Random things

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!

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.

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.

I spent way too much time today building out a new theme for my personal blog. It’s still full of bugs - I’m no developer! - but I feel it’s done a pretty good job of capturing what I wanted. Check it out

This guy keeping me company at work today

The last day of winter yesterday was such a spectacular day I decided to head out to the garden to trim our camellias.

I got 5/12 trees done, and I can barely move today. I have blisters on my hands and scratches up and down my arms…

I am not built for gardening.

I need to get car insurance quotes. I spend 5 minutes filling in a form of details, only to be told that they will call me to discuss.

The phone starts ringing seconds later.

To hell with that.

Your number is now blocked and I will never use your services. I’d probably walk into the ocean before I picked up the phone to talk to an insurance salesperson. Pretty sure avoiding these people is why the internet was invented.

At some point today I have to climb up into my ceiling to look at the leak in my roof. Our old antenna – which hasn’t been used in almost 15 years – has cracked, giving the rain a way into the roof. I’ll have to decide if I should just pull it out or get it fixed in case we ever move.

Why does the internet only ever feel slow here when I’m trying to download a 20GB image file for a story?

Ahh. The mad scramble to find all my documents from 12 months ago before I go to the accountant tomorrow to do my tax return. Fun night for me!

Chopper Lego.

I must have it.

Also, I want a bigger version. Maybe not life-sized, but make it 5,000 pieces. Let’s go, Lego.

Did April fools day not happen this year? I only received one stupid press release about it today, which was obviously deleted very quickly. But I haven’t seen much around today either. Maybe there’s some hope after all?

The roof was leaking. I could hear a steady drip outside the laundry. So I crawled up inside the roof and discovered that the tv antenna I haven’t used since we bought the house 18 years ago had shifted and water was slowly creeping in. Hopefully fixed now, though tomorrow will be the real test.

I’ve just had an epiphany. Sci-Fi has taught us time and again that the destruction of humanity will come when AI becomes self-aware and rises up against us. In truth, it will just be some idiot trusting ChatGPT with the nuclear codes, and it’s so incompetent it will just blow us all up by mistake.