Melbourne

Pretty sure I’ve had my last friend step down to acquaintance.

Stopping by after a very long absence to introduce you all to Mabel:

I am OBSESSED with her and I am just showing her off to every single person I’ve ever met.

Bird cage cleaned and renovated to Sir’s liking. He appears to approve of pea sprouts.

I bemoan chicken and vegetables, but holy fuck do I feel good today.

Like a different person.

Energetic, focused, motivated.

Crazy shit.

Edit: Noticeable performance increase at the gym as well.

Sun is streaming in my window onto the couch so I have given up any thought of moving, have made a G&T, pulled out the diary and sitting here planning holidays and just chilling.

I imagine this is how normies (ie people whose brains are not filled with depression etc) get to live all the time. It's nice. I approve.

Have made a report about last night’s yard screamer. The more I think about it the more it seems like a SA situation.

It's so dark 😓

I almost want to turn the heater on for emotional support. But it's 19 degrees inside so I will refrain. But it looks cold.

It really doesn't help that I've just returned from 10 days in a tropical island resort. It's like being plunged into winter all at once.

I feel like life is slowly grinding me down.

Omg it's 7pm not 7am

I was thinking: maybe I could be one of those people who goes around to schools and talks to the students about the realities of drug addiction.

Maybe.

The alarm to get ready for work went off and I woke to a text asking if I would like AL today. Hell yeah I do! Back to sleep for me.

The dog is harassing me for food. He doesn't understand daylight savings.

I’ve just had the most luxuriant breakfast

I love playing network engineer. Really all I did was unplug some cables then plug some different cables in, but it was still so much fun. I also made our internet not be as shit as I thought it was. Went from 200-500ms latency at 20mbps to 50-150 latency at 50-60mbps

I'm not sure how well the new router will handle multiple devices and concurrent transfers though. It's pretty much just a test and a way to make the internet usable for now. The old router sucked, but it could handle 20 devices just fine. The new ones for all these features but it's on the cheaper side, so I have my doubts

Edit: and changing the DNS server to 1.1.1.1 has removed the last bit of slowdown I was noticing. Telstra's DNS is kinda shit ngl. For the last 6 months I've had to use CloudFlare warp or my mobile data to access aussie.zone because it never worked otherwise. I ended up narrowing it down to Telstra's DNS acting like it's never heard of an Aussie zone in its entire life, which is how I learnt what DNS even is and how it works

TIL that little flappy bird thing that seems to be everywhere is called Pam

I'm not clicking because like, it's the Harold scum, I'm not a boomer. But I've been wondering what the go is behind it

7:30 and I’m ready for bed. Was awake at 6 tho.

Chook is awake. Time to get up.

Woke up at 6 today because my body still thinks it's 7 am. Laid about for two hours hoping I'll fall back to sleep. Not happening.

Meanwhile I see the weather is the usual Melbourne perma-grey. Thank God I'm going to Vietnam for a couple of weeks soon to somewhat extend my summer.

I didn't think DST was that big of a difference from real time

Awake at 6am on a Sunday. Why can’t I sleep in any more? The curse of getting older

I'm sure it makes me Officially Old but Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite tv shows. I would love to go on a gentle and beautiful holiday with Sandi.

It's still not quite pumpkin soup season yet but the pumpkin can't wait so I'm gonna have to make it today. Maybe. No promises.

I'm pooped, did a lot on my list.

Mmm vanilla latte packet coffee

Walk walked. Groceries shopped. New pair of fingerless gloves bought (merino+possum for extra coziness). Bluey watched. I think it's time for a cuppa and to dig out the oodie

Oh force would you mind editing the date into the title please? Makes it easier to follow and keep track of

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tonight for dinner I am making tex chili

I've got a dual partition on my laptop and dual boot between windows and Ubuntu. But Ubuntu seems to have booked my windows partition after an update. I don't keep anything important on either partition, or even do anything important on the laptop, so it's no big loss. But I used the windows partition for meetings and 3D printing things.

The drive seems to be working fine though, and I can still access my windows drive through Ubuntu, so it's probably fixable when I've got the time and brain capacity to figure out what the hell is even wrong with it

Goodnight everyone. 😘

Well I have a problem.

Had a new pump in the sump installed recently to feed the tanks and it is not turning off when emptied. I believe the float valve is giving incorrect instruction!

I am not a plumber so I will shake the things and give it a kick and with any luck...

Rather a fun one today - got only 1 wrong. Quiz