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Finished reading: Mistborn: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson 📚
I was surprised when I finished Bands of Mourning that the epilogue told me I needed to pick up a flashback book. I did enjoy going back to the original trilogy’s time period, even if the story was a bit rough around the edges.
Ughhhh. Tried to send out a campaign email today to encourage referrals for BTTR. Test email worked fine, but the actual email did the broken %SUBSCRIBER_FIRST_NAME%%recipient.% thing.
So embarrassed. I hate when this shit happens.
The past couple of weeks have been unrelenting, and it caught up with me today. After a morning spent trying to focus, I called it at lunchtime and spent the afternoon on the PlayStation. Finally getting around to playing Immortals: Fenix Rising.
Has anybody else noticed that this year’s mandarins seem to have a lot of hard bits stuck to the centre part of each segment? I can’t recall ever experiencing that before.
Just finished rewatching Constantine with the kids last night. I’d forgotten how unfinished the end of this show was! Blows my mind that they couldn’t even do a quick “let’s wrap up the loose ends as best we can” episode… 📺
Just finished rewatching Ted Lasso Season 3. Goddamn I love this show. It just makes you feel good to be human in a world you so often don’t. 📺
Alright Sydney. Looking good.
I just encountered a bunch of teenage boys taking mirror selfies in the public toilet at Circular Quay, blocking the walkway.
At Circular Quay! Just head outside and you have one of the most spectacular backdrops in the world, kids! Don’t fill up your camera roll with pics of a public crapper!
Rocked up to an event 35 minutes early. Thought it started at 2pm, when it’s 2:30pm… Not my finest moment.
Oh great. They’ve announced new DLC for The Witcher 3, a full decade after the last DLC came out.
Have to wait until next year. But I guess that gives me time to replay the game in its entirety.
Aussie Broadband just increased the cost of my NBN plan. After almost five years, I think it’s time to shop around again.
Frustration arose from a tedious and inefficient experience trying to access MyGov to check a tax bill, ultimately leading to disappointment and a sense of …
Continue reading →I had the repairer out last week following the dishwasher breakdown, and thought it was all settled. Got a good five days of use before the alarm started going crazy at 1am this morning. Same water leak alarm, though no signs of water leaking.
I spent some time auditing my Twitter backup today.
I’ve cut it back from about 12,000 to roughly 4,000 posts. Minimal context meant that any “replies” were pointless, as were the thousands of dead links to Gizmodo Australia.
Confident I can cut it back more, too.
It’s been about three months since my Apple Watch gave me a hypertension warning. Since then I’ve dropped almost 7 kg, which I’m pretty happy with. I still don’t exercise enough, though.
I’ve had some niggly shoulder issues for about a decade, but every few months it flares up and I feel like I can barely move. Today is one of those flare-up days, and I’m really not in the mood.
The A-League grand final was pretty boring football in the end. Sydney seemed lethargic a lot of the time, so it’s unsurprising Auckland won.
Attending the Mumford and Sons concert in Sydney was a top-tier experience marked by great performances and an electric atmosphere.
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