Melbourne

It National Dog Day today

First day of new job 😬 hoping to not have a napkin-sneeze moment

I’m having an unbelievably hard time of life. I’m just not getting a break.

Melbcat is feeling more comfortable with adequate pain relief though, ate some wet food and is cuddling. I’m waiting for Tuesday and counting down to receiving the antibiotics

Went to check out a school with/for the eldest minipeeler. It seems like such a great fit for him. So hard to get a school that can help him with his anxiety, school refusal and need for re-engagement. It's a tiny school though and they have such limited places. I'm not the praying kind but I'm praying for him to get accepted. We will formally begin the application process tomorrow for next year 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

This week’s shit weather is brought to you by my annual leave. Not. Happy. Jan.

This TAFE course seems pretty fun. The wifi signal down this end of the house is abysmal though, and because the repeater I had laying around needs LoS to the router, it doesn't actually help at all.

I was meant to do a janky under house ethernet setup today but the person I had convinced to crawl into the spiders lair (aka under the house) is sick. As soon as I do I swear I'm setting up a janky mesh network

Anyway the course seems nice. I like the diversity. There's more people around my age than I thought there'd be, as well as a few older people. The trainer gives off nice but stern aunty vibes too, but seems sweet

Also also, every time I have to meet new people, I'm always astounded by how close my mental pictures are. Just through 1-2 emails and their name and role, I can usually figure out what they'll look like before I ever actually meet them. It's like a party trick at this point

Yay. Day 1 down with no embarrassing moments to report. New place is nice. They have cold soda water water on tap 😍

T-minus 2 hours until my first class. Freaky.

The only issue is, my internet is down :D

Payday today!! I'm trying to get the enthusiasm levels up like all you Wednesday pay people from last week, but when you have a strict budget it's all divided up and spent before you get it anyway.

It is nice seeing the car money creeping higher though - I've gone from "could buy another car the same as mine if I crash it" level to being able to get something that's a bit nicer. Slowly moving towards the point I can buy a car I would actually choose to buy without being forced by the death of my current one.

8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn't want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I'm glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!

I'm going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I'm 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately...

works gone to complete and utter shit. We're being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say "look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to". The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I'm just not here for it.

Till this Project Doom is completed we're sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.

thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.

This whole CFMEU saga is equally entertaining and concerning.

First cherry blossom out! which means shorts starting from tomorrow.

Despite being directly the in projected storm path, we were spared the brunt of it.

Wind and rain for about 15 minutes and then some small hail.

Overall, not the worst we've had.

It's the last week of the month. If you want to change jobs now is a great time to apply for roles coming up to 14 days old

Geez this stranded astronaut thing is a schmozzle. They are doing a lot of ‘everything is fine’ PR, but it must be stressful to be stuck up there, and I’m sure there are some very tense discussions being had.

F today right up the B

NASA has decided to get the astronauts who went up on a crippled Boeing star liner to return on a space X next year. in short: they dont trust the spacecraft for human flight. You cant write fiction funnier than this.

train went pass south yarra
spotify ad 2000s Dad Rock Mix

excuse me what
-find the playlist- WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS AND GOING UNDER ARE MUSIC FOR OLD PEOPLE NOW?

okay

I want to know why my very top lemon, at least 2.something metres up was eaten by something (guessing a rat) and they ignored the many lower ones. Is it sport? showing off? Big respect but that would not have been easy.

I was surprised by the Wattle Festival and just the sheer size of it yesterday. We only did part of the main street of Hurstbridge and we hardly got to the whole thing.

One thing I'm really quite good at is packing to go on a trip really quickly. I've got like 3 laptops, an ipad, a 27" monitor, a media streamer, PS5 controller and all manner of cables, my clothes and my CPAP machine all fitting snuggly into my trusty suitcase. Then I have my backpack of stuff and a tote with foodstuffs and my blender. All took maybe 30-40 minutes and there was a shower in there too.

looks like a nice day to go out for a bit

luv youse all 😘 have a nice arvo

Good lord. Spotify free version doesn't even let me play a single song I want to hear, just a playlist that includes it. What a disaster

this week my old printer is going to the electronic rubbish bin 👋

Funny bones ain't that funny when you scrape one across a door frame. I was carrying my recycle box back inside and I'm like "DON'T THROW IT. DON'T THROW IT".