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Went out for dinner last night, got a porterhouse. Some drinks, more drinks at another bar. Aldi beer.
Then I promptly fell asleep at 11pm.
It's fun when my partner's birthday is within 10 days of mine 😂 he is my best friend, I love how we can make each other laugh.
I hope everyone has the best day!!
Ahhh, nice. Don't mind if I do.
oh my gosh where is that looks incredible!
Just out of Bright
god I love it up there. mount beauty is like my favorite place in the world.
Oh cool, I’ll be in Bright over Easter. Maybe see you at the brewery ?
Well, I’m jealous!
Bluestone moved! No monolith / stonehenge today :(
Surprisingly no injuries.
Moved some biggish bits of bluestone yesterday. Feeling that today. 2 more to go. One of them is about 1.5m long 30cm wide and 20cm high. Chuckin' it in a bluestone slab weight calculator it's over 250kgs lol.
Not sure what to do with the big one (or how to move it safely). Tempted to bury it a bit, upright in the middle of the lawn as a sort of a space odyssey monolith thing for no reason.
I used to love going to guitar shops. But I get treated like some kind of fucking exhibit these days. I went to one in Brunswick. I've known the owner for like, 20 years and he's super chill but rarely in store.
Not every musician is a lanky white dude.
I don't complain about racism pretty much ever, but it irks me in this context.
My 10 years sober present to myself.
Decent view on my run earlier. Turns out those forestry trails are indeed steep.
I think perhaps I chill on the couch for most of today
Did some adulting with bank accounts. Not only has the old Bond paid for the new door but there is no need to double count pennies unless we find a Must that has to be ordered Right Now. Utterly astonished.
Several buckets of paint stripper it is.
Good morning. It’s flu shot day
Good luck. Had a minor reaction to this year's batch. Nothing major just felt iffy for a couple of days.
Can't sleep, too hot, angry angry angry at having my work schedule upended last minute and not having the time I really needed and now running behind on things again. Forced back out into site visits when I had other stuff to do and planned everything ahead of time. I am firmly putting my foot down next time.
I'm going to be extra grumpy from being sleep deprived as well...
bangs table excitedly TRIPLE PAY MONTH TRIPLE PAY MONTH and yes I have carefully planned my leave to come around the bonus pay. Half of it to savings, the other half to buy me some fuckin' treats and I have now ordered the Bigtree I have had my eye on for years
This thing is fucking bright lol
I looked at that for nearly a minute thinking "surely that's not road legal" before realising what I was looking at
Had an awful nightmare about someone from my past and woke up to see that they’d tried to call me at 3:45am (number is blocked, but it shows in my call log). I sent them a polite email “this makes me very uncomfortable, please stop. Also I’m blocking your email address, so do not reply.” I don’t know if that was the right course of action, but I’m just… I just don’t want to see their name in my call log any more. They try and call a couple of times a month and I know it’s not for anything and they’ll always just say “it was an accident” or “I saw a bit of news you might be interested in”. Omg just stop.
why the hell is someone calling you at 3:45? Unless someone is dead leave me the F alone. Most phones wont even ring at that time.
The moon is a 5 cent piece floating in the sky.
All my dreams are physical fights.
And I woke up with a normal headache.
Weird.
I had a vivid dream for the first time in a while. It involved a work colleague I don't interact with much, speaking with them about work but also ninjas and karate on a long train ride to a suburb called Brain, where I was meeting an ex work colleague for her birthday party at a Japanese pizza and board games restaurant. I fell asleep multiple times at the birthday party and learned my male colleagues name (in my dream) was Wendy, which was short for Wendsley.
Helping the kid organise her stuff. Fake eyelashes, fake nails and hair accessories give me the heebie jeebies. Yuck. I need a shower.
She came out with a whole bunch of cables for her dad to sort through. He secretly loves it.
there are no sparrows or indian myna birds here, only native birds
me going through life sober
stressful thing arrives
handle it like a chef
destress
alles gut
another one arrives
-flips table-
You got this, stay strong!!
Thank you
Feeling better now but I think I'll work from home today just to make sure everything is cleared from my system. The last thing you need before a week of is losing a day and a half to sickness
I get ads for Temu which I'm quite happy to watch. Some things look handy and give me ideas but I'll never buy them from there. I like the kitchen stuff.
Today's ad was doggy wheels like the ones when the dog can't use his back legs. Doggy looked very happy wheeling around.
They really do sell everything.
My psychologist, psychiatrist and someone in my personal life who is not a friend or family member all think I have autism. None of them know each other, and have just told me that coincidentally at the same time. Unfortunately, it would explain a lot. I didn't even think of it until they said it.
The new work laptop has a Copilot button. The most offensive thing about it is the Copilot button has replaced the right Ctrl key. Remapping it with Powertoys hasn't worked. I actually use the right Ctrl key so the irony of this button promising a productivity assistant replacing an actually useful key that enhances productivity is not lost on me.
They seemed to like the drawn tutorial (with the original video credited of course) so I whacked up part 2 - someone followed them both and posted their results. There you go. I’ve made my first few tutorials and kinda become a teacher to others.
Now to actually learn how to draw myself and not teach people bad habits 🤪
I managed to get another weeks worth of antibiotics which will hold me til I can see my regular gp.
I feel heavy as lead and like I’ve been beaten by a sack of hammers. The anxiety has been bad today too which can be the low phosphate. The phosphate supplement has to be ordered in and costs $70-ish…
spoiler
I could have just tried to supplement at home with a dark fizzy drink containing phosphoric acid (ie. Pepsi, Coke, cola, root beer or Dr Pepper) but can’t have the caffeine they usually contain.
I would have to buy a more expensive syrup online and mix it with generic carbonated water.
the tide was out very far today and the water was so clear and still I kept walking in puddles without seeing
Just got a "how and why to vote liberal" flyer in the mailbox. There are two candidates in my seat - a Labor and a Green. Good work on the analytics there fellas.
