Melbourne

Just watched kidcalhoon1 in her swimming carnival. She did 50m butterfly, kept going the whole way, stayed with the stroke, and came dead last by about half a lap. 3 people in the race. Her reaction, I came third! With a big smile.... Right on kid

Found out yesterday morning that was going to be my last working day. Cue frantic tying up of loose ends and organising a handover. And that was it. Handed over my laptop. Now on gardening leave for 4 weeks. Emails and Teams already cut off. I’m not upset at this situation, just in shock that it was all so sudden.

Thinking of doing a short trip somewhere during this time. Otherwise there will be a lot of catching up on sleep, time for cooking, relaxing and preparing for what’s next.

8th night without power, in the Yarra Ranges. Really not good. The Outage Tracker seems to say that maybe tomorrow night late the power will be restored. Not holding my breath.

Finally watching the Four Corners piece on Woolworths and Coles, and nice to hear the farmer talking about how much of a hold both stores have on the farming community. I come from a farming (beef and bananas) family myself and I've seen first hand the damage they do by being the only option for farmers to sell their produce.

Also howling at the CEOs, they really don't give a single fuck, and they aren't even hiding it.

Now that I've quit vaping, what the fuck do I do with my hands when I'm walking around?!?!

Edit: The Tobey Maguire finger guns it is lol

I am being very clever and leaving the midnight party pie for a few minutes to cool down.

I'm tempted to leave it for a few more minutes after that because I know how this ends.

Got pipped at the post again for a house - we were told all the way that it was a matter of the highest price and in the end the seller went with the other offer because they could offer 30 days settlement and 'she wanted to give it to the first home buyer'. Never mind the fact I am, too - the house was Mum's.
Ah well, it would have taken at least $10k just to get it habitable, and that's before putting in things like a split system unit and blinds. And there's another property - a unit this time - just about to come up in a better location and ready to move in or nearly so. But still.

omg, now I'm feeling a lot better I can see how much housework there is to do. 😱 ( garden is mostly half dead too 🥺, some pruning, watering and feeding and most should bounce back )

Released from hospital, referrals to specialists, on and on it goes. Back to hanging in there and trying to cope with pain while I wait. I’m feeling like hell and very wobbly.

Still trying to get a quick stick vacuum in while Moobeans isn’t here to get stressed or breathe floating dust. I also broke out the scented carpet stain remover to clean away the last of the stubborn vom spots so hopefully the smell *of the cleaner is gone by the time she’s back.

I had a dream that I was dreaming. Woke up in the dream to sleep paralysis.

Then woke up properly.

Fuck that was weird.

Edit: It just happened again. Fucking hell.

Was just reading the other site. Did you know Australia used to have a Aircraft Carrier? Not only did we have one, it was extremely effective with 2 allied vessel kills to its name. Thats right. Allied vessels. HMAS Melbourne over the years took out both Aussie HMAS Voyager and the American USS Frank E. Evans. People died and that part honestly isnt funny. But if I had a dollar for every time the Melbourne sunk an allied vessel I'd have 2 dollars, which isn't a lot but its strange it happened twice!

Booked another camping trip. These things are shaping up to the be highlight of my year so far. Man middle age hits hard haha

I think I've come up with a food idea, unusual as it may be.

I think later on in the week I'm going to make a fish burger with cheese and tartare sauce and also add bacon to it.

It was originally going to be beef burgers but I don't think I can be bothered cooking burger patties on the pan and cleaning it up afterwards.

Anyone here done speed dating? The thought of it is terrifying but I don't now how else to meet singles. Apps fucking suck.

Oiche mhaith

The battery life on this ThinkPhone is spectacular. Also, I've been using gesture navigation instead of the 3 buttons for the first time and it's kinda awesome. Took a little bit to get used to but now I can't see me going back.

w00t, I just cleared level 49 of Bubble Town classic

level 50 crashes the system but we'll see if I can do it this time

Just had a ridiculously loud Harley zoom past. I thought there were noise limits on cars and bikes, but I suspect they are never really enforced. This thing was louder than truck air brakes, was verging on painful as it went by. The riders of these bikes must surely be deaf after regular exposures.

Fell off the wagon today and have made myself a cup of coffee. Maybe I need to try tapering off a bit more slowly, a second day of headache and fatigue was just too much.

Many loud sky explosions, and everything has suddenly become very wet. I think the predicted storm might be here.

Edit: And now ther are chunks of ice falling everywhere.

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this year's first chili harvest

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