Today was the first real day I haven’t had to do anything since quitting, and I was planning on doing things. Chores, Christmas wrapping… you know, things.

Instead I played PlayStation.

It can’t last - I have to do things tomorrow - but it was fun for today.

See, this is the kind of thing that just makes me appreciate Lego even more.

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Have to say I’m a bit let down by the Guardians set today. A tool rack? With some dynamite? Bit of a weak attempt. On the upside, the Harry Potter and Star Wars sets deliver. Harry Potter has the cutest little Whomping Willow you ever did see, complete with flying car. Star Wars, meanwhile, has an … read more

Not gonna lie - had to look up what the Star Wars ship was tonight. Quite the obscure prequel vehicle. Harry Potter is, well, Harry Potter. The Guardiand Pridon drone is pretty awesome too, but it took me a while to work it out as well. Still, another day of pretty cool builds. read more

After yesterday’s weak start with Harry Potter, it was good to see it come back with the cute little Quidditch set. Guardians is awesome again with a gift of headphones (in the present), plus a cassette. The Star Wars Clone trooper (I’m guessing Cody) is nice as well. read more

November was a little quiet on the board game front. Only two games played. Going to have to make up for that in December.

Star Lord for Guardians of the Galaxy, a Republic Gunship for Star Wars and I haven’t worked out the Harry Potter one yet. Maybe a potion shelf? Star Lord is so awesome. I love his little boots and his guns. read more

This morning, on my first day of not being employed, I took my son to school and watched him receive a couple of awards.

Normally I would have left after he had received his award so I could get back to work. But because I was in no rush today, I decided to sit through the whole experience.

It was great. It was taking a long, calming, deep breath of air after holding my breath for a long time.

I heard talented student musicians play and watched a year 11 student perform a monologue for 10 minutes in front of the entire school and parents.

I got a little bored listening to every student who won an award get called out, go on stage and shake hands. But it was a good boredom. It was a relaxing boredom.

It was a boredom without pressure and that’s exactly what I needed.

I just realised that because I linked my work MacBook to my iCloud account, I have a lot of personal stuff on the computer I need to return to work tomorrow.

(Heads to Google to work out how to erase everything for his own safety.)

One of the hardest things about being an adult is having to work out what to cook for dinner every night. Especially with 1 child with dietary requirements, another who is a bit fussy, and a wife who says she needs to eat more fish and vegetarian meals, which neither kid likes.

It appears that the trend of decreasing search demand in Australia for “Black Friday” we saw over the past two years has turned around. The data is currently incomplete so it’s hard to be 100% certain though.

Yesterday I was feeling inspired and bought a nice roast lamb for tonight’s dinner. Today though, I have very little motivation to actually cook it up. 

But I have kids to feed, so off to the kitchen I go.

I went to the shops for the first time in ages today, and I think I inadvertently made an emotional commitment to buying a new Sonos Arc soundbar.

I’ve decided I need to do more writing for myself and my own pleasure. This little blog is a key part of that plan, but most days I find myself lost for ideas.

So a question: What is your writing ritual? What do you do to help you commit to composing prose regularly?

How is it my brain can retain the lyrics to pretty much every Bon Jovi song from the 1990s, but I need to ask my kids 10 times what they want on their burritos because I keep forgetting?

I only have one more week of work left at my current job. Today I sent out the “new email address” update email, and it felt really good. I’m thinking 2023 is going to be a great, but challenging year.

I didn’t even realise I had a shallow graze along the side of my thumb until I applied the hand sanitiser.

Then I knew. Oh, how I knew.

Yesterday I spent 5 minutes telling my kids how Batman & Robin was so bad it’s actually funny.

This included me quoting Mr Freeze – complete with Austrian accent – saying, “Ice to see you”.

Today, I discovered he doesn’t actually say it. That quote was from The Simpsons.

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Yesterday was such a big day I’ve been little more than a vegetable today, lounging around without any energy. I would have loved to put Saturday on repeat, but I just don’t have it in me.

Just got home from a great day out with the family. Saw Wakanda Forever, enjoyed a great dinner and then saw David Gray play his White Ladder tour. Still buzzing.