.

I gave Gibson a bit more gabapentin and she’s staring at the wall licking her cone lol

Patient is a bit wobbly but doing ok!

If you got sent this before an interview for a low paying role, what would you think:

“Just a quick heads-up – this role will report directly to “ some guy” our new Victorian Call Centre Manager and myself, so I thought I’d give you a quick intro before we chat.

I’m a proud father of two beautiful girls (ages 2 and 5), originally from Sydney, and have spent the last 20 years leading high-performing sales teams. I bought my first property at 21, and while I’m not a micromanager, I do have high standards. I’m naturally competitive (ex-athlete mindset!) and love surrounding myself with people who are driven to be the best – and I expect the same from my team.”

Honestly curious what you guys think working under this person would be like.

"Dear Nath & wifey,
In lines with 'jus coz policies, we're increasing your rent to $800/week starting somedate soon.
lots of love,
Real estate agent on behalf of boomer landlord who has at least three other properties with us."

So much for the raise my wife just earned through her awesomeness. 😞
$41,600 per year in just rent.

Random street find: strip of stickers of exotic chickens 🖤

Huzzah got the soundcard and HDDs. Place I got the HDDs from threw in a tiny (9g) packet of jelly babies lol which was a nice touch.

Will finally have a functional studio again. Can't wait to make some glorified synthesised fart noises with 2.5ms latency.

Work is just under 14km away and the bike says it can do 15km on the lowest assist setting and 8 on the highest. Lets see if i have to do some manual pedalling on the way to work today

Yesterday I was falling asleep in the waiting room. Came home completely exhausted and slept. The glands are really swollen in my neck and under my arm so either I’m sick or have a quietly simmering infection.

In the (daylight) morning I’m just going to shove everything into the other room and do a quick sweep. Crack the door for some fresh air, put dishes to soak in hot soapy water, change bedding. Clean litterboxes.

Despite the fact I overheard "we should have ice cream for dinner" the fam ate pretty healthy while I was recuperating. No dishes to be done and no eggs left.

I think eating much less dairy ( I might have one thing a week ) and no bread has made me lose weight. I'm not complaining.

It's great being able to play Silksong on a laptop as I can do it in the bedroom when the kids don't settle properly, but I think I should save some of the harder stuff for the big computer. Silksong has an uncapped framerate so maybe the extra responsiveness of the big monitor might make a difference. Plus, the game looks gorgeous in 4k

I've tidied up a playlist of albums from 2022 I want to listen to and now it's 1 song from each album, so I can scroll through the list easier and go to the album to add to my queue. There are 125 tracks in there, each representing a larger album. I should probably do this for my other playlists as well.

That being said, the way we have to track and group music through streaming is terrible and this interface shows how the platforms are trying to kill the album. On Youtube Music you can't even sort things by release date, which is bullshit because alternative Youtube Music frontends let you.

I swear to god, if a streaming service offered something like album shuffle, or album playlists I would switch in an instant.

I listened to the audio books of the Helen Forrester autobiographies a few months ago, recommended by CEO here. ( TY 😽 )

I just can't stop thinking of them. The books have truly changed how I see poverty, how people talk about poverty and my life too.

sadly, in the family described by Helen the excuse of poverty was fake, cruelty and selfishness was the point , I know this is not normal for poverty, what Helen described was financial abuse, child abuse, not poverty

Found this nice docu-gif about a St Kilda pidgeon lady. https://i.imgur.com/jeg1LqE.mp4