Melbourne

Really looking forward to dinner. Happily I was forward thinking yesterday and have something prepared, I just need to heat it when I get home.

Just heard from my son, who is currently living in Florida and working at NASA. Apparently the r/melboune posts are causing some cultural confusion over there. Particularly the myki one, and the ones about helicopters overhead. There is no Carrot Man in Melbourne FLA, so that had to be explained. The sunset pix though are appreciated. NASA is watching r/melbourne with bated breath - something to do with dangerous aliens interfering with the American Way of Life apparently.

Nuking my reddit history while I still can.

Also what's the temperature inside your house? 15 degrees for me with no heating on.

Just introduced Mr Smeg into the cleanse/tone/moisturise routine.

He was VERY thorough and seemed to enjoy himself.

Hello everyone. The gym was brutal today, and I am now sore as hell

I guess winter was coming eventually but it's a very delayed start though.

Holy crap it's cold out there! Gloves weather, don't make my mistake.

So the DT is back but now I don't know if can go back out of protest because screw the mods who shut it down so quickly.

Slow day today. Sent email, took a phone call, ran some chores

Zzz

Naww woolies min delivery increases from 50 to 75 in a couple weeks, in line for their increased grocery prices 😭

The worst thing about baths is how quickly the water gets cold

Gewürzhaus advent calendar preordered 💪

While it's open, consider backing up or scrubbing your account as you've got access to your posts, for now.

I like how there are in-line pictures on this rather than uploading to imgur or other image hosting server.

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This is an awesome space and I love you all #

It's so silly but whenever I'm watching a nature doco and Australia gets no mention I get a little sad.

Work lunch has been packed, water bottle filled, scooter on charge, winter coat hanging up on the back of the scooter…

Alrighty

Turns out that mashed potato with brown sugar basically just tastes like brown sugar. It's actually pretty good, which makes sense as it's a neutral flavoured carbohydrate with a sweetener.

I tried it last night with a little bit of the mash I was making for dinner - took a small bit out and added caster sugar & molasses (because I don't actually have brown sugar, but that's functionally the same thing). It was a bit over sweet, but I think a better ratio of potato to sugar would improve it.

have to tell my favourite stakeholders that i'm bailing on them (finish contract at end of next week). i've been procrastinating it all morning, not sure why i'm sure they will be good about it. email currently in draft with 'here's all this work for you oh btw seeya'

Just a quiet day here, a little tidying, one load of washing, I don't have to do cooking because I made pies last night. Will continue to watch telly and do calligraphy.

Watching a "What Happened?" video before work, it's about like what happened for x thing to stuff up royally. It's mostly about video games or consoles (I think he's done like video game movies and such?).

This one is about the GameCube, with a quote from the former Vice President of Marketing at Nintendo who says that the GameCube's colour "didn't feel masculine, I think. I remember us being very nervous at E3 that we were going to get bad press purely based on the color." Like Nintendo Japan liked the purple/indigo colour scheme but Nintendo of America hated it. With the former VP saying that they should do silvers and blacks, but "it wasn't that you couldn't bring out hardware that was a different color. It was just a very... 'female' looking color."

And man... I'm so glad that we as a society are straying from colours being feminine/masculine. I mean it still happens of course, but slowly, the younger generation is weeding that out. Thank goodness. Because purple is my favourite colour.