Melbourne

DAY 30 COMPLETED! 🎉🎊 The first time in my whole life I have stuck to a daily exercise regimen! I'm feeling pretty chuffed right now. The only question for me now is what to do next! Should I move on to the intermediate level? Do something different? Decisions decisions!

Old mate next door (he has a few screws loose) is cutting his lawn on his knees with hand shears again.

I've tried to lend him a mower but it's his thing.

If it sparks joy then who am I to say anything.

Just a bit unnerving to see/hear someone do that for a few hours when it'd take 5 mins max with manual push mower.

Shit, housemates cat has cognitive heart failure... I feel so sad for them, we got our cats at the same time and we've shared since they were kittens so it's heart break all round.

Today's ride to work is in a Tesla! It's a fancy car but I still hate Musk.

My Dinner

Image of a bowl of firecracker chicken, beans, spring onion, chilli flakes and rice.

It was really good guys. Really fucking good.

Meetings at 4pm are bad enough, but you know what's worse?

When some fuckwit actually says 'Hey can everyone please turn their cameras on so we can see you all'. They said it with waaay too much enthusiasm for a 4 pm meeting, or any meeting for that matter.

Renaming Twitter to X amuses me. Although it's fitting since it's mainly X rated content 😂

Just had a look at the rent prices in Port Melbourne, and now I'm going to go throw up. If I had $4k to spend on rent per week, I wouldn't be renting 😭 😭 😭

I'm cooking a soup which got me thinking about the quirky but practical little things I do and I'll share them with you.

Onion. I hate when all the little foliage shit from the root gets on my chopping board so I place a piece of paper towel on my board, I cut the onion in half on the paper towel, peel it leaving the bits on the paper towel, move my 2 clean pieces of onion to the non paper towel covered board and chop it up. Discard the waste. I don't use my fingers to peel the onion I basically whittle it off with my knife.

Eggs. When I peel them I lay paper towel down in the sink and all the shell goes on the there and then I discard.

Garlic. When you use garlic cut the clove in half and you'll find a green shoot in there, discard it. It's bitter and it's the difference between a good garlic sauce and a shit one.

Maybe you could share some of your tips.

Have a ripper fucking day everybody and don't forget it's NATIONAL WINE AND CHEESE DAY TODAY

Day off work, that's good. But it's because I'm sick, that's bad.

You know that thing where your brain tricks you into thinking your phone is vibrating in your pocket? I keep having that feeling that we're having another earthquake. I feel the earth. move. under my feet.

Holy shit Mrs B’s car problems have finally been identified!!! Even better it’s under warranty. Glad I didn’t just drop it and let her keep driving it, cause they said eventually it woulda gone bang.

Interesting to see the old Melbourne daily thread users noticing that we’ve left. https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/158bid9/its_the_rmelbourne_daily_discussion_thread/jt9285m/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3

Elon's X logo totally looks like the X Window System's logo.

On other road news, on my forward trip tonight I drove past a vehicle with a few blokes inside, windows down, singing the barbie song at the top of their lungs.

Oh dear lord my gas bill is…..NSFL.

Well, only needed to wait 5 days and with a bit of encouragement from @[email protected], I finally got stopped by a booze bus. First stop after the 5th encounter.

For @[email protected], The cop tonight looked kinda bored, but seems to be in a generally good/ok mood.

I swear every driver on my bus route must have been taught by a kangaroo. All this jerking and jolting does not agree with my poor old back.

Was wondering what the blackboard bold X (𝕏) represents in mathematics... looks like someone's helpfully adjusted the description on Wikipedia already.

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Kiddos gnawing on my finger. I think we might be in trouble here.

Back to Melbourne for the first time in a few months over the weekend. I was sick for most of it, but little one went to ifly and had fun. She was so small compared to every else. Some poor bastard was told in front of everyone he was (basically) too fat to do the hifly.

I went to my old primary school and donated two copies of my kids book. It's so surreal seeing how much it has changed. I'm hoping to make it back to do a talk with them sometime this year.

From time to time I think about moving back to Melbourne and then I drive along Plenty Road and remember why I never will. God I do not miss that road.

And woke up at 4am to catch my flight on Sunday morning. Of course it was cancelled. Thankfully mum picked me up and I napped for a bit. Caught the 2.50 flight and drove 90 minutes home and slept like the dead.

Still feeling like crap though. Took yesterday off work because my throat felt so raw.

3 weeks straight I've been sick with various things. Kinda getting over it.

This was an interesting listen, about the ‘enshittification’ of tech products. They start out good to get max users in, the descend to bare minimum so that profits can be maximised. Makes a lot of sense when the reasons are explained. Facebook and reddit get a mention. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/cory-doctorow-enshittification-platform-capitalism/102492918

Most excellent Dude Bot.

Went for walk and came back to do some meal prep because I don't think I'd have the will after work tomorrow. Go me.

I've once again collapsed on the couch after a big braining out. I must go to napland now bye

Goddamit cat, you had to lick the last TimTam. You're supposed to be on a diet! Oh well, I have sour snakes now for my sugar hit snack.

I have never smoked the marihuana, but I've been listening to a 1.5hr loop of Deep Blue Day by Brian Eno and my brain feels massaged. I imagine this is what the effects of mj are like. Ahhhhh....

Bored in a meeting. Fortunately my camera is off

I've had enough corporate nonsense for breakfast this morning and I'm glad to be sitting away from work and having a pie and chips for lunch.

God... I can't wait till they make a four day work week enforceable.

I am looking at the Dandenongs and the clouds appear to be confused. How do I let them know they are supposed to be above the mountains, not underneath them?

That Extreme Ironing thing that @[email protected] mentioned was cool, typical of a Brit eccentric to invent it!

Got me thinking though - I don't think I've ironed anything since the covid restrictions and lockdowns kicked in? I used to iron everything, I wouldn't leave the house in anything wrinkled and I did this for decades. Now I just don't care unless it's a smart function, it's been liberating.