I'm being bullied while I'm eating dinner...

currently watching a mate midlife crisis himself into a destroyed marriage and redpilled victim spiral that will eventually make him a pathetic, sad old man. Sadly, his reaction to some of the best friends he doesn't realise he has trying to pull him out of it means that sympathy is running thinner and thinner on the ground. It sucks.

One of the kittens squeeks at me.

MY DAY IS MADE!!!

1 degree tonight however is not so fun :(

Oooh... The tingly throat of dooom...please just be the cold weather. Scotch and honey and bed

-1.2, feels like -3.4

I should move to Ballarat, it's 2.2 degrees there!

This sudden cold is a bit of a shock to the system. I've turned on the old panel heater for a bit to give the reverse cycle a hand. The temperature inside has now reached double digits.

Credit card number got stolen over the weekend. CBA flagged a large purchase in the USA.

New cards are on the way, time to update the automatic payments again.

Pain.

since I've been fairly negative heres a positive thing: Really impressed with Vodafone so far. Seems to work better along the dandenong corridor than telstra ever did.

I’m about to be outside for awhile.

I’ll come back as a snowman.

Already down to 8C outside. Gonna be a very chilly night hope everyone is staying cozy.

A lot of people sick from work, it's that time of the year again.

I have just discovered Don McMillan's stand up. It is gold. Engineer jokes by the bucketful.

Example : ebay - the internet = garage sale.

Example : a physicist, a biologist and a chemist go to spend a day at the beach. The biologist goes out snorkelling, gets entranced by the underwater plant and animal biota, forgets to check his air flow and drowns. The physicist sees that the biologist has not returned and goes out to check his last known location. He gets entranced by the pressure gradients, wave effects etc., forgets to check his air flow and drowns. The chemist looks around, can't see either of them, gets out his notebook and writes "biologists and physicists are both soluble in water".

Creative use of venn diagrams is a bonus. Love the guy.

the longer I work at this place the more convinced I become that half of the office should be fired for gross incompetence.

I road tested the Aldi peanut butter block of chocolate up against Whittaker's and I was quite underwhelmed.

Aldi: It was very sweet. Gritty. It scratched the itch but I probably wouldn't get it again because there are better ones in that range. 3.5 / 5 yum yums.

Whittaker's: Perfection 5/5 yum yums.

sniffle sneezy cold is still colding

Just listed something on Marketplace, and a fake profile messaged with a name combining two authoritarians from WW2.

Hard rubbish bonus: as well as the corflute there was a large carpet mat in good condition. It should work well for the shoe area I'm planning in the garage.

sky pretty

After a whole lot of fighting with chatgpt ("NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR") and about 204920392039 "final" versions of the script (very human in that way), I think I've managed to spit out my most important plots the way they should look, formatting 'n shit 'n all.

Now to start getting that skeleton together as I inch ever closer towards the Vortex of Reading to flesh out each section. I'm usually the best at literature review type things but only if I've got (a) incredible structure, and (b) a looming deadline... c'mon brain. You can do it!

e: distraction moment... woah!! Nicolette Boele might have flipped the seat of Bradfield in NSW at the very last minute by a mere 40 votes! What a close outcome! If this goes to the Teals it will be historic once again - a seat that has been 100% Lib ever since it was created in 1949.

BLOONS!

YT has started to flag AI generated fake Jordan Peterson videos.

Interesting.

Slow slow start today but I'm finally in the uni libary and have written down some big dot points. Yes, today is another day, and maybe it will be different from the previous two days.

I did have an L-theanine capsule with my coffee today in the hopes that it helps with more focus. I'm down to three left; maybe I should place an order on iherb now... edit: nevermind, CW has it click and collect just across the road from mine, that'll do.

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Plans for today:

Menu planning. I have a bunch of free food kit boxes here and ordered, I need to sort everything out and make sure I have no foodz left over on moving day.

Bunnnings trip. I need to get keys cut and organise some potting mix so I can pack up some of my plants. I was going to look at getting some corflute to block off a couple of gaps in the new fencing, but I noticed a hard rubbish pile this morning that has a stack, I will stop off there instead.

Pot up a few of my plants I want to take with me.

Fridge cleanout. I need to toss everything I won't be moving, and will pack some stuff up to take to Ballarat tomorrow - I have a small chest freezer and new fridge/freezer up there already, so will be moving most of my frozen food. All the meal delivery boxes and ice packs will be very helpful for that.

If I still have any time/enthusiasm I can start packing up a few boxes of things I use least, but most likely that will be done later this week.

Wake up at 7, give doggo food then he goes outside to lie down on bluestone for 10 mins.

Just set up a google nest thing for aunt yesterday.

'Hey googs, what temp is it'

'it is 2 degrees'.

i think my favourite thing about this toy is finding all the different (rude) ways to turn it off when streaming. 'Shut the fuck up' actually works to my surprise.

Edit: trying to set up handfree calling.

"hey googs, call mum"

'I'm sorry don't have the number".

Tried it 10 times. each time afterwards it asked 'who would you like to call'

Gave up and said 'ghost busters'. and it turned itself off lol.

These Hokkien noodles I bought last week are horrible. They’re all soft and gluggy and not very nice.

The aldi ones are way better.

9 more days of this sadly :(

Definitely too early to say anything and may be placebo effect but the L-theanine worked so well today that I decided to read more about it...

That has taken me down some rabbit holes about the COMT gene and interaction with neurotransmitters - I definitely know I should take it all with a grain of salt especially with no training in this shit, but a slow COMT gene would seemingly explain so much about why I'm so sensitive to stimulants and have to be careful about balancing them with other things so that I can use the energy and then relax at night (I haven't been able to fall asleep without distractions for years). And why moderate exercise works much better for me than intense (not that I've done either in ages tbh).

I mean, the human body is so complex I do wonder if this is only a few steps removed from woo supplement science. But I'll see if the L-theanine continues to work and maybe look at whether I can get tested in Australia (I've previously had pharmacogenetic testing done for various psychiatric drugs but not stimulants).

Mrph