Melbourne

My baby girl turned 18 today and she is going for her drivers licence. Please cross your fingers and toes for a good outcome. I'll let youse know in the afternoon. TIA. 🤞

Update: She just missed out. She's in a good mood though and she'll give it another go in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the well wishes ❤️

I made biscuits. They're not particularly pretty but they're highly delicious.

Butterscotch biscuits

Another piccy from Nepal taken from slides that no one asked for:

I'm pretty sure that's namche baazar or maybe tengboche and everest top left.

First time seeing snow. Also remember buying a mars bar in namche for $5USD which hurt. Beers at the tea houses were like $0.50c at 4000m elevation lol. As a 13yr old it was great. I was blamed by the teachers on the trip for spearheading trips to tea houses. I was just following everyone else but they didn't believe me.

I can has new cat channel screen

service desk teasing security for getting locked out of their account will never not be funny to me.

The man power walking through the house when he hears the garbos this morning. Priceless. The wife smugly says "I've already put it out". Priceless.

One way I can tell I'm enjoying, or at least tolerating, this new job is I've been here since January and I haven't felt the need to jump on Seek and just see what's around. That's impressive considering this is a mostly in office job, but it's close to home, the people there are chill, and I've been getting some actual results in the work I'm doing.

I was always passively looking at my old job at the more 'interesting' workplace, and same with the work form home job that sounded great on paper. I used Marketing Cloud in both of those roles and I feel like that was a big reason for me not liking both jobs.

They say people don't leave organisations, they leave managers. Maybe we should add shitty tools to the list of things people leave too.

Got 3.5 hours of sleep in the end. Got that weird dry-eye dry-throat feeling from not having slept enough... Note to self no motivation brew today after 12 noon.

Anyone remember that guy from The Other Place who was pretty hard done by and had a bunch of kids and he and his wife found out another was on the way with, like, basically moments to go? I wonder how he's doing.

Going to treat myself to more frozen chips to air fry and some eggs.

Been a really shitty couple of days dealing with stuff, the least I can do is buy food for myself.

Finished early because fuck it why not.

Fuck NAB. Time for a new bank.

Constant outages.

More Nepal:

One of my faves, in this village one kid got so wasted he fell into the latrine on the way back from a tea house but it was so cold it was frozen solid. We were all wasted so pulling him out was an effort. His lucky day.

This was in Kathmandu and probably the most confronting thing we saw. Funeral pyre.

ARGH. I give up, 3 hours of sleep really isn't enough to be able to force my brain to understand log transformations and regression curves all over again. I've taken hours to make some key amendments to other parts and make some notes... but once it hits 4pm I'm outta here. Try again tomorrow.

Probably also gotta accept the hit of $10 and toss out that juicy salmon fillet I bought on Saturday evening and didn't get around to making for some stupid reason (too busy making prawn curry on Sunday... too busy being a trash goblin on Monday and Tuesday). Boo. Whatever. Zzzz.

Yay!

Easiest call to Centrelink ever. I messed up the date of my partner's pay, so I had to call them to update it for my report.

Super simple stuff.

So it’s not covid, I’m just lurgied. Okay

beach walk 🙂

I heard a bad song in a meme and now wish to unlearn who Sabrina Carpenter is

I'm trying to pace out the last few eps of Andor over 3 nights.

It's so hard not to binge it all at once.

1st world problems right there

Stupid insomnia. Boo 😒