Daughter is away at school camp for the first time. Hope she’s having fun!

I’ve spent 10 minutes trying to sign into Boost mobile. I tried the app and the website. I’ve reset passwords. I still can’t get in.

How can a communications company have such a broken accounts system?

Worst day of my life, right here

So I have to pay $10 for an Uber driver’s time despite waiting 15 minutes for him to go to the wrong pickup location twice. Surely Uber should be compensating me for wasting my time?

Up at 4am to fly to Melbourne for the day job’s Christmas party. If I’m still awake by the time it starts, of course.

I have so much work to do, but feel completely shattered today. Productivity is a struggle.

Well, I rejoined Facebook again so I could try to support BTTR. But I can’t bring myself to send friend requests. It’s just not a platform I want to invest personal time or effort in.

So, it turns out I was spamming the micro.blog feed with BTTR’s Black Friday deal links. Apologies! I was playing around with automation and it wasn’t quite working the way I wanted it to.

We took a long weekend last weekend to Turon Gates, and it was spectacular. We stayed in a nice little cabin by there Turon river, watched the kangaroos, echidnas and wild goats, went bushwalking and horse riding, and cooked dinner on the fire. It was such a great opportunity to just stop and unwind for a bit. Need to do it more often. Continue reading →

I deleted my Facebook account back in 2019 or so, and have not regretted the decision at all. The feed was always full of crap I didn’t care about, I never posted and any connection with my “friends” wasn’t actually meaningful. But, in order to try to push BTTR along, I set up a new account last week and created a page for BTTR. Because I had no interest in using Facebook for personal reasons, I did the bare minimum to fill it. Continue reading →

This looks incredible. Have thrown my pledge in for the deluxe edition: The Witcher: Path of Destiny

It’s so sad that this country is hobbled by its racism and inability to proactively build an inclusive space for our First Nations countrymen and women. It was an easy choice, and the country chose wrong.

Had to get a deep clean at the dentist this morning, including local anaesthetic and everything.

It was fine, but I’m really feeling out of it now. Can’t concentrate to write, yet can’t bring myself to log off.

Went to set up a bunch of home security cameras for review and one of them requires professional installation. Not sure I’ll be getting that one done any time soon, unfortunately.

Started off strong. Thought we had it all under control, and then the last encounter appeared. We needed to play 6 spells to be able to remove it. But that was hard. We hadn’t had a lot of spells appear on the board. And once Voldemort appeared, it became nearly impossible to impossible. In the end, we removed the encounter, but it was too little too late. The third location was on verge of falling, which it did on the very next round. Continue reading →

I absolutely loved the first season of Ahsoka. I thought the casting was perfect across the board, and the story had me gripped from the beginning (though mostly because it was just Rebels continued).

I really need confirmation of Season 2 though. Come on Disney, stop making me wait.

This CMS is potentially the most frustrating piece of crap I have ever worked with. It was clearly designed with absolutely zero input from anyone who would have to use it.

I am literally wasting hours to do what should be the most basic of tasks.

Spent the past couple of days playing Familiar Tales, which my daughter got for her last birthday. It’s a pretty epic campaign based game. We only finished the first chapter, but had a lot of fun doing so. We thought we were doing well on the last mission of the chapter, but then things changed suddenly and we had to fight through hordes of enemies. The biggest problem with the whole game is that it’s so big, and we don’t by have anywhere we can just leave it set up to keep going back to it. Continue reading →

Home after seeing Birds of Tokyo play at the Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It was phenomenal. The band were having lots of fun (for most of the show) and the SSO was amazing as always. A couple of tracks gave me tingles, making the hair stand up on the back of my neck it was so powerful. They did a cover of Johnny Cash’s cover of NIN’s _Hurt_that blew my mind. Continue reading →

Yesterday I was reviewing the espresso monitor for BTTR and drew a picture.

My daughter was at Nanna’s, so I thought I’d send it to her. She loves that kind of thing.

I searched for her in messages on the computer, pasted it in, wrote a quick message:

“Hey beautiful, I drew you a picture”

And hit send.

Then I realised I had sent it to the cleaning company we use.

I tried to delete it, and thought I had succeeded. Until I got a message today.

“That’s lovely Nick but not sure if it was meant for Licence to Clean”.

I am officially dead.